Chapter 1 Disaster Academy
"Where is this?"
The world was spinning, and Chen Mo felt like he was asleep and had a long dream.
As he gradually woke up, he instinctively thought that it was time for morning self-study, but when he opened his eyes, he was stunned to find that this was not a school dormitory.
The room was dim with two skylights and the sky was grey outside.
After Chen Mo struggled to get up from the stone bed covered with a beast skin, he came to the outside of the room in confusion, and stood in place for a long time in disbelief.
The sky was gray, and there was no sun, moon or stars.
The desolate land, covered with volcanic ash, occasionally exposed with black rocks, and not far away, a large black river rolled through, and countless white bones were scattered on both sides of the riverbank.
As far as the eye can see, it is desolate and barren, and lifeless.
And behind him, this so-called house is actually an incomparably huge skull, and the two skylights are the two eye sockets of the skull.
Chen Mo's legs were weak and he sat on the ground in a daze.
With the hunger in his belly, a memory that did not belong to him surged through his mind, and he passed out.
I don't know how long it took for Chen Mo to wake up again.
Although the sky was still gray, it was much brighter than before, and according to Stone's memory, it should have been his morning exercise time by now.
"It turned out to be a crossing ......"
Chen Mo looked at everything in front of him in a daze, and finally accepted the fact that he had crossed over.
This is a world without the sun, moon and stars, and without the vitality of plants and trees, called the world of calamity.
Because there is no vegetation to live, there is no way for humans in the disaster world to cultivate and breed, and if people want to survive, they can only become so-called natural disasters and survive by plundering the resources of other worlds.
This has also shaped the brutal law of competition in a disaster world, where the law of the jungle is the jungle and the survival of the fittest.
This is a cruel world that worships the strong.
At this moment, the owner of this body that Chen Mo crossed was called a stone.
According to Stone's memories, he is now in the Demonic Eye area of the Calamity World, a nearby wilderness known as the Troubled River Gathering Place.
The reason why Chen Mo crossed over here was that Shi's mother had been completely disappointed in him and chose to abandon him.
Stone didn't know who his father was.
It's not just stones, many people in this world don't know who their father is.
In the world of calamity, mothers generally raise their children to adulthood, and then send them to the calamity academy to train them to become a natural disaster.
As for the outcast, it is equivalent to the family unit, and the caregiver declares to the world that this is an inferior warrior who is congenitally insufficient, and in this world that worships the strong, no one will sympathize with a waste, which is very similar to the rules for selecting Spartan warriors, and parents will gradually eliminate those inferior warriors from infancy.
As for the fate of the abandoned, 90% of them were not able to go to the Gathering Disaster Academy to get the chance to become a Scourge.
Another 9% of the lucky outcasts will die during the Starving Ghost Trial at the Calamity Academy.
Then the remaining 1% of the outcasts, 0.9% will become the bottom warriors of this world, the so-called natural disaster predators, and less than 0.1% of the outcasts will live a normal life.
According to Shi's vague memory, the reason why his mother abandoned him was because it was always difficult to improve the basic skills taught to him.
Since a few years ago, his mother has been calling him stupid, and judging from the memory of the stone, his brain is indeed not very bright, and the happiest thing every day is to play with monkeys and nectar, no matter how the two of them play tricks, he is not angry.
It wasn't until a week ago that my mother was in complete despair when she checked her progress in learning the basic skills of the stone again.
"Although he has a talent for stone skin, he is an idiot who doesn't know anything after all."
His mother eventually abandoned him, and left the skull house where he had been raised, despite how much the stone cried and prayed.
Nectar and monkeys also stopped playing with him.
Pure Stone was desperate, and he wanted to go to the gathering place of the Troubled River, but because of his timidity, he did not dare to go out at all, until he had eaten the last ration of the family two days ago.
When he was dying of hunger, the stone made a wish on his bed.
"Pray to the great Demon Eye God to make me smart and let my mother come back."
The stone at this moment is just a child who longs for a mother's love.
However, the stone did not become smarter, and his mother did not come back, and Chen Mo accidentally crossed over.
Chen Mo sat in front of the door of the skull room, digesting the memory of the stone, at this moment, Chen Mo did not have the panic of the traverser at all, but found an inexplicable sense of belonging in the body of the stone.
"We are all the same, children who have been abandoned by their parents."
Chen Mo looked down at the skin of his arm.
Touching this layer of skin is like being covered with a layer of keratin, which is very hard, which is the stone skin talent of the stone, and it is also the origin of his name.
"You're not useless! With your body, and my mind, we will be able to live well in this world. ”
Grunt.
Chen Mo screamed with hunger.
The last bit of food here was also eaten by the stone two days ago, he felt that he was already dizzy from hunger, if he wanted not to starve to death, there was only one way, that is, to go to the Distress River gathering place immediately, find the disaster academy that Stone remembered to fear, and find a way to pass the academy assessment and become a real natural disaster.
As far as I can remember, the gathering place is quite far away, and it will take at least three days to walk.
Chen Mo estimated slightly, almost more than 100 kilometers.
"Live!"
There was nothing of value in the room, and Chen Mo didn't have any nostalgia for this place.
Because he knew that it was best for him to go to the Calamity Academy desperately before he had some physical strength, and he definitely couldn't sit still.
Fortunately, because there is no sun, the weather is not too hot.
But Shi's memory told Chen Mo that the nights here would be cold, so he took an animal skin blanket and a water bag, which would be all his wealth.
When he came to the river and filled the water bags, and when he saw the reflection in the river, his image seemed to change slightly, as if it coincided with the stone, his skin became whiter and more tender than the stone, and his face became more mature than he remembered.
No more hesitation.
After Chen Mo took one last look at the huge skull house standing in this desolate place, he strode away in the direction he remembered.
The ground is more sand ash than land, and there is black-gray sand everywhere that crunchs and crunchs when stepped on.
"Brother Stone......"
"Haha, stinky stone!"
Not far away, two voices of a man and a woman were heard nearby.
Chen Mo turned his head to see that it was Shi Shi's former best playmates, nectar and monkeys.
The two are also the only two neighbors within a few kilometers of each other.
Nectar is still so beautiful and lovely in Shi's memory, snow-white skin, single eyelids, she used to like to call herself Brother Shi, but now she is very hesitant, lowering her head and not daring to look at herself.
The monkey had an undisguised look of disdain, grimacing at him, and sneered at him, knowing that from now on the stone would no longer be on the same level as him.
Feeling the indifference of the people in the disaster world, Chen Mo didn't say much, he continued to bury his head and walk forward, but it was a little strange, they didn't seem to notice the change in their appearance, could it be that this world or this universe was bridging the influence of their own crossing?
Gradually, the river went away.
In the desolate land, nothing but sand and limestone remains.
These bones are large and small, and the big ones are as huge as small mountains, and it is hard to imagine what kind of huge things they were when they were alive.
As the sky gradually became gloomy, before he knew it, Chen Mo had finished the day's journey.
The night of the Calamity World is indeed as cold as the stone remembers.
Chen Mo stopped, curled himself up in the animal skin blanket, and tried to bury himself in the sand and ashes, but he still couldn't help but tremble, he imagined the uncle's buns in the school cafeteria, and drooled through the night.
The next day.
Chen Mo drank some water, relieved some of his hunger, and continued to move on.
The sky gradually changed from gloomy to bright, and Chen Mo's footsteps became heavier and heavier.
The sand ash on the ground was constantly devouring Chen Mo's physical strength, hunger tormented him, he knew that his time was running out, maybe it wouldn't be long before he would become one of the countless bones in this desolate land, but before he died, he had to move on, this was his only chance.
Just when Chen Mo was about to hold on and fall.
Rumble, rumble.
At the end of the horizon in the distance, there was a sudden roar.
"Beasts? It's a pity that I don't have the physical strength to run away. ”
Chen Mo, who was weak and fainting, came to his senses and laughed at himself: "What other beasts are there in this environment. ”
When Chen Mo concentrated on watching, along with the slight confusion in Shishi's memory, Chen Mo's despair was replaced by surprise and surprise.
Because the thing that rumbles turned out to be a 4x4 off-road vehicle!
This is a rarity in the memory of the stone, but only the high-level natural calamity.
It was like finding a life-saving straw, Chen Mo desperately waved the animal skin blanket, shouting for help, the wheels rolled up the dust, and after the off-road vehicle found Chen Mo, he really turned around and stopped after drifting in front of Chen Mo.
The middle-aged man in the driver's seat was powerful, but his expression was very calm, and his eyes looked at Chen Mo, as if he was waiting for Chen Mo to take the initiative to speak.
"Hello."
Chen Mo leaned weakly on the car door and prayed, "I really don't have the strength, can you take me to the Disaster Academy?" ”
Chen Mo has never prayed so sincerely to others, at least he has never had in the nearly twenty years he has lived on Earth, although there is no mirror, but Chen Mo knows that he must be very embarrassed at this moment, and he does not dare to let go of the car door he is holding tightly, because he knows that as long as the other party kicks the accelerator, he will definitely die.
"Come on."
Like a heavenly sound, the image of this middle-aged man instantly became extremely tall in Chen Mo's eyes.
"Thank you!"
He pulled the door open with all his strength and climbed up.
Rumble.
The speed of the off-road vehicle was very fast, and the dust behind the rear of the car gradually fell after a long time, and the two of them quickly completed the distance that Chen Mo couldn't finish in a day.
As the sand and ash on the ground gradually decreased, the rocks gradually increased, and some architectural traces gradually appeared at the end of the horizon, Chen Mo knew that he was saved.
Croak.
A giant bird flew over the sky overhead, spreading its wings for more than ten meters, and there seemed to be a person sitting on it, under the trembling shadow, Chen Mo couldn't help but watch for a while, until the giant bird disappeared at the end of the sky, in stark contrast to the slow and bulky balloon airship on the other side.
The ground gradually flattened, and the sand ash was replaced by a bluestone floor.
The bustling streets are full of people, all kinds of giant skeletons are decorated with dazzling eyes, and there is a towering tower of light in the distance.
If it were in normal times, these bizarre and bizarre scenes would inevitably make Chen Mo marvel again and again.
But Chen Mo, who was tormented by hunger at the moment, wanted to pray for food from this middle-aged man several times, but when the words came to his mouth, they became: "Thank you, please ask your name, if I am still alive in the future, I will definitely repay you." ”
"Apocalypse."
The buggy stopped in front of a gate.
The man pointed to the huge building in the distance and said, "That's the Disaster Academy." ”
The Apocalypse doesn't seem to be indifferent, just not good at words.
Although the overall nature of the disaster world is biased towards evil order, due to the frequent need to cooperate to defeat certain enemies in the process of invading the other world, in the process of life and death again and again, some people still maintain a narrow sense of goodness towards "their own people".
The reason why it is said to be a narrow sense of goodness is because in their eyes, creatures from other worlds are all strategic targets, similar to the concept of NPCs.
The other natural disasters are their own people.
However, even this kind of narrow sense of goodness is not a universal value, but a part of the values formed by the different growth experiences of different natural disaster victims.
"Thank you."
Hearing this, Chen Mo nodded in thanks.
He didn't want to trouble the man in front of him anymore, and after taking a deep note of the man's face, he stepped out of the off-road vehicle.
With a rumbling roar, the buggy turned around and left.
He looked up at the huge building, its massive skeleton inscribed with several large blood-colored letters.
"Distressed River Disaster Academy."
Although they belong to the same hieroglyphs, there is a big difference between natural disaster characters and Chinese characters, but fortunately, although the stone brain is not very bright, the basic natural disaster characters are still recognized.
In front of the gate of the academy stood an indifferent woman, behind whom several half-grown children like herself were looking at her.
"Another outcast."
"He seems to have been sent by a high-ranking scourge just now."
"It should just be lucky to be rescued."
Ignoring the comments of those children, Chen Mo stepped forward and probed the woman: "Hello, may I ask ......"
"Do you want to start implanting a light brain chip and start the Starving Ghost Enlightenment Training of the Natural Disaster Academy?"
Before Chen Mo could finish speaking, the woman asked lightly.
Fortunately, Chen Mo found that he was not the only one who was abandoned here, and among the children behind the woman, there were also a few people who were also ragged and embarrassed, and at first glance they were the ones who rushed to the academy alone.
"Yes."
As Chen Mo responded, the woman took him aside.
It's a mysterious device like an MRI machine, but it seems to be even bigger, and its appearance is full of science fiction, which is incompatible with the rough and simple skeletons of the disaster world, which is really abrupt.
Under the woman's operation, Chen Mo was imprisoned in the instrument.
"Data creates value, Tianhua Quantum Technology."
After the instrument was activated, an advertisement was played, which made Chen Mo a little confused for a while, he seemed to be in a modern hospital full of science fiction, and then the red light bars began to rotate around Chen Mo, as if scanning his physical condition.
"A new file is being created, may I ask your name?"
After Chen Mo hesitated slightly, he thought that his current self was not only himself, but a combination of himself and the stone, and thought of the previous Apocalypse, who had almost given himself a second life, so he responded: "Traveler." ”
From now on, it will be our common name!
Airplanes.
The blue-white aperture gradually enveloped Chen Mo.
A mechanical arm suddenly pressed on the back of his neck, accompanied by a low-frequency buzzing sound, and Chen Mo, who was slightly nervous, noticed that the people outside seemed to be familiar with this, and finally relaxed a little.
A curtain of light gradually emerges on the clear glass of the instrument.
Name: Traveler.
Class: Starving.
Talents: Stone Skin.
Qi and blood: 140.
Defense: 6.
Speed: 6.
Strength: 8.
Constitution: 14.
Spirit: 23.
Energy: 10.
Basic Punch: Lv1.
Base Slash: Lv1
Base Block: Lv2.
Equipment: None.
Skill: None.
"The initialization of the physical function data is completed, and the implantation of the photobrain chip begins."
With a slight stinging pain in the back of the neck, the robotic arm retracted into the blue light of the instrument again, and the device gradually ceased to function.
Chen Mo instinctively stroked the back of his neck, and there seemed to be something more in it.