"It's started!" Honda sighed inwardly, looking at Li Jiayu who was looking around in confusion. He wondered if he had existed in Li Jiayu's 'past life'. He hoped the 'insertion card' would work its magic and not make him Li Jiayu's enemy, otherwise his situation would become awkward.
"who..."
Li Jiayu groaned and listlessly raised his head, looking like a piece of rotten wood. His expression was blank and lifeless, as if he had lost his soul.
Sun Weiwei felt a sudden tremor in her heart. She had never seen anyone's eyes so stagnant and empty, exuding a chilling sense of despair. She thought of a phrase—utter despair.
Like a poor soul about to die of thirst in the depths of the desert, or a terminally ill patient with little time left, with no hope of survival.
"This is going to be interesting."
The onlookers stirred and whispered among themselves—Sun Weiwei was competitive and ambitious, while Li Jiayu was somewhat soft-hearted and known for her politeness and gentleness. Rumor had it that this pair of people with such contrasting personalities were having an affair.
Whether the affair was real or not, the onlookers were just hoping for another heated argument between the couple, leading to a dramatic and entertaining spectacle. But Honda was watching from the sidelines, wondering how many of these troublemakers would be left alive.
Hearing the hushed whispers, Sun Weiwei felt even more embarrassed. Her ears turned bright red, and she bit her lip, remaining silent. She glared at Li Jiayu for a full half minute before finally shouting angrily:
"I'm talking to you! Get up!"
"This voice...this voice seems familiar...you are...you are Sun...Sun Weiwei?" The dejection and confusion in Li Jiayu's eyes were gradually replaced by immense terror, and her whole body felt as if she were immersed in an ice cellar.
"Weren't you already having your skull pried open and your brain drained by the Soul-Eating Beast? No... my eyes, my eyes are clearly blind, so why can I still see things..."
He seemed to see something unbelievable, his face changed drastically, and he stood up abruptly from his chair, looking bewildered. He looked at Sun Weiwei, at his once familiar classmates, at the desks and chairs, the walls and newspapers in the classroom. The mottled colors and old memories filled Li Jiayu with countless thoughts.
"Oh ho, still pretending to have amnesia."
"Jiayu, stop pretending to have amnesia. It's so outdated. Girls these days don't fall for that..."
"Huh? Could it be that he didn't lose his memory, but was reborn?"
You've hit the nail on the head.
"Idiot! You've been reading too many reincarnation novels. There's no such thing as being reborn in this world."
The students watching were amused, simply assuming that Li Jiayu was using various tricks to pick up girls.
Sun Weiwei was also furious and embarrassed. She glared at Li Jiayu with wide eyes and stomped her foot hard.
"Li Jiayu! Can't you be serious for once?! You were just trying to get my attention by provoking me? Let me tell you, you're so boring!"
Li Jiayu opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but didn't know where to begin. He tried his best to hear what his classmate was saying, but couldn't hear a single word. It felt as if hundreds of thunderbolts were exploding in his mind, a chaotic mess. Countless regrets, countless remorse, and endless pain surged into his heart, almost suffocating Li Jiayu!
In my previous life, I was still naive and suffered a lot of losses. I blame myself for being too soft-hearted and making bad friends. During the first school-wide escape, I was pushed into the bloodsucking worms by my friends who wanted to escape... Although I survived by chance, I was severely injured and almost became a dried-up human. Even after I recovered, I was still behind others at the starting line of pursuing strength.
Because of his arrogance, he offended a behemoth-level enemy for the Demon Hunter group he once served. In a fit of rage, the entire Demon Hunter group was massacred, and blood flowed like a river. His leader, who had been so kind to him, was skinned alive and executed by slow slicing, and his body was used as dog food!
He regretted not heeding his father's advice and going out alone to hunt giant insects. As a result, he returned to his home with injuries and on the verge of death. In exchange for a bottle of repair fluid, his father volunteered to be transformed into a "biochemical blood zombie" by the organization, a zombie puppet that was left with only the instinct to kill...
I blame myself for being blinded by hatred and failing to perceive my sister's feelings. In the end, I watched helplessly as she was taken away by someone with immense power. I thought she could find a safe and warm haven, but instead, I was shocked to hear the devastating news that she had committed suicide by cutting her wrists...
Her cousin-in-law, who had silently supported her, was also brutally murdered because of her; most of her former friends were living miserable lives, their fates unknown; and those women she had been entangled with had vanished without a trace...
Filled with regret and profound sorrow, Li Jiayu was filled with remorse, and was repeatedly awakened by nightmares on cold and desolate nights.
He once had the chance to become a powerful warrior, but missed it due to a severed tendon in his hand; he once had the possibility of becoming a flame dancer, but gave it up to repay a debt of gratitude; he once had the opportunity to inherit a large fortune, but gave it up for various reasons...
The world has changed, things have changed, and all those I cared about have left me. What remains are only countless deep-seated hatreds, irreconcilable enemies...
Li Jiayu only remembered that in his previous life he had nowhere to go, was hunted down by alien races such as the insectoids and the zombies, and even the major human powers were pushing him to the brink of death. Isolated and helpless, he eventually suffered from his old injuries and died alone in a dark and damp tree hole.
No one knew that Li Jiayu, the wild summoner who caused headaches for the major powers of the Celestial Empire, the lowly rural bandit, the black summoner who was falsely accused of being an anti-human tyrant, yet made outstanding contributions in resisting the invasion of the Zerg and the undead, was only twenty-four years old when he was buried in such an unnamed place...
Everything will be reshuffled again!
A sudden surge of bitterness and melancholy welled up in her heart, her nose tingled, and tears welled up in her eyes. But Li Jiayu suppressed the trembling in her heart, took a deep breath, regained her composure, and smiled calmly:
"I'm sorry, I was just trying to make you laugh. I saw you were actively participating in the class meeting and wanted to cheer you up, but I didn't expect it to backfire and make you unhappy, and even cause a misunderstanding..."
It was still Li Jiayu's uniquely gentle voice, but for some reason, this time it sounded much more substantial and powerful, less peaceful and more clear and melodious, like metal clashing.
His smile was also subtly different from before. As for what the difference was, Sun Weiwei couldn't tell. In short, it was a very reserved and light smile, unlike the sunny and handsome smiles of those pretty boys.
Sun Weiwei just loved seeing Li Jiayu smile; she thought Li Jiayu's smile was very beautiful, even though he wasn't her boyfriend.
"Alright, since you apologized, I won't pursue the matter further. However, you have to join the 'Youth Volunteer Association' and go out on weekends to hand out health leaflets, do volunteer work, and clean the streets. Anyway, you have nothing else to do." Sun Weiwei set out the conditions. In her opinion, Li Jiayu would never refuse a girl's request, let alone hers.
"Youth Volunteer Association? Ha... They really have nothing better to do. I'm sorry, I probably don't have the time..."
Li Jiayu suddenly dropped her previous smile, a faint mockery tugging at the corner of her mouth, a mockery that Sun Weiwei saw as sharp as a knife.
"Are you bored and have nothing better to do? How can you talk like that? Do you look down on youth volunteers?"
A sudden panic welled up in Sun Weiwei's heart, her eyebrows furrowed, and she angrily pointed at Li Jiayu, her face pale.
The students who were watching also joined in the attack, denouncing Li Jiayu. After all, many of them had joined the "Youth Volunteer Association," and Li Jiayu had just said that they had nothing better to do than eat.
The sarcasm on Li Jiayu's lips intensified, and she spoke faster:
"Youth volunteers are based on a surplus of labor, allowing you college students with nothing better to do to vent your excess energy and satisfy your sense of honor... But when you live a precarious life, constantly facing the possibility of being devoured by insects or stabbed to death by your fellow volunteers, living a life worse than death, you probably won't even remember this word anymore..."
Li Jiayu took out her phone and checked the time—August 29, 2013, 4:32:39 PM.
"Time is running out, less than a minute left, and there's no time to call my family... Oh well, for the sake of being classmates, I'll tell you a little more."
"Everyone has studied physics and should know that one dimension is a line, two dimensions are a plane, three dimensions are a solid, four dimensions are just ordinary three-dimensional space with an added time axis... and so on. There are n-dimensional spaces in the universe, which explains why there are different worlds and different planes!"
"Nonsense! Of course we know all this! Don't ramble on…" Sun Weiwei had no intention of being polite and interrupted loudly.
"Let me finish!"
Li Jiayu shook her head, ignoring Sun Weiwei's unreasonable nagging, and dropped her first bombshell:
"In half a minute, the Earth's surface space will tremble and crack open with countless tiny spatial fissures. At the same time, a cosmic storm from another dimension will sweep across the Earth, causing drastic changes to the Earth's gravity, climate, geography, and so on!"
At this point, Li Jiayu looked at her classmate, who still looked bewildered and disbelieving, gently shook her head, a cold, bitter smile playing on her lips, and said in a low voice:
"You don't yet understand the horror of cosmic storms. When that happens... most electronic devices and precision instruments on Earth will completely fail! In other words, human civilization and technological civilization will suffer an unprecedented and devastating blow. Your cell phones, computers, air conditioners, even the light bulbs, the sex toys used by women, and all the electrical appliances that are inseparable from daily life will be paralyzed. That will be a... primitive, dark, barbaric, and bloody apocalyptic society!"
Li Jiayu's expression darkened, her bitter smile turning into a helpless self-mockery. Her voice grew even lower as she spoke, each word deliberate and deliberate:
"And this is just the beginning; even more terrible and deadly things are yet to come..."
"Sister Honda, will you believe me?" Having vented her frustration, Li Jiayu suddenly thought of her sister from her past life who had saved her many times. She asked Honda with a hint of expectation, but this "sister" stunned him. When did we have this kind of relationship? And! I don't want a brother like you, a total XX maniac.
"Come on, it's August 2013! 2012 has already been proven false, who would still believe such a ridiculous doomsday prophecy now?"
"Li Jiayu, have you lost your mind?"
"Is it really necessary to make such a low-level joke? Do you think we're all idiots?"
"You even brought up spatial oscillations and parallel universes, haha, have you been reading so many novels that your brain has gone mad?"
Before Honda could even answer, his classmates were all unhappy, completely dismissing Li Jiayu's words as a cheap joke and not believing a word. "Who told you to try and marry our goddess? Kid, you can't try to pick up girls like that!"
Throughout history, countless doomsday prophecies, both large and small, have been circulated. However, as time has passed, these doomsday lies have all fallen apart—especially after 2013, when people began to scoff at doomsday prophecies, deeming anyone who believed them a fool.
"Li Jiayu, stop joking. Look outside, it's so sunny and the weather is fine. How could the world be ending soon?"
Sun Weiwei chuckled dismissively and pointed out the window. She saw a clear blue sky, drifting white clouds, and the entire campus scenery. She could vaguely see students laughing and playing on the school paths, as well as affectionate couples.
Li Jiayu approached the window, sniffed, and greedily inhaled the fresh air. He gazed into the distance, as if trying to etch the last tranquility of the campus into his heart. Looking at his classmates, still carefree and living comfortably, the images of their tragic deaths vaguely appeared before his eyes. Li Jiayu felt a tightness in his chest and said in a hoarse voice:
"Just watch, my friends, what's about to happen will scare you to death. If you survive, you'll never forget this moment!"
Yes, if you can survive the bloody catastrophe of the apocalypse, you will surely remember the moment the world ended, down to the second!
August 29, 2013, 4:33:49 PM
Li Jiayu clearly remembers that unprecedented disasters broke out all over the world at the same time. The violent shaking of the earth's crust led to a series of volcanic eruptions, mudslides, landslides, collapses, storms, floods, and tsunamis.
It is unknown how many cities were destroyed in the earthquake and tsunami, and it is impossible to count how many people died in the natural disaster.
But Li Jiayu felt that dying in a natural disaster might still be a blessing in disguise.
Because the remaining people will face an even more terrifying threat, living in fear and despair every day, and it is unknown how many people are living a life worse than death!
The number of humans who died in the first wave of alien attacks alone is roughly estimated to be over one billion!
Blood-sucking worms burrow into the blood vessels and gnaw at them...
His skull was pried open by the Soul-Eating Beast, and his brain was sucked out...
Wrapped in a dumpling by a stinking spider, then melted into a puddle of minced meat...
Its head was crushed by a sickle beetle, and then it laid eggs inside its head...
A terrifying swarm of Zerg is wreaking havoc on Earth, staging a horrific massacre!
Everyone says that human wars are cruel, but compared to the slaughter by the Zerg, they are as gentle as a mother cat!
However, the Zerg are still the weakest race to invade Earth, along with zombies, ghouls, skeletons, and wraiths from the Abyss, and many other non-living things that are difficult to explain with science!
As the apocalypse arrives, it also points to a new direction for a technologically advanced Earth...
"Now, you'd better cover your ears, or a thunderclap on a clear day will deafen you."
"Who would believe you? Oh, time's almost up, five...four...three...two...one, sure enough, nothing was sent..."
A classmate who was arguing with Li Jia looked at his phone and loudly read out the countdown, but before he could even pronounce the word "生" (sheng, meaning life/birth) in "发生" (shengfa, meaning "happen/occur"), a thunderous sound suddenly rang in his ears!
"boom"
The thunderclap was extremely loud, causing the windowpanes to vibrate slightly, not to mention how painful it was to hear one's eardrums.
Ah~
Caught off guard, the girls were so frightened by the thunder that they quickly covered their ears. Some even turned pale and screamed at the top of their lungs, their screams extremely piercing!
"This is... a bolt from the blue..."
All the male students stared at Li Jiayu in a daze, but he remained the same, calm yet with an indescribable heaviness in his expression—how did he guess it?
A blind cat stumbles upon a dead mouse?
It's impossible for it to be such a coincidence, right?
Honda glanced at the composed Li Jiayu, then surveyed the classroom again. Not sensing the presence of the Dark Octopus, it seemed to be preparing to become a summoned beast. Reassured, Honda opened the earring's space, ready to receive cosmic energy.
The students around him were stunned. After all, a bolt from the blue is rare enough, but such a loud bolt from the blue is even rarer. For Li Jiayu to be able to predict that a bolt from the blue would happen in the next second seemed very mysterious, which made people think of him in a strange way.
A sense of unease began to creep into the hearts of many students, a pessimistic premonition rising within them.
"Damn, have you mastered feng shui to the max? You predicted all of this. Are you a cultivator or something? Hurry up and take me as your little brother..." a classmate chuckled.
"I don't have time to joke with you… Just keep watching, in two minutes the sky will be covered by thick black clouds… Or, you can try making a call now and see if you still have a signal."
As Li Jiayu spoke, she turned and walked out of the classroom. Sun Weiwei, in a panic, called out to Li Jiayu:
"Where are you going? Running away after bragging? The class meeting isn't over yet..."
Li Jiayu didn't turn her head, clenched her fist, and felt a faint fighting spirit within her. She walked away, saying:
"Go get the weapons!"
"What?"
"Fire axe!"
"Are you crazy? Taking a fire axe from the hallway like that will get you punished!"
"I can't be bothered with you guys, take care of yourselves first."
Just as Li Jiayu walked out of the classroom, Sun Weiwei was about to chase after her when she heard a classmate's voice behind her: "There really is no cell phone signal."
Jiang Linchuan's voice then rang out:
"Mine too, the signal is down."
The students checked their phones one by one and found that none of them could receive a signal.
At this moment, Sun Weiwei panicked. If it were just a bolt from the blue, it could be explained as a coincidence, but Li Jiayu could even guess that the signal was interrupted, so it was definitely not a coincidence, but most likely inevitable.
"How...how did he know? Could it be that what he said wasn't a joke?"
Not only Sun Weiwei, but all the girls in the class felt uncertain and their scalps began to tingle.
"Don't panic, everyone. Signal interruptions happen all the time, we're used to it. Don't take what Li Jiayu said to heart, he must have taken the wrong medicine today, don't go crazy with him..."
"It was said by a boy who wasn't on good terms with Li Jiayu, but he quickly shut his mouth because he saw the dark clouds outside the window appearing at an extremely fast speed!"
"Boom!"
The students in the class gathered by the window, staring in disbelief as the dark clouds rapidly gathered and surged in. At first, they simply regarded them as rare thunderclouds, but soon some of them realized something was wrong, because the speed at which the dark clouds rolled and gathered was too fast, unbelievably fast, as if they appeared out of thin air!
In less than a minute, thunder rumbled in the sky, the sky darkened rapidly, the sun was completely obscured by dark clouds, and the air quickly turned cold, with gusts of cool wind blowing, which was quite chilly.
"How...how could it get dark so quickly? Where did these dark clouds come from?...Oh my god, Li Jiayu just said that the sun would be covered by dark clouds in two minutes..."
Staring at the churning, spreading dark clouds, all the students were dumbfounded. Some of the timid girls trembled uncontrollably. At this point, they no longer dared to doubt Li Jiayu's words, or rather, they found it difficult to muster the courage to do so...
"It's alright...it's alright, what are you worried about? Li Jiayu said that the first thing to happen in the apocalypse will be the power outage, and all electrical appliances will be unusable. Look, our teachers' computers are still on, and our cell phones are still lit up..."
Sun Weiwei tried to calm everyone down, but before she could finish speaking, the teacher's computer shut down automatically with a "beep," the fan stopped spinning, and all the students' cell phones malfunctioned and went black!
At the same time, Sun Weiwei felt a cold energy sweep across her body, freezing her to the bone, as if it would freeze her very marrow. Her mind was also as if it had been bombarded by dozens of artillery shells, buzzing and throbbing. In that instant, she felt as if she were dead.
Fortunately, the energy disappeared in an instant. Sun Weiwei woke up immediately, only to find that cold sweat had seeped out on her forehead and she felt inexplicably exhausted.
"Ah, what was that? I felt like I was electrocuted!"
"I had difficulty breathing... I almost couldn't breathe, it felt like I was being choked."
Everyone gasped for breath as if they had been released from their reverie; some couldn't even stand and fell to the ground.
Some of the weaker boys had nosebleeds from the energy shock, and they couldn't stop it. The blood flowed all over their mouths and even stained their collars with a striking crimson!
Just as Honda was beginning to feel the changes in his body, he was stimulated by the smell of blood.
Honda frowned slightly as he glanced at the young man. Honda realized this guy probably wouldn't live much longer. He also noticed that the cells of those who had been exposed to the cosmic storm were slowly absorbing energy, meaning the storm had stimulated their potential. However, some people whose bodies were already weak, whose potential had been completely depleted, would likely not survive more than a week after being exposed to such cosmic energy; they would die from the overexpansion of their low-potential cells. In other words, they would "die from overeating."
"Oh no, my pants are wet... I was so scared I wet myself..."
That sudden remark almost made Honda lose his breath. I'm truly impressed by the author.
There were thirteen girls in the class, and five of them were so scared that they peed themselves. They peed standing up, and the urine flowed down their smooth thighs into their white underwear...
Being so scared that he wet himself in front of the whole class, even wetting his skirt and stockings, made the girls, who were already easily embarrassed, feel extremely ashamed. Their faces turned red to the roots of their necks, and they almost burst into tears.
The worst part was that their underwear was wet, sticking to their buttocks in an indescribably strange way. If their legs hadn't been so weak, they would have cried and run to the toilet long ago, too ashamed to face anyone.
However, at times like this, there's really no difference. Boys won't laugh at them because they're more sensitive, and a kind of unspeakable panic is spreading through their hearts...
A boy stared in shock at his blacked-out phone, his voice trembling:
"Cosmic storm!"
"It's the cosmic storm Li Jiayu mentioned! What just swept over us was a cosmic storm, and it even paralyzed all the electrical appliances..."
"Damn it, we can't even turn on the backup light..."
"Everything Li Jiayu said has come true..."