Yunhua Third High School, third-year class 2 classroom.
Horoom class.
The horoom teacher stood on the podium, speaking with passionate fervor: "There are less than three months until the college entrance exam! Everyone must persevere to the end and fight with all your might!"
"The college entrance exam is the fairest rule, the greatest opportunity to change your destiny! If you don't push yourselves now, it will be too late for regrets later!"
The fairest rule?
By the window in the back row, a boy with ssy hair wore a calm expression.
As soone who had "been through it before," Guan Tong knew that nothing like the "fairest rule" existed in this world.
This was true in the world he ca from, and it was true in this world after his transmigration.
However, Guan Tong was quite satisfied with his transmigration.
Back on Earth, he was just an ordinary office worker, stuck in a job he disliked, with his body in a state of suboptimal health.
After transmigrating to this planet called "Tianshui Star," he had actually returned to being eighteen years old.
Putting everything else aside, just having this young, energetic body again was enough.
As for the future...
Guan Tong looked out the window, and his expression suddenly changed.
—What was that?
Irregular black spots abruptly appeared in the sky, like drops of ink falling onto a sky-blue canvas.
The spots seed "alive," moving and combining in strange ways, quickly forming four pulsating large characters.
[Test Begin]
These four words echoed simultaneously in everyone's mind worldwide at that mont, in their respective languages.
The horoom teacher, who had been speaking, also paused, a look of confusion appearing on his face. The students looked at each other in bewildernt.
"Just now..."
Soone tried to speak, but the voice in their mind hadn't finished.
[Welco all Homo sapiens to participate in the "Ascension Plan" test]
[I am this test's proctor: Fire Thief]
[This test's scope: All Homo sapiens of Tianshui Star]
[Test content: Forty-nine Doomsday Rules]
[Test objective: Those who pass the test may learn the truth of the test and participate in doomsday operations]
"You all heard that too, right?!"
A student shouted in terror as he stood up.
"I heard it! It felt like soone was talking inside my head!"
"Holy shit! What's going on?"
"Forty-nine Doomsday Rules? Ascension Plan? Doomsday operations?"
"That voice sounded like a robot!"
Guan Tong also heard the voice in his mind.
However, he wasn't too surprised.
Having already experienced "transmigration," he wouldn't find anything else too strange.
Then, the voice in his mind sounded again.
[Personal terminal function activated, can be viewed silently at any ti]
[First Doomsday Rule has been released]
[Doomsday Rule One: Sleep Deprivation]
[Rule content: From the mont this rule is announced, you must not enter sleep state in any form for 72 hours]
[Survival reward: 100 Ascension Coins, Mind Power]
[Failure penalty: If you enter sleep state during the rule's effective period, you will never wake up again]
[Note: It is known that so Homo sapiens on Tianshui Star have previously remained awake for 297 consecutive hours. 72 hours is far from the limit. Please strive to pass]
After the voice in their minds, which called itself "Fire Thief," stopped speaking, the entire class erupted into chaos.
No one knew what was happening. Even the horoom teacher stood frozen on the podium, at a loss for what to do.
"Look quickly!"
Soone shouted while staring at the sky outside the window. Others followed their gaze.
They saw a massive red countdown suspended in the sky above, its numbers constantly changing.
71:59:22
71:59:21
71:59:20
Everyone stared blankly at the countdown in the sky when a loud roar suddenly ca from the very back of the classroom.
"Shut up! What's all this noise!"
Everyone was startled and looked over simultaneously.
The one who roared was a burly boy with a crew cut. Judging by his sleepy appearance, he had clearly been sleeping until just now.
The boy's na was Xu Beipeng, and his grades were consistently the worst in the class. Because of his strong build and hot temper, teachers didn't dare discipline him much, turning a blind eye to him sleeping in class.
"So test... rules... annoying." Xu Beipeng dug at his ears, thinking the voice in his head was part of a dream. After mumbling a few words, he lay his head on the desk and continued sleeping.
The classmates all showed expressions of alarm.
"He, how can he sleep?"
"That Fire Thief person said..."
"The first Doomsday Rule is not to enter sleep state for 72 hours! Is this real or not?!"
Guan Tong looked at Xu Beipeng and frowned slightly.
"Huff, huff..."
Xu Beipeng fell asleep extrely fast. Within seconds of lying down, he was already snoring.
Seeing this, the classmates all breathed sighs of relief.
"Nothing's happening. It seems those rules aren't real..."
Before the words finished, Xu Beipeng's snoring suddenly stopped.
Then the classmates saw Guan Tong, who sat by the window in the back row, suddenly stand up and walk toward Xu Beipeng.
Guan Tong went straight to Xu Beipeng's side and shook the latter's body: "Xu Beipeng, wake up."
Xu Beipeng didn't move, didn't make a sound, showing no signs of waking up.
The students around him couldn't stay seated any longer, standing up in terror and moving away.
"Smack!"
Guan Tong suddenly slapped Xu Beipeng hard across the face.
"Wake up!"
Still no response.
Guan Tong placed his fingers in front of Xu Beipeng's nostrils. After a few seconds, he withdrew them and, facing the entire class's gaze, shook his head: "No breath."
"Ahhh!!!"
The more timid boys and girls in the class scread.
The horoom teacher also panicked, quickly pulling out his phone to call ergency services while dialing and saying: "Everyone please sit down first, don't panic... Guan Tong, where are you going?!"
Guan Tong had already reached the classroom door. Without turning his head, he replied: "Going ho. Outside is going to descend into chaos soon."
"You..."
"I want to go ho too!"
" too!"
With Guan Tong taking the lead, other students rushed out of the classroom one after another.
The entire school was soon enveloped in noise and commotion. Students from every class were in an uproar, and the bicycle shed was packed with people scrambling to get their bikes and leave.
Because Guan Tong had left first, he was already out of the school gate.
Seeing one spot reveals the whole leopard. If even a closed-managent high school campus had fallen into chaos, the situation outside would be much worse.
The streets were filled with people running around in panic. Car horns blared constantly, and traffic accidents occurred frequently.
The large screen hanging in the square was broadcasting ergency notifications. A famous host from Beixing Country repeated with a serious expression:
"Facing this sudden ergency, please do not panic. Enter safe indoor spaces in an orderly manner and wait for official announcents."
"Facing this sudden ergency, please do not panic. Enter safe indoor spaces in an orderly manner and wait..."
It wasn't just the square's large screen; everyone's phones also received ergency notifications from their carriers. The content was the sa as the broadcast, telling people not to panic and to wait for official announcents.
Guan Tong stood on the street, looking at the text ssage on his phone, thinking that quite a few people must have died in this short ti. Otherwise, the authorities wouldn't have acted so quickly.
He thought: "In many countries on the other side of the planet, it's nightti right now, and most people are sleeping. Even if they're awakened by Fire Thief's voice like Xu Beipeng was, most would probably think they're dreaming like Xu Beipeng did, roll over, and go back to sleep... How many people would die?"
"As for dostically, places like hospitals are probably disaster zones."
Normal sleepers could still be awakened by Fire Thief's voice in their minds, giving them a chance to survive. But what about those in hospitals who are comatose due to illness, or patients under anesthesia for surgery? How could they "wake up"?
The authorities must have received snowstorm-like death reports from hospitals across various cities, which is why they didn't dare delay and issued a nationwide announcent imdiately.
Guan Tong thought of this, and many others must have too.
For example...
Guan Tong looked at a supermarket not far away, where seven or eight young and middle-aged n were crowded at the store entrance arguing.
"I was here first! All of you move aside!"
"Who the hell cares about first co first served now! Boss, give
all the energy drinks like Good Bull and Jianbao in your store! I'll buy them all! And I want the coffee too!"
"Why should you get to buy so much by yourself?!"
"I've got money! What's it to you?"
"Damn you!"
"Hey, talk it out properly! Don't start fighting!"
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