Chapter 407: Attaining 31.675% Winter Principle

[That wasn’t really a lie.]

[You had experienced only three doomsday life simulations, but you had experienced countless station worlds.]

[Some of them even had hellish blizzards and extreme cold temperatures worse than what the Eternal Winter could ever achieve.]

[However, for a doomsday scenario, experiencing the Eternal Winter was a first.]

[The receptionist lowered her voice. "There’s actually a rumor going around among the staff."]

["What rumor?"]

["They’re saying this winter might not end."]

[You raised an eyebrow. "People are already saying that?"]

["People are frightened."]

[She gave a helpless smile. "When people don’t understand something, they tend to imagine the worst."]

[You nodded in agreement. That was also true.]

[They simply had no idea how close their worst imagination was to reality.]

[In fact, if what you speculated was true, then Eternal Winter might not just be these extreme cold temperatures and snowy weather.]

[However, you had no plans of informing anyone in this world about it. Aside from Jade, you had no plans of being that close to anyone in this world.]

[After all, for you, Jade was more than enough. As your first lover, you greatly enjoyed her company.]

[Even so, since this receptionist was polite, you still responded, "Thank you for the warning."]

["You’re welcome, sir."]

[You turned around and began walking towards the elevator.]

[Behind you, the receptionist watched your departing figure for a few seconds.]

[She couldn’t explain why, but she had the strange feeling that the man who had just booked the presidential suite was completely different from the other guests.]

[Most people who came to the hotel during a crisis were trying to escape the cold. He looked like he had come here simply to watch it.]

[Of course, you were well aware of the thoughts of any humans below your bloodline rank. Even when you had suppressed the bloodline rank of your multiplication avatar, it still couldn’t hide your inherent greatness.]

[Unfortunately, the receptionist might have good intentions for warning you and wasn’t a bad person, but you had no intentions of being close to anyone in this world.]

[Investing emotions in the doomsday life simulation was a dead end. After all, ending the doomsday life simulation would mean the entire simulation disappears.]

[You don’t know what happens to a doomsday life simulation that had ended and if it still existed or not. But in your case, it was as good as nonexistent.]

[Due to this, the only exception was if you’re willing to bring them to the real world. So, unless they were of use to you or someone you had an irreplaceable bond with, it was only right to treat anyone else in the simulation as NPCs.]

[By doing so, you wouldn’t have to invest unnecessary emotions and attachments to those who you wouldn’t cross paths with after the doomsday life simulation ended.]

[Thinking of this, you arrived inside the hotel’s presidential suite. Although the harsh snow and cold temperature outside had paralyzed most of the luxuries of this five-star hotel, it was still in better shape than other residences.]

[You had used a concealment formation plate to hide your home and ensure no one would break in and steal anything in there. Due to this, you didn’t stay in your home but in this hotel instead.]

["The great thing about this presidential suite is its top-floor location, allowing anyone from above to see through what’s happening below."]

[You muttered as you walked to the wall that was made out of tempered glass, looking down at the snow that piled up on the streets below.]

[As you observed the scenery below, you hadn’t forgotten to comprehend the Winter Authority.]

[Although a powerhouse like you would be able to make do with any environment, you wouldn’t go out of your way to suffer, especially when you could use your abilities to grant yourself luxury.]

[The Peak Aether-grade Limitless Wealth Card was quite convenient for stuff like that. As long as you were in a modern-era world, it was as good as omnipotent.]

[Since it was an artifact, the great thing about it was that it was usable even if you didn’t have any power rank. Just flashing that card would allow anyone to believe that you weren’t someone to be messed with, allowing you to avoid most dangers in a modern-era world.]

["Unfortunately, it won’t be long before money will become more useless than toilet paper. When it becomes waste paper, I presume Chaos will triumph over Order, causing the evil within human hearts to succumb to the lawlessness of the apocalypse."]

[Even so, you didn’t have any plans of using your money to stock up and hoard resources since you could easily create it with Unlimited Food Creation (Gold) and X-rank Equivalent Exchange.]

[Planning to experience the Eternal Winter doomsday scenario to the fullest, you decided to concentrate on comprehending the Winter Authority, shutting yourself within the presidential suite.]

[Aside from the food delivered regularly by the hotel staff, you never came out and decided to only do so when order had collapsed.]

[Due to this, time passed, and it soon became the second week since the advent of the Eternal Winter.]

[Since it was already the second week, the Eternal Winter had already caused irreparable damage to human society.]

[You weren’t oblivious to the news released by the government, but they were merely making empty promises to quell public outrage.]

[Unfortunately, people weren’t stupid. Since the tenth day, they had already started hoarding supplies, and some had even used force.]

[Now that it was the fourteenth day, the snow outside had even buried the roads, and buildings were completely covered with a thick layer of ice.]

[People were no longer naive enough to rely on the government, so order had become completely nonexistent, especially when the law enforcers themselves had already quit and even used their guns to plunder supplies from civilians.]

[As for those from the government and elite society, they had secretly built underground shelters for themselves, completely abandoning the common people.]

[During those past days, you weren’t idle, having successfully attained 31.675% Winter Principle!]