"Can I wear it again?" Ye Zhi asked.
"No, I can't absorb spiritual energy, I don't have enough energy." The system dropped the pretense and replied directly in the voice of a grumpy older sister, with a hint of frustration in its tone.
Sighing inwardly, Ye Zhi continued to ask:
"Without spiritual energy, can I still become an unparalleled body cultivator?"
"No, although body cultivation involves cultivating the body, it still requires spiritual energy to temper it." The system's voice was weak and feeble.
"Can the binding be removed?"
"No, you'll die if you unbind," the system replied again, though its tone was clearly tense.
"If I die, what will happen to you?"
"Mission failed. Intelligence erased." The system's tone was filled with panic.
"In other words, if I want to survive, I can't break the bond. That's better for both of us."
"Yes, the host made the right decision."
Ye Zhi fell silent. To live, and then be a miner? That's worse than death.
"System, did you get any results from your search? Do you have any of the original owner's memories for me to merge with?"
"Retrieval complete, memory fusion to begin."
With a headache, Ye Zhi sat down on the spot and began to sort out the extra memories.
The world I traveled to was almost identical to the original world. It was also a blue planet with seven continents and five oceans. Of course, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council were also present.
The reason for having those tools and drones is that the original owner participated in an outdoor live broadcast program, wilderness survival.
There are only two similar shows in the world: The 100 Days of Survival in the Bald Eagle and John Bull's Travel with Bear Grylls.
Several Chinese athletes have participated in the Bald Eagle Survival Challenge, but their results have been unsatisfactory. The worst Chinese athlete gave up after only two hours at the survival location.
The one with the best results only lasted ten days.
There was also a trip with Bear Grylls, where a Chinese celebrity's performance was so poor that the show was interrupted and that episode was never aired.
After the two incidents, citizens of the United States and the United Kingdom started criticizing each other online. Chinese netizens, of course, did not back down and, with their overwhelming numbers and the richness of their content, gained the upper hand.
The online flame war escalated, and then, at the behest of higher-ups, this program was created.
The contestants are divided into three tiers and three phases.
The three categories are: ordinary people, celebrities, and women.
The three phases refer to the fact that the three tiers of players are grouped together, and the order in which they arrive at the survival area is determined by drawing lots. Every ten days, the next player decides whether to go to the survival area.
The first player to arrive at the survival area faces the most pressure because they need to explore the area. If their performance is not ideal, they are likely to be eliminated immediately, and subsequent players will not come to join them.
Of course, the first player also receives the highest reward. From the moment they arrive at the survival location until the second survivor joins them, they receive 10,000 US dollars on the first day, and an additional 10,000 US dollars for each day they survive.
After the second survivor arrives, the daily bonus is fixed and split equally between the two. After the third survivor arrives, the bonus is split equally among the three.
The next step is to see who can last the longest.
This is not just a simple survival live stream; it's a matter of national pride, so the personal information of each contestant has been made public.
Veterans and people with wilderness survival experience were not included in the shortlist.
Moreover, although the program was initiated by two directors from China and the United States, the funding came from the country behind it.
Moreover, it's not just people from those two countries who can participate; all five permanent members of the UN Security Council can send representatives, with each member sending five teams of participants.
If a country is not one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, then I'm sorry, but they can only send one team to participate, and they need to pay a registration fee of five million US dollars.
The original owner was from northern China. Her father was Han Chinese and her mother was Mongolian. She grew up on the grasslands. Her Han Chinese name was Ye Zi, and her Mongolian name was Batel.
He is a little over 1.9 meters tall and weighs 320 kilograms. The chubby hands we saw before weren't just floaters from being in the seawater; he was genuinely fat.
As one of the lucky chosen ones, he was the first player in their trio to reach the survival zone.
Being the first to receive the first place not only grants you a ten-day survival bonus, but you can also choose ten survival tools.
Besides the pot at his feet, shovel, fire axe, pickaxe, and machete in his hand, the original owner chose ten tools for himself, including a pair of military boots, a pair of underwear, a windbreaker, and a pair of durable pants.
The last item was something he brought with him: a small knife, an essential tool for Mongolians when eating meat.
When the order of arrival was determined by drawing lots, the original owner was in the grassland, so only the remaining two people could draw first, and the last one was left for him.
Then, the original owner became the first pioneer to arrive at the survival zone.
He also knew about the other two partners: Huang Jingyu, who was the second to appear and was known as the "entertainment brute" and the "man who served in the military in the film and television industry."
The third to appear was the exotic beauty Tong Erya.
It can be said that as long as the people who pioneered the land, that is, the original body, find a suitable place to build a shelter, then their group will definitely not embarrass themselves.
There's even a chance they'll make it to the end.
However, things are unpredictable, and the original owner had two flaws: one was to hide and the other to reveal.
It was obvious that he was afraid of heights. The original owner himself knew this. He could endure it when he was on a plane, as long as he wasn't near the window.
I thought I would take a boat to my destination after arriving at the meeting point, but I didn't expect to board a luxury cruise ship directly from the meeting point.
After choosing the means of survival, the journey from the cruise ship to the speedboat was by helicopter.
When the helicopter hovered above the speedboat, the original owner's hidden problems surfaced: a fear of heights, and also a damn fear of the sea.
The rope ladder, about ten meters long, was secured to the helicopter at the top, and the crew on the speedboat below had also provided stability. The original owner lost his footing and fell into the sea.
That one moment was enough to scare me to death.
I felt a little unwell when I boarded the ship at the meeting point, and I thought I could just control myself and it would pass, but I didn't expect the consequences to be so serious.
However, to be fair, the original owner of this body grew up in an inland area, and the first time she saw the sea was when she was afraid of heights.
Adding the added pressure of falling into the sea, it's understandable that he would be scared to death.
I glanced at the drone beside me, hoping that my actions hadn't attracted the attention of the people watching on the screen.
Although the live stream started the moment the drone appeared, Ye Zhi seemed to just sit there in a daze for a while and did not do anything else out of line.
After figuring out the ins and outs of the matter, Ye Zhi had no other choice. He couldn't unbind himself from the system, nor could he return to the original world. He could only continue according to the original owner's script.
Of course, the most important thing right now is this wilderness survival live stream; everything else can wait until the show ends.
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