Second Simulation

Enter simulation?

Yes

Please select three of the following random talent traits to begin the life simulation.

Alluring Youth (5 stars) (Locked): You were a natural romantic. So long as you wished it, even a dog's gaze would turn affectionate when it looked at you.

Longevity Lock (3 stars): You were not prone to dying young.

Versatile and Talented (4 stars): You were proficient in all sorts of things that might never come in handy, such as rich ladies' pleasure balls, rich ladies' pleasure zithers, and so on. Remember, the flower language of steel wool was wealth and forbearance.

Great Fortune (2 stars): You would be born in a remote corner of the Xianzhou, untouched by the pollution of knowledge. Though talentless and lacking in virtue, at some unknown moment, you might obtain immense wealth.

Cucumber Head (1 star): You were born different. From the moment of your birth, a fair-skinned, red-lipped cucumber head sat atop your shoulders. Perhaps you could become one of the world's rare commentators. But that was only if your parents did not humanely destroy you.

Sword Heart (5 stars): At any rate, it was not easy to shatter.

The moment Bai Heng saw these talent traits, his eyes were drawn to Cucumber Head. After all, being born with a cucumber head was indeed way too cool.

And didn't Longevity Lock's "not prone to dying young" description perfectly offset the debuff brought by Cucumber Head?

At the very least, he would not be strangled by his parents the moment he was born, screaming, "F-folks... folks, who understands... ah--------," until he stopped breathing.

As for Versatile and Talented, emotionally, it was a must-pick. Rationally, it was also a must-pick. Who could refuse using their own abilities to live off a rich woman?

That left Great Fortune and Sword Heart. As a five-star talent trait, Sword Heart was naturally a guaranteed pick.

Between Great Fortune and Longevity Lock, he leaned more toward the latter. After all, being talentless and lacking in virtue would have far too great an impact on him.

After a simple analysis, Bai Heng made his choice.

"I choose Longevity Lock, Sword Heart, and Versatile and Talented. The locked Alluring Youth will begin the simulation."

The simulation began.

Consciousness transfer in progress. Random scenario generation in progress.

Compared to the murky sensation of sinking to the bottom of the sea when he first entered the simulation, this time was clearly much more comfortable.

It was like lying on his side amid a lush field of blooming flowers, then opening his hazy eyes.

At one year old, as a short-lived species, you were born on a planet governed by the Buli People. You were a healthy child, and your parents were especially delighted by this. But sadly, your family was poor. Even as a newborn, you often went hungry.

At two years old, you grew normally. There were two older brothers and one older sister in your family, none older than ten, yet they often went out to work to support the household. They took especially good care of you, their newborn little brother, sometimes even giving you what little rations they had.

At three years old, one of your older brothers disappeared. But you were still too young to know where he had gone.

At four years old, your mother became pregnant again. You were going to become an older brother too, and a sense of responsibility arose within you.

At five years old, you reached the minimum working age on this planet. For meager wages and barely enough food to fill your stomach, you entered a mine controlled by the Buli People. There, you saw the numbness in the workers' eyes. Even after working all day, the food they received was only enough for one person's basic survival. But if they did not work, they could not even obtain that one person's portion. Every worker was skin and bones, yet had no choice but to sweat profusely here.

By chance, while chasing a wild rabbit in the mountains, you stumbled into a bunker. There, you saw many plump people with weak, pale faces. Out of curiosity, you used your small size to squeeze into a ventilation duct and crawled toward the interior of the bunker. But as you went deeper, you discovered in shock that there were also many people as gaunt as the miners. Most of them appeared to be between ten and thirty years old.

All of them were kept in cages. Whenever a whistle sounded within the bunker, they were released and brought to a large hall.

In the hall stood an enormous dining table laden with greasy, filthy food. Those people numbly swallowed it, eating without pause until their mouths dripped with oil and they could not force down another bite. The scene was... it was like the livestock raised in the settlement.

Following the greasy stench of swill in the air, you crawled deeper into the bunker. What you saw next was something you would never forget for the rest of your life.

Deep within the bunker was a massive underground factory, nearly a thousand times the size of the bunker itself. Inside, you saw countless gigantic worm-like beasts greedily devouring bloody flesh still bearing human limbs, just like those people you had seen before.

The two scenes connected in your mind.

You finally understood why your older brother had been taken away two years ago. You also understood why those people were being fattened up.

That day, you suppressed your nausea and could not even remember how you escaped through the ventilation duct.

Three months later, your sister vanished without a trace. But you remembered that on the night before she disappeared, she came to your room and kissed your forehead goodbye. You had not actually been asleep. Ever since seeing that scene in the flesh factory, you had never slept peacefully again. You feared that, in some dream, you would be sent into that flesh factory and become feed for those things.

That night, you crouched by the window. You watched with your own eyes as two adults took your sister away.

Though the night was dark, you still saw their faces clearly. They... were your parents.

At six years old, life continued as usual. Five people remained in your family: you, your parents, a nine-year-old older brother, and a younger brother who had just turned one. Your life seemed unchanged, but you noticed that your parents had begun paying attention to your older brother. They also measured your height from time to time, and whenever they found that you had grown taller, they became especially happy.

At seven years old, your older brother indeed disappeared. Your mother also became pregnant again that year. You knew your turn was coming soon, so one day, you secretly arranged things with several miners and hid together in a mine cart supplying the Buli People.

You had secretly observed that these minerals would be transported by mine cart to the Buli People's starship, then shipped to their home planet.

One of the miners claimed that he had piloted a small spacecraft for the Buli People before. So long as they found an opportunity to sneak aboard the starship, they would have a chance to escape to another planet and begin anew. He secretly searched for helpers in the mine, but most people thought he was crazy. Only three workers, including you, decided to take the risk with him.

Perhaps heaven was watching over you as well. The mine cart was indeed delivered into the starship as expected, and you successfully found an abandoned spacecraft. On a day when the guards were lax, you secretly entered the abandoned craft and took the opportunity to fly into space.