Chapter 1: Supernatural World Simutor
Inside the room.
The sun was bright and cheerful, and a cool summer breeze blew in from the open window, causing the light blue curtains to flutter gently.
Li Guanqi woke up and instinctively checked his phone.
7:50.
"Huh?"
After turning off his phone screen, Li Guanqi was surprised to find that a bck jade pendant had appeared on his bedside table.
The jade was entirely bck, and it seemed to have a drop of bright red blood sealed inside, giving it a somewhat eerie appearance. However, under the sunlight, it also possessed a strange beauty.
"Crack!"
Suddenly, the bck jade outer shell of the bck blood-jade shattered into a spsh of bck liquid, while the drop of bright red blood sealed within it miraculously floated in mid-air.
"Buzz—"
The next moment, this drop of bright red blood emitted a dazzling bloody light, instantly enveloping Li Guanqi.
At the same time, an ethereal and melodious voice, indistinguishable as male or female, sounded:
"Soon, one percent of humanity will be pulled into the supernatural world, caught in a cycle of life and death, entering one bizarre instance after another, and thus becoming one-in-a-hundred espers. You included!"
"And you, right now, possess the ability to simute the world in advance."
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"So gods really do exist in this world?!"
The bloody light gradually dissipated.
Li Guanqi's vision returned, and he discovered that he was no longer in his room, but standing on a vast nd shrouded in bck mist.
Then, he looked at the translucent light screen in front of him, his face unable to hide his shock.
At the top of the light screen were seven rge characters:
[Supernatural World Simutor]
The left half of the light screen dispyed a virtual image of Li Guanqi.
He was spread-eagled, slowly rotating, his tall, one-meter-ninety-eight frame, his strong and well-defined muscles, his neat and tidy short hair, and his sunny, handsome, youthful face all on dispy.
[Overall Evaluation: You are eighteen years old this year, born into a family of athletes. You inherited your parents' excellent genes, and you've been diligently training in basketball since you were five years old. You possess a strong physique, much stronger than most weak humans... Of course, you're still a rookie.]
[Level Rating: 1.2 (The average human rating is 0.8)]
"Am I this awesome?"
Li Guanqi was taken aback, and then he realized.
The reason the average human rating was so low was because there were some disabled people in the world, and the majority of ordinary people who didn't exercise regurly were in a sub-healthy state.
He looked at the right half of the light screen.
Many squares were arranged together, but they were all bck, looking like they hadn't been unlocked yet. Only the first square had content.
Bck background, red text:
[Beginner's Trial · Sorcerer's Apprentice]
"Swish—"
The instant Li Guanqi's gaze nded on this line of text, white light fshed, and the entire light screen transformed into a greenish-blue panel.
Lines of text boxes began to appear on it.
[Selectable Talents]
[Physically Fit (White): You are a talented athlete with the potential to join the national basketball team. Your physical fitness is excellent.]
"That's it?"
Li Guanqi was speechless.
There was only one talent, so what was there to choose from?
He reached out and tapped the [Physically Fit (White)] option.
Soon, the light screen panel refreshed, and lines of text boxes began to appear.
[Day 1, you transmigrated.]
[A bck-robed old man asked if you wanted to be his apprentice.]
[You were a bit stunned from just transmigrating and didn't respond for a while. Then, the bck-robed old man impatiently swung his palm at you.]
[You died.]
???
"What the hell?"
Li Guanqi was stunned.
He died just like that?
No, don't be stunned! It's this day and age, what's there to be stunned about when transmigrating?
"Beep beep."
A notification sound rang, and Li Guanqi noticed that a [Reset] option had appeared in the lower right corner of the panel.
"Reset."
Li Guanqi tapped it lightly.
The panel refreshed.
[Day 1, you transmigrated.]
[A bck-robed old man asked if you wanted to be his apprentice.]
[You learned from your previous experience, didn't get stunned, and immediately answered yes.]
[The bck-robed old man presented two cups. The left cup contained several plump white maggots, and the right cup contained a group of bck bedbugs, slender roundworms, and a collection of colorful little insects.]
[The bck-robed old man asked you which cup you wanted to eat.]
[The cup on the left]
[The cup on the right]
"Oh?"
Li Guanqi raised an eyebrow. This text box was clearly different; it required him to make a choice.
He reached out and tapped lightly.
[You chose the cup on the left, suppressed your disgust, picked up the cup, and poured it into your mouth, chewing vigorously. The plump and juicy white maggots, the disgusting taste of their bursting juices, circuted endlessly on your taste buds.]
[The bck-robed old man beat you to death.]
"Looks like it's the cup on the right."
Li Guanqi wasn't surprised.
A one-in-two choice naturally had a chance of failure.
[Reset]
[... (Repetitive process omitted)]
[You chose the right cup, the super-sized mixed cup filled with bedbugs, roundworms, and various disgusting insects.]
[The bck-robed old man beat you to death.]
"???"
Li Guanqi was dumbfounded.
The left one didn't work, and the right one didn't work either. What was he pying at?!
[Reset]
[... (Repetitive process omitted)]
[This time, which cup will you choose?]
Li Guanqi stood in front of the panel, pondering for a long time.
Finally, he said:
"I choose to beat this old bastard to death."
[You were furious, overturned the table, and swung your fist at the bck-robed old man.]
—Talent: Physically Fit (White) Activated—
[Relying on your excellent physical fitness, you withstood the curse insect attacks released by the bck-robed old man for three minutes.]
[You awakened a new ability in the midst of battle!]
[Swift Steps (Green): You were born into a family of athletes and have honed your basketball skills since childhood. Although you are tall, you are also extremely agile and flexible. You can activate the deepest potential of the human body1 when needed, bursting forth with extreme speed in an instant.]
[You didn't even have time to use your new talent before you were beaten to death by the bck-robed old man.]
[Reset]
[... (Repetitive process omitted)]
—Ability: Swift Steps (Green) Activated—
[You dispyed astonishing speed in the battle.]
[The bck-robed old man didn't expect a mere mortal like you to have such speed. He underestimated you, didn't react in time, and you successfully closed in, using a spiky curse insect as a dagger to kill him.]
[After the bck-robed old man died, his body transformed into countless curse insects that engulfed you.]
[You also died.]
—Ending One: The Fool's Choice—
[Ending Evaluation: It was a perfectly good beginner's instance, giving you an old grandpa to teach you curse techniques, but you insisted on killing him. So, who's going to teach you curse techniques now? Even with a teacher, you couldn't get into Tsinghua University, so what makes you think you can get into Peking University by just studying yourself to death? Of course, that being said, your ability to kill a high and mighty sorcerer as a mere mortal is still astonishing. If your deeds could be spread, you would become a monument in history! It's a pity, you're still dead, and killing a thousand enemies while losing a thousand yourself doesn't seem to have much meaning.]
[Ending Reward: One purple talent!]
[Communicate with the Netherworld (Purple): You are naturally gifted for becoming a sorcerer, with exceptional aptitude. Although you haven't cultivated yet, the blood in your body naturally possesses extremely high spiritual power, and you can communicate with all kinds of insects. Insects are the creatures closest to the spirits of the netherworld. Insects can hear the voices of spirits. And you can understand the voices of insects, and even more so, the voices of curse insects, keenly perceiving the state of these little cuties, and thus cultivating even stronger curse insects.]
