The Safe House Wasn't Safe After All...

Day Fourteen: The people who had knocked on your door yesterday came again. They tried to force their way in, and you stepped in to stop them...

They explained that they wanted to break in to gather supplies from within the community, but you heard their thoughts and knew they meant no good.

Day Fifteen: Someone knocked again. They claimed to be relatives of the landlord and arrogantly demanded the house back... You activated the *Clothes-Busting Warrior* talent and killed one of them on the spot. The rest scattered like birds and beasts.

Day Sixteen: You symbolically donated some old clothes to help residents fleeing the Contamination Zone keep warm...

Day Seventeen: You heard that a kind resident had taken in some refugees, only to be murdered by them...

Day Eighteen: An Awakened opened a stable route for obtaining supplies and won the admiration of those in the Safe Zone.

Day Nineteen: Word that you had supplies at home spread without wings...

Day Twenty: An Awakened brought people to your door to demand supplies. You activated the *Clothes-Busting Warrior* talent and fought the Awakened to the death. You won and successfully killed them...

To maintain your condition, you had no choice but to use up one layer of Healing Energy.

Day Twenty-One: People assumed you were an Awakened. Other Awakened invited you to join the leadership team, but you refused...

Because you heard their thoughts. Every one of those Awakened had ulterior motives.

Day Twenty-Two: ...

Just like in the previous simulation...

A green Combat Talent was enough for him to confront those so-called Awakened head-on.

If Fallen Gift was included as well, it would become a one-sided beating.

After all, ordinary Awakened did not possess recovery abilities as terrifying as his.

"Even so, it would be even better if there were a way to become an Awakened..."

Su Ze muttered to himself.

In this apocalypse, direct combat strength was absolutely an indispensable condition for survival.

Not every Safe Zone maintained good order like the school did.

It was only around the thirtieth or fortieth day that darker incidents began to emerge.

In this round of simulation, the Safe Zone Su Ze was in had clearly been teetering on the brink of collapsing order all along.

Ordinary people held on to their goodwill, only to be exploited and killed.

The Awakened possessed greater abilities, yet each harbored their own schemes.

To put it bluntly, if there were only one Awakened, that person might immediately declare that they did not eat beef, then start committing all kinds of evil...

Human nature could not withstand too many tests.

Precisely because of that...

He had to possess direct combat power.

Otherwise, no matter how many supplies he stored, it would be useless.

Your neighbors stockpiled guns while you stockpiled food. Of course they would rob you.

Day Twenty-Four: There were many people in the Safe Zone ready to make a move, and you knew exactly who they were.

Day Twenty-Five: You taught Chen Keqing how to use a gun.

Day Twenty-Six: The talent Father God's Listening took effect. You heard two other unknown incantations. Now you knew all the incantations. They were...

—Enhancement, Imagination, Heavenly Eye, Inspiration, Conversion, Starry Sky.

Day Twenty-Seven: You shared the detailed information you knew about the Contamination Zone with Chen Keqing and told her all the incantations.

Day Twenty-Eight: A newly awakened Awakened came to your door, intending to seize your supplies. You fought them and killed them, but your door was completely destroyed in the battle...

Day Twenty-Nine: An Awakened invited you to join the leadership team again. You sensed immense malice, and your patience finally ran out...

You brought Chen Keqing to the leadership meeting and deliberately allowed the Awakened's lackeys to secretly empty out your supplies.

Day Thirty: The supplies were gone. Chen Keqing cried her heart out, so you robbed some sweets from someone else for her...

Day Thirty-One: You began a massacre. Using Fallen Gift's recovery ability, you killed every Awakened in the Safe Zone, along with their associated lackeys. The other survivors were terrified...

Day Thirty-Two: You felt that the Safe House had lost its meaning, so you drove through the Contamination Zone at great risk and returned to the school...

Sure enough.

With Fallen Gift's talent, even a green Combat Talent could help him deal with Awakened.

The process might be somewhat dangerous and troublesome, but he could still win in the end...

Besides.

Father God's Listening was continuing to work as well.

Now, he finally knew every incantation.

"But this Safe House really doesn't live up to its name..."

Su Ze could not help complaining inwardly.

What was a Safe House?

Could it be called a Safe House without absolute safety?

At most, it could only be considered a supply storage room.

It was not as though he had failed to realize this problem before.

It was just that in his previous simulations, he had spent most of his time at school.

The safety issue had not been nearly as severe as it was in this round.

There was another point. In the previous simulations, he had always been alone, braving wind and rain by himself, so it did not matter.

This round of simulation was different.

He had brought a girl with him.

Before making any decision, he had to consider Chen Keqing's safety.

As a result, even something as minor as passing through the Contamination Zone had become a risk.

After all... once they entered the Contamination Zone, they might attract a deadly nightmare.

Day Thirty-Four: Order at the school was much better, but you could still sense the restlessness in many people's hearts...

Day Thirty-Five: You wanted to try awakening. Chen Keqing strongly insisted on going with you, leaving you hesitant.

Day Thirty-Six: You continued to hesitate.

Day Thirty-Seven: You continued to hesitate.

Day Thirty-Eight: You confirmed Chen Keqing's resolve. You took her to the Contamination Zone, returned to the school after coming into contact with the Pollution Source.

Day Thirty-Nine: You had a nightmare. Healing Energy decreased by one. Nothing happened to Chen Keqing.

Day Forty: After investigating, you became absolutely certain of the information. The conditions for becoming an Awakened were—come into contact with a Pollution Source, or enter a Contamination Zone. Then there was a chance of encountering a nightmare. Accept the trial in the nightmare and choose the incantation you wished to use. Complete those steps, and you could become an Awakened...

But you did not understand why you kept failing.

Day Forty-One: When you woke up, you discovered that Chen Keqing... was cold. She had a nightmare without your knowledge. She died. You tried to heal her, but failed.

Day Forty-Two: You drove back the supplies stored in your other Safe House to the school and distributed them among those who had looked after you during this time.

Day Forty-Three: You destroyed the Pollution Source in Half-Mountain Community.

Day Forty-Four: You spent the night in the Contamination Zone. You had a nightmare, and in the dream, you used up all your Healing Energy...

You died.

Different simulation details, similar ways of dying.

Su Ze silently wrote down a note in his little notebook—never destroy a Pollution Source. Doing so was equivalent to suicide.

At least, based on the information currently available, it was a suicidal act...

Even his Fallen Gift could not save him.

Aside from that piece of information, the path to becoming an Awakened had also become completely clear.

But he seemed to possess a special constitution that prevented him from becoming an Awakened...

Or perhaps he simply had not passed the trial in the nightmare.

After all, fewer than one in ten people who challenged the Mysteries successfully awakened.

The odds really were not high...

"Fuck, what the hell is going on with Awakened..."

Shaking his head, Su Ze looked somewhat helpless.

He could only be patient.

Continue simulating, continue gathering information...