017, the Pangu token!
As soon as she began slaughtering zombies, a rousing electronic voice echoed in Qi Ran’s mind!
She descended from the 12th floor to the 8th floor in under thirty seconds!
The zombies on the 12th floor had been engulfed in Qi Ran’s overwhelming sea of flames!
None could have lasted thirty seconds!
Thus, upon just reaching the 8th floor, Qi Ran merely raised her hand and slaughtered a dozen zombies.
Immediately, the stirring electronic voice rang out, notifying Qi Ran of a level-up:
【Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!】
【Detected: Tester has successfully exterminated 1,619 zombies! Energy sufficient to advance to the next level!】
【Host may choose:
1. Level up!
2. Maintain current level!】
【Reminder: Leveling up will increase Health, Stamina, Strength, Agility, and Mental Power by a certain amount! Spent stamina will be replenished!】
【Please choose within ten seconds whether to level up!】
【If no choice is made in time, the guide will automatically select option 1, to level up!】
【Countdown begins: Ten seconds!】
【Ten!】
...
Qi Ran, racing against time, instantly selected option 1 to level up!
After making her choice, she sighed in relief.
Checking the time, it was 3:56 PM!
The seconds weren’t displayed, but Qi Ran was confident it was nearly 3:57 PM.
To advance from level 4 to 5, she needed to slay 3,200 zombies.
The areas with the most zombies—the commercial street outside and the 12th floor of the mall—had been completely cleared by her.
Only the mall’s 8th floor and the entire commercial street remained.
Even if she wiped out the zombies on the 8th floor and combed through the commercial street, it was unlikely she could gather enough for 3,200 kills.
Therefore, she wisely chose to stop while ahead, not forcing it.
Listening to the rousing electronic announcements, she steadfastly continued her relentless slaughter.
【Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!】
【Congratulations to the tester for successfully reaching level 4!】
【Tester’s health increased by 200 points! Stamina, Strength, Agility, and Mental Power each increased by 10 points!】
【Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!】
【Detected changes in the tester’s Stamina, Strength, Agility, and Mental Power! Reassessing combat strength!】
【Assessment complete! Tester’s combat star rating remains unchanged!】
Qi Ran multitasked, opening her attribute panel for a look:
【Attribute Panel】
【Name: Qi Ran】
【Faction: Blue Star Humans】
【Level: Newborn Level 4 Tester! (19/3200)】
【Attributes: None yet!】
【Health: 1000】
【Stamina: 245 - 120 + 1】
【Strength: 142】
【Agility: 137】
【Mental Power: 143】
【Physique: No special physique】
【Talents: Young Lady’s Arrival (SSS Rank)! Secret of Fire (A Rank)!】
【Skills: Contract (Passive) (Young Lady’s Arrival), Demand (Young Lady’s Arrival), Reward (Young Lady’s Arrival), Unspeakable (Passive) (Young Lady’s Arrival), Beacon of Flames (Secret of Fire), Fire Snake Entanglement (Secret of Fire)】
【Servant: Li Fukan (Mutated Zombie Department)!】
【Combat Strength Assessment: Two-Star Top Level! (Evaluation: Like an ant!)】
Meanwhile, the stirring electronic voice continued:
【Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!】
【Detected first Blue Star tester to reach level 4!】
【Congratulations to tester Qi Ran for achieving level 4 within three hours of the apocalypse!】
【In accordance with encouraging testers to level up and exterminate mutated beings, those who level up swiftly and perform excellently will receive generous rewards from the alliance!】
【Detected shortcomings in tester Qi Ran’s combat strength!】
【Alliance grants tester Qi Ran an increase of 200 points each to Stamina, Strength, Agility, and Mental Power, plus 200 free attribute points to allocate!】
Hiss!
Qi Ran took a deep, steadying breath!
Her four main attributes were already far beyond those of her peers.
Yet, in the alliance’s eyes, her combat strength still had flaws?
This time, the generous alliance granted her a whopping 200 points to each attribute and an extra 200 free points!
Qi Ran was truly stunned by the alliance’s vast resources!
She quickly opened her attribute panel again, discovering her four attributes had increased to:
【Stamina: 445 - 120 + 1】
【Strength: 342】
【Agility: 337】
【Mental Power: 343】
Alongside these, her previously empty free points now stood at:
【Free Attribute Points: 200】
Without hesitation, Qi Ran allocated all points to Stamina!
Her awakened SSS-rank talent, Young Lady’s Arrival, allowed her to claim others’ talents!
In the future, Qi Ran would never lack talents.
Each skill activation required stamina expenditure.
Thus, she needed to accumulate massive stamina reserves to fuel her Reward and Demand skills.
After her allocation, in the blink of an eye, her attribute panel showed:
【Stamina: 645 - 120 + 1】
【Strength: 342】
【Agility: 337】
【Mental Power: 343】
The stamina value of 645 was in white, indicating a fixed amount.
The -120, in red, represented temporary stamina depletion—used when she previously activated Fire Snake Entanglement once and Beacon of Flames twice.
The +1, in green, symbolized stamina recovery—one point restored every twelve minutes.
The current time was 3:57 PM.
Fifteen minutes had passed since Qi Ran first used Fire Snake Entanglement on the commercial street—just enough to recover one stamina point.
Seeing her fixed stamina at an astonishing 657, Qi Ran’s heart leapt with joy!
This was nearly the stamina value she had in her third year of the apocalypse!
Yet now, it was only the very first day since the end of the world began!
Through leveling and attribute boosts, progress was slow.
She still needed to reap the generous alliance’s rewards!
Qi Ran mused inwardly but did not pause her actions.
She continued striking with afterimages, slaughtering zombies relentlessly.
At that moment, the stirring electronic voice persisted:
【Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!】
【Detected tester eliminating an enormous number of zombies in a very short time! After 3,000 zombies were killed, the strong energy emitted awakened a faint consciousness of the Eastern Deity in the tester’s area!】
【Eastern Deity Pangu Awakening Progress: 0.01%!】
【Tester Qi Ran has gained a subtle connection with the Eastern Deity Pangu!】
【Congratulations to tester Qi Ran for obtaining 1 Pangu Token!】
【Description: An item establishing contact with the supreme sleeping god Pangu of the East! Choose to:
1. Use the token, with a chance to gain part of Pangu’s power!
2. Collect 10 tokens to merge into a ticket for the Pangu Trial Grounds! Completing the Pangu Trial Grounds grants Pangu’s inheritance, providing overall buffs to Blue Star testers!】