Chapter 4: Talent Awakening!

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

The roars and screams outside the house were incessant. The outside world seemed to have become a purgatory on earth, immediately attracting Ling Zixing’s curiosity.

Ling Yichen was indifferent. No one could stop the curtain of the apocalypse from opening. The future was tragic. He had also experienced darkness, murder, and numbness. He had also slaughtered cities, exterminated clans, and even killed gods!

He had been there before.

“What happened outside?” Ling Zixing frowned slightly, looking a little cute.

Suddenly, Ling Zixing felt her body heat up.

“It’s so hot…”

Upon hearing this, Ling Yichen’s chopsticks that were about to pick up the meat paused in the air.

Ling Yichen was certain that his sister was not an unlucky person who had turned into a zombie right from the start. That was because the corpse of Ling Zixing that he found in his previous life did not show any signs of turning into a zombie.

In other words, Ling Zixing was like him, an evolver who had awakened her talent!

Only when one awakened their talent or was about to become a zombie would their body heat up.

It was just like his current state. His body was also heating up.

They were siblings. According to Ling Yichen’s hundred years of experience in the apocalypse, the talents they had awakened would basically be the same.

The time needed to awaken his talent was very fast. Just like the zombies that first appeared, it only took a minute.

The ones causing a riot outside were the creatures that were evolving and mutating.

A minute passed in the blink of an eye. Ling Yichen stretched out his hand and clenched his fist.

There was a very small number of talents that seemed to be unique. There was no one else in the world who could have such a talent. His Immortal Talent was a kind of transcendent talent. In the entire world, he was the only one who had awakened this talent. In his previous life, everyone thought that the Immortal Talent, which had reached its peak, would have a very powerful physical self-healing ability. Even if he broke his limbs, they would regrow in just a moment. Furthermore, his endurance was very strong. However, they did not know that Ling Yichen still had something hidden. The strength of the Immortal Talent was far more than this…

At this moment, a white light attracted Ling Yichen’s attention.

“Ah! What is this!” Ling Zixing suddenly screamed.

A holy white light appeared in Ling Zixing’s hand, as if it could heal one’s heart. Even looking at it made one feel comfortable.

Ling Yichen was stunned. This was different from his talent. It was very rare in the apocalypse and was very popular.

This was a healing talent, which was among the support-type talents. That ball of white light contained the ability to heal wounds.

Hold on!

Furthermore!

This ball of white light even contained the effect of purification!

This was the Holy Healing Talent!

Ling Yichen’s eyes lit up. This purification effect could dispel negative statuses. Coupled with the healing effect, his sister was a Holy Light Healer!

With his Immortal Talent and Ling Zixing’s Holy Healing Talent, how terrifying would his recovery ability be?

Thinking of this, Ling Yichen became even more excited. At the same time, he was a little surprised that Ling Zixing’s awakened talent was actually different from his.

Ling Yichen had seen a few siblings with the same father and mother awakening their talents. However, due to the similarity in genes, the awakened talents were basically the same. There were relatively few cases of different talents.

It was probably just a coincidence. Perhaps it was because his Immortal Talent was unique. Thus, a second person with the same talent could not exist.

Soon, Ling Zixing fell silent.

Ling Yichen knew that every Awakened would understand how to use their talent and the name of their talent when they awakened their talent.

Ling Yichen pretended to be surprised and said, “Zixing, we seem to have awakened our talents.”

Ling Zixing looked at Ling Yichen in surprise and said, “Brother, have you awakened your talent too?”

Ling Yichen nodded and said affirmatively, “Yes, I’ve awakened a summoning talent that can allow me to summon the Insect Clan to fight. However, I still need some time now.”

Ling Yichen decided to hide his Immortal Talent. In the future, what he would show was this ability that specialized in summoning insects.

“I’ve awakened the Holy Healing Talent. It can heal and purify.” Ling Zixing scratched her head and panicked. “What’s going on? Are we going to be captured and used as lab rats in the research lab?”

Ling Yichen habitually stroked Ling Zixing’s little head and said, “Don’t worry. Let’s go and see what’s going on outside first.”

“Yes.” Ling Zixing also enjoyed the feeling of her brother touching her head.

With that, Ling Yichen and Ling Zixing walked to the balcony together.

The scene outside simply shocked Ling Zixing.

There were zombies everywhere, like in the movie Resident Evil. They were moving like zombies, and some were even biting living people!

The wild dogs that occasionally appeared on the street also became abnormally ferocious. It was not an exaggeration to say that they were wolves.

There were also flies that could be seen everywhere. Their sizes had obviously changed. A group of flies that were larger than before kept circling some corpses, landing on them from time to time for intimate contact.

Chaos and disorder had already begun to ferment in this world.

What Ling Yichen should do now was to hunt for the Origin Crystals in the heads of these zombies and mutated creatures.

Origin Crystals were currency equivalents in the apocalypse. Absorbing Origin Crystals provided one with a chance of obtaining battle techniques, as well as a chance of learning meditation techniques.

Furthermore, one did not become an Awakened one after awakening their talents. As long as one absorbed a meditation technique, they could become an Awakened one. However, they might not necessarily be able to awaken their talents. When one first used the meditation technique, there was a chance of awakening their talent, but the probability was extremely low.

If they did not awaken their talent during their first cultivation, there was basically no hope for them in the future unless there was some special opportunity.

People like Ling Yichen and Ling Zixing, who awakened their talents without even obtaining a meditation technique, were extremely rare.

For awakened people like them who had awakened their talents, they only needed to absorb one Origin Crystal to master the meditation technique!

Before his rebirth, Ling Yichen had naturally mastered the meditation technique, but now, he needed to absorb it again.

Currently, it was as if he had been formatted. Not only was his meditation technique gone, but even the combat techniques he had once mastered had been cleared. Even if he still had the memory of using the combat techniques clearly in his mind, without the “authority”, it was as if he had been forcibly blocked and could not use them.

However, for the newbies in the apocalypse, they needed to hone their combat skills. As for him, he did not need to work hard and had long reached the peak!

Knock, knock, knock! The door at the entrance was suddenly knocked on, making continuous sounds.

The siblings looked over at the same time.

Ling Zixing was a little afraid that it was the monsters outside.

However, Ling Yichen was certain that this was a living person. Zombies in their initial form would not knock on the door with such a quick rhythm. As for mutated creatures, generally speaking, they could only make collision sounds.

The next moment, a cry for help came from outside the door.

“Brother Chen, save me!”

It was unfamiliar and familiar at the same time. It was the voice of the girl next door, Gu Yangyang.

Ling Yichen remembered that in his previous life, Gu Yangyang and her mother Ming Xianwan, who depended on each other for survival, had also become zombies. He had seen this when he returned back then.

Gu Yangyang had been calling him Brother Chen since she was young. She had a good relationship with him. When he found out that she had died, Ling Yichen was very sad.

With this rebirth, many things could be salvaged. There was no need for regrets.

Ling Yichen opened the door. The little girl immediately threw herself into Ling Yichen’s arms and sobbed.

Her petite and lovely loli figure was pressed against his body…

It felt like a washboard.

“Alright, I understand. I’ll go to your house to take a look.” Ling Yichen habitually patted Gu Yangyang’s head.

He could show Ling Zixing the use of Origin Crystals!