Mystery: At the start, you gain the uniqueness of the thief.

Chapter 154 Huang Tao Wants to Become an Extraordinary Person

Huang Tao is contemplating life.

As an ambitious and energetic young man, Huang Tao's first half of life was not much different from many others. He went to school, graduated, and worked in an orderly manner. Although there were some ups and downs in the process, he did not deviate from the normal life of an ordinary person.

Although his later life is still far away, Huang Tao originally planned to continue to strive in his career and try to achieve financial freedom before the age of thirty. If that didn't work, he would at least have a house and a car.

During this period, if he meets a suitable woman, Huang Tao would not mind getting married. He would be even better if he could have a daughter after marriage. Huang Tao admits that he is somewhat biased towards girls than boys when it comes to children. He would rather have a little princess than a naughty little monkey.

But now, he has temporarily put aside his steadily rising career and is here accompanying a student who has not even graduated from university, searching for historical materials and folk legends, just to investigate the traces left by extraordinary people hidden in fragments of words.

Huang Tao looked down at the book in his hand, then at Zhou Mingrui, who had been reading but had suddenly fallen asleep for some reason, and pondered once again why things had turned out this way.

"That's not how it's in the novel. After discovering the truth of the world, shouldn't the next development be that I join a faction under the guidance of an NPC in the starting village, and through hard work or luck, gain the qualification to become an Extraordinary Being? In the process, I might offend a couple of cannon fodder and get tripped up by them, but in the end, as an Extraordinary Being, I'll give them a good thrashing—" Huang Tao couldn't help but put down his hand, lean on the table, and complain, "Why did I see the other side of the world, join a faction, but not see the cannon fodder, and becoming an Extraordinary Being seems a long way off!"

"—Perhaps because you're not the main character in the story?"

Just then, Huang Tao suddenly heard a familiar voice, which made him sit up abruptly from his lazy slumber at the table. Like a student who had spotted his homeroom teacher, he instinctively picked up a book from the table and pretended to read.

"Stop pretending, I'm not blind." Rosen, whose consciousness had reattached to the Ugly Doll, climbed onto the desk and said with a grin.

Zhou Mingrui, who was next to him, also opened his eyes, his consciousness returning from the cotton doll.

"Uh, actually I just slacked off for a little while—" Huang Tao chuckled sheepishly, instinctively trying to defend himself.

"I know." Rosen smiled, not disbelieving him, but simply looking at Huang Tao with a grin and asking, "Do you really want to become an Extraordinary?"

Huang Tao was taken aback for a moment upon hearing this, then his eyes lit up, and he eagerly asked, "Is that alright?"

He felt a little uneasy, after all, Rosen had asked the same question before, and then—those who know, know.

"Sure, but there's a condition." Rosen smiled and looked at Huang Tao calmly, saying, "The condition is that you're willing to take the risk of changing the future."

"To put it another way, if it were anyone else who wanted to become an Extraordinary early, I wouldn't stop them. Their situation is relatively simple. Even if they become Extraordinary early, it won't have much of an impact on their future. But you are different. Your situation is a bit more complicated."

Rosen didn't keep anyone in suspense. In addition to completing his deal with the Goddess of the Night, he had also come to the Old Era to experiment on Huang Tao.

"How complicated is it?" Huang Tao couldn't help but ask.

"You've been following Zhou Mingrui these past few days, so you've probably gathered quite a bit of information about the Path of God," Rosen continued with a smile.

Upon hearing this, Huang Tao's expression immediately turned somewhat embarrassed. As someone who wouldn't act without seeing the benefits, he certainly wouldn't actually become free labor to help Zhou Mingrui look up information.

The reason Huang Tao helped Zhou Mingrui so diligently during this period was mainly because he could ask Zhou Mingrui questions about mysticism after helping him. Zhou Mingrui was shy and embarrassed to ask Huang Tao for help for nothing, so he answered Huang Tao's questions as long as they weren't too sensitive.

"I do know a lot about the divine path." Now that things have come to this, Huang Tao naturally had nothing to be embarrassed about and simply nodded.

"Then you should also know that the only way for extraordinary individuals to jump to a non-adjacent path with little side effect is through adjacent paths. The best outcome of jumping to a non-adjacent path is that they will become half-mad." Rosen continued unhurriedly, "Although this kind of half-madness can be resolved by eliminating non-adjacent paths in the future, it is still considered a high-risk behavior."

Upon hearing this, Huang Tao nodded subconsciously. Of course, he knew this point, since Zhou Mingrui had specifically emphasized it when explaining it to him.

Wait, could it be—Huang Tao isn't stupid. Although he might not be as clever as the old coins, he's definitely not an idiot. Since Rosen has already said this much, Huang Tao naturally guessed what it was and couldn't help but ask, "Could it be that my future self has jumped to a non-adjacent path?"

"That's not all. You didn't just jump to a non-adjacent path; you directly became sequence 0 of a non-adjacent path," Rosen said with a smile.

Huang Tao's eyes widened in surprise: "Will my future self be this awesome—no, this brave?"

Rosen glanced at him, not surprised by his attitude; after all, Huang Tao was that kind of person. Rosen just chuckled and said, "Aren't you curious why your future self insists on becoming a god from a non-adjacent path?"

"Uh—" Huang Tao hesitated for a moment, then cautiously asked after a few seconds of thought, "The path my future self takes already has Sequence 0?"

Huang Tao remembered very clearly that each divine path could only have one sequence 0.

"It's not that it's wrong, but that's not the main reason." Rosen shook his head. Although the Common Knowledge Path had indeed developed a steam base, the Secret Seeker Path did not yet have Sequence 0—the Hidden Sage was, after all, just a uniquely formed being.

"—Could it be that I've encountered some kind of predicament, and I must become sequence 0 on that non-adjacent path to solve it?" Huang Tao guessed again.

"That's exactly what you thought in the future, but the problem isn't solved." Rosen nodded, looking at Huang Tao, and said, "For some reason, you were corrupted by an extremely powerful evil god, so you plan to rely on the resurrection property of a certain Sequence 0 to wash away the corruption with a single death."

Huang Tao looked like he had just realized something.

Rosen continued, "Actually, you've calculated this very well. The Sequence 0 has a very special ability: just one death can free you from the characteristics you once had. So, if everything goes smoothly, after you're resurrected, you can not only get rid of the contamination but also successfully eliminate other characteristics, allowing you to return from being half-mad to normal and become a normal Sequence 0."