No More Being a Simp

Early the next morning, he went to the Internet café with only ten copper coins in his hand and a schoolbag on his back.

As soon as he entered the Internet café, he smelled a whiff of cigarette smoke. However, the cigarette smoke here didn't seem as pungent as that in the Internet cafes in his previous life.

Qin Siyang had never smoked, so he wasn't sure of the difference.

The Internet café was a bit shabby. It seemed that it hadn't been decorated much. It had just been painted and some patterned stickers had been pasted on the walls. However, it was still much better than Qin Siyang's residence.

Because there were two lights on the ceiling.

They were not candle lights, but electric lights.

In the safe zone, in Qin Siyang's eyes, those who could afford to use electricity were all wealthy people.

Those who could afford to open an electricity-using storefront were even more extremely wealthy.

In this poor area on the edge of the safe zone, no one could afford to go to an Internet café.

But there was just such an Internet café opened here.

As the only Internet café nearby, Qin Siyang had heard that the owner of the Internet café had some background, and it seemed that there were often some strange people coming to the Internet café.

"Open a computer. Half an hour is enough!"

Qin Siyang threw down ten copper coins, which was his one-week salary from working part-time in the school library.

The shortage of electrical resources made the cost of the Internet café very expensive. When the ten copper coins were given out, Qin Siyang's heart ached.

The chubby network administrator in his thirties sitting at the counter stared at Qin Siyang for a few more seconds and expressionlessly pointed to a computer: "That one over there. Go ahead."

After Qin Siyang sat down, a person not far from him was holding a thin cigar in his mouth and typing on the keyboard.

At this moment, Qin Siyang knew why the cigarette smoke in the Internet café in this life smelled much better than that in his previous life.

Because the Internet café was expensive.

Those who had spare money to come here were generally people who were looking up information or doing business transactions.

The cigarettes they smoked were naturally of much higher quality than the inferior cigarettes in the Internet cafes in his previous life.

As for what kind of transactions they were doing, Qin Siyang had no idea.

Qin Siyang turned on the computer, but this computer was very slow. It took two minutes to enter the interface.

There was no way. If the computer was faster, it wouldn't be so cheap.

He immediately logged into the forum [Godslaying Camp] about sequence ability users and checked the sequences that had now appeared.

The top-posted thread was about the statistics of the sequence abilities that had now been awakened. He immediately clicked on it.

From New Year's Day in 2005 to now, a full five years, thousands of sequences had been awakened.

And everyone awakened suddenly, not as strange as Qin Siyang.

There was a thread titled [How Can Humans Reoccupy the Blue Star] that attracted Qin Siyang's attention.

"With these abilities that have been awakened now, there is simply no hope of killing all the gods."

"The gods can eat people to heal themselves, but people can't eat the gods to become stronger. How can they possibly win?!"

"It would be great if there was a sequence ability that could make people become stronger by devouring the gods!"

"Thousands of sequences have been awakened, and there is not a single one related to devouring the gods. There is no hope at all."

So.

Neither was there anyone with an awakening method like his, nor was there anyone with a sequence ability like his.

Qin Siyang swallowed and murmured:

"Could it be that I am the chosen one?!"

The [God Eater] sequence, without a doubt, once it was revealed, would definitely cause a sensation throughout the safe zone!

However, when his gaze stayed on a reply, he fell into hesitation.

"Hey, if you awakened a sequence that could make you become stronger by devouring the gods, you might be captured and studied! Where would you still have the chance to type here!"

Be captured and studied...

Having a preliminary understanding of sequence abilities, he knew that his [God Eater] sequence was something that countless people dreamed of.

Among the thousands of sequence ability users in [Godslaying Camp], all of them were eager to have a sequence ability that could digest the gods and enhance themselves.

Because being able to hunt the gods and enhance oneself at the same time was undoubtedly the most terrifying sequence perpetual motion machine.

Qin Siyang carefully realized that he didn't seem to have the strength to match this miraculous sequence.

As the saying goes, "An ordinary man is innocent, but he is guilty if he possesses a jade." "A tree that stands out in the forest will be destroyed by the wind."

If a person has wealth that doesn't match his strength, it is very easy for him to encounter danger.

It was a choice between believing in himself.

Or believing in others and building his own life and future on the noble morality of others.

This question was not difficult to answer.

If you are stronger than everyone else, people will regard you as a hero. If you are much stronger than everyone else, people will regard you as a disaster.

Qin Siyang immediately made up his mind: he would keep this matter a secret! It was better to take control of his own destiny in his own hands than to believe in the kindness of others.

Make a fortune quietly.

Whether in the previous life or this life, it was an unbreakable truth!

When he was thinking about his future plans, the computer suddenly jumped back to the password interface and displayed a message:

[The computer usage time has expired. If you want to continue using it, please go to the counter to renew the fee.]

The Internet access time purchased with ten copper coins had expired. This was the difficulty of not having money.

Even if your sequence is extremely powerful, you still have to log off on time.

Fortunately, in just half an hour, Qin Siyang had already found the information he wanted. The ten copper coins were not completely in vain. At least he knew that he must never let others know about the [God Eater] sequence.

Qin Siyang picked up his schoolbag and left the Internet café under the somewhat confused gaze of the chubby network administrator.

After leaving the Internet café, the air became much fresher immediately. There was no cigarette smoke or strange greasy smell, only the ordinary smell of dust.

However, due to the lack of lighting, it became pitch dark around, and it took Qin Siyang a while to get used to it before he could see the dim road clearly.

Looking through the air defense glass of the safe zone at the starry sky that hung in the air all year round and the huge gods that occasionally wandered by, Qin Siyang was a bit confused again.

What should he do next? Where should he go?

Should he go to the exit of the safe zone or go to school?

In [Godslaying Camp], those sequence ability users said that at the exit of the safe zone, teams of sequence ability users who hunted the gods would go in and out every day.

In order for the human race to counterattack the gods, the united government provided various support policies and resource inclinations to the sequence ability users. In exchange, the sequence ability users had to hunt the gods outside the safe zone.

Moreover, the more and bigger the gods that were hunted, the more generous the rewards for the sequence ability users would be.

In order to prove that they had hunted the gods, the sequence ability users would bring back the most characteristic part of the god's body as a voucher to receive the reward.

So Qin Siyang thought that waiting at the exit of the safe zone, he might have a chance to take a bite of the god's meat to verify whether this [God Eater] sequence could make him become stronger.

If the verification was successful, then he might be able to rise rapidly.

He could hide outside the safe zone and keep hunting the gods until he became a peerless master, and then come back to the safe zone and dominate everything.

His sequence was extremely powerful. He could improve his strength during the process of hunting the gods, which could be called a perpetual motion machine.

But Qin Siyang checked the information panel in his mind again, calmly analyzed his skills, and shook his head.

"The description of Blood Drink is that it can also digest the gods when eaten raw. But it doesn't say whether it can be absorbed or not."

"Digestion is digestion, and absorption is absorption. This must be clearly distinguished."

"If it can't be absorbed, it means that I can't obtain the necessary nutrients by eating the gods."

If this possibility existed, then even if he killed countless gods, he would starve to death outside the safe zone.

A meal can stump a hero.

Qin Siyang no longer thought about where to go, because he only had one option — go to school.

Going to the exit of the safe zone and taking a chance did have the possibility of becoming stronger.

But today's lunar calendar said [It's not suitable to do anything], which meant that it was probably not suitable to do things that depended on luck.

Qin Siyang wasn't superstitious originally, but since things like reincarnation and the end of the world, which were not scientific, had happened, being superstitious also seemed reasonable.

Once people encounter things beyond their cognition, they can't help but become superstitious.However, even if he was lucky enough to become stronger at the exit of the safe zone, it would still take time to exchange his ability for food, and it couldn't be achieved overnight.

But in school, there was no such problem.

There was lunch and dinner at school. Without school, Qin Siyang didn't know how he could survive on the edge of this dilapidated safe zone.

More importantly, today was Friday.

School was on holiday on Saturday and Sunday. When it was on holiday, the cafeteria was closed, which meant that he couldn't get a free meal.

Missing today's cafeteria meal, he, who had no money at all, would have to go hungry for two more days.

This was not a good decision.

He not only had to go to school, but also had to swallow his pride today and ask the canteen aunt to give him more food, so as to solve the problem of two meals or one meal a day during the weekend.

The canteen aunt who served the food also knew that he was an orphan, so she turned a blind eye to his behavior of asking for more food.

During the weekend, school was on holiday, but the sequence ability user teams didn't rest. This was also understandable.

Sequence ability users needed to submit the remains of the gods to the united government to obtain resources, which was not much different from small self-employed individuals who were responsible for their own profits and losses.

Since they were responsible for their own profits and losses, the working and holiday hours were not so clear.

So, Qin Siyang could still go to the exit of the safe zone to take a chance tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.

There was no doubt that going to school was the best solution. Even though he didn't plan to study and read at all.

On the dim main road, there was a not very bright street lamp every few dozen meters, illuminating a distance of two or three steps. The top of the street lamp was also connected to the air defense glass, which seemed to play a supporting role.

In Qin Siyang's view, the only meaning of these street lamps was to tell passers-by that this street was the main road in the edge area of the safe zone. Other than that, they didn't have much use.

Even the lights in the Internet café were several times brighter than the street lamps.

Qin Siyang walked along the dim main road for more than ten minutes and then arrived at the school.

In his previous life, Qin Siyang went to an ordinary high school in the county, and the school conditions were not very good.

It was not much different in this world, and it was even a bit worse than the school conditions in his previous life.

However, he had no choice, because on the edge of the safe zone, there was only one school, [Ju'an School].

[Ju'an School] covered a twelve-year education system from primary school to high school.

The children on the edge of the safe zone started school at the age of six or seven and didn't leave here until they were eighteen years old.

It could be said to be a second home.

The students in this school were all ordinary people, and the parents of the students were also ordinary people.

In the safe zone where sequence ability users were not rare, there were not many gathering places of all ordinary people, and they were all distributed on the edge of the safe zone.

As long as someone could awaken a sequence ability, they would definitely move their whole family away from this dangerous and dilapidated edge area and go to live in a better area of the safe zone.

In school, everyone was at the bottom of the safe zone and made a living in the edge area.

But Qin Siyang's family conditions were undoubtedly the worst.

Because he didn't even have ordinary parents and had lived alone since he was a child.

If it weren't for the policy of the united government that orphans could be exempted from tuition fees, he didn't know where he would be now and what he would be doing.

Maybe he would have already become a pile of white bones.

Qin Siyang walked along the dim street to the school. The teacher on duty at the school gate hadn't arrived yet, and the morning self-study hadn't started either.

The daily morning self-study was from 8:00 to 8:15 in the morning, similar to his previous life.

He was very excited about having just awakened his sequence, so he woke up early this morning. Even though he spent half an hour in the Internet café, he still wasn't late when he arrived at school.

Qin Siyang liked school very much. Not only because the school gave him free food, but also because there were many lights in the school.

The school was the brightest place on the edge of the entire safe zone. It had the best circuit system and electric lights.

In the safe zone where electrical resources were expensive, this was very rare.

The united government believed that the hope of saving the human race and counter-killing the gods lay on every child. In any case, the educational conditions couldn't be made poor.

Once the educational conditions improved, the new generation would have a sense of belonging to the united government and the safe zone, and they would be more enthusiastic about devoting themselves to the cause of hunting the gods.

The united government also proposed that every child should be given an equal opportunity to receive an education, because you never knew which child might grow up to be the one who could change the world and the pattern of the human race.

But policies were policies, and when they were implemented in each school, they became various and strange.

The school teachers didn't think that every student was worthy of cultivation, especially in [Ju'an School] where Qin Siyang was.

According to incomplete statistics, the more difficult the living conditions were, the fewer people awakened as sequence ability users.

So far in [Ju'an School], Qin Siyang hadn't heard of anyone awakening a sequence ability.

People like Qin Siyang, who didn't pay tuition fees and had no future, were like bloodsuckers in the school, and the teachers didn't like him very much. Even though the teachers sucked much more blood from the school than Qin Siyang did.

The head teacher placed his desk in the corner of the classroom, in a place where no one paid attention, exactly the same as the position in his previous life.

Qin Siyang in his previous life became lonely because of this, but Qin Siyang after reincarnation felt very comfortable.

At least here, no one would disturb him when he was in a daze.

Other classmates took out their textbooks and began to preview today's lessons. But Qin Siyang rested his chin on one hand and looked out the window at the gods that flew by from time to time beside the safe zone, thinking about how to find a chance to become stronger.

"Qin Siyang."

Just then, his daze was interrupted.

He looked up and saw a pretty female classmate standing beside him.

"Oh, Li Jingwen. What's the matter?"

She finally came.

Qin Siyang's mind immediately came up with her information. He would never forget this woman even if she turned into ashes.

She was Li Jingwen, Qin Siyang's high school classmate.

In his previous life, Qin Siyang pursued Li Jingwen for three years and was extremely humble during those three years.

He would rather go hungry every day than not bring breakfast to Li Jingwen. He also helped Li Jingwen with her homework. When Li Jingwen was in a bad mood, he would chat with her until late at night.

For Li Jingwen, Qin Siyang responded to every request and gave all that he, an orphan, could give.

He hoped to be with Li Jingwen.

But Li Jingwen never agreed to his confession. She always made excuses, saying that she was still too young, that she couldn't delay her studies, and that she couldn't let down her parents' expectations.

However, whenever Qin Siyang wanted to give up pursuing her, Li Jingwen would take the initiative to find him and encourage him, saying that this was just a test for him and that she hoped he would continue to persevere.

So Qin Siyang firmly believed that Li Jingwen would fall in love with him after graduating from high school.

Unfortunately, it was only after graduating from high school that he learned that Li Jingwen had already been together with Zhou Yang from the next class for a long time. Zhou Yang's family conditions were quite good, and for Li Jingwen to be with him could be considered as crossing half a social class.

He still remembered that when he saw Li Jingwen holding hands with Zhou Yang, Li Jingwen sneered at him:

"You're so stupid. You deserve to be an orphan!"

This time, having been reborn, even though the world had undergone drastic changes, most of his classmates from his previous life remained unchanged.

Qin Siyang didn't know if this was a chance given by heaven for him to turn over a new leaf, but he was still very grateful to the heavens in his heart for allowing him to meet Li Jingwen again.

It allowed him to completely bid farewell to the "sucker" Qin Siyang from his previous life.

In his memory, Li Jingwen in high school was always sweet and lovely. The two dimples that appeared when she smiled had once made Qin Siyang infatuated.

However, when he saw her again this time, Qin Siyang was filled with disgust. There was no longer any flutter in his heart, and he even felt a bit disgusted.

The way he looked at Li Jingwen was dull and indifferent.

Li Jingwen didn't notice the change in Qin Siyang. Instead, she said in a coquettish voice, "Qin Siyang, you haven't brought me breakfast for three days already."

"Oh, I ate the breakfast myself." Qin Siyang replied indifferently without any emotional fluctuations to her words that were almost like acts of coquetry.

Li Jingwen was stunned for a moment, seemingly not expecting Qin Siyang to answer like this. Then she asked in surprise, "Then what about my breakfast?"

"Didn't you tell me that you have breakfast at home, so you don't need me to bring it?"

Qin Siyang only learned later that Li Jingwen had given the breakfast he gave her to Zhou Yang from the next class to please him.

It could be said that Li Jingwen had worked very hard to be with Zhou Yang.

It was just that her efforts were built on Qin Siyang's ridiculous sacrifices.

Li Jingwen put her hands on her hips and said, "I was just testing you! If you give up so easily, how can I feel at ease being with you in the future?"

Looking at Li Jingwen's angry and coquettish appearance, Qin Siyang chuckled and said, "If you don't feel at ease, then don't be together. Anyway, we're not in a relationship now."

When Li Jingwen heard Qin Siyang's answer, she felt something was wrong in her heart. She didn't know why Qin Siyang, who had always been at her beck and call, seemed to have changed completely in the past few days!

But she was also angry at the moment and didn't have the patience to be nice to Qin Siyang. She just wanted to get back the homework that Qin Siyang had helped her write as soon as possible and then go to check the answers with Zhou Yang.

"Then give me my homework."

Qin Siyang opened his schoolbag, took out three exercise books, and handed them to Li Jingwen.

Li Jingwen took the homework, opened two pages, and immediately widened her eyes in surprise: "Qin Siyang! Why is the homework blank?!"

"Don't be ridiculous. Homework won't write itself. If no one writes it, it will naturally be blank."

"But... but didn't you always help me write it?"

Qin Siyang took out another three notebooks, opened the blank homework sections, and showed them to Li Jingwen: "I didn't even write my own homework. Why should I help you write yours?"

"You! You'll get me scolded by the teacher like this!"

"Oh."

"Aren't you worried that I'll be scolded by the teacher?"

Qin Siyang looked at Li Jingwen in a funny way as if he had heard something ridiculous, then shrugged his shoulders and said, "You never worried when I was scolded by the teacher either."

Li Jingwen immediately put on an act. She pouted her lips and there were tears glistening in her eyes: "Qin Siyang, I think you don't like me anymore."

Qin Siyang turned a blind eye to her act and instead gave her a thumbs-up: "Li Jingwen, this is the only sensible thing you've said this morning. If there's nothing else, don't disturb me while I'm in a daze."

After saying that, Qin Siyang leaned against the window and continued to look at the strange-looking gods in the sky. He thought to himself, if I eat this thing, won't I get diarrhea?

This time, Li Jingwen was completely stunned.

She had already made an appointment to check the homework answers with Zhou Yang later and planned to give the breakfast that Qin Siyang gave her to Zhou Yang.

Now that Qin Siyang was shirking his responsibilities, how could she explain it to Zhou Yang?!

Facing Qin Siyang's indifference, she said angrily, "Qin Siyang, if you do this, there will be no possibility for us in the future!"

Qin Siyang snorted and laughed, turned his head, and looked at the calendar hanging at the back of the classroom.

[Blue Star Era, January 1, 2010]

[Gregorian calendar, Friday, New Year's Day.]

[Lunar calendar, the year of Jichou, November 17th, It's not suitable to do anything.]

"Who said it's not suitable to do anything today?"

"Isn't this a double blessing?"