Awakened Incantations!

On the seventeenth day, you woke from a nightmare. After waking, your Healing Energy had not decreased. You realized that your residence was also within the Contamination Zone...

You decided to begin investigating the Contamination Zone near your residence.

On the eighteenth day, you found some clues. You discovered that the residents near your residence seemed to have vanished into thin air—all of them had suddenly disappeared...

Later, you found a bizarre mirror. You felt that it was the Pollution Source, but you did not dare touch it.

On the nineteenth day, you found little in the Contamination Zone where you were staying.

However, you discovered that White Horse Community next door had many infected individuals resembling Zombies. This group was highly aggressive, but they liked hiding in dark corners.

On the twentieth day, you saw Awakened leading a team out of the school. You knew their goal was to search for supplies.

On the twenty-first day, you made a startling discovery: the Contamination Zones seemed to have strictly defined boundaries.

On the twenty-second day, while looking into a mirror, you were dragged into the Mirror World. You underwent a terrifying trial. Without the Complete Retreat talent, even nine lives would not have been enough...

Now you knew why the residents in this Contamination Zone had vanished into thin air.

On the twenty-third day, you investigated Jiahe Community and discovered that many mutated animals had gathered there. These animals were exceedingly savage, and even ordinary firearms could barely deal with them.

On the twenty-fourth day, you investigated the Contamination Zone near the middle school and found that the residents there had likewise vanished into thin air. You guessed that the threat lurking there was similar to the Mirror World.

On the twenty-fifth day,...

On the twenty-sixth day,...

On the twenty-seventh day,...

Your survival record had quietly been renewed.

His simulated self had indeed carried out the investigation mission with unwavering determination. He had more or less explored all the Contamination Zones around the school.

After gathering all this intelligence, Su Ze obtained two extremely important pieces of information.

First, the dangers lurking in every Contamination Zone were different, but without question, all of them were exceedingly deadly to ordinary people.

Second, Contamination Zones had strict boundaries.

There was naturally no need to elaborate on the first piece of information.

If one wanted to live a little longer in the apocalypse, one naturally had to stay in the Safe Zone as much as possible and avoid entering the range of a Contamination Zone.

Otherwise, disaster might fall upon one's head at any moment.

The second piece of information was essentially a supplement to the first...

Only after knowing the exact range of a Contamination Zone could one determine a safe area for activity.

On the twenty-eighth day, you returned to your residence to rest and recover. On the way, you encountered other survivors, and you spoke briefly.

That night, despite avoiding mirrors, you were suddenly dragged into the Mirror World again. With the Complete Retreat talent, you narrowly escaped once more.

On the twenty-ninth day, the survivors you had met yesterday went missing. You guessed that they had died in the Mirror World.

On the thirtieth day, you secretly returned to the school and discovered that there were now more than ten Awakened there. The method they had used to become Awakened was no different from what you had heard before.

On the thirty-first day, you came into conflict with an Awakened. Your roommate stood up for you and was accidentally kicked hard enough by the Awakened to break a leg.

On the thirty-second day, with no medicine available, your roommate lay in bed, unable to move.

You secretly healed your roommate and left the school once again.

On the thirty-third day, you returned to your residence to rest. That night, you smashed the bizarre mirror that might have been the Pollution Source.

You slept very uneasily that night.

On the thirty-fourth day, you woke up to discover that a large number of plants had suddenly appeared in the Contamination Zone where you were staying.

You were attacked by the plants. With the help of the Complete Retreat talent, you escaped with great difficulty.

On the thirty-fifth day, you returned to the school. The Awakened who had injured your roommate earlier came to apologize. Although you knew the apology was insincere, you said nothing.

You had a nightmare. The Complete Retreat talent desperately tried to save your life, but in order to become an Awakened, you chose to risk everything. In the final second before your death, you obtained intelligence—becoming an Awakened required an incantation.

...You died.

The phone on the table displayed a map.

The information on the Contamination Zones that Su Ze had obtained in the simulation had been roughly outlined and recorded on the map.

And now...

After noticing that his simulated self had died once again...

Su Ze's expression remained remarkably calm.

"Just as I thought. People who become Awakened can't possibly keep following the old rules forever. After hurting someone, all they need is a hollow apology to brush the matter aside..."

Although the simulation had not explicitly mentioned the change in the Awakened's status at school...

This conclusion could still be drawn from the limited information available.

—In everyone's shared understanding, the Awakened's status had likely risen a level above everyone else's.

No wonder his simulated self had chosen to risk his life in that nightmare.

He had fought desperately in order to become an Awakened, to become someone on equal footing with the other party.

Unfortunately, he had still fallen short in the end.

Fortunately...

He had finally obtained a crucial piece of information.

"An incantation?"

"So the method I obtained before for becoming an Awakened had actually been missing this critical factor all along—the so-called incantation."

Putting aside what the incantation was for now...

Su Ze suddenly suspected that the other Awakened had deceived him in the simulation.

Such crucial information, yet no one had told him.

Well, under the law of survival of the fittest, others had no obligation to tell him anyway...

Simulation Evaluation: Bold and meticulous, courageous and resourceful

You may choose one of the following three simulation rewards:

1. Complete Retreat (Purple)

2. A customized Contamination Zone map (choose any starting point, radius of ten kilometers)

3. Wind Whisperer (Blue)

A purple talent had appeared among the reward options.

Su Ze could barely restrain his hand.

The practicality of this talent was beyond doubt...

It could ensure that he entered the tiger's den and still emerged unscathed.

But this was ultimately only a purple-grade talent.

Hold back. There's still time. Let's see if I can refresh a gold talent.

Gritting his teeth, Su Ze still gave up this round's reward options.

Before long...

The Simulator's ten-minute cooldown quietly passed.

Su Ze activated the simulation again.

Doomsday Simulation has begun...

Please choose one of the following three talents as your inherent talent for this simulation!

Qing Dynasty Zombie (White): You can jump very high and can even double-jump in midair, but your movements are extremely stiff and not at all graceful.

Cook (White): You are skilled at cooking. Food prepared by you will be so delicious that it makes people want to burst out of their clothes.

Hibernation Master (White): You possess unique sleeping techniques. As long as you fall asleep, you will consume no energy whatsoever—but only if you can actually get to sleep.

What...

What the hell are these three piles of crap...

Su Ze was dumbfounded as he looked at the new round of talent options.

How about giving me back that talent reward from just now?