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Chapter 73 A bright future
I don't know how long it took, but when Ji Xiu woke up, he saw the familiar cataract scene in front of him.

It proves that time has restarted again and his soul has returned to Han Yun's body, which is the beginning of the journey to this world.

But Ji Xiu did not take the next step.

He discovered that the seriousness of the situation was far beyond his imagination. There was no so-called future at all. In up to four years, he would face the challenge of the Kuroshio Natural Disaster.

But how can it be possible to defeat the Kuroshio natural disaster in four years?

The most common low-level monsters in the Black Tide Natural Disaster have combat prowess comparable to false gods. In Yu Jingguo, they are comparable to members of the Divine Heritage Team. The number of such monsters in the endless Black Tide may be worth hundreds of millions. Calculated in units, the exact number is completely unknown.

In terms of quantity and individual strength, Yu Jingguo and Kuroshio Natural Disaster are not of the same magnitude, and there is an insurmountable gap between them.

Before that, he thought that he could challenge the Kuroshio Natural Disaster by developing different civilization technologies, or even integrate different civilization technologies, allowing Yu Jingguo to develop and grow through foreign wars and plunder, and finally have the combat power to face the Kuroshio Natural Disaster.

But the premise of the idea is that he can have enough time.

The wrong path can be changed by restarting time, but the limited time is doomed to destroy Yu Jinghui in the initial stage of development.

If this problem is not solved, even if it is restarted ten thousand times, the result will be the same.

When the white mist in front of him dissipated, Ji Xiu lowered his head and looked at the sacrificial formation at his feet.

He planned to consider this issue after gathering with the Divine Heritage Team.

The previous timeline was busy all the time and there was no free time at all. Taking advantage of the time to restart, he planned to see what he had gained in the previous timeline.

He picked up the dagger beside him and cut his index finger open to drip blood.

Along with the distortion of space, consciousness passes through the gray fog and enters the fog space.

His eyes glanced at the black token above his natal soul body, and a large amount of information suddenly poured into his mind.

[Native Soul Body]:
Status: out of consciousness
Soul strength: 8 (only the target’s soul strength 8 and below can be captured)

Soul strength upgrade: 100 points of will power.

Mastered the special ability: physical fitness increase (first level)
Uploaded basic ability: hand-to-hand combat
Remaining willingness: 10249 points.

……

Ji Xiu was not surprised when he saw that he had more than 1 willing power left, and even felt that it was less.

After he was promoted to the high priest using Xia Gengzhu's body, he established connections with nearly 200 million human believers. Although the Kuroshio natural disaster ushered in less than half a year after he took office, the wishes generated by the believers' fulfillment of wishes during this period will be connected through faith. way to transmit it to him.

At the bottom of the panel information is the summary information collected by Yuanli.

Believer Xingyu completed the goal of wishing (low): saved money to buy the Black Underworld Fish, and obtained wishing points +0.2 (acquisition of wishing power is affected by the firmness of the belief)
Believer Yan Li completed the goal of wish (strong): admitted to the Starlight Armed Academy and obtained wish points +2.9 (the acquisition of wish is affected by the firmness of the belief)
……

Completed the wish goal (strong): Successfully found out the whereabouts of the High Priest's sacred tree, and gained wish power +130 (Xia Gengzhu)

Complete the wish power goal (strong): Understand Zuo Yi's detailed plan and transfer the information to Duan Ming, gain wish power +423 (the wish power goal is not completely completed, the wish power value obtained will be reduced)
Completion of the Willing Power Goal (Strong): Contribute to the development of Yu Jingguo and obtain Willing Power +232 (the Willing Power Goal is not completely completed, and the Willing Power Value gained is reduced)
……

You can find out after reading the summary information collected by Yuanli.

There is a big difference between the wish power created by believers and the wish power obtained personally after soul transfer.

It is also an "intense" goal. If Xia Gengzhu's body is completed personally, it can bring him hundreds of will power benefits, but believers only have single-digit wish power benefits.

The reason has to do with the firmness of the believer's faith.

Ji Xiu's understanding of this is that the higher the believer's loyalty to himself, the more power he will give himself when completing a wish of the same intensity.

The reason why there are huge differences in the same level of desire is simply lack of loyalty.

This is also related to the form of turmoil in Yu Jing's country in recent years. The people's loyalty to the theocratic system has been shaken. This can be seen from the number of believers after he was promoted to high priest.

In the last census, the population of Yujing State reached 3120 million.

However, less than 200 million people have established faith with him, and the number of people who actually adhere to Yu Jing's faith is declining.

There were even many humans who betrayed Yu Jing's faith and joined the troublesome forces.

Without thinking about these issues, Ji Xiu decided to give himself a round of strengthening.

The first are three extraordinary abilities.

There are three upload capabilities that can be activated at this stage.

They are:
Mind Reading (Trick):

Ability introduction: You can read the target's inner thoughts through touch. The amount of information read is affected by the strength of the target's soul.

Activation cost: 600 Willpower points

Upload your natal soul: 1200 points of willpower.

Mimicry clone (trick):
Ability details: Replicate the appearance of the original body and create a clone that can control the actions of the clone with consciousness within a range of 800 meters from the original body.

Activation cost: 300 Willpower (can only be used when the soul seizes Tongwan’s body)
Upload your natal soul: 500 willing power.

Special Ability: Dead Walk (Fear)

Ability details: After the body function disappears, the physical quality is greatly strengthened, and the ability to control death is obtained. It is immune to additional damage effects caused by weak points and other parts, immune to fatal damage, and immune to pain feedback at the physical level.

Activation cost: 300 willing power (can only be used when the soul seizes Xia Gengzhu's body)

Uploading the natal soul: 500 Willpower (special ability: After uploading the natal soul, body changes are ignored, and the ability is directly imprinted on the soul)
……

After consuming willing power to activate these three abilities.

Energy of different colors emerged in the light balls representing Han Yun, Tong Wan, and Xia Gengzhu, and was transmitted to the natal soul body along the energy tether connected to them. Finally, it condensed into an energy ball in the natal soul body and disappeared.

At the same time, a large amount of information poured into his mind, allowing him to easily grasp how to use these abilities.

After completing the upload, three growth paths emerged in Ji Xiu's mind.

[Promotion path for the first stage of mind reading]:
Strengthen mind reading:

Promotion requirements: (0/100)
Ability effect: You can gain growth experience by using your mind-reading ability. After promotion, the ability effect will be enhanced, and the amount of information read through touch will be enhanced.

Spiritual realm:

Promotion requirements: (0/100)

Ability effect: You can gain growth experience by using the mind-reading ability. After promotion, you will abandon the mind-reading effect and gain the ability to weave mental illusions instead.

(There is the same mode of obtaining promotion experience. After completing the promotion requirements, you can choose one of the paths for promotion.)
……

There are only two promotion paths for mind-reading ability.

The first effect of strengthening mind reading is to increase the amount of information acquired by mind reading. The second promotion path completely deviates from the characteristics of mind reading ability and is changed to the improvement of the spiritual level. According to the introduction, it is more like the ability to create illusions.

Ji Xiu continued to look down.

[The first stage promotion path of the mimic clone]:
Trickster clone:

Promotion requirements: (0/100)

Ability effect: You can gain growth experience by imitating other people's expressions and movements. After promotion, you will gain the ability to imitate the appearance of others. The trick clone can only move within a range of 800 meters of the main body. The trick clone will disappear when the distance is exceeded.

Absolute clone:

Promotion requirements: (0/100)

Ability effect: You can gain growth experience through meditation. After promotion, you can obtain the ability to clone the original body. The clone can exist for a long time, and the movement range of the clone can be increased to 3000 meters with consciousness.

……

I discovered the advanced path of Tong Wan’s mimicry clone.

This ability is indeed very characteristic of the cunning style. It can carry out various covert activities by copying clones.

Finally, there is Xia Gengzhu’s ability.

[Deadline Stage 1 Promotion Path]:
Zombies:

Promotion requirements: (0/100)

Ability effect: You can gain growth experience through dying or experiencing death. After promotion, you can gain a second life after death, and greatly enhance elemental resistance, fatal injury immunity, physical strength, and other characteristics.

Zombies:

Promotion requirements: (0/100)

Ability effect: You can gain growth experience through the near-death state or experiencing death. After the promotion is completed, you can gain a second life after death, greatly strengthen your physical fitness, gain the ability to infect death, and use your consciousness to control the actions of infected targets.

(There is the same mode of obtaining promotion experience. After completing the promotion requirements, you can choose one of the paths for promotion.)
……

After reading the introduction of the three abilities, what surprised Ji Xiu the most was Xia Gengzhu's ability to perform dead actions.

Having this ability is equivalent to having two lives in each timeline, and after the death of the first life, his body functions will be greatly improved with the enhancement of this ability.

The requirements for improving this ability are very consistent with him.

For others, the process of realizing near-death is very risky, and if you are not careful, you will die completely.

But for him, death has long been a matter of course.

It is not difficult to gain promotion experience in this way.

These two promotion modes have the same way of obtaining promotion experience. How to choose? He prefers zombies.

After all, he didn't have a good impression of zombies.

Activating and uploading these three abilities consumes a total of 3200 Willpower points. As for subsequent promotions, you cannot use Willpower points and can only gain experience through specific path requirements.

Ji Xiu began to redeem the remaining willpower for basic abilities.

Psychological Insight (Professional), Strategic Master (Professional), Chess Master (Comprehensive), Firearms Mastery (Proficient)... Not lacking in willingness, he combined the basics mastered by Xia Gengzhu, Tong Wan, Li Tan, and Han Yun. Ability, except for cooking skills, which he already knew, he exchanged all the basic abilities that seemed to be acceptable.

Among them, the basic abilities that Xia Gengzhu mastered, all exchanged, consumed 4872 points of willingness.

The amount of information that poured into his mind instantly gave Ji Xiu a feeling of omnipotence.

Unfortunately, what can be exchanged is only ability, but not Xia Gengzhu's memory.

At the end of this exchange, there are only 94 points left.

After exiting the mist space, his body did not experience the strengthening feedback effect that occurred when his physical fitness increased, but he could clearly feel that there was invisible energy pouring into his body, making his mental state very happy.

As he raised his hand, his body twisted and swayed, and a replica of the original body split from his body and solidified.

The reproduced body has exactly the same appearance as Han Yun, and even the clothes on the body are the same, and are made of the energy released by the soul.

During the process of making this clone, he found that a force seemed to be withdrawn from his body, making him feel a little dizzy and weak.

It can be seen that the ability is not unlimited, and every use requires the consumption of soul energy. Just when he wanted to further test his ability, the sound of shattering glass was heard, and a bullet passed through his clone, which suddenly exploded into points of light and dissipated.

He suddenly turned his head and looked in the direction of the rooftop of the Starlight Building, and the second bullet followed closely.

Boom!
His head was thrown back, and his consciousness was momentarily blurred.

Li Tan's shooting accuracy was as reliable as ever... just a little sudden.

……

Two days later.

Ji Xiu, as Li Tan, gathered with the members of the Divine Heritage Team at You Hong's residence.

Sitting in the living room, no one spoke.

Unlike the last time when everyone was excited to discuss the future path, this time no one can figure out how to break the situation.

Zuo Yi's God of Fear plan can only buy one year for the end of the world. Calculated from the starting point, they only have four years to develop Yu Jingguo. With such a huge disparity in strength, there is no hope of victory.

Although it can be restarted indefinitely, Yu Jingguo after the restart cannot retain the technology and construction results like they retain memory, and everything has to start from scratch.

"How about we try to cooperate with foreign races?" Le Yi broke the oppressive atmosphere at this time and proposed an idea.

After scanning Lei Yan and others, he continued:

"The Kuroshio Natural Disaster is a disaster sweeping the world. We, Yu Jingguo, are on the front line of the disaster, but those alien races cannot escape. It may be feasible to find them to cooperate with us to fight against the Kuroshio Natural Disaster."

Ji Xiu immediately shook his head after hearing these words:

"It's impossible. Even if the alien race has to bear the baptism of the Black Tide Natural Disaster, no race will be willing to take the initiative to stand up. This problem is also the same in the world. No one is willing to sacrifice first, and they all want other races to bear it first."

"It's over, we've entered a cycle of death that happens every four years." Leyi sighed in despair.

Ji Xiu thought about many possibilities on how to break the situation.

The first thing he thought of was to seek help from foreign races, but this idea was simply impossible to practice.

In the face of interests, there is no so-called common goal between races. It must be whoever pushes forward first and whoever annihilates the race first. No one wants to be the first to contribute.

Cooperation is not easy when there is mutual suspicion.

In addition to seeking cooperation with other ethnic groups, he also thought about migrating the people of Yu Jingguo to the sea within four years.

But the population of 3000 million is too huge. The only channel for Yu Jingguo to connect to the outside world is the endless sea. There are simply not enough ships to carry a population of 3000 million. In addition, we also have to consider issues such as the food we carry and the destination we are going to. .

Four years is too short, and there is no time to prepare for the migration plan before facing the Kuroshio natural disaster.

Not to mention a population of 3000 million, the amount of work required to relocate even 100 million people is huge.

So the migration plan was simply not feasible.

He also thought about cooperating with Zuo Yi to gain room for development by increasing the output of the power of fear and providing the body of fear with more power.

But this option will damage the foundation of Yu Jingguo.

The method of turmoil to generate fear is a double-edged sword. Zuo Yi has already tested the bottom line, which has caused many divisive voices within Yu Jing. If the dose is increased, Yu Jing's domestic crisis will not come before the external crisis arrives. The department will fall apart.

More importantly, Yu Jingguo will also be subject to various restrictions in development under the turmoil, making it difficult to promote the development of any major projects.

Unless a way can be found to increase the output of fear energy by dozens or even hundreds of times on the current basis without shaking the foundation of Yu Jingguo.

But how could such a method be possible?

If there was, Zuo Yi would have implemented it long ago, so there would be no need to form a black hole organization.

How to break the situation, Ji Xiu and everyone in the Shenyi team couldn't think of a way.

There is no way to escape, no way to hide, and no way to compete in terms of strength. This is a dead situation that cannot be broken through.

It seems that the four-year cycle of death has become an established fact.

He also thought about collecting willing power and strengthening himself by uploading more special abilities, but this road was also difficult to follow.

Even if he becomes a high priest, there will be less than two million people who can establish a religious connection with him.

Many Wish Power goals cannot be obtained again after being completed for the first time, which means that the Wish Power collected through believers in the same period of time will become less and less until it completely reaches 0.

At the same time, Yuan Li cannot add special abilities, and can only improve abilities through specific paths.

Even if he spent 100,000 years cultivating special abilities, he would not be able to use his own strength to resist the Black Tide Natural Disaster, let alone the Preface Disaster that finally appeared.

His situation is more difficult than that of challengers in previous eras.

The predecessors at least had enough development time and space to build a huge human army to face the challenge of the Black Tide Natural Disaster, but he had a completely hellish start, which would take up to four years.

"I'm afraid I'm breaking a rule of heaven. Why is the road ahead so difficult?"

Four years was not even enough time for him to implement the internal reforms of Yu Jing, let alone establish a powerful human army.

As for the development of civilization and technology, four years is like just taking the starting line. The first step has not even been taken. How can it be possible to achieve results?

In the early hours of the morning, the people who still had not reached the conclusion of the discussion dispersed.

Ji Xiu sat on the balcony, looking up at the bright moon, still thinking about how to break the situation.

But no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't think of a way to break the situation.

This future is probably ruined.

There is no way forward.

If it's a dead end, it counts as a road.

……

In the following days, Ji Xiu held many discussion meetings with the Shenyi team.

But the results were no surprise.

The huge disparity in strength and the short development time doomed the future of Yu Jingguo to be destroyed by the Kuroshio natural disaster.

Despair permeated the hearts of everyone.

The same is true for Ji Xiu. He even came up with the idea of ​​​​completely screwing it up, so that he could have at least four years of happy time without having to worry about future development issues.

But deep down, he found that he was not willing to end up like this.

On this day, Ji Xiu got up and went to the living room to prepare breakfast.

At this time, he found that the broken Leyi was watching a video, and the sound was still loud.

"What are you looking at?"

Ji Xiu opened the refrigerator, took out a bottle of cold drink, and asked without looking back.

"Watching the live broadcast, there was a guy playing the Deep Sea Exploration Challenge. He was dying."

"Deep sea exploration?"

With curiosity, he came to the back of the sofa, leaned forward and leaned on the back of the sofa, looking at Le Yi's mobile phone.

In the mobile phone screen, a man wearing a special diving suit was exploring the deep sea. The light could not illuminate the deep darkness, and a huge blurry figure could be seen fleetingly in the screen.

During this period, barrages continued to cross the screen.

"I'm scared to death. Is the thing that flashed away just now a sea monster? I'm afraid that my courageous brother will be swallowed by a sea monster."

"I can't stand it, it's too exciting. Please don't swim forward. You will really encounter sea monsters!"

"Brother, stop playing. I sincerely beg you to come ashore. If you continue playing, your life will be gone."

"Exciting, love watching!"

……

In the upper right part of this video is the heartbeat monitoring feedback value worn on the anchor's wrist. At this time, the value fluctuates violently.

"This guy is really brave." Le Yi sighed at this moment.

Looking at the live broadcast and the barrage, Ji Xiu was inspired. .

He realized that he had accidentally found a way out of the situation.

The collection of fear emotions is not the only way to create unrest, it can also be produced through entertainment.

Over the years, he has completely integrated into the environment of Yu Jingguo, forgetting that there is such an excellent thing that can create extreme fear without having any impact on the situation of Yu Jingguo.

Even this method can stimulate people in disguise to activate their extraordinary abilities.

What he thought of was not to make people feel fearful by watching horror live broadcasts, but... a horror game with a stronger sense of substitution!
Even Zuo Yi had never imagined this, but Ji Xiu could understand it.

No virtual games have yet been born in this world. The main entertainment methods for the people are fish fighting, boat racing, and a series of gaming methods.

One of Tong Wan's original goals was to buy an S-series racing boat produced by a gold coin company.

Since Yu Jingguo's technological output comes entirely from archeology, its independent research and development capabilities are low, and its development and progress is mainly through archeology. This has also led to the fact that the people of Yu Jingguo have never imagined that virtual games can be played.

The limitations of the times also meant that Zuo Yi never imagined making a horror game, or even had the concept of it.

(The relevant foreshadowing is in Chapter 44, which mentions that there is no concept of virtual games in Yu Jing’s country.)
But Yu Jingguo's virtual reality technology is very advanced. In Starlight City and Wuhai City, even ordinary stores will use virtual images to welcome customers.

The most widely used areas of virtual technology are in military simulation and medical fields.

But no one has ever proposed using virtual technology to create a highly realistic game.

In fact, the situation in Yu Jingguo does not allow the emergence of such games.

In Zuo Yi's vision, everyone must contribute to the progress of the times. People can either join the military to protect Yu Jing's resources and go to the sea, or they can study hard and enter institutions such as the Institute of Prehistory to prepare for future development. Provide assistance.

Even if you can't join the military or become a scientific researcher, you can still become a screw in the operation of Yu Jingguo.

In short, everyone must have value.

If someone proposes to create a virtual game to entertain the whole people in such a high-pressure environment, which can allow the people to invest most of their time in the virtual game, during which huge resources and manpower will be consumed to create the game, Zuo Yi's backhand is An indefinite invitation to prison.

If the circumstances were serious, Zuo Yi's character would be an invitation to be shot at the execution ground.

Such an environment is destined to be unable to breed highly entertaining virtual games.

But now, Ji Xiu felt that he had found the key to breaking the situation.

Perhaps we can create a horror game that requires everyone to participate, and then generate the power of fear through the people's immersive gaming experience.

(End of this chapter)