Talent Skills

Through her binoculars, Ye Zhao watched dense swarms of rats emerge from somewhere underground. Thousands upon thousands of rats crawled across the bomb-blackened plaza, their eyes glowing red. Wherever they passed, not a blade of grass remained. It was terrifying...

Hiss!

Rats? Those were rats, right?! Thousands upon thousands of rats!

The horrifying sight made her shudder involuntarily. There were so many rats. Even if she had food and could run fast, she probably would not survive if she encountered that rat swarm.

"Rats! Fuck, they're rats!" someone shouted. People in the high-rise immediately echoed him. "They really are rats! They're eating human flesh—blegh!"

"Heaven wants us dead! Heaven wants China dead!"

Ye Zhao could see everything clearly through her binoculars, and her scalp went numb. "Th-Those rats ate zombie corpses... Won't they mutate?"

"Blegh! So disgusting..."

The nearby survivors all noticed the rats gnawing on the zombies. For a moment, several piercing screams rang out.

Some people could not bear the despair. With a scream, one of them jumped straight off the building. He hit the ground with a thud so loud it could be heard from far away, making everyone tremble.

Ye Zhao had seen plenty of dead people over the past day and night. She had kept telling herself this was only a game, but even she could not help feeling her heart pound at that sight.

The atmosphere in the shop was even worse. Even the manager's voice trembled. "Why are there so many rats?! Didn't the virus kill them?"

The timid ones had already begun to cry. "They'll mutate. They definitely will! There are so many rats... It's over. This world is over..."

"Is there any rat poison? Poison all these rats to death!"

"If even the zombie virus can't kill them, would ordinary rat poison work?"

"Wuwuwu, then what are we supposed to do?"

"If animals can mutate, what about plants? If plants mutate too, do humans still have any way to survive?"

Who knew whether the rats would go mad? They were small and could burrow everywhere. They were no less dangerous than zombies. And besides rats, what about other animals? Cockroaches, mosquitoes, and bugs—would they eat zombie flesh and mutate as well?

The terrifying thought turned everyone's faces deathly pale. The fighting spirit and ambition they had shown while trying to persuade Ye Zhao had long since vanished, leaving only fear and unease.

She wondered whether the people on the planes had seen this. If they had, they should take action, right? She could only hope the government would resolve this as soon as possible!

For a while, everyone could only place their hopes on the country. Otherwise, with their individual strength, there was no way they could survive in this world.

At that moment, Ye Zhao could only be glad that she would stay in this world for just ten days.

Seeing everyone panic, Ye Zhao went to the restroom and opened the Game Panel. Game items were powerful, and her talent skills were equally incredible—especially [Creation]. As long as she survived long enough, she could create game items without limit. Of course, that depended on whether she could Scan more types of game items. Could she create living creatures too?

The system gave her an answer: [Player level insufficient. Unable to Scan living organisms.]

Ye Zhao tried aiming the skill at the potted cactus on the windowsill.

[Player level insufficient. Unable to Scan.]

Ye Zhao then tried using the skill to Scan the building.

[Player level insufficient. Unable to Scan.]

Although she could not Scan them, the excessively powerful function still made Ye Zhao suck in a sharp breath. If she could even create flowers, grass, and trees, then what about small animals? Animals counted as living organisms too, right? Unfortunately, there were no animals nearby for her to test it on.

If she reached a certain level, would she be able to create even more?

This skill was truly outrageously overpowered.

She would experiment whenever she had the chance in the future.

No matter whether she Scanned one bag or one basket, however, she only Scanned the item itself. For example, Scanning a bag of bread gave her the ability to create Bread *1, which meant she could only create a single piece of bread.

Ye Zhao had already accumulated one thousand Creation Points. One thousand sounded like a lot, but it was actually nowhere near enough.

For example, this Attribute Page that permanently increased physical attributes required one hundred Creation Points for just +1. Yet creating one piece of bread, a box of bread, or a car only required 1 point. The minimum cost to create anything was 1 point. Perhaps, to the game, one piece of bread was worth the same as a car.

The only Attribute Pages she could currently create were Constitution +1 and Strength +1. She created four of each.

Palm-sized sheets of white paper appeared in Ye Zhao's hand. The paper was extremely thin and light, with a faint coolness to the touch. A weak fluctuation of energy could vaguely be sensed from it.

[Attribute Page: Constitution +1 (Note: This item grants a permanent effect after use.)]

[Attribute Page: Strength +1 (Note: This item grants a permanent effect after use.)]

After she used all eight Attribute Pages, they turned into white light and entered her body. She did not seem to feel much. Clenching her fist, she felt that her strength had increased somewhat? She took out a pair of chopsticks from her Personal Space and snapped them with a slight squeeze of one hand.

Ye Zhao now had Constitution to resist the virus and Strength for fighting. She also created ten Speed +1 rings to ensure she could escape quickly. Ten utterly ordinary silver rings appeared in her hand, clinking together with a crisp, pleasant sound.

[When the combined attribute points of items exceed 10, attribute synthesis may be performed.]

Ye Zhao immediately took the ten rings and chose to stack and synthesize their attributes, obtaining one Speed +10 ring.

She then Scanned the Speed +10 ring and simultaneously obtained [Creation: Speed +10 Ring].

Thinking of those rat swarms, which looked dangerous, difficult to handle, and troublesome, she spent another 100 points to create an Elemental Card, just in case.

A small card appeared in her hand. She did not know what material it was made from, but it felt warm in her hand. Three small fireballs were printed on it, circling one another. The fireballs seemed alive, and she could see the flames within the card drifting.

[Fireball - Elemental Card: Randomly releases 100 fireballs with a diameter of 3 cm to 5 cm.]

[Energy: 100]

She placed the Elemental Card in her Personal Space. She controlled the Personal Space with her thoughts. Whenever she wanted something, all she had to do was think of it, and it would automatically appear in her hand.

To better deal with all kinds of sudden situations, Ye Zhao practiced several more times. Only after confirming that the things she wanted would accurately appear wherever she wanted them every time did she relax slightly.

Ye Zhao opened her personal information.

[Name: Ye Zhao]

[Constitution: 4 (No equipment effects)]

[Strength: 4 (No equipment effects)]

[Speed: 0+14 (Equipment effects)]

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

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

[Elemental Ability: None]

[Creation: Level 1]

[Creation Points: 102]

[Experience: 25%]

[Prophet: Level 1 (Used)]

[Experience: 0 (Note: 24h ≈ 1 point)]

[CD: 02:50:00]

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

After allocating everything, she kept the remaining 100 Creation Points for emergencies.

These were what Ye Zhao relied on to stay alive. After putting on the Speed Ring, she finally let out a small sigh of relief.