The two were chatting when suddenly a cold, hard announcement came from the dome's broadcast equipment: "Catastrophe-level superpower user, serial number 10059—'Urushibara Ryuri' requests to meet with the mentor."
Catastrophe-level superpower user? Why does this damn place randomly produce such freakish individuals, it's like monsters are crawling everywhere... Damn, it looks like I won't be able to get any "Exorcist" information from the mentor today.
Ji Minghuan raised an eyebrow, mentally noting the name "Urushibara Ryuri."
Upon hearing the broadcast, the mentor looked up at Ji Minghuan: "I have something to do, so let's leave it for today. If you're interested, I'll talk to you next time."
"Alright." Ji Minghuan nodded.
As the mentor's figure was swallowed by the metallic iron door, the cold-colored fluorescent lamp flickered off simultaneously, leaving Ji Minghuan alone against his shadow in the cramped confinement room.
"With this, the preparations are almost complete. Other than the Exorcist, I've already got a decent understanding of the other two races, which boosts the probability of generating a high-potential character significantly."
Thinking this, Ji Minghuan lay down on the bed and closed his eyes.
He switched to the perspective of game character "Black Cocoon," opened his eyes on the bed, clicked on the gear icon at the bottom right of his view, called out the system panel, and switched to the last page to find the most conspicuous option marked with red and black text—[Create Game Character].
[Would you like to consume 3 "Split Points" to create a brand new game character in the real world?]
Ji Minghuan chose the option "Yes" without hesitation.
In the next moment, his vision went black, and both his main body and the perspective of his game character vanished without a trace.
[You are about to enter the "Game Character Creation" phase.]
This was the last sound he heard.
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[Loaded "Character Creation Space," during character creation, your consciousness will not be able to link to your main body, or your game characters. If you need to log out urgently, please click the exclamation mark at the top right of your view.]
As soon as he opened his eyes, Ji Minghuan met his "Index Finger Mouse" once again.
He remembered vividly, last time he created a character, he fiddled with it for quite a while out of boredom.
Then slowly emerging from the darkness, was a panel painted with an intertwined red and black background. Its exterior looked just like UI in an RPG game.
And at this moment, the center of the panel displayed a line of text constructed by pixels:
[Do you wish to start the creation of your "Second Game Character" immediately?]
[Warning: It is detected that you have enabled "Complete Split Mode," creating a second game character will cause your consciousness to wander between three bodies, severely deepening the sense of tearing, please carefully consider whether to disable "Complete Split Mode" before creating a character.]
Ji Minghuan thought it was nothing to be afraid of, what's wrong with multitasking, at worst he'll die of cerebral hemorrhage.
He dragged the index finger mouse and clicked straight on the [Yes] option below.
[Next, a dice roll will occur, please select a random number from "1" to "6."]
Then the options "1," "2," "3," "4," "5," "6" appeared below.
Although he didn't know the meaning, he still followed the system's instruction and dragged the index finger mouse, relying on intuition to click on the option [6].
[Number "6" selected.]
A dice with alternating red and black colors suddenly appeared in the darkness, with each face engraved with a number. The dice shot upwards, spinning in the air before falling, "plop," onto the ground, bouncing two or three times, slowly coming to rest.
The face showing this time was a blood-red number—"6."
[Congratulations, you've won this dice guessing game. As a reward during this character creation phase, you will receive an additional "Character Profile" choice than usual.]
"Alright, alright, they gifted me an extra substitute profile, mom won't worry about me drawing low-star cards anymore."
Ji Minghuan's eyes lit up, muttering to himself.
[Now, please choose one from the following three "Identity Profiles," it will appear as your second game character on the theater named "Real World."]
[Profile 1]
[Name: Ozawa Nana]
[Gender: Female]
[Age: 17 years old]
[Race: Asian]
[Category: Superpower User (Superhuman) (One of the three extraordinary races, each superpower user will have their unique superpower, which is closely related to their growth experiences)]
[Basic Attributes: Strength: C+ level; Speed: C+ level; Spirit: C++ level]
[Initial Rating: C+ level]
[Background Introduction: You are a geisha from Kabukicho, Tokyo, Japan. At the age of 12, your office worker father, Ozawa Yamamoto, was dismembered and killed for offending the Japanese mafia, and you were sold to Kabukicho by the mafia, living as a prostitute for five years, only turning officially to a geisha the last year.
And one night, you awakened your own superpower, gaining the ability to generate and control "thorns." For your deceased father and the shame endured over the years, you decide to stretch out the thorns of revenge against the mafia involved, utterly shattering the mafia's ecological chain, or perhaps... unify the Japanese mafia and become a mafia saintess.]
[This game character has the following two "growth mainlines" to choose from:
Mainline 1: Avenger;
Mainline 2: Yakuza Saintess.]
[Note: Once you choose one of the growth mainlines, the outcome cannot be reversed, please choose carefully.]
"Although I can accept playing a female game character, this background seems a bit overly complicated."
"Haha, I always feel that when loading character memories...I'll see some strange happenings involving myself lying in bizarre places with men doing strange things, it would absolutely overturn my worldview and sexual orientation."
Ji Minghuan thought to himself, hesitating for half a second before decisively passing on the first character panel.
The main reason for abandoning this character was that her superhuman category is "Superpower User," Ji Minghuan already has a superpower user role, now he only wants to create a game character with the race category of "Exorcist" or "Anecdote Envoy."
At this point, he started to feel fortunate for the extra "Character Profile" option the dice roll provided.
Otherwise, if the second "Character Profile" wasn't easy to handle either, what should he do? He surely can't pass up this opportunity to create a character, that would be regrettable?
Shifting his gaze, he looked towards the second character profile displayed in the pitch darkness.
[Profile 2]
[Name: Al Pacino]
[Gender: Male]
[Age: 25 years old]
[Race: Caucasian]
[Category: Anecdote Envoy (One of the three extraordinary races, able to obtain "Anecdote Fragments" from all over the world's mysterious anecdote realms, using the myriad of fragment powers within the "Anecdote Atlas" to battle)]
[Basic Attributes: Strength: D level; Speed: D level; Spirit: D level]
[Initial Evaluation: D level]
[Background Introduction: You grew up on Sicily Island, Italy, and went to America for a chance at becoming a successful Hollywood actor, but were crushed by various industry unspoken rules, generating thoughts of giving up.
In the midst of feeling hopeless, one morning you unexpectedly received an invitation from "Whale Terrarium," late at night you took the invitation and went to New York's harbor, seeing the Legendary Whale "Chikanao" swimming on the ocean, thus opening the door to the world of Anecdote Envoy.]
[This game character has the following two "growth mainlines" to choose from:
Mainline 1: Anecdote Sentinel;
Mainline 2: Evil Anecdote Envoy.]
"This one isn't ideal, either." Ji Minghuan thought, "Even though after hearing the mentor introduce the world view, I wanted to create an Anecdote Envoy character to play with, compared to the previous few characters, this one's basic attributes are terribly low..."
"Plus, these two mainlines don't seem to have much room for development, judging from the 'Black Cocoon' character, it is best if the character background features special experiences and goals, then special mainline missions might generate."
He sighed: "Let's look at the third character archive... hopefully the last archive won't be a superpower user, and the initial attributes won't be that lousy."
So, Ji Minghuan carefully shifted his gaze, holding onto his last hope, looking towards the third "character archive" in the darkness.
And with just a light glance, he was stunned for half a second.
The bottom color of Profile 3 was completely different from the previous archives, showing a black and white checkered design, reminiscent of:
——"International Chess" board squares.
[Note: A "rare character" has appeared in the generated "character" list.]