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Uesugi Kenshin stood up abruptly, bowed to Yui, and said, "Excuse me, I'll head back now."
Chapter 336
She buried herself completely under the thick blankets, feeling an overwhelming sadness.
Although they had long anticipated this day, and each of them had been prepared to die at any moment while living in this world, and had become accustomed to death, she still couldn't suppress her sadness now that she was truly the only one left...
After stepping out of the room, Uesugi Kenichi shook his head to clear his head. Just now, he really felt like his soul had flown out, and his mind was buzzing and chaotic. This invisible attack was simply too terrifying, making him involuntarily think of various sonic attack methods. He felt that if Yui were properly trained, her singing voice would be a large-scale weapon of mass destruction, and the kind that could not distinguish between friend and foe.
Moreover, he actually found it strangely appealing when he listened to it at the time. If he listened to it any longer, he would really suspect that his musical taste would be warped by her singing.
He pushed open the door to his bedroom, paused, and heard a suppressed sob. He sighed.
"Cry, it'll make you feel better."
The death of all your closest friends in a single day is such a devastating blow that if you keep it bottled up inside, you'll really get sick.
He returned to his comfortable little house, "823," took a shower, lay down on the bed, and stared blankly at the world outside the window.
Did I do something wrong? Uesugi Kenichi felt uneasy.
He had also learned about and been in contact with several nearby settlements. The population was not large, with each settlement having about 2000 people. There were some cultivators among them, but the highest level was only the 8th level of the Transcendent Realm. If he wanted, he could easily bring these settlements under his rule.
If he had led these people, perhaps this wouldn't have happened today, and maybe more people who didn't have to die could have survived.
But do I really have the ability and the determination to bear the hopes of so many people?
His mind was racing with thoughts. He didn't know if his self-centered approach was right. Perhaps he couldn't make everyone in the world happy, but with his fifth-level Celestial Realm cultivation, he could still protect some people.
Kenichi Uesugi felt his mind was in a mess, but if he were actually asked to do it, he felt he wouldn't do it well, and he simply didn't know where to begin...
The more he thought about it, the more agitated he became. He felt a sense of guilt, and a voice seemed to be constantly telling him, "It's all your fault. If you had done it sooner, you could have saved many people..."
Feeling somewhat agitated, he left the room, pushed aside the boulder, and, wearing only a thin garment, went to the top of the mountain behind the house.
This mountain is only 600 meters high, and as far as the eye can see, there are endless mountain ranges and vast plains.
Although this world shares some similarities with the previous one in terms of cultural and historical background and technological development, its geographical distribution and area are completely different.
According to the information he has now, this planet called Azure Star is more than 30 times larger than the Blue Star of his previous life. The highest mountain in the world, the Kazbel Mountains, has an altitude of 77535 meters, nearly 80,000 meters. Before the apocalypse, the world's population was more than 180 billion. As for how many people are left now, he has no idea.
Information exchange is far more limited now than before. Over the past few decades, many ways of using technology have been forgotten, and the various buildings and traces left by human civilization have almost disappeared due to the erosion of time, nature, and wild animals.
The outside world is so dangerous that many people only move around in the vicinity of their settlements and dare not go too far away from their settlements, thus forming closed areas.
Information is only relatively well preserved in certain large settlements with populations exceeding one million.
Over the past few decades, humanity has considered reuniting, after all, the human population was a staggering 1800 billion before the apocalypse! Even after suffering devastation, a large number of people are still scattered around the world.
However, once the human population becomes too large, it will attract attacks from various races and monsters. They seem to have realized the enormous potential and terrifying creativity of humans. Once humans are given time to adapt, they will surely stand on this land again and become the masters of this vast land.
Based on his current understanding, demonic beasts are currently the most powerful force in the world.
Monsters are a newly emerging species in the world. They look no different from wild animals, but their power is completely different. They can use various energies and have many incredible methods. They are incredibly powerful, just like cultivators among humans. However, they are relatively rare. The most representative ones are the Dragon Clan and the White Tiger Clan.
Secondly, there is the Abyss Clan, who live deep underground in the Great Northern Wilderness, and are bloodthirsty, cruel, and have terrifyingly strong regenerative abilities.
Then, hundreds of races emerged, including orcs, elves, and dwarves, each with its own specialties. Among these numerous races, humans were not particularly outstanding except for their population advantage.
Even now, humanity still doesn't understand what happened back then that caused such a huge change in the world, to the point that even creatures that only existed in fantasy have appeared.
If humanity hadn't fought against hundreds of other races with the strength of one race back then, we wouldn't be in this predicament. Even when faced with attacks from so many forces, humanity held out for a full ten years before finally succumbing to defeat and is now scattered across various regions of the world.
Humanity's greatest advantage lies in its science and technology, including its ability to mass-produce various firepower weapons and nuclear weapons.
However, for some extremely powerful monsters, even nuclear weapons could not play a significant role. In that war, humanity lost because of its top-tier combat power and individual soldier strength. Various missiles and laser cannons inflicted huge casualties on monsters and other races. Moreover, such a large-scale war also spurred the rapid development of technology and weapons.
War can be a powerful catalyst for the advancement of science and technology.
Throughout history, the emergence and advancement of significant technologies have been driven by war.
Like Earth in its previous life, during World War I and World War II, scientific ideas and weapons technology were updated and transformed at an unprecedented pace. Even epoch-making weapons like nuclear bombs appeared during this period. However, when peace came, people longed for stability, and the pace of research and development slowed down many times over. Instead, the focus shifted to studying and improving existing technologies and expanding upon previous foundations.
This is precisely why it has aroused fear among other races.
If humanity continues to develop unchecked, and their elite forces increase in number or their weaponry undergoes revolutionary advancements, they will face annihilation.
Over the years, people have roughly divided the strength of demonic beasts into nine levels, from one to nine. Other large-scale wild beasts are not included in the classification. Those above level nine are called divine beasts. According to records from the past few decades, the number of divine beasts is not very large, but each one has terrifying destructive power, equivalent to a natural disaster.
The number of demonic beasts is not large, but their strength is astonishing. Even a single first-tier demonic beast could easily destroy a settlement of thousands of people without any cultivators of equal rank.
The simplest way to determine whether a wild beast is a demon beast is to sense whether there is energy gathering on its body.
Human spiritual energy cultivators can only fight against demonic beasts after they step into the Celestial Realm. Once they enter the Celestial Realm, they will gain extraordinary power. The Celestial Realm corresponds to the first three levels of demonic beasts. After the Celestial Realm comes the Godhood Realm. He doesn't know much about the realms beyond that. The Mortal Transformation Realm is only good for fighting some wild beasts.
He learned all this information last year from Jianglin City, which is 800 kilometers away and has a population of about 120 million. It is the largest human settlement in the vicinity.
Therefore, even now, once humans begin to gather on a large scale, it will arouse the vigilance of various forces. Nine years ago, Tianfeng City and Yangguan City, two large gathering places, wanted to migrate and merge into one to create a city that could accommodate tens of millions of people. However, they were attacked by monsters during the migration, resulting in heavy casualties. This situation has occurred more than once in the past few decades.
Furthermore, the orcs and monsters would launch attacks on large human cities from time to time in order to reduce the human population.
However, this does not mean that humans are completely at the mercy of others. Over the years, many extraordinary and powerful individuals have emerged among humans, and humans have also continuously launched attacks on other surrounding tribes. It can be said that apart from the demon beasts and the abyss race, no race can defeat humans one-on-one.
This is under the condition that humans are scattered in various regions of the world and have not gathered together.
Even if things hadn't happened so suddenly back then, and humanity hadn't prepared in advance for 1.8, the defeat wouldn't have been so devastating.
Strictly speaking, the human condition is actually quite good. The current environment in the world brings great difficulties to human survival. In the area where Kenichi Uesugi lives, there are about 5 months of winter every year, and the temperature can reach -70 or -80 degrees Celsius at the coldest time.
Even with his current physical condition, he found this terrible cold somewhat unbearable, let alone ordinary people who couldn't cultivate.
This environmental disadvantage is not only for humans, but also a huge disaster for other races. Every winter heralds the arrival of war. In order to survive, some races that have not stored enough food for the winter will fight to obtain food. Even if they lose the war, they can reduce the population, so that they can still survive to some extent. If they win the war, they will obtain a large amount of food.
Humans, who are skilled at farming, find it much easier to survive in this world than other races.
Although the world is now filled with abundant spiritual energy, this has only improved the average quality of people compared to before. Many people do not possess the aptitude for cultivation, and the difficulty of cultivation is extremely high.
Chapter 337
Kenichi Uesugi happily took a picture of the calligraphy he had just written with his phone and uploaded it to the Flash Music app on his phone.
It would be a shame to keep such beautiful characters to myself; let others see the charm of Chinese characters as well.
He's the kind of person people often call "filler" online—he only reads and never posts, rarely comments, but likes posts very frequently. He has nearly 15,000 likes, but not a single one is his own.
Like a child who has just received a toy, Uesugi Kenichi kept writing various poems he liked in his notebook. He used to enjoy scribbling and drawing whenever he had free time, even before his handwriting was bad. Now that he had such beautiful handwriting, he couldn't help but write more to satisfy his craving. Watching others write was nothing compared to the satisfaction of writing it himself. Besides, even his writing wasn't as good as mine.
Oh dear, I've gotten too big for my britches.
Kenichi Uesugi wrote for a good hour before reluctantly stopping.
After carefully putting the notebook away, I remembered that I had another book in my system inventory.
After mentally opening the backpack, a book that didn't look very thick was placed inside.
Strange, how come there's only so little? The full text of Full-Time Master has over five million words.
Did they give me a censored version?
Filled with doubt, Uesugi Kenichi opened the thread-bound book. A massive influx of knowledge instantly flooded into his mind, giving him a splitting headache.
It took several minutes for the throbbing pain to subside.
The entire text of The King's Avatar, with its more than five million words, was clearly etched in his mind, from the title of each chapter to the punctuation marks, without missing a single one.
The content was as clear as if he were flipping through a book right in front of him—no, even more convenient. The chapter he was looking for would appear instantly.
This is some seriously advanced technology! He couldn't help but marvel.
With a buzz, Uesugi Kenichi opened the laptop on his desk. This laptop, which had accompanied Uesugi Kenichi through four years of university life, was now a bit old. He couldn't rely on it for playing games, but it was still fine for watching movies and browsing the web.
After opening the search bar, Uesugi Kenichi first searched for Feilu Novel Network on Baidu Encyclopedia and found that its current status is just like a certain website in his memory, firmly sitting in the top spot. Below it are three websites that are inferior to it: Tianxia, Yeyu, and Poxiao.
Lin Wen searched carefully and found several pirated websites. It wasn't that there weren't any, but there were very few.
Piracy is a major scourge that hinders the development of any industry. Without piracy, authors' income would increase several times over.
After clicking into Feilu Novel Network, Uesugi Kenichi took another look and found that the book with the highest monthly clicks and monthly sales was a novel called "Online Game: Proud Blood Sky".
He clicked in and saw that the number of member clicks had reached more than 20 million, the total number of recommendations was more than 3 million, more than 600 chapters had been updated, and the activity level in the book review section was also very high.
This novel is the kind of virtual reality novel he used to be obsessed with. I glanced at it and thought it was alright.
But Kenichi Uesugi believes that Full-Time will not lose to it.
After clicking on the author section and logging in via the QQ login portal, Uesugi Kenichi discovered that he had already created a pen name.
The pen name was something he had come up with on the spot before, called Yu Hua Deng Xian. Uesugi Kenichi thought about it and decided to stick with the pen name, too lazy to change it.
Choose to create a book, enter a title, and then you'll see a brief description.
A top-tier player in the online game Glory, renowned for his textbook-level skills, was expelled from his club for various reasons…
Once all the information is created and you've chosen your category, you can begin the main content.
Chapter 1, The Expelled Master.
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Kenichi Uesugi was completely absorbed in writing. Since he didn't need to think about the plot, his typing speed increased instantly. Although it didn't reach the speed of six or seven thousand per hour like the tentacle monster, it was still around 4000.
Segments of the story were continuously filled into the blank spaces on the page.
The blank spaces kept disappearing and reappearing.
A strange sense of pleasure welled up in Uesugi Kenichi's heart. He couldn't wait to see Fullmetal Alchemist shine in this changed world.
Nearly three hours later, he finally stopped, his fingers slightly aching, and looked at the five chapters on the page with a sense of satisfaction.
After crossing his hands and flexing his fingers, he stood up and stretched his body, which had become stiff from sitting for so long.
I looked out the window and realized it was almost dark.
It's almost 7 o'clock before I knew it.
In Jiangcheng, it gets dark exceptionally late in the summer. After turning off the air conditioner, Uesugi Kenichi opened the window to let in some fresh air. Compared to Jiangcheng during the day, the approaching night brought a touch of coolness to this hot city.
Standing on the 7th floor, looking at the bustling traffic on the distant streets, the towering skyscrapers reaching into the clouds, and the lights of countless homes lit up, the scene before me seemed dreamlike.
Ah! Uesugi Kenichi shouted loudly out the window, as if to vent the resentment and unwillingness that had been lurking in his heart.
again and again.
He only stopped when he was completely hoarse.
Tears gradually welled up in my eyes. My heart ached a little.
"I swear I will make lots and lots of money so that I and my family can live a good life!" Uesugi Kenichi wiped his eyes silently.