Why Would You Pick a Fight with Him?

[Completed: The Metaphysics Master Carries the Team. Upcoming metaphysical novel: The Ancestor Comes Down the Mountain. Short mystery: The Wildflower Field.] Other people's youth is all worksheets, exams, and getting into a top university. Yu Heguang's youth is spent fighting monsters, killing ghosts, and doing his best to survive a deadly selection process. When Yu Heguang is finally admitted to New Earth's number one university, he's so moved that he tears up, thinking his trials are finally over. But then... his score isn't high enough, and he's assigned to the combat department. An even worse hell awaits. Yu Heguang: “Fuck!” When the apocalypse struck, all of humanity evacuated Earth, leaving behind many precious parts of its civilization. To recover lost civilizations and uncover the truth behind Old Earth's destruction, the New World established universities. The very best students are sent to Old Earth, where they must retrieve everything they can from a chaotic world teeming with strange beasts and danger, earning unparalleled honors. It's a path to the heavens that everyone dreams of taking. Everyone except Yu Heguang, who is frantically refusing to become the combat department's top student. “I applied to the literature department in the first place! I wanted a peaceful life! I love literature!” The actual top student from the literature department next door: “Hm? I heard someone in the combat department has a crush on me?” Yan Zhige hefts his Tang sword, wipes the blood off his face, and grins wildly. “I don't make friends. The literature department's top student only wants to fight. Got it?” Then he sees Yu Heguang on the battlefield: “...Shit, I spoke too soon. Come love me! The delicate literature department needs the combat department's close protection!” Recommended: my friend's completed novel, Little Mushroom?! Let Me Eat You! by Curtain Fire. Blurb: Shen Ji transmigrates into an apocalypse novel as its most terrifying contaminant. As the first contaminant to possess reason, he is devious, ruthless, and mad, constantly encroaching on humanity's territory. At last, humanity has had enough and sends a special task force into his domain to destroy him. Faced with imminent death and eternal ruin, Shen Ji quickly fakes his death, puts on a human disguise, and blends into the crowd, planning to freeload until the end. By chance, he becomes a famous specialist in treating contamination diseases, adored by countless people. Rumor has it that he's a special doctor trained by a secret department, sent here on a covert medical mission. But his disguise is so poor that everyone has to pretend they know nothing, just to protect the little doctor's self-esteem. Shen Ji: “Huh??? I didn't do that! Don't make things up!” Li Zhiyan, the leader of the special task force, hears that a healing-type mutant has appeared in his jurisdiction. The man is handsome, patient, and gentle, and supposedly an elite from a secret department on a covert mission. He decides to meet this colleague and poach him. That night, he sees the healing-type mutant. This supposedly patient and gentle doctor is bathed in darkness, his blood-red left eye brimming with the aura of a top-level contaminant. By day, he fusses over patients and secretly marks territory. In the middle of the night, he quietly reels in a whole body of fungal threads that had crawled out of him, pretending to be innocent and pitiful. Li Zhiyan: “...” He rolls up his sleeves, captures the runaway fungal threads, and recruits their owner! Shen Ji: “...” Well, would you look at that! He actually met someone even more shameless than himself! Theme: Pass on the torch of human civilization.