Chapter 26: Evolve or Die, The End of Doomsday!

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『On Day 182, you relied on the Father God Listens Talent to gather ample intelligence…

A Chosen One was selected without warning, and their emergence followed no pattern, seemingly completely random.

After someone became a Chosen One, whether they had been an ordinary person or an Awakener, they gained overwhelming Strength that did not originally belong to them, and the monsters in the Contaminated Zone bordering the Safe Zone would not attack the Chosen One.

For everyone else in the Safe Zone, if they failed to kill the Chosen One in time, that Safe Zone would turn into a Contaminated Zone.

In addition, not every Safe Zone would produce a Chosen One. 』

『On Day 183, you obtained advanced intelligence…

Every Contaminated Zone actually originated from human nightmares; if zombies appeared in the dream, the matching Contaminated Zone turned into a wasteland crawling with zombies, and if vengeful ghosts hunted people in the dream, the corresponding Contaminated Zone became a deadly realm haunted by those ghosts. 』

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『On Day 200, you successfully slew the Chosen One within your jurisdiction, safeguarding the region’s peace… 』

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After the heavy fog appeared for the third time, a new threat arose: each Safe Zone would spawn a corresponding Chosen One, and if the Chosen One was not killed, the Safe Zone would fall and turn into an uninhabitable Contaminated Zone.

The rule governing the creation of Contaminated Zones actually stemmed from human nightmares.

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You locked in the Talent “Nightmare (green)”.

『On Day 1, doomsday arrived on schedule… 』

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『Day 233, heavy fog. 』

『On Day 234, after the heavy fog lifted, the Contaminated Zones indeed changed again, and because you could only summon mediocre nightmares to fight, you decided to keep turtling and stayed hidden inside the safe house. 』

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『On Day 245, you verified the information: since the last bout of heavy fog, the Safe Zones had undergone a subtle change; even if ordinary people remained inside, they would still be dragged into a nightmare trial, and failure meant death… 』

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『On Day 250, the Safe Zone was no longer safe for ordinary people, and every non-Awakener inside began searching for a way to become an Awakener… 』

Because if they passively entered a nightmare trial, the nightmare’s content was completely uncontrollable, so voluntarily stepping into a Contaminated Zone and accepting pollution actually offered a higher survival rate.

『On Day 251, you heard someone sigh that Heaven was forcing everyone to evolve, and that failure to evolve meant only one dead end… Since you were hiding in Avalon, you did not face the immediate pressure to evolve, yet once you left Avalon, things would be different. 』

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After the fourth heavy fog, any ordinary person who had not yet become an Awakener had to do so, or they could be pulled into a nightmare trial at any moment.

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You chose the inherent Talent “Mechanical Expert (white)”.

『On Day 1, doomsday arrived on schedule… 』

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『Day 288, heavy fog.

『On Day 289, the Contaminated Zones did not change; because you were poor at combat, you kept hiding in Avalon and quietly watched the direction of doomsday.

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『On Day 300, after a Contaminated Zone’s pollution source was destroyed, it stopped refreshing; if the destroyer withstood the trial and advanced successfully, the Contaminated Zone would vanish completely…

Doomsday seemed to have ushered in a genuine turning point.

『On Day 301, many realized that the opportunity to advance to an Advanced Awakener had become limited, so some people began to fight over Contaminated Zone resources… 』

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『On Day 329, within the range you could observe, every Contaminated Zone had been eradicated; many Awakeners paid with their lives, but doomsday truly seemed about to end… Even though the sky had never changed. 』

『On Day 330, a massive earthquake struck, and you saw the stars falling; for human civilization, the true extinction-level disaster seemed to be arriving… 』

Congratulations, you have completed the entire simulation.

Simulation Assessment: Go ahead and live, nobody can survive better than you.

Please choose one of the following three simulation rewards:

1. Classified intelligence on the Falling Stars.

2. Mechanical Expert (white).

3. Invisibility (white).

『Day 330, the limit of the simulation…”

Seated at his desk, Su Ze rubbed the bridge of his nose.

A trace of fatigue showed on his face…

He glanced at the clock; it was already close to 10 in the morning.

After an entire night of simulations, he had only seen two purple Talents.

Not a single gold Talent had appeared.

All he could do was keep simulating.

Fortunately, the intelligence he gained tonight was good.

By now he had almost figured out every stage of doomsday, the crises that would appear, and the ways to respond…

Doomsday consisted of six stages in total, and heavy fog was the sign of entering the next stage.

When the heavy fog appeared for the fifth time, it marked the Tier-6 phase, during which an Awakener could reach the peak, a Tier-6 Awakener.

The endpoint of doomsday was the Falling Stars.

His pen paused on the paper.

Su Ze’s gaze returned to the simulator’s final day…

“For human civilization, the real cataclysm is the Falling Stars.”

Throughout the night, Su Ze had used the simulator several times, pushing it to the limit of 330 days of survival…

Whether that day was truly humanity’s doomsday, Su Ze had no way of knowing.

Yet judging from the simulation text, there should be a way to survive, although it probably…

At present, Su Ze had no evidence proving that Day 330 was not the real day of destruction.

All he had were conjectures…

After all, there was still a version 2.0 of the simulator.

Version 1.0 of the simulator could only simulate up to Day 330.

Version 2.0 of the simulator might be different.

“Although I dislike the saying ‘things will sort themselves out’, right now it’s all I can cling to…”

Shaking his head, Su Ze thought no further.

He continued to wait for the simulator’s cooldown.

Although he had enough patience to wait for a gold Talent to appear.

Time waited for no one; if he wasted another dozen hours, the number of rewards he could claim before doomsday would probably drop from seven to six.

Su Ze did not want to suffer such a loss.

Therefore, if an appropriate purple Talent reward appeared next, he would probably take it…

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Apocalypse simulation countdown: 3 days 14 hours 15 minutes.

Remaining simulator cooldown: 3 minutes 15 seconds.

Time passed second by second.

Soon the cooldown ended again, and the long-waiting Su Ze started a new simulation.

Apocalypse simulation has started…

Please choose one of the following three Talents as the inherent Talent for this simulation.

Racer (white): your driving skills are outstanding; without you on the World Rally Championship, the whole world suffers a loss.

Death Rock (green): your music is a weapon; any suitable material becomes an instrument in your hands, allowing you to attack your opponents and kill with sound.

Invoking Gods (gold): you can invite three guardian deities; invisible to others, each guardian has a unique mystical Strength that can protect you and crush powerful enemies for you.