This time I chose Paladin.

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 person, but he is also the most powerful assassin who cut through the dark ages. Although his experiences over the years have made him almost completely unsuitable for normal social environments, and his sense of humor and relaxation have also been completely lost, he believes that his observation skills, vigilance, caution, and the opposite gambling instinct far exceed 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...]

……

Upon hearing the sound, Nie Weiyang immediately jumped up from the warehouse steps, opened his backpack, and began collecting items from the warehouse. As a dazzling red and green light appeared outside the window, he quickly stuffed all the items related to precision industrial components into his backpack before slowly starting to collect the basic food items that he had deliberately bought repeatedly for easy 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
Rating: 1
Power: 15
Spirit: Unreadable

Agility: 20
Constitution: 28
Charisma: 40
Free attribute points remaining: 5
Talents: Daytime Walk, Night Embrace, Bloody Rage, True Form Revealed, Battle-Experienced Fortune, Deathly Doom

Comment: Mixed-race children are always pathetic, especially humans and vampires. What kind of monster could create life with its diners/food?

Humans are the living, vampires are the dead, and you, my friend, are that thorn, that gray, that beautiful cursed child born between light and shadow. Even more tragically, you still harbor justice—your own justice.

Be thankful that I am tolerant of you day and night.

Despair, for misfortune will follow.]

There is also a prompt pop-up window under the property panel.

【Currently, you can choose a combat profession.】

【推荐职业：圣骑士99%、武僧95%、剑侠82%、枪客79%、战士71%、道士60%……】

【Career selection can be postponed.】

Of course, there were no assassins. Nie Weiyang had never been suited to being an assassin. His highly compatible profession had never involved fighting behind enemy lines. If it weren't for helping others, he wouldn't have become an assassin. And this time...

Nie Weiyang didn't even hesitate, making his choice without a word. A brilliant light tore through the night, and illusory light runes condensed in his scarlet eyes.

Dark creature bloodline? Not a problem.

——This time, I choose Paladin!

(End of this chapter)