Simulation: The Secret of the Awakened

Well, damn!

Seeing this, Chen Qiao could not help exclaiming in amazement!

I'm fucking brilliant!

Using one ghost's hand to slap another ghost's face—this was textbook fighting ghosts with ghosts!

Maybe he could give himself a nickname in the future:

Bin City Slap-Ghost!

[Day 8. You discovered a Search and Rescue Team rescuing survivors.

Because the roads were blocked by abandoned cars, they used pedal tricycles as transportation.

You discovered that an unremarkable survivor was suspicious.

You personally saw a falling stone strike him on the head, yet he was completely unharmed.

You believed he was an Awakened, so you secretly followed the team and observed them.]

"Good!"

Seeing this, Jiang Qiao immediately perked up.

An Awakened, huh?

After so many runs, he had finally caught one!

Not bad, not bad.

Let me see just how brave you really are!

[Day 9. As the team was leaving the city, they encountered a group of elderly people dressed in burial clothes.

The Search and Rescue Team wanted to take the survivors and leave quickly, but it was already too late.

The old ghosts stretched out hands covered in corpse spots and grabbed at the survivors. The unremarkable man was also within their range of attack.

Suddenly, the man inflated as if filled with air. His body rapidly grew, transforming from a skinny monkey into a sumo wrestler.

The Ghost Hands grabbed at him but bounced away.

His sudden display of excellence delighted everyone in the team.

But the next second, the man grabbed two Search and Rescue Team members beside him and threw them at the old ghosts. Using them to draw the ghosts' attention, he turned and fled at astonishing speed.

Such a huge body, yet he was so agile.

Your interest in him deepened, so you followed him.

As you passed the Search and Rescue Team, you performed a set of military boxing moves, helping the old ghosts enter the underworld.]

[You found the man two streets away. At that moment, he was under attack by a Faceless Ghost, and the battle between them was fierce.

The Gold Necklace around that Vicious Ghost's neck was dazzling!

You rushed forward and punched the Vicious Ghost to death.

You found a "Missing Face Notice" on the Vicious Ghost. The contact address was South City District Library.]

[You saw that the "Missing Face Notice" contained a curse and did not touch it.

But when you stared at the curse, the curse stared back at you.

Vaguely, you saw a Braided Girl whose head was covered front and back with braided pigtails.]

"..."

Jiang Qiao froze for a moment.

What kind of ghost lo... no, ghost logic was this?

Just seeing the curse could trigger it without even touching it?

What the fuck!

That Faceless Ghost was way too sinister.

Jiang Qiao had originally thought it was just some useless idiot delivering necklaces.

Who would have thought it had poisoned the city's little advertisements!

He had been careless!

[After the unremarkable man was rescued, he was very grateful to you and told you his name was Luo Hao. You said there was no need to thank you, then electrocuted him unconscious.]

[You found an abandoned shack on the outskirts of the city and prepared to study Luo Hao.

After he woke up, he tried to inflate himself into a sumo wrestler and resist.

Through close observation, you discovered several mouths wriggling beneath his skin.

Deeply shocked, you reached out and punched him.

Those mouths stiffened for a moment, and Luo Hao deflated.]

[Day 10. You performed surgery on Luo Hao but found nothing.]

[Day 11. You removed Luo Hao from the wall and continued studying him. When you were finished, you bricked him back into the wall.]

[You vaguely heard the Braided Girl's voice. "Would you be my friend?"]

[Day 12. Eating, sleeping, studying Luo Hao.]

[Day 13. Sleeping, eating, studying Luo Hao.]

[Day 14. Luo Hao refused to inflate and let you observe the mouths, instead choosing to give up. But you discovered that the severed hand could stimulate his body, so you chose to help him inflate.]

[The Braided Girl's voice became clearer. You answered that you did not want to be friends with her, but it was useless. She kept asking over and over, like a monk chanting scriptures.]

[Day 15. You discovered that Luo Hao's body had begun turning black and growing curly hair.

You wondered if this was some ominous affliction of old age.

Your interest grew even stronger.]

[Day 16. Luo Hao became listless, and you remembered that he seemed never to have eaten.

Apologetically, you tore off the tape over his mouth and personally fed him ten steamed buns.

Because you could not stuff them in, in your desperation, you even used the severed hand as a tool to help him swallow.]

[He cursed you with vulgar words in his dying breath, but you repeatedly asked whether he was still hungry.]

[You felt that you were practically a saint!]

[Day 17. Luo Hao died, and he did not go peacefully.

You believed it might have been because the supernatural ability within him had gone out of control.

You dissected him and discovered an extra lump of jelly-like matter inside him. It had a nose and eyes, as well as dense, thick hair.

That thing tried to bite you, but you punched it.

You threw Luo Hao into a distant sewer and sealed the manhole.]

[Day 18. Luo Hao, whom you had already buried, turned into something bizarre and crawled out through another manhole.

Covered in mud, it found you!

It attacked you!

You had to spend the power of three punches to kill it!]

"Huh? What the hell is something bizarre?"

Jiang Qiao noticed this completely new term.

He could understand Luo Hao undergoing a mutation.

After all, that jelly lump had a mouth, eyes, and hair!

One look and it was obvious that it was no good thing!

But according to Jiang Qiao's original guess, although that thing was an Ugly Person, it was no more than a type of Vicious Ghost.

Yet unexpectedly, it had brought him some new knowledge!

So it was not a Vicious Ghost, but something bizarre!

Understand?

Then the question was, what exactly was something bizarre?

What was the difference between it and a Vicious Ghost?

Jiang Qiao felt that the system's bad habit of speaking in riddles really needed fixing.

[Day 19. You encountered a temporary camp built by survivors on the outskirts of the city.

They told you that the military Shelter Camp had been overrun by Vicious Ghosts some time ago, and only a few people had escaped.]

[Day 20. You developed social anxiety. Whenever someone on the road called you their friend, you wanted to punch them.]

[Day 21. You discovered that the features on your Handsome and Chic face were actually beginning to disappear!

You guessed that the Faceless Ghost was probably not a ghost, but a living person who had become a Ghost Slave after being cursed by the Braided Girl.]

[Day 22. You arrived in the Eastern Suburbs and discovered many beautiful flower lanterns floating on the nearby river.

At night, those lanterns actually grew grinning ghost faces, with blue faces, protruding fangs, and long tongues hanging to the ground.

They transformed into Human Head Balloons, using corpse oil as lamps and ghostfire as candles, floating into the sky.

You were attacked by them and died, Unable to Defeat them.]

[The Braided Girl ultimately failed to become friends with you.]

[You left with your head and face intact. You were a respectable person.]

[This Weird Simulation has ended.]

[The host survived for a total of twenty-two days.]

[Congratulations, host. This simulation has granted you the talent "Dual Pupils" (SSR).]

[The Simulator has shut down.]

[Before 9:00 a.m. tomorrow, only talent solidification may be performed.]