Talent, Extract the Future

Yi'an District, Landu Garden Community.

As a mid-range residential community, Landu Garden Community naturally did not use land as tightly as low-rent housing complexes.

The residential density was relatively low, leaving ample space to embellish daily life. The community had artificial ponds and a large number of flowers and potted plants.

Even the high-rise buildings had sky gardens on every floor, giving the entire Landu Garden Community a touch of vitality and keeping it from feeling too empty.

An hour later, Yang Wu stepped into this mid-range community. This peaceful home was the last inheritance his parents had left him in this life.

Yang Wu's mother had merely been an ordinary person. Not long after giving birth to him, she died of illness. His memories of his mother in this life were very vague.

His father, meanwhile, had been an Intermediate Warrior Level Warrior under the HR Alliance. However, when Yang Wu was fourteen, he died in a beast tide while escorting Alliance cargo.

To be honest, although Yang Wu had fused the memories of two lives, he did not feel much toward his parents in this life. They had simply spent too little time with him.

His mother had died early, before he could even form memories. His father was a warrior of the HR Alliance, endlessly busy—the kind who only came home once every two or three years.

The last time father and son had met, Yang Wu had only just turned eleven...

The HR Alliance... Only after growing up and learning about his father's situation did he realize that while his father had enjoyed the HR Alliance's resources, he had lost his freedom.

Thus, Yang Wu made up his mind. He did not want to be controlled by others like his father. He wanted to join the Limit Martial Hall and become a free warrior.

Taking the elevator, Yang Wu soon returned to his home on the seventeenth floor, back to his old nest.

In the Base City Era after the Great Nirvana, electricity had become the primary energy source for maintaining Base City defense systems. As a result, electricity prices throughout the Base City were extremely high.

In low-rent housing complexes, and even most low-end communities, elevators were not installed at all. Most residents would rather spend time walking upstairs than pay the extra rent for an elevator.

Of course, residents who could afford to live in a mid-range community like Landu Garden Community naturally would not care about that little extra rent.

Inside the house, Yang Wu surveyed the furnishings before him. The memories of two lives intertwined, making everything feel both familiar and strange.

When his memories awakened last night, his brain had activated an emergency protective mechanism, causing him to faint instantly. He did not wake until four in the morning.

Studying his ability at the martial hall had ultimately been inconvenient. After simply testing his suddenly increased strength, he had hurried home impatiently.

He shut the doors and windows and drew the curtains tight.

The research began!

Talent ability—what was talent?

Something innate, possessing growth potential, uniqueness, and special qualities...

Extract the Future. Just as the name implied, it allowed him to extract his future insights and strength—and he did not even have to pay it back.

The most overpowered part was that this was a growth-type talent. As his own strength increased, the talent would grow stronger alongside it.

Using a talent ability naturally came at a cost, and the price Extract the Future required was time.

Time, not lifespan!

It needed a period of time to cool down and refresh before he could use it again to extract a period of future insights or memories.

[Simulation Panel]:

Simulations: 1 (can accumulate within the same stage)

Simulation Period: Next Three Years (Current)

Cooldown Refresh: One Month (Current)

Extraction Options: 1. Insights, 2. Experiences, 3. Fortuitous Opportunities.

Rule 1: The simulation is based on the current state and simulates the future for extraction.

Rule 2: The self within the simulation has no memories from before transmigration and no talent of Extract the Future.

Rule 3: If death occurs in the simulation, the simulation ends upon the first death.

Rule 4: For Fortuitous Opportunities, the causal threads within half an hour before and after the simulation are automatically blocked...

Rule 5: (To Be Updated)

...

Don't get the wrong idea. The above was merely something Yang Wu had specially summarized and organized into a familiar format based on the information he had learned, so that he could better understand the talent of Extract the Future.

It did not actually exist!

How could the use of a talent ability be so complicated? It was almost instinctive, something completed in an instant. Only choosing the direction of extraction required some thought.

Based on what he currently understood, the talent ability would continuously strengthen along with his own power. The surge in strength after awakening had allowed him to enter the Elementary Warrior Level Warrior realm, also known as the Apprentice Stage.

The Apprentice Stage had a simulation period of three years, a cooldown period of one month, and simulation attempts could accumulate.

If he reached the Planet Level, the simulation period would become longer and the cooldown period would increase as well. The simulation attempts accumulated during the Apprentice Stage would be reset by offsetting cooldown time.

There were three main categories for extraction: insights, experiences, and fortuitous opportunities.

There was no need to say much about insights. This was an indispensable category, including movement technique insights and combat move techniques. But forget about exploiting loopholes—secret manuals did not fall under the category of insights.

Furthermore, the most important point about this extraction option was that whether he gained anything or not, choosing insights would increase his talent and comprehension by a small amount.

Experiences mainly referred to memories from the simulation. Naturally, extracted experiences would play out like television clips, so they would not affect his own memories while strengthening things such as his combat awareness.

No matter whether he gained anything or not, choosing this extraction would slightly strengthen his state of mind and willpower.

Strengthen his state of mind and willpower?

Yang Wu could not understand why such an almost mystical ability could be so simple.

But the cheat was real, and he was awake. That was simply the truth.

The final option, fortuitous opportunities, was rather casual... No, rather random.

Extracting a fortuitous opportunity might grant him an inheritance, a secret manual, or a treasure. Or it might be a piece of underwear worth a few dozen yuan, completely useless.

That was a lot of talk, but it was necessary!

Looking at the remaining 1 simulation attempt, Yang Wu began the first simulation of his life.

[Simulation Begins!]

[You felt dazed for a moment, then regained consciousness. You assumed you had only fainted from overtraining last night and still felt somewhat lightheaded. After glancing at the drawn curtains, you collapsed onto the bed and slept soundly.]

[Because of your coma, your strength increased greatly. Two days later, on May 1, you passed the Quasi-Warrior assessment!]

[Then, on August 1, you passed the Quasi-Warrior practical assessment and became a true warrior.]

[After becoming a warrior, you joined a warrior squad and entered the Wilderness Area, beginning your path of surviving in the wild.]

[After killing for a long time, you decided to take a break and visit a park. By chance, you encountered Luo Hua jumping into a lake. You leaped into the water and saved Luo Hua's life. Afterward, Luo Feng was extremely grateful to you.]

[You returned to life in the wilderness, and time slowly passed. In August not long afterward, Luo Feng actually became the Inspector of the Limit Martial Hall's Jiangnan Base City, while you had only just broken through to become an Intermediate Warrior Level Warrior.]

[You cultivated diligently. A year passed. On this day, Luo Feng was suspected to have fallen. You refused to believe it, and Luo Feng's family was inexplicably harassed by enemies. Unable to stand it any longer, you intervened. Not long after, you were kicked out of the warrior squad...]

[In December, Luo Feng returned and killed Vulture Li Yao. Because you had taken care of his family, he expressed his gratitude and gifted you a Plant Spirit.]

[Under Luo Feng's guidance, you consumed the Plant Spirit and advanced to the Advanced General Peak, only one step away from becoming an Elementary War God.]

[You were very excited...]

[Simulation Ended!]

A clarification here: in the original novel, Yang Wu had family!