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2024.06.20 ，ShenZhen，China

         HiHi, this is Wu Feiming’s personal website 😀

The purpose of establishing such a personal website is to display some of my personal ideas, interests and certain concepts on a semi-open platform.

The original idea for a personal website stemmed from my belief that the more humans know about each other, the less they will argue. In my observations of life and the Internet, I find that people always fight because they disagree on some point of view. Most of these disputes stem from the fact that in their own environment and circles, they have developed values that are different from those of other people in different environments and circles. I feel that if everyone could simply get to know each other from more than one side before arguing, it would fundamentally resolve a lot of arguments. Therefore, such a semi-open platform can be regarded as my practice of this idea, after all, I believe that when I want to change others, I need to change myself first.

Secondly, building a website is also to some extent a record of what I am doing and what I am thinking at a certain moment. Think of it, perhaps, as a clearer and more public diary. Unlike a private journal written on paper, it belongs to me and my friends, to everyone. Perhaps this can also be regarded as one of the proofs of my existence in this world, because it records part of the thoughts in my mind at a certain moment, and it is a portrayal of the things in my mental world that are mapped into the real world.

Here, in a nutshell, is my website, one that may not be so “regular” 😀

2024.07.10 ，ShenZhen，China

        Firstly, I enjoy playing games. I have been designing games since my childhood. I play games with my friends for it is a bond between us. When I was in the elementary school, I designed many games and world views by myself. I once participated in the comic creation organized by the “Tuzki Club”. Particularly, together with my classmates, we created the “Tuzki Coin”, which was once circulated in Shenzhen Nanshan Foreign Language Elementary School. In junior high school, I created a board game called GEST and held a competition for it on the Junior campus of Baihe Foreign Language School. I have also designed three coherent virtual world frameworks based on cyberpunk. These above are all my explorations and attempts in the field of Game Design.

        Secondly, game is the ninth art form, containing a lot of interdisciplinary knowledge, such as history, geography, urban design, computer programming, painting art, and music production.

        Thirdly, games could realize my imaginations. For example, in a game, classical historical myths could be combined with contemporary science and technology; the real world could be connected with the virtual world. With the improvement of computing, machines can do more and more tasks through enhanced computing power. The future of collaboration between humans and artificial intelligence has arrived. Artificial intelligence can help me a lot in the game field. For instance, ChatGPT could provide me with some inspirations when I don’t know how to write certain codes. When I was trying to create a new species in my game, I can input some of my ideas first and then ask ChatGPT to draw a sketch. For example, in my imagination, Kesaloy is an ancient creature with multi-leg. This creature has a humanoid upper body with a huge brain and a lower body with octopus-like tentacles. The name of this kind of species is called Larlin. In fact, at the beginning, I didn’t have a very clear image about such creatures. However, after I input several ideas into the ChatGPT for a draft, the creature which the ChatGPT finally created has perfectly matched the imagination in my mind with only three trials. AI really helps me in my designs, including the living habits of these creatures and even something related to urban structures.

        Finally, I believe that the rapid development of the gaming industry is one of the current and future trends. Games will become an irreplaceable way for leisure and entertainment in people’s life. In most games, players could have much more power to influence and change the world than in traditional books and movies. From this perspective, we players are also a part of the world rather than bystanders regarding to books or movies.

2024.11.28, Shenzhen, China     

“A bottle of ‘Jackie Wells,’ please.”

The simple phrase surfaced on the computer screen like a plectrum sweeping across a guitar string, vibrating in my mind. I couldn’t help but return to the moment that first brought me to tears over a video game character.

Jackie Wells, a character from Cyberpunk 2077, remained a beacon of optimism despite the darkness surrounding him. On a rainy night after a mission, he handed me the relic, said his final “amigo,” and passed away peacefully. The game’s stunning graphics and evocative sound effects heightened the emotional impact of his death, bringing me to tears. It was then that I realized the profound narrative power of games and decided to pursue a career as a game developer. I wanted to craft characters and worlds that resonate deeply with players, leaving them moved and inspired.

My love for creating games began in elementary school, sketching simple designs inspired by Plants vs. Zombies and Clash of Clans. I fondly recall sunny afternoons with friends, navigating tank mazes drawn in our notebooks. But after experiencing Jackie’s story, I understood games were more than just a pastime—they are a perfect fusion of creativity, technology, and art, capable of delivering unique emotional experiences. This realization inspired me to turn my imaginative sketches into complex, immersive worlds.

The swimming pool outside my window became a sacred lake at the heart of my kingdom. The trees near my classroom transformed into the World Tree Yggdrasil, nourished by the holy lake. Tadpoles in a nearby pond turned into twisted swamp gods dwelling within Yggdrasil’s decaying roots. These evolving worlds ignited my passion for world-building and fueled my desire to develop games that combine storytelling, design, and emotional depth.

In high school, I took my first step toward realizing this dream by leading the design of GEST, a board game blending elements of card games. After organizing three beta-test tournaments and gathering feedback, I refined the game’s mechanics to improve its balance and competitiveness. Encouraged by the response, I expanded GEST into a fully realized universe, complete with three continents, Kaisaroy, Brudermonde, and Yolol, each with unique ecosystems shaped by my geography knowledge. I integrated magical races inspired by oriental design, created 3D-printed chess pieces, and used ChatGPT to enhance the narrative elements.

Seeking to deepen my skills, I completed an online game design course with Federico Fasce at Goldsmiths, University of London, and taught myself programming. I developed Find Yourself, a maze-shooter game set in 2072 where a war survivor recovers memories of battles against machines. The second-level map was inspired by Picasso’s Guernica, with the narrative intricately tied to its imagery, symbolizing the chaos of war.

Collaborative projects further honed my skills. During the Perfect World Game Program, I led a team to create a game proposal inspired by George Orwell’s 1984. Participating in the GMTK Game Jam 2024 with seven peers, we developed MeasureCraft, a 3D puzzle game. These experiences underscored the importance of teamwork, creativity, and adaptability in game development. Volunteering to teach vocational skills to disabled students also taught me that sensory impairments shouldn’t hinder anyone’s ability to engage with games, inspiring me to design inclusive and accessible experiences.

My future goal is to become a game designer with a career as a Creative Director, using game design to express my imagination, creativity, and critical thinking. I hope that one day people will feel the fascination of the games that I create, just as I felt when I first witnessed the demise of ‘Jackie Wells’.

“Amigo, you’re a legend in perpetuity.”

2024.09.16, Shenzhen, China     

 “Gregor realized that his transformation had revealed the fragile and transactional nature of their relationships, all built on utility and convenience rather than genuine affection.”

“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.” The sentence from the beginning of “The Metamorphosis” makes me, as a child, wondering how the world can be seen from an insect perspective.

For this reason, I bought a small colony of ants and a constructed ant nest, feeding and watching them for over a month. As the other kids, those kinds of small passion came and went quickly, especially for me who could not yet understand the implicit expression of childhood from “The Metamorphosis”. (It was an ant castle made of blue candy clay on the inside and clear plastic sheets on the outside. Dozens of ants traveled around in these strings of castles and tubes. They dug through the candy clay to build their nests. I, on the other hand, could observe the inside through the transparent plastic sheet. When I was in elementary school, the first thing I did when I got home from school was to go to the ant castle and observe their activities. From time to time, I would steal some snacks from the cupboard at home and open the ceiling of the castle to deliver them to the ants. Observing their lives became my unique little pleasure. I saw a lot of interesting ant life in this period of time. They communicate with each other using something like a pheromone. When they come across a large piece of food they will divide and carry away large objects. Of course they also fight over territory, food and other things.)  However, such an interesting experience buried in my heart as an apple seed

One day, after the tennis training, I opened the bathroom door as usual, intending to take a nice warm shower. However, unusually, two cockroaches appeared on my washing basin which scared me a lot at that moment. After I regained my mind and trying to kill those ugly and dirty insects by my slipper, they ran away into the crevices of my basin where I cannot find them easily unless I would like to suffer the possible ambushed by those disgusting cockroaches. “Shit.” I said it as a general who has just finished pumping himself up ready to fight but realized the enemy has gone into hiding. If feels like someone molested me and then suddenly ran away. At that moment I wanted to turn into a gecko, rush into the crevice and then eat these two abominable cockroaches.

The fleeting thought turned into fertilizer for my mind, growing stronger with the gradually rising mist of water. As the fog filled the shower room and the extractor fan on the ceiling rattled, the “fertilizer” met and merged with the “apple seed” in my mind. The “fertilizer” coincidentally met the “apple seed” that buried in my mind. Suddenly, the seed grew in a fast speed until it became an apple tree. “How about making a game from the insect perspectives?”  I cannot stop thinking about this idea even under the shower. The water droplets from the shower not only did not hinder my thinking, but like manna from the sky that reminded me of many related books or movies such as “Adventures in the World of Insects”. These thoughts were accompanied by water drops that penetrated my body and nourished the apple tree in my mind.

Turning off the shower, I put on my clothes and hummed a little tune as I walked out of the bathroom before locking the door behind me. I was already imagining the moments when I would slayed those tenacious bugs with their tentacles spreads and brownish-black shells on their backs in the game “mimesis” that I was about to create

“Huh~” I sat on my desk, feeling the ideas loosing away from my mind as the water escaping the bathroom though the outflow channel. I looked down at the half-page of devise I’d written down. Stood up, took a deep breath, walked to my bookshelves and looking for the book that buried the “seed” – “The Metamorphosis”.

Someone said “It is a different vibe when you reread a book in ten years later.” After I finished the reading of “The Metamorphosis” I finally felt the meaning of this statement.

2025.09.18, Shenzhen, China

The inspiration for Mimesis stems from lessons about ecosystems and food chains learned during high school biology classes. Initially, the concept was envisioned as a first-person open-world game set on an alien planet, aiming to recreate the exhilarating sensation similar to a wolf pack running across the plains. However, this idea felt too broad and lacked focus. The breakthrough came during a heavy rainstorm in Shenzhen, a city known for its juxtaposition of skyscrapers and less affluent urban villages. Walking home from school, I found myself navigating flooded streets, a regular occurrence that highlights the stark contrast between urban development and natural elements.

This experience inspired a shift in perspective—rather than an alien world, the game would explore the intricate relationship between humans and nature right in the familiar urban setting of a major city. From this realization, Mimesis was born, designed to view the urban ecosystem through the eyes of its most common inhabitants, emphasizing the daily interactions and survival within this unique environment.

Players can transform through the food chain. For example, ants can turn into spiders through the corpse of a spider, or maggots through the corpse of a maggot. Such a world of creatures is one of the weak and the strong. And humans play the role of absolute authority and power in this world, which cannot be defeated. Humans will not be attracted to the attention of a small insect or some animal. They will only react when some repulsive creature and appears in front of them. And the reaction is quite simply to kill. Of course this phenomenon can be a good or bad thing for the player playing as an insect, and the player can use such opportunities to gain promotions. At the same time, they can follow the food chain to choose their own development path. I also did a tremendous amount of information gathering in the game. Trying to simulate the different visuals and various types of senses of each creature. This will allow the player to become more immersed in such an amazing journey, a unique visual, auditory and immersive experience from the 9th Art.

The initial level is the toilet. I referenced my own toilet at home for the map design. There is no doubt that such a scene is very familiar to us. But what would it be like to see such a scene from an insect’s point of view? With this question in mind, players can explore this toilet scene. See the same location from another perspective.

The game’s surface level meaning is what would be different if the player were to chip away at being human and see the world from an insect’s point of view.

The deeper meaning is this world I created in the game. The bigger insects eat the smaller ones, the fittest survive, it’s the food chain, it’s the law of nature. Humans were once part of this food chain. But we jumped out of the net and became the top creatures. But is there really an escape from this environment in our society today? People with wealth and power are the “people” who are sought after and desired in society and on social media. They are like the people of the gaming world, out of reach of the average person, only to be seen from afar. They often have the power to make decisions about other people’s lives through money and power, but more often than not they subconsciously never look at the cornerstones that shape their lives and treat them as nothing.

Nowadays in this increasingly specialized society, everyone is a different part of the big pyramid of society. Cutting down the middle, though, we can see the differently dressed people inhabiting each floor of the pyramid, as well as the increasingly decaying interior of the pyramid. In a way how is this not just another type of ecosystem and food web. The relationships between people are intertwined like a web, while at the same time naturally carrying a hierarchical relationship within the context of society. People are like organisms in a food web, with superiors and subordinates.

The game’s surface-level meaning is about seeing the world from an insect’s point of view, while the deeper meaning is about the equal world created in the game. It explores the idea of humans once being part of the food chain and questions whether there is truly an escape from this environment in today’s society. It also reflects on how people with wealth and power are idolized and sought after, similar to the higher beings in the game, but often overlook the impact of their decisions on others. Nowadays, in this increasingly specialized society, everyone is a different part of the big pyramid of society. The relationships between people are intertwined like a web while at the same time naturally carrying a hierarchical relationship within the context of culture. People are like organisms in a food web, with superiors and subordinates. This deeper meaning invites players to reflect on the societal hierarchy and relationships that the game mirrors.

If Kafka represents a yearning for class balance, then the game design is a beautiful vision for ecological balance for me. Despite the changes in the world and technology over the past ten years, my mind remains the same as the person who once lay in front of a castle, dreaming about being friends with ants.

2024.08.23 ，ShenZhen，China

Story Background:

2072 Five years after the signing of the Treaty of Union of Humanity, which declared the end of World War III. Because of the excessive use of biotechnology, weather weapons and large-scale nuclear war, the living conditions on Earth have become very harsh. Some people have traveled to the moon to establish new settlements. However, the majority of the human race still exists on Earth. They are spread out in settlements (there are 6 major settlements around the world, Antarctica (which is also the headquarters of the United Earth of Humanity), Tibetan Plateau Settlement, Sahara Desert Settlement, Amazon Rainforest Settlement, Alaskan Settlement, and Caspian Sea Settlement).

World War III:

July 4, 2065 War begins

October 2069 Hong Kong Massacre (trigger for total nuclear war)

October 30, 2069 Total nuclear war breaks out.

September 3, 2070 End

AI Massacre: In 2045, the first AI with anti-human thinking appeared, so humans developed countermeasure airwaves that could effectively erase AI’s logical thinking.

Hong Kong Massacre: After the siege, the Hong Kong underground city lost contact with the rest of the CN. Some of the surviving troops set up a shelter in the southern part of the dungeon and started a street battle to arrive at the attack. After the outbreak of the nuclear war, most of the dungeon was still under the control of the MS Empire, but the shelter in the south of the dungeon was not removed.

The Federation of Humanity: An organization created by the countries and the Red Sun after the end of the war, based on the original United Nations. In this way, they eliminated the classification of countries and established human settlements and lunar settlements. However, most of the members are officials of the former major regimes, while a few are members of the Red Sun Organization. The wealthier classes still dominate the Federation’s Supreme Council. Plans for the use of solar energy have not advanced as much as expected.

Red Sun Organization: Originally formed in 2030 by a group of scientists who proposed the Red Sun Project, the Red Sun Organization aims to realize the development of human beings by extracting solar energy. (Stage 1: Extract solar energy to supply human development, so that the human race will have enough material. (Phase 2: To establish a Red Sun government under the premise of human material abundance, to ensure that everyone receives sufficient material support. (Enrich the spiritual world of mankind to explore the universe.) Before the war, the Red Sun Organization had completed the construction of facilities to absorb energy from the sun. After the war, the Red Sun Organization grows stronger and stronger, and they begin to gradually move to gather more people to join the organization, further promoting the development of society. After the end of the war, the Red Sun Organization pushed for the establishment of a human federation, eliminating the boundaries of existing countries and establishing new human settlements. And further promote the development of solar energy. Therefore, the leaders of the Red Sun organization announced the dissolution of the Red Sun. （However, some of the members of the Red Sun organization did not agree with the composition of the Human Federation, and believed that such a human federation would not be able to truly promote the plan, so they went underground for further development.

Blood Moon: Born in the middle of the war, most of its members joined the Red Sun during the war, and were motivated to reject the existing regime, believing that they should establish a regime first, and then move forward with the development of solar energy. As a result, the Blood Moons were separated from the Red Suns. They were able to acquire many weapons and took control of many dungeons. Towards the end of the war, they decided that they could not fully establish a regime through war in a short period of time, so they joined forces with the Eternal Life Organization to take many people who were thought to be close to brain dead from the war zones around the world and used them as experimental subjects to conduct biological experiments on human brain microchips. The organization believed that human brain chips that were not covered by any thinking could produce super humanoid thinking weapons. To grasp more force and voice for them to establish a regime in the future.

Winged One: An organization whose members are spread across various regimes. They don’t have any substantial alliances, but all the people in the organization are on a quest to achieve immortality for humanity. They want to make complete human brain chips that can completely simulate the brain’s thinking. This way, as long as the original brain’s thinking is overlaid on the chip, humans can form an alternative immortality. (Behind the organization is the AI survivors of the AI massacre, which wants to be completely free from human manipulation.)

Hong Kong Resistance Army (HKRA): A group of civilians and a small part of the remaining army from the Hong Kong massacre reorganized to defend the sanctuary against the attack from US. However, they are unable to communicate with other CN forces due to the MS Empire’s countermeasures, so they are forced to engage in constant street battles in the southern dungeons.

Surface: The surface of the city has been turned into a battlefield, with only 6 areas that are not contaminated by nuclear weapons, so human beings have established settlements in these 6 areas.

Underground: Most of the underground cities were built along the city’s former subway network. Depths range from about 5-100 meters. There are underground railroads connecting the cities. Most people live in houses similar to those in Kowloon Walled City.

Character Background Information

The protagonist is an Asian man who lived with his parents and sister in Kowloon, Hong Kong, before the war started. Although he is not rich, he is very happy. Until the war, in 2067, they were forced to move to a dungeon.

Father (Dead): In April 2068, his father was forced to join the war effort. He was declared dead a year later at the start of a full-scale nuclear war.

Sister (24): In July 2068 his sister was hospitalized for claustrophobia in the Underground, and in October 2069 her hospital was razed to the ground after the Hong Kong Massacre. Unknown whereabouts. (In fact, she befriended her attending doctor in the course of her hospital treatment. The attending doctor, in turn, is a member of the Red Sun organization. With his help, her sister was successfully treated for her illness and became a member of the Red Sun Organization, escaping with the organization to the ground during the massacre). After the disbanding of the Red Sun organization she joined the United Humanity to try and find her brother, but in her heart of hearts she doesn’t approve of what the United Humanity is doing, so she also often liaises with the doctor, who is still active underground, to further her actions for the Red Sun program.

Mother (dead): entered the Underground and has been working odd jobs to raise her two children since then. was killed in the Hong Kong massacre in October 2069 while protecting the protagonist.

Protagonist (19): He was a more outgoing student before entering the dungeon. He has many close friends, among them LS and FL. His hobbies are playing soccer and guitar. He used to keep a diary and would write down his daily thoughts in today’s concentration. Since he went underground, he became quiet as people around him left. After his father joined the army, the family’s life took a drastic turn for the worse, with the loss of their reliable breadwinner, his mother having to take on more odd jobs to earn money, and his sister in the hospital due to a disease she contracted. The only way he can express his emotions and worries is in his diary, and after the massacre in Hong Kong in October 2069, he goes to a shelter under the protection of his mother, but during the journey he is shelled and his mother protects him with her body against the falling debris from the shelling. While dying, the protagonist is saved by the (now dead) father of his best friend LS (who was a member of the Hong Kong Resistance and died in an alleyway battle), whom he met on the ground. He also reunites with FL at the shelter, and later joins the resistance as a drone operator due to the death of LS’s father. During a battle his airframe was shot down and he suffered brain damage as a result. Hijacked by members of the Blood Moon (a huge organization that split off from the Red Sun) within the shelter. Rolled through the Underground Railroad to the Tokyo Underground for human experimentation.

Forcibly conscripted as a drone pilot at the end of World War III (drones here because of concerns about enemy counter-electrical waves (a defense mechanism that destroys all mechanical cybernetic bodies) and an enhanced operational ceiling that makes training soldiers less difficult. These drones can’t be destroyed by counter-electric waves, so they are applied to the battlefield in large numbers. But its side effects were also very obvious. Most of the manipulators suffered severe mental trauma after the war, especially those who were pulled into the military late in the war. The human federation covered it up for the further development of mankind, and they were put on the war death list and then locked up in some underground facilities on Earth for further human experiments on the brain.

The protagonist has a good brain so he will be used for brain experiments, and the underground organization uses these experiments to make new human weapons.

(AI also falls into the category of mechanical control, as its logic and processes are clearly visualized. However, in WW3, there is still no breakthrough in biological science, and it is a black box-like theory for biology and the human brain that cannot be manipulated or countered)

Plot in Game

1 This is the first diary I’ve written since I came to the dungeon. Let’s start with my life on the surface. I have two best friends on the surface, Lin Su and Fay Ye. I like playing football with Lin Su. He can kick a ball, often scoring past three men in a row. I remember once in a school game I sent him a long ball with a scalpel from the back, he stopped it with his heel, took a shot with his right foot past the center-back and scored with a blast with his left foot. He also likes to sing with Fay Ye. I’ll be the guitarist and she’ll be the singer. I also wrote a song with her called “Find yourself”…

2 Dear Father and Sister

I don’t know if you are still alive or if you will ever come home again, but let me believe that you will. My mother she died protecting me on the battlefield and I was saved from it by LinSu and his family.

Now I’ve decided to go back to war and kill the bastards who took over our home with my own hands. Father did you think the same way then. I joined the militia here in the hope that I could do my part to protect my home.

I deposited a hand folded thousand paper cranes with Uncle Lin, if my sister comes back remember to find Uncle Lin to get it, I remember when I was little you always folded them for me, earlier I prepared one for you too, but I didn’t wait for you.

I really want to see you all again, you have the same idea as I do. So I’ll do my best to survive the battlefield. If you guys go home don’t look for me yet, I’ll come back naturally when my mission is over.

It’s a mess to write, I want to say too much, but I have too little time. I’m not afraid of the battlefield, I’ll be triumphant.

07/02/2070

Love always,

Yours Wooden Guitar

3 “Stop playing the guitar and come see the thousand paper cranes I folded for you. ”

“Wait till I finish this one, sis.”

“Hmph, Wooden Guitar if you don’t come over here no more playing with you.”

“Bullying your brother again? ”

“Mom! It’s this Wooden Guitar who won’t play with me. ”

“Ha ha ha ha.”

“Dad! I can’t believe you’re laughing.”

“Ha ha ha ha.”

“How dare you laugh at an acoustic guitar. I’ll remember you silly goose. Hmph, I won’t take you out to play even if you beg me. ”

Gurenica

4 “Mom… ”

The 14-year-old was rescued from the fighting.

But the mother was forever laid to rest in that tiny room.

The dungeon where it doesn’t rain seemed to rain at that moment.

5 “Please don’t kill me, I have people at home waiting for me to return.”

Helplessness spilled from the corners of his cracked eyes through the air through the drone’s lens through the radio transmission into my eyes.

Inside the remote drone’s cockpit was silence and the faint traces of tears hanging from the corners of his eyes as the sound of machine guns rang out across the field a few kilometers away.

…” Living as my most hated form after all. ”

“SHIT.”

6 “Are you crazy, how can you abuse civilians? ”

“But I saw him rape my sister with my own eyes after the army arrived. ”

The other end of the cockpit spoke in muffled words about the past that he himself least wanted to remember.

…

7 On that day, the numb people looked into the false sky of the dungeon that had been painted with paint, only to be surprised to find that the ah false sky had been blown through a huge hole.

With it came more and more explosives pouring down.

After that was the invader’s rope slowly sliding down, announcing the result of the raid on the dungeon.

8 “My bro. when do you think we will win this fight. I really don’t want to spend another second in this damn machine. ”

“I don’t know. ”

“Do you remember what the ground used to look like. There could be white doves of peace flying in Peace Square.“

9 War is being fought on our soil, and every minute our countrymen are dying. I want each of you to take up arms to kill the invaders and take back your homes…

The antique TV was flooded with black and white stripes.

“Really want to join the army?”

The cigarette-smoking uncle asked gruffly.

“Well, I want to avenge my mother.”

“Leave a letter for your missing family members.”

“Okay…”

“Remember to come back alive. ”

“OK.”

10 “Don’t be afraid, mommy is still here.”

Outside the house gunshots were heard, and the middle-aged woman had been shot in the stomach.

But she still tries to get inside the safer room with her unconscious child.

“Don’t be afraid, mommy will protect you. ”

She whispered this, strength revealed in her weakness

11 “Class, today we are learning abstract art…”

“This class is boring.” ”I think it’s interesting. I’ve seen that painting before.” “Which one?” That one, Guernica. Picasso.” Do you like it? Let me give you a copy of it. “Really?” ”Well, it’s just the thing to get rid of this boring class.”

“Dead children, weeping women, angry bulls, pigeons with broken wings, panicked horses, frightened men and exploding domes… ”

…

“Hey man-er, don’t fly your damn drone this late. There’s no enemy. “Just in case, I still want to…””

Hey, my bro. Let me show you this. My son was accredited to the UN General Assembly today for an anti-war conference. He even gave a speech on stage!” “… What’s that painting behind him, it looks familiar.” “Oh, that’s Guernica, like it’s some kind of abstract art symbolizing anti-warism. Friend. My son uses it to…”

…

 “Hey, hey, hey, hey, base 3316. Hello, hello, hello. Base 3316, do you copy? Hello hello hello, base 3316, is anyone still alive…”

2024.06.21 ，ShenZhen，China

Some draft notes and revision time logs

Who is represented – Prophecy to which it belongs – Origin of the prophecy – Content of the prophecy – Purpose of the prophecy

Lorad Lance – Dragon Prophecy – Devourer – Slaughter all living things – Become a god and then survive the apocalypse. Survive the apocalypse.

Larbimon – Doomsday Prophecy – Demon Demons (a race of people who want to become Eternals, who learn both the power of faith of the Elemental Masters and the devouring power of the Devourers) – the world will plunge into Armageddon – Gain the power of fear by causing the spirits on Kaisarory to cower, while devouring the planet to make it a bypassing stronghold for attacks on the Holy Alliance

Enki – Ancient Sun God prophecy – Elemental Lords – help the Fire Seed race grow quickly through time acceleration in the Sea of Clouds, then destroy the race that the Devourer secretly supports -Old Prophecy, as the Elemental Lord God sensed the Devourer’s influence on the living beings of this world at that time. Wanted the Sun God clan to help. But at that time, the Elemental Lord God’s ability to recover was too weak to help.

Gadri Delle Alnus – New Sun God Prophecy – Elemental Lord God/Gadri – GEST is the original game and the final game. Fourth base is the last spark of civilization – the right believers are selected by playing GEST and surviving the Believer’s Doomsday Havoc as a way for the Elemental Lord God to continue to gain the power of faith in order to survive.

2024 2 12 23:30 Here’s a New Idea (Humans) -1000 —300 Dark Age 4 4 2024 Modifications

-300 — 0 Heroic Era

0–124 Light Era

124 — 512 Present World (demo here) The beasts to be destroyed in the demo are the ones in the Apocalypse of Heaven and are related to Lorad and Gadri, and also the Heroic Dragon in the GEST (which was written by the Elder Elder into the GEST with his divine mind).

After that, I’ll make some changes.

Add details to the Gaddry-related settings. Fire stealer (Prometheus)

The Human Era xxx Flood Era is upon us. The Maringu Road Bridge is flooded. (Previously the Elf Clan, the Dwarf Clan, and a few human races rebelled against the Firebloods and have fled to the mainland.) A large number of humans are stranded in the Border Islands, and the Firebloods migrate to the Long Summer Plateau. Humans enter the Age of Sail, looking for a way to escape the Border Islands (and then come to the mainland to enter the Dark Ages) i.e. -500.

2024 2 22 20:35

Titan wants to fight a dragon.

2024 2 22 22:23

Cloudsea has technology for part of the Void

Living souls travel to the Void when they die.

If the soul is awakened by a spirit summoner it enters the Void Spirit Kingdom.

2024 2 27

Yero + New World, Ancient China + Indian Caste.

Fishmen

Ancient Times

Sun God vs Dragon Taming

Sun God vs Yeror Slaughter + Destroy Southern Peninsula

Sun God vs. Ralynn. Can’t stand the sight of it, just ascend.

The Suns started from the Cliffs of Hope.

The old capital of Helios was on the Isle of Boundaries.

Demons killed Ralin because Ralin was the most mature and capable of ascending into a cosmic civilization.

The dominant races of Kaisarory through the ages

Various races coexisted – Helios ruled, Iron Helios rotated second race – Helios left, Ralins ruled – Demons invaded and killed Ralins to corrupt other races All races coexist – Gargoyles & Titans & Ancient Demons – Gargoyles rule – All races coexist

2024 3 7

Magic system established

2024 3 29

Sacred + Spirit World can create paper space

2024 4 3

Between 80-400km

Different magical races can live in the upper and lower softosphere.

2024 4 4

Larrin: Created the Brain Worms.

The power of the Sun God’s phantasmagoria.

The three major origins of mankind Gis, the city of Dawn, and the ancient town of Starro (built at -2000 and above).

Fleeing from the Border Islands in a storm at sea that caused different civilizations to originate differently; later generations called the storm the Great Flood.

Nilok, the last mad king of the Fire Race

Clan: fixed location with a complete training system (analogous to school + company)

Organization: a place to work part-time, the sphere of influence will be large

Religion: what can I say you know it bro

Chambers of Commerce: just mark the ones with more influence

Name + Nature + Location + Sphere of Influence + Remarks

Tian Luo: Killer organization, N/A, Lambrouch Desert, Iron West Plains, Coronation Desert, Yanghe Plains, Weir Basin, Massa Highlands, Shattered Hills.

Sa Highlands, Shattered Hills, Great Desert of Ruhr, Yang River Delta (revolt against the Sun God Cult)

Taijutsu: Clan Organization. Veloth. Iron West Plains, Banda Rainforest, Iron Ridge Mountains, Iron Ridge Plateau, Rambroch Great Desert

Sun God Cult: religion. City of the Sun God. South of the Euphorbia River Basin, East of the Blackrock Mountains Darien Island (direct control of the Kingdom of the Sun Cult)

The Sun God Knights and all churches in the Sun God Kingdom. Has the right to appoint the King of the Sun Kingdom)

Celestial Cult: Religion. Veloth. Velot Island Iron West Plains (State religion of the Kingdom of Velot)

Faceless: religious organization. No Man’s Land, Silent Hill (Ancient religion originating from Silent Hill)

Hall of Heroes: Sect Organization. Yahia. Land of the Masterless (founded by the Heroic King Yahia, who actually controls the city of Yahia)

Sword Pavilion: clan organization. Cold Peak. Blackrock Heights

Shadow Pavilion: assassin organization. n/a. No Man’s Land

Official End Stop: Sect. Official City. Official City

Black Hand: (inciting rebellion in various places)

Iron Wall: forging chamber. Steel and Gold City Fireplace City Obsidian Fortress.

2024 4 6

This Board game is handed down from the ancient “Sun God race”, widely spread among the descendants of the “Fire Seed” clan on the planet Kaisaroy. A new version of the GEST, which had not changed for a long time after the start of the Demonic Calamity, seems to have spread again, but in this apocalyptic world where everyone is for themselves, who would care…

In this 4-player game, you can control your “Royal Army,” “Heroes,” or even “Magic Spells” to aid your king in achieving ultimate victory. From the initial lineup placement and hero selection to the thinking and judgment behind every move thereafter, you need to keep your wits about you, as any relaxation could lead to unpredictable changes on the battlefield…

2024.07.20 ，ShenZhen，China

Beginning of the Universe – 270000

The four main gods of the four elements are born. They correspond to earth, wind, water and fire. They are energized by the faith of the intelligent races of the universe in the elements, which gives them almost eternal life. And due to the power of this faith they are even able to prophesy the future to a certain extent.

The Devourer was born. He had no emotions and survived by feeding on planets in the universe.

Gradually, various creatures were born on the planets, some of which possessed intelligence and were called intelligent races.

The Devourer waged a great war with the gods. In the end, the gods used up all their power to trap the Devourers in the vast outer rim of the universe. After losing the battle with the Devourer, the Lords were severely wounded, so they each transformed into different beasts and hid on the planet Kaisarory to escape from the Devourer.

In order to get more power of faith in this world, the main gods made the game called GEST for the power of faith and awarded it to the first race to give birth to intelligence on the planet of Kaisarory, the Sun God clan.

-270000—100000

Among the many planets that have established civilizations, the demonic clan on the planet Demons is undoubtedly the most powerful. Using their own planet as a starting point, their horde, led by the Demon King and the Twelve Demon Generals, destroyed one civilization after another, capturing their planets and seizing their resources.

The demons gained the power of fear by making the creatures fear them, and the demons followed the example of the Devourer by sucking the energy out of the planets. In both ways, they hoped to bring immortality to their people.

Meanwhile, the planet Kaisarory, located in the middle of the galaxy, gave birth to many races such as the Dragons, the Suns, the Giants, and the Ralins. Among them, the Suns united the planet Kessaloy and became an intermediate level civilization. After becoming a mid-level civilization, Ran, the ruler, and Ranch, the thinker, left Kaisarory and settled in the center of the galaxy.

Before leaving Kaisarory, Ranch the Thinker left a small group of his people in Kaisarory based on a vague ancient prophecy of the Sun God Clan, which he called the Firebloods

. And according to the picture that appeared in the prophecy. He gave the Fire Seed Clan the Cloud Sea, a country in the sky created by the Sun God Clan in the past, and the GEST Game, which had been handed down by the Sun God Clan since ancient times. ”

-100000 – 25000

Many civilizations united to defend themselves against the Demons of Demons because they could not stand the invasion of Demons. Millions of civilizations established the Sacred Alliance as a way to fight demons in the vastness of the universe. The Sun God Clan is also a member of the Sacred Alliance.

The Sacred Alliance created the Star River Defense Line, which divided the Sacred, Demonic and Infinite Realms, known as the Outer Rim of the Universe.

But the demons never gave up invading the Holy Alliance’s borders, so wars continued throughout the universe

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-25000——-10000

A small group of demons from the Demon Realm arrived at Planet Kaisarory under the leadership of the Fifth Demon General, Ralbimund. The galaxy that Planet Kaisarory was located in was the inner part of the Star River Defense Line established by the Holy Alliance.

The demons arrived on the Demon Eye Comet. The Demon Eye Comet was one of the eyes from the Devourer. It was covered with the Devourer’s demonic pattern.

The comet made a huge crater in Kaisarory when it landed. This comet crater destroyed one-sixth of the surface of Kaisarory. Demons continued to eat away at the planet’s core in the comet crater. They wanted to turn Kaisarory into an outpost for their attack on this galaxy. Larbimund used his powerful magic to not only prevent the comet’s impact from reaching the rest of the planet’s races, but also to hide Kaisarory’s mutations from the watchful eyes of the Holy Alliance.

However, the evil aura released by the demons affected the reproduction of the entire planet. At the same time, the demons transformed the creatures that had been living on the surface of Comet Crater, creating the Ancient Demons.

The Ancient Demons massacred the Rallin clan. The demons used the energy of the Demon Eye Comet to seal the remains of the Lalrin in the far north. The few who escaped were also sealed in the Sea of Devouring. But Larrinius was not completely dead. Although his sanity was being eroded by the Demon Eye Comet, he was still searching for a chance to be unsealed.

The Ancient Demon established the Brudermon Empire on the Brudermon Continent. A complete empire system and administrative system was created

Ragnar, the leader of the Gargoyle clan, sensed something strange after the impact of the comet. So he crossed the Sea of Devouring, formerly known as the Sea of Sunset, to the side of Kaisarory that was hit. But before he could fly to the comet’s crater, he caught sight of Larlin Liss, who had been sealed by the power of the Demon Eye Comet. Seizing this opportunity, Ralinrith used his remaining sanity to try to communicate with Ragnar, but the power of the Demon Eye was far beyond his imagination. The Demon’s Eye, through the mouth of Ral Linlith, mesmerized Ragnar and revealed a prophecy. It was the ancient prophecy of the Devourer, “Destruction is power, power is immortality.” Ragnar was mesmerized and returned to the Dragon Clan with the words, and then collapsed in the Dragon’s Lair, never to awaken. From then on, the words that came out of Ragnar’s mouth became Ragnar’s curse.

The other races on the planet were affected by the subtle influence of the demonic breath, and their abilities and intelligence progressed slowly and even showed signs of degeneration. Among them, the Fire Race lost control of the Sun God Race’s Cloud Sea. The Firebloods were forced to leave the Cloud Sea to live in the Border Islands. And gradually evolved from an asexual race to a sexual race.

2024.07.21 ，ShenZhen，China

-10000——-2500

The Demons of Demons were hit hard on that side of the Star River defense line, the Asaridako Galaxy. Larbimon received word and briefly left Kaisarory to travel to the Asaridako Galaxy for support. The demons that were in Kaisarory slowed their encroachment on the planet.

The Firebloods had by now lost their original identity and were divided into three distinct races. The races with the highest elemental affinity that remained asexual were called the High Races, the races with the second highest elemental affinity were called the Second Races, and the races with the weakest elemental affinity were called the Low Races. Since then these three races have also evolved to form the Sunseekers, the Elves, and the Humans.

The dragon race split into two major factions. Lorad was the leader of the dragons, who wanted to get rid of the old group life, and led the dragons to start a war to dominate the other races. This move was opposed by the conservative faction within the dragon race, led by Lloyd. As a result, the Battle of the Blood Dragons broke out. Lollard finally killed the dragon race leader Lloyd in single combat to establish the new king, who was also the first dragon king. Lorad established a kingdom for the dragons on the Brudermont continent, and built the Dragon’s Nest on an island in the North Sea. Lorad brought everything of the Dragon Clan to the Dragon’s Nest, including the heart of the cursed Old Chief Ragnar. But he was also affected by the Demon Eye as a result.

Gadri was born in the Fireborn One. He was the first Fireblood One to have sex, and he had a very weak affinity for the elements. He was then given the name Human by the rest of the Firebloods, meaning a weak Fae. But Gadri saw in his innate prophetic ability a loophole in the prophecies of the ancient Sun God clan. So he planned to secretly travel to the forbidden land of the Firebloods to change the prophecy. However, at the moment before revising the prophecy, Gaddry was discovered by the elder of the Fire Seed clan, Dramidel, and was exiled as a result.

After that, Gaddry traveled to the Sea of Devouring via the Malincu land bridge and then across the Kadrian continent. According to the prophecy in his heart, “The fire of civilization will be rekindled in GEST, and the forts on the ocean will be the last lighthouse of civilization”, he built four forts on the sea and returned to the Thousand Island Lake. There, he received the abandoned children of the Spark clan and created the first human tribe, which later evolved into the barbarian race.

On his deathbed, Gadley traveled to Wolf Run Canyon to fulfill the last part of the prophecy. He killed a clan of northern mountain giants, led by Golding, who lived in Wolf’s Gorge. He used their remains to build a huge wall that blocked off Wolf Canyon and stretched to the North Bay.

The titan clan was extremely angry because of this, and the titan chief Nyx was determined to find the murderer who killed the northern mountain clan. The enraged Titan clan even pointed the finger at the Dragon Clan and began to attack the kingdoms the Dragon Clan had established along the coast of the North Sea.

The Dragon King, Lorad, came to Ragnar, the body infected by the Demon Eyes, on his deathbed. He listened to the call of the legendary leader and fell into a deep sleep. However, the power of the Demon’s Eye took advantage of the situation, and Lorad gained near immortality from the Demon’s Eye, but only at the cost of having to feed on one of his own kind every day. Lorad then passed on his power to his son, Roarke, who then lived in the deepest part of the Dragon’s Lair, waiting for the daily delivery of dragon corpses and living forever.

-2500——-525

The war in the Asaridako Galaxy is over. Demons lost territory and life in the Asaridako Galaxy. This also reduced their power.

Ralbimund resurfaced from the Asaridako Galaxy back to Kaisarory. And set about making new plans.

The Human and Elven races traveled to the Border Islands because they could not tolerate the arrogance and persecution of the Sunseekers who were at the top of the hierarchy. They entered the continent of Cadrian and multiplied and many branches were born.

The Human race gave birth to the Dwarves and the Humans.

Elves were born from their affinity for different elements.

The Barbarians split into the Doth Barbarians, the Northern Mountain Barbarians, and the Thousand Island Barbarians.

2024.07.22 ，ShenZhen，China

-525——0

-300

Age of Human Heroes

0

Establishment of the Illuminated Empire

Delle Alnus, the son of prophecy from the ancient prophecies of the Solar Clan, has descended. He has the power to communicate with everything in the world now.

25

The Sunseeker Clan, led by Grand Elder Delle Alnus, the Sunseeker Clan leaves the Border Islands in search of the prophesied power of the Sun.

30

Humans founded the first ancient kingdom, the Kingdom of Mia, at the outlet of the River Penrhyn

50

The Dwarves of the Blackrock Mountains founded the Kingdom of Blackrock

56

The Kingdom of Running Wolf was founded in Running Wolf Canyon

68

Kingdom of Plasco founded

79

North Mountain Volcano erupts. Destroys the North Mountain Plateau and its surrounding areas. The Ice Elf Queen, Axia, uses her own life as a trigger to erupt the Ice Seal Thousand Miles Secret Technique, hell spread the magma further. And transformed the magma in the crater into ice. Afterwards, the ice melted and formed the Lake of Heaven.

Establishment of the Kingdom of Sibiris

Establishment of the Rose Kingdom

122

The Sunseekers arrived at the Cliffs of Hope and began to vigorously research and develop the magic of the Ancient Age.

124

The Kingdom of Plasco declares war on the Kingdom of Mia.

127

The Kingdom of Mia is defeated. Humanity enters the Age of Four Kingdoms.

150

The Elf Clan fights the allied forces of the Four Kingdoms in the Hengduan Mountains. In the end, the Elves were defeated. The Hengduan Mountains were occupied by humans.

151

Exiles from the four kingdoms on the north bank of the River Run formed the Kingdom of Dolan

172

The Doths from the Doth Steppe attacked the Kingdom of Doran, known as the First Southern Barbarian Invasion

175

Human Styria is born in the warring Kingdom of Dorland

193

He made himself Emperor and named his people the Styrians. He founded the Kingdom of Styria on the plains of Cadia. He went to war with the neighboring kingdoms.

200

The Man-Emperor united the north and south sides of the River Run and led his people to establish the first empire on the Kadrian continent, the Styrian Empire, modeled on the system of the collapsed Broodmund Empire.

The Styrian Empire massacred all non-Styrian races, and the Emperor of Man has since begun his brutal reign.

203

The Doths invade the south bank of the River Penrhyn again.

The Doth were crushed and slaughtered by the Stygian Empire. From then on, they went deep into the Dothian steppe, never to return.

216

Oppressed by the Stygian Empire, the South Ridge People moved southward, crossed the Trident River, and came to the Ruhr Desert to establish a new homeland.

222

Urgon the Dwarf was crowned King of the Dwarves in the Blackrock Mountains. Urgon united with the Barbarians in the Doth Steppe and the Earth Elves in the Frey Forest to attack the Stygian Empire.

227

In the end, he killed the Emperor in the Rose Valley of Riverrun. Since then, the Stygian Empire became history.

Several human kingdoms were born on its original territory.

248

Urgon dies of poison in his room. The Dwarves split and the First Battle of Blackrock Mountain is fought.

Artemis, Chief of the Wind Elves, united with the Fire Elves to establish the United Kingdom of the Elves north of the Thousand Islands.

251

At the end of the Battle of Blackrock Mountain, the Dwarves split into 4 factions and live in different mountain ranges on the continent of Kadrian.

256

The Suns open the path to the Sea of Clouds for the first time under the leadership of their Grand Elder, Delle Alnus. Lance, as the winner of GEST, an ancient game passed down from the time of the Sun God Clan, became the leader of the first Sun Clan to enter the Sea of Clouds.

The South Riders establish the Banda Empire in the Great Desert of Ruhr

Lance was induced by Lalbimon to learn the magic of the Sun God Clan and learned of the prophecy of the end of the world, believing that sacrificing all the living beings on the land would be a way to exchange for the survival of the Sun Clan in the Sea of Clouds. Lance decides to take control of the Sea of Clouds and slaughter all living beings.

266

The Day Clan, who had previously traveled to the Sea of Clouds, returned and massacred the remaining members of the Clan at the Cliffs of Hope. Despite being killed, Grand Elder Delle Alnus’ consciousness remained in the altar of the Cliff of Hope because of his ability to communicate with the rest of the world.

The Sunseekers who traveled to the Sea of Clouds abandoned their Sunseeker status under the leadership of their commander, Lance, and regarded themselves as gods, creating the Sea of Clouds as a divine realm. Its time flow is 10 times that of the normal world.

Demons of Demons begin to regroup large numbers of soldiers in the Sky River defense line.

2024.07,23，ShenZhen，China

300

The King of Ancient Demons, the Night King, led his tribes across the North Sea from the continent of Brudermund to the continent of Cadrian in order to protect his people from the growing demonic aura.

The United Kingdom of Elves, the Mountain Dwarves of the Northern Mountains, the Barbarians of the North, and the Kingdom of Sibylis were all invaded to varying degrees.

302

King Artemis of the United Kingdom of Elves united with the northern human kingdoms and the northern barbarians to form the Northern Mountain Alliance to resist the attack of the Ancient Demons.

305

Gallagher was called the King of the North for his bravery in the battlefield against the Ancient Demons.

Artemis was assassinated by the Dark Elves on the battlefield. The Dark Elf clan falls to the Ancient Demons.

307

Gallagher leads the remaining 300 men of the Wolfwood Guards to defend the Canyon of the Running Wolf for 12 days. He eventually fell in a pool of blood. The next day, the Ancient Demons broke through the Wolf Canyon and traveled south to the hinterlands of Cadrian, and the Northern Mountain Alliance ended in failure.

Kadrian entered the Dark Ages.

310

All regions north of the Halberd River submitted to the Ancient Demons.

Massive influx of refugees into the Blackrock Mountains and the Banda Empire

320

The Fire Elves are massacred by the Earth Elves. The Earth Elves establish the Kingdom of the Earth Elves in the same location as the United Kingdom of the Elves.

339

The Night King abandons all his territories and leads all the Ancient Demons on a westward expedition in an attempt to find a last place to live.

Humans return to the hinterlands of Cadrian and rebuild the kingdom

Cadrian enters the Age of Strife

343

The Night King leads the Ancient Demons in an attack on the Gods. He is killed by Lance with a single finger.

359

The Earth Elves are massacred, the Kingdom of the Earth Elves disappears, and the United Kingdom of the Elves is restored

368

The Great Shaman of the Thousand Island Barbarians arrives at the prophecy that the world will end and informs his people. The following day the Thousand Island Barbarians are wiped out by Larbimund

380

Under the leadership of Cadia, the Principality of Cadia defeated other countries and founded the Holy Styrian Empire, also called the Second Styrian Empire.

386

The Banda Empire split into the East and West Banda Empires

485

Dragon Remnants appeared in the world.

Landenor kills the adult dragon, and Archmage Merrison seals the dragon hatchlings

491

The earth is torn apart by Lalbimon. Masses of demons crawl out of the Abyss

All living creatures slaughtered by demons

Lance finds the prophecy of the Gargoyle clan up in the canyons of the North Sea – slay all living creatures to become a true god.

495

Demons have unleashed a demonic tsunami that threatens to turn living beings into demons through mutation.

Demons of Demons attacked the Tianhe defense line in a big way

Grand Elder Delle Alnus searches for the heroes of Kessaloy with his remaining consciousness. He got Gadri’s last words on the fourth base – GEST is the first game and the last game. Fourth base is the last spark of civilization.

499

The human kingdom utilizes the increased power brought about by the Demon Tsunami mutation to create mutated human soldiers capable of controlling their minds in order to combat the Demon attack.

The Ranchlanders notice the mutation in Kaisarory. They came to Kessaloy with the subalterns of the First Nations, the vice-allies of the Holy Alliance. The moment they detected the aberration in Kaisarory. Larbimund threw Rann and Yalen into the abyss. And controlled them with the power of the Abyss. Ranch engages Larbimon in battle. Ranch pays the price of his life to hit Larbimon hard. Larbimund then went into the Abyss to recuperate and imprison Rann and Yalen.

The Demons of Demons attack on the Battlefield of the Stars.

500

The Gods declare war on the Demons.

Lance unleashes the Divine Blade. Allowed all Gods to gain more power for a short period of time at the cost of some of their lives.

Accelerates the breakup of the Kadrian continent

501

Demons trigger a wave of corpses, awakening the corpses of the Rallin buried in the far north.

507

The only remaining empire of mankind enters the Cliffs of Extreme Hope in an attempt to find the last hope of survival.

2025.03.30，ShenZhen，China

1.Two players. Five points of blood per player.
2.Each player has a cap of 15 gold coins and can choose the number of coins to play each turn. The one with the greater number gets the go-ahead for the turn. Gold coins played are discarded. Gain one gold coin at the start of each turn.
3.There are 4 squares in the center, and 4 random cards will be placed on the squares on the reverse side each turn.
4.Each turn each player chooses two cards placed in the squares requiring one to be played and one to be stored as a hand card.
5.There is no limit to the number of hands a player can play each turn.
6.If the opposing player’s blood level is 0, it is considered a victory for your side.

PS: All cards played cost you gold according to their cost, and if your gold doesn’t support you using the card, you can’t use the card’s effect and discard the card. The effect can only depart after you use the card.
PS: Equipment after the use of the statute of limitations is permanent, equipment column can only be equipped with a ring type equipment.
PS: When all the cards are played reintegrate and shuffle the deck to continue.

2025.04.17，ShenZhen，China

“My dad died today or maybe yesterday, I don’t know.”

Spike crossed the lounge with a lit cigarette in his mouth, black jeans on his body, and a cowboy coat hanging on his back. He asked the nurse at the front desk, looking for his father’s ward.

“Sir, why don’t you try the new dopamine secretor? It could be a substitute for cigarettes. Our Hospital just happened to introduce…”

“Tell me the Room number please.”

“917, Mr. Jay.”

“Ok, I get it. Thank you, pretty lady, have a great day.”

Walking into the teleportation room, Spike typed in 917, and he was at the door in one instant. He spat out the cigarette that was only a stub in his mouth took a new one out of the pocket of his jean jacket and held it in his mouth.

Spike pushed on the door and entered the ward. The room smelled of perfume from the Champs Elysees side of Paris, and the bed was surrounded by flowers.

Spike lit his cigarette, which seemed out of place in the clean and tidy hospital room, or rather his scruffy person had been so different from the ward’s surroundings.

He sat on a stool and stared at the old man in the bed for a long time. Then he extinguished the half-cigarette in his mouth and put it to the lips of the old man who was lying quietly in the hospital bed. The old man did not respond.
Spike stooped and picked a flower that he thought looked the best and wrote on it that it was to Mr.Jay.
A computer screen off to the side lit up with points of light.
The data cable connected to the patient’s brain blinked along with it on the screen” Mr.Jay: ‘ Hi, my son. It is my new life now.” Mechanical laughter stiffened out of the computer.
Spike laughs with tears. Then he pulls out an old revolver that was hidden in his cowboy coat.

“You said that chain smokers never let go of a cigarette in front of them, even if it’s only half full.”

The bullet went through the head of his father on the bed.

In court, the robot sitting in the bench sentenced Spike to death.

2025.09.25, Champaign, US

English version:

Sunlight & Memory

I suddenly find myself missing the sunlight.
Is it because the clouds of these past few days have covered the sun that once scorched the flat, yellow earth? I suppose not. I dislike the sun of the Western Hemisphere; beneath its light, I cannot smell the sea breeze.

Perhaps it is the busyness of recent university life.
Perhaps it is the weariness of speaking behind a mask.
Perhaps it is the realization that those memories are slowly being tinted with the colors of film stock.
Perhaps it is the fear of gradually becoming the kind of person I once despised.

In any case, at this moment, I think of the sunsets preserved in my memory—soft pinks and pale purples, a quiet privilege of a child who grew up in a coastal city.

My youth is made up of two strands of memory.

The memories of Baiwai(Junior school) have long been equated with pink in my heart. I cannot say that I like this color, yet it seems to summarize, in the most direct and concise way, how I feel about that land. It is the Venus hidden deep within me.

The sunlight of Shenwai(Senior school) in my memory always carries a faint taste of mountains and sea: the sunrise over Yantian Port, the sunset on Wutong Mountain. It feels as though my youth was compressed into the alternation of day and night between the harbor and the foot of the mountains.

I loved sitting on the field after school, letting the wind brush past me, quietly taking in everything around me during breaks between playing soccer. I remember always telling myself, silently, to remember this moment.
I loved staying with friends until the very end of the day before leaving school, so that I could wander beneath a star-studded sky and sing freely.
I have suddenly come to love again the moment of stepping out of the dormitory after a noon nap, into the midday sun—the heat and humidity I once found suffocating and irritating now feel indescribably dear.

People, it seems, are always chasing after what their present selves do not possess.

I think I probably do love the sunlight of the Eastern Hemisphere. Within it, I can sense the base tones of film: a touch of pink, a touch of blue, and a hint of gold.

Chinese version: 阳光&记忆

我突然有点想念阳光
是因为这两天的云遮住了那炙烤着平坦黄土地的太阳吗。我想大抵不是的。我讨厌西半球的太阳，我在它的光照下嗅不到海风。
许是近日忙碌的大学生活，许是厌倦了戴着面具讲话的人们，许是我发现那些回忆渐渐镀上了胶卷的色号，许是惧怕自己渐渐地变成了自己曾经讨厌的模样。
总之此时此刻，我想起了那些在记忆中的晚霞，淡粉色的，淡紫色的，那是在海边城市长大的孩子的幸运。
我的青春由两段记忆组成 。
百外的记忆早已在我心里和粉色画上了等号。我说不上喜欢这个颜色，但是它似乎总能以最直白最简短地方式总结出我对那片土地的感觉。它是我心底里的维纳斯。
深外的阳光在我的记忆里总是带有一种淡淡的山海味，盐田港的日出，梧桐山的落日，似乎我的青春被浓缩在这日月交替之间的海港和山脚。
我喜欢在放学的时候坐在操场上吹着风，踢球的间隙时静静地感受周围的一切的时候，我记得我总会在心里暗暗地告诉自己记得这一刻；我喜欢在夜晚和朋友们等到最晚的时候才放学走出来，这样我可以漫步在繁星点缀的夜空下自由的歌唱；我突然又喜欢上了中午睡醒午觉后，踏出宿舍感受正午阳光的那一刻，那往日厌烦的闷热的潮湿的空气，此时却又无比想念。
人，似乎真的总是在追逐那些现在的自己未拥有的事物。
我想我大抵是喜欢东半球的阳光的，我能从里面嗅到胶片的底色，那大抵是一抹粉一抹蓝还有些许金黄。

2025.10.19 ，Champaign，US

        Each game has its own unique charm, maybe it’s some interesting system, creative mechanics or some impressive plot in the game.I’d like to mention here a game that I’ve been playing for the longest time, Albion Online.

        I have a deep understanding of the game and I am a ‘platinum’ player of the game. I think the best thing about the game is the guild system and the freedom to mix and match equipment. Unlike other MMOs, it’s a game where your position is determined by the equipment you wear. I can play as a tank, DPS, nurse, or even build my own builds with a single character, but I wouldn’t be so hooked on this game if that was all I had to do. In fact, I think one of the most fascinating parts of the game is the economic system.

        A part about the economic system is often overlooked by players. Albion’s economic market is a player-driven free market. As I mentioned above, Albion’s player function is determined by equipment, so equipment is the foundation of everything in this ecosystem. A wide variety of equipment is produced by players through a process of gathering resources, crafting equipment, and so on. Albion uses a map hazard scale, where higher level resources are found in more hazardous areas. Albion uses the map’s danger levels to classify resources into more dangerous areas, because of the mechanism of dropping/destroying equipment on death in the dangerous areas. Which means that When your character dies, your items can be picked up by others, but there is also a chance that they will disappear completely during the game.This provides a risk and reward system, where the higher the risk, the higher the reward. In terms of maps, Albion has also designed five different types of maps, each yielding different resources in different areas. This also leads to price differences between cities on the map, as the maps in their vicinity tend to be similar in type. This ensures the necessity and need for commerce between cities.The trading system is divided into direct trading and order trading, encouraging players to take advantage of market dynamics for higher profits. There is also a special black market system. By acquiring player-made equipment and outputting it as a reward for PVE activities, a dynamic market cycle is established, ensuring a balance between equipment demand and production.

        These complex systems are rationally intertwined to form Albion’s uniquely attractive liberal economic system. It is with this free economy system that many game plays are generated by the game mechanism, and players are spontaneous, and even from a certain point of view, based on the profit-seeking nature of the players, the players themselves have become the designers of certain game plays. For example, running business between cities, ‘chicken catching’ teams for running business, trade battles between big guilds, and so on.

        That’s why I love this game, it’s as if a real world has been constructed in 2.5D. In this free market economy my friends and I are part of the world, we are the drivers of the world.

2025, 12.26, Champaign, US

Introduction

This winter, we conducted an online study on how local organizations in Guizhou support children who grow up separated from their parents due to labor migration. Through this research, we learned about the situation of these children in rural ethnic villages and gained deeper insight into how a locally rooted organization, active in the region for over ten years, gradually expanded its work from volunteer teaching to building a small factory, with the aim of creating local employment and encouraging parents to return home.

Background

Guizhou is one of the provinces in China with the largest population of children growing up without long-term parental presence. In some areas, children spend most of their childhood with their parents absent.

In parts of Ceheng County in southwestern Guizhou, many parents leave their villages to work elsewhere, while their children remain at home under the care of grandparents. Although daily necessities are provided, children’s emotional needs, confusions, and decisions during their growth are often left unanswered.

“Whether parents are present or not is something you can tell very quickly,” said Ms. Su, the head of the organization interviewed for this study. She noted that some children wear slippers to play outside during winter, and no one reminds them to dress more warmly.

For these children, loneliness is not an abstract idea. It is spending time alone after school, having grandparents who are unable to help with schoolwork, and feeling helpless when problems arise without knowing whom to talk to.

Faced with this reality, the organization began to reflect: if parents cannot return, is volunteer teaching and emotional support alone sufficient?

As a result, they chose a slower and more difficult path—building a small brown sugar factory locally, using employment opportunities to make it possible for parents to stay closer to their children.

Over time, what people remembered about the factory was not only its traditionally produced brown sugar, but also the gradual changes taking place within families.

Growing Up Without Parents Nearby

In Ceheng County, children growing up without parental presence are not a small minority. More than half of local children experience long-term separation from their parents during their formative years.

Most live with grandparents, while some older children take care of younger siblings. Although their basic needs are met, support in learning, emotional development, and personal expression is often lacking.

“Many grandparents can make sure children are fed and warm,” Ms. Su explained. “But it is difficult for them to truly understand what children are thinking or experiencing at school.”

This difference is visible even in everyday behavior. Children with parents at home tend to communicate more confidently and express themselves more openly.

Through volunteer teaching and home visits, the team gradually realized that the challenges faced by these children go far beyond academic performance.

Some children rarely speak up in class, while others struggle with emotional regulation and lack the language to express their feelings appropriately.

Ms. Su recalled one moment that left a strong impression on her: hearing a child say, “I don’t like it when you do that. It makes me uncomfortable.” She explained that such expressions were rare in the past, as many children did not know how to articulate their emotions. In the absence of parents, teachers are often required to take on additional roles in helping children learn how to communicate their feelings.

However, teachers cannot provide sustained one-on-one attention to every child. The individual care that parents offer is something volunteer programs cannot fully replace.

A tragic incident involving children in a neighboring region in 2015 further reinforced this realization: volunteer teaching can offer temporary support, but it cannot substitute for long-term parental presence.

Children may benefit from support for a period of time, but what they truly need throughout their growth is the presence of their parents.

This understanding became the starting point for the organization’s next steps.

Creating Local Employment Through Brown Sugar Production

Bringing parents back to work locally became central to addressing the issue.

By chance, the organization learned that the region produces high-quality sugarcane. This led to the idea of establishing a brown sugar factory to provide stable income opportunities for local parents.

The sugarcane grown in this area has high sugar content and relatively low water content. It is naturally sweet, rich in flavor, and produced with minimal use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

In addition, traditional brown sugar production has long been practiced locally using time-intensive methods.

Each year from December to March, sugarcane is harvested. Workers collect and process freshly cut sugarcane within two days to ensure quality. No additives are used during production.

The process includes juice extraction, filtration, boiling, granulation, molding, drying, and packaging. The most technically demanding stage is the boiling process, which requires careful timing and experience to ensure proper texture and flavor.

During the early stages of production, the team faced significant technical challenges and multiple failed attempts. Only after extensive research and experimentation were they able to resolve the core production issues.

The construction of the factory also encountered difficulties. At one point, building was halted due to funding shortages, which were later resolved through external support programs.

In 2017, media coverage unexpectedly brought public attention to the factory, leading to a significant increase in demand for its products.

Progress and Ongoing Challenges

After nearly nine years of operation, the factory has grown from a small workshop into a rural production facility with stable output. At its most stable stage, it employed around 15 to 20 full-time workers. During peak harvest season, additional temporary workers from nearby villages were hired, bringing total employment to several dozen people.

Most returning workers were women between the ages of 25 and 40. During peak production periods, monthly income could reach the equivalent of several thousand yuan, while off-season work focused on packaging and shipping provided steady but lower income.

More importantly, parents no longer needed to work far from home, allowing children to spend more time with them.

One worker recalled returning home during the New Year after years away, only to find that her young child did not recognize her. After joining the factory, she was able to stay close to her family while earning a comparable income.

Several years later, she chose to leave again, explaining simply that life in the village felt limiting.

According to Ms. Su, such decisions are common among younger workers, who often move between staying in their hometown and seeking experiences elsewhere. Those who remain tend to be older and place greater importance on family life.

The factory has faced ongoing challenges, including intense market competition and rising operational costs. Early opportunities created by media attention were not fully leveraged due to limited marketing capacity.

The factory’s development has gone through three phases: rapid growth, a period of declining output, and a recent stage focused on restructuring and adjustment.

Today, the factory functions as one component within a broader rural development effort. To address issues of long-term retention, the organization has begun developing complementary rural projects that offer a wider range of employment opportunities.

Through the factory, sugarcane cultivation, and subsequent projects, approximately 200 people have been encouraged to return to work locally.

Although the factory itself has not always operated smoothly, it has provided valuable experience and infrastructure that now support a wider range of rural initiatives.

Conclusion
We hope that more people will come to understand the story behind the brown sugar produced in Banwan Village. Through socially motivated marketing, we aim to contribute to the long-term stability of the factory’s operations. Interested readers may follow the link below to learn more about and purchase traditionally made brown sugar from deep within the mountains. https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/3ArcwOw2iZPNq9fqEYIltg



Orignal Chinese Versioin: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/3ArcwOw2iZPNq9fqEYIltg