It has been a week since the awakened and mutant apocalyptic event, the event that shook the whole world, the government had moved those who lived in neighborhoods that were now in ruins to another neighborhood, that is much they could do for welfare.
There was now an awakened league called The Awakened created by the government, they were awakened people positioned across the country together with military personnel, although there weren't any mutant beast cases, but it seemed the government had grown suspicious of the matter—the Mutants had gone into hiding, perhaps they were hibernating, maybe it was the side effect of their mutation.
But their traces weren't seen.
Those living in a mansion before got a mansion and those living in an apartment complex before got the same.
Marcus knew he couldn't say he wasn't satisfied after all he was still living his normal life.
The government had let them submit a form of things they left behind in the dilapidated neighborhoods, all their possession was bought back for them.
Marcus had gone to visit his mum the previous week of the incident, it seemed she wasn't affected or awakened too as she was still lying in the bed.
He met the girl named Elena Wong there also as she sat beside her.
Looking closely at her as she stood, no doubt, she was beautiful with her waist-length brown hair, hourglass figure, and refined features, she also looked agile with a toned body.
Marcus realised the agility and toned body was the effect of the awakening.
Well, he felt he shouldn't be a scum so he thanked her even though he still wondered deep down why she keep staying by her side.
"Maybe she and my mum were acquainted in some place...
"Although it seemed we are about the same age"
That was all Marcus could think of.
And the fact that he didn't feel like delving into the matter with her. That is just part of his socially distant attitude.
They gazed at each other for a while before he left.
But deep down, Marcus wondered why his mind was at rest with her beside his mum.
Was I developing a trust in her? Marcus thought and scoffed at the thought.
Marcus has never trusted anyone, he lived only for himself and his mum any other thing or person is out of the equation.
Perhaps the reason Marcus wasn't awakened was because the whatever thing who chose the awakened knew that he would only use it for his own gain.
Except there wasn't anything like that.
According to an interview with the chief scientist of Yangdao on Saturday morning on the national news channel, the previous week.
PlatinumXgamma radiation targets dormant genes; junk DNA—a gene without function, altering their structure thereby activating them.
As the dormant genes now became active, they started producing proteins and enzymes that don't exist in a natural human being.
These new proteins and enzymes interact with the body's biology system, enhancing and modifying them in extraordinary ways.
But as for those that didn't awaken their dormant genes, it means they possessed genetic repressors— genes that repress activation of dormant genes.
Marcus made a bitter face when the man explained on TV.
~Damn it!! Damn repressor!! Much like the immune system huh?!~
It was Monday morning, twelve days after the apocalyptic event.
Marcus got ready for school, and since he was in eleventh grade, everything counts, he didn't want the money he had been spending on education to go to waste.
Marcus reached the class, rowdy as always but something was different.
They had PE that morning but that wasn't what was different.
Leo Zhang, a brown-haired boy he recognized to be one of the scrawniest guys in the class was using one finger, his right index finger to swirl around his chair while the girls surrounded him and watched the sight cheerfully and it was so fast that it created an air current which blew the hair of the girls around him.
Marcus' jaw almost dropped when he noticed his physique, he was now very built and tall, even taller than him.
Marcus stood at 1.8 meters but it seemed Leo Zhang was about six feet tall.
In an instant, Marcus' jaw muscles wore out and his jaw dropped immediately.
"Is he also an awakened?"
Marcus started to breathe hard like he had run miles not until he saw Alex Wei—a boy with curly black hair that fell over his face—who was heaving a barbell of 300 kg with his right hand, he even seemed to enjoy it like it was nothing.
They were all built and tall like some veteran bodybuilder, even their school shirt was strained and on the verge of bursting by their body muscles.
Marcus swallowed a heavy gulp of saliva and forced his leg to move to his seat in the back row.
Looking around like he was lost in a sea of superhumans, each performing his own extraordinary feats although some were overpowered than the other.
Marcus guessed the situation, about fifty percent of the boys in his class were awakened.
But it seemed they weren't recruited by the government due to age, most of us were still seventeen.
The other boys who weren't awakened seemed to be cheering their friends up.
When Marcus reached his seat, his leg gave way immediately and he sat down with a thud.
He felt tired all of a sudden at the different sights around him, the air current created by the swirling chair blew past his face every now and then.
"Wow!! It has been almost an hour you have been swirling around the chair"
One girl exclaimed while looking at him like he was some idol she had been idolizing since childhood.
Leo Zhang was grinning.
Even the assistant class rep, Zoe Li, an auburn-haired girl wasn't an exception, she was doing push-ups.
Marcus heard her count to number one thousand five hundred and he blinked blankly twice, her body was now toned like a veteran athlete.
Marcus started wondering why he was like that, he looked pitiful, his heart weighed a ton in his chest, and he felt like crying to someone but there wasn't anybody since he had no friends.
After a while, the PE teacher entered.
But is this really Mr. Lau? Our PE teacher?
Marcus mused, he couldn't believe what he saw, the pot belly teacher with three strands of hair dangling atop his bald head looked like a totally different person, this man or should he say this guy—because he looked young— looked very built and tall.
His black hair was well-styled.
Marcus thought they might have changed their PE teacher although they had a striking resemblance.
Not until he heard:
"Hi students, Mr. Lau Lau is here, get ready to go to the gym, I can see some of you working really hard, let's move let's move"
Mr. Lau said in a motivated tone as he clapped in gesture.
"This old man is an awakened too!!!"
Marcus' brain screamed inwardly.
Mr. Lau's purple shirt long sleeves were rolled up to reveal arms with bulky muscles.
The class was starting to get ready to go to the gym when something happened, something Marcus had shifted to the back of his mind...