【A note before you begin: This book features multiple female leads, combining combat with romance. It's a pure love, thick harem story, not a lone wolf, brainless leveling-up type. If you dislike multiple female leads, there's no need to read it.】
【The level cap in this book exceeds ten thousand. Many settings differ from typical online games. Please do not approach it with preconceived notions from other books.】
Rumble!
The anti-gravity engines of the interstellar transport ship, more than ten kilometers long, spewed light blue flames, and it ascended like a city of steel. The deep blue star ring livery on the starship shimmered, dazzling and brilliant.
Zhang Bo’s gaze retracted from the enormous interstellar transport ship, and when he saw the character panel glowing with a light blue light in his mind again, he finally understood.
He had been reborn!
Or rather, he had succeeded!!!
The divine ability, “Divination of the Future,” contained within the family heirloom jade pendant, truly worked!
At this very moment, the text displayed on the light screen of the panel refreshed, just as it had two hundred years ago when he first transmigrated:
【Welcome to “Cosmic Game”! You can choose an initial profession and experience a completely different life in this wonderful world!】
【Available Professions: Sniper, Mechanic, Doctor, Gene Warrior, Ability User, Spiritualist.】
【Detecting your inherent talent, an additional initial profession is available: Daoist.】
【Please select your profession.】
He hadn't noticed it in his previous life, but in this life, as the interstellar transport ship gradually left Earth’s atmosphere, Zhang Bo distinctly felt the light from the panel in his mind gradually dimming.
Once that transport ship, carrying Earth’s last batch of spirit crystal ore condensed from solid spiritual energy, completely left Earth’s gravitational pull, Earth would no longer have any spiritual energy supply or production, transforming completely into a barren planet!
He didn't have much time, only a few short minutes. In his previous life, he had wasted too much time meticulously reading the descriptions of each profession; in this life, he dared not waste the opportunity like that again.
“Daoist!” Zhang Bo unhesitatingly abandoned the “Sniper” profession experience he had accumulated over two hundred years in his previous life.
【Profession “Daoist” successfully selected. Initial character talent is being generated… Acquired talent ability “Divination.” You can perform one Divination of fortune/misfortune daily. Would you like to conduct a talent ability drill?】
“No need, directly extract the profession talent!” Zhang Bo had already used the Divination ability for two hundred years; he certainly didn't need a drill.
In his previous life, after the drill, the Cosmic Game system had completely left Earth’s coverage, and he hadn't even had time to extract his initial profession talent.
Reborn, Zhang Bo naturally couldn't Miss such an opportunity.
【Initial profession talent extracting… Acquired profession talent “Qi-infused Talisman.”】
【Character panel generating… Insufficient energy. Cosmic Mainframe is about to go offline… Compensation plan generating. Compensated with divine ability “Longitudinal Golden Light.”】
【Good luck.】
…As the last four words appeared, surges of heat flowed into his body. The text that had refreshed on the panel in his mind also disappeared, leaving only a fixed character panel:
【True Name: Zhang Bo. Initial Talent: Divination.】
【Profession: Daoist. Mana: 100.】
【Profession Talent One: Qi-infused Talisman. Consuming a portion of mana, talismans can be directly condensed.】
【Divine Ability: Longitudinal Golden Light. Consuming a portion of mana, greatly increases movement speed for a short period.】
…Aside from this, there were no other prompts, not even profession level, quests, or basic attributes.
Zhang Bo, who had just transmigrated in his previous life, would have felt utterly confused, but having experienced two hundred years of life, he now understood.
From this moment on, Human Civilization had completely abandoned Earth. Or rather, the main body of Human Civilization, represented by the previous batch of Cosmic Game players, had completely monopolized the resources and evolutionary rights of the Cosmic Game!
In his previous life, he mistakenly thought he was the first player to enter Cosmic Game, and perhaps the game hadn't truly launched yet, which was why he only had a panel and initial profession, without specific attributes or quests.
In reality, he was the last new players of Cosmic Game! And Earth was the only “official Novice Village” of Cosmic Game. new players born from Earth were the truly free new players!
Aside from Earth, all other Novice Village s had been completely controlled by Aristocratic Families. Players born there had to give a considerable portion of their earnings from each level-up and quest completion to the Aristocratic Families, and were strictly controlled.
Even the level cap was controlled by the Aristocratic Families! How many levels one could gain was decided by Old players!
However, the coverage of Cosmic Game required the support of spiritual energy.
When Old players changed Earth’s fundamental laws of heaven and Earth, solidifying spiritual energy into spirit crystal ores, and then mined out all the spirit crystal ores, destroying the rules of spiritual energy generation on Earth, no new spiritual energy would ever be produced on Earth again.
This sole “official Novice Village” would be completely Wasted, and thus unable to produce new Cosmic Game players!
…He quickly checked his body; he was wearing an inconspicuous casual outfit. Besides those few lines of text on the panel, there was also a starting beginner backpack, 10×10 capacity, which could hold one hundred items.
The backpack was empty; not even beginner equipment or gift packs had time to generate before the Cosmic Game Mainframe disconnected.
The surrounding environment was hard to describe; he was in a restroom inside a large shopping mall.
This was a special rule set up by the Cosmic Mainframe to protect new players after Old players began to grasp certain basic operational rules of the game.
There was no fixed new players spawn point; it was completely random. Otherwise, once new players appeared in a specific location, they would be caught by Old players.
Although Old players couldn't directly kill new players, or they would face severe PK penalties, there were plenty of indirect methods to torment new players to death.
new players’ initial three free resurrection chances were simply not enough.
No one knew how long the Old players’ hunt for new players had lasted, and now, the hunt was still ongoing.
In five minutes, “Hyena Warrior” specifically searching for new players would arrive with professional spiritual energy detection equipment. In his previous life, Zhang Bo was unaware of the intricacies and was found by a “Hyena.”
That “Hyena” didn't directly kill him, because killing a level one new players offered no rewards.
That Hyena assigned him abundant quests and numerous rewards, luring him step-by-step into a trap, and he only managed to escape the control of Old players after a near-death experience.
By that point, the encirclement targeting him was also completely sealed off. Even after he later formed the Barren Planet Resistance Army, they were ultimately wiped out.
Two hundred years of failed resistance had taught him enough lessons.
So he didn't waste time, quickly walked out of the restroom, and entered the vast Star Blue Mall.
First, he entered several clothing stores, and in the blind spots of surveillance, his hand touched the clothes, automatically adding them to his initial backpack.
Then it was food stores, outdoor camping shops, etc… This super mall under the Star Blue Consortium was indeed very well-stocked with various categories.
He even made a special trip to the jewelry store. Anyway, the initial backpack had a hundred slots, so he might as well pack a little bit of everything; it would definitely be useful.
When he wanted to leave the mall, he paused slightly.
At the mall entrance, a young man, appearing to be in his twenties or thirties, wearing an exoskeleton power armor and carrying an alloy backpack, stood there smiling, serving as a guard.
Whenever someone’s gaze fell upon the deep blue star ring emblem on his chest, they would show expressions of immense envy.
Because that was the emblem of the Star Blue Consortium, and it was well-known that the external combat department of the Star Blue Consortium offered extremely generous benefits. For ordinary people, working there was an absolutely unattainable dream.
Even in today's Galaxy, the Star Blue Consortium was the largest Human Civilization force, because behind this consortium stood the Old players of Cosmic Game.
They monopolized spirit crystal transactions, the evolutionary opportunities that Cosmic Game brought to Human Civilization, and exclusive technologies in many areas such as high-end military weapons, interstellar power, energy, biology, and the internet.
They even dismantled the Human Federation government, becoming the rulers of Human Civilization!
Zhang Bo’s pupils contracted slightly, then he quickly averted his gaze to avoid drawing the other party’s attention.
Chen Lin, one of the “Hyena” Old players dispatched to the barren planet Earth specifically to hunt down new players!
In his previous life, it was this guy who led him into the Old players’ trap, and he only managed to escape after using up all three free resurrection chances!
In this life, Zhang Bo hadn't used any spiritual energy yet, so the spiritual energy detection device hidden in Chen Lin’s tactical backpack had no reaction.
However, guarding the entrance was a bit troublesome… Zhang Bo was alone, having just been reborn, and still carried a part of his previous life's aura. If he attracted the other party's attention, it might be difficult to get away.
The corner of his eye caught a tall Miss in a brown trench coat, carrying large shopping bags, seemingly having just finished shopping. And she was carrying her own things, so it seemed she didn't have a male companion with her.
Zhang Bo quickly rubbed his face, put on a smile, then approached her, lowering his voice to ask:
“Miss, I have the latest Ice Crystal Star Blue Gold Diamond Necklace from Xing Lian Company, market price thirty-six thousand, now selling for twenty thousand. Are you interested?”
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