Endless Source

Wang Ji felt that something about this was unscientific. By all rights, shouldn't he have been the sole protagonist?!

His parents had died when he was young, he had awakened a system upon reaching adulthood, and then he had wisely hidden himself away in the city...

Why did it now look like one of those legendary urban spiritual-energy revival stories? And someone else had awakened just one step later than him?

That was no fun at all...

Under the night sky, stars glittered overhead. He stood with his hands behind his back, watching the "world-shattering" battle in a cramped alleyway corner, lost in thought.

This was the destination of the assignment received midway through by the police car he had been riding in.

The narrow, dimly lit alley lay before him. A delicate little girl with tears streaming down her face wore a pink tank top... That was not important.

Three older young men from society who looked like no good could come of them—either tattooed, wearing nose rings, or with vicious-looking faces.

The leader was a man in a red shirt.

There was also a young, sturdy-looking man with a somewhat foolish air, who looked like a college student and was even a little handsome... though he was still far inferior to Wang Ji.

Speaking of which, it was rather helpless. Ever since entering puberty, Wang Ji had never seen another man who could match him in looks.

The road of life was truly lonely.

With his hands behind his back, he leaned against the police car with its flashing lights. His handsome face looked somewhat melancholy beneath the moonlight and neon glow. Ever since childhood, he had known that this was perhaps the unfairness of the human world... Sigh.

He looked back into the alley. After the battle had just ended, an air conditioner's outdoor unit had been torn off and lay on the ground. There was a large hole in the concrete that clearly had not formed naturally, with rubble scattered around it.

That was definitely not normal.

Yet Wang Ji knew more unusual things. While the police car had still been far away, he had sensed two enormous, dark shadows appearing one after another before vanishing.

Even more unusually, in his instinctive calculations, he had unexpectedly discovered that the police car he was riding in had received the order to rush here slightly earlier than it should have.

He could see the data of the little girl in the pink tank top. By comparison, the time the police had received the assignment was clearly earlier than the time the incident here had occurred.

That was strange...

And when hooligans harassed a girl, and a college student stepped forward to uphold justice... two people had actually awakened.

Could the proportion of people who could awaken in this world really be so high?

Wang Ji sighed inwardly as he watched the police go deal with the scene. He gazed up at the stars and recalled the utterly ordinary awakening from three days ago.

That day had also been his birthday.

System activating.

Authorization confirmed. Confirmation complete.

Learning new language.

Downloading information.

Reading rule data.

Downloading rule data.

Data download progress: 50%, 51%, 52%...

99%, 100%. Data download complete.

Verifying data... Verification complete.

System initialization complete. Next step: matching physical constitution strength... Matching in progress. System output reduced to minimum.

To ensure safety, preparing to enhance physical constitution strength.

Searching Huaxia network data... No genuine, reliable lifeform enhancement technology found. Unable to provide acquisition route. Unable to learn. Unable to manufacture.

Search range expanded. Searching again... Suspected genuine, reliable lifeform enhancement technology found. Country A: Super Serum.

Designing acquisition route. Please take Elevator No. 2 downstairs, then use the DiDi Taxi app on your phone to call a taxi and proceed to Juxia International Airport.

If procedural issues arise during your trip abroad, please do not worry. The system will crack the procedures of both countries' airports for you... Please travel abroad to obtain suspected finished Super Serum products or or manufacturing plans to enhance your physical constitution.

Please go downstairs. Please take a vehicle to the airport. Please go abroad.

Please go abroad...

Please go abroad...

Please go abroad...

A mechanical voice had suddenly appeared in his mind, saying a bunch of nonsensical things.

Unlike the protagonists in many novels Wang Ji had read, he had simply sat frozen before his computer at the time, with little reaction.

Perhaps he had been nervous, perhaps suspicious. It was his instinctive response, and he had not dared to say anything rashly.

Of course, he had been excited too.

System owner Wang Ji has not responded. Plan canceled.

Reason for plan cancellation: adult birthday, mental reservations.

Physical constitution enhancement plan canceled. Preparing to enhance Wang Ji's abilities.

"Wait, are you... a system? What are you going to do?" Wang Ji finally could not hold back any longer and spoke with difficulty.

"Enhance your abilities," the voice that was undoubtedly the system's answered.

"How will you enhance them? What abilities?" Wang Ji hurriedly asked.

The system will use remaining available algorithms and reserve energy to enhance you. Specific abilities undetermined...

You may state your preferences and commands. The system will simulate and achieve them for you to the greatest extent possible.

Wang Ji felt as if he were dreaming, wrapped in a sense of unreality.

Like many others, he had hoped for such fantasies—for a system and superpowers to suddenly fall into his hands.

But when this day truly came, he found himself unable to adapt. This intangible feeling of gaining something without effort felt less real than the computer before him or the hack system he had written himself...

He took a quiet breath and tried to calm his many emotions. Then, just like in so many novels, he communicated with the system. "Then if I wanted to become Ultraman, could you make that happen too?"

Please wait. Searching Huaxia network. Querying Ultraman data... Result feedback: Ultraman's abilities can be partially simulated, but the abilities are too powerful and do not conform to the world's rules.

Spiritual power requires definition. Its upper limit is difficult to achieve.

Power in ordinary form is weak. Not recommended.

Simulation is possible, but energy consumption would be excessive and completion may be impossible.

Without a material foundation or assistance from existing technology, the system's possible enhancement directions are: improving Wang Ji's physical qualities, rewriting Wang Ji's bodily data, and rewriting the structures and properties of material objects.

Please refer to this.

The system's voice held no emotion, no embarrassment or anything else, and Wang Ji was not disappointed either.

He thought quietly for a moment, looked around at the models and Chicken Dinner Game figurines filling his room, then spoke. "Chicken Dinner Game?"

Calculating remaining energy. Calculating Wang Ji's physical qualities. Calculating energy radiation damage. Interest command confirmed: Chicken Dinner Game.

Searching network, reading relevant game information, designing enhancement plan, designing energy source.

This request falls within the system's current capabilities.

A Chicken Dinner Game Hack System personally designed by Wang Ji has been detected. Incorporating it into the enhancement plan.

Begin enhancement?

Wang Ji nodded.

Command accepted: begin enhancement.

Analyzing Wang Ji's body. Analysis complete.

Defining Wang Ji's body... Severe pain is normal. Do not panic.

Command accepted: remember to give a warning next time.

Enhancement continuing.

Defining body domain. Defining domain rules.

Constructing Wang Ji's PUBG System.

Constructing Wang Ji's Hack System.

Building ability projects.

Requesting additional algorithm support.

Massive algorithm deficiencies detected. Continue? Continuation recommended to ensure Wang Ji gains self-protection capabilities as quickly as possible.

Command accepted: project continuing.

Selecting the easiest projects to complete based on remaining available algorithms. Projects selected.

Algorithm deficiencies detected.

Forcibly deriving required algorithms from known participating algorithms. Energy consumption intensifying.

Energy shortage anticipated. Continuing to reduce number of projects.

Remaining projects in progress...

PUBG System framework complete. Equipment enhancement algorithms ×3. Please obtain basic equipment yourself for enhancement.

Hack System framework complete. Ability ×1.

Physical constitution definition complete. Domain rule definition complete.

Reserve energy is about to be exhausted. Do not panic. The system will slowly restore energy.

No request for continued communication detected. Preparing for minimum-energy standby mode.

Large food intake recommended to maintain the biological energy required for physical constitution consumption.

Even today, Wang Ji still remembered the complicated feelings he had experienced that day.

Even today, it still felt dreamlike to him.

Even today, he still remembered the excruciating pain of that transformation.

Yet it was precisely that pain, together with his unchanged daily life, that gave him a slight sense of reality and made him roughly feel that he was not dreaming.

Over these three days, no one knew about the changes in his state of mind, nor did anyone know what he had done.

Only he himself knew.

The solitary bright moon hung high in the sky. The neon lights of Juxia City still made him feel lonely.

Reading data. Learning relevant technological terminology... Dark Energy, Dark Data, Dark Dimension, Super Gene.

Reading Dark Data: Ge Xiao Lun, Galaxy Power.

Reading Dark Data: Liu Chuang, Nuo Star God of War.

Reading materials. Materials being read... Materials being stored.

Important materials cannot be read. To obtain them, acquiring the other party's blood sample is recommended.

The system is learning relevant materials: God River Super Gene Engine System-related information.

System update recommended.

Wang Ji nodded almost imperceptibly.

Command acquired: update system.

Modifying internal information. Simulating Super Gene.

Modification successful. Simulation successful.

Dark Information modified to: God River Super Gene Engine System.

New energy sources acquired: Dark Energy, light energy.

A designation is required. Obtain system-recommended matching designation, or will Wang Ji name it himself?

Command accepted: system naming.

System has selected a suitable designation: Endless Source · Super Gene Engine System.

Subsystem: PUBG System.

Subsystem: Hack System.

Super Warrior · Endless Source · Wang Ji, good luck.

Wang Ji watched without changing expression as these people were taken into the police cars. As he looked at the two unusual men, his eyes contained only the appropriate amount of shock, otherwise remaining calm.

A total of three police vehicles had arrived here one after another: two sedans and one van.

Two of the three hooligans' lackeys and the frail girl were taken into the van. Liu Chuang in the red shirt was taken into one sedan, while Ge Xiao Lun was taken into the other.

The two of them were clearly extraordinary and potentially dangerous, so each had police officers guarding them.

"Get in. Perfect, you can go sit in that van. We told you to wait in the car, but you came down anyway." The male police officer was named Wang Yuan, and he and Wang Ji could be considered members of the same clan.

He pointed at the van, signaling Wang Ji.

Wang Ji looked at the rear seat beside the young female officer that had originally been his, which now belonged to Ge Xiao Lun.

Oh, right. The young female officer was named Qi Lin.

"I want to sit next to Officer Qi Lin." Wang Ji stood with his hands behind his back and spoke as if it were only natural.

Ge Xiao Lun looked at the handcuffs on the other person, somewhat puzzled and somewhat nervous.

"I've got something to deal with here, so stop messing around. Go on, be good." Officer Qi Lin had chatted with Wang Ji for a while and was unwilling to harshly scold this grown boy.

"Go on. Since when do you get to pick and choose here?" Officer Wang Yuan ruffled Wang Ji's hair and laughed. "You think you're familiar just because you chatted a little? Kid, you're pretty straightforward..."

Wang Ji sighed faintly. "It's so hot. If everyone squeezes together, we'll get familiar sooner or later... Forget it, stop messing with my hair."

With his hands behind his back, he strode toward the more crowded van.

He gave the two little hooligans inside, who were sizing him up, an indifferent glance and glared at them. "What are you looking at?! Never seen a murderer before?"

He leisurely got into the vehicle, and the three ordinary people instantly grew nervous.

The vehicle started moving. Beneath the tranquil night, Wang Ji quietly admired the familiar nighttime scenery of the city, his gaze holding little emotion.

His young eyes were deep, like a city gradually slipping into a haze.