Only Player

Chapter 2: Steel Rose
"Open the gift bag! Open the gift bag!!"

After a brief moment of shock, Zhou Yuan seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw and hurriedly opened the novice gift pack.

【您开启了新手大礼包，获得：微型生命药水*3、微型灵性药水*3、星币*1000、普通品质技能卷轴*1、普通品质道具包*3、精良品质道具包*1、武器池抽奖券*1、万用八折券*1、幸运大转盘十连抽门票*1。】

Zhou Yuan moved his mind, and a round glass bottle about the length of a finger appeared out of thin air in his hand, half filled with bright red liquid.

[Name: Micro Life Potion]

[Quality: Excellent]

[Special Effect: Immediately restore 150 health points after drinking, and continue to restore a total of 15 health points within 50 seconds. ]

[Note: A certain alchemist originally wanted to make a bottle of high explosive disguised as red wine to send his cheating wife and lover to heaven, but he accidentally made a universal recovery potion, and from then on he reached the pinnacle of his life. ]

An introduction to the item popped up in front of him, and Zhou Yuan pulled out the cork without hesitation and drank it all in one gulp.

In an instant, all the pain in the body disappeared, and the broken left leg twisted back to its original place with a "crack", the bones healed, and the flesh and blood regenerated.

boom!
Not far away, a huge piece of reinforced concrete was knocked away, and the black wolf stood up from under the rubble. It was indeed not an ordinary creature and was not injured at all.

The black wolf shook off the dust on its fur, let out a low howl at Zhou Yuan, and revealed its bloody fangs.

"Skill scroll, item pack..."

Zhou Yuan quickly got up from the ground, his heartbeat quickened, his whole body tensed, his consciousness quickly scanned the items in his backpack, and finally stopped at the weapon pool lottery ticket.

--use!
At the same time, a black wolf came running towards them.

In the backpack, a light flashed where the lottery ticket was originally, and a silver-white revolver appeared, with exquisite and gorgeous rose patterns all over the gun body.

【Name: Steel Rose】

[Quality: Rare]

[Special Effect: You need to use your own spirituality to make bullets. There are 12 types of bullets to choose from. The bullet box can hold up to 6 bullets. ]

[Bullet types: ordinary revolver bullets, explosive bullets, armor-piercing bullets, freezing bullets, electric bullets, flame bullets, paralysis bullets, healing bullets, sonic boom bullets, magic-breaking bullets, flash bombs, 100% headshot bullets. ]

【Note: Twelve wishes, fulfilled at once.】

The black wolf leaped into the air and pounced towards Zhou Yuan with its bloody mouth wide open.

He decisively took out his revolver and aimed at the wolf's head.

When he joined Qunxing Networks, he underwent a one-month professional training, where he learned skills such as firearms shooting, combat and grappling, and counter-reconnaissance.

Although his shooting skills were not very good, there was no reason for him to miss at such a close distance.

Adrenaline surged wildly, and Zhou Yuan's concentration reached an unprecedented limit at this moment. Time seemed to slow down.

The flying dust, the short-circuited wires, the broken water pipes, and even the dancing hair of the black wolf, everything was frozen in a flash.

A large amount of spiritual energy was drawn away and condensed into explosive bullets in the cylinder. As the trigger was pulled, the hammer was triggered, a faint spark burst out, and the spiritual bullet spiraled out from the barrel.

boom!
Gunshots rang out, and Black Wolf's head exploded like a watermelon, with blood and flesh splattering everywhere.

Zhou Yuan moved his body to the side, and the headless wolf body flew past him, sliding on the ground for a distance before stopping.

"Huh...huh..."

Zhou Yuan gasped for breath and felt dizzy. His vision went dark as if he was lacking oxygen. His hands and feet were weak and kept shaking.

The spiritual value is equivalent to the blue bar. The blue bar required for one explosive bomb almost drains the spiritual value, but the power is also extremely considerable and directly killed the black wolf.

He quickly took out the micro spiritual potion and drank it. The effect was the same as the micro life potion, restoring 150 spiritual points and continuing to restore a total of 15 spiritual points over the next 50 seconds.

His mind gradually became clearer and he quickly looked for an exit. He soon saw the fire escape in the distance.

After running a few steps over there, Zhou Yuan suddenly thought of something and turned back to the black wolf's body.

"Pick up."

The body of the headless black wolf then disappeared and was put into the backpack, and item information appeared.

[Name: Headless Corpse of the Nether Wolf]

[Note: A low-level Nether Wolf from a monster farm. It got up and was killed in one shot. What's there to say?]

[Price: 100 Star Coins]

"It really works. It's exactly the same function as demonstrated in the trailer of "Children of the Stars"..."

Zhou Yuan's mind was in a mess. Too many incredible things happened tonight and he couldn't sort out his thoughts for a while.

"Go out first and then talk."

Zhou Yuan ran down the fire escape stairs and rushed out of the office building in a short while. At this time, many employees who had escaped had gathered outside, and everyone's face was filled with fear and they were still in shock.

[The mission "Survive" has been completed]

[Performance rating: B (experience points and star coin rewards increased to 110%)]

[Comment: The best way to deal with a threat is to kill it. Congratulations on surviving.]

[Task Reward 1: Experience Points*110]

[Task Reward 2: Star Coins*550]

[Task Reward 3: Random Quality Item Pack*1]

【LV0→LV1! 】

A series of system prompts sounded in his ears, and Zhou Yuan finally breathed a sigh of relief. He felt relieved for surviving the disaster, but at the same time he couldn't help but tremble with fear.

He looked up and saw that the building had been engulfed in flames. The flames had burned half the night sky red and thick smoke was rising into the sky.

Suddenly, the sound of helicopter propellers was heard in the sky. Three armed helicopters came roaring over and arrived above the building. Several figures jumped down.

A few seconds later, boom!
There was a horrific explosion inside the building, and a wave of flames erupted from the middle of the building.

Everyone stepped back amid exclamations. At this moment, someone noticed that more than a dozen pitch-black armored vehicles were coming from the end of the street, followed by several buses. In the sky, several armed helicopters were flying with giant searchlights hanging from their heads, and they were all equipped with weapons.

Countless people looked terrified. Was this going to be a war?

Zhou Yuan mixed in with the survivors, watching the approaching armored convoy.

There are supernatural powers in the world, and there must be organizations that deal with supernatural powers. These people should be them.

Then the question is, will the [Son of the Stars Player System] that he just obtained be discovered?

"Huh? There is such a function?"

Just when Zhou Yuan was worried, he suddenly saw a "stealth mode" option in the system settings column.

After turning on this mode, all means of detecting, communicating, divination, and prophecy of the "player system" will be ineffective. "Open!"

Zhou Yuan decisively opened this option and looked at his personal panel.

【Name: Zhou Yuan】

[Level: LV1]

[Experience: 60/100]

[Spiritual value: 900]

[Title: None]

[Benefit: None]

[Arcane: Unawakened]

[Skill: None]

[Equipment: Steel Rose]

[Backpack: Headless corpse of the Nether Wolf, Micro Life Potion*2, Micro Spiritual Potion*2...]

【Attributes:
Power: 5
Agility: 5
Constitution: 5
Intelligence: 3
Perception: 6
Charm: 7]

[Usable attribute points: 1]

[Star Coin Balance: 1550]

Zhou Yuan looked strange. His intelligence was only 3 points, so low...

Well, it's his fault for going to work right after junior high school. Besides, his brain has become rusty after working as a security guard for so many years. All he does all day is scroll through his phone and watch videos. Even zombies would shake their heads when seeing him.

However, he did not expect such a high level of perception, which was second only to the charm of bringing good luck to one's life.

A moment later, the armored convoy arrived nearby, and fully armed soldiers jumped off the vehicles, bypassing the crowd and rushing towards the building.

"Everyone get on the bus and cooperate with the follow-up investigation."

A long-haired woman wearing a bulletproof vest came in front of the crowd. Her ordinary voice seemed to contain some kind of magic. For a moment, everyone was like being possessed by a magician. Their eyes lost their luster and they lined up like puppets to get on the bus.

On the bus, Zhou Yuan just sat down when he shuddered in a daze. He regained consciousness immediately and was extremely surprised.

"Another extraordinary person, that's the ability to control minds?
It is really convenient. It allows the survivors to evacuate quickly and orderly, and it also helps with subsequent review.

But why can I escape from mind control? Is it because of my higher perception attribute or some other reason?"

Zhou Yuan sat quietly in his chair like everyone else, showing no signs of breaking free from control, not wanting to cause trouble.

Ten minutes later, the bus brought everyone to an office building. Zhou Yuan knew that this was an Internet company that engaged in self-media, but now it seems that it was just a superficial disguise.

The group was led into the hall and took the elevator to the basement in batches. Those with injuries were sent to the medical department, while those who were not injured were taken separately to a special interrogation room.

[An event has been detected, and tasks are being generated...]

[Mission name: "Protecting Memory"]

[Mission objective: Use any means to protect your memory. ]

[Task Reward 1: Experience Points*50]

[Task Reward 2: Star Coins*500]

[Task Reward 3: Ordinary Quality Item Pack*1]

"Protecting memories?"

After seeing the task, Zhou Yuan felt something in his heart and silently opened the system mall.

Soon he found the right item and immediately spent 500 star coins to buy it, and the questioning of him began.

The questions were nothing more than "what did you see" and "what do you know". It was relatively easy to play dumb, and Zhou Yuan stupidly answered the questions raised by the staff on the opposite side, saying that he encountered a landslide while on patrol and was nearly buried alive, and he escaped with great effort.

After finishing the recording, the staff member took out a pair of sunglasses from his pocket and put them on. He also took out a metal rod, flashed a red light at Zhou Yuan, and said in a calm tone:
"The accident at the Qunxing Network was caused by a gas leak. After returning home, you will feel tired and sleepy after escaping death, so you will fall asleep. When you wake up, you will forget everything that happened here."

Zhou Yuan nodded blankly.

·
Later in the night.

Zhou Yuan and other survivors were sent home one after another. He followed the staff's instructions and fell asleep without even changing his clothes. He did not wake up naturally until the next morning.

"Ok?"

Zhou Yuan rubbed his eyes, thinking that he was dazzled because some strange things appeared in his sight.

"Fuck, system!"

After a few seconds he realized that this was the legendary system!
As he studied further, he found something called "Disposable Super Dream Chip" in his backpack, which aroused his curiosity.

[Name: Disposable Super Dream Chip]

[Quality: Ordinary]

[Special Effect: Stores a memory of less than two hours. After using it, you will obtain the stored memory.]

[Note: In 2077, using Mewtwo to experience the experiences of others has become a household entertainment project. From the top of the social pyramid to the bottom of the poor streets, everyone is pursuing the short-lived, but extremely realistic and colorful fantasy dreams brought by Mewtwo. ]

"What is this? Click on it."

In an instant, the erased memories returned like a tide, and at the same time, a series of system prompts sounded in my ears.

[The mission "Protecting Memory" has been completed]

[Task evaluation: C (experience points and star coin rewards remain unchanged)]

【Comment: Your performance was mediocre. 】

[Task Reward 1: Experience Points*50]

[Task Reward 2: Star Coins*500]

[Task Reward 3: Ordinary Quality Item Pack*1]

【LV1→LV2! 】

[Experience: 10/150]

[Available attribute points: 2]

(End of this chapter)