Chapter 5

Chapter 5

[Player detected to have one more reward to claim——]

Bai Yi had just turned around and taken a few steps.

Suddenly, the water vapor in the air, which was hard to detect, was condensed by an invisible force, revealing vague and distorted text floating quietly in front of him.

It was as if someone had written on a window fogged up with rain, stroke by stroke.

“Oh ho?”

Bai Yi glanced at it with interest, but his steps didn’t stop, and he looked like he was about to walk right into it.

——Or rather, he wanted to try walking into it.

——That’s the kind of person he was. He could do things that others found inexplicable or childish, even if onlookers cringed, he could do it as if it was nothing.

However, no matter how many steps he took, the floating text always maintained a perfect distance from him.

This made Bai Yi show undisguised disappointment on his face.

The reward mentioned by the system soon appeared——

[As the only beta player, who has made outstanding contributions to the official launch of the Nightmare Game System over the years, the player has received a special achievement item, a fragment of ‘The Principle of All Things’ x1.]

[It can be used to unconditionally upgrade any talent, skill, card, item, can be converted into corresponding Nightmare Crystals, can exempt a Nightmare Fragment instance, directly passing it.]

[Given the rarity and specialness of this item, it is recommended that players understand the game deeply before making a careful choice.]

“......” Bai Yi stopped in his tracks, staring intently at those words, “......A fragment of ‘The Principle of All Things’?”

The system’s hand was unexpectedly generous this time.

Just looking at this description, the so-called ‘The Principle of All Things’ fragment was like an omnipotent item in the game.

Let’s not talk about converting Nightmare Crystals for now. Bai Yi didn’t understand Nightmare Crystals at the moment, but just by its ability to exempt a Nightmare Fragment instance, it was quite extraordinary.

Like the dream he had before, if it were now, Bai Yi could directly skip the cycle and start a new dream with the ‘Principle of All Things’ fragment in his hand.

And the ability to unconditionally upgrade any talent, skill, card, or item was even more precious.

At this stage, these things were still at a low level, and upgrading might not be difficult. It wouldn’t be worth it to use the ‘Principle of All Things’ fragment.

But if he saved it for later, when there were high-level skills or cards, or even directly max-level items, if he could still upgrade one level, it would be like a bug.

In this way, this was a strategic item.

A little thought would tell that now was not the time for the ‘Principle of All Things’ fragment to exert its maximum value. The correct thing to do was to keep it for now and use it someday in the future.

Thus, as expected, he should...

“Use it now.”

Bai Yi finished speaking, but found that there was no response on the mirror surface. The flickering font seemed to be frozen there.

He expressed surprise, “No way? Did it crash on the first day of launch? Or did you not want to fulfill the reward from the beginning?”

The frozen font finally started to flicker one by one.

In the center of the crowd, amidst a sea of blood, were the collapsed old walls and overturned big truck. Some people were crying, some were shouting.

Sadness, despair, resentment, regret...A large amount of mixed emotions were surging.

Bai Yi felt as if his skull was about to be pried open, and then a pile of chaotic information was as if it had been kneaded into a rag by someone, carrying the not yet dried dirty water stains, and stuffed into his head all at once.

He withdrew his gaze from the window, calmly walked away from the window, and the whole person fell back onto the bed.

Bai Yi, who was spread out in a big character shape on the bed, yawned silently again, his eyelids almost sticking together, looking extremely sleepy, as if he would fall asleep the next second.

He seemed to finally remember that there was a system that had been ignored, barely opened his eyelids, and asked lazily, “Such a simple question, you should be able to answer it, right?”

In his line of sight, one word after another appeared.

[Rhythm of All Things: The player’s naturally strong soul allows them to uncontrollably sense the life rhythm of all things, including mental fluctuations, but because they live in a world without magic, they can’t find any way to turn passive into active control. Ordinary people living in this world have not stepped into the transcendent stage, they are just mortals, unable to control themselves, unconsciously dissipating their own life rhythm, especially when their emotions fluctuate intensely. Therefore, players living in crowds will always be passively aware of too many chaotic emotional impacts at all times...]

“Make it simpler, speak in a simpler way.”

[The player’s soul is naturally strong, other ordinary people’s souls are naturally weak. The player cannot control themselves and passively receives all life rhythms, other ordinary people cannot control themselves and constantly dissipate life rhythms.]

[Just like a signal tower that cannot be turned off and can only passively receive signals within a certain distance, and countless signal sources that unconsciously emit fluctuations.]

[There are three solutions.]

[First, turn off the signal reception function of the signal tower.]

[What the player has been trying to do is this one, actively lowering their own mental activity, making themselves in a state of low spirits most of the time, to reduce the passive perception of the life rhythm of the outside world. Because the player themselves is just a mortal, they don’t understand any psychic transcendent skills, this method has limited effects. It can only temporarily shield life rhythms that are not high in intensity.]

[Unless the player themselves achieve a certain sublimation, life breaks through to a higher level, the talent fully awakens, and control is freely exercised.]

[Second, let the signal source control its own signal fluctuations. Because ordinary people in the non-magical world have not even stepped into the threshold of transcendence, it is even more impossible to learn to restrain their own thoughts.】

[Unless everyone completes the sublimation of the essence of life, becoming a transcendent who can control their own life rhythm and no longer dissipate.]

[Third, completely clear the Nightmare Game, the player will have the ability to realize all their wishes.]

[——Become an omnipotent god.]

“Omnipotent, huh...”

Bai Yi quietly looked at the text presented in front of him. The noisy voices in his mind were boiling.

The transparent font condensed by water vapor twisted in mid-air, and the faint water vapor spread around along the blurry edges, like the whispers of an evil god, bewitching people’s hearts.

He thought for a second, not knowing whether to say that his brain circuit was quirky or that he loved to court death with great courage.

“So, it’s no problem to dismantle you then?”

[If that is your wish.]

The words in mid-air emitted a strange aura, and a line of blurry font re-condensed.

[What you think, will inevitably become reality.]

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