Chapter 20: From the Teaching Building to the Dormitory
[Human Jinx: When you're unlucky, you can designate a living being to be even more unlucky than you (The secret to staying optimistic is to make others more unfortunate than yourself, drawing the bad luck away!)] A mysterious purple aura enveloped these lines.
"Interesting."
This talent didn't provide any attribute bonuses, but that didn't diminish Wang Ran's keen interest in it.
"If I'm severely injured and near death, and I make someone else more unfortunate than me, wouldn't that person just die instantly?" Wang Ran pondered thoughtfully, "Killing invisibly!" While this talent couldn't make Wang Ran ascend to the heavens, it could send his enemies spiraling up to meet their maker.
"If used well, it might have miraculous effects!"
Wang Ran's gaze moved back and forth between [Lotus Steps] and [Human Jinx], but lingered longer and longer on [Human Jinx].
Finally, he made his decision.
"Replace [Night Magic] with [Human Jinx]!"
A mysterious purple light lit up in the talent column.
Beep—
A shrill whistle sounded from outside the door.
"Lights out, time to sleep!"
A roommate got up and turned off the lights.
The faint moonlight filtered through the clean glass, gently spilling over Wang Ran's bed, adding a touch of serenity to his sharply defined profile.
Wang Ran silently gazed at the ceiling.
To confront Bai Fan,
He planned to grind for attribute points tomorrow.
He guessed that Bai Fan hadn't officially betrayed the Doomsday Apostles yet, otherwise he wouldn't be staying obediently at school.
Once he exposed Bai Fan's secret,
Bai Fan would surely develop murderous intent towards him.
The second-level space-time swap could only last ten seconds,
If he couldn't make Bai Fan fear him within those ten seconds,
His situation would be extremely dangerous.
To be safe, he needed to reach the second milestone tomorrow.
The rewards for the second milestone also included a storage space, where he could put a cage and knock Bai Fan out and lock him up as soon as they met.
He'd deal with other matters after his skills refreshed the next day.
Hopefully, Bai Fan would be someone who knew when to yield.
If he could establish cooperation with the government later, he could bring a warehouse full of explosives to visit the Doomsday Apostles, sending those lunatics to meet their own doomsday.
At this moment, Wang Ran felt a strong wave of drowsiness.
Too many things had happened today,
He had also been shuttling between the school and the military camp for five or six hours, leaving him physically and mentally exhausted. He quickly fell into a deep sleep.
He felt his body ascending.
Ascending...
Ascending...
Ascending...
In a daze, he saw a blue planet.
A part of the planet seemed to be crushed by an invisible giant hand, collapsing into tens of thousands of islands in just a few breaths, turning into a fragmented puzzle.
A ferocious, pitch-black head rose from the ocean,
Gazing at him from afar.
...
Diligence leads to proficiency, idleness to ruin.
When Wang Ran realized he had woken up, he immediately sat up in bed, without the slightest intention of lingering.
Outside, the sky was just beginning to brighten,
His roommates were still lost in dreamland.
[Begin Simulation]
[Day One, you break an iron railing with your bare hands in public]
[You shock the people around you]
[You inform them about the impending doomsday and ask them to unite around you, promising to provide shelter within your capabilities] Wang Ran hoped to complete the milestone task quickly—saving a hundred people.
[They question you]
[You punch down a wall of the teaching building]
["Those who follow me shall live!"]
[Four students decide to follow you]
Even though Wang Ran demonstrated superhuman abilities, very few people believed him.
After long periods of peace, it's indeed hard to convince people when suddenly talking about the end of the world.
[Doomsday arrives]
[Well-prepared, you avoid the cracks in the ground]
[Monsters pour out of the cracks like a tidal wave]
[After leaving behind more than a dozen corpses, the monsters give up on you and your group, swerving around you to pounce on other students. You take this opportunity to cover your followers as they retreat to the basement] The basement was the only safe place; Wang Ran had once survived there for ten days in a simulation.
Outside the basement was hell on earth,
In previous simulations,
The army had struggled tremendously to reach University Town, not only finding no survivors but also being completely wiped out by the Fourteenth.
[You find Lin Ying in the basement]
[You leave them with enough food and water]
[You bury the basement entrance]
The monsters' strength attribute wasn't high, so they couldn't move large rocks. As long as Wang Ran buried the basement entrance securely enough, the monsters couldn't do anything to the people inside.
[You search for survivors throughout the school]
Doomsday had just begun,
He could still rescue some survivors at this point.
Wang Ran pondered, "With my current attributes, I should be able to move freely around the school." He now had 212 points in strength,
Throwing anything could cause terrible damage,
The monsters simply couldn't stop him.
[The monsters always manage to kill the survivors before you reach them]
[This leaves you empty-handed]
Wang Ran frowned.
The vast majority of teachers and students at the school had perished in the first few minutes of doomsday, leaving very few survivors. If the monsters kept intercepting them, he wouldn't be able to save many people at all.
[You change your approach]
[You start hunting monsters throughout the school]
Wang Ran's expression turned peculiar.
Hunting monsters...
Although it sounded a bit outlandish, it wasn't a bad idea.
As long as he killed fast enough, it would work.
After all, if he killed all the monsters, no one would be killed by them.
"Learn from the Hegemon!"
Kill!
Kill until the world is bright! Kill until peace reigns!
[You try to deceive yourself]
[You succeed]
[You believe the monsters cannot see you]
[You trigger "Covering Ears to Steal Bells"]
Invisibility activated, the slaughter begins!
Kill notifications flood Wang Ran's vision!
[You have killed one hundred monsters]
[You have killed two hundred monsters]
[You have killed three hundred monsters]
[Single-handedly, you slaughter your way from the teaching building to the dormitory. Corpses litter your path, and the monsters can't even comprehend what's happening before you pulverize them]
[...]
[Single-handedly, you slaughter your way from the dormitory to the conference hall. Rivers of blood flow in your wake, and many survivors shed tears of relief as they escape the shadow of death]
[...]
[Single-handedly, you slaughter your way back from the conference hall to the teaching building. All is silent in your wake, and as far as the eye can see, there are no moving monsters left]
Wang Ran stared in disbelief: "Am I really this formidable?"
He had gone berserk!
From the teaching building to the dormitory, from the dormitory to the conference hall, and finally from the conference hall back to the teaching building!
He had made a complete killing circuit of the school!
He knew he was strong,
But he never imagined he was this strong!
Wang Ran took a deep breath, thinking that now that he had killed all the monsters in the school, surely he must have reached the second milestone?
[The survivors come out to join you]
[After a count]
[You have saved a total of 1,502 teachers and students]
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