Chapter 34: Global Link!

『Day 40: To seize supplies, Awakeners from another Safe Zone attacked you, and you killed every assailant.』

『Day 43: Your reputation rose again in the nearby Safe Zones, and all Awakeners feared your Strength.』

『Day 46: You learned that Qin Yushi had used your fame to take the top seat of her campus Safe Zone…』

However, the two of you had never formed any real partnership.』

『Day 49: You continued to let Qin Yushi wave your banner without interference.』

『Day 51: While leading a team to look for supplies in a nearby Contaminated Zone, Qin Yushi ran into another Awakeners’ squad on the same mission; a clash broke out, and at the critical moment you arrived like a hero and killed many of them… You spent time alone with Qin Yushi, demanded an explanation for her borrowing your prestige, she gave you her first time, and the two of you had relations in the Contaminated Zone.』

『Day 52: You escorted Qin Yushi’s team back to campus; before parting, you applied the Energy Sharing Talent to her, making her stronger than before.』

Tsk…

After going around in circles, you still ended up together.

Su Ze stared at the simulation text, unsure whether he should complain.

Honestly, when he first saw the simulation without Qin Yushi’s name, he thought she would never appear on this doomsday trip…

Yet now it seemed…

“Free-range, huh? Heh.”

Su Ze chuckled softly.

Around day 50, although he had already hooked up with Qin Yushi in the simulation, he still did not keep her by his side.

He merely shared a little Strength with her whenever they separated.

Such behavior… looked exactly like free-range.

Free-range meant keeping a loose distance and letting Qin Yushi operate by herself on campus.

Even if she faced trouble she could not handle, Su Ze might not help, yet if she actively sought aid, he would lend a hand… at a price…

Obviously, free-range was also a form of training.

“Was it to shatter her pride, or simply for fun?”

Muttering, Su Ze could not decide.

Given his personality, either motive was possible.

He snapped back to attention, and the simulation moved forward…

『Day 61: Heavy fog…』

『Day 82: You heard that Tier-2 Awakeners on campus kept increasing, and Qin Yushi successfully advanced to Tier-2 Awakener.』

『Day 115: Heavy fog…』

『Day 130: After an internal meeting, Qin Yushi was stripped of leadership and left campus to seek you out.』

『Day 131: You returned to campus with Qin Yushi; she had been deposed for contributing little against Contaminated Zone spillover, causing discontent… You knew she did it on purpose, for she felt she could not stop the spillover and had decided to abandon the campus.』

『Day 132: When the Contaminated Zone spilled over, you guarded it alone, blocked the pollution, and amazed everyone… You helped Qin Yushi regain the top seat on campus, then left.』

『Day 165: Heavy fog…』

『Day 170: Qin Yushi voluntarily resigned her leadership again and came back to you, and you kept her.』

『Day 181: Qin Yushi noticed that you and Chen Keqing were always spotless; after questioning, you showed her Avalon, and she went limp on the spot.』

『Day 233: Heavy fog…』

『Day 288: Heavy fog…』

『Day 330: A massive earthquake struck; you looked up and saw the Falling Stars…』

Congratulations, you completed the entire simulation and survived until doomsday’s end.

Phew…

Su Ze slowly exhaled a murky breath.

So it really was free-range…

He did not share Avalon with Qin Yushi until well past day 100.

Clearly, he was dead set on watching Qin Yushi’s little drama.

Otherwise, he would not have rejected her overtures multiple times, and even after finally accepting her, still kept her from a good life, almost as deliberate teasing…

It simply showed that every effect has its cause.

For now, though, the cause remained uncertain… or not fully clear.

Aside from the Qin Yushi-related text, this simulation yielded almost no new intel.

After all, he had drawn only a nearly useless green Talent.

He could not expect too much doomsday information from it.

“Keep simulating…”

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『Selected inherent Talent “Soul-Slaying Execution (blue)”』

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『Selected inherent Talent “Pork Butcher (white)”』

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『Selected inherent Talent “Charm (blue)”』

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『Selected inherent Talent “Ghoul (green)”』

…

Time flew.

In the blink of an eye, sunshine filled the window.

More than three hours had passed.

During those three hours, Su Ze gathered only a few scraps of new intel and saw one purple Talent.

Apart from that, there was nothing else…

Nothing he could do.

His simulated self followed realistic principles and would not risk his life like a suicide trooper just to probe for intel…

So the efficiency was much lower.

『Simulator cooldown ended…』

Seeing the cooldown finish, Su Ze patiently launched another simulation…

『Apocalypse simulation started…』

『Please choose one of the following three Talents as your inherent Talent for this simulation!』

『Global Link (gold): Once you know a target exists, you can ignore distance to link with it; after linking, you may share the target’s vision, communicate directly, link up to seven targets, and even control the target’s body via the Talent, but note that the target may refuse when you attempt to link.』

『Spider Sense (purple): You possess a natural hyper-sense that helps you avoid imminent danger and feel it whenever danger lurks nearby.』

『Tomato King (white): You are very good at growing tomatoes because you can communicate with tomatoes as they grow and help them mature quickly.』

The new Talents made Su Ze involuntarily raise his eyes.

A purple Talent and a gold Talent appeared at the same time…

Given the choice, he naturally had to pick the gold one.

Still, the purple Talent looked truly decent… it was basically Spider-Man’s ability…

“I’ll pick the gold Talent first and see how it performs in the simulation; if it’s bad… maybe the purple Talent will show up in the rewards and I can still take it.”

After a brief thought, Su Ze made his decision.

Yet he had not clicked on the simulator… because before choosing, he wanted to sort out his thoughts.

This “Global Link” Talent… was exactly the kind of Talent he had imagined a few hours ago.

It allowed him to maintain long-distance communication with a target.

In peaceful daily life, a phone call would do the job.

In doomsday, however, that became a precious capability.

According to earlier simulations, not long after doomsday began, the planet’s magnetic field went haywire, and conventional communication methods stopped working…

Therefore, Safe Zones had reverted to the most primitive means of contact: legwork.

Now, with “Global Link,” the situation would be completely different…