Chapter 50: A Meeting Ritual Like a Fixed Ceremony!

『Innate Talent ‘Mission: Impossible (Purple)’ selected』

『Simulation start…』

『Day 1: Doomsday arrived as scheduled, and you chose Safe Zone SC-35 as your doomsday starting point…』

『Day 2: The temperature suddenly dropped…』

『Day 61: When the heavy fog arrived, you were already prepared; you sent seven informants under your control into the heavy fog to search for Qi Xiaoye, and you yourself teleported from Su City to Yun City and personally entered the heavy fog to look for her…』

You failed, but fortunately, you and your informants did not lose your way in the heavy fog, and you retreated in one piece.

『Day 103: You brought your family and arrived at BC-10, where you continued to oversee intelligence operations』

『Day 113: Supported by a powerful intelligence network, you received information about a nuclear weapon, and, unable to contain your curiosity, you wondered if the date the heavy fog appeared could, like the doomsday endpoint, change probabilistically…』

You began to plan; you wanted to detonate some nuclear bombs.

『Day 115: Heavy fog…』

『Day 119: Under your vigorous push, some bombers riskily took off, flew over multiple Contaminated Zones, and eventually one bomber succeeded in entering a certain island nation’s airspace and blindly dropped a nuclear bomb…』

『Day 160: When the heavy fog arrived, it came five days earlier than expected, and you drew a conclusion…

You concluded that both the heavy fog and the doomsday endpoint did not necessarily arrive on fixed dates, but you were unclear how the nuclear bomb played the role of a variable. 』

…………

『Innate Talent ‘Indifferent Killer (Blue)’ selected』

『Simulation start…』

『Day 1: Doomsday arrived as scheduled, and you chose SC-35 as your doomsday spawn point…』

『Day 2: The temperature suddenly dropped…』

『Day 19: You completed the deployment of informants in Yun City and began investigating all intelligence possibly related to Qi Xiaoye in advance』

『Day 39: You still had not obtained any intelligence about Qi Xiaoye』

『Day 61: When the heavy fog arrived, you released all your informants and sent them wandering recklessly in the mist; two of them lost their sense of direction and, although they had been far apart, stepped and suddenly bumped into each other in the heavy fog…

You knew this was a common occurrence in the heavy fog… people teleport unknowingly, and such teleportation often meant getting lost; you lost two informants, who were killed in an instant by an unknown monster in the mist when their necks were snapped. 』

『Day 62: The heavy fog dissipated, and you failed again to find Qi Xiaoye』

『Day 130: You accidentally obtained intelligence about a containment object and, using the Indifferent Killer Talent, you went to investigate…』

『Day 131: For safety, you decided to use Global Link to control others to investigate the containment object that appeared in the building; that containment object, which looked like a giant insect, did not attack your informants at first until one picked up a piece of jewelry that had fallen to the ground…』

Your informant was instantly killed by the containment object; after assessing the combat power between yourself and the containment object, you abandoned the investigation and decisively left.

『Day 330: A massive earthquake and Falling Stars…』

Congratulations, you have survived to the doomsday endpoint.

……………..

『Simulator cooldown time: 9 minutes 50 seconds』

It was just past six in the morning.

Dawn was breaking outside the window, and the cup on the desk was already empty.

Su Ze’s gaze fell on the simulator’s text as he waited for the cooldown period to end once more.

At the same time, he was mentally analyzing the intelligence that had appeared in the simulation…

“Still can’t find her?”

“What exactly went wrong?”

His obsession with finding Qi Xiaoye was not just driven by curiosity about what this face-perfect girl looked like.

It was also because without her, he could forget about becoming an Awakener in the simulation.

Nor could he hope to study those bizarre, unfathomable containment objects.

There was no other option; the simulated version of himself would always prioritize survival above all.

Without clear information about the containment objects, his simulated self simply could not risk investigating…

By not investigating, the path for him to become an Awakener remained difficult to clarify.

Another point worth mentioning.

Was that in the simulation he confirmed the arrival dates of the heavy fog and the doomsday endpoint were not fixed.

But why they were not fixed, Su Ze could not yet provide an accurate explanation.

Anyway, after receiving this intelligence, his subsequent simulations hardly involved him touching nuclear bombs.

This made perfect sense.

His simulated self simply wanted to live a few more days…

Triggering nuclear bombs would bring the doomsday endpoint earlier, but what benefit would that serve him? None at all!

“Ding…”

The sound of an alarm clock rang out in the bedroom.

But the alarm was quickly turned off.

It was probably Chen Keqing getting up; as a senior high school student, her schedule was still quite grueling, starting early and ending late…

However, Su Ze didn’t pay much attention to Chen Keqing.

The simulator’s cooldown time had just ended, and he sat upright at his desk, continuing the simulation…

『Apocalypse simulation has begun…』

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

『Death Singer (Green): Your singing voice has powerful destructive force; when your physical body perishes, your song will still resonate in the world for a moment』

『Christmas Tree (Blue): You can plant a Christmas Tree seed in your enemy’s posterior; if the enemy does not expel the seed within one day, the tree will grow and split open the enemy’s body, ultimately killing them』

『Wish Granted (Gold): You will not receive any Talent, but one of your strong desires may come true』

The Gold Talent has appeared!

Su Ze’s gaze locked onto that streak of gold.

Without hesitation, he selected the Gold Talent.

And before the simulation began, he muttered to himself in his mind…

“One strong desire… that desire can only be to find Qi Xiaoye.”

Although Su Ze still had other doomsday intelligence he wanted to uncover.

Like the terrifying secrets hidden in the heavy fog.

Like how he should become an Awakener.

But none of that information was as important as Qi Xiaoye; after all, finding Qi Xiaoye might reveal more than one precious piece of key intelligence…

『Simulation start』

『Day 1: Doomsday arrived as scheduled, and you chose SC-35 Safe Zone as your doomsday starting point…』

『Day 2: The temperature suddenly dropped…』

『Day 19: Relying on absolute force, you once again consolidated your prestige within the Safe Zone, and you continued to enhance your desire to find Qi Xiaoye』

『Day 30: Without any warning, but you were certain the Wish Granted Talent was taking effect』

『Day 33: Your desire was strong, you received Inspiration, and you immediately used the Arrival Talent to go to Yun City; you headed for Yun City No. 18 Middle School, which was now a Contaminated Zone, but you entered directly…

Guided by the Talent, you entered the school playground, climbed the stairs at Exit 3, walked up twelve steps, and as you took the thirteenth step, you counted thirteen in your mind…

You seemed to enter another space and saw the person you wanted to meet; Qi Xiaoye appeared in your sight, seemingly having entered the space earlier than you. After talking, you learned you were trapped in an enclosed space, and upon further investigation, you discovered that unless you solved the math problem on the blackboard on one side of the space, you could not leave this space…

The math problem on the blackboard was as difficult as the final questions on the college entrance exam paper; as a university student, you had long passed your peak in academic knowledge, so you asked Qi Xiaoye to solve it for you. However, after three hours of intense thought, she could not even complete the first subquestion…

You thought for a moment and, before the Arrival time ended, painstakingly solved the problem, and you both escaped the enclosed space. 』

『Day 34: Using the Arrival Talent, you carried Qi Xiaoye back from Yun City, and for the rest of the day, you quietly investigated Qi Xiaoye; as you imagined, she had forgotten all her memories before meeting you…

You used your informants in Yun City to investigate the Contaminated Zone where No. 18 Middle School was located, and you discovered that this Contaminated Zone had only been refreshed once the day before. 』

『Day 35: You synthesized all the intelligence and reached a conclusion…

You concluded that the appearance of the heavy fog had nothing to do with Qi Xiaoye; it was the second refresh of the Contaminated Zone where No. 18 Middle School was located that was the key to the girl’s appearance. Therefore, if you wanted to find Qi Xiaoye, you had to act before the heavy fog arrived, otherwise after the heavy fog, the Contaminated Zone would refresh again, and you would lose the chance to find her. 』

Swish…

The pen tip moved back and forth on the paper.

Su Ze recorded the simulation’s content in detail on paper.

“Is this essentially getting a free reward? Heh…”

Unconsciously smiling, Su Ze was in a good mood.

He now knew where the problem lay.

No wonder in previous simulations he had been unable to replicate the scene of seeing Qi Xiaoye in the heavy fog.

It turned out that the heavy fog was really a distraction.

That heavy fog was not a signal for meeting; it was a signal for the final ultimatum.

Once the heavy fog passed, you wouldn’t be able to find someone like Qi Xiaoye.

“So, as long as I replicate this round’s meeting method exactly, I should be able to see her when the real doomsday arrives…”