In a room belonging to the male dormitory of Beijing University.
Xiao Tian, while dressing, quietly thought: "What kind of trouble will that little mischievous devil give me today?"
He looked at the world through the window.
The rain was falling as if a deluge had beaten down on the world. The sound of the water drops hitting the window pan was soothing, but he could not appreciate the benefit.
For the past year, the world's weather had become absurd from one day to the next. Deserts were suddenly flooded with all kinds of storms and the earth's poles began to defrost due to high temperatures. However, this was not all.
Even when icy places like Antarctica began to thaw overnight, the next day temperatures plummeted again, freezing everything over.
Scientists simply had no way of explaining the phenomenon. However, as a consequence of this, the major nations of the world practically forced the rest of the smaller countries to be careful with pollution, attributing everything that happened to malfunctions in the planet's protective layer.
Now even if the sun shone brightly people always carried umbrellas in their hands, fearing a sudden storm.
"As if this wasn't enough, I have to go tutor that little devil in this damn storm..." Xiao Tian sighed to himself and turned around to look for warmer clothes from the closet.
Xiao Tian was just a normal 20-year-old student. His father was a small civil employee with no power and his mother taught English at an elementary school.
On the other hand, when he was still 12, his mother brought home a pretty girl who was three years younger than him; her name was Qin Xue. Her parents had passed away, leaving her alone since no other family member wanted to take care of her.
His mother, being the best friend of Qin Xue's mother, decided to take care of the girl. Since then, the four of them had been living together and currently, Qin Xue was a student at a prestigious high school in the capital; she would be attending the same university of Xiao Tian next year.
As Xiao Tian was rummaging through his clothes, the whole world seemed to shudder fiercely as many things began to move from their places. Quickly he held on to the closet tightly, preventing it from collapsing on top of his body and crushing him.
Xiao Tian felt something strange inside him as if he had been punched hard in the stomach, knocking the wind out of him. His face turned pale and he had the urge to vomit, barely restraining himself.
After about ten seconds, everything seemed to return to normal.
Things stopped moving, the few paintings that had been saved from falling to the ground no longer threatened to fall. and the sound of the rain falling fiercely could be heard again.
The choking and suffocating sensation that Xiao Tian had felt a moment ago disappeared and the cold coming through the broken windows embraced his body. Oddly he felt refreshed, he felt as if he could run a 1000km and not get tired. However, he could no longer think about this feeling because he knew the world has gone through some certain changes considering the earthquake that just happened.
[Hello humans of Earth, the time has come when earth will go through an upgrade and spiritual energy will be introduced. You can now view your status window whenever you wish. The first time, the window will open as a test].
"...What is this...?" He muttered to himself as he read the strange blue message that had appeared on his retina.
Xiao Tian -
Level: 0
Race: Human
Job: None
Title: None
Strength: 12 (10) / Agility: 11 (10) / Health: 10 (10) / Stamina: 10 (10) / spirit: 109 (10)
Xiao Tian's body was slim, but under his clothes were hidden very nice muscles due to his constant work as well as training. Considering that the number in parentheses shown in his status window was the base for a normal human being, the condition of his body was quite decent.
"Spirit...?" He looked at the word spirit with wide eyes.
Spiritual energy! A classic element of cultivation movies and light novels! Now, not only had a strange window appeared that seemed to display his physical talents, but the attribute spirit had also appeared on him!
However, before he could even check for any other changes, several sounds and cries coming from outside made his body instinctively move to the window to see what was happening.
Outside, the whole world he knew had changed and what his eyes saw now was no longer the same thing he had seen just a minute ago.
People were running everywhere, screaming and begging for help as they tried with all their might to get away from other people. However, the scariest thing was that there were many people eating other people as if they were beasts.
"Help!"
A pretty girl was running for her life as she looked behind her, getting as far away from one of those strange people as possible. In an oversight, she tripped against a stone and fell to the ground.
"Watch out!" Xiao Tian unconsciously shouted.
Unfortunately, it was already too late.
One of those strange people, with its bloody mouth, caught the girl who had fallen and fiercely bit one of the young girl's arms, making her cry out in pain.
"Save me!" The young girl screamed painfully as she tried to free herself. Her expression was truly pitiful, unfortunately for her, none of the people running could be bothered with her as they were too preoccupied trying to save their own lives. Soon, her body stopped moving.
However, a few moments later, the girl stood up and began to stagger slowly as she chased after the noise.
Seeing this, Xiao Tian complexion turned pale as he suddenly realized that these strange creatures were practically identical to the zombies from the Resident Evil movies.
"Ah! What's that!?" Xiao Tian was shocked when he saw a bee the size of a human fist suddenly buzzing toward a zombie.
The zombie didn't even react to the attack when the bee's huge stinger pierced its head, directly crushing its brain and killing it on the spot.
The bee opened the zombie's chest and began to eat something. After a few moments, its body seemed to grow a few more inches before it stopped.
As if sensing something, the bee left the zombie's corpse and shot straight towards the male dormitory.
Xiao Tian's face changed when he saw that strange bee charging towards him. The bee's speed was really fast and in just a few blinks it had crossed the broken window, aiming its sharp blood-stained stinger at his face.
Xiao Tian reacted on instinct. His right hand reached out and grabbed a wooden chair next to him. Without even taking a second to think, he struck forward with all his strength.
The wooden chair impacted hard against the bee, sending it flying against the adjoining wall.
Seeing that the bee had fallen to the ground but was still moving, Xiao Tian raised the chair above his head and struck the bee's body fiercely three times before the creature stopped moving.
A white energy orb shot out of the giant bee's body and entered his body.
[You gain level 5 Big Bee's spirit power. Agility +2, Strength +2]
[You have reached level 1. You acquire two status points to distribute freely].
Two messages flashed before Xiao Tian's retina. He was surprised to discover how that strange energy seemed to nourish his muscles and bones, making his body more powerful quickly.
"What is this?" Xiao Tian quickly stepped forward to pick up what was next to the bee's corpse.
[Swift Sword]
Class: White (Upgradeable)
Attribute Bonus: +15 strength
Weight: 150 Kgs
[Flash Strike]
Run two step forward and swifty cut your enemy