The Falling Feather Ring looked like an ordinary silver ring. It was decorated with a pair of tiny wings. Its attributes seemed nonexistent, yet it was still classified as gold-tier, all because of its additional skill.
With the Falling Feather skill, Shi You only needed to level up to increase his Strength a little. From a building more than ten stories tall, he could jump down without a problem. Aside from his legs going a little numb, he was completely fine.
In the apocalypse, this was practically a god-tier skill. Especially for Shi You, who had personally experienced the benefits of Falling Feather. It had saved his life countless times. In his eyes, calling it merely gold-tier was an understatement. Even semi-legendary would be selling it short.
Shi You put on the ring. He still couldn't learn the skill book, but just as he was about to put the card into his pocket, a translucent window suddenly popped up.
[Learnable skill detected: Frost Strike. Would you like to learn it?]
Shi You was completely stunned.
Learn it?
How was that possible?
“Learn.”
Shi You spoke doubtfully. To his surprise, the card shattered and turned into light that entered his body. Then the notification window popped up again.
[Skill: Frost Strike. Learned.]
It really worked!
Shi You's eyes widened. What was going on? This made no sense at all!
Wait a second!
Suddenly, Shi You realized something. He opened his personal status panel and looked at the attributes at the top. At first, he smiled faintly. Then his shoulders began to shake. Finally, he couldn't hold back his laughter anymore and burst out laughing.
On the status panel, the skill slots that should have been empty were now filled with four additional skills.
Status Panel
Player: Shi You
Level: 1
Experience: 0/20
Card slots: 0/20
Title: None
Attributes: (A normal adult male has a value of 10)
Strength: 14.3 (Base 13 + 10%)
Agility: 11 (Base 10 + 10%)
Vitality: 13.2 (Base 12 + 10%)
Spirit: 28.5 (Base 25 + 10% + 1)
Free attribute points: 0
Resistance: 30% Ice Resistance
Skills: Sword Mastery LV10 (Max), Unarmed Combat Mastery LV7, Special Combat LV3, Lockpicking LV7, Frost Strike
Compared with his previous life, the basic attributes on Shi You's current status panel—Strength, Agility, and Vitality—hadn't changed. But his Spirit had doubled. It might have been because of the effects of spending so many years as a soul in his previous life, combined with the effects of being reborn.
The most obvious change was his skills.
These four skills were the skills he had possessed in his previous life. Even their levels hadn't changed in the slightest.
Who could have imagined this would happen?
Since the Doomsday Game scanned data from the human body, including information such as the soul, some players who had mastered related skills before the game began would receive those skills after entering the game.
For example, locksmiths would receive Lockpicking, boxers would receive Combat skills, and special forces soldiers would receive Special Combat skills. All those years of hard training and the like.
This wasn't a secret, but Shi You had never imagined that the skills he had painstakingly trained to max level in his previous life could be inherited into this life.
Although it did make sense. These weren't active skills that could be used directly, but passive skills focused on muscle memory and knowledge.
In his previous life, he had spent two full years raising Sword Mastery to max level. Max-level Sword Mastery could truly be called a miracle.
Skill: Sword Mastery
Level: LV10 (Max)
Type: Passive Skill
Description: You have a deeper understanding of swordsmanship and can use the most accurate movements to kill enemies. When using sword-type weapons, energy consumption is reduced by 50%.
Reduces the equipment requirements for sword-type weapons by LV10.
Reduces the durability loss rate of sword-type weapons by 50%.
When using sword-type weapons, attacks deal additional damage equal to 20% of Strength and 10% of Agility.
Shi You had originally felt a little depressed. The skill he had worked so hard to max out would have to be trained all over again. It was like finally finishing the college entrance exam, getting an unexpectedly high score, and being accepted into your dream university—only to open your eyes and find yourself back in your first year of high school.
But now, it saved him a tremendous amount of time and energy!
“Right, there was also that notification window from earlier.”
Shi You remembered the notification window he had swiped aside in the restroom. When he dismissed it, he had only glanced at it briefly. It was an explanation of the Doomsday Game. He had read it in his previous life, so he hadn't been in a hurry to go through it. He could wait until everything settled down and then check whether it differed from his previous life.
Shi You dragged the notification window back from the edge of his vision.
[Welcome to the Doomsday Game.]
[Congratulations to the Player who can see this notification. You have survived the first round of screening.]
[At present, 90% of living creatures have become zombies. Every type of living creature has the same 90% ratio. Please rest assured.]
[The zombie virus can spread through blood, scratches, and saliva. Ordinary methods cannot eliminate the zombie virus.]
[Water sources are also one of the transmission routes for the zombie virus. Do not drink water of unknown origin.]
[To help everyone survive in this world, tiny insects such as ants cannot transmit the virus.]
[To help everyone survive, at 12:00 a.m. every day, surviving Players will receive one supply package: 300 milliliters of water and 60 grams of whole-wheat bread. Please protect your supplies and prevent other Players from taking them.]
[The zombie virus remains in the soil for a long time, making it impossible to grow crops.]
[Please investigate the habits and weaknesses of zombies for yourself.]
[Killing zombies grants experience. After leveling up, you can increase your four stats. Open the personal status panel to view your personal status.]
[Zombies have a chance to drop cards, which may contain various supplies.]
[Modern human weapons, including firearms, electronic equipment, communication devices, and vehicles, are all unusable.]
[Zombies will evolve over time, and mutant zombies may appear.]
[Please investigate the other rules for yourself.]
[Finally, may everyone survive to the end, and enjoy the game.]
The announcement window came to an end. Shi You read through it quickly, confirming that it was no different from his previous life, and then closed the announcement.
Shi You walked out of the restroom with his saber in hand. The moment he turned the corner, he ran straight into a zombie.
To be honest, even after spending many years in the apocalypse, when Shi You saw the lowest-level zombie, he still couldn't help describing it with the words “classic.”
There really was no other choice. The appearance of these zombies was so classic that he couldn't help commenting on it over and over.
Pale gray skin, bulging purple-black veins, gray eyes threaded with black veins, black lips, and a staggering gait.
It was exactly like the standard lowest-level monster from zombie movies and games!
But when it came to the zombies that caused players the most damage, these ordinary monsters were actually the ones.
Especially in the first few minutes of the apocalypse.
Before anyone had time to react, your friends, companions, family, or even random passersby could suddenly become zombies. Then they would attack the living people around them. Most people wouldn't even realize what was happening before their brains were eaten and they died. Those who were bitten would become infected and join the zombie horde, suffering through the agony of the virus.
There were also people who happened to be driving. When their cars suddenly stopped working, they were lucky if they merely crashed into a median or a wall. Most of them plowed into other people, causing even more severe damage.
So although the announcement said that 90% of humanity had become zombies, less than ten minutes after the apocalypse arrived, that number had rapidly risen past 95%.
By the final days of the apocalypse, the true number of survivors might be only one in ten thousand—or even fewer.
“Graaah!”
As these thoughts raced through his mind, the zombie that spotted Shi You let out a roar and charged at him.
But before the zombie's roar had ended, a beautiful ice crystal shot through the air. The zombie instantly froze in place.
Shi You sheathed his saber and walked past the zombie. As a burst of freezing aura erupted, neat dark-blue lines spread from the zombie's neck. With a heavy thud, the zombie's head, still letting out a low roar, suddenly fell silently to the floor.