An Huai got a "Longevity System." Every day, he could sign in to gain not only a year of life, but also a piece of information.
Daily information: [The apocalypse will arrive in three days. Stock up on supplies.]
Daily information: [Xu Yi will awaken an S+ ability and is the current Chosen One.]
That bastard Xu Yi was actually going to become the Chosen One. What made him so special!?
An Huai, who had been fighting with Xu Yi since childhood, angrily whacked him over the head.
Looking at Xu Yi lying on the ground, An Huai opened today's sign-in.
Daily information: [Stay by the Chosen One's side, and you can survive until the end of the apocalypse.]
Damn it! They'd just fallen out. How was he supposed to cling to this powerful ally now?
When Xu Yi woke up, he had amnesia. "Who am I? And who are you?"
An Huai came up with a plan in his panic. "You just confessed to me, saying you loved me more than life itself. I reluctantly agreed, so you can't let me down."
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By clinging to the Chosen One, An Huai easily survived the zombie-infested apocalypse.
Psychic powers awakened in ability users could evolve into physical forms, transforming into ferocious beasts that fought alongside their hosts.
But the effects of dark matter made ability users irritable and tormented. Every use of their powers was like swallowing poison, and in the end they would go mad and die.
At the same time, another group of people, those without combat abilities in the apocalypse, possessed psychic powers with a pure, healing effect.
Through psychic communion, they could soothe the ability users driven mad.
The authorities named them "Sentinels" and "Guides."
An Huai was neither a Sentinel nor a Guide. He had only his longevity golden finger and the daily intelligence that kept him alive.
Xu Yi's psychic powers had been corrupted. He rejected the soothing of every Guide and decided to seek a way to survive in the dark matter.
Before leaving, he gripped An Huai's chin. His eyes were fierce with hatred, but filled with love and desire.
At last, he gritted his teeth and whispered in An Huai's ear, "Just try getting together with someone else. Even as a ghost, I'll come back and kill both of you."
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As time passed, the relationship between "Sentinels" and "Guides" grew increasingly twisted.
With Guides so scarce, Sentinels who wanted to stay alive became dogs, all for a moment's peace.
Even so, more and more Sentinels still died in their madness.
As the new order humanity had built was on the verge of being destroyed once again, the S+ Sentinels led by Marshal Shen Er issued a joint declaration.
Sentinels whose psychic corruption reached 80% were to report to the Black Tower on their own.
Their bones would lie in the Black Tower, their souls would guard Blue Star.
An Huai, enjoying the happy life of a powerful man's widow in District A, opened the System to sign in once more.
[Ding! One year of life added.]
Daily intelligence: [Shen Er is the Chosen One at this stage. Cling to him and you can survive this crisis.]
"Tsk!" An Huai clicked his tongue.
Having just reached Foundation Establishment, An Huai felt his psychic power hovering one centimeter outside his body and smiled.
This time, let's try something different.
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[Warnings! Warnings!]
This story is melodramatic, with romance as its main plot. The protagonist is a delicate, dependent wife, and he's very cautious and cold. He has many exes, there's a love-triangle showdown later on, and the ending is open.
The protagonist will go through the apocalypse, the Sentinel-Guide world, a beast world, an ABO world, a cyberpunk world, and then the world will restart as the primordial cosmos opens and immortals and demons descend. He'll grow stronger later on, becoming powerful enough to achieve godhood and sainthood.
Theme: Rebuild order and hope amid terrifying chaos.