Songjiang No. 1 High School, Grade 12, Class 13.
Lin Yi sat in the homeroom teacher’s office, enjoying the air conditioning and sipping milk tea. On the computer in front of him, the college entrance exam score portal was about to open. His good buddy Chen Qiaosheng had estimated his score at 600, while Zhao Jiaxin and Xu Yue bickered nearby. Their homeroom teacher, Liu Qing, smiled and told them not to be nervous.
The clock ticked over to twelve.
Liu Qing put down her phone and stared blankly at the empty office. “It’s summer vacation. Why did I come to school?”
The next second, Lin Yi crashed into the ruins of a dead city. His hands were scraped raw, and his mouth was full of dust. A System notification appeared:
[Ability: SSS “Electromagnetic Resonance”]
[Welcome to the apocalypse game. The safe zone will be lifted in five minutes.]
He wasn’t the only one who had transmigrated. The names appearing in the chat channel included all his classmates, though there were some unfamiliar names as well.
The game had only one rule, a children’s rhyme that echoed over and over:
“Find a friend, find a friend, find a good friend. Bow to them, shake their hand, you are my good friend.”
When Lin Yi split open the first monster’s skull, a blue crystal rolled to his feet. At last, he understood what the nursery rhyme meant:
Only the first hundred people to collect the crystals could go home.
His electromagnetic powers were awakening. His classmates were scattered throughout the ruins, and some invisible force was deciding everyone’s fate.
Their college entrance exam scores determined their ability levels. The first game had begun, and nobody knew what the next one would be.
But Lin Yi knew that the apocalypse was only his first examination hall.
