"My great righteousness and nobility, well-versed in books and propriety, turning misfortune into good fortune-"
"Defeated your sense of impending doom-"
"Fickle and ungracious, pointing at the heavens and earth, failing to express one's meaning-"
"..."
Listening to the music coming from beside his ear, Tang Zhixue, who was busy inside Pelican Town, could not help raising his head to glance at the mobile phone placed to one side playing a livestream, which was a singing show organized by a gaming streamer.
"This medley is actually quite nice..."
I have to admit, this song was truly catchy.
"Snap!"
However, the very next moment, Tang Zhixue suddenly closed his eyes and collapsed, slamming heavily onto the wireless mechanical keyboard.
Tang Zhixue only felt his vision suddenly go black, followed by a sudden sensation of weightlessness as his entire body felt as though it were continuously falling while pitch-black surrounded him.
He did not know how much time passed before a trace of white light suddenly appeared around him.
Moreover, as time went on, these lights grew more and more numerous, finally gradually enveloping Tang Zhixue's whole body.
Huh, what is this?!
In his trance, Tang Zhixue seemed to see some speckled little golden light spots, but they quickly vanished.
Did I see wrong?
"Hoo-"
Tang Zhixue abruptly propped up his body and let out a long breath. "So it was a dream."
But he froze soon after.
A pungent, rotting stench permeated the surroundings, his originally cramped rented room had vanished, and what met his eyes was a dilapidated wooden shack with wind leaking from all directions, through the gaps of which he could even see half-meter-high weeds outside.
The table he had just been leaning on was also replaced by a dilapidated wooden table with a wobbling leg, and the chair beneath his buttocks had likewise turned into a wooden stool.
The clothing on his body had entirely transformed into coarse burlap garments, and even the shoes on his feet had changed into a pair of straw sandals.
Placed upon the table was a tattered book with no title on the cover.
"No way..."
Tang Zhixue opened his mouth and pinched his thigh hard. "Hiss, there's pain, this isn't a dream? I really transmigrated?!"
He turned his head to look behind him and discovered that aside from the wooden table and the stool beneath his buttocks, there was not a single other piece of furniture inside the entire wooden shack.
That is to say, if Tang Zhixue wanted to sleep, he would still have to figure out a way to make a bed for himself.
"Is this transmigration start so miserable, not even a weapon?"
Tang Zhixue shook his head, then curiously flipped open the book on the table.
[Name: Tang Zhixue]
[Level: None]
[Talents: Vitality Absorption, Diligence Makes Up for Lack of Talent]
"This is my personal information?"
Tang Zhixue raised an eyebrow. "Two talents?"
He reached out and poked at the text, but the information he wanted did not appear.
"Tch, it seems I'll have to explore on my own."
He continued flipping to the next page.
Instantly, dense streams of text continuously appeared before Tang Zhixue's eyes.
[What's going on?! Wasn't I sleeping?]
[I don't understand either, I just got off work and came home to arrive here.]
[I have a talent, do you guys have one?]
[I have one too, eh.]
[+1]
[How is the surrounding environment for you guys? Why is there a desert outside my house?! It's boiling to death.]
[Well, I'm doing okay, there are woods all around outside.]
[Ah? Then why is there an ocean outside my place?]
[??? No way, am I the only one underground?!]
[Damn, is the environment in our region this complicated? There are deserts, woods, and oceans.]
[No, brother, did you forget about me? I'm underground!]
[Oh, it's all the same, it's all the same.]
[???]
There was no limit to the number of messages, and the names displayed were all real names. Each name also had an avatar featuring a question mark, so the speakers' appearances weren't revealed.
Tang Zhixue raised an eyebrow. "I thought I was the only one who'd crossed over. Turns out we all did."
But when he saw the line of text at the top of the page, he couldn't help frowning. "There are only a thousand people in this area?"
[Area chat members: 1000/1000]
If there were only a thousand people in this area, judging by the various environments mentioned in the area chat just now, it would probably be hard to encounter anyone else for a while.
"But..."
Tang Zhixue looked at the words that kept appearing in the book and mused, "Looks like I'm the only one with two Talents? Heh, I guess I'm pretty lucky."
He carefully read through the messages in the area chat, and indeed, he couldn't find anyone else who had two Talents.
Of course, it was possible that, like him, they hadn't recklessly revealed it in the area chat.
The book continued turning pages. The next page displayed the friends list.
[Friends: 0/0]
But this page was blank, since Tang Zhixue didn't have any friends yet.
Tang Zhixue tried to turn to the next page, only to find that he was already at the end. "That's it?"
The entire book had only three pages: personal information, area chat, and friends.
He flipped back to the area chat and read for a while before closing the book. "Never mind. I'll go outside and take a look."
But as he stood up, he kept the book in his hand.
He went to the wooden hut's door and carefully opened it a crack.
Weeds grew thickly outside. It was best to be cautious.
As it turned out, his caution was justified.
"Whoosh!"
As soon as the wooden door opened, the weeds nearby suddenly rustled, and a gray figure sprang out of the grass.
Fortunately, the instant he saw the weeds move, Tang Zhixue, who had been keeping a wary eye outside, instinctively shut the wooden door.
"Bang!"
"Pfft!"
Bright red blood burst across the door, and a severed snake's head, its mouth opening and closing, rolled to Tang Zhixue's feet.
Whether Tang Zhixue had used too much force or the snake was too fragile, its head had been squeezed right off by the slightly damaged wooden door.
"Uh..."
Tang Zhixue silently backed away a few steps. "I guess I really am pretty lucky. Protein came right to my door at the start."
He looked at the snake's head, which was still opening and closing its mouth.
Then he picked up the wooden stool nearby and slammed its legs down hard on the snake's head.
"Squish!"
The snake's head immediately stopped struggling.
"Whoosh!"
Just then, the book in Tang Zhixue's hand suddenly turned into specks of light and surged into his body.
"This..."
The next moment, a line of text appeared before his eyes.
[Congratulations on killing a First-Tier Mutant Beast. Personal panel binding task complete.]
???
No, what kind of Mutant Beast do I have to kill before I can really get a personal panel?!
The so-called personal panel was actually the information displayed in that three-page book, except now it appeared as a data panel that only he could see.
Looking at the personal information before him, Tang Zhixue's gaze instinctively went to the Talent section.
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