Chapter 1: The first day of the novice period, I traveled through time
Just turning over in her sleep, Yu Luowei was startled to feel a change in the sensation beneath her. She quickly opened her eyes, but instead of the familiar bedroom roof, she saw a beautiful starry sky. Her surroundings were no longer her magnificent mansion; instead, a dark and gloomy atmosphere filled them.
What was going on? She had finally finished a day's work and fell into a wonderful dream on her soft big bed, but when she opened her eyes, she found herself in such a hellish place!
After a moment of surprise, Yu Luowei calmed down. She looked down and saw that her pajamas had been replaced with an unfamiliar white short-sleeved shirt and shorts set. She was now lying on the ground in the middle of an open space surrounded by a shabby circular fence. Looking beyond the fence, she could vaguely see dark figures stirring.
Yu Luowei's sleepiness vanished instantly. She became alert and stood up, walking towards the fence. Reason told her not to step outside the fence, so she simply extended one hand outside.
As soon as he stretched out his hand, he was attacked by the biting cold. Yu Luowei immediately retracted his hand, and he began to think more about the dangers of this strange world.
There were no other living creatures around. Yu Luowei circled around in the fence, observing the surrounding environment. Unfortunately, it was pitch black and she couldn't see anything. At this moment, a huge mechanical voice suddenly came to her ears:
【Welcome everyone to the survivor trial game!
In the year 2580 of the Blue Calendar, due to the destruction of the environment of Blue Star and the insufficiency of its resources for human development, the xx galaxy decided to hold a survivor trial game to help Blue Star out of its predicament.
Please explore the game's clearance conditions on your own. To assist you, a survivor's manual has been distributed. Please check the survivor's manual for specific rules!
Perhaps to ensure that everyone sleeping could wake up and hear, the sound was repeated three times in a row. Yu Luowei had already discovered the blue-glowing survivor's manual by the time she finished listening to it the first time. It was right next to where she woke up, and she was currently reading it.
It's called a manual, but it looks more like a tablet. The date and time are written in the upper right corner: [Novice Period Day 1, 7:35 AM]. In the upper left corner is a ten-minute countdown, only one minute has passed. At the bottom is a row of icons: Personal Information, Email, Chat, Trading, Construction, and Warehouse. In the center of the page are the rules for the so-called Survivor Trial game:
Welcome to the Survivor Trial Game! Please read the rules carefully and actively survive!
1. Death in the game is real death, please take it seriously.
2. The area inside the fence is the base, which is where the survivors’ shelter is built. The shelter is the safest place in the trial world. Survivors, please cherish your shelter!
3. There are treasure chests of supplies around the shelter. The treasure chests refresh at 8:00 am every day. Please actively look for them.
4. Daytime is from 8:00 to 18:00, and the rest of the time is night. The game does not recommend leaving the shelter at night unless your force value is high enough.
5. The first three days of the trial game are the novice period. During the novice period, there is a protective shield on the base, which can be immune to all damage. At the same time, the number of treasure chests is doubled, and the probability of monster appearance is reduced by 50%.
6. The players participating in this trial game are all residents of Blue Star. For the sake of fairness, after the countdown ends, children under 14 years old and people over 65 years old will be matched with their immediate relatives, and the bases will be integrated after matching.
7. The novice gift package has been sent to the warehouse, please check it.
I hope all survivors will work hard to survive, complete the trials, and clear the game! 】
There was a question mark after the sixth rule, which should be a supplement to the relative matching rules. However, Yu Luowei was an orphan with no immediate family, so he didn't read this rule carefully and directly clicked on his personal information.
Outside of work, Yu Luowei's biggest hobby was reading apocalyptic novels. She also had some knowledge of so-called survival games. Logically, her personal information should include things like strength and intelligence, but hers was completely blank. She fiddled with it for a while but couldn't find her personal information.
Since we're here, we might as well make the best of it. Unable to see any personal information for the time being, and the manual didn't contain any information that could help understand the surrounding environment, Yu Luowei decided to "cheat"—first checking to see if the supplies in his space were still there, then closing his eyes, preparing to use his mental power to check the surrounding situation.
Slowly releasing his spiritual power, the outside world gradually became clearer in Yu Luowei's mind, and he could see some flowers and plants outside the fence. However, before he could see the specific appearance of these plants, Yu Luowei's spiritual power was blocked by an unknown force. Then, a sharp pain invaded Yu Luo'e's head. At the same time, a mechanical voice sounded again in Yu Luowei's ears:
"It has been detected that a survivor has SSS-level psychic and spatial abilities, and his soul is in an abnormal state."
The sound was like a thunderclap. Although it relieved Yu Luowei's pain, it also made her face solemn.
Blue Star is an ordinary Blue Star; Yu Luowei is extraordinary. That's right, this wasn't Yu Luowei's first time traveling through time. Her original world suffered a zombie apocalypse, the kind most common in apocalyptic survival novels. Yu Luowei was fortunate enough to awaken both psychic and spatial abilities early in the apocalypse. While ultimately only reaching A-level, they still helped her persevere through the seventh year of the apocalypse. This was a key reason why Yu Luowei later developed a fondness for apocalyptic novels.
Yu Luowei, who died in a zombie tsunami due to exhaustion of her superpowers, opened her eyes again to find herself an orphan on Blue Star in the 26th century. Perhaps because the experience of resurrection is inherently bizarre, Yu Luowei wasn't surprised for long when she discovered she still possessed two superpowers at the age of five. Instead, she quickly learned how to utilize them without attracting attention. After all, Blue Star's technology had advanced significantly in the 26th century, and she didn't want to be captured and studied.
It could be said that Yu Luowei's ability to own a mansion in the land-scarce City C at the age of 24 in modern Blue Star society was inseparable from the help of these two supernatural powers. However, she had not only entered a new apocalyptic society, but also had her supernatural powers upgraded to SSS level through training on Blue Star (it was impossible to check supernatural power levels while on Blue Star).
"Given that both of the survivor Yu Luowei's abilities are of top-level rarity and grade, they seriously interfere with the balance of the trial game and need to be stripped." The mechanical voice continued.
At this point, Yu Luowei gradually calmed down. She tried to speak to the void, "My superpower level was cultivated during the zombie apocalypse. Even after traveling from the zombie apocalypse to Blue Star, my superpowers have not disappeared, which means that they are deeply bound to me. There are even supplies in my space that I spent money and energy to obtain. Now, stripping my superpowers because it affects fairness, isn't it also unfair to me?"
The mechanical voice fell silent for a long moment before continuing, "The survivor's abilities exceed the upper limit of this game's talent level and cannot be retained for now. However, as compensation, the survivor can choose two of the eight first-level magic types—gold, wood, water, fire, ice, and wind—as new talents. These talents will be retained permanently and can be upgraded to level seven during the trial."
Without giving Yu Luowei another chance to bargain, the mechanical voice continued: "Now start the peeling, after which the survivors will make their magic choices."
The peeling process was excruciating; even though it only lasted five minutes, it felt like a lifetime. Fortunately, Yu Luowei possessed an SSS-level psychic ability, her willpower far surpassing that of an average person. She was still able to think: These eight types of magic happened to be the most common abilities in Yu Luowei's original world. She wondered what the relationship was between them. Although it was only the lowest level, the compensation she had received was already far beyond her expectations. Now, the most important thing was which two abilities to choose.
Based on the zombie apocalypse and previous experience reading novels, Yu Luowei chose ice and fire magic after the peeling process. Ice magic was more powerful than water magic in the early stages, and fire magic could melt ice magic at the same level.
After making the selection, the system was silent for a while. Yu Luowei thought it was over, stretched his body, and prepared to experiment with the newly acquired magic. Suddenly, a voice even deeper than the prompt sounded:
You made the right decision.
This game system was still a mystery. And the previous phrases, "Powers temporarily unavailable" and "Magic permanently retained," made her curious about the future—it seemed her powers would return. With that comfort in her heart, she no longer hesitated and officially used her ice and fire magic. Because it was still at the lowest level, it could only condense a small flame and an ice block the size of an ordinary brick, but it could appear and disappear at will.
After practicing a few times, ensuring she could expertly condense the magic into the desired shape, Yu Luowei began to turn her attention to other matters. She had initially felt a little regretful, wondering if she hadn't used her supernatural powers right from the start, perhaps the system would have discovered and stripped her of them. However, after practicing a few times, Yu Luowei relented. After all, to complete the game, she couldn't possibly not use her supernatural powers at all. Even if she took a step back, she would still have to use the items in the space. Since using them would be discovered, it would be better to switch to magic that could be used in the game earlier, practice them beforehand, and improve her proficiency.
With some time until 8 a.m. still to go, Yu Luowei finally had time to check the other functions of the manual. Personal information, currently showing as temporarily locked, remained blank. However, while practicing magic, Yu Luowei discovered that he had inherited the physique of a C-level psychic from the Zombie Doomsday. Because the Zombie Doomsday lacked physical strength or speed, a psychic's physical strength and speed increased with their power level. A C-level psychic's physique was already comparable to that of a top athlete from Blue Star. Furthermore, the novice base was immune to all damage. Yu Luowei stopped dwelling on the personal information issue and turned to other icons.
Open the construction system, there are only two lines of text:
[Current base level: Level 1, upgrade to the next level requires: Wood (0/20)
Current shelter level: Level 0. To build a Level 1 shelter, you need: a Level 1 base, weeds (0/50), wood (0/30).
This set the goal for Yu Luowei's exploration. The materials needed didn't seem to be much, and the base was surrounded by trees and grass. Yu Luowei had already made up his mind to build the first-level shelter during the day. He couldn't just sleep in the open air at night.
The warehouse has a total of 20 slots, and the first five slots are occupied by [ordinary stone axe × 1, space bracelet (20 slots) × 1, matches × 5, compressed biscuits 100g × 2, mineral water 500ml × 3] (from now on, the default mineral water is 500ml, medium-sized purified water 5l, large-sized purified water 10l), which should be the so-called novice gift package.
Looking at these few things, Yu Luowei sighed for the umpteenth time today, once again missing the things she had painstakingly stored in the space. She also wondered if the system would return her two original abilities after she cleared the level.
Yu Luowei had no intention of opening the chat channel. Firstly, it was only two minutes until 8 o'clock. Secondly, people were in such an unfamiliar environment all of a sudden, and their emotions were mostly unstable. Most of the chats were probably about disbelief or even venting emotions, and there wasn't any valuable information.
Yu Luowei first took out the space bracelet, bound it, and put it on his left wrist. When he was testing the new magic, Yu Luowei had already discovered that the trial manual could not be taken away from the base. It seemed that this space bracelet was prepared for going out to collect resources. The trial game was quite considerate! In addition, all items can be viewed with more detailed information once touched, such as
[Space Bracelet: Can tell time and store things, making it a perfect companion for survivors! Bindable. Currently has 20 slots, expandable with Space Stones or Space Expansion Cards. Current 2/20]
[Compressed Biscuits: Produced by Trial Game, they are of the highest quality. One piece will keep you going all day!]
[Mineral water: Xfu Mountain Spring, ordinary mineral water available everywhere on Blue Star]
[Ordinary Stone Axe: Basic tool, level 0 weapon, can be used to cut down trees or as a weapon. Ineffective against monsters above level 1. Durability 100/100]
Yu Luowei put a bottle of water and a pack of compressed biscuits into her bracelet and held the stone axe in her hand. Everything was ready, and the time had arrived at eight o'clock. The darkness and gloom were instantly replaced by the bright sun. Yu Luowei was so dazzled by the sudden change in light that she couldn't open her eyes.
After a moment of adjustment, Yu Luowei finally opened her eyes and could clearly see her surroundings. The plants she had just seen with her mental power were the low-lying shrubs and weeds next to the base. A little further away was a dense forest with countless tall trees. Yu Luowei could see pine trees, ginkgo trees, and birch trees alone.
The dense undergrowth filled every inch of the ground, leaving no place to step. Yu Luowei's suit was so fragile that he suspected it would be worn out the moment he entered the bushes. He had to think of another way.
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