Li Cheng couldn’t help but brainstorm while opening the player panel, which triggered a new trait.
[New Humanity: +1 Constitution, +500% Fertility]
Li Cheng, who was sipping a drink, instantly spat out a mouthful of icy cola, almost choking and spraying it up his nose.
"No, I can get over the +1 Constitution, but what’s the deal with +500% fertility? One-shot wonder, right? Warning from the killing field, I’m underage here, no sexy times please."
Feeling both amused and annoyed, Li Cheng opened the details of the trait, and the system automatically projected images of him, Little Red Riding Hood, and Jin Huixing stepping out of the studio and into the wilderness.
Er... in a way, this trait was quite fitting. From the perspective of the script’s world, the cat-girl civilization took a spaceship to explore the vast universe, leaving Earth to humanity.
Purebred human men and women are tasked with reproducing, unearthing technology from the Old Night era, and re-establishing the second generation of human civilization. Hence the "new" in the trait’s name.
"Following this logic, Little Red Riding Hood and Jin Huixing might also trigger the same trait..."
Li Cheng wiped off the cola, thought for a moment, but decided against asking them directly through the friend communication channel, feeling it’d be awkward.
With free attributes up for grabs, one might as well add them without hesitation, so he activated the trait and allocated the two free attribute points gained from leveling up from Lv6 to Lv8 to Intelligence and Perception respectively.
So, now his player panel looked ,
[Life-Sacrificing Gambler·Ant]
[Lv8. Experience Bar at 200/800]
[Strength: 9](Human limit)
[Agility: 8](Top tier sprinter level)
[Intelligence: 9](Genius)
[Constitution: 9](Human limit) (New Humanity: +1)
[Perception: 8](Top tier hunter level)
[Charm: 6](Somewhat handsome)
[Equipment Column: Holographic Bone Corridor, Bat Hook Claw Gun, 170 Straight Blade, Nuclear Energy Lighter, Thunder Horn]
[Backpack: Insect Lord’s Divine Calamity Crystal, Achili Toy Factory Key③, Healing Gel*6, Eyes Communication Headset, Emergency Escape Card, SCAR Assault Rifle, drone, Erotic Daoist Robe]
[Skill Bar: Fog Concealment Skill, Multi-threaded Brain Domain Method, Experience Playing Method, Death Curse Torrent (Temporary), Bloodthirsty Fury (Temporary)]
[Game Currency: 5050]
[Spiritual Power Value: 425]
Li Cheng looked at his panel data, his lips curving up in the center with a thumbs up and smiling approval for himself.
Taking an untrained ordinary adult’s all attributes at 5 as a base, he had added a total of 18 attribute points.
That’s roughly the average level for a Lv12 player—this level could already be considered the backbone strength of the major guilds.
"The Bat Hook Claw Gun ensures mobility, the Bloodthirsty Fury Skill from the Holographic Bone Corridor and the 170 Straight Blade for close combat, the Nuclear Energy Lighter and Thunder Horn for wide-area lethality, plus using the Fog Concealment Skill for repositioning..."
Li Cheng assessed his current combat readiness, "If I really let loose and went on a rampage, as a single person, I’d be equivalent to a fully armed Special Combat Team with heavy firepower weapons."
Upon thinking this, I couldn’t help but feel admiration for official organizations like the Special Affairs Bureau and the Global Supernatural Alliance.
Without these organizations presiding over things, the Transcendents who go to extremes for power would have stirred up trouble and trampled societal order underfoot.
"Even level 10 players are ; I can’t even imagine how powerful those at level 30 or 40 must be..."
Li Cheng muttered to himself, then went to bed and turned off the light. He still had to go to school tomorrow.
Probability and statistics, solid geometry, functions, trigonometry, analytic geometry, sequences...
Mechanics, thermodynamics, optics, electrodynamics...
Organic compounds, chemical reaction rates, chemical calculations...
During the midterm exam, students were scratching their heads, some donned masks of pain, some were sweating profusely and biting their lips, some were constantly shaking their legs and twirling their pens.
Seated at the back, Li Cheng appeared calm. He had maintained the Multi-threaded Brain Domain Method for a long time and absorbed knowledge far beyond his peers. Even without activating the multi-threaded thinking mode, breezing through these exam papers was like playing a game.
Still, to avoid deviating too much from his past persona, he worked through the questions steadily and would even deliberately answer some incorrectly, precisely controlling his grades.
The student sitting in front of him, Han Letian, seemed to have encountered a complicated question and had given up thinking. He wrote ABCD on the four sides of his Confucius Temple blessing eraser, deciding the multiple-choice answers by tossing it while muttering softly, "Confucius, save me!"
...Confucius, if brought to the present, would probably not be able to solve chemistry problems either.
While Li Cheng was silently mocking,
A dull and loud sound came from a great distance, and soon after, the desks, the classroom, and the entire building began to shake slightly. The windows glass squeaked and twisted due to the pressure.
The middle-aged teacher who was originally sitting behind the podium, leisurely sipping his tea from a thermos, got up subconsciously, hesitated for two seconds, and then yelled, "It’s an earthquake, get out!"
The perplexed students rushed out of the classroom at the teacher’s urging. Li Cheng stood up and patted Shao Wangshu, who was sitting to his right on the shoulder—this girl was completely absorbed in doing her test and hadn’t even realized there was an earthquake.
With the school’s broadcast system advising them, everyone left the building and headed to the sports field.
The earthquake was not very strong, and it passed as quickly as it came. Teachers of each class tried to maintain order. Several thousand students were all crammed onto the grass field, whispering and chattering noisily.
"What’s going on, an earthquake?"
"Does anyone have a cell phone? Let me borrow it; I need to report in safe to my family."
"There’s an earthquake in Yin City?"
"Just one look and you know you didn’t pay attention in geography class. Broadly speaking, the entire southeast coast of the country is near the Pacific earthquake belt, and Yin City is no exception. In my opinion, this is at most a magnitude 4-5 earthquake, and since the epicenter is relatively far from the city, it’s not a big problem."
Listening to others’ conversations, Li Cheng quietly left the class lineup and found Yuan Zhixia, who was also away from the crowd, playing with her phone under the shade of a tree, and asked, "This earthquake felt off, didn’t it?"
"You noticed?" Yuan Zhixia raised her eyebrows.
"Yep," said Li Cheng, "There were only S-waves, no P-waves."
Earthquake waves can be divided into compressional (P-waves), shear (S-waves), and surface (L-waves) according to their mode of propagation.
P-waves travel in straight lines, are the fastest, and cause buildings to vibrate up and down. S-waves wriggle up, are relatively slower, and cause the ground to tremble back and forth, left and right.
P-waves precede S-waves, so during an earthquake, the ground first experiences an up-and-down jolting, followed by side-to-side shaking.
S-waves without P-waves mean this was not an ordinary earthquake.
Since Li Cheng had realized this, Yuan Zhixia didn’t feel the need to conceal anything and showed him her phone screen, "Indeed, it’s an abnormal event, red alert level. I estimate it’ll be upgraded to a deep red alert after some time."
A deep red alert—if not dealt with in time, it could endanger an entire city. Fresh chapters posted on novｅlfire.net