Chapter 2 of 10

Chapter 2

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Li Yi sped down the road at no less than forty kilometers per hour, like a nimble loach weaving through narrow gaps.

Nowadays, most bicycles are equipped with electric assist systems. Graphene technology has greatly improved battery capacity. Before the application of graphene technology, the capacity of each industrial 18650 battery was at most 3.4 ampere-hours. Today, it has increased a thousandfold, reaching an astonishing 3,000 ampere-hours.

Li Yi's bicycle looks no different from an ordinary mountain bike, except for a small 1-kilowatt hub motor installed at the rear wheel and a controller hidden in the bicycle frame, along with twenty 18650 batteries.

A full charge takes only a few minutes, and each charge can last for over 2,000 kilometers!

What does that mean? It means that a bicycle weighing just ten kilograms can travel from Shandong to Guangdong entirely on electric power, and after a five-minute recharge, it can travel back from Guangdong to Shandong, as long as the rider has enough stamina.

As a cycling enthusiast, Li Yi has never denied the immense benefits and conveniences that alien technology has brought to humanity.

Fourteen years ago, an alien spacecraft suddenly appeared and crashed in the Great Lakes region of North America.

Humans finally understood that they were not the only intelligent life in the universe and obtained a large amount of valuable technical data from the crashed spacecraft.

Unfortunately, the alien spacecraft brought not only unknown civilizations but also catastrophic disasters.

A month after the arrival of the alien spacecraft, a terrible biological mutation occurred in North America. Humans became mutants, and countless mutated beasts appeared simultaneously.

Soon, all of North America was occupied by mutated beasts and humans. The disaster crossed the Caribbean region and began to spread to South America.

Three months later, from south to north, all of the Americas were declared lost!

The vast Pacific and Atlantic Oceans separated the Americas from Asia and Europe. People, still in shock, thought they could cut off the advance of the mutated beasts by relying on the oceans.

Scientists on Earth also began to study the valuable wealth obtained from the alien spacecraft: technology and elemental force!

However, seven years after the complete fall of the American continent, the mutated beasts and humans suddenly landed on the Hawaiian Islands. Seven days later, Hawaii was declared lost. The United States, once the most powerful country in the world, finally lost its last piece of territory and was completely erased from the map!

That day, the entire world was utterly shocked!

It turned out that even the vast Pacific Ocean could not stop the dark invasion! The end of the world was so close!

Moreover, according to the data deciphered from the alien spacecraft, the biological mutation was not limited to Earth but had already spread throughout the universe!

Countless prophets, scientists, and religious fanatics had imagined the end of the world countless times, but no one could have imagined that the end of the world was not just the end of Earth but the end of the entire universe!

In the boundless starry sky and vast deep space, other alien civilizations, unknown and unfamiliar to humans, had been fighting the suddenly spreading dark forces for tens of thousands of years!

Mutated humans are similar to zombies, bloody and cruel, having lost the basic thinking and emotions of humans. Mutated beasts are even more powerful; some large mutated animals can grow as tall as a pyramid and can bite through a hundred-ton boulder!

More terrifyingly, these dark mutated creatures are not afraid of thermal weapon attacks. Missiles hitting their heads can only eliminate a small part of the mutated beasts, while the surrounding mutated beasts absorb energy from the missile explosions, becoming even larger and more frenzied!

Therefore, humans must learn to use elemental force, a power inherent in human nature, to survive!

Soon, the United Nations announced the establishment of the Earth Republic. All countries abandoned their past prejudices and formed an unprecedentedly powerful war alliance to declare war on the dark forces!

Most primary, secondary, and even tertiary schools were reorganized into tactical schools.

Humans began to receive elemental force training, hoping to become powerful warriors capable of fighting the darkness!

The day the alien spacecraft brought darkness to Earth was named the Day of Fall. The Earth Republic began a new calendar, the Fall Calendar, to constantly remind people that Earth had entered a countdown to destruction.

Ten years after the fall, in July, the New Zealand campaign, humans suffered a crushing defeat! New Zealand fell.

Twelve years after the fall, in September, the Australia campaign, humans suffered another crushing defeat! All of Oceania was declared lost!

By then, the tentacles of the mutated creatures had extended to southern Asia, threatening the safety of the entire Eurasian continent!

It is now fourteen years after the fall. Today, Li Yi is going to the Ninth Advanced Tactical School in Jinan City to participate in the summer special training. He is an intern warrior.

Looking around, even in a city like Jinan, which is a bit rustic, the streets are full of blond-haired, blue-eyed Americans and Australians, all of whom have immigrated here after their homelands fell.

This is the best of times, and it is also the worst of times.

On the one hand, the spacecraft that descended from the sky brought technology and elemental force, and Earth's civilization has progressed at an unprecedented speed. It is said that it won't be long before the space agency's spacecraft is launched, and Earth humans will finally embark on their journey into the vast cosmos!

On the other hand, the mutated humans and beasts have already destroyed the Americas and Oceania, and it is only a matter of time before they land in Asia, the last stronghold of humanity. The population explosion and the dark invasion are making survival increasingly difficult.

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The first day of summer training was relatively simple. It started with a speech, followed by the assignment of temporary classes and instructors. The instructors then led the new students on a tour of the campus, explaining the layout and functions of the school.

Of course, as instructors, they couldn't help but give the students a profound ideological education, encouraging them to be positive and strive to become true elemental force warriors.

The opening ceremony of any school, from ancient times to the present, is no different, and the Advanced Tactical School is no exception. Listening to the principal's long speech, Li Yi, who was obsessed with the Star Network last night, felt drowsy.

After the summer training, students will be reclassified based on their performance. Those with potential will enter elite classes, while those without potential will follow the masses or even be eliminated.

As Li Yi, who barely entered the Advanced Tactical School with the lowest scores, is quite concerned about this. He hopes that the Morning Star system will give him some help.

Li Yi's mind was on the magical Star Network and the Morning Star system that would be delivered tonight, so he went home early as soon as the speech ended.

Every second of waiting for the Morning Star system to arrive was a torment. Li Yi couldn't wait to see what this elemental force training system, produced by a high-level alien civilization, looked like.

"Cola, connect to the Star Network," Li Yi said softly.

After last night's adjustment, Li Yi and Cola had developed a good rapport, and he knew how to use the little guy's powerful abilities.

Cola, on the other hand, had a good impression of Li Yi because his thoughts seemed very inclusive. He didn't treat Cola like a machine but as a good partner, which was very different from Cola's previous owner.

Swish~

The screen's image changed rapidly, and Li Yi logged into the Star Network as an exorcist. The countless high-level items fascinated him.

As a prospective warrior, Li Yi would eventually need armor and weapons. Only high-level armor could withstand the frenzied bites of mutated beasts, and only high-level weapons could cut through their thick scales.

Although the armor and weapons currently used on Earth are derived from advanced alien technology, Earth's exposure to high-level technology is still too short, and there is a significant gap compared to the various equipment produced by high-level alien civilizations.

Li Yi was very eager, muttering to himself, "Cola, is there any way to earn some Star Credits on the Star Network?"

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