Parallel world, Donghai City.
Whoosh—whoosh—
Inside a 50-square-meter room in Guihua Residential Area, a young man, about 22 or 23 years old, suddenly sat up from his bed, gasping for air.
“Didn’t the Skrullians kill me? How could this be…”
Looking at the familiar surroundings, Su Yu quickly reached for his phone on the bedside table.
“May 29, 2120… This, I’ve been reborn?! And I’ve returned to before the great change began?”
Su Yu looked at the date displayed on his phone, his face filled with disbelief.
According to his memory, on June 1, which was three days later, the Skrullians would invade Blue Star.
Skrull Star was a more advanced civilization than Blue Star, capable of destroying Blue Star’s humanity and completely occupying Blue Star within a month.
However, according to the rules of the game set by the cosmic god-level civilization—the Singer Civilization:
When an advanced civilization invaded a weaker civilization, the Singer would provide the weaker civilization with a period of protection and a certain degree of self-preservation methods.
Thus, the Skrullians’ full-scale invasion was delayed until a year later, on June 1, 2121.
At the same time, the Singer Civilization provided Blue Star’s humanity with two means of self-preservation.
First, psionic revival.
At that time, all the psionic energy stored deep within the mantle would be activated, enhancing the strength of all Blue Star humans.
Second, a 100% realistic game—«Evolution» (Jinhua).
When Blue Star humans reached level 50 in «Evolution», they could materialize their in-game strength into the real world.
But unfortunately, when the great change first began in Su Yu’s previous life, governments around the world didn’t know that strength could be materialized through «Evolution».
It wasn’t until half a year later, when the third expansion pack was released and some players reached level 50, that countries began to pay attention and encourage everyone to enter the game and explore.
A slow start means a slow pace throughout.
On June 1, 2121, the fully prepared Skrullians launched a massive invasion, with wave after wave of offensives pressing down on Blue Star’s humanity.
And Su Yu, too, died in the decisive battle against the Skrullians.
…
Su Yu stared at the date displayed on his phone screen, his face rigid, unable to speak for a long time.
After a long while, he finally came back to his senses:
“«Evolution» should open in three days. I must buy a gaming helmet within these three days!”
“Also, when first logging into the game, the gaming helmet will absorb all the psionic energy within a five-kilometer radius. I’d best take the helmet to a psionic spring’s vicinity.”
Su Yu muttered to himself softly while beginning to act, dialing the hotline to purchase a gaming helmet.
He wasn't someone who would sit idly by.
As for whether Su Yu’s rebirth could cause a butterfly effect and influence the entire human situation, he himself wasn’t sure.
In any case, do your best and leave the rest to fate!
Three days later, at 7:30 AM, Su Yu drove his old beat-up car to a secluded small mountain in the suburbs of Donghai City.
“Yunlu Mountain, this is it.”
Su Yu picked up the gaming helmet from the back seat and began hiking up the mountain.
The «Evolution» gaming helmet cost 30,000 yuan, almost all of his savings from a year of work after graduation, but Su Yu didn’t care at all.
Humanity was about to be destroyed, what good was money then?
Carrying the helmet to the mountaintop, Su Yu looked at the magnificent rivers and mountains around him, filled with emotion.
Currently, almost no one in the country knew about this obscure small mountain called Yunlu Mountain, but in half a year, its name would spread throughout the nation.
Due to the psionic revival, 24 giant, 108 large, and 3600 small “psionic springs” would open globally, spewing out psionic energy.
And the “Yunlu Mountain Psionic Spring” was the largest one in the world!
Time passed by minute by minute.
“It’s 8 o’clock! Time for «Evolution» to open, the great change is about to begin!” Su Yu’s expression turned solemn.
Soon, the earth began to tremble violently.
About two kilometers north of the mountaintop, the ground suddenly cracked open into a bottomless chasm!
At the same time, massive amounts of milky white and light purple psionic energy surged out of the chasm, spreading in all directions, with the psionic torrent shooting straight into the sky.
“How beautiful!” Su Yu narrowed his eyes, looking at the “psionic pillar” that had already taken solid form.
The psionic springs seemed like a gift from Blue Star to humanity, capable of enhancing the strength of all humans. But Su Yu knew that they were also one of the root causes of human suffering.
About an hour later, the Skrullians’ spaceship would arrive here, occupy the psionic spring, and build a base.
Humans not only didn’t enjoy any benefits from the psionic springs, but instead, the Skrullians used the energy from the springs to create a large number of terrifying monsters, bringing huge trouble to humanity.
Because of this, Su Yu having his helmet absorb the psionic energy here not only caused no harm to humanity but also weakened the Skrullians’ power.
It was a win-win situation, one might say!
After seeing the psionic energy gushing out from the ground, Su Yu quickly put on his gaming helmet.
“Enter game!”
“«Evolution» game loading…”
The familiar game prompt sounded in his ears, and Su Yu’s consciousness connected with the helmet, entering a deep level of the game world.
“Ding, psionic matter detected around you. Do you wish to absorb it?”
“Yes!”
“Beginning absorption, please wait.”
Outside, the massive psionic energy that shot straight into the clouds seemed to be drawn by an invisible force, all surging towards Su Yu on the mountaintop.
Endless psionic energy enveloped him layer upon layer, being absorbed by the helmet.
In the game, the “Psionic Value” on Su Yu’s panel was also soaring!
One hundred thousand!
One million!
Ten million!
One hundred million!
Finally, the “Psionic Value” stopped at the number ten billion.
Su Yu couldn’t help but click his tongue.
Before his rebirth, he had entered the game half a year later, and at that time, he had only obtained 11 points of psionic value.
And now, ten billion!
“Detected psionic value absorption reached maximum. Do you wish to enter the game?”
“No, exit game!” Su Yu quickly made his decision.
Because in an hour, the Skrullian spaceship would descend here, and he didn’t want to be the first human to be captured alive by the Skrullians.
After exiting the game, Su Yu took off his helmet.
Because the helmet had absorbed almost all the surrounding psionic energy, the “Yunlu Mountain Spring” to the north became weak and listless, completely lacking the surging momentum it had just moments ago.
Su Yu didn’t care about these things and quickly ran down the mountain, hugging the gaming helmet.
On the mountain road, Su Yu drove his old beat-up car, pressing the accelerator to the floor and leaving the vicinity of Yunlu Mountain.
An hour later, a several-kilometer-wide Rift tore open above Yunlu Mountain.
A two-hundred-meter-long brownish-gray spaceship landed on the summit of Yunlu Mountain.
Inside the spaceship, a light-green-skinned Skrullian female pilot reported to her superior:
“Commander, Giant Psionic Spring No. 001 is abnormal; its eruption volume is only equivalent to a small psionic spring.”
“How is that possible?” The male Skrullian commander sitting in the main control room looked surprised: “Could it be that we landed in the wrong place?”
“No, sir. The coordinate data is completely normal.”
“Then let’s land here; everything follows headquarters’ orders,” the Skrullian commander said.
“Understood.”
