【Name: Lin Qun.】
【Level: 1（0/100）】
【Strength: 7】
【Agility: 6】
【Physique: 8】
【Energy: 12/12】
【Prompt: the standard value for ordinary people for all the above data is 10】
【Talent: Card Draw Bonus Ability.】
【Current remaining card draws: 0.】
【Skills:】
【1. "Bang"（Skill Level: 1）: within a 10-meter radius centered on oneself, by fixing one's gaze on a target, this skill can be used to destroy any part of a carbon-based lifeform's body at a designated point.】
【Current physique upper limit that can be directly detonated: 16（when used on an enemy whose physique exceeds this value, the effect will be reduced）】
This skill did line up with the setting where the Headshot Girl in the black robe used this ability—there was a certain windup, it required a fixed gaze and a certain range, and moreover, not everyone could be headshot. In the original show, this ability was almost an instant kill against ordinary people, but against other super-humans with exceptional physiques, its effect would be drastically reduced.
It was just that, presented through the Personal Panel, this skill was rendered in much finer detail.
"So the targets I can instantly kill are those within twice my own physique?"
Lin Qun pondered.
Raising his own Physique Attribute might directly increase the lethality of this skill!
Still, normally speaking, with 10 physique as the standard, a physique of 16 could already be called inhuman, right?
And from the looks of it, skills obtained through card draws could also level up—this current skill was still at the first stage.
However, there was as yet no method for leveling up skills, no method for raising one's level on the Personal Panel, and not even a method for raising Talent Skills. Lin Qun looked through some posts online, where netizens speculated this might be because the Global Battlefield hadn't officially begun yet, so naturally no one could level up. Right now was like the warm-up phase of a game—everyone needed to first understand what abilities they had, while leveling up and completing main-line missions would have to wait until the game officially started.
"Looks like how to get more card draws will also have to wait until the battlefield opens before anyone knows."
Lin Qun speculated.
During this time, the chaos outside had expanded for a while, but now it had quieted down again—perhaps the few gunshots that had echoed from somewhere in the City had made everyone go quiet.
Online, though, things were getting livelier and livelier.
That D-rank Awakened named Yang Lin spoke directly in the Residential Community's big group chat: "Everyone, rest assured. I used to be a fitness gym trainer, and now I'm also a D-rank expert.
"If anything really happens, I'll be the first to step up. I'll protect everyone's safety. But I don't have much in the way of Supplies on hand—I wonder if anyone's willing to sell me some?"
Now everyone was clutching their Resources tightly, and when other ordinary people spoke up in the group, the group owner ignored them all. But the moment this Yang Lin spoke, a girl immediately replied below: "I've got some, big brother. Can I bring the Supplies over to you directly?"
She even posted a selfie—a smoking-hot figure with an innocent-looking face.
Lin Qun merely watched all this coldly from the sidelines.
By now it was well past noon. Lin Qun got up—there were still a few vegetables at home that he'd bought a couple of days ago. Since they wouldn't keep, he just cooked them up and ate.
After eating, Lin Qun sat down at his computer and started cramming on the internet—Apocalypse survival knowledge, first aid knowledge, how to identify wild edible plants, and other skills that might come in handy, arming himself as much as he could.
Although he was a Transmigrator, he was still just an ordinary person. In his heart he felt the same panic and unease as everyone else. But he had one strength: he could force himself to calm down, and use his limited time as best he could to do things that might prove useful in the future.
He wanted to survive.
The countdown had appeared and Talents had awakened, bringing great changes to the world, but things like the internet, water, and electricity were still holding up.
It wasn't until around two or three in the afternoon that the voltage grew unstable, and the internet was down for most of the time as well.
Coming to the window, Lin Qun looked out—police were patrolling both nearby and in the distance.
He didn't know about other places, but here, public order was still under control.
Not only that, but down at the bottom of the Residential Community, a good number of anxious, uneasy people had gathered in twos and threes. Some felt safer in numbers, while others were asking around for news, hoping to learn as much as possible about what would happen next.
Seeing this, an idea stirred in Lin Qun's heart.
It was still relatively safe downstairs for now. Perhaps... he could go down and test out his ability.
He'd gained an ability, but he still didn't know exactly how to use it.
After all, the ability he'd drawn required a living creature to use it on, and within the ten-meter range of his rented room, Lin Qun hadn't even seen so much as a worm.
As for houseplants... being a golden bachelor, how could Lin Qun's home possibly have something like that?
He made his way slowly downstairs, where he spotted the building manager, Fan Wenchuan. Sure enough, Fan had gathered quite a few residents of Building 5, forming a small clique centered on himself, with everyone following his lead.
Even residents from other buildings had come to latch onto him.
Lin Qun didn't approach, instead turning toward another spot.
No chaos had broken out within the Residential Community, but Modu was clearly not at peace either—even from inside the community, Lin Qun could hear wailing sirens and sounds of chaos out on the streets.
Some places had the stillness before a storm, while others had already begun descending into chaos.
Lin Qun began experimenting with how exactly to activate his ability.
He wasn't that far gone—he didn't actually intend to blow the head off some innocent passerby. He just wanted to see how his ability worked.
He focused his attention on a young man off in a corner who was boasting about having an E-rank Talent.
A strange sense of "perception" welled up in him unbidden—it seemed that if he wanted to, with just a single thought, he could directly headshot that young man who was surrounded by a crowd, bragging and showing off!
And the Opponent noticed nothing at all.
This meant the Opponent's physique hadn't reached 16 points.
An idea stirred in Lin Qun's mind.
This mysterious sense of perception was rather interesting.
Without going through with the headshot, he could use this perception to peek at roughly what someone else's physique value was, and it seemed others couldn't even detect it.
This skill of his really was a pinpoint headshot—a death gaze.
Stealthy, and killing without a trace!
Why not see if there was anyone in this Residential Community with high physique?
Curiosity stirred in Lin Qun, and he acted on it right away.
He walked slowly through the Residential Community, pretending to be just as anxious and uneasy as everyone else.
His gaze swept back and forth across the crowd, and he found that his ability could headshot almost anyone currently downstairs.
Very few people had a physique reaching 16 points.
Suddenly, Lin Qun's footsteps came to a halt.
Because he noticed, off to one side, a tall, capable, and strikingly beautiful woman hurrying past—her physique exceeded sixteen points!
That perception ability of his told him so.
His skill couldn't headshot this person—at most, it could blast a bloody hole in her!
What surprised Lin Qun even more was that the woman, who had been hurrying toward Building 2 across the way, suddenly froze in her tracks as though she'd sensed something, and turned to look this way like lightning.
But by the time she looked over, Lin Qun had already vanished silently into the crowd.
The fact that she could sense his "gaze," and that her physique exceeded 16, meant she was probably a formidable expert.
Lin Qun made a mental note of the woman. Just then, though, he was stopped by Fan Wenchuan.
"I remember you, you're from our building too..." Fan Wenchuan said. "Interested in joining us? On your own, you definitely won't be as safe as with a whole group of us together. Looks like your talent level isn't very high, is it? Otherwise you wouldn't be wandering around downstairs looking for opportunities... Most of the people circling around down here right now are low-level Awakened trying to band together for warmth. The high-level ones aren't afraid of anything—they don't need to come down looking for chances."
"Am I right or not?"
Lin Qun shook his head: "This... let me think about it a bit more."
Fan Wenchuan just smiled: "I believe you'll make the right choice."
As far as he was concerned, an ordinary young person like Lin Qun, with no ability and no talent, would have to be dim-witted to refuse him.
So Fan Wenchuan didn't bother persuading him much further.
As far as he was concerned, if Lin Qun refused, that was Lin Qun's own loss.
But Lin Qun didn't actually go back upstairs. Instead, he slipped over to a hidden spot by a flower bed in the corner.
Lin Qun had come down partly to get a handle on how to use his ability, and partly to test its power.
Only by understanding the full extent of his ability could he make good use of it when the need arose in the future.
Killing innocents indiscriminately would make him a monster, but surely using it on some flowers and plants wasn't too much to ask?
Fixing his gaze on the flower bed, Lin Qun was about to activate his ability, but before he could move, he suddenly heard an earth-shattering loud noise—the ground itself shook, and the people around him burst into shouts.
Lin Qun was momentarily dumbfounded.
I haven't even used my power yet, and it's already this powerful?
But he quickly realized it wasn't him.
Because people both near and far were all shouting, and after that first loud noise, more followed in an unbroken chain!
"The army's entered the City! The army's entered the City!!"
No one knew who started it, but panic spread for no clear reason, and the residents downstairs swarmed back toward their buildings all at once.
The Federal Army had entered the City?
Lin Qun was still turning this over in his mind when his expression suddenly changed—
Because at that moment, the strange countdown text before his eyes suddenly changed.
Row after row of new text surfaced!
【Attention, all Blue Star People.】
【A broadcast announcement follows.】
【One of the participating Civilizations: the Bakatan Civilization has spent one Million Contribution Points to purchase and use the priority Landing rights for this Global Battlefield.】
【The Bakatan Civilization will now enter early. Other Civilizations will still enter after the countdown ends.】
【Blue Star's Global Battlefield has entered the War phase ahead of schedule.】
【All Blue Star Native participants in the War, please prepare to engage.】
"Landing ahead of schedule?!!"
Lin Qun looked up, horrified, just in time to see an unbelievably terrifying rift split open in the sky.
A colossal "sailing ship," over a thousand meters long, slowly emerged from within!
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