1: Chapter 1: A New [Player] Joins the Department!

During a special negotiation.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

"I cannot agree to these terms proposed by your Sakura Country!"

"Extraterritoriality, tariff autonomy, the right to station troops, and even the right to completely overlay your Sakura Country's Game of National Destiny onto my Dragon Country's territory!"

"If this treaty is signed, how is it any different from turning those cities into colonies of your Sakura Country?!"

At the negotiating table, the representative from the Dragon Country slammed the table in anger.

The Sakura Country representative sitting opposite them, however, carelessly picked at their ear, sneering with an expression of having the Dragon Country representative under their thumb, and said:

"Not signing?"

"In the current Game of National Destiny, your Dragon Country's [Strategist] is dead, and there are few [Roleplayer]s left. If you don't sign, you won't get help from my Sakura Country!"

"Your Dragon Country can no longer afford to lose on the chessboard of the Game of National Destiny."

"The three cities mentioned in the treaty are currently affected by this Game of National Destiny. You can refuse to sign, and you can refuse to let these cities become the sphere of influence of my Sakura Country, but what is the cost?"

"Plague? Earthquakes? Or the arrival of a meteorite?"

"If you lose this Game of National Destiny, how many people in these three cities will die?"

"Not signing? Your Dragon Country has no capital to refuse!"

The Dragon Country representative gritted their teeth, calmed down, and retorted:

"You are not the only country in the world that can help my Dragon Country. We can still find other countries..."

The Sakura Country representative laughed, a laugh that was arrogant and cruel:

"Other countries?"

"Apart from my Sakura Country, no other country will negotiate with your Dragon Country. Or rather, my Sakura Country is the representative of all countries!"

The Dragon Country representative slumped in their seat.

Yes, the Sakura Country representative was right.

No country was willing to help the Dragon Country. They seemed to have agreed beforehand, coldly watching the Dragon Country either lose the current Game of National Destiny and await the ruthless natural disaster rewards, or accept the unequal treaty of the Sakura Country.

And this unequal treaty that the Sakura Country gave to the Dragon Country, all the unacceptable terms were not for the Sakura Country to enjoy alone, but for all the great powers to carve up!

This was a gluttonous feast, and the Dragon Country was the main course at the feast.

...

Dragon Country, Hang City.

In a small noodle shop, Chen Aoyun was eating noodles with his head down.

On the street outside the noodle shop, there was a roar of engines passing by.

"Sigh, a group of foreigners is street racing here again." The noodle shop owner grumbled while cleaning up the bowls and chopsticks from the next table, "These foreigners, relying on the fact that Hang City has opened up its Game of National Destiny coverage to their countries, and relying on their own national destiny being stronger than the Dragon Country people's, are racing recklessly on the streets."

"But even though they are the ones courting death, when an accident actually happens, the ones missing limbs or even killed are often the pedestrians on the street, the pedestrians of the Dragon Country..."

"What can we do?" A diner who heard the noodle shop owner's complaint couldn't help but sigh as well, "Our Dragon Country is either at the bottom or near the bottom in the Game of National Destiny, and there isn't much national destiny left to lose."

"Two years ago, the Dragon Country started opening up some cities. It was called opening up, but in reality, it was selling the sovereignty of these cities in exchange for the authority to construct heroes from other countries in the Game of National Destiny."

"But even so, our Dragon Country still loses."

"Isn't there a Game of National Destiny going on right now? I saw it. The Dragon Country is in big trouble with this one; even the [Strategist] is dead!"

"Without a [Strategist], it's hard for the Dragon Country to even complete the Game of National Destiny. It'll probably be at the bottom again."

"I don't know if the Dragon Country still has enough national destiny to lose, and I don't know which cities this Game of National Destiny will affect."

"If the Dragon Country doesn't have enough national destiny to lose, and the affected city is our Hang City..."

The diner shrank their neck, not daring to continue, fearing their words might become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Chen Aoyun poked at the noodles in his bowl. The noodles tasted good, but he had no appetite.

His mind was filled with that strange scene from when he transmigrated:

Calamities descended upon Blue Star, incomprehensible energy swept across the globe, and all human technological means seemed helpless in the face of the calamities.

No one knew how many years had passed, but just when humanity was about to give up, scientists from the Dragon Country discovered that the faith in people's hearts could absorb that raging energy and could even make that energy their own.

Thus, humanity's counterattack began... The great figures in history books, human wonders that either existed or had already disappeared, and even superheroes in films and television works were all manifestations of human faith.

Using this faith to absorb the raging energy, one by one [Heroic Spirits] were born, and one by one [wonder]s stood tall in humanity's bastions against the calamities, beginning to resist and even counterattack those calamities!

In this process, the Dragon Country, with its five thousand years of continuous civilization and unbroken cultural history, naturally possessed the most [Heroic Spirits] and [wonder]s, becoming the main force in counterattacking the calamities during the 'Era of Faith.'

"The Dragon Country was the main force in resisting the calamities and was the most powerful existence."

"Perhaps it was precisely because of its strength that, after successfully resisting the calamities, it became the target of all other civilizations... Otherwise, how can the current situation be explained!!!"

"The scene when I transmigrated: one by one, the Heroic Spirits manifested by the Dragon Country through faith rushed forward to resist the calamities, eventually blocking the calamities outside the sky of Blue Star."

"But after I transmigrated, the calamities were gone, seemingly bound within the Game of National Destiny."

"The calamities were gone, but the Dragon Country had become a weak nation in the new world?!"

"A life-and-death battle against the calamities that lasted for a hundred years, history lost, civilization fractured—every country seems to have this phenomenon, but why is it the most severe for the Dragon Country?"

Chen Aoyun's expression turned cold.

Just then, the sound of sharp braking rang out outside the noodle shop.

Bang—thud—!

A young woman was knocked into the shop.

Clatter—

The woman's body was like a giant bowling ball, overturning all the chairs and benches in the noodle shop, and bowls of noodles shattered all over the floor.

Outside the noodle shop, a foreigner stepped out of a modified car.

"Damn it, going to lose again. How did that guy Cole modify this car? The handling became so bad after only two laps..."

Street racing in a Dragon Country city, and after hitting someone, instead of checking on the injuries of the person hit, he picked up the phone and discussed the details of the car's modification with the person on the other end?

Chen Aoyun pushed aside the cluttered tables and chairs to stand up. The foreigner's car had crashed into the storefront of the noodle shop, the entire shop had suffered a severe impact, and Chen Aoyun was also seriously injured.

Standing blankly in place, Chen Aoyun didn't even notice that his forehead was bleeding profusely.

He just stared blankly at the scene before him.

Before him, the body of the woman who had been knocked into the noodle shop was already in several pieces. Her limbs were scattered around the shop, and beneath her body was an infant she had protected with the last ounce of her strength.

And this infant no longer made a sound...

"Bastard!"

Blood flowed down from Chen Aoyun's forehead. His eyes were bloodshot, as if soaked in blood, and he clenched his fists tightly.

"It was clearly the Dragon Country that saved the world during the 'Era of Faith,' and the calamities being trapped in the Game of National Destiny might even have been the Dragon Country's doing to allow the Blue Star to be reborn."

"Is this how the countries that were saved repay the Dragon Country?!"

"No! It shouldn't be like this!"

"The Dragon Country shouldn't be an existence with scarce national destiny!"

"It shouldn't be ranked at the bottom long-term in the Game of National Destiny because of fractured history and cultural loss!"

"And it shouldn't be that because there isn't enough national destiny, women and infants die on the streets, while the culprit can calmly make phone calls after committing such an outrageous act on Dragon Country soil!"

"It shouldn't be! Absolutely not!"

Anger and unwillingness surged in Chen Aoyun's heart.

A clap of thunder resounded through the sky, as if responding to Chen Aoyun's anger and unwillingness!

Rumble—!

The next moment, a thick bolt of lightning fell from the clouds!

The lightning struck Chen Aoyun, but it did not harm his body.

Vaguely, Chen Aoyun felt a violent spinning sensation, as if the world and space-time had fallen into chaos.

The falling lightning stung the eyes of everyone near the noodle shop. When the blinding light brought by the lightning disappeared, people were astonished to find that Chen Aoyun had disappeared...

In the base of the 'Support Group' for the Game of National Destiny in the Dragon Country, someone exclaimed:

"Someone has responded to the item obtained by the previous [Strategist] in the Game of National Destiny—[Endless Life]!"

"A new [Strategist] has entered the game!"