Chapter 25 - Madam I presume you wouldn't want

Battle, exhilarating!

Xu Shu dragged the battered corpses of his two mentors and flung them far away, including the trafficker from cell 217 who hadn’t completely died yet, casting him out in the distance to prevent decay and stench.

He gazed out for a moment, seeing a large pack of beasts with rat-like faces and bodies covered in eyebrows, canine creatures swarming in for a meal.

“There are so many monsters around here; I don’t know what the deal is — it’s way beyond the normal density for the Wasteland.”

The Wasteland, despite being outside the safe zone, was still within the border limits, and there was even a Patrol Team roaming every day.

Normally, encountering one monster within a mile was considered bad luck.

But here, it felt like falling into a monster’s nest somewhere in the Wasteland.

Xu Shu recalled that just by simulating the future twice, within five hundred meters there were at least three human-headed griffins, two pythons with human heads, a distorted meaty sphere covered with bumps, a land shark, plus the hairless vicious dogs he saw, all adding up to more than ten monsters.

That was a conservative estimate, and there could actually be more.

If every area of the Wasteland was like this, the refugees might as well give up on living; they could just wash their necks and wait for death.

“But as long as they don’t come into the prison here, I have the chance to slowly hunt them down.”

Xu Shu didn’t rush to hunt; they were too far away.

Venturing out could easily lead to ambushes by other creatures, like the three human-headed griffins.

“Now it’s certain that the rewards of Conquest mode are items and skills, all things I can directly use.

It’s the biggest support for resolving my predicaments; it can prevent me from suddenly dying.”

“And for Legendary mode, there should also be two types of rewards: one is the ‘Mystical Chapter,’ which allows the engraving of Curse Seal terms, and the other is titles.”

“Today, I have only one chance left.

If I use Conquest to look for nearby monsters that can be hunted, it’s not very safe.

If I don’t strike immediately after today’s simulation, the situation might change by tomorrow; but if I launch an attack right away, the variables are too many and too dangerous for me.”

“It’s better to wait until tomorrow’s attempts refresh, use two or three to grasp the situation, and then go hunting the same day!”

“So, this last attempt, right, come to think of it, when entering Legendary last time, a whole day mysteriously passed in reality.

What was the state of it?

Hmm, I could use this last chance as an experiment!”

With this thought, Xu Shu closed the prison door once more, returned to 301, and knocked again on the iron door, waking up the slumbering Gu Pan.

“What are you up to now?” Gu Pan woke, completely befuddled.

She had just watched Xu Shu kill those two traffickers, and although she didn’t hear what they said, far from being afraid, she actually cheered enthusiastically and then contentedly went to sleep.

She had only been asleep for less than half an hour!

Xu Shu, feeling a bit sheepish, scratched his head and said, “Haha, I need your help with something.”

“What is it?” Under someone else’s roof, Gu Pan had to bow her head.

Upon hearing him, she reluctantly crawled out of her warm bed.

Xu Shu narrowed his eyes and stared at her chest for a while, wondering just what method could make a woman sprout an Adam’s apple yet have no chest at all.

Quite advanced; he’d ask about it when they got to know each other better.

But for now.

“I found a secret manual that looks pretty amazing.

I’m planning to practice it.

I need you to keep an eye on me, to see if anything special happens to me later on,” Xu Shu said.

“Huh?” A question mark popped over Gu Pan’s head.

A secret manual?

What secret manual?

Who still has secret manuals to practice these days?

She suddenly remembered something important and quickly said, “Wait, don’t just practice anything recklessly.

Some manuals might be written by Esoteric believers and seem legitimate, but they are actually a way of sacrificing oneself to evil entities.

Don’t be fooled!”

“There are cults in this world?”

Xu Shu, who hadn’t come across any, said nonchalantly, “It’s okay, I know this manual is safe.”

“No, don’t say that; those brainwashed by cultists always think the same.

Don’t fall for it, hey, are you listening?”

Gu Pan became frantic when Xu Shu said that.

However, Xu Shu was already sitting cross-legged outside the door, his back to her, mumbling something that looked quite serious.

In reality, he was flipping open the Tai Chu Scroll, preparing to enter Legendary mode.

Except, the Tai Chu Scroll was invisible to anyone but Xu Shu, so to Gu Pan’s eyes…

It looked even more like a damn cult ritual!

“Please, stop now, stop it!

No!” Gu Pan cried out.

In the next second, she saw a soft fog suddenly rise around Xu Shu, enveloping him, making one glance at it stir the soul, feeling the gentle force soothing both body and mind.

To Gu Pan, it felt…

it felt…

like being bathed in sunlight?

The fog came quickly and dissipated just as fast.

Then, she suddenly realized that Xu Shu had disappeared without a trace.

Right before her very eyes, as if in a blink, he vanished from the spot.

Gu Pan’s eyes widened in shock.

“Holy shit?

Is this really some secret manual?”

“Is it an illusion?

An Invisibility Technique?

An Escape Technique?”

“What the hell is Black Widow’s order?”

“How can he practice all sorts of things after becoming a Transcendent!”

“Generating random coordinates for you…”

“Legendary coordinates for this journey: Kyoto Collapse.”

“Generating a random identity…”

“Having used 1 opportunity, please select one of the following four identities to begin your life with.

You will gain a completely authentic experience, so choose cautiously:”

“1: Saito Kanai; 2: Misaki Ayaka; 3: Liangsen Lingluo; 4: Shen Valley First-class.”

“Huh?

So, if I only use one opportunity, I can’t choose the last name first and then the first name?”

“Damn, so materialistic, stingy, realistic!”

“I didn’t expect this from you, Tai Chu Scroll!”

Xu Shu angrily accused the Tai Chu Scroll of this sort of opportunistic behavior based on one’s status, then pondered over the names.

Pondering, pondering…

“Screw this, what’s there to ponder!”

Xu Shu was speechless.

Out of the four random choices, it seemed like three were females, and not one seemed like a proper profession!

Do I even need to choose?

Choosing one of these girls’ identities, am I going to travel back to star in adult films?

“Yuck, I pick C!”

“Your identity: Shen Valley First-class.

Confirmation complete.”

“Loading time-space regression…

Load complete.”

“Generating your fate…”

“Please randomly pick a fate within two breaths; if you fail to do so within the time limit, the Tai Chu Scroll will select one for you.”

“A single chance really does mean a cutback in all aspects, not just time, even the quality of the fate pool has diminished.”

Xu Shu speechless, was surprised to see the “Fate Fish Stream” coming towards him.

A vast expanse of white!

This indicated that over ninety percent were the lowest quality fate: Fresh White Radiance!

Occasional glimpses of green were rare – burgeoning life!

Blue Quality fates were even rarer, Blue Court Jade Warmth.

As for purple ones (Eastspring Purple Aura), they were even more of a luxury!

Not to mention anything of a higher level.

“Forget it, it’s just a single pull, why yearn for more!”

Xu Shu, quick-eyed and fleet-handed, managed to grab a streak of green fate just before the countdown ended.

This was already a rare find in the pool, a lush green, very pleasing to the eye.

“Fate acquisition complete.”

“Your identity: Shen Valley First-class.”

“Your fate:——”

“Gold Glazed Open-backed (Fine): This fate involves confidential content; details will not be displayed, please experience it firsthand in the legend; hint, you’ve grasped the first word of the Gold Triad Theory!”

“Ah?”

What is this thing!

Xu Shu was dumbstruck, but before he could think further, that familiar sensation of reincarnation enveloped him.

“Your legend begins…”

Once again, Xu Shu fell into a void, plummeting down, having successfully attached.

The faintly familiar sound of flowing spring water by his ear, the steady heartbeat, the even breathing, never ceased.

“Unbelievable!”

Thankfully, having experienced it once before, Xu Shu slowly felt less alien in the womb, comfortably finding a position to sleep, silently waiting for this embryo to grow into an adult.

“Wait, hold on.”

“Something isn’t right!”

“I’m clearly almost fully formed already.”

“Why are there so many new ‘siblings’?”

Xu Shu was suddenly startled.

Noise from outside began to seep in; at first, it was indecipherable birdsong, words like “okay san,” “anata” and the like.

Before long, with the help of the Tai Chu Scroll, he mastered the language and understood everything perfectly.

It was a man’s sleazy voice:

“Ma’am, you don’t want your husband to lose his job, do you?”

Accompanied by such a nightmare-inducing voice, Xu Shu saw the Space Base’s successful people’s space rocket.

“Ah?”

“Ah??”

He was stunned, his young mind unable to accept such a sci-fi advanced scene.

Only when the transport rocket docked multiple times and reached the port, from where a multitude of new residents descended, did he finally understand what he was going through.

“F*ck?

This is outrageous!”

“Damn it all!”