In the autumn of the 70th year of the Daxuan Dynasty, the rocky slopes of the western border were shrouded in thick black fog, and the rotten smell was choking - the bone-eroding demon was coming.
Seventeen-year-old Lin Chen clutched the hunting knife left by his father and hid in the house with his mother Li. The courtyard wall suddenly collapsed, and the Bone Erosion Demon, half a man tall, broke in, with the blood-stained clothes of the villagers hanging from its claws. Li pushed Lin Chen to the woodshed and raised a hoe to meet the demon. The hoe broke and her shoulder was torn open by the demon's claws. She was hit by another claw and fell into a pool of blood.
When Lin Chen was about to die, the ancestral jade pendant on his chest cracked and golden aura poured in. [Binding of brain hole cultivation system! Novice mission: Kill the bone-eating demon, choose 1 from three options]. He chose "Aura with Knife", warm current surged in his right hand, and the hunting knife glowed golden.
The bone-corroding demon rushed towards him, Lin Chen stabbed him sideways in the eye (a weakness prompted by the system), and the golden aura broke through the demon's skull. The demon roared and twitched, Lin Chen made a last-ditch kill, and the system reward arrived.
There was a cry from the corner of the woodshed, and Lin Chen found a palm-sized snow-white beast (Baize cub) trapped in a turbid miasma. He used the remaining spiritual energy to treat him, and Bai Ze opened his eyes and licked his palm, [Binding successful, weak spot recognition unlocked].
Lin Chen covered his mother's body, carried a bag of dry food and Baize, held a hunting knife and pushed open the back door of the woodshed. In the turbid fog, the village was filled with flames, and he looked outside the village - this was his first step to survive in the apocalypse, and also the starting point for his journey to immortality.