Chapter 1: The Calamity Game, The Scavenger Profession
Chapter 1: The Calamity Game, The Scavenger Profession
Where is this place?
Su Jinjin frowned and looked around; the unfamiliar environment made her tense all over.
This is a small dormitory room with a light bulb hanging from the ceiling, which flickers due to unstable electricity.
Several worn-out suitcases were piled up in the corner, their zippers half-open, revealing the clothes inside.
Meanwhile, a loudspeaker was blaring outside the window, advertising a small portion of savory pancakes for six yuan.
She was working late into the night revising the plan just a second ago.
The boss's outrageous "colorful black" design proposal nearly drove her crazy.
The keyboard clattered loudly, and I chugdredged down cup after cup of coffee, my eyelids so heavy I could barely lift them.
But just as she was rubbing her aching temples, preparing for another round...
A blur before my eyes.
When I came to my senses, I found myself standing in this godforsaken place.
"No way? A paranormal event?"
Su Jinjin subconsciously pinched her arm, the pain so real it made her gasp. "Or is it..."
She reads a lot of novels in her spare time and is very familiar with all kinds of time-travel, rebirth, and infinite flow tropes.
But those were other people's stories. Now that it was happening to her, she felt both absurd and terrified.
"Time travel? Or a game?" she murmured, her heart pounding like a drum.
As if to confirm her guess, the next second!
[bite!]
A cold, mechanical voice suddenly exploded in her mind, sending a shiver down her spine.
[Ding, the Cataclysm game is loading, the Doomsday instance is about to begin...]
Su Jinjin's pupils suddenly contracted.
"A game of natural disasters?"
[Ding! Welcome, lucky players from the Blue Star Universe, to the Cataclysmic Game! You will embark on an unprecedented survival test, struggling to survive in various apocalyptic dungeons!]
Please read the game rules carefully now!
[Rule 1: Players selected this time will be randomly chosen from young adults aged 16-50. Once you participate in the game, you cannot return unless you complete the main quest assigned by the system!]
Rule 2: Death in the game is considered a real death!
[Rule 3: New player gift pack has been sent!]
[Rule 4: The first apocalypse dungeon is a beginner dungeon with low difficulty!]
[Rule Five: Attention! Your planet Earth is entering apocalyptic times. The abilities players gain in the Cataclysm game might change the fate of this apocalypse in reality, so survive, for the sake of your planet.]
[Rule Six: The dungeon "Alien Apocalypse" will open in five minutes. Please be prepared!]
Rule Seven: Be careful not to reveal to the native inhabitants that you are a player.
After listening, Su Jinjin took a deep breath and forced herself to calm down.
Since resistance is futile, we can only focus all our efforts on dealing with the dangers ahead.
"The dungeon is called 'Alien Apocalypse'?"
Su Jinjin quickly analyzed, "Judging from the name, it should be an apocalyptic world invaded by alien creatures or mutated species... Under this worldview, the level of danger is definitely not low."
"The system also said this is a relatively easy dungeon, are you kidding me?" Su Jinjin immediately became nervous.
"Don't panic... The system has also given out a newbie gift pack."
Su Jinjin immediately began searching and soon found a black metal box not far from the dormitory.
The box was engraved with strange patterns and emitted a faint, eerie glow.
Without hesitation, Su Jinjin quickly opened the box.
[Ding! Congratulations on obtaining a Talent Awakening Scroll!]
The box vanished into specks of light in her hand, replaced by a yellowed, ancient scroll covered in obscure runes that exuded a mysterious power.
"A talent awakening scroll?" Su Jinjin's eyes lit up. "This should be the key for players to survive in dungeons!"
Su Jinjin unfurled the scroll without hesitation.
In an instant, the runes on the scroll began to writhe as if they were alive, transforming into countless points of light that surged into her body.
A strange power flowed through her body, and a system notification sounded in her mind!
[Ding! Congratulations to the player for awakening the talent - Working Class!]
"...What?"
Su Jinjin's expression froze instantly.
A talent for working class?
Upon hearing that she had awakened this talent, Su Jinjin's heart immediately sank.
In the doomsday scenario where life and death hang in the balance, awaken the "working class" talent.
Are you serious?
Su Jinjin's lips twitched. "Are you kidding me? Do you want me to work among monsters? To be a corporate slave for aliens? Isn't that suicide?"
However, the next second, detailed information about her talent unfolded before her eyes—
[The Talent of a Working Person (Unique)]
Effect 1:
"Office Worker/Workhorse": Upon entering the dungeon, you will randomly receive a [Class]. Different awakened classes have different abilities. (Class abilities disappear upon completion of the dungeon!)
Effect 2:
Resume Eye: Allows you to view data on any living entity.
Effect 3:
Learn from the Master: After completing the dungeon, you can permanently learn one ability of the [Office Worker] awakened class.
After seeing the effects of the talent, Su Jinjin realized that this "working-class talent" seemed to be somewhat different from what she had imagined.
However, it was too late for a thorough investigation.
The time has come, and the [Alien Apocalypse] instance has begun.
[Ding! The Apocalypse of the Alien Species has begun. Players, please survive!]
[Ding! Dungeon open, return quest issued!]
Main Mission 1: Survive for seven days in a mutant apocalypse!
After the task notification, the system voice disappeared from my ears.
Su Jinjin looked around at her surroundings. She walked to the window of her single dormitory and looked outside. However, the outside world was full of the atmosphere of a bustling city and did not seem like a place where the apocalypse was.
However, just as Su Jinjin was thinking this...
She noticed something like a shooting star suddenly appearing on the horizon, hurtling rapidly toward the ground.
"So the alien apocalypse creatures are from outer space?"
Su Jinjin stopped waiting.
Instead, he looked at his own information.
[Player: Su Jinjin]
[Talent: Working Class]
[Level: lv1]
[Item: None]
[Skills: None!]
"Quickly use the worker awakening class. I don't know what class it will awaken, but it will definitely be the class that allows me to survive in this dungeon."
For example, professions with powerful attacks.
Su Jinjin prayed silently.
[Working Person Talent Unlocked...Awakening in Progress! Ding! Awakening Successful!]
[Congratulations to player - Working Class Talent - for awakening the Scavenger talent in the alien apocalypse!]
[The profession of scavenger]
Ability 1:
Scavenging Backpack: It has a 100-cubic-meter space.
Ability 2:
Waste recycling: making impromptu creations from scraps found every day.
Su Jinjin stared at the information about awakened professions that appeared before her eyes, unsure whether to laugh or cry.
"A scavenger?" she murmured to herself. "Are they planning to make me pick up trash in the apocalypse?"
Outside the window, those meteor-like objects drew closer and closer, streaking across the sky with crimson trails.
The crowd on the street finally noticed the anomaly in the sky. Some people stopped to watch, some raised their phones to take pictures, and others hurriedly hid in buildings.
Su Jinjin quickly calmed down and carefully analyzed her professional abilities.
"Scavenging Backpack - 100 cubic meters of space, spatial ability, this is absolutely a god-tier skill in the apocalypse! Resource reserves are more important than anything else."
"Recycling…" she frowned. "This ability is a bit vague, but since it's given by the system, it shouldn't be too bad."
Suddenly, a deafening explosion came from afar, and the entire building shook.
Su Jinjin rushed to the window and saw a huge mushroom cloud rising in the city, with flames shooting into the sky.
Immediately afterwards, a second and third "meteor" fell in succession, and the shockwave from the explosion even shattered nearby windows.
Screams instantly filled the entire street.