007, contract target!

In her previous life, the strongest player on the Blue Star ranking board possessed only three SS-rank talents! Even that was already enough to leave countless people in awe and trailing far behind. Yet now, Qi Ran had awakened a SSS-rank talent so powerful and heaven-defying!

While Qi Ran was still reeling from the shock, the impassioned electronic voice sounded once again:

【Friendly Reminder: "SSS-rank Talent: Her Ladyship Has Arrived!" is a League-Collection grade talent!! The League has only provided five such collection-grade talents to Blue Star! Testers who collect three collection-grade talents will receive generous rewards from the League! And there are unexpected surprises in store, too!!】

Five!!

Qi Ran’s gaze sharpened instantly!! There were actually five! Yet in her previous life, not a single person on Blue Star had awakened an SSS-rank talent! Thinking of the immense challenge Blue Star would face in ten years, Qi Ran’s heart sank. The joy of obtaining the SSS-rank talent was diluted significantly.

So, there were five collection-grade talents in total on Blue Star! But in her past life, the top-ranked player on the leaderboard had only awakened three SS-rank talents. Not one of the top ten players had awakened any of the five SSS-rank talents available to Blue Star. In that case, when facing a challenge that could only be described as a near-certain death sentence, did Blue Star even have a 0.000001% chance of survival?

From the arrival of the apocalypse until ten years later when Blue Star fully awakened, humanity was granted a total of five opportunities for awakening! The first three occurred within the first ten—or, more accurately, the first eleven—days of the apocalypse. These three awakenings were strictly for talent acquisition, though a very small number of lucky individuals could obtain special physiques or attributes. The final two opportunities allowed one to choose between talent awakening or physical evolution.

In her previous life, due to a long period of living as a fugitive, Qi Ran had used her final two awakenings for physical evolution. She had evolved a "B-rank Physique: Poison Attribute (including poison resistance)" and an "A-rank Physique: Damage Reflection and Reduction." If not for that "A-rank Physique: Damage Reflection and Reduction," with a group of treacherous relatives around her who were constantly plotting her demise, Qi Ran would never have survived to the tenth year of the apocalypse!

Consequently, with only four awakenings in her previous life, Qi Ran had obtained:
【A-rank Talent: Mastery of Fire!】
【C-rank Talent: Restoration!】
【B-rank Physique: Poison Attribute (including poison resistance)】
【A-rank Physique: Damage Reflection and Reduction】

Now, reborn and armed with foresight, Qi Ran seized the initiative. Racing against time, she slaughtered 200 zombies in a very short window, fulfilling the most rigorous conditions to achieve a hidden awakening opportunity—the one with the highest quality of talents! Only then did she learn that Blue Star had a total of five SSS-rank collection-grade talents! And after this hidden awakening, she still had four opportunities remaining! At the thought of this, a fiery gleam flashed in Qi Ran’s eyes!!

If you have an idea, just do it!!

Having swiftly dispatched the three zombies that had charged at her, she did not linger. Like a woman possessed, Qi Ran rushed out of the supermarket in high spirits. She needed to drive to the commercial district immediately and slaughter more zombies!!

At the same time, the impassioned electronic voice rang out in her mind:
【Beep beep beep beep!! Beep beep beep beep!!】
【Skill 1: Contract (Passive) activated!!】
【Automatically searching for the creature with the highest combat power within a hundred-mile radius!!】
【Search complete, target locked!!】

Qi Ran paused for a moment, the information of the contracted subject flashing through her mind. A look of surprise crossed her eyes. How could it be...

Meanwhile, as Qi Ran stood stunned, the impassioned electronic voice continued:
【Contracted Subject: Li Fukang!】
【Attribute Panel】
【Name: Li Fukang!】
【Faction: Alienated Zombie Species!】
【Level: Newborn 0-rank Zombie!】
【Attributes: None for now!】
【HP: 800!】
【Stamina: 50!】
【Strength: 52!】
【Agility: 8!】
【Mental Power: 0!】
【Physique: Zombie Physique!】
【Talent: None awakened!】
【Skill: None for now!】
【Combat Power Assessment: 0-star Top-tier! (Evaluation: Like an ant!)】
【Contract complete! Congratulations to Her Ladyship for gaining a loyal servant!】
【Her Ladyship may ruthlessly extract the Zombie Physique from the servant Li Fukang!! Correspondingly, after the extraction is complete, Her Ladyship must bestow upon Li Fukang one talent, skill, attribute, or physique!!】
...
【Beep beep beep beep!! Beep beep beep beep!!】
【Skill 4: Unspeakable (Passive) activated!!】
【Activation complete!!】
【All identity information of Her Ladyship has been shielded from the servant!!】

Holy crap!! She had actually contracted a zombie, turning it into her loyal servant!!

Qi Ran was shocked and overjoyed!! However, she also noticed that the "Mental Power" value for the zombie was 0. At this stage, zombies had almost no ability to think. Would it even recognize her as its master? A flicker of doubt crossed her mind. Furthermore, upon hearing that she could extract the zombie servant's physique, she curiously tapped on the "Physique: Zombie Physique" tab in her mind.

Soon, the impassioned electronic voice sounded:
【Friendly Reminder: The Zombie Physique includes the following characteristics!】
【Effect 1: Pain Suppression, Damage Negation! As long as the core is not damaged, a creature with the Zombie Physique can continue to fight even with only a single drop of blood remaining! After the battle, the creature can restore stamina by consuming raw meat!!】
【Effect 2: Who Stole Your Brain? The brain of a creature with the Zombie Physique will be gradually devoured by the virus!! Eventually, it will become a heartless killing machine!!】

Hiss!! Qi Ran gasped sharply!! Upon hearing "Effect 1: Pain Suppression, Damage Negation," she had felt a slight temptation. But as soon as "Effect 2: Who Stole Your Brain" was revealed, Qi Ran immediately abandoned all such thoughts!!

At the same time, now seated in her car, Qi Ran tapped to view her own "Attribute Panel" in her mind. After awakening a talent, a virtual panel would automatically appear in one's mind, recording various information such as attributes, talents, and combat assessment.

【Attribute Panel】
【Name: Qi Ran!】
【Faction: Blue Star Human!】
【Level: Newborn 0-rank Tester! (203/200) (Upgradable)】
【Attributes: None for now!】
【HP: 500!】
【Stamina: 20!】
【Strength: 17!】
【Agility: 12!】
【Mental Power: 18!】
【Physique: No special physique for now!】
【Talent: Her Ladyship Has Arrived (SSS-rank)!】
【Skills: Contract (Passive) (Her Ladyship Has Arrived), Extract (Her Ladyship Has Arrived), Bestow (Her Ladyship Has Arrived), Unspeakable (Passive) (Her Ladyship Has Arrived)】
【Combat Power Assessment: 0-star! (Evaluation: Like an ant!)】