Many years later, when facing the Rover who had forgotten the past, Noah would recall that afternoon on the bridge over the Arctic ice sea when he first met her.
At that time, he was still a body in Roya Frostlands that was about to freeze stiff.
Relying on his unknown identity and carefully woven lies, he stumbled and broke into her world.
And he also did not know that the golden-pupiled woman who picked him up from the wind and snow before his eyes would become the axis of his life, and the source of all his pain and obsessions.
At this moment, Noah stood at the pinnacle of Lahai-Roi.
Shadows were his throne, the streets and alleys his nerves, every silent building whispering a name buried by time.
He knew she would return.
This cage reshaped with ambition and longing was the question he had carefully prepared, and also the only gift dedicated to her.
The night wind brushed past his face that had not aged.
Under the shadows of the skyscrapers, only the deeply buried obsession still stubbornly flickered, searching for some phantom that had fallen into the abyss.
And all of this began from the moment he was on the verge of death in the Arctic snowfield.
…
Consciousness was torn back into the body in the first instant, and Noah was frozen stupid.
Cold!
It was fucking cold!!!
He suddenly opened his eyes, and in his vision was a vast expanse of white.
The view was white that devoured everything, the狂 wind carrying ice particles, like countless blunt knives cutting across his face.
“Fuck…”
He wanted to curse, but his teeth were chattering so badly that only a clacking sound came out.
The last scene before the memory fragments was the golden light from the gacha on the computer screen, and the sharp pain of his heart stopping.
According to his habit of playing games, before going through new plot, he had to draw cards first.
Just a moment ago, he was still staring at Lynae’s illustration on the screen, going “hehehe”.
But when he clicked to draw, a golden light flashed by, and when that familiar white-haired figure carrying a greatsword appeared, he immediately cursed out loud.
“Goddamn it!”
“Damn gacha, you’re already max constellation and still coming!”
Perhaps he was too excited, or perhaps he had stayed up too late.
In any case, the next moment, his heart twinged with pain, and his vision went black.
When he woke up again, he was here.
He struggled to sit up, only to find that his limbs were already frozen stiff, and the thin hoodie and autumn pants on his body were like paper.
Looking around, besides snow, there was still snow.
In the distance, there were blurry outlines like icebergs.
“Shit…
where the fuck is this?”
Panic surged up belatedly, but was quickly suppressed by a stronger physiological need.
He was about to freeze to death!
Just as Noah felt he was about to become a fresh ice sculpture, adding a bit of humanistic landscape to this vast snowfield, a completely emotionless electronic voice suddenly rang out in his mind:
[Ding!
Compatible soul detected…
Binding in progress…
1%…
50%…
100%…
Solaris Great Villain System binding successful.]
[Welcome, Host Noah.
This system will assist you to become the most powerful villain in all of Solaris, stirring up the winds and clouds, holding life and death in hand, making all things tremble beneath your shadow!]
Noah was stunned, then overjoyed.
He seemed to have transmigrated to Solaris, and he had a system!
System!
That was a golden finger!
Standard equipment for transmigrators!
Although the prefix “Great Villain” sounded a bit off, who cared, as long as there was a cheat!
Quick, newbie gift pack!
Thermal Melt Resonance Ability!
Quickly give me some warmth!
[Newbie Task Released: Initial Display of Talent.]
[Task Content: Kill 3 Fractsidus Crafters wandering nearby.]
[Description: Fractsidus, the terrorist organization universally recognized in Solaris, obsessed with human experimentation and destruction, the cancer of civilization.]
[Task Reward: Solaris Common Language Proficiency.]
[Failure Penalty: None (After all, if the host dies, this system can switch to a new one).]
Noah: “…”
The wild joy on his face froze.
No way, bro, does the system have some misunderstanding about the two words “villain”?
You’re making me go kill terrorists?
Isn’t this something a righteous partner would do?
Also, why is the task reward a language pack?
I’m about to freeze to death right now!
What the hell is the use of a language pack?!
To chat with polar bears?!
Noah madly complained in his heart, but the system had no reaction, only projecting a small map on his retina.
On the map, three glaring red dots were slowly moving not far away.
The desire to survive overwhelmed the desire to complain.
He rolled and crawled to his feet, following the map’s directions, trudging through knee-deep snow with deep and shallow steps.
Every step he took, he felt his vitality draining away.
He didn’t know how long he had walked, maybe only a few minutes, but it felt as long as a century.
Finally, behind a sheltered ice rock, he saw three figures.
They were all wearing thick red-and-black uniforms, fiddling with some strange instruments, muttering words he couldn’t understand.
These were the Fractsidus Crafters?
They looked pretty ugly, but otherwise similar to how they looked in the game.
[Newbie Gift Pack Distributed: Granted the host Spectro Resonance Ability (Common class).
Related basic usage techniques have been instilled.]
A weak but clear heat flow suddenly rose from Noah’s right hand, quickly spreading throughout his limbs.
Although it didn’t completely dispel the cold, it at least restored some sensation to his stiff hands and feet.
He curiously raised his right hand and saw a familiar black Tacet Mark appear on the back of his right hand.
At the same time, some instinctive knowledge about how to guide and release this Resonance Ability called “Spectro” flooded into his mind.
Spectro…
In the game, it seemed to be a Resonance attribute that could briefly pause time, at least that’s what Rover’s ability was like.
Its attack power wasn’t top-tier, but it was quite powerful when used well.
However, Noah had no time to savor it carefully.
He crouched behind the snow pile, his heart pounding wildly.
As a good young man from the twenty-first century, he had never even killed a chicken.
Now the system was making him kill people.
He knew clearly that killing was a serious crime, but at this moment, it was either you die or I die.
Besides, Fractsidus’s reputation in Solaris was indeed a bit bad.
Killing them could be considered eliminating harm for the people.
He quickly convinced himself, gritted his teeth, recalled the knowledge he had just obtained, and condensed a strand of Resonance Ability in his palm.
Noah’s target was the Crafter closest to him, with his back turned to him.
“Sorry, but who told you to be terrorists, and my system is a lunatic…”
Noah silently recited, then suddenly leaped out from behind the snow pile and fiercely pushed the condensed power toward the Crafter’s back heart.
There was no flashy light, no loud explosion.
The Crafter’s body just suddenly stiffened, let out a short muffled groan, then collapsed onto the snow, twitched twice, and stopped moving.
The other two Crafters only then noticed, sharply turning around.
They saw their fallen companion and a ragged stranger young man, and immediately let out angry roars.
The firearms in their hands immediately lit up with light.
Noah’s mind went blank, leaving only survival instinct.
He clumsily rolled to the side, dodging an energy beam that grazed past him, while wildly waving his hands, releasing the still-unskilled Spectro Resonance Ability in a haphazard manner.
For a moment, the snowfield was stirred by an invisible force field, flying snowflakes interfered with vision, and the trajectories of the incoming energy beams also underwent subtle deflections.
One Crafter charged too far forward and was flipped over by a shockwave force field that Noah pushed out in panic, his head hitting the hard ice, knocking him unconscious.
The last Crafter, seeing this, flashed fear in his eyes and actually turned to run.
“Where do you think you’re running, little thief?!”
Noah didn’t know where the strength came from.
He pounced forward from behind, wrapped his arms around the opponent’s neck, and desperately poured Resonance Ability into the other’s body.
The Crafter struggled violently, elbowing Noah in the stomach, the pain making his vision go black, but he didn’t loosen his grip.
A few seconds later, the struggling weakened, and he finally went limp.
Noah released his hand in exhaustion, collapsing to sit on the snow himself, panting heavily.
The cold air stung his lungs.
He looked at the three bodies that were rapidly losing temperature, and felt his stomach churn.
This was the first time in his life he had killed someone.
Although they were the infamous Fractsidus, they were still living people.
In the end, he covered his mouth and dry-heaved for a while, but nothing came out.
He just felt even colder, from his body to the depths of his heart.