Chapter 3 Second Simulation

"System."

Li Ang silently recited in his mind.

[Life Simulator is ready.]

[Current remaining simulation attempts: 2]

[Do you wish to start the second simulation?]

"Start!"

As Li Ang's thought settled, the familiar light blue screen once again unfolded on his retina.

[Simulation started.]

[Detected innate talent: 'Hardworking and Enduring (Green)' has been automatically loaded.]

[Randomly refreshing optional talents for this round...]

This time, Li Ang's gaze was fixed on the talent list.

He wanted to see if there were any talents that fit his plan to improve his Martial Dao Realm and escape the safe zone.

[Talents refreshed. Please select one of the following talents:]

[Optimist (White)]: Even in desperate situations, you can always find humor, and your mindset is excellent.

[Refined Sleep (White)]: You don't snore when you sleep, and your posture is elegant.

[Passerby A (Green)]: Your presence is greatly reduced. As long as you don't actively cause trouble or reveal killing intent, you are easily unconsciously ignored by others (including surveillance equipment and high-level Martial Artists).

[Sprinter (White)]: Your explosive power is good, suitable for a fifty-meter dash.

[Picky Eater (Grey)]: You don't eat cilantro or chopped green onions.

"It's here!"

A glint flashed in Li Ang's eyes.

[Passerby A (Green)]!

It was practically a divine skill tailor-made for this escape plan!

With this, combined with [Hardworking and Enduring], the success rate of the escape plan would greatly increase!

"I choose [Passerby A]."

[Selection complete.]

[Talents 'Hardworking and Enduring (Green)', 'Passerby A (Green)' have been loaded.]

[Simulation begins—]

[Day 1: You lay on a hospital bed in the infirmary, formulating a loan-scamming plan codenamed 'The Last Madness'.]

[In the afternoon, you took leave, citing discomfort. After leaving school, you didn't go home but instead went to an internet cafe that didn't require real-name registration.]

[Utilizing the powerful Mental Energy brought by 'Hardworking and Enduring', you downloaded every online lending APP you could find on the market within just three hours.]

['Express Loan', 'Bai Tiao Tong', 'Campus Worry-Free', 'Naked Loan (crossed out)'... You didn't care about interest, didn't care about credit, as long as the funds were disbursed quickly, you accepted them all.]

[In the past, these were abysses you avoided, but now, they were gold mines in your eyes.]

[You didn't care about interest, didn't care about credit, and didn't even care if they called to blast your contact list. As long as the funds were disbursed quickly, you accepted them all!]

[Thanks to your identity as an 'Outstanding Student of Longnan No. 1 High School's Martial Dao Class', your credit limit was surprisingly high. In this world, students from prestigious schools are themselves high-quality assets.]

["Ding! Your 50,000 yuan loan has arrived."]

["Ding! Approval passed, limit 80,000 yuan, immediate disbursement."]

[That night, your phone vibrated non-stop. When the last APP notified successful disbursement, a total of 800,000 Federal Currency had been deposited into your various secret accounts!]

Looking at the text on the light screen, Li Ang's mouth in reality curved upwards wildly.

Eight hundred thousand!

Adding the 1.2 million from the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce, Li Ang, even if he did nothing else for the rest of his life, would be a 'multi-millionaire' in debt.

But all of this had just begun.

[Late that night, carrying this huge sum, wearing a mask and a baseball cap, you used the 'Passerby A' talent to avoid the patrolling security and infiltrated Longnan City's largest underground black market—the 'Ghost Market'.]

[You showed no stinginess, heading straight for the Black Rock Potion Store.]

["Boss, give me ten sets of 'Dragon Blood Body Tempering Paste', the highest purity!"]

["And one C-grade Nano Protective Suit, make it lightweight, wear-resistant, and corrosion-proof!"]

["Two boxes of High-Energy Compressed Nutrient Bars, and one box of Water Purification Tablets!"]

[The boss looked at you as if you were a fat sheep, but under the influence of the 'Passerby A' talent, he didn't harbor any thoughts of robbing you, only assuming you were a low-key servant sent by some big Family to procure goods.]

[After a frantic shopping spree, you spent all your money and disappeared into the night with a heavy tactical backpack.]

[Day 2: The collection SMS from the Black Gold Chamber of Commerce arrived as expected, but you had already flushed your phone card down the sewer.]

[You found a hidden entrance to the city's drainage System. The entrance reeked of a nauseating stench, making ordinary people cover their noses as they passed, but you entered with a blank expression.]

[The 'Hardworking and Enduring' talent activated. You automatically blocked out the overwhelming stench, even feeling that the air here was exceptionally free.]

[You walked along the intricate underground pipe network. On the inevitable path ahead, several wanted criminals with grim faces were blocking the way, roasting unknown rat meat over a fire, holding sharpened bone knives.]

[Forcing your way through would mean certain death, and stealth would easily lead to discovery.]

[Without hesitation, you turned and burrowed into a nearby pile of rotting garbage that emitted an intense foul odor.]

[The 'Hardworking and Enduring' talent activated. You forcibly suppressed the urge to vomit, allowing the sticky filth to cover your entire body. Even when several large cockroaches crawled across your cheeks, you remained motionless, completely merging yourself into the shadows.]

[A few minutes later, one of the wanted criminals got up to urinate, and the murky liquid even splashed near your shoe. His gaze casually swept over the corner where you were hiding.]

[Normally, this sudden protrusion might have aroused suspicion. But under the judgment of the 'Passerby A' talent, your presence was reduced to a minimum. He subconsciously thought it was just a pile of worthless discarded household garbage and turned away, muttering curses.]

[You lay in the garbage pile like a stone for a full three hours.]

[It wasn't until late at night, when the wanted criminals finally succumbed to sleepiness and leaned against the wall, emitting deafening snores, that you silently crawled out of the garbage pile like a ghost, tiptoeing, holding your breath, carefully stepping over their bodies, and disappearing into the depths of darkness.]

[That night, using the same patience and low presence, you hid in the blind spots of surveillance cameras. The moment the underground blockade's sewage gate opened, you rushed out of the high wall along with the surging wastewater.]

[You successfully arrived at the lawless zone—an abandoned air-raid shelter on the edge of the Chaos Zone.]

[Day 3: There is no law here; survival is the primary objective. You sealed the entrance of the air-raid shelter with a huge stone, leaving only a ventilation hole.]

[You opened your backpack and took out the 'Dragon Blood Body Tempering Paste' worth 500,000.]

["Let's begin."]

[You swallowed a tube of the paste. The violent medicinal power instantly exploded within your body, as if you had swallowed a ball of magma. An ordinary person would probably be rolling on the ground in pain at this point, but you merely frowned and began the monotonous Cultivation.]

[The Ninth Set of Broadcast Body Tempering Exercises, begin!]