Chapter 1
“Why haven’t you replied to my messages these past two days?”

In the classroom, Wang Congshan looked at Li Ang with a hint of resentment. “Do you know how badly I lost points yesterday? Are you keeping another support player on the side?”

“Girl, you’re playing too much King of Glory.”

Li Ang lay on his desk, not even bothering to look up as he lazily replied, “Didn’t I tell you? I’ve been busy with scientific research these past few days.”

“What research?”

Wang Congshan squinted her eyes and retorted, “Being dissected and studied by a mental hospital?”

“It’s always been me chasing doctors, hehehe. The doctor who can catch up to me hasn’t been born yet.”

Li Ang said casually with his eyes closed, “I’ve been researching some very important philosophical questions these days.”

Wang Congshan also leaned forward on the desk, resting her head on her arm. “Like what?”

Li Ang said casually, “Like what’s the difference between a white-striped black zebra and a black-striped white zebra,

how a centaur should wear suspenders,

how a Tyrannosaurus Rex with such short arms should go to the bathroom,

and how a bald Saiyan should let others know that he’s transformed.”

“And did you find any results?”

Li Ang drawled, “Not~at~all~”

Since Li Ang often disappeared on weekends, Wang Congshan just assumed he’d gone out to do something foolish again and didn’t dwell on it.

As the class bell rang, the homeroom teacher, Tang Hanyi, walked in.

Li Ang, who had been lying on the desk, wriggled like a maggot, straightened up, and, led by the class monitor Wang Congshan, bowed with the classmates, “Hello, teacher~”

“Hello, students, please sit down.”

Tang Hanyi nodded, not rushing to open the lesson plan to start teaching. Instead, she said with some seriousness, “The school has issued a notice. This afternoon’s first, second, and third periods will be replaced by a school-wide educational lecture. The fourth period is still PE, and evening self-study will continue as usual.

Tomorrow morning’s first and second periods will be replaced by physical examination items.”

Hmm?

Li Ang, listening to the whispers of the students in the classroom, raised his eyebrows.

Usually, these kinds of safety education lectures are announced in advance, not suddenly sprung on everyone.

Moreover, all the schools in Yin City had just had a full physical examination two months ago. Why another one?

Harboring doubts, all of the morning classes were completed.

After the lunch break, the AV committee members of each class turned on the televisions to watch the safety education lecture.

Different from the usual education lectures, this one included not only legal education, patriotic education, national defense military education,

but also fire safety education, national defense military education, war safety education, nuclear war safety education....

Finally, the few stern-faced, muscular men on the television, who clearly had military backgrounds, directly but also subtly explained,

how residents should maintain order and safely evacuate under the command of relevant departments when a nuclear war breaks out.

High school students these days aren’t stupid. The popularity of mobile information terminals has greatly expanded the amount of information students can access. Without even paying much attention, some clues of epochal changes have already appeared in daily life.

The "PE class" moving in the direction of military training, the increasingly frequent nationwide physical examinations, the gradually shrinking access channels for foreign populations, safety education on war and even nuclear war....

All factors are stating a single fact: A storm is brewing.

After the three-period educational lecture ended, the young and inexperienced boys and girls in the classroom looked at each other, whispering to each other,

with both fear and excitement on their faces.

After the television was turned off, Tang Hanyi walked up to the podium, holding a stack of documents, and asked the students in the front row to pass them back.

The content of the documents was very simple, roughly that major universities in Yin City, including the Experimental High School, would all be newly establishing a historical education course.

This course

will last for several months, and the main content will be to allow students to re-understand the Third Front Construction Project and learn the sky-fighting, earth-struggling Third Front Spirit.

That’s what it said, but according to the document's subtle hints,

from middle school, high school to university, all students will have to, in the next few months,

learn the history of human technological development, learn how to use indigenous methods, and build basic agriculture and industry from scratch in harsh environments.

The other students didn’t find anything wrong, but Li Ang felt his scalp tingle.

This was clearly preparing for the reconstruction of civilization!

What is the Special Affairs Bureau thinking?! Is the situation really this bad?

Li Ang exhaled a breath of stale air to calm himself down.

He and the Special Affairs Bureau had a huge disparity in intelligence acquisition, making it difficult to figure out whether the latter had received some special intelligence.

But thinking on the bright side, maybe this is just a pre-emptive prevention measure against natural disasters and man-made calamities, and the future may not require Li Ang's generation to rebuild civilization.

Feeling somewhat heavy, Li Ang got through the rest of the school day, and immediately turned on his computer to search for news information when he got home.

The Yin City Civil Air Defense Project Reconstruction Project has officially started;

Trillions of industrial support funds have been officially established, covering materials, information, biology, energy, environment, ocean, and other fields, sparing no expense to oversaturate the cultivation of professional and technical talents;

The fourth-generation ID card may use embedded chip technology;

The American gen-sys biotechnology company is developing new plastic materials, combining the advantages of polymethyl methacrylate, polycarbonate board, fluoroplastics, etc.

Lightweight, durable, inexpensive, reliable, extremely excellent radiation resistance and impact resistance, mechanical properties comparable to alloys.

The United States will, in the next five years, use the new plastic materials in Atlanta and Detroit as pilot cities, to build several giant buildings with a length, width, and height of one thousand meters, as templates for future cities.

“The world is changing everywhere....”

Li Ang leaned back into his chair, placing his hands behind his head, thoughtfully looking at the ceiling.

Where he couldn’t see, players all over the world were struggling,

and the chaebol organizations and official machines were also actively learning, researching, and utilizing all kinds of "special products" brought out by players from the script worlds.

He is not the center of the world.

“The whole world is progressing.... This feeling isn't actually that bad,”

Li Ang stood up from his chair and glanced at the time.

It had been more than 24 hours, and the forging furnace should have finished forging that piece of equipment.

Li Ang walked into the side bedroom, took down the Magic Box from the shelf, and pressed the button to activate the alchemy workshop.

Inside the workshop, the steampunk-style forging furnace was no longer shaking, and a metal drawer extended from below its trapezoidal funnel.

In the drawer, a plain black short knife was quietly placed.

Name: Mengdu (Deadly Poison)

Type: Weapon

Quality: Rare

Attack Power: Medium

Effect: Unknown Toxin. When the blade causes damage to a creature, it can infect the creature with one of the currently known human viruses through luolu’s mucous membranes and all bodily fluids. The type of virus is random and refreshes every minute, and can be stacked on the same individual.

Equipment Condition: Agility attribute greater than or equal to 6

Note: Do you have the courage to bear the cost of wielding her?