Chapter 1: Transmigrated at Eight, A Survival Crisis! [Requesting Collections and Flowers]

[Report: This week's rankings for the most active past-life captures in the Federation have been released. Jiang Liu'er tops the list, breaking the two-million activity mark! A new high in nearly a century!]

[Congratulations to Federation citizen Old Daisy for winning the November Best Past-Life A-Rank Evaluation! She has received an official Federation reward of 200,000 yuan!]

[Official Announcement: To date, the highest number of past-life captures by a single Federation citizen is twelve! The average is 1.3 captures per person!]

[New Alliance Headlines: Yesterday, among the over ten million Federation citizens who captured past-life memories, 342 individuals successfully obtained past-life abilities!]

[Recently, a Federation citizen surnamed Wang captured memories of being one of the wealthiest tycoons on Blue Star. Following the locations from his memories, others have already excavated a batch of treasures!]

[Citizens of the Blue Star Federation, pick up your Hyper-Body helmets, connect to the Heavenly Dao Network, and capture your past-life memories! If your past-life memories hold great value, you will receive extra rewards from the Federation!]

Ye Xuan lay in bed, watching the female anchor in the holographic projection.

Her passionate speech was so intense that spittle was nearly flying out.

"Brain-computer interfaces, the Heavenly Dao Network, Hyper-Body equipment, capturing past lives."

Ye Xuan looked down at his thin, small body again and shook his head helplessly.

He was originally from Earth and had transmigrated to the Blue Star Federation five days ago.

Here, there were no distinctions of nation or race.

However, the person he had transmigrated into was actually an eight-year-old boy!

An orphan since childhood, he had no one to rely on.

"My soul is over thirty years old, yet I've transmigrated into an eight-year-old boy. It's truly..."

"A calamity!"

The most critical issue was that he was only eight.

Finding a job on Blue Star was incredibly difficult.

He couldn't even scavenge for trash.

At this rate, he estimated he wouldn't have to wait long; he'd be dead within a few months!

Facing a survival crisis immediately after transmigrating was truly unbearable.

At first, he felt desperate, but after integrating the world's information...

He saw a glimmer of hope.

Blue Star was a place with severe historical fractures; currently, there were at most only three thousand years of recorded history.

Anything before that was a complete blank.

The completeness of history was extremely important for the development of civilization.

Therefore, while the Blue Star Federation was making every effort to excavate history, it was also developing new equipment as assistance.

Four hundred years ago, a scientist successfully developed a brain-computer interface and accidentally connected to the Heavenly Dao Network.

Since then, humans in the Federation could use the Heavenly Dao Network to capture past-life memories!

Once a past-life memory was captured, there was a certain probability for the host to manifest abilities from that past life!

For example, if your past life was that of a pianist, after capturing the memory, you would have a certain probability of directly possessing the piano skills from that past life!

Countless humans flocked to this opportunity.

No one would refuse such a chance to become powerful through easy capture!

At the same time, the Federation discovered that all captured past-life memories were actually different fragments of Blue Star's own history!

This provided a huge driving force for the further advancement of human civilization!

Thus, the [Hyper-Body] was born!

Theoretically, anyone of any age could use the [Hyper-Body] to capture past-life memories.

However, the official Federation announcement recommended first use at age sixteen, with a maximum of one capture per month.

Users would upload fragments of their past-life memories to their personal Heavenly Dao accounts.

Everyone in the Federation could browse them, offering likes, comments, and tips.

All tips went entirely to the author!

If the real-time capture live-streaming function was activated, all tips would be doubled!

Additionally, the Heavenly Dao Network would assign a grade rating to each past life based on its historical value.

The higher the grade, the more regularly one would receive a reward from the Federation government.

After two hundred years of development, the entire ecosystem had become extremely mature.

Ye Xuan was now very hesitant.

He was currently eight years old; according to the generally accepted age, he would have to wait another eight years before capturing a past life.

But he was an orphan!

If he followed the normal development trajectory of this orphan, Ye Xuan estimated he would definitely be dead within half a year.

Furthermore, after transmigrating, he possessed no survival skills whatsoever.

Waiting eight years, he didn't know if he could even survive until then.

"So! I still have to take a gamble!"

Determination flashed in Ye Xuan's eyes.

Originally, he was not someone overly indecisive.

Moreover, he was now facing a survival crisis.

"As long as I can successfully capture one past life, my financial chain will be secured."

Ye Xuan immediately headed to the Federation Resident Office Building.

Here, any citizen could receive a Hyper-Body helmet for free.

However, if it was damaged, repairs or replacements would require payment.

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"Greetings, honored Federal citizen Mr. Ye. A friendly reminder: you are currently only eight years old. Using the Hyper-Body Helmet now may place an excessive burden on your physique; we recommend waiting until you are sixteen."

The receptionist was astonished that an eight-year-old child had come to collect a helmet.

Having worked here for seven or eight years, she had scarcely ever seen such a thing.

It was common knowledge that everyone came to collect their Hyper-Body Helmet at sixteen, before undergoing past-life memory capture.

Indeed, the vast majority of parents presented a Hyper-Body Helmet as a birthday gift on their child's sixteenth birthday.

Ye Xuan stated directly, "I confirm I wish to collect the Hyper-Body Helmet now. Please retrieve it for me."

Glancing at Ye Xuan's attire, the receptionist immediately displayed contempt.

Ye Xuan's crude and filthy appearance led her to suspect he might be up to no good.

However, she lacked the authority to refuse.