“You’re going to die too quickly.”
When he opened his eyes, he saw a face painted with blue oil paint and purple hair. Then his chest was pushed down, and the smiling face suddenly moved away. There was a whistling wind beside his ears, and his body seemed to lose weight… which meant weightlessness, being in mid-air, and rapidly falling. An Yinong could see the hole getting farther and farther away, and the football-shaped aircraft became more and more clear.
“Kill?”
As soon as he thought of this, a film appeared on the surface of his body. This film became bigger and bigger, and finally formed a huge ball that tightly wrapped around him. His face and hair were squeezed and deformed, but his breathing was not affected. Later, he found that his descent speed slowed down, and he was floating in the air, being blown away by the wind.
“Seven.” An Yinong relaxed his limbs. He knew what had happened and where he was. But he knew that if he stayed calm, he would die faster.
“Host, hmm…”
“Shut up, don’t cry, and send the drama and memories directly to me.”
The system subconsciously straightened its chest and said, “Okay.”
An Yinong opened his eyes wide, feeling the love and hate in these memories, his lips trembled slightly, and he took another deep breath. Mai, the name of an ordinary Zerg. Sunny, cheerful, and straightforward, although he had a bit of a bad temper, he was a very good person and a good friend.
It’s a pity that there was a drama protagonist around him. When Mai was young, his parents adopted a beautiful boy. This boy was very quiet and too self-centered, but they all knew why. The whole family liked him very much and gave him the best things to choose from first, even though the poor had nothing good to offer.
When Mai was twelve years old, they were inexplicably attacked and his parents died. After that, he depended on the boy named ‘Alan’ for life.
He thought they would support each other for the rest of their lives. But it was a pity that all this ended when the protagonist reached the age of 18. The boy adopted by the poor differentiated into a rare high-level Zerg, emitting pheromones that could attract powerful Zerg and make them want to protect him.
The higher-level Zerg that were attracted also gained some benefits. A liquid secreted by these rare Zergs could relieve their mental pain.
The queen had disappeared for a thousand years, and the high-level Zergs were the ceiling of the entire population. Their numbers were rare, and the probability of their appearance was as low as one in a hundred thousand, and the probability of a rare species like the male protagonist appearing was one in a million.
These high-level Zergs wanted to snatch this rare Zerg, and the first one they had to deal with was the protagonist’s sensible “childhood sweetheart”. Before they could make any move, the male protagonist, whose registered residence was still on the poor planet, was selected to participate in a survival game that attracted the attention of the entire galaxy.
The game lasted for thirty days and involved thirty thousand people. The survivors who survived to the end would share a prize of three hundred million and could also directly become citizens of the capital planet. This was a survival game jointly organized by seven parties. The original intention of organizing it was very clear, but in recent decades it had developed into a game of competition and fighting among seven families.
They would randomly draw contestants from the seven household registration numbers. The drawn people had three options: one was to participate, the second was to give up, and the third was to transfer to someone else in the same household registration book.
Participate, the mortality rate was very high.
Giving up will become a stain in your file, and you would be seen as a coward from then on.
So they chose the third way. Coincidentally, there was one person in the male protagonist’s household registration book who could be transferred, and that was the original silly owner.
The original owner was pressed into a chair to watch a video of a previous game, and that game happened to be the one with the most surviving players in history. There were hundreds of survivors, half of whom were desperate to survive to the end. At first glance, it seemed that it was not particularly difficult to survive to the end. So he was fooled.
When those people were coaxing the original owner to participate, they said: As long as you press the give up button, you will be wrapped by a biofilm and enter a state of suspended animation until the game is over and the staff comes to take you away, so the danger can be controlled.
The danger was controllable. Once you press the give up button and wait for the staff to come, it may take more than ten days or even twenty days. If something unfortunate happened during these ten days, who could save you? And since the game allowed death, who knew whether the opponent will continue to attack or just walk away out of kindness? If you encounter a perverted killer, where can you escape?
But the original owner had already been melted by the protagonist’s eyes, and felt that those eyes were full of encouragement, support, and love…
“Go to hell with love! How can you think about it? Allen, a high-level Zerg, was afraid to participate. If a minor who hadn’t even passed the maturation period and had no abilities goes, wouldn’t he die immediately?”
The system was silent while his host was affected by the memories and emotions of the original owner again. Even its gentle and gentlemanly host started swearing! There was a reason why An Yinong suddenly became so angry.
It was truly because that group of people were too ruthless. The original owner had agreed to participate in that life-and-death game, and one of them even drugged the original owner, causing the maturation period to be advanced.
It took fifteen days for the Zerg to differentiate and another fifteen days to adapt. The next thirty days would be the worst thirty days for their physical condition and they would be very hungry. If they didn’t get enough nutrition, they might even starve to death.
The differentiation of the Zerg was adulthood, which only happened once in a lifetime and determined their fate. What someone could differentiate into depends mainly on the parent breeds, but there were occasional exceptions.
If they ate enough food and obtained the maximum energy that their bodies could bear, they were more likely to break through their limits and differentiate into more advanced Zerg.
When the Zerg differentiated, it was the time in life when they needed to replenish nutrition the most. But the original owner was struggling to survive at this time, and couldn’t even eat like ordinary people. They wanted to completely destroy the original owner.
In the drama, they really did wish for it, as the original owner gave up the competition before lasting more than three days. Wrapped in the biofilm, he entered a state of suspended animation and passed the differentiation period. Unsurprisingly, the original owner differentiated into the most common breed, or the worst among the ordinary Zerg, and would be at the bottom, just like his parents.
The bottom of the Zerg race had no hope of turning things around, but no matter what, at least they were still alive and there was still a little bit of hope. But this hope was also destroyed.
The original owner died. He died on the road after leaving the game, without a single breath.
The boy was still surrounded by high-level Zergs, enjoying the resources they provided. But if he wanted to be free and wants to be a caged bird in any one of them, he would just have to use the dead original owner in the end and say that he only loved this person in his life and will enter into a marriage contract again after he dies.
Go to the love of my grandfather’s life, if you have the guts, die for it!
“Is this the recently popular ‘You, the old top, are out there being the charming bottom of everyone’? Or the charming delicate top of everyone?” The system interrupted An Yinong’s thoughts and looked at the system coldly.
“You disgusted me twice over.”
“Sorry.” The system shut up after realizing that the host was not in the right state.
In fact, the Zerg race was quite strong individually, and they were all depicted in a tough style from beginning to end. Some species even have the custom of killing their fathers before becoming pregnant to supplement nutrition. Do you know why the style suddenly changes here in the drama?
Was it because the protagonist of the drama could secrete a “love potion” that poisoned people’s brains? Was that thing actually a “drug that reduces intelligence”? An Yinong pondered.
“Host,” the system was very nervous, “the mortality rate of this game is so high. In the drama, there were only eight players left out of 30,000. Among those eliminated and killed, there were also a few high-end and high-level Zerg fighters. We definitely have no chance. Should we give up now?”
An Yinong shook his head and said, “Now that we are here, giving up now will change nothing and will only make the situation worse. Besides, the original owner died after he got out. If I give up now, I will die when I get out in thirty days.”
“What should we do then?” The panicked system could only rely on his host.
“Looking for food, replenishing nutrition, and trying to survive. Even if I only make it to the end and survive the first fifteen days of differentiation, it will be a victory. In any case, it is better than giving up and becoming a bottom-level Zerg. Once I become the bottom, it will be difficult for me to climb up again.”
He knew far too well what it felt like to have no control over his fate and have it controlled by others. It was worse than death.
“If you want to break your predetermined fate and step out of the script we set, this game is actually an opportunity.”
“In the interstellar era, the class structure will become more stable. If I want to make a breakthrough, I must seize the opportunity. I know what this game will bring me, but I know that if I give up now, I will lose all my possibilities.”
He closed his eyes, and when he opened them again he was completely calm: “What is my reward in this world?”
Speaking of rewards, the entire system was excited. It’s good to follow the right host. You don’t have to worry about anything. You can win just by lying down.
“The host has once again completed the task perfectly, and received 100 regret points, 1,000 points, and a chance to win a prize in the mall. The host also received an additional 600 points for being liked by others. You now have 4,700 points.”
“At the same time, the host’s ‘Disney Princess Bloodline’ has once again been upgraded to ‘Druid Bloodline’. Explanation: First, you are a balancer of self and civilization, and your energy can calm anger. Second, you are a life singer, your energy can heal pain. Three, you are a hermit in your homeland, and fate gives you a hint.”
Just like the last time, the mysterious explanation seemed to be a bad thing literally, so An Yinong turned his attention to the lottery ticket, but now he was completely enclosed in the sphere and could not tear off the paper. So let’s use the remaining time to sort out the current situation.
Now he was still floating in the air, and who knew where the wind will take him. This randomness was also one of the highlights of this survival show. The venue for this show was an abandoned mining planet sponsored by a wealthy man. The production team spent three years setting up the entire venue, so the contestants know what the planet looks like now.
The survival show was held every three years. In the past, some were designed as wasteland worlds, some were designed as battlefield worlds, and some were designed as monster worlds. No one knew what crazy design the chief designer would come up with.
An Yinong knew what little the main plot had mentioned, about three or four hundred words. The designer of the “stage” this time was a guy who worshipped the ancient sacrificial culture, so he tried his best to imitate and recreate the environment of the Zerg’s home planet, and designed a lot of mechanisms based on the sacrificial culture and history.
As a race that survived in the interstellar era by relying on its own military strength, the Zerg’s original living environment could be imagined. Many players lost their lives on the first day just because they looked at the seemingly ordinary environment.
This was the show with the highest mortality rate in decades, and also the most controversial one, no doubt about it. The most troublesome thing was that neither An Yinong nor the original owner, who had not received a good education, knew anything about the Zerg’s original living environment.
That’s all we know about the environment, but what do the players themselves have? Players could choose three items with a total weight of more than ten kilograms from the “daily necessities” listed by the official game website.
The “living items” provided by the game were very primitive, at least very primitive for the Zerg. The original owner chose a protective suit, a piece of deformable metal, and a box containing thirty energy blocks. The original owner had done the best he could within the limits of what he could bear. He just didn’t expect some people to be so bad as to trigger the differentiation period prematurely.
An energy block was the energy that one who does everything needs in a day. It was not the energy that a person who travelled through mountains and rivers every day and was still in the differentiation stage needed in a day. Thirty blocks were barely enough to sustain him for a few days. These so-called advanced Zerg must die.
The Zerg race itself had a tradition of cannibalism and the survival of the fittest. Thousands of years of civilization development had been unable to change the stereotyped thinking of some people who thought they have noble bloodlines. These people only had empathy for people of the same class. They oppressed the lower classes as a matter of course, and flattered and praised the upper class.
Therefore, the male protagonist who became a higher Zerg after differentiation could be an equal “human”, and the original owner “Mai” was just an ant that could be killed at will.
“Feudal remnants.”
Alas, even if he managed to survive the differentiation period, he would probably be just a low-level Zerg, or at best a miraculous mutation into a mid-level Zerg. But the enemy was a high-level Zerg, not just one, but several. After thirty days, it’s another battle for survival.
The environment could not be worse. No matter in the game or outside the game, life would be very difficult. Perhaps those tens of billions of viewers would see his tragic death…
Wait, tens of billions of viewers?
WhiteMoon x BlackSun 