Chapter 37: Another Gold Talent Acquired!

While Su Ze’s thoughts fermented.

The simulation continued to advance…

Day 234: After the heavy fog, the Contaminated Zone changed as expected and became even more lethal.

Day 239: Various reports confirmed that Safe Zones were no longer absolutely secure; every ordinary person would be forced to take risks and try to become an Awakener, so the Fireseed Plan came under suspicion.

Day 245: As multiple parties competed, debating whether the Fireseed Plan should continue, you stayed on the sidelines, indifferent, and kept collecting the information you wanted.

Day 260: You again received key intelligence about a containment object: an overseas Awakener had tamed a terrifying creature that looked like a containment object, and by relying on that monster he swept across the land with extraordinary power…

After thinking it over, you believed the information might be dubious.

Day 262: Confirmed intel arrived that the foreign Awakener who had tamed the containment object was already dead for unknown reasons, and the containment object had vanished as well.

Day 288: heavy fog.

Day 290: A pollution source inside a Contaminated Zone was located and destroyed, the Contaminated Zone disappeared at once, and, thanks to the intelligence network you built, the news quickly spread to other Safe Zones.

Day 300: Doomsday seemed about to end; many people began planning post-doomsday reconstruction, but you watched coldly and led your loyal subordinates to look for information on doomsday’s terminus, the Falling Stars.

Day 315: Someone saw the scene of the Falling Stars in a nightmare; you investigated but gained nothing, and although the dream appeared random, that person indeed obtained kotodama arts from it…

You understood that not only during advancement could an Awakener obtain kotodama arts; other special opportunities might also grant an Awakener kotodama arts.

Day 320: Under the banner of doomsday reconstruction, you were told to pick a side; bored by their childish games, you began deliberately killing some of them.

Day 329: You felt disappointed because you still had found no clues about the Falling Stars.

Day 330: A massive earthquake erupted, the Falling Stars appeared, and you seemed to glimpse the end of doomsday…

Congratulations, you completed the entire apocalypse simulation.

Simulation Assessment: Ruthless Doomsday Hunter.

Please choose one of the following three simulation rewards.

1. Spider Sense (purple)

2. Global Link (gold)

3. One accurate piece of intelligence about a containment object (mythic creature)

Once again, you lived to the end of doomsday.

Unfortunately…

You still failed to find any intelligence related to doomsday’s end.

Su Ze steadied himself for a moment, then picked out some potentially useful content from the simulation text and noted it down on paper.

“Phew…”

After finishing his notes, Su Ze let out a long, murky breath.

With a soft “pop,” he set the pen down, lifted his head, stretched, and loosened his joints.

“These bits of intel on containment objects can only serve as a reference.”

After resting for a moment, Su Ze read through the simulation text again.

He first examined the information on containment objects and then tallied how others struggled and competed during doomsday.

Whether it was those who kept seizing power during doomsday or those who chose self-sacrifice to preserve the Fireseed Plan, he did not wish to render any assessment.

Using right and wrong to separate the two sides felt far too childish.

Besides, some things must be witnessed firsthand before they can be felt most vividly.

In other words, he would talk about it when that day truly came!

Selected simulation reward… Global Link (gold).

Simulator cooldown: 19 hours 59 minutes.

He chose the simulation reward directly.

Although the other two rewards were also rather attractive.

There is no need to mention Spider Sense.

As for the third reward… one accurate piece of intel about a containment object… Su Ze truly wanted to take a peek.

After all, he had run so many rounds of simulation and kept growing stronger within them.

Yet he still knew very little about containment objects, which only highlighted their mystery.

“For all I know, the key to breaking the Falling Stars might lie with those containment objects…”

Such a thought surfaced in Su Ze’s mind.

He still was not certain whether Avalon could keep him safe when the Falling Stars arrived.

Therefore he had to keep stubbornly gathering intelligence on the Falling Stars.

He could not simply accept fate and live only those last few hundred days.

“Mm, let’s test the Talent first…”

Sitting upright at the desk, Su Ze closed his eyes, sensed the Talent’s power, and a name quickly emerged in his mind…

Qin Yushi.

When her name and face floated into his mind, a subtle feeling arose.

Although his eyes were closed, he still saw faint dim lights twisting and folding before him like a tunnel through space-time.

Then everything suddenly halted and locked onto a vaguely distant endpoint.

“So that’s how to use it.”

Su Ze nodded to himself.

Understood.

As long as he knew that Qin Yushi existed in the world, he could locate her directly and attempt to link with her.

However, if he wanted to use this power to probe her position or even to spy on her actions, it would not really work.

After all, he could see nothing; there was only a terminal he could link to.

“If I link to Qin Yushi right now…”

Su Ze wanted to explore further, to feel what it was like after linking to a target.

He even thought about trying to control the target to see what that would feel like.

Yet Su Ze merely imagined it and had no intention of actually trying it now.

The reason was the same: he did not want others to learn that he had known about doomsday in advance and had gained various powerful abilities before it even began.

“That’s enough.”

He withdrew Global Link, and Su Ze’s vision returned to normal.

Outside the window, the sunlight was pleasant, and he could hear the elderly chatting and laughing in the complex.

“Bzz, bzz…”

The phone on the desk vibrated.

Chen Keqing had sent a message asking whether Su Ze was working part-time at the convenience store right now.

They had agreed to meet at 10, and it was 10 o’clock at this moment.

“I’ll be at the store right away,” Su Ze replied.

“Okay, I’ll bring it over in a bit, haha.”

After replying, Su Ze finally rose from the desk.

He lifted the nearby mug of hot water, took a big gulp, then went back to his room to change into clothes for going out.

Returning to the desk, he picked up his phone and glanced at the class group chat; the mixer arranged earlier was also this afternoon, and students from both classes would go to Chushui Park for a group activity.

After reading the messages, Su Ze slipped his phone into his pocket.

Before leaving, he quickly straightened the notebook on the desk, arranged the doomsday intel neatly, and then stepped out.