Spiritual Recovery: the Strongest Mercenary

On the eve of the revival of spiritual energy, junior Lin Fengxi noticed something strange in the sultry summer night. The air became heavier, and the stray cat downstairs stared at the nothingness in the night sky, motionless for two full minutes. There was a very faint metallic smell in the wind, like the ionized breath before a storm - but the weather forecast clearly said sunny. At 3:07 in the morning, a cat's meow that did not belong to any living thing tore through the slumber, and the wind suddenly rose, with regular pulsations in the wind, as if there was a giant thing pulsing slowly in the distance. Global monitoring stations captured a forty-fold increase in the concentration of unknown particles in the atmosphere. Mass spectrometry analysis found no matches, and four monitoring stations simultaneously confirmed this. On a meteorological forum, a message that was deleted instantly left only one sentence: "This is not a particle, it is an ordered structure." Communication in the old world is completely interrupted after sunrise. Cats, dogs and rats are mutating crazily. Humans need relics to become stronger - and where the relics are, no one knows. This is a story about an ordinary person stepping into the center of the storm at the slowest speed in the worst of times.