Reborn One Week Before the Apocalypse

Chapter 148: Chapter 138: Boiling World

ID: Lin Yu

Life Value: 107

Strength Value: 112

Agility: 136

Spiritual Power: 567

Space: 0

Overall Strength: 922

Lin Yu’s stats were impressive. Although he hadn’t made it onto the leaderboards yet, Tang Mo estimated he was right on the cusp.

Stats like these were indeed worthy of Lin Shourong’s high regard, especially that exceptionally high spiritual power.

Tang Mo had read in a research institute paper that an attribute superpower user’s specialized attribute value was typically two to three times higher than their other attribute values.

In other words, a Power Attribute Superpower User’s Strength Attribute Value would be about twice their other attribute values.

If it reached three times, they would be considered outstanding among Power Attribute Superpower Users. Even if their other stats were lower, their potential would absolutely surpass others.

Tang Mo’s own Spirit Attribute Value was five times her other attribute values, and so was Lin Yu’s.

At that moment, Lin Yu was also observing Tang Mo.

In the past, everyone who learned of his attribute stats had invariably shown expressions of shock, envy, or even jealousy.

But Tang Mo’s face was as calm as a placid lake.

He couldn’t tell if this girl he knew nothing about was truly so powerful that she looked down on his stats, or if she simply possessed emotional control far beyond her years.

In contrast to Tang Mo’s serene expression, the curiosity and suspicion on Lin Yu’s face were undisguised.

The Lin Yu of now was simple and pure, bearing no resemblance whatsoever to the cold, gloomy man Tang Mo would later come to know of.

’What on earth did he go through later on?’

Lin Yu didn’t linger for long. Having gotten what he came for, he quickly took the items and left.

Jingjing was truly exhausted and still hadn’t woken up.

Tang Mo sat on her bed with no intention of getting up, leisurely browsing through the latest papers published by the research institute.

BEEP...

The screen of Tang Mo’s watch went black in an instant, emitting a warning sound. Accompanying the sound was a steady red light in the top-left corner.

This sudden change startled Tang Mo, and she hurriedly pressed the back button.

It didn’t work.

She pressed the power button.

That didn’t work either.

’What is going on?’

「Meanwhile, at S Base...」

”Lord, the watches are out of control! This isn’t a program we set up. We never designed a function for a warning sound or a persistent red light!”

”If you didn’t set it up, don’t tell me the watches can update their own software!”

Qin Ling’s voice was ice-cold and tinged with fury.

The ID Watch had been distributed across all of Huaxia, holding the entire continent’s big data and its very lifeline.

How could he not be furious when these researchers were telling him the watches were now out of control?

The researchers stood in a line, not daring to breathe. Each of them wished they could bury their heads in the ground.

In truth, if they weren’t worried about their own necks, they really wanted to say that it seemed like the watches *had* updated their own software...

Qin Ling sat on a leather sofa, his elbows on his knees, staring at the ID Watch on his wrist. Its red light was still on, and it wouldn’t boot up properly.

The warning sound stopped after three minutes, but even after three hours of intensive research, the team hadn’t found any solution to the red light and black screen problem.

Now that facilities like satellite signal towers were no longer maintained, cell phones had been completely abandoned by the new era.

If the ID Watches were also paralyzed, the entirety of Huaxia would plunge into an even deeper darkness. No one would be able to perform even the most basic communication.

In that instant, the first person Qin Ling thought of was his girlfriend, who was off frolicking somewhere unknown.

His fingers slowly tightened.

”What are you standing around for? Get the hell over there and fix it for me!”

Fortunately, the researchers’ nightmare didn’t last long. An hour later, the ID Watch’s red light automatically disappeared, and the watch restarted on its own. Everything seemed to have returned to normal.

”This watch...”

At this moment, everyone in Huaxia was closely monitoring the situation with their watches.

Sharp-eyed people immediately noticed that the rebooted watches were very different from before.

Both the page layout and the content had many subtle new additions, as if it had undergone a comprehensive upgrade.

”Oh, so it was just an upgrade. No wonder.”

The survivors throughout Huaxia, Tang Mo included, all assumed the incident with the watches was due to an upgrade initiated by the base’s research institute.

Only Qin Ling’s expression grew darker the more he scrolled through the watch’s more refined and comprehensive pages and information.

’This watch... it really did upgrade itself.’

In the most prominent spot on the main screen, there was a small mail icon. In the top-right corner of the icon was a red number 1.

This indicated a new message, and everyone subconsciously tapped on the mail icon.

The email opened.

We interrupt with an important announcement: One of the Five Beads, the Spirit Power Pearl, has appeared in the world. Once all Five Beads are gathered, the Huaxia Continent will unlock the Hell Mode adventure Chapter. The person who gathers all Five Beads will receive immense energy, becoming the Chosen One to help all of Huaxia overcome this crisis.

P.S. The land where each bead appears contains a large quantity of High-level, Intermediate, and Basic Level Crystal Stones to help the people of Huaxia increase their Overall Strength for the challenges ahead.

Good luck.

These three short lines sent the entire world into an uproar. Everyone read them over and over for a long, long time.

They understood every word, but when read together, it felt as if something was wrong with their reading comprehension.

However, from the term ”people of Huaxia,” everyone already understood that the source of this email was not as simple as S Base.

Yet they were unwilling to easily believe that the world had turned into a fantasy novel. Everyone rubbed their eyes and pinched themselves, trying to wake up faster.

”Is it aliens?” Tang Mo murmured.

”It’s like a game.” Tang Mo had also played games in college; everything now felt like she was inside one.

But since she had already experienced something as unbelievable as rebirth, there was nothing she couldn’t accept.

She, of all people, understood the contents of that email the best.

’The Five Beads... that must be referring to the pearl beneath the quicksand, the one Sand Town has been after.’

’If this one here is the Spirit Power Pearl, then the other four must be the Life Force, Agility, Strength, and Space Pearls.’

’As for the High-level, Intermediate, and Basic Crystal Stones, that’s even easier to understand. They correspond to the Blood Red Crystal Stone, Light Blue Crystal Stone, and White Crystal Stone that I obtained.’

However, as for what the email said would happen after collecting the Five Beads, that was something she couldn’t clearly figure out right now.

’Collect all Five Beads?’

Tang Mo wasn’t that confident in herself.

She had only been able to retrieve the Spirit Power Pearl because Jingjing was a Spirit Attribute growth-type mutant beast, which allowed it to go down and trigger it successfully.

As for the other four pearls, she didn’t have several more Jingjings lying around.

’Perhaps a Divine Beast like Jingjing is the key to triggering the pearls?’