Chapter 5

Li Qiang lives on a mineral planet that has been abandoned by the Human Federation. When this planet was first discovered, it caused great attention from the Human Federation. Even before its safety was fully confirmed, a large-scale immigration plan for the lower-class civilians was initiated.

Halfway through the immigration, before the infrastructure was fully built, the planet, which harbored a large amount of precious minerals, was hit by unstable crustal movements and cosmic storms.

After these disasters ended, almost all of the remaining immigrants died.

As the decision-maker at the time, the director of the Mineral Bureau was stripped of his citizenship in the universe.

However, a few years later, on those almost damaged immigration facilities, a group of human miners who were sold to this place appeared.

These miners were forcibly brought here by people traffickers driven by greed. They were both men and women, all healthy civilians.

It must be said that for the sake of profit, humans can overcome any difficulty.

After the disaster, this mineral planet was wrapped in electromagnetic storms that lasted for at least 23 hours out of every 24 hours. The remaining time was uncertain and unstable.

But it was during this brief time gap that these ruthless traffickers managed to send thousands of human miners to this death planet.

Of course, the cost was not small. To send these humans, at least three times as many miners lost their lives.

Almost any electronic equipment could not be used.

Therefore, to mine the precious minerals, only the most primitive methods could be used, manual mining.

Li Qiang is a member of the Chinese mining team, which is almost entirely composed of Asian descendants from the old Earth. Apart from exchanging precious minerals for food and drink, they have no additional income.

Li Qiang's portable game optical brain was found on an adventure spaceship that accidentally crashed on this planet.

At the time, Li Qiang was lucky. Before the supervisors discovered the spaceship wreckage, he entered it first and took away anything that could be hidden and seemed useful.

After a series of manipulations, only this powerful signal game optical brain remained.

Although it could only emit intermittent light wave signals, this latest model optical brain, with its ability to adapt to various harsh environments, could compress the accumulated light wave signals and transmit them to the main optical brain for decompression.

Therefore, even on this so-called death planet, the signal transmission of this new type of optical brain could not be blocked.

Although he had only been in contact with this incredibly realistic game for a little over three months, Li Qiang had already learned a lot of information he had never known before.

Li Qiang was born on this mineral planet, meaning he had almost never seen sunlight. Like most young people on the mineral planet, he was pale and frightening.

He was a test-tube baby, as almost all normally conceived children could not survive on this mineral planet. Only test-tube babies, after gene matching and adjustment, could adapt to this harsh living environment.

To reduce costs, the evil supervisory organization purchased expensive gene modulators to replace the miners who died unexpectedly.

This mineral planet, like its name, had only precious minerals, not even the oxygen necessary for survival, let alone food.

The Miner's Union, which controlled the oxygen and food, used these cheap things from the outside world to exchange for the precious minerals that the miners obtained with their blood, sweat, and even lives.

This primitive trading method has been implemented on the mineral planet for over 40 years. Most of the first batch of miners have died due to various accidents and inability to adapt to the harsh environment. Those still alive are mostly the new generation like Li Qiang.

Their skin and genes can adapt to the harsh electromagnetic interference and lack of food. Perhaps after a few hundred years, they might not even need food.

A large number of white buildings are exposed to the endless electromagnetic storms. Even with the high-tech alloy shells of the Federation, they have begun to show extensive damage and scorched black marks from electric arcs.

After checking the oxygen levels, Li Qiang looked up at the electromagnetic sky, which was like leaden clouds. Large, disordered flashes of electric arcs, like mad snakes, darted through the leaden clouds, dark and oppressive!

A small figure in a protective suit, struggling through the electromagnetic storm, approached. Li Qiang glanced at the person and quickly entered the registration office. Miners have no entertainment, and sexual behavior is strictly prohibited. Even though he could tell it was a woman, Li Qiang remained cold.

At the end of a day's mining work, Li Qiang earned a few points and a portion of synthetic food.

After a quick meal, he quickly connected to the "Parallel Life" game forum. The game forum is almost the only way Li Qiang can get information from the outside world.

Li Qiang has never received any education, so he cannot read. However, the forum, to better fit the "Parallel Life" game, specially provided a learning program for the official language and script of the Us Empire.

After accidentally opening this program, Li Qiang learned the language and script of the Us Empire according to the complete textbooks.

Because this game is very popular, when Li Qiang posted in the Us Empire's script on the forum, it immediately caused a wave of text.

The entire forum was沸腾 (boiling), and after a month, the forum was only using the official script of the Us Empire.

Li Qiang did not care about these things.

He wanted to leave this hellish place and enjoy the sunlight and a normal life, rather than living just to get oxygen tanks.

Through the forum, Li Qiang learned a lot, as the netizens were really talkative.

After browsing the forum, there was no major news except for a few lucky people who obtained official status.

Connecting to the game, Li Qiang did not enter directly but checked Rick's attributes.

Name: Rick

Identity: Frontier Army Reserve

Strength: 0.8

Agility: 0.9

Constitution: 0.6

Spirit: 1.3

The attributes are very simple and clear.

Previously, the identity section also had the words "Frontier Army Reserve," but it was blurry. It was only after Rick truly joined the Frontier Army, i.e., after he killed someone, that this identity section became clear and stable.

The average attributes of a normal adult are 1. Rick's attributes, except for his spirit, are all below average.

This "Parallel Life" game, developed by the Human Federation and the Pan-Universal Alliance, is a very unique and worth-playing game.

Unlike ordinary games where you level up by killing monsters, the biggest selling point of this game is that it strips away the player's memory.

The game's main brain will extract a subconscious module from the player's subconscious. Based on this module, it will generate the game character.

In other words, it creates a game character with the player's personality and subconscious but without any of the player's memories. This parallel life is the game's biggest selling point.