1: Chapter 001: The Diary That Changed the Past

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East Asia Theater.

Jinding Base.

Zhangjiang Base.

Zijie High School.

"Students, everyone must undergo evolution after turning eighteen years old. This is an important stage in human growth."

"Human evolution is divided into Esper abilities and Metahuman transformation. The biggest difference lies in whether the genes evolve inward or outward..."

"When genes evolve inward, it vastly enhances the body's organs, making one a Metahuman. A Metahuman's physical constitution is much stronger..."

"When genes evolve outward, it forms a special energy field between the genes, cells, and nerves. Therefore, an Esper can manipulate or create certain substances..."

"And Esper abilities are just like human fingerprints; everyone's ability is unique."

"Even with genetic inheritance between father and son... the expression of evolution will not be completely similar."

"Take the same structural force-type Esper ability for instance..."

"There are hundreds of differences such as vibrational force, lateral force, tensile force, torsional force, penetrating force, cohesive force, and so on..."

"And the gaps in strength, range, sustainability, and explosiveness... will branch out into thousands of other differences..."

"Therefore, up until now, there has never been an identical Esper or Metahuman in the world!"

In class.

The teacher stood on the podium, pointing at the blackboard to lecture the students.

[Picture]

There were still three months until the national college entrance examination.

And after the entrance examination, according to their scores... they would be assigned to different jobs.

Perhaps making anti-aircraft gun parts in a factory.

Perhaps being a cargo loader moving goods between various bases.

Or going directly to the front line, building various fortifications according to instructions, and assembling or disassembling thermal weapons.

If luck was a bit better.

Perhaps one could go to the autopsy department to do dismemberment reporting work on underground monsters, which at least wouldn't be so tiring.

As for administrative roles?

Administrative jobs were only for people with backgrounds and connections!

At the desk.

A bored Ye Hai looked at his comprehensive attributes—

[Evolution Direction: Self Metamorphosis]

[Evolution Rank: Tier 1 (E-Rank Evolution)]

[Metamorphosis Content: None]

[Physical Strength: 26]

[Neural Response: 27]

[Cell Strength: 33]

[Mental Will: 17]

[Elemental Affinity: 11]

[Thought Perception: 13]

The six-dimensional attributes of an unevolved person were roughly around 10.

Yet after undergoing evolution once, his comprehensive attributes were pitifully low.

Ye Hai sighed deeply, his thoughts drifting far away.

In this world.

Everyone would undergo evolution at the age of eighteen, becoming an Evolver.

Depending on the direction of evolution, Evolvers could be further divided into Espers and Metahumans.

Espers would be born with Esper abilities.

Their comprehensive physical constitution was slightly worse, but they could manipulate certain energies or matter.

Such as manipulating gravity, lightning, flames, temperature, light, and so on...

Metahumans had a stronger comprehensive physical constitution.

Their own appearance would also undergo some changes along with the metamorphosis.

For example, gigantification, petrification, transformation, laser eyes, blood lava...

And because everyone's evolutionary talent was different, their evolution Rank would also vary.

The Ranks were divided into seven levels: F — E — D — C — B — A — S.

Among them, the higher the evolutionary talent.

The higher the six-dimensional attribute increase per evolution, and the higher the intensity of the Esper ability or metamorphosis.

Take two Espers who both control rocks, for instance.

An F-Rank rock-control Esper only had single-digit attribute increases, and could only use willpower to make a single stone levitate.

Whereas an S-Class rock-control Esper...

Their average attributes could increase by over a hundred, directly triggering a sizable earthquake.

However, over more than a decade in the entire Purple Realm school, only one S-Class Evolver had been born.

Even for A-Rank Evolvers, Zijie High School only had a mere three to five people each year.

But unfortunately.

Ye Hai's ability was a mere E-Rank, which was the second-worst Rank next to F-Rank.

And only when a Metahuman's evolutionary talent reached D-Rank or above would they metamorphose into some special abilities.

As for Ye Hai, who had an E-Rank evolution, it was merely a simple enhancement of physical constitution, just gaining a few attribute points.

If there were no accidents...

He would most likely spend his whole life doing bottom-tier manual labor, having to put in hard labor just to survive in the base...

And in fact.

Ye Hai's future shouldn't have been this miserable...

Everything was the evil created by his previous incarnation.

When the evolution occurred.

If one's physical constitution was healthy enough and physical condition excellent enough... it would unleash a higher evolution.

But unfortunately.

Ye Hai's previous self used to stay up late surfing the internet, had irregular diet and rest schedules, smoked, drank, and ate junk food...

After years of ruining and overdrawing his body, he literally tossed an Aptitude that wasn't too bad down to a mere E-Rank.

This troubled Ye Hai who had transmigrated over; as soon as he arrived, he was going to be a beast of burden for the rest of his life.

"Sigh..."

"People always say that the predecessors plant trees so the descendants can enjoy the shade..."

"I fucking dug my own grave as the predecessor, and lay right into it..."

Ye Hai sighed deeply.

Completely absent-minded in class, he knew that no matter how good his academic scores were... his fate in this life was just to do manual labor.

Could he possibly change the past?

[Ding! Detected the host's strong desire to change the past! Generating the bound Soul treasure—the Diary!]

[The Diary can be summoned and retracted at any time, and other people cannot observe the existence of the Diary.]

[The Diary can influence your present self by changing your past self, but you must adhere to four principles.]

[First, the Diary can only change the host, and cannot change reality outside of the host!]

[Second, changes can only be based on one's existing conditions and cannot exceed one's current limits.]

[Third, the truly occurred past history will not be changed because of this; what changes is the host's present!]

[Fourth, the Diary entity cannot be displayed in the diary, and contents related to the Diary cannot enter the diary.]

Just as Ye Hai's thoughts were flying.

A cold, mechanical voice... suddenly interrupted Ye Hai's thinking.

Immediately after.

A diary suddenly appeared in front of Ye Hai.

His eyes widened immediately!

This... the System has appeared!?

Is this a materialized version of regret medicine?

The diary in front of him had a total of thirty pages, densely packed with Ye Hai's own handwriting, recording trivial things that happened within thirty days.

[March 2nd: Skipped class today to go to the internet cafe, ate fried chicken and grilled skewers, the subsidy issued by the school is almost used up...]

[March 3rd: Nothing to do today, I peeked at the next-door class beauty changing clothes, and got severely beaten up...]

[March 4th: Today's classes were boring, I slept the whole day, my back hurts like hell...]

[March 5th: Today...]