I'm the boss because I have a harem of anime characters.

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I'm the Boss with a Harem of Two-Dimensional Beauties (Author: Host Liu Jiu)

The abyss descends, and superhumans run rampant, but Qin Shan snatches the script.

Whether the world is in chaos or not is up to me, Qin Shan.

After his rebirth, Qin Shan, accompanied by ship girls, raised his middle finger towards the abyss.

Book 1: Rise of the Extraordinary

Section 1: The Abyss Descends

"I'm truly speechless. Hamas Superman is getting more and more outrageous lately, and the number of celestial soldiers they're using for the lottery has increased dramatically."

The video shows Hamas Superman tearing apart a celestial tank. The superman throws a heavy-looking explosive charge at the celestial tank's head from 300 meters away, turning it into a grilled squid.

The human body is amazing, isn't it?

Wait a minute, this scene is a bit outrageous.

Is that outrageous? But the most outrageous part is yet to come. For example, Qin Shan, who was watching the video, knew that this Hamas superman threw a bomb weighing over 100 kilograms from 337 meters away.

By normal standards, this is definitely the plot of an anti-Japanese war drama, which many people don't believe now, but it's a story that's actually happening because some special beings have descended upon us.

Spiritual Energy Revival? New Season for Earth Online? Extraordinary Arrival?

In short, it's not entirely wrong. A certain force is indeed spreading across the Earth, and this force is gradually transforming the entire Earth's ecosystem. This transformation is not limited to humans, but also extends to other plants and animals. This change will become increasingly apparent until it breaks through a certain threshold, at which point governments will no longer be able to conceal it.

With the emergence of superhumans, all sorts of strange and bizarre things will happen on Earth, and these phenomena are collectively called the "Abyss". It is called the Abyss because when humans actually observed this phenomenon, a huge, blood-red vortex appeared on the scene, from which terrifying superhuman creatures emerged.

Therefore, the disasters caused by the extraordinary are collectively referred to as "abyss phenomena," which can be simply summarized as the abyss.

From that day on, the world became increasingly chaotic until, five years later, countries were no longer able to maintain their original national order. This standard was drawn when even the five permanent members of the UN Security Council could no longer maintain their own government management structures.

Many small and medium-sized countries collapsed to the point in the first year that they could not even send UN representatives back. The weaker the central authority, the faster the collapse was beyond imagination.

Five years later, the largest territory that humans could control would not exceed 100,000 square kilometers, and human civilization entered the Abyss Wasteland Era.

The wasteland here doesn't mean the land is unusable, but rather that the areas outside the fortified cities are fraught with danger. Without city walls and various energy fields to protect them, no one feels safe.

Oh, okay, I see. But what does this have to do with me, who only earns 3,000 a month?

Of course there are! Among those mutated plants and animals, there are man-eating monsters. Are you scared yet?

Qin Shan, a reborn individual, knew that within a year of the Abyss's appearance, the world lost over a billion people, and just five years later, the Earth's total population was less than two billion.

Fortunately, by then humanity had already passed through the most confusing and difficult early years and began to fight back for survival.

Even so, humanity is still unable to regain its former dominance over the entire Earth. The total area controlled by all of humanity is barely equivalent to the size of Russia, and it is scattered across the Earth in a few places.

"This is terrible!"

Qin Shan put down his phone, reached out and raised his hand, and the bottle of soda instantly appeared in his hand five meters away.

Simple operation of spatial abilities.

Yes, he was also an extraordinary being, and in his previous life he was a participant in the "Revival Counterattack," the only space-type ability user in human civilization, and his strength level before his sacrifice was ninth rank.

The Revitalization Counter-Offensive Plan was Longhua's last attempt to connect with other fortified cities, link the north and south, and reclaim the Central Plains as a national-level strategy. However, the enemy's strength was far greater, and Qin Shan's final fate was to perish together with the enemy through hyperspace collapse, choosing to die on the road to reclaiming the territory. Unexpectedly, he did not become a martyr, but instead returned to the beginning.

After confirming that this was not a hallucination, nor was it a fantasy he had before his death, Qin Shan immediately took action.

The first step is to determine whether one's knowledge from a past life allows for precognition.

The test went very smoothly. Hamas did indeed produce an incomprehensible superman, which shows that the abyss will arrive as scheduled. In that case, I must start struggling immediately.

"I know exactly how to proceed from the first to the ninth rank, and I know that the ninth rank is not the end; there is an even higher tenth rank above it. But human beings are just too slow to react!"

Qin Shan remembered clearly that it took humanity five years to stabilize, but the first transcendent to break through to the seventh rank was born in 2200. The first ninth-rank transcendent was Qin Shan himself, which was in 2311. Before Qin Shan's sacrifice, humanity only had four ninth-rank transcendents and fifty-seven eighth-rank transcendents. Although the enemy camp had slightly fewer top-tier transcendents, they were not so few that any of humanity's top-tier transcendents could easily unleash their full power. Moreover, the number of their lower-tier transcendents was a hundred times greater than that of humanity.

A hundred times! A hundred times! Before 2300, humans were the ones who were dominating them, and the situation was very favorable.

But as the saying goes, "Born in hardship, die in comfort," and humanity at the time felt that "the advantage was in our hands." In addition, the surviving governments all hoped that their respective nations in the Abyss Era would become the leaders of human civilization. Various factions also engaged in various power struggles, especially as the superhumans began to oppose ordinary people. Many superhumans wanted to create a utopia where they could do whatever they wanted, turning the world into a giant India. This intensified internal conflicts among humanity, and superhuman wars of civil war scale broke out in various countries. Those who got on board first wanted to lock the doors, but they did not yet have the ability to lock the doors. Those below still had the ability to resist, and as a result, the entire human civilization was dragged down.

By the time the various human factions had regrouped and decided to temporarily set aside their differences and concentrate their efforts on making humanity great again, the number of other plant and animal superhumans had far exceeded that of the human faction, and they had launched a counterattack against humanity. Humanity was struggling in a war of attrition with no end in sight.

That kind of future is too dark. And the thought that such a future is something that humanity has brought upon itself makes Qin Shan want to destroy the world.

Some people are just too greedy. Even if they already have the best, it's not enough. They still want to possess more. They think that as superhumans, they should become the gods of Olympus, taking whatever they want from mortals. The result is a civil war among humans, with both superhumans and ordinary people suffering heavy casualties and losing their vitality.

Extraordinary individuals also awaken from among ordinary people. The heavy casualties among ordinary people are tantamount to the extraordinary individuals digging up their own roots.

In 2303, when the human civil war ended, the total number of humans in the world was less than 500 million.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say they killed themselves; it's absolutely hilarious.

The revival counter-offensive in which Qin Shan participated was destined from the beginning to be a tragic song written by idealists for human civilization, a final charge against this cruel world before the inevitable end.

Qin Shan didn't see the outcome, but he imagined it wasn't very pleasant.

After all, the domestic population was only a little over 100 million at that time, but the number of other invaders in the surrounding area exceeded one billion.

This is a desperate number that even Qin Shan might not be able to kill completely.

"Humanity must not repeat the mistakes of the past, so what I should do now is..."

As someone who was able to grow to the pinnacle of the extraordinary during the Abyss Era, Qin Shan relied on one word: survival.

Geniuses who don't have caution ingrained in their DNA have all perished at the hands of enemies who appear out of nowhere. The characteristics of extraordinary individuals are ever-changing, and many have been caught off guard and lost their lives.

If you want to overcome all odds with sheer force, you first need to become someone who can move mountains with minimal effort.

Qin Shan took out paper and pen and wrote down "become stronger" and "survive".

While becoming stronger myself, I must also help my fellow humans become stronger. After all, civilization is not the civilization of one person, and I am not the Queen of Blades commanding the swarm. If too many people die, humanity will truly perish. Only the strong can survive in the cruel Abyss Era and fight for a glimmer of hope.

However, Qin Shan also understood that the development of history was inevitable. Even if he voluntarily handed over everything to the country and confessed everything in front of the chief, people would never admit their mistakes until they had suffered enough losses.

After all, any political management model has inertia. There is no possibility of switching from a civilian mode to a war mode in a second. It's not like it's a console for Paradox Interactive players. Even the United States, which was isolated overseas and absolutely safe during World War II, started preparing when the Soviet Union and Germany had no Poland. By the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, they had been preparing for two years in advance, smoothly transitioning to a state of war, and their country was not greatly damaged during the entire World War II.

Compared to other countries in World War II, the United States had an absolutely perfect record.

However, the extraordinary awakening and chaos that followed the abyss spread across the seven continents and four oceans in an instant. There was no possibility of being safe and sound while isolated overseas. On the contrary, due to the fragility of the centralized systems of European and American countries, their vulnerability in the face of the terrifying abyss disaster was astonishing. The most classic example is France. When the abyss invades, there is no question of surrendering to avoid death. As a result, after a full-scale abyss invasion, France disappeared on the spot, and the French people on the mainland were all killed.

It's not an exaggeration; it literally means annihilation. The subsequent carnage far surpassed that of World War II, comparable to Warhammer. According to the data Qin Shan knew before his death, the surviving population in Europe was no more than 20 million, including Russia.

On the contrary, some small, unnoticed places, such as those island nations in the Pacific, have become paradises in another sense, but these paradises have no future. They have no population, resources, land, or industry; they are just waiting to die.

Having understood all this, Qin Shan knew that he couldn't directly deal with the government yet. Before a real tragedy occurred, humanity was a rather stubborn species. Those who thought they could easily save the world after being reborn were like warriors of light. If Qin Shan were at the ninth level now, he would definitely give it a try and would be able to eliminate those hidden bad apples. But he was only at the first level now. Before a space-type user reached the seventh level, humanity had plenty of ways to eliminate them, and he really didn't want the technology he possessed to fall into the hands of those powerful families.

This group of people is absolutely the biggest malignant tumor that has brought human civilization into the ICU. Their various monopolies disgusted Qin Shan in his previous life and almost cut off his chance to advance from the sixth to the seventh level. In the subsequent civil war of the superhumans, Qin Shan, who had become an extremely troublesome seventh-level space-type superhuman, directly slaughtered all the superhumans on the side of the aristocratic families, leaving them kneeling and waiting to die in despair. This created favorable conditions for the subsequent counterattack by gathering forces.

At that time, it was almost impossible for humans to win; even Qin Shan himself died in battle.

If we were to draw a pie chart to represent the responsibility for the decline of human civilization, these beasts would bear at least 80% of the responsibility.

Does the country not deserve to be trusted?

It's worthwhile, but don't personify the nation, don't treat the nation as a person's country. In peacetime, large countries have all sorts of strange factions, whose interests are intertwined and conflicting. You may be valuable to the nation's cause, but some people just want you to die quickly, especially when you really touch their sensitive interests.

There's no point in arguing about anything else; let's just fight to the death. After all, cutting off someone's livelihood is like taking away Batman's parents. Expecting these people to have the ideological awareness of founding heroes is like hoping that Europe will seriously engage in environmental protection.

For those people, the country is still vast, with plenty of potential to squander, and it's simply not worth making sacrifices for.

By the time it's too late, it won't matter much whether they give up their rights or not.

Therefore, Qin Shan decided to develop cautiously before reaching the seventh rank. Relying on the advantage he gained from the information he currently had, even in the worst-case scenario, advancing to the seventh rank would not be a problem. Optimistically, reaching the ninth rank within a year would not be a problem, and that would mean being able to fly and escape into the ground.

Putting everything else aside, Qin Shan can instantly teleport a thousand meters underground and can escape at any time, leaving even nuclear weapons helpless.

It's important to understand that even the Tsar Bomba's kill radius is at most 55 kilometers, while Qin Shan's seventh-order teleportation can cover 100 kilometers. Moreover, the bodies of superhumans are immune to shockwaves and nuclear radiation. To kill a seventh-order superhuman, using a 10,000-ton nuclear bomb as an example, you need to ensure that the opponent is within 100 meters of the nuclear explosion radius. The high temperature and pressure within this range can guarantee the elimination of a seventh-order superhuman. However, the problem is that when a superhuman senses something is wrong, even the most common type of seventh-order superhuman with enhanced physical strength can run two kilometers away in the blink of an eye. If the terrain is more complex, the opponent might even burrow underground. Unless you directly hit the opponent on the head, it is extremely difficult for a tactical nuclear bomb to kill a superhuman.

As for other weapons, with nuclear weapons already like this, what else can you expect?

Don't bring up laser weapons. At least in Qin Shan's previous life, the most advanced laser weapons developed by mankind were not enough to penetrate the body of a superhuman in a short time. Moreover, mankind had already suffered heavy casualties at that time, and the remaining population and resources were not enough to continue to make technological breakthroughs in a short period of time. Many technologies could only remain at the blueprint stage, and even if they could be produced, they could not be mass-produced.

Therefore, the first five years are crucial. The sooner humanity stabilizes itself during these five years, the more potential it can preserve.

Once the goal is decided, the next step is to determine where to develop, how to develop, and what opportunities are available.

Qin Shan chose his hometown—Northeast China—without hesitation.

In the previous life, the Northeast region could have been preserved and developed well. After all, the Northeast region had a complete set of heavy industrial production capacity. Although some equipment was a bit old, it was still usable and mass production was not a problem. Moreover, the Northeast had a complete set of industrial resources, only varying in quantity and quality, with no obvious shortcomings.

However, in the third year after the abyss descended, the capital exploded. The leadership of Shanghai took over, and these people, for their own small territory, transferred a large number of elite troops from the north and south to Shanghai for the defense. As a result, Shanghai was not saved, and the main forces also suffered heavy losses. They also exploded on the spot, spiraling into the sky, and directly broke their gun barrels into firewood sticks.

This triggered a chain reaction: the entire coastal area fell, and the Northeast, Northwest, and Southwest lost their most valuable regions. Eighty percent of the Third Front construction system built by predecessors was lost for no apparent reason. Whenever Qin Shan thought of this, he felt an urge to cut out certain people's family genealogies.

The kind that you throw directly into napalm and burn.

At this point, Qin Shan knew exactly what he needed to do next.

Moreover, the Northeast region is not lacking in opportunities, because a gate to other worlds will appear there. The demons that later launched invasions against the Northeast and Russia came from the Changbai Mountain region. At first, they were not that troublesome, but after a hundred years of development, they became a major threat.

To put it bluntly, it's still a problem with humanity itself, giving the enemy so much time to develop, like a replica of a late Ming Dynasty story.

Besides these grand plans, Qin Shan also had some personal motives, namely, to go back and protect his parents.

What, is this selfish motive so strange? He's not some invincible war god from Zaun who graduated from the protagonist training class on Qidian.com. Is wanting both parents alive such an outrageous thing?

After quickly submitting his resignation letter, Qin Shan packed his things and boarded a plane home.

Dad, Mom, I'm home!

Section 2: The ship girl has arrived home, please collect her.

I'm home! My heart is pounding with excitement, my hands are trembling, and I open the door.

Qin Shan fell silent, then decisively took a step back. He recognized the familiar old door, the familiar couplets, and the familiar area around the entrance, but the person coming out of the house was definitely not one of his own!

First of all, this woman has long flaxen hair, a delicate face, a body full of mature feminine charm, and a silhouette that seems to have stepped out of imagination and into reality. Models would have to kneel down in worship in front of her. In Qin Shan's memories of both lifetimes, if such a girl appeared, it would be absolutely impossible for him to have no impression of her.

Just as Qin Shan was about to ask if the other person had gone to the wrong place, the woman spoke first.

"Welcome home, Admiral."

"I...Admiral!?"

Qin Shan keenly noticed the key words in the other person's words.

In his previous life, he had indeed held many important positions. After all, he was a ninth-order space-type superhuman. At that level, he could turn back the clock of history and become an emperor. But he had never held the position of admiral.

"The Warship Girls R system has been bound, and the system functions are now online. Please check and use them yourself, Admiral."

The six exclamation marks above perfectly capture Qin Shan's current mood, and his pupils dilated in shock, leaving his family reeling.

System! I got a system as a bonus after I was reborn!

Wait a minute, this system, Warship Girls R, holy crap, how come it feels so dated? This 1.5 programmers' survival master has not only survived to this day in the game, but has even become bound to me, becoming my Wind Spirit Moon Shadow. Am I the chosen one of this world, reincarnated from Liu Xiu, to receive such treatment?

Just then, the system that was already online started to work, and a line of text appeared above the woman's head: Lexington.

It's Lexington! In Warship Girls R, she's an exceptional ship girl who's unbeatable on the rankings, and a must-have for countless Warship Girls R admirals. Qin Shan's first ship, which is also his secretary ship, is Lexington.

So the other person's current affection level is 200%, which is equivalent to being able to unlock all sorts of positions, like being able to play through all the various terms on Pixiv. Just thinking about it makes me... want to fight! (Close-up with clear meaning)

"Son's back!" came the mother's voice from inside the room.

Then, Dad came over too. For parents, their son coming home from afar is a very happy thing, and now he's bringing his girlfriend back, which is double the joy!

Yes, Lexington and Qin Shan arrived at each other almost simultaneously. Heaven knows how the system arranged it. Lexington arrived at Qin Shan's house a few minutes earlier than him and introduced herself as Qin Shan's girlfriend. Just as his parents were shocked, Qin Shan returned.

The seamless transition between these events was truly exceptional. Having acquired the system and knowing that this was his ship girl, Qin Shan would naturally choose to immediately acknowledge Lexington as his girlfriend. As for other details, he would discuss them later. The most pressing matter now was to get his family to accept Lexington.

It doesn't seem too difficult. After all, Qin Shan has accepted it, and his parents will definitely accept it too. As for whether Lexington is a foreign girl, that's not important. What's important is that their son has brought his girlfriend home, and they must give her a warm welcome.

"Sit down, sit down, come inside. Qin Shan, you really are something, bringing your girlfriend home without even telling me beforehand. Old man, go buy some groceries, I'll make some hearty dishes today."

"Auntie, you don't need to spend any money. It was just that my visit was too sudden."

"No expense, no expense."

Our parents' feelings are the most important thing right now; we can talk about other things later.

"Please have a seat, I'll go buy groceries."

"Dad, let's go together quickly."

"Hey, hey, hey, you shouldn't go. Stay with that girl."

Dad went downstairs with a smile. The market wasn't far from home; he'd be back in half an hour at most.