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**Parallel World, East Sea City.**
*Hu-hu-*
In a modest 50-square-meter room in Osmanthus Community, a young man, around 22 or 23 years old, suddenly jolted upright in bed, gasping for breath.
"How... how am I alive?" he muttered, his voice tinged with disbelief. "Didn't I die at the hands of the Skrulls?"
His eyes darted around the familiar room, confirming his surroundings. Frantically, he reached for the phone on his bedside table.
"May 29th, 2120..." Su Yu stared at the date on the phone, his mind racing. "I've... I've been reborn? I'm back before the great upheaval begins?"
Memories flooded back. In just three days—on June 1st—the Skrulls would begin their invasion of Bluestar.
The Skrulls, a far more advanced civilization, had the power to decimate the human race on Bluestar and take over the planet completely within a month. But, by the rules set by the cosmic god-level civilization known as the Singers, whenever an advanced race invades a weaker one, they must grant the weaker civilization a grace period and certain tools for defense.
Thus, the Skrull invasion would be delayed by a year, until June 1st, 2121.
During this time, the Singer civilization provided humanity with two tools for survival:
1. **Psionic Recovery**: All the psionic energy stored deep within the Earth's mantle would be released, boosting the strength of every human being.
2. **A fully immersive game called "Evolution"**: Once a player reached level 50 in the game, their in-game abilities could be manifested in the real world.
However, Su Yu remembered that in his past life, when the upheaval first began, world governments had no idea that the game "Evolution" could transfer power into reality. By the time they recognized the game's potential and encouraged their citizens to play, half a year had already passed. Some players had only just reached level 50 by then.
And by June 1st, 2121, the Skrulls had fully mobilized and launched devastating waves of attacks, overwhelming humanity. Su Yu himself had died in the final battle.
Staring at his phone, Su Yu's face was blank with shock, words failing him. After what felt like an eternity, he shook himself out of his stupor.
"The servers for 'Evolution' should launch in three days... I need to get a game helmet before then!" he muttered to himself, quickly forming a plan. "And I should make sure to be near a psionic spring when I first log in—the game helmet will absorb all the psionic energy within a five-kilometer radius."
Determined not to waste time, Su Yu grabbed his phone and called the special hotline to order a game helmet.
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Three days later, at 7:30 in the morning, Su Yu arrived at the foot of Yunlu Mountain, an isolated hill on the outskirts of East Sea City.
"Yunlu Mountain... this is the place."
He picked up the game helmet from his car's back seat and began hiking up the mountain. The helmet had cost him 30,000 yuan—nearly all of his savings from working a year after graduation—but Su Yu didn't care. With humanity's survival at stake, what use was money?
As he climbed, he took a moment to admire the vast, breathtaking scenery around him. Right now, Yunlu Mountain was an obscure location, unknown to most people. But in six months' time, it would be famous across the country.
During the psionic recovery, 24 massive, 108 large, and 3,600 small "Psionic Springs" would open across the world, each one emitting an enormous amount of psionic energy.
The **Yunlu Mountain Psionic Spring** was the largest in the world.
Minutes passed as Su Yu waited at the mountain's peak.
"It's 8 o'clock. The servers for 'Evolution' should be launching any minute now," he murmured, his face turning serious. "The great changes are about to begin."
Suddenly, the earth trembled beneath him. A deep fissure, two kilometers north of the mountain, cracked open, revealing a bottomless pit.
A massive surge of milky-white and lavender psionic energy erupted from the hole, shooting straight into the sky like a column of light.
"It's incredible!" Su Yu marveled at the scene.
Although the Psionic Springs would eventually enhance the strength of humanity, Su Yu knew they also represented the beginning of humanity's struggles. Within the next hour, the Skrulls would arrive, seizing control of the springs and using their energy to create terrifying monsters.
Instead of helping humans, the springs would become tools for their destruction.
With that in mind, Su Yu quickly put on the game helmet.
"Enter the game."
A familiar voice echoed in his head. *"Evolution game loading..."*
Su Yu's consciousness connected to the helmet, and he entered the game's deep, immersive world.
*Ding! "Psionic substance detected nearby. Do you wish to absorb it?"*
"Yes!"
*"Absorbing psionic energy... Please wait."*
Outside the game, the torrent of psionic energy swirling around Yunlu Mountain suddenly shifted, drawn to an invisible force: Su Yu's helmet. The energy coalesced around him, enveloping him in a glowing, swirling mass as the helmet absorbed it all.
Inside the game, Su Yu watched as his **psionic value** skyrocketed.
One hundred thousand... A million... Ten million... A hundred million!
The number finally stopped at **ten billion**.
Su Yu was stunned.
Before his rebirth, when he first entered the game six months late, his initial psionic value had only been 11 points.
But now? Ten billion!
*"You have reached the absorption limit for psionic energy. Would you like to enter the game now?"*
"Not yet. Exit the game!" Su Yu quickly responded.
The Skrull ships would arrive soon, and he had no intention of being the first human captured by them.
After removing his helmet, Su Yu glanced north. The psionic spring at Yunlu Mountain had become sluggish, its once-majestic energy flow reduced to a trickle. But Su Yu didn't linger—he had weakened the Skrulls' strength by absorbing the energy, and now it was time to leave.
He raced down the mountain with the game helmet in hand.
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An hour later, a massive rift opened in the sky above Yunlu Mountain, revealing a brown-gray Skrull spaceship, over 200 meters long. It landed at the top of the mountain with a thud.
Inside, a female pilot with light green skin reported, "Commander, the psionic output from Spring No. 001 is abnormally low. It's only producing the amount of a small spring."
"What? That can't be!" the Skrull commander, a tall male sitting in the control room, looked shocked. "Are you sure we're in the right location?"
"Yes, sir. The coordinates are correct."
"Then we'll land here. Follow orders from headquarters."
"Understood, Commander."
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A/N: So i was translating this for myself because there wasn't any decent translation of this novel available. I did find one in webnovel but it was actually just MTL and the translator was actually changing money for it. Can you believe that? So anyway i will be translating this novel as best i can for myself and keep posting it on webnovel for free for all my brothers to enjoy🫡.
Wish me good luck.