Disaster Simulator, global collapse begins.

Those who want to inherit the family business and participate in management should study more mathematics and finance, while those like Karin who are only responsible for being beautiful will have much more free time to choose according to their own interests.

Except for the physical education class that Salk forced her to choose.

In his words, although Karin's mother was just as gluttonous as she was back then, the amount of exercise and energy expenditure during the assassin training was also great. If Karin just lay around playing with her personal terminal every day, she would really get as fat as a little pig.

For her physical education course, Chen Jie chose fencing. Compared to yoga, tennis, and golf, she opted for a course that could improve her combat skills to some extent. In addition, she also chose archaeology and virtual programming.

Don't be fooled by Karin's physical strength, which was only reached the standard after she had been soaking in the Brotherhood's special medicinal bath since childhood. Having undergone assassin training, when she stormed into this group of delicate young ladies, it was like a max-level character slaughtering a newbie village.

There's a certain joy in it, like crushing a noob.

During the fencing lesson, Chen Jie unexpectedly spotted an operative he knew—

Melantha!

While he might not have a significant impact on other operators, Melantha is a powerful three-star operator comparable to the Rhodes Island Sword Saint, a beginner's friend and a low-star warrior.

Like first love, it may not be the best, but it's definitely the most memorable. Melantha has helped countless newbies get through the difficult early stages of the game.

In addition, Melantha has another nickname: one of the four richest women in Rhode Island.

She is one of the hidden wealthy women in the family. Her father is a merchant in the bulk spice trade and runs several spice processing factories. He is currently the head of the family brand's direct sales store.

Times have changed, and history has changed, but to be able to enter a prestigious school in the Fourth Ring Road, her family's business must be just as large, or even larger, than in the original story!

So Chen Jie began to move closer to Melanza.

Perhaps because of her privileged background and the elite people she was surrounded by, she lacked confidence. Coupled with her quiet nature and poor communication skills, Melanie was always like a nobody in the class.

Karin's persistent pleas were too much to bear!

Compared to Melanie, Chen Jie, who claims to be bad at socializing, can practically be called a social terrorist.

She didn't seem to dislike this kind of passive social interaction.

From initially stammering, he now actively asks Chen Jie for fencing tips.

……

a year.

Aside from occasionally chatting with the simulator, Chen Jie was completely immersed in this world, attending classes, taking walks, and participating in salons, afternoon teas, and evening balls in various formal attire every day.

They haven't even opened a dimensional rift.

Believe it or not, this relaxation therapy is really effective.

Chen Jie has been having nightmares less and less lately, but he still has some doubts in his mind. Why did the last simulation leave such a problem? Could it be that he has been working non-stop for a hundred years and has become obsessed with exhaustion?

Or is it about the double simulation? Before he left, he had clearly completely eliminated the Originium Cataclysm.

Forget it, I don't want to think about it anymore. The more I think about it, the more my head aches, and it will also increase the likelihood of having nightmares at night.

During this year, Chen Jie also accomplished a major feat—

I've gathered all four of Rhodes Island's richest women—it might not be the best way to put it, but anyway, I've become good friends and besties with them.

……

"Try some of my aromatic cookies."

Perfumer Lena comes from a famous perfume manufacturer. Because her family often purchases perfumes from Melantha, the two have known each other for a long time.

Combining perfume ingredients with cuisine, emmmm...

Chen Jie tried a bite and was surprised to find it delicious, not the kind of terrible food that Ai Li had imagined.

Lena twitched her ears: "Many spices are actually herbs in Yan Country. After special processing, they can be made into snacks that smell and taste wonderful."

"Come and try what I brought!" Shih Huai-ya took out a huge food box.

Inside, there are plates of exquisite Longmen morning tea snacks.

In contrast to her fierce fighting style, Melantha usually behaves like a well-behaved young lady—gentle, quiet, and with a low profile. She even eats like a little mouse, taking tiny bites.

Before eating, Lena would carefully sniff the food, as if using her powerful sense of smell to analyze its composition.

Chen Jie looked at the dim sum and realized that the level of refinement in the dim sum was something that the char siu cat couldn't have made.

"You didn't do this, did you?"

The Beatrice-Swire family is involved in real estate, international trade—no, it should now be called cross-border trade—and also has businesses in shipping, refrigeration, road transport, aviation, beverages, and agriculture.

She's a rich girl who's half a level above Karin, Melantha, and Lena, but it seems she doesn't have a very good relationship with her family, which is why she chose to apply to this full-time boarding school.

"I earned the money myself, and then bought it with that money. There's no difference between it and something I made myself, right?" Shi Huaiya flicked her tail and said shamelessly.

“Then…so you’re saying mine was also made by hand.” Jessica also held up a small basket.

Chen Jie recognized those biscuits; they were more precious than gold, almost worth the same amount of Originium.

Jessica Brynley, the tearful cat-headed heiress of the Brynley family and the heiress of Thor Industries—

The prototype of this company is Raytheon, an American company with significant achievements in defense, commercial aircraft, and engineering construction. It is not only one of the largest industrial companies in the United States, but also the world's largest manufacturer of military electronic technology and products.

Jessica is a richer woman who is half a level above Swire!

But for some reason, he lacks confidence and cries a lot, which is why players jokingly call him the "crying cat head".

Chen Jie met the two women at the Film Mutual Aid Association.

Don't ask how someone who claims to be of the Aslan race managed to infiltrate the Flin Mutual Aid Society. It's like Schrödinger's race; you have to join a certain side to be considered your race.

……

Chapter 125 Skipping School, Knight Tournament, and the Approaching Reunion Movement

Stillness breeds restlessness.

Even now, with the increased number of simulations and the longer he lives, Chen Jie is less sensitive to the flow of time than before, and a year is a long rest period for him.

Tonight, she plans to sneak out of school and wander around Night City.

Swire suddenly came over and poked Karin's waist with its tail.

"I heard you're planning to sneak out of school tonight?"

"How did you know?!" Chen Jie exclaimed in surprise.

She only told Jessica about this, because she needed Jessica's help to purchase some equipment from Raytheon Industries.

She looked at Jessica, whose ears were drooping like airplane ears:

“I was organizing my gear that day when Amei happened to see me.”

“I…that day…I was taking a nap on the lawn with Lena, and then I talked in my sleep…” Melantha looked at Lena.

Lena's fox ears twitched, and she raised her hand to swear:

"I swear I only shared this secret with Missy!"

"So you all knew all along, huh?" Chen Jie sighed.

"We want to go too!" the four of them said in unison.

Regardless of their outward personality traits, it's clear that deep down, none of the four of them are obedient girls; otherwise, they wouldn't have become police superintendents/operators/Blacksteel mercenaries.

"Sigh..." Chen Jie had no choice but to summon the imposing aura he had accumulated over many lifetimes, "Let me make this clear beforehand: you must listen to me outside!"

“You have big breasts, so I’ll listen to you.” Shih Huai-ya shrugged.

"..."

Night City has no daytime, but most upscale venues install huge artificial canopies that project the sky and birdsong. As night quietly falls, five pairs of eyes open simultaneously after the night-shift maids finish their rounds of the dormitories.

Chen Jie took out a small tube of Soul Steel—this stuff is now called Roman Liquid Alloy in the Ark World, and it's incredibly expensive; a ton of Originium ore can be exchanged for about this small tube.

The reason it was so expensive was that after the emperor's death, no one knew how to manufacture and smelt it.

Personal terminals and Roman liquid alloys look very similar (both are liquid soul steel), but their prices are worlds apart. Anyone can use the smelted metal to replicate the former.

Due to its deep internal compilation, Soulsteel has lost many of its malleable properties. As a result, some people often use Terminal Alloy to impersonate Roman Alloy and sell it to those who are not knowledgeable or who want to find a bargain. This trick of passing off inferior goods as superior ones has been worn out by the people of Terra over the long years.

The Roman alloy was transformed into a data cable, with one end connected to the monitoring system and the other end connected to Karin.

Initiate the intrusion!

Without using any cheats from the Dimensional Rift, Chen Jie relied on his knowledge and skills to hack into the surveillance system of the five women, causing the surveillance cameras inside the room to flash red.

This is the agreed-upon signal.

Five people detonated an inflatable human-shaped decoy on the bed. The surveillance camera at the door could only handle it for a short time. The maids who patrolled and checked the rooms were the most troublesome.

They wrapped the bait in blankets and pillows, and following the maids' patrol routes they had learned beforehand, they successfully met up in the grove of trees in the park downstairs.

At that moment, the timing was perfect, and the surveillance system designed by Chen Jie was restored.

The people in the monitoring room probably only saw the screen flash briefly.

The next challenge lies with the hunting dogs in the courtyard. Chen Jie originally planned to drug them, but Lena's arrival gave her a new option.

Lena blended a perfume and won over all the hunting dogs.

Arriving at the main gate without incident, the Roman alloy, like a living silver thread, searched for gaps and slipped in, hacking and modifying the system. With a click, the gate to freedom opened!

Swire rushed out, wanting to shout, but Melantha covered her mouth.

"That stupid char siu cat will attract people..."

Chen Jie was the first to call her that, but unfortunately Shih Huai-ya couldn't beat her.

"What are we going to do here?" Now that we're actually out, Jessica feels a little lost.

"When I went home for vacation last time, I secretly booked a room. We can hide there..." Chen Jie suggested, "and sneak online!"

It brings back memories of skipping school and sneaking off to internet cafes when I was a kid!

“I know a more interesting place than the internet that you can access anytime,” Lena suddenly said.

"Kasimir Arena!"

Kazimierz once relied on its knights to dominate the region, and even after being incorporated into the territory of the Holy Roman Empire, the Silver Spear Pegasus Knights remained the most powerful of the empire's many legions.

However, the nobles of Kazimierz have long since abandoned their knightly honor, assimilating with the dark city of night and becoming pure merchants who prioritize profit above all else.

A building resembling the ancient Roman Colosseum stands tall in this city where neon lights and technology intertwine. No one in the world can understand the sense of detachment Chen Jie felt after witnessing this scene.

Jessica suddenly spoke up weakly:

“I’ve heard my family mention this place. They occasionally let them test some unstable weapons and equipment…it sounds very bloody.”

"It's not like it's terrifying every day." Swire seemed to have some understanding of what was going on inside.

"The most common sport is equestrian competition. The boys' academy focuses more on learning related knowledge and has a lot of fancy moves, so they play flashy exhibition matches."

"The remaining types are the bloody ones, such as Originium creatures captured from the outer ring, wild beasts from the wasteland, and monsters like the Sea King, making the knights fight against these monsters."

"Furthermore, the Business Federation deceives people in the outer ring by using permanent residency in the inner ring as bait, gradually tricking them into participating in life-or-death struggles."

"Eek!" Jessica almost burst into tears just hearing that.

"I really don't know why you, who's such a coward, would sneak out with us to play," Chen Jie complained.

"Let's go in and take a look."

Knights' duels are a specialty of Kazimierz and are a must-try.

Today there are five large battles and several smaller battles. Three have already been fought, and currently there is a performance competition between two knightly orders. The final battle is the grand finale.

An infected organization that has won nine consecutive battles will hold a no-rules battle today, and if it wins, it will gain the right to move into the inner ring.

“They’re doomed,” Swire, who knew the nature of the Business Federation well, concluded.

Five girls bought a day pass, which included the first three matches that had already been played. Although it was a bit expensive, it meant they could skip the queue and go straight through the VIP lane, and there were also private boxes and free snacks and drinks.

He opened a small bag, put on the internal network helmet provided by the Business Federation, and for a moment, he was like a transparent ghost floating in the battlefield where the two teams of knights were dueling.

It can float and adjust the view at will, and there are even paid value-added services, such as using drones to assist or interfere with the riders in the arena.

The warm-up battles are over, and the grand finale is about to begin.

A strange atmosphere seemed to permeate the arena. Suddenly, the infected knights pulled out a large banner, which fluttered in the bloody wind in the arena.

That is……

Integration Movement!

Chen Jie ripped off his helmet and woke up Lena and the other three.