As his vision gradually cleared, what appeared before him was a vast expanse of azure sky and an endless, blue ocean!
"Where am I?"
Li Yuan felt an excruciating headache, and the information he was gathering seemed to have a huge gap with his memory.
"No, didn't I die?" The last thing Li Yuan could recall was drowning after falling into a lake while drunk, followed by a series of painful struggles, choking, suffocating, and fading consciousness...
The sensations from his body now suggested he was still in the water, but how did he end up in the sea? Could there be a passage from the inland lake to the ocean?
And why was he floating on the surface? He couldn't swim. Was it the high density and buoyancy of the saltwater?
Why wasn't he dead?
His head throbbed.
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With a long sigh, Li Yuan tried to move his body, but bizarrely, he couldn't feel his hands or feet.
Realizing this, Li Yuan's mind froze for half a second! This was definitely not a good sign! Could he be paralyzed?
He attempted to lift his head to check his body.
Next, his perspective shifted directly upwards into an overhead view... This was very strange, like switching from a first-person shooter game to a third-person view!
Undoubtedly, this shouldn't be a human ability!
The scariest part was yet to come! Seeing his own "body," Li Yuan was utterly stunned.
"What! Where's my head! Where are my limbs? Where's my body? Where are my inseparable, shared glory and disgrace brothers! Why the fuck is there only a row of bamboo rafts!"
This was beyond frightening; it was terrifying, extremely terrifying!
***
It took Li Yuan three whole days to accept a reality.
He wasn't sitting on this wooden raft in a soul state; he could clearly feel the flow of water beneath him, sense the condition of each bamboo, and even see the schools of fish passing by underwater...
He was the bamboo raft!
"I get it, I fucking reincarnated as a bamboo raft!
Reincarnation is one thing, but not reincarnating as a human is another. Others reincarnate as insects, big trees, or small grass, and at least they have a chance to turn things around. But I reincarnated as a bamboo raft... without even an oar, that's just too much!"
[Ding, host self-awareness completed.]
The sudden voice in Li Yuan's mind startled him, though he couldn't jump...
"What the hell?"
[Activating Super Battleship Evolution System.]
"System?" At that single word, a spark of hope suddenly lit up in Li Yuan"s long-cold heart.
[Calibrating spacetime axis... Please wait.]
[Time: Azure Epoch 300. Planet: Earth]
"This is Earth? Then what is the Azure Epoch?" Li Yuan asked in surprise, "Hey, hey, hey, wait a minute! Don't bully me for not reading much, is this really Earth? Since when does Earth have an Azure Epoch?"
[Yes, this is Earth.
If calculated according to the Gregorian calendar, it should be the year 2379 AD, but today's Earth is no longer the same as the Earth in your mind.
Twenty years before the Azure Epoch, in 2359 AD, the third World War completely destroyed Earth's ozone system. In the following twenty years, global temperatures rose, polar ice caps melted, causing global sea levels to rise, submerging 95% of the world's land.
The significant increase in global temperature and the charged particle streams carried by solar winds accelerated the rapid evolution and mutation of Earth's organisms. Now, over 50% of Earth's organisms have mutated.]
"This..." The amount of information was overwhelming, and Li Yuan was a bit confused.
"Didn't you say the ocean submerged 95%? Isn't there still 5% land? Where are those places? Are there still people there?"
[Almost all habitable islands are occupied by powerful fleets for long periods. As for the people you mentioned, many have survived, but some have changed, and most of them live on ships. After all, sea creatures still pose a significant threat to humans, and the few large habitable islands are occupied by powerful fleets, so ships have become their homes.]
[In simple terms, this is an era of evolution, a time of competing for the oceans and the skies, hence this era is also known as the "Azure Age"!]
"This..." Li Yuan couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
[If the host has no questions, we will continue with basic information identification.]
Before Li Yuan could figure it out, the system's voice sounded again, and he could only temporarily set aside his thoughts and listen carefully.
[Host: Li Yuan]
[Vessel: Three-Pole Bamboo Raft]
[Crew: 0]
[Speed: Unmeasurable without power system]
[Combat Power: 0]
[Load Capacity: 0/50 kg]
[Evolution Progress: 0/10 (Wood)]
"It can evolve!" Li Yuan listened intently to this long string of information and suddenly felt enlightened.
Although all his current data was "0," he was still excited and shouted out, even though he couldn't actually shout... he was just screaming in his mind.
"Oh yeah~ I have a system too!"
Now Li Yuan no longer looked dejected. The whole... no, the entire raft was different, with joyful splashes between the bamboo poles, unusually lively.
No matter what others reincarnated as, the fact that Li Yuan became a bamboo raft was already a done deal, and there's no point in dwelling on it.
He was now in the Azure Age, in this global Age of Great Navigation, where ships became the primary means of competition.
As long as he had this Super Battleship System, anything was possible!
With a long sigh, Li Yuan gazed deeply into the distance, where the sea and sky were one, a vast expanse of blue.
"The sky is broader than the sea, and a man's heart is broader than the sky! System, you chose me, truly a wise choice! In my past life, I died without meaning, but in this life, I will forge ahead with my own hands, riding the azure sky and sea!"
[Host, first, you don't have hands, and second, you are currently just a row of three-pole bamboo rafts, moving too fast might cause disintegration.]
"I... know! I was just expressing my aspirations! What I mean is that I will become stronger through my own efforts!"
[So, can I interpret the host's words as voluntarily giving up the Beginner's Gift Pack?]
"Stop!" Li Yuan shouted in his mind, "What Beginner's Gift Pack?"
[It's a reward pack for the host completing self-awareness within the specified time, but you just said you wanted to rely on your own efforts...]
"Nonsense! Utter nonsense! Do you think I don't understand the principle of teamwork? Do you think I don't understand the power of numbers? Only by uniting all forces can great things be achieved! Bring out the Beginner's Gift Pack!"
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