When Chen Kaiyu came home, he unloaded a bag of fire ore from his shoulder. He took a few pieces out of it and stuffed them into the old burning stove, and in a moment, layers of warmth rose in the room.

These ten pounds of ore were enough for him and Chen Xiaoyue to survive this damn nuclear winter, and enough to cross that threshold.

This year has indeed been a warm winter, with temperatures much higher than normal.

But that fateful 'period of silence' may still come as promised, and fortunately, such a terrible period only lasted for two days, otherwise, I don't know how many more creatures on the mainland would die in pain.

The 'period of silence', as the name suggests, is the extinction of all things.

During those days, the scorching sun would be covered by cold clouds, and the heavens and the earth would be plunged into a bone-chilling cold.

The nobles of the inner fort would be dressed in vajra hair, lying on large beds covered with edelweiss, enjoying the service of their servants, and a dozen furnaces laden with limestone were blazing.

The palace wall is a wealthy family, extremely poor and extravagant, which can be described as the peak.

People in the outer city would live in simple houses, find everything they could keep warm and stuff them all over their bodies, and then burrow into cramped corners, shivering and shivering in response to the cold.

The untouchables outside the city, on the other hand, would dig a large hole in the ground, bury themselves in it, leaking only one head, and let the people they trust around them take some shabby, heavy clothes to cover their heads.

It's a very traditional method that has been around for hundreds of years.

This is also the way to get through the 'dead period' with the highest survival rate, but the pain and heart-rending feeling in the process are ...... Only they can feel it.

Similarly, there are many people who are overwhelmed and will choose a 'decent' way to die early, at least without being frozen to death.

But thankfully, the Dark Source Beast above the Endless Wasteland will be dormant for a while, and will not pose any threat to the human base city.

Therefore, survival is a kind of faith.

"Let's go to class this afternoon, don't run away." Chen Xiaoyue said softly while stirring the pan-thin fire soil rice porridge in the dilapidated boiler with a sleek stick.

"Well, I'm definitely going, in the afternoon it's a lecture on the theory and practice of source technology. It's a very important course for me at the moment. Chen Kaiyu responded.

He picked up two stone bowls, spooned half a bowl each, and then took a bowl of thorns and drank it.

When he drank the porridge, his eyes unconsciously glanced at Chen Xiaoyue's slightly ruddy face, and finally stopped being as pale as paper.

The corners of Chen Kaiyu's mouth grinned unconsciously.

The warmth in the room seemed to be a little stronger.

He quickly finished the warm bowl of gruel and licked his lips.

Chen Xiaoyue was still taking a sip of the ......

Chen Kaiyu groped out the small black instrument from his arms.

Sharp-eyed, he saw a concave button and immediately pressed it.

Then, a virtual interface appears in the room out of thin air.

Chen Kaiyu's eyes swept away, and there were only two things on it that could be clicked.

One is a task and the other is a bio.

He clicked on his bio.

Name: Kaiyu Chen

Identity: Junior hunter, student of the Municipal No. 3 Elementary Source Energy School

Rank: One-Star Sourcer

Status: Eligible for promotion

He then clicked on the quest screen again.

Level Eligible Mission: 500

Accept: 0

To be completed: 0

Completed: 0

Mission 1: Hunt down the three-headed alien beast six-armed ape and transport the corpse to the Hunter's Hall.

Reward: 100 White Coins, 1 star difficulty.

Client: The Hunter's Hall

Note: Not based on the first recipient, first come, first served.

……

Mission 2: Go outside the city to collect five Seven Star Grass and send them to the Hunter's Hall.

Reward: 150 White Coins, 1 star difficulty.

Client: Tianfeng Pharmacy

Note: Not based on the first recipient, first come, first served.

……

Mission 3: Capture one of the Flesh-winged Beast's cubs and send it to the Hunter's Hall.

Reward: 200 White Coins, 1 star difficulty.

Client: The Court Council

Note: Not based on the first recipient, first come, first served.

……

Chen Kaiyu glanced at it roughly, and then turned off the instrument.

Looking at this small instrument, a sense of extreme unreality swelled in his heart.

I'm just a barely enough person to get enough food now, and I'm still worried about tuition.

But suddenly there is such a product full of modern source energy, which is incredible.

But that's the benefit of being the source.

In this day and age, source energy is everything.

Chen Kaiyu glanced at the girl who was still eating.

In the future, I made a fortune and raised her to be fat and fat, so I relied on this...... Small instrument too.

He opened the folded hunter's clothes again.

After stretching it, it was put directly on the body.

The clothing is very light and soft, made of silk cotton, which should be from the lotus seed cotton on Jue Mountain.

Chen Kaiyu secretly thought to himself, the price of such a piece of clothing is estimated to be hundreds of yuan coins to be affordable.

But he didn't dare to sell it, it was the unique logo of the Hunter's Hall.

According to the internal laws of the Heavenly Wind, the unauthorized sale of clothes donated by the government is subject to a very serious trial.

The upper body of the suit is pure black, the pants underneath are dark gray with dark gold stripes, and a pair of long leather boots are underneath.

Chen Kaiyu pulled his sleeves, turned around and asked, "How is it?" ”

"It's much stronger than before......" Chen Xiaoyue's eyes lit up and said lightly.

He walked over to a small frosted bronze mirror, something Chen Xiaoyue had picked up a few months earlier.

It reflected a well-defined face, with dark black hair that almost covered the eyes.

The bronze mirror was small, barely able to reflect his small body.

"It turns out that I ...... It's quite Peugeot. Chen Kaiyu muttered to himself in front of the bronze mirror.

"Hmm."

After looking at it for a while, he took off his clothes.

"I'm going to school, don't run around, just stay home and wait for me to come back for dinner." Chen Kaiyu still instructed uneasily.

"Got it, be careful on your way." Chen Xiaoyue responded.

"Hmm."

Chen Kaiyu pushed the door out and trotted all the way to the school not far away.

The cold wind came from the northwest, and Chen Kaiyu wrapped his padded jacket tightly.

This is a sign that the 'period of silence' is coming.

The west wind hunts, and everything falls into dead silence!

The magnificent and quaint gate of the school was clearly visible, and Chen Kaiyu approached and came to the first class of Yuanneng familiarly.

After roughly scanning his seat, he found that there were not many people coming to class today, as there were many empty seats.

Chen Kaiyu is late enough, so I'm afraid that no one will fill those vacant seats this afternoon.

After a while, a middle-aged teacher with a resolute face came into the classroom.

"Today, what is taught is the theory of source energy skills, please listen carefully."

It is no different from the way knowledge was taught in the old days.

But in this day and age, knowledge is precious, especially about source energy.

Without the cultivation of knowledge, it would be difficult for Chen Kaiyu to understand even the most basic ways of dealing with people in the city, let alone about the world, the types of races, and the precious hunting skills.

Chen Kaiyu was sitting precariously, from a humble and poor background, he really couldn't bear to miss a word that came out of the teacher's mouth.

"As we all know, the source techniques of human origins are divided into five categories, which are distinguished by the five elements between heaven and earth, gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. Every newly awakened source will have a source ball in their head, and the color of the source ball determines the type of source skill in the future, for example, blue represents the water element, red represents the fire element, and so on, you can understand it......"

The middle-aged teacher has a pure Tianfeng accent, and Chen Kaiyu can understand his speech very clearly.

Unlike the one who taught the students hunting skills, it was a big man with a thick accent from the far north, Chen Kaiyu could barely understand his speech at all, and could only judge what he was going to say from the big man's movements.

The land of the far north is known as the holy land of teaching.

That big man did have two brushes, and Chen Kaiyu learned a lot from him...... Perfect hunting skills.

Wait, I just taught that the color of the source ball corresponds to the elements and the source technique.

But I remember that my source orb seems to be transparent, which probably doesn't fit the five categories of source people...... Chen Kaiyu was suddenly shocked in his heart.

He secretly closed his eyes and began to feel the source orb in his head.

For a moment, his face was a little gloomy.

It is indeed a completely transparent ball, colorless and odorless, as if it were something that does not exist in this world......

"However, in addition to these five categories, there are also many special source energies, such as dark attributes and ice attributes...... But this is a small path after all, and there are very few other attribute originists in our main continent, and everything is honored by the five element elements. Subcontinents, subcontinents, or other sub-domains, as well as specially named territories, often have the originator of many other attributes. Then let me ask, there are no other attribute sources in this class, right? The middle-aged teacher swept around, his eyes sharp.

After hearing the question of teaching, Chen Kaiyu did not stand up and said stupidly that what other attribute source energy he had awakened......

First, he doesn't want to be a first-class bird, a focused existence, and is secretly tabooed by people with ulterior motives.

Second, he clearly understood that his awakening source could come from an unknown source...... So, he had to hide and disguise himself.

Taoguang is the true meaning of long-term survival.

Seeing that everyone didn't answer, Jiao Xi asked again, "That'...... Does the class have a source? If so, raise your hand. ”

As soon as the words fell, dozens of arms were raised in the classroom.

Jiao Xi nodded with satisfaction, "I need someone to show her source energy." ”

After saying that, he casually pointed to a girl in an edelweiss coat.

The girl stood up, and with a wave of her hand, a blazing flame wrapped around her hand, the pale red glow reflecting her white face.

Chen Kaiyu could see that there were a few tiny sparrows on the face, which slightly affected the girl's appearance.

"Okay, please take a seat." Jiao Xi smiled, "This student has awakened the fire source energy, a very common source energy. So what I'm going to talk about now is the focus of our course. ”

Chen Kaiyu eased his mind and continued to listen carefully.

"We all know that in this era, the source energy determines everything, status, honor, money, power are all determined by this kind of thing. So, why? ”

The middle-aged teacher deliberately kept silent and let the students below pick him up.

"Because, in this cruel and turbulent era, strength is paramount." A young man in a pale yellow padded jacket said impatiently.

"Yes, this student's answer is very correct. Strength is paramount, but with the special talent of source energy, how can we use it to enhance our strength? You can't just use them, it's very inefficient...... So? How to solve it? ”

"Teach and learn, solve it with source techniques, how many times have you talked about this...... It's all old, and I have to say it again......" A young man with an unruly face stood up.

There was also a commotion from below, in short, some words that had not changed and would not have come if they had known......