Fallen Gift (Gold): When someone dies near you, you will gain one layer of Healing Energy (including the removal of negative conditions). You can use it to heal yourself or others. You can store up to seven layers of energy.
Titan Bloodline (Blue): Your physique will be strengthened in every aspect. Killing a tiger with your bare hands will not be difficult for you.
Scarecrow (Green): You can draw a little figure on paper and use it to curse a target. Once completed, there is a chance the target will contract a disease.
The Gold Talent gleamed brilliantly.
Su Ze could not take his eyes off it...
The other two Talents did not seem like completely useless trash either.
But before a Gold Talent, they simply were not worth mentioning.
Without the slightest hesitation, he chose the Gold Talent.
Before the simulation began, Su Ze tried to formulate an apocalypse survival plan in his mind...
He wanted to challenge that young married woman again.
You have selected the innate Talent: Fallen Gift (Gold). Simulation begins... Day 1: The apocalypse arrived as scheduled. You hid in a high-rise detached house and gathered information through the internet. Before long, you confirmed that the sun had truly vanished, and humanity's sky had fallen beneath the shroud of Mysteries... Day 2: You continued gathering information, but gained little. Day 3: While delivering supplies to you, the young married woman downstairs propositioned you... You beat her to death with a club. That night, you attempted to use Fallen Gift to revive the young married woman, but failed. You could not revive someone who had been dead for too long. Day 4: Taking advantage of the chaos erupting in the residential complex, you disposed of the body. That afternoon, the power and water were cut off. Day 5: You tried treating a Red-Eyed Patient. You succeeded, and the Talent Energy you had consumed was quickly replenished. You knew that someone must have died in some corner of the residential complex. Day 6: Large numbers of Red-Eyed Patients emerged in the residential complex. These patients were sensitive to sound and light, so you passed the day quietly. Day 7: They found you. You responded calmly and killed dozens of frenzied patients. Day 8: After resting up, you took the initiative and searched the residential complex for uninfected people. That day, you killed many more dangerous Red-Eyed Patients. Day 9: You had a nightmare. When you woke, one layer of your stored Talent Energy had decreased. Fortunately, you were unharmed... That night, you went on a killing spree. Day 10: You killed until you went mad. No living thing remained in the residential complex, but your ammunition reserves were nearly depleted...
Had I slaughtered the entire residential complex?
Well...
If he had firearms, dealing with mad patients who only knew how to use brute force was not exactly strange.
After all, he was quite familiar with firearms, and he had the experience of living two lives.
Besides, compared with those frenzied people...
The truly fatal threat should have been the mysterious red-eye symptoms.
Fortunately.
His Gold Talent had done its job.
Even without his knowledge, it had still removed and treated the negative condition...
"Just as expected of a Gold Talent. It's so much more useful than that poison resistance from before."
Su Ze muttered softly with a sigh.
Day 11: You investigated the area around the residential complex. There were other nearby housing developments with Red-Eyed Patients as well, but you did not want to invite trouble and chose to ignore them. Day 12: You noticed that large numbers of Red-Eyed Patients outside the residential complex were dying from exhaustion. You were also glad you did not need to deal with the bodies, because those who died from the illness would dissolve into the wind like burnt ash within half a day. Day 13: You had a nightmare. When you woke, one layer of Healing Energy had decreased. Day 14: You had a nightmare. When you woke, one layer of Healing Energy had decreased. Day 15: You had another nightmare. You realized that the residential complex was not safe. At the same time, you learned that a community four kilometers away was a Safe Zone. Day 16: You headed for the safe community. You encountered danger several times along the way. A mutated husky nearly bit the front of your car to pieces. Fortunately, you took a turn through a drainage ditch and escaped at high speed. Day 17: You arrived at the new residential complex. Many refugees had gathered there. Food was scarce, but order was well maintained. You soon learned a piece of news that astonished you... The managers of this Safe Zone were called—Awakened. Day 18: You integrated into the new environment and learned new terms—Safe Zone, Contamination Zone, Awakened.
Safe Zone, Contamination Zone...
And Awakened...
The wealth of information made Su Ze fall into thought.
It seemed that the greatest threat to survival in this apocalypse was certain mysterious things...
Calling them "Mysteries" was perhaps more appropriate.
Day 19: Food became increasingly scarce. Fortunately, Awakened went out to search for food. You witnessed an Awakened in action, and their movements were absurdly agile. Day 20: A new Awakened appeared in your Safe Zone. At the same time, you learned new information: Contamination Zones were formed because of Pollution Sources. Day 21: The harsh conditions in the Safe Zone made you miss your Safe House terribly. Day 22: You restored your stockpile to seven layers of Healing Energy. You heard of a method for becoming Awakened, but did not know whether it was true... You decided to take a gamble. You left the Safe Zone and returned to the residential complex where you had lived before. Day 23: You spent the entire day resting in the Safe House. After falling asleep, you had another nightmare, and your Healing Energy decreased by one layer. Day 24: You searched inside and outside the residential complex. You seemed to have found the Pollution Source. That night, you indeed stopped having nightmares. Day 25: You agonized over why you had not awakened... Day 26: In your sleep, you discovered that you had entered a strange space. A terrifying Hound pursued you, and you fell into a bitter battle... After exhausting all seven layers of Healing Energy, you died. You survived for 26 days...
In the end, he had still died in that same old place.
Although the simulations had never explicitly named the residential complex.
Su Ze could roughly guess where it was.
There were only a few high-rise detached houses in this city suitable for serving as apocalypse Safe Houses.
"I did my best..."
"Without the Gold Talent, I don't even know how many times I would've died in that residential complex..."
"And I only went back to take the risk because I wanted to become Awakened. It wasn't an undignified death. So the question is... what exactly are Awakened?"
As Su Ze's thoughts raced.
The Simulator continued to operate.
Simulation evaluation: The meaning of life lies not in its length, but in its breadth. Please choose any one reward from the following three options: 1. A sheet of paper recording the process of becoming Awakened 2. Scarecrow (Green) 3. Fallen Gift (Gold)
Fortunately...
The simulation rewards had not left out what he wanted most...
Though the first option did make Su Ze curious.
It was still far inferior to a Gold Talent.
He still did not know the appearance rate of Gold Talents. What if the odds were very low, or his luck worsened later on...
In short, if he missed one of the few Gold Talents available, he would suffer a tremendous loss.
Ding!
You have selected the simulation reward—Fallen Gift (Gold)...
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