Chapter 91: Fourth Simulation Preparation!

"Activation successful! Since you successfully passed the newbie protection period, starting from this simulation the difficulty increases! You need to draw the opening species identity, but the corresponding benefit, you can randomly use an entry from a previous simulation."

"After the simulation, the simulator will grant rewards and lifespan based on the host's lifetime wonder, and will archive the result to reality."

"Zhang Jie saw a familiar turntable appear before him, and various race names from the galaxies kept flashing by."

"The turntable gradually slowed, the pointer passed over 'Silicon-based Insectoid', 'Chaotic Flesh', 'Mad Intelligent Machinery', and then slowly stopped at 'Carbon-based Human'...."

"Above that was the 'Calamity &... %* Human?'."

"Zhang Jie:?"

"What mischief is this simulator up to again?"

"Zhang Jie noticed that on this race turntable, some strange things seemed to have appeared."

""Chaotic Flesh?" "Mad Intelligent Machinery?" What the heck is this?"

"Apart from the 'Silicon-based Insectoid' option being relatively normal, the rest of these just look off no matter how you look at them."

"Especially since the pointer finally stopped at the bewildering 'Calamity &... %* Human?' option..."

"Is this simulator not going to cause trouble? The last time it just made me a corporate slave for a lifetime, and now what is it up to again?"

"Do you need to redial the turntable? Redialing requires 100 simulation points."

""Should we redial or not...""

"Zhang Jie felt torn; although the 'Calamity &... %* Human?' entry looked a bit dangerous, Zhang Jie was indeed somewhat curious."

"It seemed to sense Zhang Jie's hesitation, and the simulator automatically gave an annotation."

"You can click on the race entries to check their specific details."

"Zhang Jie stared for a moment, then followed the guidance and opened the annotation for 'Calamity &... %* Human?'."

""Calamity &... %* Human?: What exactly is this identity? Is it a calamity? Or is it human? I'm not sure, but I know that after choosing this, your life will be extremely 'wonderful'.""

""Extremely... wonderful?""

"Zhang Jie's gaze was drawn to those two words, although he didn't know whether the annotation was written by the simulator or someone else, and it didn't matter now."

"Most importantly, if in his future simulations he fails to achieve a relatively high score, his lifespan will uncontrollably fade away."

"In the simulator, he is a completely new him, and all actions of this new him are unpredictable."

"And the only thing he can decide is, by changing the combination of those entries, to plan a more wonderful future for himself in the simulator."

"So...."

"Zhang Jie pressed confirm; although he didn't know what impact this simulation would have on him, the two words 'wonderful' already destined this simulation to be extraordinary."

""Next, we will generate seven life entries for you; you need to choose four of them, and you must select one negative entry.""

""(A) Supernatural Dream Builder!: Your imagination is extraordinarily amazing! Your dream‑building methods are practically magic! You will become the best Dream Builder! (In dreams, you can do anything!)""

""(S) Nightmare: You have a group of mysterious companions that will constantly plunge you into nightmares, but you needn't fear them—they have no intention of harming you. (Perhaps they aren't really nightmares at all.)""

""(S) Programmer: Your code‑editing speed increases by 1000%! You will inevitably walk the life of a programmer, becoming the ultimate drudge, your hair will leave you, but in a sense you are also the most powerful manager—don't think you're just a programmer, but you hold the power of life and death over hundreds of millions of humans (I advise you not to choose…).""

""(S) Calamity!: Your existence is an error, you are the world's bug, where do you come from and where are you going, you will transcend rules and code, whether you become a calamity or a human is up to you (*%&*！&￥**！@@#@！).""

""(A) Electronic Demonic Art: Your gaming skill is extremely high, you can keenly detect game bugs, when you shoot it's like having aim‑assist, in battle it's like having blur, all your techniques are fantastically magical, as if you had a cheat, but you really haven't used a cheat. (No cheat means you've used one?)""

""Negative Entry—Weak and Sickly: Your body is extremely frail, it feels as if something is missing from your body; perhaps in another world you would live like a normal person.""

""Negative Entry—Brain Chaos: Your mind seems to have some issues, often irritable, often depressed, often saying things others can't understand; your thought seems to have suffered some existential pollution.""

""Holy shit!""

""Three S‑rank entries!""

""Unprecedented!""

"Zhang Jie stared dumbfounded at the refreshed entries, his brain still a bit unable to keep up."

"It's quite obvious, this simulation is no small matter."

""This calls for even more caution.""

"Zhang Jie carefully examined these strange entries; from previous simulations he could discern a pattern: the simulation's entries are closely related to the power system of his entire world."

"And the keywords of this simulation world are clearly: game, Dream Realm, Nightmare, programming."

"And from these keywords, Zhang Jie could also draw a conclusion based on past simulation patterns."

""What this simulation is likely facing is a 'Dream Calamity'.""

"As everyone knows, there are many calamities in the universe; their origins are unknown, but the damage they inflict on various civilizations is indeed extremely lethal."

"And Dream Calamity is a calamity that is not well‑known, but indeed it is a calamity that is not well‑known."

"If you now go into the Alliance and casually ask any big brother, he would most likely say."

""Who? Dream Calamity? Wow! It seems there really is such a calamity.""

"But this doesn't mean Dream Calamity can be taken lightly, and the reason it's not well‑known is simple: the civilizations it has eroded basically never managed to reach the stellar era."

"Its target is biological dreams; it constantly devours a life's thoughts, imagination, and.... consciousness."

"Those who are eroded will turn into a 'blank', becoming a distorted white monster."

""Hmm…. This programmer will be ruled out first…. ""

""Even if it's an S‑rank entry, I won't choose it!""

"Just seeing the two words 'ox and horse' makes Zhang Jie want to react…."

""Then it's the Nightmare and that bunch of garbled‑code entry…. ""