Tong Xiaorou sniffed and didn't dare to say anything, leading her sister to turn a stone over on the side and then sit down on the not-so-hot side.

    The sun in the sky was hot and cloudless, and the temperature was fearfully in the fifties, which was downright scary.

    The ground is dry and cracked underfoot, weeds are barely visible, and where there was once grass, it has been dug up.

    And there were only giant trees, two or three meters in diameter, at intervals of hundreds of meters around them, but most of them were dead.

    The bark within two or three meters of the ground that wasn't dead was also gone, and there was another ten meters or so of bare area above it, and the canopy further up was full of dead leaves, so there was nothing edible at all.

    Anyway, Jiang Cheng couldn't even eat it if he wanted to, and couldn't imagine how those wilderness people could swallow such old bark.

    Based on the memories in his mind, Jiang Cheng learned that this world had been in a drought for nearly a decade, with no crops.

    Of course, that's the wilderness.

    This world has camps, high barriers that protect some of the upper class within.

    The people in there seem to have high tech that allows for soilless cultivation, but soilless cultivation also requires water, so there's not a lot of food, even for campers.

    As a result, a camp with a few hundred small people and tens of thousands of people topped out, with many more roaming around looking for food and water.

    The original body was once a small camp, the family is quite good, after the death of his father, his mother adopted the then only twelve-year-old Tong Xiaowei and the newborn Ya Ya, both are considered the original mother for the original body to find a child bride.

    But the camp where the original body was located was in the driest of zones, and that camp had been overrun by the wilderness people three years ago, and had been robbed of its food and all kinds of resources.

    Then the camp broke up, and those who survived ran away, migrating all the way toward a zone that they remembered as being rich in rain.

    The family encounters all sorts of trouble and danger on the migration, and the original's mother falls asleep and never wakes up after an injury.

    In the past three years, the original body took Tong Xiaorou and Ya Ya, and traveled all the way on a long journey, fearing that there were several thousand miles, to come to this place called the Dafan Basin.

    It was on the map at one time as the rainforest in the zone with the richest precipitation.

    But as a result, it's also in a drought, as evidenced by the giant dead trees.

    "What a pain in the ass ...... Why did you suddenly cross over?"

    Finally sorting out the memories of his predecessor, Jiang Cheng was helpless in his heart.

    He can't even kind of remember what he was doing before he crossed over (ambush, geez, I'd better label this, I've noticed everyone ignores this place, are there weird rules of cognitively-affecting talk here?) ..

    And from those memories of his original body, he knew that the dangers of this world could be much more than drought, lack of food and other humans.

    Because, this world has evolvers, or mutants who have failed to evolve.

    There will still be monsters at night.

    In a word--

    Demons come out of the year of the Great Tribulation!

    Evolvers, also known as Awakened, have various abilities, and those evolvers themselves will rely on their strength to run roughshod over others.

    It's a mess everywhere.

    Suddenly Jiang Cheng saw Yaya fumbling on the dry cracked ground, then picking up a small stone about to put it in her mouth.

    "This can't be eaten." He hastily slapped the stone out of the girl's hand.

    Yaya was startled and hurriedly hid behind Tong Xiaorou, looking at him with a horrified expression.

    "Don't hit her, if you want to hit just ...... hit me." Tong Xiaorou hurriedly stood up and said, although she was also scared, she still firmly protected her sister behind her.

    "Not ......"

    Kang Seung explained, "Sorry for scaring you guys. But you can't eat rocks, they'll kill you."

    "But ...... Yaya is so hungry ......," said Yaya, who was hiding behind Tong Xiaorou in an aggravated manner, not daring to look at Jiang Cheng.

    Tong Xiaorou was afraid that her sister would be beaten, and hurriedly said, "I'm sorry I'm sorry, she doesn't know any better ...... I know you haven't eaten for a long time either, it's all because we're bad ......"

    Said she thought of all the way to escape all kinds of experience, and looked to the sister who was starving miserably want to eat the stone, sadness from the heart, suddenly covered the ears of the yaya, heart like a deathly gray lowered his head and said: "Or you will eat me, but please share some to the yaya, don't tell her ...... "

    "Shut up!"

    Kang Seung chortled violently and looked at her in shock.

    There was no way he would ever eat a human being, and coming from a peaceful world and with a higher education, he would rather starve to death!

    Tong Xiaorou's delicate body trembled, too frightened to say anything else.

    Though the heart has a death wish, it should be afraid.

    Kang Seung sighed heavily.

    What the hell kind of world is this?

    The fact that cannibalism didn't seem to be strange here at all hit him hard.

    "I'm sorry for the aggravation of you following me, six years ago my mom said she would make sure there was food for you." He sighed.

    This was also the reason why the predecessor insisted on taking the two daughters with him; the predecessor was a very filial person.

    But that was all, the predecessor didn't like Tong Xiaorou, everything was just because of responsibility.

    Tong Xiaorou couldn't help but be a little surprised when she heard this, the previous Jiang Cheng had never apologized to them.

    "Anyway, don't eat anything indiscriminately, and don't ever think of seeking death. I will find food, trust me!"

    Jiang Cheng took a deep breath, feeling his increasingly weaker body, then looked towards the sun that had already begun to slant in the west and made up his mind.

    "There has to be a way out of the situation at hand! If only I had become an Evolutionary too ......"

    The thought had just fallen, and suddenly he was covered with goose bumps as if he had been electrocuted, his entire cerebral cortex tingling, his hair standing on end as if something was awakening-

    At the same time, a panel slowly appeared in the mind from nothing, and subtitles appeared on it:

    [Suddenly coming to this man-eating world, I was very uneasy in my mind and my physical condition was terrible, I had to solve my immediate predicament as soon as possible. That's why I've decided to start the path of evolution!]

    [But I need a trigger, the key that unlocks the path of evolution.]

    [Now, all I need to do is put my palms against a tree and think back on my life ......]

    These subtitles appear and then slowly disappear, like gradient layers.

    Kang Seung: "????"

    His eyes flickered slightly before he attempted to follow that nebulous feeling, pressing his palms against the giant tree that had lost its bark in front of him while thinking back on his life.

    Immediately afterward, a kind of clarity, like a life lesson, floated to the surface.

    Various images from his past life flashed through his mind like a slide show at breakneck speed, finally settling on one of the games.

    At the next moment, blessedly, he moved with a thought, and an indescribable power spread out from the depths of his body, extending along the palm of his hand to the large tree in front of him-

    "Small wood +1."

    "Experience +1"

    As this bit of experience emerged, it was like a stone dropped into the water, causing a ripple.

    Then I saw words and numbers appear one after another on that panel in my head:

    [Kang Seung (Zero Order): LV.0 (1.00%)]

    [Life: 0.4]

    [Gathering (Zero Rank): I can gather everything with my hands, and when I put my hands on it, I can extract the materials I want through my mind]

    [Synthesis (Zero Order): I can fuse different materials, leaving the characteristics randomized]

    [Space backpack: 1/10]

    These are personal information.

    And below, a new caption appears:

    [The path of evolution has been opened, but I'm currently only a Quasi-Awakened, so I can't directly access food for now. When my level reaches ten and my equilibrium reaches the first order, I will be considered a true Awakened, and I shouldn't have to worry about food at that time].

    [I realized that I could gain experience in upgrading as long as I kept gathering resources, but that only opens the upper limit of the realm and unlocks the gene lock, so I still need to work hard if I want to gain more power.]

    These captions appeared and then slowly disappeared, eventually leaving only the personal message on the panel.

    Kang Seung: "!!!"

    The first of the ten compartments of the spatial backpack already had a log in it.

    He took it out and found that the wood was as thick as his arm, a meter long, and of very good quality, a fine fine wood that could be used as a stick.

    Tong Xiaorou looked at the wooden stick in Jiang Cheng's hand suspiciously, not knowing where it came from, but she didn't dare to ask and just watched silently.

    Jiang Cheng put away the wood and once again placed his hand on the tree with a thought, "Gather."

    "Small wood +1."

    "Experience +1"

    "Small wood +1."

    "Experience +1"

    ......

    A log is collected almost every second.

    More and more wood appeared in the spatial backpack, and the experience improved.

    For almost every point of experience gained, the experience progress increased by one percent.

    So almost two minutes later, when the wood had been gathered again for ninety-nine, the experience was directly full.

    Jiang Cheng only felt a slight heat in his body, and then his level went from level zero, to level one.

    Life also reached zero point five, from zero point four previously.

    As for physique, strength, etc., it barely felt like a boost, just less dizzy.

    Jiang Cheng's eyes flickered before he continued collecting.