Clearing Doomsday City

[Congratulations on successfully clearing—Doomsday City.]

[Players who cleared this game: 2.]

[Clear rating: SSS.]

[Clear reward: Three lottery draws.]

[Game Points obtained: 100.]

[All negative effects removed.]

[Non-game items cannot be taken out of this world and have been automatically blocked.]

[Congratulations, you have gained this world's favor.]

[Talent Skill [Creation]: A Player's survival time in reality does not accumulate into Creation Points; Talent Skill [Prophet]: A Player's survival time in reality does not accumulate into game experience.]

Ye Zhao tapped the lottery draw.

[Congratulations, you have obtained 1 cubic meter of Personal Space (it has already merged with your 1 cubic meter space).]

[Congratulations, you have obtained Teleportation ×1 (can ignore obstacles and instantly move within a one-meter radius, 10 times/day).]

[Congratulations, you have obtained a Water Ability Elemental Card (after use, you can gain the ability to control water elements. Note: each Player can only possess one element. Please choose carefully).]

[Scan successful: Create Teleportation ×1, requires 100 Creation Points.]

[Scan successful: Create Water Ability Elemental Card, requires 100 Creation Points.]

[Skill level insufficient. Unable to scan Personal Space.]

[The next game will begin in seven days. Please prepare yourself.]

[Looking forward to seeing you again.]

Ye Zhao felt the scene before her shift, and she was already back at the high-speed rail station.

The noisy crowds were still all around her, and the Black Hole remained in the sky. Ye Zhao took out her phone and checked it. She had spent ten days in the game world, yet only one day had passed in this world.

"Ah!" A shriek rang out behind Ye Zhao. "Sh-she-she appeared out of nowhere—an alien visitor?"

As the woman cried out, the surrounding area instantly cleared into a vacuum. Only Ye Zhao stood at the center, facing the curious, appraising gazes around her.

"What alien visitor? She should be one of the Players who got sucked away earlier, right??"

"Y-you-you came out of the game?"

"Yesterday, so many people around the world suddenly vanished into thin air. No one could find them no matter how hard they searched. Were you one of the people who disappeared?"

"Oh my god, it's my first time seeing a Player. What's the game like? Is it fun inside?"

"So many people died. How could it possibly be fun?"

"..."

Before anyone could take out a phone and photograph her, Ye Zhao clutched her head and hurried away. She had only intended to run, but she was unbelievably fast. She soon left the crowd far behind, and cries of shock rose from the crowd again.

"She runs so fast!"

"Holy shit, is that what a game Player is like? Damn it, if I could become that powerful too, I'd be willing to die ten thousand times!"

"If the Black Hole Game can make humans this powerful, then a slightly higher death rate is only natural!"

"Go after her! Where did she run off to?"

Someone immediately posted the scene online. As a result, countless people online waved flags and shouted that they wanted to join the game too, despite the Black Hole Game's ninety-nine percent death rate.

Ye Zhao ran a long way without stopping and discovered that the Speed +1 ring was still on her finger.

Game items could be used in reality.

She touched her head again. Good, her hair was still there!

Sob, sob, she was finally no longer bald!

Ye Zhao raced like the wind into an ignored alley, took out her phone, and searched for what had happened in the past twenty-four hours.

Only then did she learn that the Black Hole Game did not consist of just the single game instance she had entered. Instead, one hundred groups of ten thousand people had been dragged into the game, for a total of one hundred instances.

Yet only minutes after the game began, nearly fifty instances had already turned into gray screens. Of the remaining fifty, only a scattered few survivors remained.

And fewer than twenty of those instances had actually lasted until the end.

One million Players had entered the game, yet fewer than twenty survivors remained in the end!

Ye Zhao opened the Game Panel and, sure enough, saw the game statistics.

Doomsday City—game rooms 1 through 100 had all turned gray. At the end of each was the number of surviving Players and the total number of participants.

Ye Zhao had been in Room Number One.

It currently displayed: 2/10000.

Most of the others displayed: 0/10000.

It was already rare for even one or two people to survive a game.

Presumably, most people had not anticipated that world-destroying nuclear explosion.

If not for the nuclear blast, more people should have survived.

Governments were also calling on Players who had returned alive from the game to contact them as soon as possible. In just one day, the major nations of the world had formed a global alliance to fight the Black Hole Game together.

Just then, the Game Panel updated again.

[The second game will begin at 9 a.m. in seven days. Survivors of the first game will automatically participate in the second game.]

[As there are not enough Players, a sufficient number will be randomly selected from the global population to enter the second game.]

[Please prepare yourselves. Goodbye.]

Ye Zhao's high-speed rail ticket had expired, but she was in no hurry to leave. She first went to the hospital for a full-body examination. The psychological trauma the nuclear radiation had left on her was difficult to erase, so she had to make sure she was healthy.

After the examination, she found a nearby hotel and checked in.

Only after entering her room did she take stock of her spoils.

Fireball—Elemental Card;

Constitution +1 Attribute Page;

Strength +1 Attribute Page;

Speed +1 to 10 Ring;

1000—Pistol;

Lightning Strike—Elemental Card;

Waterball—Elemental Card;

Lucky Compass;

Teleportation;

Water Ability Elemental Card;

Ye Zhao believed that any one of these items could fetch a high price if sold, and they would be priceless and impossible to find.

But Ye Zhao was now a rich woman wandering the streets with two million on her back. For the moment, she had no plans to trade her items for money. Although she had used 1,000 points to create base buildings at the end, she had hidden outside the base and survived the last few hours. Altogether, she still had 2,000 Creation Points.

Ye Zhao opened the trading page on the Game Panel.

[The trading system can be activated when a Player's points reach 1.]

It had to be said that this game was absurdly powerful. It could facilitate direct barter, even across space.

Ye Zhao created a Speed +3 ring and set it to trade for any game item or Elemental Card.

Fireball—Elemental Card, trade for any Elemental Card or Attribute Equipment;

Lightning Strike—Elemental Card, trade for any Elemental Card or Attribute Equipment;

Water Ability Elemental Card, trade for any Ability Elemental Card;

As Ye Zhao looked at her trading page, she knew that bartering could expand her creation pool. But honestly, there were fewer than twenty survivors. The number of game items they could truly provide was probably pitifully small.

Ye Zhao also listed three Speed +3 rings for 100,000 each.

[Name: Ye Zhao]

[Constitution: 100 (without equipment effects)]

[Strength: 10 (without equipment effects)]

[Speed: 0 + 47 (equipment effects)]

[Note: A Player's personal base attributes are not included in the statistics.]

[Talents possessed: SSS-Rank Creation, SSS-Rank Prophet]

[Elemental Ability: None]

[Creation: Level 2]

[Creation Points: 1480]

[Experience: 1%]

[Prophet: Level 1 (used)]

[Experience: 10 (Note: 24h ≈ 1 point)]

[CD: 00:00:00]

[At the current level, you can foresee events that will occur within three days. Foresight duration: 10s.]

As for the two million the original owner's family had given her, she would definitely have taken it and fled far away in the past. But now that she had the ability to make money herself, she had no interest in a mere two million.

Naturally, Ye Zhao did not return it either. She simply donated it to a student aid foundation.

Nie Yun, who had come out of the same game as Ye Zhao, immediately turned himself in again. The Black Hole Game was now a global research priority, so he was quickly placed under protection and taken to a special government department for close safeguarding.

Nie Yun had originally been quite happy to leave the game alive. But when he saw the game prompt, he instantly demonstrated what it meant to die on the spot.

"Too terrifying, it was really too terrifying!" He recounted everything he had experienced in the game. "If I hadn't run away early, I wouldn't have survived either. I'm doomed in the next game! Sob, sob, what do I do?"

Qiu Jun asked, "What about the other Player who was with you?"

Nie Yun had no idea there had been another Player. "I don't know. I thought it was just me?"

Only after Nie Yun saw the huge [2/10000] on his game record did he learn that another Player truly existed.

He thought for a long time before suddenly remembering something. "Could it be that Wronged Ghost blogger? During the last few days of the game, a blogger suddenly appeared and predicted several times that the city was about to be destroyed. Every one of those predictions was later confirmed. So I guessed that she foresaw City X being hit by a nuclear blast and escaped disaster because of it! If she was also a Player, could she have drawn an ability to foresee the future?"

Nie Yun told them everything he knew, then slapped his thigh hard. That was far too lucky! He had only gotten a compass!