Chapter 1
"The 'Doomsday Survival' holographic simulation game has entered its final round. Nineteen of the twenty spots have been filled, leaving only the last one. Let's see who gets it."
"It's out. The person who got the last spot on the 'Survival of the Doomsday' live reality show is Shi Buxi. Let's take a look at his information."
A huge holographic projection was projected on the square in front of the ZS TV station building. The host's loud voice made many people in the square stop and look up, wanting to see who the final contestants would be for this survival program that had been running for three months.
At this time, the live broadcast room of the holographic simulation game "Survival" was filled with barrages of comments, which was dazzling to watch.
[Ahhh, the list is finally out. Will there be another one with 2S-level Psychic Power?]
"How is that possible? Do you think 2S-rank is just a bunch of cabbages, everywhere? Just one of them is surprising. If this were in the military, someone with a bit of talent would be at least a major general! Why are you participating?"
[ZS TV is offering a 200 million star coin prize. If I had A-level mental power, I would also participate in the selection.]
[Hahaha, of the nineteen people in front, fifteen are combat-type and four are healing-type. Among them, there is one with 2S-level psychic power, seven with S-level psychic power, and eleven with A-level psychic power. Regardless of whether the last one is 2S or not, it will definitely not be lower than A-level.]
【Here we come! 】
On the massive holographic projection screen, a picture flashed, revealing a resume. The audience, ready to cheer with smiles on their faces, froze. Their first reaction was dizziness, their second, they rubbed their eyes, and their third, "Oh my god! Someone's cheating!"
[??? 0 mental power?]
[Where did he come from? Is he one of the popular candidates? ]
[I seem to have some impression that someone bought it on Star Online before, saying that this person is very good at hiding.]
[Pfft, so when he was about to go to Blue Star for a real fight, he managed to sneak into the finals?]
[Am I still half asleep? The number of participants in the "Survival" auditions reached over three billion. Not to mention that the 2S class is one in a billion, there are at least over a billion S- and A-class candidates. And in the end, a person without any mental power got the spot?]
[S-rank and A-rank players, where are your faces? ]
[Tell me, Shi Buxi, is the director of ZS TV your uncle, or is the director your brother?]
【Backdoor, definitely backdoor.】
When this result came out, not only the audience was shocked, but also the backstage staff.
"What's going on? Did I fill in the information wrong, or..." The staff member didn't say the last word, but everyone could hear what he meant. Does this person have connections? Did someone secretly modify the game? Otherwise, how could someone without psychic power escape the apocalypse so easily? You know, this holographic game "Apocalypse Survival" is a 100% reproduction of the cruelty and bloodshed of the apocalypse on Blue Planet three thousand years ago.
"What is it. Contact Shi Buxi and ask him if he filled in the wrong information." The producer heard this when he walked into the director's room and frowned.
"We've already contacted him. He's definitely not mentally strong." Seeing the producer approach, another staff member quickly stepped forward to explain, then continued, "So, does his spot still count?"
The reality show "Survival" is not a survival simulation game, but a real doomsday.
Three thousand years ago, a zombie outbreak suddenly occurred on Blue Planet, and the world instantly became an endless hell. Countless people died in that catastrophe, and countless others became unconscious living dead who only knew how to eat people. They were also called zombies.
Fortunately, humanity was able to unleash its spiritual power during that catastrophe. Even more fortunately, before that, human technology had reached a new level, creating spacecraft capable of navigating space and discovering new planets with life. Therefore, a few years after the zombie outbreak, humanity migrated away from their home planet, Blue Star.
Three thousand years have passed, and humanity has grown from just over two billion survivors to over 180 billion. With countless galaxies and countless planets full of life, humanity has yet to unravel the mystery of the zombie apocalypse, and zombie activity continues on Planet Blue.
"This quota was created in front of tens of billions of people. Wouldn't it be bad for us if it wasn't counted?"
"But he has no mental strength. Even if he didn't encounter zombies, he wouldn't be able to survive."
"How about telling the audience that there's a system bug?"
"What a bad idea," the producer interrupted them, looking at Shi Buyi's profile on the holographic screen for a moment and said, "Inform him to leave for Blue Star in a week."
The staff in the control room watched the producer leave, looked at each other, and finally sent out the results.
pass!
【……】
[Fuck, you really have a backer? But that's too bold. Although three thousand years have passed and there aren't as many zombies on Blue Planet as before, satellites show they're still quite numerous. If you really get there, the zombies won't care if you have a backer or not; they'll just eat you if they see you.]
[The first "Survival" series, who knows how they'll operate, maybe they'll just wander around the periphery and come back.]
[Perhaps two of these twenty contestants are protecting him!]
Just as the audience was engaged in various speculations, the host came out again and said seriously to the camera: "The first "Survival of the Doomsday" reality show selection has ended. We will strive to recreate the human race's desperate struggle for survival when the apocalypse struck three thousand years ago."
"The contestants will start from Area 3, pass through Area 2, and head to the most terrifying place of terror, Area 1, Kunlun."
"Rumor has it that Kunlun is the location of the Zombie King's palace. For three thousand years, no exploration team, whether human or alien, has ever entered Area 1 and never returned."
"So, can our contestants successfully penetrate into Area 1?"
"Retracing the path to escape to Blue Star, never forgetting the kindness of our predecessors! See you in a week!"
"Bang!"
As soon as the host finished speaking, the holographic projection screen "exploded" and a pre-drawn poster of twenty people appeared in front of everyone.
Standing in the front row was the all-around superstar Zong Ziyu, whose fan following reached 20 billion, making him the most followed male celebrity in the Human Empire. To his left stood a girl with pigtails, a renowned musician. To his right stood the currently most-watched 2S Psychic competitor, a man with an upright figure and a military bearing.
The remaining seventeen contestants lined up in the back row, but the A-shaped formation made the contestants at the back smaller and smaller, until only a small head could be seen.
Shi Buxi stood at the back. Although he had a small head, the small bun on his head pinned with a peach wood hairpin was particularly eye-catching.
"Haha, here it is." A crisp laugh rang out in the restaurant. Tang Shasha pressed a finger on the poster on the holographic projection screen and rubbed her little tuft of hair.
"Finally, I got chosen." Shi Buxi sat down across from Tang Shasha and breathed a sigh of relief. A week ago, he'd been kicked thousands of years into the future by his master, starving for two days before being taken in by this restaurant. However, they only provided emergency assistance, not poverty relief. Free accommodation wasn't an option. Robots snatched up the work when he tried to serve dishes. He'd tried to pick up his old trade, even if it wasn't exorcising demons, but setting up a stall selling talismans would have been fine. But he'd almost been arrested for fraud.
"Ah, brother, you're out of the holographic cabin." Tang Shasha's eyes lit up and she stood up, very surprised. Then she said worriedly, "You don't have any mental power. Is it really okay to go?"
"Don't worry, it's okay!" Shi Buxi had two reasons for participating in this doomsday survival program. One was to make money. Although Taoists were not interested in fame and profit, he hadn't achieved immortality or practiced fasting, so he had to earn his own food. The other was that he wanted to see what the so-called zombies were all about.
Tang Shasha saw his calm and confident look, and thought of the auditions for "Survival of the Last Days". Except for the beginning, he successfully avoided the zombies almost 99% of the time and managed to survive until the end. The corners of her mouth twitched. She reached out and put her hand on Shi Buxi's shoulder, saying solemnly: "Brother, although I only call you brother for a week, you are still my brother. You are welcome to come back here anytime."
Shi Buyi also smiled. After thinking for a moment, he took out a lucky bag and handed it to Tang Shasha. "There's a peace amulet inside. Keep it with you. Don't open it or take it off for a month."
Although Tang Shasha was curious about Shi Buxi's words, she was attracted by the lucky bag. The red lucky bag, which was three fingers wide, was embroidered with white auspicious clouds on both sides, and a simple word "Fu" was embroidered with yellow line in the middle, which had a very classical feel.
"Thank you, brother. I like it. I definitely won't take it off." Tang Shasha took it, touched it lovingly, and put it in her pocket like a treasure. Then she said to Shi Buxi, "Brother, do you want to open a Xingbo?"
"It's open, please get out of the way," Shi Buyi said. When he was offline just now, the staff came looking for him.
Shi Buxi rolled up his long sleeves to reveal the terminal with a cold glow inside. He touched it with his slender white fingers, with doubt in his eyes.
When he came down the mountain, he only packed a set of clothes with a piece of cloth, a peach wood sword, some documents, and a wooden box. However, when he arrived in this era, when he opened the bag, he found something called a terminal.
At first, he suspected he'd died falling from the mountain, his soul transported to another person. But after carefully examining his body, his doubts returned. The clothes were identical, the sword was identical, the identification documents were there, even the tiny red mole on his collarbone hadn't moved, indicating it was his body. As for how the terminal ended up in his bag, and how it contained his identity information, he still couldn't figure it out.
Shi Buxi decided to put the matter aside for now. He opened the terminal, released a holographic projection, and skillfully entered the Xingbo registration, which was completed in a few operations. Just as he was about to exit, the terminal suddenly rang "ding ding dong dong". He opened it and saw that it was either @ him or private messages to him.
"Brother, you've been scolded to death by people on Starnet." Tang Shasha opened Starnet when Shi Buyi registered and found that various short videos of her brother who had survived to the finish line in the "Doomsday Survival" game trials had been cut out, and there was a lot of scolding.
Shi Buxi is innocent, why scold him?
Back to the homepage of Xingbo, the first ten entries are all related to "Survival". The entry #How did Shi Buxi get into the top 20# surpasses the entry of superstar #Zong Ziyu participated in "Survival"#, which shows how much resentment the audience has towards him.
[Hehe, did you see that? Did you see that? What was he doing when he encountered zombies the last few times? Was he using sign language with them?]
[Hahaha, after he gestured, he realized the zombies were still coming for him. His confused look made me laugh to death. I found it inexplicably cute.]
[Haha, I think he's dressed strangely too. A long green robe, and a little bun on top of his head. I really want to pinch it.]
[It's a shame that this guy doesn't make a debut with this look. I'm a local dog, and I declare that I'm now a fan of his looks.]
[Can being cute and handsome really earn you a living? With your current abilities, you'll just be serving food to the Zombie King.]
[Hasn't anyone noticed how incredibly lucky he is? Aside from the first few encounters with zombies, he hasn't encountered any since. His luck is incredible. No wonder he even qualified for the trials.]
[Ridiculous, what kind of luck is that? Do you believe it? I almost avoided the zombies in the later stages. No programmers gave him a bug. I gnawed the holographic cabin.]
[With twenty people, one more relative is nothing. The important thing is, the production team said we're going to District One. District One! Are they crazy?]
[ZS TV is truly insane. Last year, the military sent a special forces team of 30 to protect a research team deep into Blue Star, but they were forced to retreat after only reaching the edge of Area 1. An entertainment reality show actually wants to enter Kunlun. I'm afraid they'll be eaten alive.]
[My next bet is that Shi Buxi will be the first to be bitten.]
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