Su Xiu's grades were far from ideal.
Literally.
In a rented room, converted from a relocated building, next to Handong University in Handong Province.
Su Xiu looked at the somewhat glaringly red report card on the desk in front of him and sighed deeply.
“Forget it, reaching the top by relying on external things like grades is too opportunistic.”
“I’ll just honestly rely on my own hard work and sweat to cheat.”
“This is the true path of the strong!”
Su Xiu stood up, stretched with his back to the wide French window behind him, and the worries of failing a course vanished instantly.
He blinked, and a screen, visible only to him, appeared before his eyes.
【Su Xiu: Human】
【Profession: Psyker】
【Psionic Level: Manifestation Level One】
【Remaining Warp Salvage Attempts: 1】
“Sure enough, just like my memories from my previous life, Ling Neng · Premonition really is related to human emotions.”
Su Xiu thought to himself, looking at the data on the golden finger he received when he transmigrated.
This golden finger of his came from an online multiplayer game he played in his previous life, titled 【Space Marines】.
He vaguely remembered that when he transmigrated, Su Xiu, who had accidentally entered a 'god-tier' server due to his overly abstract name, watched as teammates, seemingly possessed by Khorne and blessed by Tzeentch, soloed Greater Daemons as humans, completely disregarding the collateral damage of their battles that repeatedly executed him. In a fit of rage, he got angry.
After dying countless times, the utterly furious Su Xiu spent five hundred units of currency to get an enhanced 'Emperor's Blessing' account from a cheater, vowing to reverse the recent unhealthy trend circulating in the game.
Good news, the cheat was real.
Bad news, it was a little too real.
Where the hell did this thing send me?!
The sunlight outside the window was dazzling, but it only momentarily calmed Su Xiu, who tactically took a sip of cool boiled water from his thermos.
He picked up his phone, opened DingTalk, and scrolled to the list of instructors for the astrophysics course.
The stark black characters of Ye Wenjie’s name were somewhat glaring, once again shattering all the illusions in Su Xiu’s heart, which he had already somewhat anticipated based on his memories.
‘It really is Trisolaris…’
Su Xiu sighed to himself.
He looked up at the perpetual calendar on the wall; the current date was September 23, 2005.
If his memory served him correctly.
At this time, Ye Wenjie had already co-founded the ETO with Evans and established the Second Red Coast Base, and the two sophons launched from Trisolaris to block human technology had already arrived on Earth.
Which meant—
Su Xiu’s gaze sharpened, and he cautiously looked around.
The entire Earth was now under the surveillance of the sophons.
Although a scumbag like him, with no power, no influence, and no knowledge, wouldn't be allocated much computing resources, once he showed too many unusual behaviors, the sophons would undoubtedly easily discover his abnormalities.
Su Xiu didn't want to gamble whether the little Ling Neng · Premonition he had just gained, thanks to the sensation caused by confessing to the campus belle senior, could directly penetrate the sophons' defenses.
Just thinking about the stupid things he had done before awakening his memories from his previous life, Su Xiu couldn't help but rub his forehead.
‘Damn it! Of all people to confess to! Why Yang Dong!’
Though I admit Yang Dong is indeed beautiful! Gentle and intellectual! Knowledgeable! And a famous physicist!
But first, let's not mention that Yang Dong’s mother is Ye Wenjie, the biggest villain in the early stages of Trisolaris.
Most importantly, Yang Dong already has a boyfriend!
Are you really not afraid of getting beaten for openly poaching someone's girlfriend like that?
Although it was embarrassing, Su Xiu felt relieved when he thought about how much courage it must have taken for him, without his past life memories or a cheat, to still choose to confess to Yang Dong.
The love of youth is just so impulsive and pure, unreasonable, transcending all class, race, and identity differences.
And most importantly, if it weren't for this incident, he wouldn't know how long it would take to recover his memories and awaken his system.
However... is this the Warhammer mana bar—the power of emotion?
Su Xiu looked at the line of text on his panel.
【Psionic Level: Manifestation Level One】
According to the Warhammer system's settings.
Psionic power is divided into twenty-four levels, both positive and negative.
Positive psionic power is undoubtedly the legendary mage, who can use the mana, transformed from biological emotions, in the Warp, a large reservoir of biological emotional power, to do many things.
Negative psionic power, on the other hand, is like a small black hole that can swallow psionic energy, nullifying it before it overloads the user.
Su Xiu looked at his hands.
He wasn't in a hurry to cast spells, because he knew there was always the possibility of sophons monitoring him.
Before figuring out a way to deal with the sophon surveillance, he absolutely couldn't expose his abnormality.
Su Xiu's expression was thoughtful.
Since psionic power truly exists... what about the Warp?
And the way he awakened the system... the probability of Warp Chaos Gods being born in this world... Never mind, it's come to this, let's draw cards first.
Su Xiu shook his head. As a 'cloud-hammer' who only bought miniatures as collectibles and never played a tabletop game, the relationship between the Warp, the Four Chaos Gods, and sentient beings was still too difficult for him to understand.
After all, even GW itself probably didn't know how many retcons and patches it would have to make regarding the specific details of the Four Gods' birth in the future.
So—
‘Card draw simulator! Activate!’
Su Xiu looked at the screen in front of him, which appeared as the 【Remaining Warp Salvage Attempts】 turned to 0, and silently chanted in his mind.
The screen instantly showed a ripple, then transformed into a dilapidated golden boat sailing on a murky sea.
As the boat cast its fishing net, small white, blue, purple, and golden fish quickly slid across the screen. Undoubtedly, according to Su Xiu's previous experience, the most common white was the worst option, while the rarer blue and purple were definitely better.
As for the golden, which appeared only occasionally, it was undoubtedly the rarest card set.
In his previous life, as a 'non-chief' (someone with bad luck in gacha games) who was terrible but addicted, Su Xiu, with an excited heart and trembling hands, pressed the confirm button just before a golden light flashed.
‘A golden one would be best’ ‘Purple or blue is also good’ ‘Holy crap, why is it all white’
‘N.M. does the Warp also have network lag?’
Watching the shaky boat, which looked like it could fall apart at any moment, slowly lower its fishing net, moving as sluggishly as an old person on the verge of death, Su Xiu couldn't help but feel his vision go dark as he watched the golden, purple, and blue lights slip away.
But despite his bad luck, three options now appeared before Su Xiu.
【Warp Power (1/10)】
【Power Armor Design Blueprint (Incomplete)】
【Ling Neng · Premonition】
Su Xiu weighed the three options before him.
The first option was most likely related to Ling Neng · Premonition, a guaranteed outcome.
The second was clearly a technological ability, a type of skill.
The third was a spell.
Su Xiu’s eyes glinted.
He was still far from improving his psionic level.
And an incomplete technical blueprint was useless to a university student like him, a good-for-nothing who had failed a major physics course.
The only thing that could immediately enhance his strength was the last option.
However, the timing of the 【Ling Neng · Premonition】 ability was too coincidental. Could the third option be changing based on his current situation?
“Foretell good or bad fortune? Seek good luck and avoid disaster?”
Su Xiu looked at the system's introduction, a joyful expression on his face.
Being abused by cheaters was certainly painful! But when it was his turn to cheat! Of course, the bigger the cheat, the better!
No cheat is a cheat? A small cheat isn't a cheat! What? Trisolarans, are you not convinced?