1: Survival in the Fog

[Welcome to the Mist Cataclysm World!]

[Here, you will experience the hunting and pursuit of many monsters, including Cthulhu evil gods, magical beasts, demons, demonic beasts, Spirits, zombies, puppets, magical creatures, devils, and more!]

[This is a trial of survival of the fittest!]

[Those who can enter here are the most youthful and vibrant generation from various worlds!]

[You will begin your survival from a grass hut!]

[Please remember the following basic rules:]

[1. Before you become a Professional, please do not go out at night!]

[2. When the Mist descends, spatial displacement will occur. If you are far from your Shelter and unfortunately experience spatial displacement, you will lose your Shelter permanently!]

[Please note: Every Survivor has only one Shelter here!]

[3. Please do not trust any Survivor you encounter, unless you are willing to become the barbecue on their plate!]

[Note: Some monsters possess perfect disguise techniques; they will transform into people you are familiar with to appear before you.]

[4. There are only 6 hours of daylight each day. In the absence of Mist, this is your safest time of the day!]

[5. The Mist brings not only danger but also opportunity. Seize the opportunity, and you will become stronger!]

[6. Only Survivors from the same nation can form alliances, but you must find the person you wish to ally with.]

[7. As long as you work hard to earn survival points, you will have the chance to participate in the induction trial of the Mist Survivors Guild!]

[8. From the Mist Survivors Guild, you can obtain promotions for various auxiliary professions, guides for special dungeons, access to high-point missions, tickets to the Mist Battlefield, and so on.]

[9. All Survivors who have not yet entered the Mist Survivors Guild will have one month to find a path to promotion. As long as the promotion is completed within the specified time, you will gain the right to live!]

[10. The Mist World upgrades every 6 months. Low-level Survivors without a profession will be the first to be naturally eliminated!]

[Note: So-called natural elimination refers to being unable to withstand the power of the Mist World's upgrade and thus twisting or mutating into a new monster, or becoming fertilizer for this continent.]

...

Su Lie silently watched the prompts that suddenly floated in the air a meter in front of him.

He suddenly discovered.

Outside the window of his high school classroom, it had become filled with surging Mist.

The classroom window quickly transformed into a decayed wooden window smeared with a layer of dark mud, causing the light in the room to dim.

When he turned his head.

Su Lie's pupils constricted.

He found that the classroom had turned into an unfamiliar room in the blink of an eye.

The room was about 30 square meters, the walls were made of wood, and the gaps were filled with yellowed withered grass. The roof above was a triangular structure of withered grass.

When he looked up.

Su Lie could see the surging grayish-white Mist outside through the gaps in the withered grass.

In the room where he was, there was only a pile of withered grass spread on the ground.

In the corner near the door, there was also a stone axe.

On the other side of the door, there was a wooden bucket without a handle. The bucket was about 30 centimeters in diameter and 1 meter high.

Inside the wooden bucket was a ladle made from a gourd.

The bucket was filled with one-third clear water.

“I have entered the Mist World...”

Su Lie did not doubt this, because he had always been looking forward to this day.

He was a senior at Lingyang High School about to graduate.

He liked listening to ancient-style songs, liked web literature, liked Western violent aesthetic movies, liked being alone, and liked playing Honor of Kings.

Ideal: To be a special forces soldier.

Personality: Reticent.

He advocated for action over words and liked being straightforward.

His parents were still around, both ordinary workers.

Every time his exam results were unsatisfactory, he would fantasize about how great it would be if the world underwent a massive change.

Now.

He truly had entered the Mist World to survive, without any warning or psychological preparation.

This not only failed to make him panic in the slightest.

Instead, he was extremely excited.

[Buzz!]

As the images before his eyes faded.

The next prompt appeared again.

[You have unlocked: Personal Panel, Shelter, World Chat Channel, and Trading Center—the four major sections!]

[You only need to summon them with your thoughts to open the corresponding functional modules!]

[Note: If you accidentally open a function during combat, you will lose all external vision.]

...

[Buzz!]

[Congratulations on successfully obtaining the initial reward: Random Talent Extraction Scroll!]

Three seconds after the prompt appeared, all the text turned into bits of golden stardust and vanished.

A light flashed in Su Lie's hand, and a 20-centimeter-long scroll appeared in his palm.

“What Talent will I get?”

He immediately unrolled the scroll.

Buzz!

A flash of light.

His expression froze.

His originally expectant mood became low and lonely.

He looked at the prompt before him in disbelief and couldn't help but sigh: “Sigh! This luck is truly bad to the extreme point!”

[Enhance: White Common Talent, can Enhance everything, can be used 10 times a day]

[Talent and item grades are: White Common, Green Boutique, Blue Rare, Purple Epic, Golden Legendary, and Red Divine—6 grades in total.]

He thought he would at least get a Golden Legendary!

He didn't expect it to be the lowest-level Talent.

This left him speechless and feeling particularly powerless.

He looked at his Personal Panel.

[Name: Su Lie]

[Age: 18]

[Lifespan: 22 (All Survivors entering the Mist World will be deemed to have consented to sacrificing all lifespan after the age of 22 to the Mist. This is the toll you pay to obtain qualification as a Mist World Survivor! If you want to live longer, please work hard to improve yourself!)]

[life: 5; Spirit: 10; stamina: 3; Speed: 1;]

[Talent: Enhance (White)]

[Shelter: Level 0]

[Free Attribute Points: 0]

[Mist Points: 0]

[Evaluation: A man who doesn't even count as a weakling.]

[Note: The average values for life, stamina, Spirit, and Speed of a normal healthy human are 10 points! The limit value is 100 points!]

“Holy crap! This is too garbage!”

Su Lie couldn't help but complain.

He thought about how he didn't love sports before and hadn't undergone systematic exercise, plus his body was thin as a rail.

It was normal for his attributes to be weak.

What shocked him even more was that the mist rule had directly deducted his lifespan after the age of 22.

This method made him feel terrified.

He also developed a terrifying thought because of this: “Does the mist rule believe that Survivors who cannot gain lifespan by increasing their strength simply cannot survive for more than 4 years? Or does it assume that no one has a survival time exceeding 4 years? How old are the others?”

With a heart full of doubt, Su Lie entered the World Chat Channel.

What caught his eye was a population count.

The number of people at this stage was actually as many as 90 billion.

This made him click his tongue slightly: “It seems it's not just people from Blue Star who entered here... is it the youth of the entire universe?”

He looked at the chat page.

He saw a large amount of chat content appearing.

“Hello brothers! This little brother is 18 this year, how old are you all?”

“18!”

“18!”

“19!”

“I'm 20!”

At the very top was a group of chat messages discussing age.

From this, it could be seen.

The youth who entered the Mist World were all between 18 and 22 years old.

There wasn't a single person from other age groups.

Su Lie breathed a slight sigh of relief. He didn't want his parents to be teleported in as well; with their understanding, they probably wouldn't be able to survive in the Mist World.

He felt somewhat fortunate: “I have 4 more years of lifespan than the 22-year-old Survivors! This is good news!”