This time I chose Paladin

"Look at you," the neighbor lady said with a smile, "have you found a job?"

Nie Weiyang smiled but didn't answer, and the old lady just smiled and watched him walk away.

Not all questions in this world require the parties involved to give an answer. After all, even if they do, the other party may not believe it.

When he returned to his home, Nie Weiyang reviewed his memories of twenty years ago in his mind while smoothly taking out the key from his body and entering the house.

He quickly collected the property in his home and took out everything that could be sold for money. He sold gold, silver, electronic devices and other items in different places for money, and even used the real estate certificate to mortgage the loan.

But apart from a large amount of basic food and water, light and sturdy clothing, outdoor supplies, medical supplies, cheap liquor, and cigarettes that can be used as gold bars among smokers, he did not buy anything for pleasure, nor did he try to build a solid and stable shelter for himself.

He simply bought a bunch of mobile hard drives and solar panels, and started to make mobile backups for the AI ​​deployed locally on his computer, and downloaded a large amount of various technical information including industry and agriculture to the mobile hard drives.

After downloading the information directly related to technological development, he started downloading as much information as he could, and also added some entertainment content in the corners.

In the end times, there will be a time when they will be useful... If there were no such information from before the end of the world to correct some things, people would have to take many detours.

After doing all this, Nie Weiyang breathed a sigh of relief.

After the apocalypse, the game arrived. Survival and life were certainly not difficult for someone like him, but the planet's temperature and ecosystem changed dramatically several times due to its magnetic field. There were extreme heat, extreme cold, auroras on the plains, storms, and biological mutations...

Human players have encountered strong attacks many times, and each time they were aimed at killing humans.

Before Nie Weiyang's rebirth, China, located in Zhongzhou, was plagued by internal and external troubles and was preparing to expand northward, distributing its manpower to the sub-arctic control zone corresponding to the three provinces outside the Great Wall. This was not only due to the rich resources there, but also because the terrain and natural environment there were more suitable for human tactics against the enemy.

After all, this land is perfect for anything, especially in the New World game—but precisely because it's perfect for everything, in times of crisis, all sorts of creatures love to migrate here. The highest record is the discovery of ten highly dangerous species arriving from the south in one day...

Moreover, the climate and environmental changes caused by the end of the world were so great that in the eighth year after the end of the world, it even experienced the highest level of regional public hazard incident - a river bursting its banks. In the thirteenth year, elephants appeared in this place, proving that it had become the subtropical climate of Yuzhou in the Blue Star before the tenth century AD.

An elephant... The last time this thing was mentioned in Yuzhou history books was when Cao Cao's son used a boat to call it a child prodigy...

And the river burst its banks...

Recalling those days when he was beaten so hard by the replica of the mother river that he couldn't even crawl, Nie Weiyang felt suffocated.

Should we say that Dajiang at least left everyone a way to survive and didn't start a mopping-up operation with Daha?

In short, during the Dark Ages, humans, ravaged by natural disasters and man-made calamities, were barely able to maintain network servers for less than two years in total. It was not until the last five years that humans finally began to establish relatively stable local area networks, but too much knowledge and cultural information had been lost.

This is a terrible loss. Human beings are almost forgetting where they came from, let alone building a more solid and long-lasting collective identity through the education system and cultural resonance.

Since Nie Weiyang had the privilege of living again, he had to consider this point, otherwise he wouldn't be able to get over it. Although he was just an ordinary person now, and could only store public information on the internet, even this information would be invaluable for the future.

"At least... we must remember that the star that nurtured us is called the Sun. We are human beings, and those alien characteristics do not belong to us."

In the middle of the night, Nie Weiyang put the last hard drive that had stored all the information into his backpack.

By reading a lot of advanced professional knowledge that he was unfamiliar with, he was sure that he was truly reborn.

So……

Nie Weiyang rushed out of the residential area quickly. A light flashed in his eyes. He used his mental power to control a motorcycle on the side of the road, which belonged to someone unknown, to automatically unlock it, and then he jumped over and climbed onto it.

With a roar that tore through the darkness, the motorcycle passed through the deserted streets with lights on. The gentle light of the street lamps followed Nie Weiyang. Such a high degree of resource redundancy made his chest feel heavy.

In seven days... no, six days, everything will fall into the abyss.

At the beginning of his previous life, he and several friends formed a survival team. In order to fill the professional positions needed by the team and to avoid competing for resources with other people in the team, he gave up all the professions that the system judged to be suitable for him and chose to be an assassin hidden in the dark.

But the assassin can do nothing except chase, kill and walk.

He could not be a shield for the crowd, could not treat the wounded, he could only be a knife, a razor, a lancet, trying to perform surgery on that terminally ill era, but he could only watch as good people died and the evil was passed down for thousands of years, and he himself died alone on the battlefield.

And this time...

He would never let that happen again!

Nie Weiyang drifted and stopped at the gate of the garrison barracks in the small town.

Facing the guard's cold and vigilant gaze that said, "Fuck, you're so bold to drive a car in front of the military camp gate," he got out of the car, raised his hands, and calmly walked towards the guard.

"Hello, I need to see your boss about something." Nie Weiyang said.

A light flashed in his eyes, and the spiritual power of the soul of a high-level professional drove the gun in the guard's hand, and it hit the top of the guard booth with a "snap".

"No time for nonsense, comrade," he said. As the guards looked at him in shock, he glanced sideways at the surveillance camera. "Please notify your commander. Thank you."

Yes……

In the early days of the apocalypse, when powerful professionals and mutant monsters are not yet running around, what could be more powerful than the army and the government in the face of a large-scale crisis that requires emergency mobilization and reasonable control of the crowd to deal with the harm?

Chapter 3 This time, I choose Paladin!

He even said thank you. This guy disarmed me and still said thank you... What is this? Is this a superpower? Is this world really that exciting? How many things do I not know...

The guard silently looked up at his pistol and couldn't calm down for a long time. He seemed to want to ask something, but he kept his mouth shut and remained calm. He stood in front of Nie Weiyang with a bullet-proof shield and stared at him vigilantly.

Nie Weiyang silently put down his hands, but clasped them in front of him, indicating that he had no intention of drawing a weapon - well, although he himself was the best weapon, strictly speaking, he had no weapon now.

Just a few minutes later, Nie Weiyang felt a strong gaze. His eyes lit up again, and his gaze shifted back to the camera, and then... he nodded politely.

"It's important," he said.

In the monitoring room, a group of officers looked at each other, and no one spoke first.

Suddenly, in the middle of the night, someone with glowing eyes showed up, claiming to have something important to discuss... Any sane person would be baffled by this. Glowing contact lenses? The rifle, currently a ceiling fixture in the guardhouse, wouldn't agree.

He unloaded his gun at a glance...

A middle-aged man in the crowd pondered for a moment and made up his mind: "I'll go out and meet him."

Amidst the voices of dissuasion from all around him, he waved his hand, put on his coat, and walked quickly down the building.

……

Nie Weiyang saw the man.

Xiang Feng. He pronounced the name in his mind. The commander of the local garrison, the man who had led the troops to maintain law and order in the early days of the apocalypse in his previous life.

The first signs of the apocalypse were the arrival of the blood moon and the game system, followed by a global aurora that destroyed almost all electrical appliances. After a ten-second countdown, everyone on the entire Blue Planet was transferred to the 'new world'.

The strength of the army was greatly weakened, and the command system collapsed directly.

But the garrisons in various places never gave up the fight. After the carrier pigeon troops managed to contact the various strongholds, they took on the responsibility of rebuilding the communication and command system...

It was a difficult time, but it was the best of the best days in the entire apocalypse.

Nie Weiyang later recalled it more than once, so he remembered it more clearly than anyone else. During the first wave of 5,000 zombies, this already shattered town was breached from within by traitors, and Xiang Feng also died in the zombie tide...

At that time, Nie Weiyang had to retreat with others, and he never returned home since then.

"Look at this." Nie Weiyang said.

He threw a USB drive to Xiang Feng, which contained almost all the evidence of the apocalypse he could provide at the moment, as well as information about the "new world", but he did not mention the source of this information.

"I thought about going directly to the capital, but that doesn't fit my plan." Nie Weiyang spread his hands. He didn't even listen to what Xiang Feng wanted to say. "No need to say too much. You'll know after you see it."

He pointed to his glowing eyes, which were a manifestation of the powerful mental power being released outwards.

"There will be more of my kind in the future. You know what I mean."

Xiang Feng, who led his men to the entrance of the military camp, had a very grim expression on his face. He certainly knew what Nie Weiyang meant.

"Superpowers?" He asked directly without any nonsense.

"Yes, and more than you can imagine. The information is all in the USB drive." Nie Weiyang nodded, "I have to go first."

It's not that he doesn't want to send the things to the center himself, but mainly because he has other plans for what he wants to do after the end of the world. He must try his best to ensure that his destination remains unchanged when he is teleported. Therefore, he cannot leave the local area for the time being.

Xiang Feng stretched out his hand to stop the person who was trying to catch up with Nie Weiyang from behind. The appearance of such an unknown force and making enemies out of impulse would be the worst option.

He watched the figure riding away on his bike, and handed the USB drive to someone next to him to check for viruses and explosives. Five minutes later, the USB drive contained completely harmless information and a printed file.

"Nie Weiyang, male, this year... 24 years old," Xiang Feng said thoughtfully, "24 years old? Rather than 24 years old, he looks more like someone who has been killing for years..."

He put down the file and looked at the information on the USB flash drive read out by the laptop computer that was disconnected from the Internet. His expression became more and more serious, and finally turned ashen.

In order to increase the credibility of his information, Nie Weiyang even put a lot of things that ordinary people should not know in the USB flash drive. Even if the military does not believe the content he provided about the "end of the world" and "games", they will definitely be irritated by the leakage of this information.

"Alright, everyone present is now prohibited from entering or leaving the camp." Xiang Feng quickly ejected the USB drive and stuffed it into an evidence bag. "Make arrangements and contact them immediately... No, I'm going to the provincial capital right away!"

……

Nie Weiyang is a good man, but he is also the strongest assassin who has killed his way through the Dark Ages.

Although his experiences over the years have resulted in him having almost no adaptability to normal social environments and his sense of humor and relaxation has basically died, he is aware that his observation, vigilance, caution and, in contrast, gambling nature are far beyond the current human level.

After all, in the Dark Ages, if you didn't learn to gamble and win, you would either kneel or die.

Over the next few days, Nie Weiyang placed all the supplies he had purchased, including small and medium-sized machines, in a warehouse near his home. He also stayed in the warehouse, waiting for that critical moment to arrive.

Of course, it's okay if he doesn't come. It's better to say he doesn't come. Don't mention that he's mortgaged his house. Compared to the apocalypse and the 'game', he'd rather have peace continue. He'd even die for it.

But after seven days...

The blood moon arrived as expected.

At this moment, a voice echoed in the minds of people around the world: [Server maintenance time has ended, logging into the New World.]

[System functions are now open, the main map is loading...]

……

The moment Nie Weiyang heard the voice, he jumped up from the warehouse steps, opened his backpack, and began to collect his belongings. As a brilliant red and green light appeared outside the window, he had quickly stuffed everything related to precision industrial components into his backpack. Then, he slowly began to collect the basic food items he had deliberately purchased in duplicate to facilitate stacking.

He had already opened all the drinking water and poured it into a tank. Now, when all the water was packed into his backpack, it weighed about 17 or 18 tons. The non-drinkable water, which had been treated and made drinkable, had long been piped into a giant air-cushioned pool. It was now kept separate from the drinking water and weighed more than the drinking water.

It wasn't that Nie Weiyang didn't want to take more resources, but these resources would be rearranged by the game system, randomly distributed among the corresponding settlements. He could survive without eating these things, but what about others?

If a prophet like him always takes away all the resources as his first reaction, then there is no hope for human survival, and the weak would simply not live.

After finishing these things, Nie Weiyang walked out of the warehouse.

在游戏系统冰冷的【10、9、8、7、6、5……】之中，他闭目沐浴在天顶上猩红血月与绿红极光的绚美天光之下，最后一次呼吸和平时代的微风。

Until everything around him became distorted and blurry, he opened his eyes again, and the irises in his eyes were scarlet, like the light of a blood moon.

A property panel appeared in his mind:

[Player: Nie Weiyang

Race: Human (Order Creature) / Blood Clan (Dark Creature)

Attribute baseline: 5-10

Occupation: Not employed