disaster strikes

Chapter 2 Disaster Academy
"This is where?"

The world was spinning, Chen Mo felt like he fell 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 shocked to find that this was not a school dormitory.

The room was dark with two skylights and the sky was gray outside.

After Chen Mo struggled to get up from the stone bed covered with a piece of animal skin, he went outside the room in doubt, and stood there for a long time dumbfounded, unbelievable.

The sky was gray, with no sun, moon or stars.

On the desolate land that seems to be covered with volcanic ash, black rocks are occasionally exposed. Not far away, a large black river flows through, and countless white bones are scattered on both sides of the river bank.

As far as the eye can see, it is desolate and barren, without life.

And behind him, this so-called house was actually an extremely huge skull, and the two skylights were the two eye sockets of the skull.

Chen Mo's legs went limp, and he sat on the ground blankly.

Along with the hunger in his belly, a memory that did not belong to him emerged in his mind, and he passed out immediately.

I don't know how long it took before Chen Mo woke up again.

Although the sky was still gray, it was much brighter than before. According to 'Stone''s memory, it should be time for his morning exercise.

"It turned out to be time travel..."

Chen Mo stared blankly at everything in front of him, and finally accepted the fact that he had crossed over.

This is a world without sun, moon, stars, and vegetation, called the Disaster World.

Because there is no vegetation, humans in the disaster world have no way to farm and breed. 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 cruel law of competition in the disaster world where the weak eat the strong and the fittest survive.

This is a cruel world that respects the strong.

The owner of the body that Chen Mo is passing through at this moment is called Stone.

According to Stone's memory, the area he is now in is located in the magic eye area of ​​the disaster world, a nearby wilderness called the gathering place of the distressed river.

The reason why Chen Mo traveled here is because Shi Shi's mother was completely disappointed in him and chose to abandon him.

Stone does not know who his father is.

Not just stones, many people in this world don't know who their father is.

In Disaster World, it is common for mothers to raise their children to adulthood before sending them to the Disaster Academy to be trained as a Scourger.

As for the abandoned, it is equivalent to the family as the unit, and the caretaker declares to the world that this is an inferior warrior with insufficient congenital status. In this world that admires the strong, no one will sympathize with a waste. This is the same as choosing a Spartan warrior The rules are very similar, parents will gradually eliminate those inferior fighters from infancy.

As for the fate of the abandoned, 90% of them failed to go to the disaster academy where they gathered to get the chance to become a natural disaster.

Another 9% of the lucky abandoned people will die during the starving ghost trial of the Disaster Academy.

Then the remaining 1% of the abandoned people, 0.9% will become the bottom warriors of this world, the so-called natural disaster predators, and less than 0.1% of the abandoned people will live a normal life.

According to Shi 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 an idiot, and from Shi Shi’s memory, his brain is indeed not very bright. The happiest thing every day is to play with monkeys and nectar, and let the two play tricks. He is not angry either.

Until a week ago, when she checked the progress of learning the basic skills of stone again, my mother was completely desperate.

"Although he has the talent of stone skin, he is an idiot who knows nothing about it."

His mother finally abandoned him, no matter how the stone cried and begged, he was indifferent, and left the skeleton house where he was brought up.

Huami and Monkey no longer play with him.

Simple Shitou was desperate, he wanted to go to the gathering place of Suzuhe River, but because of his timidity, he didn't dare to go out at all, until he ate the last ration at home two days ago.

When dying of hunger, the stone made a wish on the bed.

"Pray to the great demon eye evil god, make me smart, and let my mother come back."

The stone at this moment is just a child longing for mother's love.

However, Shishi didn't become smarter, and his mother didn't come back. 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. Instead, he found an inexplicable sense of belonging in the stone.

"We are all the same, children abandoned by our parents."

Chen Mo looked down at the skin of his arm.

Touching this layer of skin is like covering a layer of cutin, which is very hard. This is the stone skin talent of the stone, and it is also the origin of his name.

"You are not useless! With your body and my mind, we will be able to live well in this world."

Gollum.

Chen Mo cried out with hunger.

The last bit of food here was also eaten by the stone two days ago. He felt that he was dizzy from starvation. If he wanted to avoid being starved to death, there was only one way, and that was to immediately go to the gathering place of the distressed river and find the stone. The Disaster Academy that I feared in my memory tried to pass the academy assessment and become a real disaster victim.

According to memory, the gathering place is quite far away from here, and it will take at least three days to walk.

Chen Mo estimated that it was about 100 kilometers away.

"Live!"

There is nothing valuable in the room, and Chen Mo has no nostalgia for this place.

Because he knew that he had better go all the way to the Disaster Academy before he still had some physical strength, and he must not sit still.

Fortunately, because there is no sun, the weather is not too hot.

But Shi Shi's memory told Chen Mo that the night here would be very cold, so he took an animal fur blanket and a water bag, which would be all his wealth.

He came to the river and filled the water bag. Seeing the reflection in the river, his image seemed to have changed slightly. It seemed that he had overlapped with the stone. His skin became whiter and tenderer than the stone, and his face became more beautiful than he remembered. I am more mature.

No longer hesitate.

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 not so much land as it is sandy dust, with black-gray gravel everywhere, and it makes a crunching sound when stepped on it.

"Brother Stone..."

"Haha, stinky stone!"

Not far away, two voices, a man and a woman, came from nearby.

Chen Mo turned his head and saw that it was Stone's best playmates, Huami and Monkey.

The two are also the only neighbors within a few kilometers.

Huami is still as beautiful and lovely as Shitou remembered, with snow-white skin and single eyelids. She used to like to call herself brother Shitou, but now she is very hesitant, and dare not look at herself with her head down.

Monkey, on the other hand, had an undisguised look of contempt, made a mocking grimace, and sneered. He knew that Shishi would no longer be at the same level as him from now on.

Feeling the indifference of human feelings in the disaster world, Chen Mo didn't say much. He continued to walk forward, but it was a little strange that they didn't seem to notice the change in their appearance. Could it be that this world or this universe is bridging the gap he traveled through? the impact?
Gradually, the river receded.

Apart from the sandy limestone, only bones remained on the desolate land.

These skeletons are big and small, and some are as huge as hills. It is hard to imagine what kind of giants they were before they were alive.

As the sky gradually darkened, before he knew it, Chen Mo had finished his day's journey.

The night in Disaster World was indeed as cold as Stone remembered.

Chen Mo stopped, curled himself up in the animal skin blanket, and tried to bury himself in the dust, but he still couldn't help trembling. He imagined the uncle's buns in the school cafeteria, drooling through the night.

the next day.

Chen Mo drank some water, relieved a little hunger, and continued to move forward.

The sky gradually turned from gloomy to bright, and Chen Mo's footsteps became heavier and heavier.

The dust on the ground is constantly devouring Chen Mo's physical strength, and his hunger is tormenting him. He knows that his time is running out, and maybe he will become one of the countless bones on this desolate land, but without Before he dies, he must move on, this is his only chance.

Just when Chen Mo was about to lose his hold and collapse.

Rumble, rumble.

At the end of the distant horizon, there was a sudden roar.

"A beast? It's a pity that I don't have the strength to escape."

Chen Mo, who was weak and fainted, woke up and laughed at himself: "What kind of beast is there in this environment."

Waiting for Chen Mo to concentrate on watching, accompanied by a little confusion in Shi Shi's memory, Chen Mo's despair was replaced by astonishment and surprise.

Because the rumbling thing turned out to be a four-wheel drive off-road vehicle!

In Stone's memory, this is a rare item only for high-level natural disasters.

As if he had found a life-saving straw, Chen Mo desperately waved the animal skin blanket, shouting for help, the wheels rolled up dust, and after the off-road vehicle found Chen Mo, it actually turned around and stopped gracefully after drifting in front of Chen Mo.

The middle-aged man Kong Wu in the driver's seat was powerful, but his expression was very calm. He looked at Chen Mo with his eyes, as if he was waiting for Chen Mo to speak on his own initiative.

"Hello."

Chen Mo leaned against the car door weakly, and begged: "I really have no strength, can you take me to the Disaster College?"

Chen Mo has never begged others so sincerely, at least he has never done so in the nearly 20 years of his life on earth. Although there is no mirror, Chen Mo knows that he must be in a mess at the moment, and he dare not let go of the car door he is holding tightly. Because he knew that as long as the other party kicked the accelerator, he would surely die.

"Come up."

Like the sound of nature, the image of this middle-aged man instantly became extremely tall in Chen Mo's eyes.

"Thank you!"

He opened the car door with all his strength and climbed up.

rumble.

The speed of the off-road vehicle was very fast, and it took a long time for the dust behind the rear of the vehicle to gradually settle down. The two of them quickly covered a distance that Chen Mo could not finish in a day.

As the dust on the ground gradually decreased, the rocks gradually increased, and some building traces gradually appeared at the end of the horizon, Chen Mo knew that he was saved.

quack.

A giant bird flew by in the sky above, with its wings spread out for more than ten meters, and there seemed to be a person sitting on it. Under the horrifying shadow, Chen Mo couldn't help but wait and see for a long time until the giant bird disappeared into the sky. In sharp contrast to the slow and clumsy balloon airship on the other side.

The ground gradually became flat, and the sandy ash was replaced by bluestone floors.

There are people coming and going on the bustling streets, all kinds of giant skeleton decorations are dazzling, and there is actually a towering light tower in the distance.

If it was in normal times, Chen Mo would definitely be amazed by these bizarre scenes.

But at this moment, Chen Mo, who was suffering from hunger, wanted to pray to this middle-aged man for food several times, but the words came to his mouth: "Thank you, may I ask your name, if I am still alive in the future, I will definitely repay you."

"Apocalypse."

The off-road vehicle 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 aloof, just inarticulate.

Although the overall attributes of the disaster world tend to be evil and lawful, due to the frequent need to cooperate to defeat certain enemies during the invasion of other worlds, some people still maintain the narrow sense of kindness towards "self" in the process of sharing life and death again and again. read.

The reason why it is called kindness in a narrow sense is because in their eyes, creatures from other worlds are the targets of attack, which is similar to the concept of NPC.

Other natural disasters are their own people.

However, even this kind of kindness in a narrow sense is not a universal value, but a partial value formed by the different growth experiences of different natural disaster victims.

"Thank you."

Hearing this, Chen Mo nodded his thanks.

He didn't want to bother the man in front of him any more. After deeply remembering the man's face, he got off the off-road vehicle.

With the rumbling sound, the off-road vehicle turned around and left.

He looked up at the huge building, and several bloody characters were engraved on the huge bones.

"Distressed River Disaster Academy."

Although both belong to pictographs, natural disaster characters are very different from Chinese characters. Fortunately, although Shitou's brain is not very bright, he still knows the basic natural disaster characters.

There was an indifferent woman standing in front of the college gate, and behind her were several half-grown children who were looking at her.

"Another outcast."

"Just now he seemed to be sent by a high-level natural disaster."

"It should be just luck, being rescued."

Ignoring those children's comments, Chen Mo stepped forward to test the woman: "Hi, may I ask..."

"Do you want to start implanting optical brain chips and start the starving ghost enlightenment training at the Calamity Academy?"

Before Chen Mo finished speaking, the woman asked lightly.

Fortunately, Chen Mo found that he was not the only abandoned person here. Among the children behind the woman, there were also a few children who were also dressed in rags and looked embarrassed. At first glance, they seemed to be the guys who rushed to the academy alone.

"Yes."

Following Chen Mo's response, the woman took him aside.

This is a mysterious instrument like a nuclear magnetic resonance apparatus, but it seems to be larger in size, and its appearance is full of sci-fi.

Under the operation of the woman, Chen Mo was locked in the instrument.

"Data creates value, Tianhua Quantum Technology."

After the instrument was started, an advertisement was played, which made Chen Mo a little confused for a while. He seemed to be in a modern hospital full of sci-fi atmosphere, and then red light bars began to revolve around Chen Mo, as if scanning his body. Condition.

"A new file is being created, may I ask your name?"

After Chen Mo hesitated for a while, he thought that he was not only himself, but a combination of himself and the stone, and thought of the former Apocalypse who almost gave him a second life, so he responded: "Traveler."

From now on, this will be our common name!
hum.

The blue and white light circle gradually enveloped Chen Mo.

A mechanical arm suddenly pressed against the back of his neck. Accompanied by a low-frequency buzzing sound, Chen Mo, who was a little nervous, noticed that the people outside seemed to be accustomed to this, and finally relaxed a little.

A light curtain gradually emerged on the transparent glass of the instrument.

Name: Traveler.

Level: starving ghost.

Talent: Stone Skin.

Qi and blood: 140.

Defense: 6.

Speed: 6.

Strength: 8.

Constitution: 14.

Spirit: 23.

Energy: 10.

Basic boxing method: Lv1.

Basic chopping: Lv1
Basic block: Lv2.

Equipment: None.

Skills: None.

"The initialization of the body function data is completed, and the optical brain chip is started to be implanted."

Accompanied by a slight tingling pain in the back of the neck, the mechanical arm retracted into the blue light of the instrument again, and the instrument gradually stopped working.

Chen Mo instinctively stroked the back of his neck, and there seemed to be something extra inside.

　From then on, I will write two chapters at [-]:[-] pm every day, and finish writing this new book in a low-key and steady manner.

　　
　
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