Six Spells!

On the tenth day, you were dragged into the Mirror World in your sleep. In the dream, you overcame the obstacles and tried three different spells, but none succeeded...

You consumed one layer of Healing Energy and escaped the Mirror World.

On the eleventh day, you went out and replenished one layer of Healing Energy.

On the twelfth day,...

On the seventeenth day, you entered the Mirror World again. You tried three spells once more, but still failed... You realized that the Mirror World was different from an Awakened's nightmare—it was pure killing intent.

You consumed one layer of Healing Energy and escaped the Mirror World.

On the eighteenth day, you heard a new voice and learned of a new spell—Enhancement.

But now, you felt pessimistic about your plan to become an Awakened.

On the nineteenth day, you deliberately lit a fire in the residential compound's courtyard, drawing other survivors over, but you did not show yourself...

You heard the thoughts of those survivors. They harbored ill intentions.

On the twentieth day, you decided to lie low. You left your residence and returned to the school, lying to the others that you had previously hidden in another Safe Zone...

So this was temporarily giving up on becoming an Awakened...

Understandable.

Staying in the Contamination Zone, not only could he not find an opportunity to become an Awakened, he also had to face the deadly threat of the Mirror World...

If Fallen Gift had not been there as a safeguard, being dragged into the Mirror World several times would have already cost him his life.

Since that was the case, he could change his approach.

There was nothing wrong with finding somewhere safe first, lying low, and observing.

On the twenty-first day, you were selected for the Security Team and would follow the Awakened on operations to obtain supplies.

On the twenty-second day,...

On the thirty-third day, a female Awakened took a liking to you. Because of this, you were envied and came into conflict with another Awakened...

On the thirty-fourth day, you noticed that the Awakened who had clashed with you was considering how to kill you during an outing.

On the thirty-fifth day, you easily killed that Awakened during an operation. It was no difficult task; even an Awakened could not withstand a bullet to the head...

Relying on your talent, you knew that the others with you all suspected that you had killed him, but they had no evidence, and no one wanted to provoke you.

On the fortieth day, the Awakened who had expressed her feelings for you told you that a teacher had been murdered by an Awakened. Everyone was deeply uneasy...

On the forty-first day, you were kicked out of the Security Team because you were not an Awakened. Your roommates said it was a good thing. If you kept staying among the Awakened, someone might betray you one day.

On the forty-second day, you secretly left the school and spent the night in the Contamination Zone.

On the forty-third day, you had a nightmare. In the dream, you tried four different spells, but all failed. You consumed one layer of Healing Energy and woke up.

So he had tried to become an Awakened again?

Yeah...

He could sense how much the him in the simulation yearned to become an Awakened.

Or rather, how much he yearned for power.

Whether it was his earlier conflict with the Awakened or being kicked out of the team, both had likely deepened that desire in his heart.

Unfortunately, he had still failed in the end.

Besides...

There was one obvious point.

Both this simulation and the previous ones all pointed to one fact.

After becoming Awakened, some people had become rather full of themselves, believing they were superior to others.

Su Ze's view on this phenomenon was—there was nothing wrong with it.

To put it in a more juvenile way.

The strong ruling the weak had always been the basic rule of human society.

Almost no one truly hated this rule. What people hated was merely not being the ruler themselves.

On the forty-sixth day, an official transport aircraft passed overhead, dropping supplies into the school.

On the forty-eighth day, your talent took effect, and you heard a new voice. There seemed to be six spells in total.

On the fiftieth day, you learned that the school's supplies were running low. The team responsible for maintaining the supply route was at its wits' end.

On the fifty-first day, the number of Awakened at the school exceeded thirty. You knew that behind this, at least three hundred people had failed to awaken and died as a result.

On the fifty-second day, the school's Awakened clashed with the Awakened from other Safe Zones. More than a dozen Awakened died. You heard that the conflict had arisen because supplies had dwindled, and both sides, once partners, wanted to monopolize the supplies.

On the fifty-seventh day, you tried once again to become an Awakened, but still failed in the end. Your Healing Energy decreased by one layer, but it was quickly replenished.

As time passed, some more useful information came to light.

For instance, the authorities had not given up their efforts. Though it was difficult, someone was still working...

There was also information about the spells. There were six spells in total, and he now knew four of them.

The rest of the information was nothing new.

In the previous simulations, Su Ze had survived for only sixty-odd days at most.

If he had not been so obsessed with becoming an Awakened, he could have lived longer...

This simulation before him, though...

It seemed he was about to break that survival record.

On the fifty-eighth day, supplies became severely scarce. Because you had poor relations with some Awakened, neither you nor your roommates received any supplies...

You heard your roommates' thoughts. They did not blame you, but hated the Awakened targeting you instead. You felt relieved.

On the fifty-ninth day, you clashed with an Awakened. You did not suffer any losses, but you left the school afterward. You had intended to wait for the other party to catch up, then kill him in retaliation, but he was a coward. You returned to the Safe House.

On the sixtieth day, you decided to destroy the Pollution Source, but you knew full well that this could bring about your death. Even the talent Fallen Gift would not be able to save you.

On the sixty-first day, before you could destroy the Pollution Source, a bizarre Great Fog arose, and you lost your way within it...

You saw an indescribable horror. You exhausted all your Healing Energy. You died.

What the fuck?!

What kind of Great Fog was that, to take him out just like that?

Staring wide-eyed at the contents displayed in the Simulator, Su Ze could not help but gape.

Honestly, he had known he was supposed to die.

But he had originally thought his death would be similar to the previous ones.

Destroying the Pollution Source would bring about a dream even more deadly than an ordinary nightmare.

Even Fallen Gift would not be able to save him...

Do not ask why he kept dying in the same way.

The reason was actually simple.

He could not swallow that anger!

In every simulation, he would clash with the Awakened.

And with his temperament, of course he would not just suffer in silence.

Besides finding a way to strike back, he naturally wanted power that surpassed theirs—power greater than that of ordinary Awakened...

That was why he kept trying.

And kept dying...

But.

The way he had died this time was something he had never expected.

He had actually croaked because of a sudden Great Fog.

He did not know whether he was too unlucky, or whether that Great Fog was simply too deadly.

"Seeing an indescribable thing in the Great Fog... That's way too Lovecraftian."

Su Ze let out the sort of lament only a transmigrator would make.

Putting everything else aside.

If the Great Fog that appeared on the sixty-first day was a regular occurrence.

And a regular occurrence that was guaranteed to take his life.

Then he would have to be more careful.

Before that Great Fog truly arrived, he had to find a way to deal with it.

Of course, it was also possible that the him in the simulation had merely been unlucky and happened to run into a certain-death event...

Simulation evaluation: Luck is also part of the survival game, but you seem to have poor luck.

You may choose one of the following three simulation rewards:

1. Innate Furnace (Green)

2. Father God's Listening (Gold)

3. Two unknown Awakened spells

Seeing a gold talent among the reward options.

Su Ze's heart settled completely.

There was no need to think about it. Choosing the gold talent was obviously the right choice.

Although this talent did not seem to have played a decisive role in this simulation, its usefulness was beyond doubt.

Leaving aside its mysterious ability to hear crucial information.

Just being able to hear the thoughts of those around him and know what they truly thought was enough for Su Ze to choose it.

Besides that.

Su Ze also noticed this simulation evaluation...

It seemed to explain why he had died in the Great Fog.

He had probably just been unlucky.

He had happened to encounter something terrifying.

But he could not be completely certain. What if he was simply born with a constitution that attracted this kind of bad luck?

Of course, finding out the exact answer would not be difficult.

As long as he survived long enough in later simulations, he would eventually experience that Great Fog again.

Then he could gather more information...

Simulation reward selected—Father God's Listening (Gold)

Simulator entering cooldown. Cooldown countdown: 19 hours 59 minutes.

The Simulator once again entered a lengthy cooldown.

After staying in the shop for a long time, Su Ze could finally get up and rest.

It was already past two in the morning.

The shop door had long been shut, and only a small lamp remained lit inside.

"I don't feel anything special again, but this talent should be easier to test, right..."

Rubbing his chin, Su Ze muttered to himself.

Halfway through his muttering, his brow suddenly furrowed...

Fuck.

Hadn't he agreed to prepare a Safe House, along with at least two women...

Why was it that in today's simulation, he had prepared more than one Safe House, while the latter was completely nowhere to be seen?

That would not do.

Tomorrow, he had to put this matter on the agenda!