What is the meaning of a human life, if it only repeats the same things over and over?
Nothing! Absolutely nothing!
Only by becoming a person filled with dreams and goals can one truly live as a proper human!
Fang Yuan walked through the ruins of the city. Hundreds of souls should be dead by now, according to Fang Yuan, as he smelled many unpleasant scents of blood around him.
He scanned his surroundings, and instantly, a blade of grass grew from the remnants of a meteor.
Fang Yuan was startled; something like this was clearly not normal.
Then, starting from that grass, various other plants began to spread throughout every corner of the city.
A sight like this truly amazed Fang Yuan's heart.
Fang Yuan looked at the grass growing at an unreasonable speed with a gaze full of curiosity. He approached it, but suddenly…
A giant tree trunk sprouted from the ground just like that! Soon after, branches and dense leaves grew at an equally absurd speed!
About a minute later, the tree stopped growing. Its height was approximately two and a half meters. Considering Fang Yuan's height of 186 cm, this tree was about twice his height, maybe a little taller.
Plop!
A strange sound reached Fang Yuan's ears. He looked towards the source of the sound and found a fruit shaped like an apple! But its shape was somewhat odd.
"What kind of apple is this? Its color is like a rainbow."
Fang Yuan observed the unusual apple. Its color was a mix of various rainbow hues: red, yellow, orange, blue, and other beautiful colors.
"Can this be eaten…?" Fang Yuan asked himself.
Fang Yuan was initially hesitant, then he thought.
Without taking great risks, a man cannot achieve his dreams! Yes, playing it safe is good, but for how long can one keep doing that? It's better to take a risk and have a chance of gaining power than to remain weak.
Fang Yuan clearly knew there was a possibility this apple was poisonous. But as he said before, there's no use playing it safe at a time like this!
Fang Yuan quickly took the apple and ate it all at once.
Fang Yuan's eyes suddenly widened wide.
By reflex, from reading hundreds of cultivation novels, this felt similar to what he had read. He dropped his large bag and sat down under the tree.
Fang Yuan felt a strange energy enter from his mouth and flow down to his stomach. But instead of stopping there, suddenly the energy spread out and surged through every cell in Fang Yuan's body!
"Egkh!" Fang Yuan tried to suppress his scream. Even though it felt intensely painful, making a loud noise could attract enemies. Regardless of whether they were human, in this new world, no one could truly be trusted.
After a few minutes, the energy subsided, and suddenly Fang Yuan felt energy rapidly entering his brain. He didn't know how, but suddenly a white light erupted from his body, shooting up into the sky, piercing through the horizon!
Fang Yuan immediately stood up, unaware of what had just happened to his body, but it was certain that the bright white light came from him. Was it because of the rainbow apple? But the most important thing now was to leave immediately; that light would clearly attract many people here.
No one knew human nature now.
But suddenly, Plop!
Fang Yuan looked and saw another rainbow apple growing on the tree branch. Not wanting to miss out, Fang Yuan quickly snatched it and put the rainbow apple into his bag.
After that, dozens of Plop! sounds were heard again; dozens of rainbow apples just grew like that!
Escape, or seize the opportunity? Clearly, the choice was obvious.
A man cannot achieve his dreams if he doesn't take risks.
He swiftly collected all the rainbow apples within a few minutes and felt that his bag was quite full of them. Although there were still a few rainbow apples left, it was useless if he couldn't carry them and they just burdened his body.
Fang Yuan slung his bag over his shoulder and ran quickly towards the North, the very edge of the city. Clearly, a destination was already in his mind.
After running for several minutes…
Although he felt quite tired, Fang Yuan's body didn't sweat that much. Perhaps it was because of his body, which he often exercised before this incident, or maybe because of the rainbow apple? But that wasn't the most important thing right now.
Fang Yuan saw a building that was once a radiant white place, emanating an aura of intelligence to the students around it, now completely crushed into pulp.
Fang Yuan could only sigh. Actually, a place like this would have been excellent for hiding and testing what the effects of the rainbow apple really were. But after being destroyed by the meteor, there was only one other place left in Fang Yuan's mind besides this school.
Not far from the school, Fang Yuan ran again towards a place behind the school.
He saw it and smiled with satisfaction. This 'bad place' had truly survived all those meteors!
Actually, not far from the school, the 'bad place' Fang Yuan meant was… a garbage dump!
Yes, during his first and second years, Fang Yuan had prepared a garbage dump near his school for times like these, although he never truly thought something like this could actually happen before.
Wait, no, he didn't mean the dump itself, but…
Fang Yuan descended by jumping into the dumpster. He fell for quite a while until he finally landed on a trampoline.
In front of him was a narrow room, but it was clean and fragrant, very different from the dumpster above.
The outside dumpster was actually a deception for something this impressive. Fang Yuan pulled a lever, and from the outside, the deep opening of the dumpster closed, completely concealing this place.
But suddenly inside, with the loss of sunlight from above, the room plunged into darkness.
"Uhh… I always forget this part." Fang Yuan walked to a corner of the room, pressed a button, and a lamp bright enough to illuminate the entire room turned on.
"Fortunately, the electricity is still somewhat working. But I'm sure it won't last long. And considering how that rainbow apple tree just grew from the ground, this secret room clearly won't last long either."
Fang Yuan had actually saved quite a lot of money to create this secret room, starting from when he was still in junior high. But if fate was changing the course of his life and would destroy this secret room, at least let him use it for a few days.
Fang Yuan sat cross-legged, placing his bag down. Then he closed his eyes.