The Grim Apocalypse Approaches, Luckily I Have a Simulator
Chapter 46

New Talent: Arrival!

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The Simulator's cooldown had ended...

The ten-minute cooldown ended quickly.

Having discovered a new continent, Su Ze eagerly chose to begin a new simulation.

Innate talent selected: 'Fatal Curse (Blue)' Simulation starting... Day 1: The apocalypse arrived as scheduled. Your flight landed safely at Cloud City Airport. You took Chen Keqing with you and checked into Jingyi Hotel. Day 2: The temperature plummeted... Day 19: You killed three more Awakened, maintaining your rule within the Safe Zone... Day 41: An Awakened carrying firearms attempted to challenge your rule. You killed him without mercy and hung his corpse outside the door as a warning. Day 61: The Great Fog you had waited two months for finally arrived today...

Lacking accurate intelligence, you could only grope about blindly in the Great Fog. The good news was that you did not lose your way. The bad news was that you did not find the person you were looking for. Qi Xiaoye did not appear in the Great Fog.

Day 62: You mobilized all your resources and continued searching the surrounding area for Qi Xiaoye... Day 70: You still had no information about Qi Xiaoye. You began to suspect that she had already met with disaster. Day 117: You made finding Qi Xiaoye a long-term goal and continuously used your intelligence network to search for every scrap of information about her... Day 329: You still had not found Qi Xiaoye, nor had you become an Awakened. Fortunately, relying on your powerful talents, you remained an almost invincible existence... Day 330: A massive earthquake. Stars Fall. It seemed as though the apocalypse had reached its final stop... Congratulations, you have completed the entire Doomsday Simulation.
Innate talent selected: 'Put to Death (Green)' Day 1: The apocalypse arrived as scheduled. You and Chen Keqing stayed at Jingyi Hotel in Cloud City... Day 2: The temperature plummeted... Day 61: The Great Fog appeared. Inside Avalon, you made arrangements with Chen Keqing for what would happen after your death, because you intended to take a risk. Relying on your talent, you intended to force yourself to become lost in the Great Fog, believing that this might allow you to find Qi Xiaoye...

You failed. You did indeed lose your way in the Great Fog, but you still did not find the person you were looking for.

Day 101: You joined BC-10 and took charge of intelligence work. You continued searching for Qi Xiaoye...
Innate talent selected: 'Break the Cauldron and Sink the Boats (Blue)' Day 1: The apocalypse arrived as scheduled. You chose Cloud City as your apocalypse spawn point... Day 2: ... Day 61: The Great Fog appeared. You told Chen Keqing about your plan to take a risk. She objected, but seeing your determination, she accompanied you on the risk...

You lost your way in the Great Fog. You encountered a powerful enemy. You fled back to Avalon. A terrifying monster broke into Avalon to hunt you down. You exhausted all your Healing Energy, and both of you fell.

Innate talent selected: 'Reaper's Scythe (Green)' Day 1: The apocalypse arrived as scheduled. You chose SC-35 as your apocalypse spawn point... Day 61: With the Global Link talent, you controlled an ordinary person in the direction of Cloud City and had them enter the Great Fog to search for Qi Xiaoye. Unfortunately, nothing useful was discovered... Day 115: You were still trying to find Qi Xiaoye, but you were no longer as obsessed with this goal. Day 192: You obtained intelligence regarding a Contained Object. Since it was relatively close, you went to investigate. During the investigation, you accidentally alerted a powerful Contained Object and were hunted down... You exhausted all your Healing Energy. You died.

In the blink of an eye, more than two hours had passed.

The contents displayed by the Simulator gradually calmed Su Ze's mood.

Because an unexpected problem had arisen...

He had originally thought that as long as he searched in the dark near a hotel in Cloud City on the day the Great Fog first appeared, he would be able to meet that mysterious girl, Qi Xiaoye.

But reality was clearly not so simple.

More than a dozen consecutive simulation attempts had all ended in failure.

No matter how he searched for Qi Xiaoye...

Whether he ignored the danger and went in person, or used Global Link to control others and send them into the Great Fog to search, he simply could not find her...

"Could some of the earlier information have misled me?"

Su Ze frowned as he considered where exactly the problem lay.

Was the location wrong? The timing? Or was everything wrong?

"If only I knew what she looked like..."

Letting out a breath, Su Ze felt somewhat helpless.

Even the Global Link talent was useless at this moment.

Other than her name, he needed to know at least what she roughly looked like before he could directly lock onto her and attempt to link with her.

Ordinarily, investigating someone's appearance would not be difficult. With the official population database, he could find out with a simple search.

But could the version of himself in the simulation have failed to think of something that he could think of now?

He must have already tried that method, but it had not worked.

That was why he could only use such a stupid method to search for her...

"If I simply can't find her, and she was only a special existence who appeared because of that previous talent..."

His index finger tapped against the table as Su Ze considered this possibility.

If that was really the case...

Then there was no need for him to keep trying.

Unless he drew the exact same talent again.

"So I have to accept reality? She was merely a miraculous encounter, a fleeting glimpse in my simulation?"

Thinking that, Su Ze gave a cold snort, a fierce glint flashing through his expression.

No...

He had to find this girl named Qi Xiaoye.

Without her, it felt as if something crucial would be missing from his journey through the apocalypse...

Leaving everything else aside.

Qi Xiaoye's ability to identify intelligence about Contained Objects at a glance was alone enough for him to spare no expense in searching for her. Not to mention that Qi Xiaoye seemed to be the key "ingredient" for him to become an Awakened...

Still.

If he truly could not find her...

Then the latter parts of those dozen or so previous simulations were probably the choices he would make.

He still had to search, but he could not risk his life doing it.

After all, those previous simulations had already revealed terrifying creatures that could pursue him even after he brought out Avalon...

That alone proved that he could not truly act without restraint in the apocalypse.

The Simulator's cooldown had ended...

Amid his tangled thoughts, the cooldown ended once more.

Without a second thought, Su Ze immediately chose to begin another simulation...

Doomsday Simulation has begun... Please select one of the following three talents as the innate talent for this simulation! Arrival (Gold): You can instantly teleport a certain amount of matter, including yourself, to a specific target point. After teleporting, you may remain at the target location for up to seven hours. During those seven hours, you may choose to teleport back at any time. Kiss of Healing (Green): Your kisses can heal others, but such healing consumes your energy. Thousand Mile Ears (Green): Your ears are exceptionally keen and can hear sounds from far away, but you need to concentrate in order to use this talent.
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