The apocalypse begins with a dungeon game.

Chapter 197: One flower withers, another blooms.

"To be able to unlock it is an immense opportunity. So many people have tried for generations, but none of them have succeeded. It's such a pity," A-Yun sighed.

Li Can asked again, a chill running down his spine as he had a bad feeling: "If the power of one's own life can really be forcibly shut down, will the person responsible for shutting it down suffer a backlash, such as a reduction in their lifespan?"

Ayun shook her head. "Backlash is definitely impossible. If there were such a person, he would definitely understand the concept of symbiotic power and have already thoroughly researched it."

"He knew that the power of companionship was a miracle and an immense opportunity, yet he still went to shut it down. This can only mean that some humans have already learned how to transfer opportunities from others."

"When one flower withers, another blooms."

"You know about the conservation of matter and energy, right? Although it's not related to this, it's similar in meaning."

"The person who was transferred should be secretly delighted. What lifespan reduction? If he were an ordinary person, his innate power would be able to take root and flourish after the transfer."

"If he already has innate power, then that's a different story... He definitely can't absorb another opportunity; he can only transfer it to another ordinary person."

"It feels like this could be a good business," A-Yun said, resting her chin on her hand as she pondered.

"By reselling it a few times, getting rich quick is just around the corner."

"In just a few years, he'll be a millionaire."

The more amazed A-Yun was, the angrier Li Can became.

His face is so black now that it could be used as ink to write on paper.

So, this old Taoist not only stole his own opportunity when he was a child, but also made an outrageous demand of 600,000 yuan from his parents.

He took both food and gifts without any hesitation.

Li Can felt his heart beating a little fast, and he clutched his chest, unable to speak for a long time.

Seeing that Li Can was unusually quiet, A-Yun became somewhat suspicious.

"The person you're talking about who had their opportunity stolen, could it be you...? No, wait, I've observed that your innate power is functioning perfectly well right now."

"If the opportunity is taken away, a person will never have a second chance in their life to unleash their symbiotic power; it's as if it has withered and died."

"...unless I can get back the opportunity I lost."

"Could it be that you lost it, and then it came back?"

In just a few words, Ayun had analyzed almost everything about Li Can.

Li Can himself was hearing about this for the first time.

During the time when Ah Yun was poisoned and went mad, turning into a garbled cloud, he never considered his gashapon machine ability.

Looking back now, I realize that many things happened secretly that I was unaware of during the period from my ignorance to adulthood...

In her dream, Li Can thought the old Taoist priest had meant well but did something wrong, blocking her superpowers and leaving her in a sorry state. After dying and traveling through time in an explosion, her superpowers reappeared.

Looking back now, it seems like a big problem.

But what opportunity could that old Taoist have, and how could he possibly predict and calculate to return his own chance at the very moment he exploded, died, and transmigrated?

He felt that no suspicious elderly people had ever approached him before.

Unless... that strange explosion was the source of all this... But wasn't the explosion and time travel something orchestrated by A-Yun, with the aim of bringing him to the wasteland ten years in the future to help him?

"Let's talk about that later." Li Can grabbed A Yun's arm and held it tightly.

The feeling was like holding a real, flesh-and-blood person.

However, to the naked eye, Ayun appears to be constantly changing.

Both the clouds and the human figures appeared somewhat indistinct, slightly transparent.

"Ah Yun, tell me first, why did I travel to this place ten years in the future? How did you manage to make me travel here? Or rather, out of so many people in the world, why me? Why was I chosen?"

"Wait, how many questions are there?" A-Yun looked at Li Can, who was very eager to know the answers.

Li Can was also carefully observing his expression.

A hint of embarrassment flashed across Ayun's face.

"I was poisoned after the attack and have been in a coma ever since. When I woke up, I found that all the humans were dead. I calculated that my lifespan had come to an end."

"My body is covered in wounds, those dungeon vortexes you can see. I sense that they contain huge energy orbs that can heal me."

"But I don't have much time left, and I myself can't go in there to retrieve the measuring ball to treat my illness and injuries."

"In the midst of the crisis, I kept trying to find a way to save myself, and finally I thought of starting with those people in different times and spaces whom I had saved and who had given me opportunities."

"Only humans to whom I have bestowed opportunities can form a spiritual connection with me. This is also the only ability I can mobilize after being severely injured."

"As long as I find someone who has activated their companion power, and send them into the dungeon vortex to get some quantity orbs for me, they can definitely save my life. That way, after I recover, I can take them with me to take revenge."

"So I searched and searched in different times and spaces, but the results were not optimistic. I could only capture those who were connected to me by fate and who came here instantly after their death..."

"We can't bring them over when they're still young and energetic."

"I don't possess the immense karma to interfere with the course of history. After all, every person I capture truly vanished entirely from their past..."

"Yeah, it's the kind of clothing you write about in human novels. I like to study and read these things when I'm bored."

"The difficulty lies in the fact that those who are destined to be here are people whose symbiotic power has been activated by my blessings. They have accomplished great things in their lives, and almost none of them died young."

"I was already on the verge of death from the poison and could barely save myself. I managed to transfer a few people who were destined to be with me while I was still breathing."

"As a result, they were either old people who had turned into grandpas and grandmas, or those whose innate abilities were simply no match for zombies."

"They're old and frail, they can't even outrun zombies. They get bitten to death and assimilated in one bite, and now they're wandering the ground with the zombies."

"Some people are so heartbroken that they don't want to live anymore and have no attachment to the world. Before I could finish speaking to them in the form of gibberish, they committed suicide."

"And then there were those who, seeing the zombies everywhere and me turned into gibberish, completely ignored what I was saying and just let themselves go, and they died too..."

"Do you know how difficult it was for me when I was at my worst from the poisoning to control myself from going crazy and to give a proper, serious, and earnest explanation?"

"Damn it, I was in despair back then."

"Oh dear, that was terrible. I was just unlucky... Anyway, before I could transfer you to another time and space, seven other destined pioneers had already died."

"You are my last hope."

"The result did not disappoint me."

"After you came and listened to my 'nonsense,' you actually believed me and started heading to the first dungeon vortex to get the Quantity Orb to cure my illness."

"Do you know how touched I was at that moment...?"

"Li Can, from this day forward, as long as I, A-Yun, am here, no one will be able to bully you. I will pass on all my knowledge to you; you will be the next successor to the guardian spirit of Blue Star!"

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