nucmednet Chapter 2 launches, vying for the sole talent.
Chapter 2 launches, vying for the sole talent.
June 29th, 8 PM.
A heavy logistics truck was parked downstairs at the rental house.
Two technicians dressed in Genesis-themed overalls carried a three-meter-long metal container up to the fifth floor. The cramped rental room was filled with this behemoth.
"Mr. Wang, this is the Origin 9 deep-sea life support and nutrient chamber, the thirty-seventh in the world." The technician handed over an electronic agreement. "Debugging will take six hours. Are you sure you want to install it here?"
Wang Yan glanced at the room, where even the curtains were moldy, and nodded.
"Sure."
The technician glanced at the cramped room, then at the nutrient tank worth 100 million, but didn't ask any more questions. He then lowered his head and began making adjustments.
Wang Yan was standing by the window when his phone vibrated.
It was a message from my mother.
The house sold for 6.2 million. Your dad was so angry he couldn't sleep all night. Wang Yan, what exactly are you trying to do?
There were more than a dozen unread voice messages following, but Wang Yan did not open them.
Wang Yan replied with only four words: 【Trust me.】
After sending the message, he silenced his phone and put it in a drawer.
Six million two hundred thousand. Just enough to buy the backup energy module bundled with the nutrient tank.
For the rest of the time, Wang Yan neither went out nor ate anything. He just sat next to the nutrient tank, closed his eyes, and sorted through his memories.
In its previous life, "Eternal Plane" launched at 10:00 AM on August 31, 2123.
Synchronized globally.
The first ten seconds after the server opens are crucial.
Within these ten seconds, the system will rank players based on their initial login speed. The first player to enter the game will receive a unique reward from the system: a talent selection option.
In my previous life, this reward was taken by a professional player from the North American server. That person chose an S-tier talent, [Time Slow], and dominated the North American region for two whole years with it.
But what that person didn't know was that there was a hidden option in the talent list that required manually entering a code to redeem.
SSS-level, unique talent.
[The plundering of causality].
This talent remained hidden until the game's fifth year of operation, when it was discovered by a hacker who had cracked the system's underlying data. All players were shocked, but no one could obtain it, as the opportunity to select the talent only occurred once at the game's launch.
When Wang Yan heard this news in his previous life, he almost smashed his keyboard.
In this life, there will be no more regrets.
8 month 30 day.
The server launch countdown is 24 hours.
Global social media platforms have been completely ignited.
On Starlink, a mainstream social media platform on Earth, the topic of "Eternal Plane" has garnered over 100 billion views. The number of viewers who pre-registered for the launch livestream on major livestreaming platforms exceeded 3 billion.
The last announcement released by Genesis Inc. read:
【《永恆位面》将于2123年8月31日10:00:00（蓝星标準时间）全球同步开服。届时，所有已购买合规游戏设备的玩家均可登录。首位成功进入游戏的玩家，将获得独一无二的系统奖励。祝各位，永恆长存。】
The comment section below this announcement has completely erupted in chaos.
[The North American esports league has booked an entire data center, with a thousand top-of-the-line devices simultaneously vying for login! We're number one!]
[Hilarious! The Koreans are saying they've developed a login speed-up cheat that reduces signal latency to 0.3 milliseconds.]
I'm just a regular player, using a rented helmet, so I definitely won't get first place. I just want to know what the system reward is.
[Betting a pack of spicy strips is definitely just a title; it's useless.]
Wang Yan looked at these comments without any expression.
You have no idea how much this reward is worth.
August 31, 9:45 AM.
Wang Yan lay down in the nutrient tank.
The cool nutrient solution submerged his body, and the neural interface was attached to the back of his neck. The moment the hatch closed, all external sounds vanished.
A system countdown appeared on my retina.
[Time remaining until the launch of "Eternal Plane": 00:14:57]
Wang Yan closed his eyes.
His breathing rate began to decrease, and his heartbeat calmed down. This was an instinct he had developed in battle in his previous life; he needed to calm his mind before a fight.
Time ticked by, from fourteen minutes to ten minutes, and then to the last minute.
Wang Yan opened his eyes.
The countdown numbers are ticking.
【00:00:10】
Wang Yan hovered his finger above the virtual control panel.
Regular players need to click to enter the game, wait for the system to assign a server, create a character, and then enter the starting village. The whole process takes three to five seconds.
But Wang Yan knew a shortcut.
The underlying protocol of the nutrient tank contains a hidden direct connection channel that can bypass server allocation and directly connect to the core game node.
The activation method involves continuously inputting a set of 16-bit hardware instruction codes at the instant the countdown reaches zero.
This code was leaked by an internal employee of Genesis in its previous life, and it is only effective for the Origin series nutrient tanks.
【00:00:03】
Wang Yan's fingers began to move.
【00:00:02】
Wang Yan had memorized the sixteen-bit instruction code four hundred times over the past two days.
【00:00:01】
The last character has been entered.
【00:00:00】
When the message "Connecting to server" popped up on everyone's screen, Wang Yan's consciousness was sucked into a data space by a force.
dark.
Then there is light.
Golden light enveloped Wang Yan, and a cold, mechanical voice echoed deep within his consciousness.
[First player detected.]
Player ID: Unnamed.
[Triggering the unique reward: Talent of your choice.]
Please select your unique talent from the talent list. To view the full list, please—
Wang Yan didn't wait for it to finish speaking.
Wang Yan directly entered the redemption code into the virtual panel.
The system remained silent for three seconds.
In those three seconds, Wang Yan's heart didn't race even once.
Then, the mechanical voice sounded again, this time with a slight change in tone.
Hidden talent found.
[SSS-Rank Unique Talent - Causality Plunder]
[Effect: Upon killing a target, permanently plunder one of their talents or highest attribute. Plunder success rate: 100%. This talent cannot be stolen, copied, or sealed.]
[Confirm your selection?]
"confirm."
A burst of golden light erupted.
A surge of power flowed into Wang Yan's soul. He had a feeling that from now on, every powerful person he killed would become a part of his power.
[Talent binding complete.]
Welcome to the Eternal Dimension.
The light dissipated.
Wang Yan opened his eyes and found himself standing on a wasteland. Beneath his feet was cracked yellow earth, above him was a dark red sky, and in the distance was a dilapidated stone town—the starting village.
Meanwhile, in the global live stream, a system announcement is scrolling synchronously in all languages.
[World Announcement: Player "Unnamed" has become the first player to enter "Eternal Dimension" and has received a unique system reward. This player has already selected a talent, and talent information has been hidden.]
The comment section exploded instantly.
[Holy crap! They got in in zero seconds?! Is this some kind of cheat?!]
[Unnamed? Haven't even given it a name? What's with the show-off attitude?!]
[Wait a minute—talent information blocked? What kind of talent information can't even be seen?]
Wang Yan did not linger in the wasteland.
Wang Yan walked in the opposite direction from the beginner village.
Because he knew that a rusty sword, marked as discarded by the system, was buried under a cliff 37 kilometers northeast of the beginner village.
The sword's true name is [Godslayer - First Embryo].
It is the first stage form of the Mythical Weapon God-Slaying Series.
While billions of players worldwide are still queuing to log into the server, Wang Yan has already started running.
And deep within the precipice before him, something was slowly opening a red eye.