**Prologue:** This story is a male-oriented urban high martial arts + apocalypse survival + multiple female characters + ensemble cast, accompanied by exquisite illustrations, with a random style leaning towards plot-driven. Please, Yan Zu and Yi Fei, read carefully.

**Below is the reference image for the protagonist:**

*On the bus heading to Mount Tai from Binhai University.*

Jiang Nan held a red booklet in his hand, his gaze fixed on the bold black characters stamped on the inner page.

**[Level 2 Speech Disability Certificate]**

**[Holder: Jiang Nan]**

Looking at this little red book that had accompanied him for years, Jiang Nan couldn't help but twitch his lips.

Then, expressionless, he stuffed it back to the bottom of his backpack.

This was probably the greatest misdiagnosis in the history of human medicine.

From the day he was found by the orphanage director near a public toilet cesspit...

He was labeled as an abandoned baby, a mute, and a recluse.

The orphanage caretakers pitied him.

His elementary school teachers took care of him.

The bullies in middle school picked on him because he couldn't shout.

The high school beauty regretted that he had a good face but was mute.

For eighteen years, three months, and six days.

No one but Jiang Nan knew he wasn't mute at all.

He was just... too expensive.

Jiang Nan turned his head to look at the rapidly retreating scenery outside the window, and with a thought, a faint blue light screen that only he could see appeared before him.

**[Host: Jiang Nan]**

**[Current Word Spirit Reserve: 6666 words]**

**[Today's Quota: 1 word (extracted)]**

**[Status: Silence is Golden (word count can accumulate)]**

"Six thousand six hundred and sixty-six words."

Jiang Nan silently chewed on this number in his mind.

This was the result of him holding back for 6666 days since he transmigrated.

Because this damned system allowed him to say only one word per day.

Although it could accumulate indefinitely, for a transmigrator with an adult soul, this was torture worse than imprisonment.

But to not waste his ammunition, he stubbornly remained silent, communicating with the world through paper and pen for eighteen years.

Sitting in the third-to-last row by the window, Jiang Nan was gazing out with deep eyes.

"Jiang Nan, are you feeling carsick?"

"If you're not feeling well, be sure to tell the teacher. I have some oranges here, smelling them might help."

The speaker was the English tutor leading the group, Chen Tong.

She was a quarter European, with striking wine-red hair that shone in the sunlight and exceptionally fair skin.

At this moment, due to the slight swaying of the bus, her voluptuous figure involuntarily leaned towards Jiang Nan.

A soft, voluptuous fullness pressed tightly against Jiang Nan's arm, swelling and shifting with every bump and roll of the vehicle.

**Chen Tong**

Jiang Nan felt the astonishing elasticity on his arm but merely shook his head with a calm expression.

Then he took out a notepad from his pocket and skillfully wrote two words.

**[Not sick.]**

"That's good. We're almost at the Mount Tai service area. I'll treat you to something then."

Chen Tong smiled and patted Jiang Nan's head, completely unaware of how ambiguous their current posture was.

Jiang Nan quietly shifted closer to the window.

He wasn't in the mood to enjoy the benefits of a beautiful teacher; his attention was entirely on that damned system panel.

Besides this word accumulation function, the system's core **[Word Spirit Skill]** required checking in at specific locations to acquire.

But this broken system was like an old radio with poor signal reception!

For eighteen years, no matter where he went, the panel always showed a single line of red text.

**[Current area not within service range.]**

To find this damned check-in point, he started working part-time to save money from a young age!

During winter and summer vacations, he signed up for various senior citizen tours, traveling across the beautiful landscapes of the motherland.

This time, upon hearing that the school organized a trip to Mount Tai, he signed up immediately.

"Ding!"

Looking at the Mount Tai within reach, Jiang Nan tentatively clicked the **[Check-in]** button in his mind again.

**[Error! Current area not within service range.]**

"Damn."

Jiang Nan mentally flipped the bird.

Still not working? Could this system be broken?

Just as he was full of complaints, ready to close his eyes and rest, a buzzing sound suddenly filled the ears of everyone in the bus.

"Zzz!!!"

"Ah! My ears!"

"What sound is that?!"

The previously cheerful atmosphere in the bus instantly shattered, and the students clutched their ears in pain.

The class president, Li Xin, who was singing karaoke with a microphone in the front row, let out a scream, dropping the microphone to the floor.

But that was just the beginning.

Immediately, the sound became incredibly clear, no longer static, but a chilling announcement.

**[Alert! Future crisis is inevitable, Blue Star's will is initiating an emergency plan.]**

**[Transmission program has been activated.]**

**[Countdown: one minute.]**

**[Please, all humans, prepare, gather your supplies, food, weapons, vehicles, and... your families.]**

**[You will be transported to the "Wilderness Realm," a world filled with opportunities and death.]**

**[Only those who survive until sunrise in this world will have the right to return to Blue Star and become the seeds to save the future.]**

**[Good luck.]**

The voice fell, and silence reigned in the bus for two seconds.

Then, a burst of laughter erupted.

"Damn? Who is it? Who's playing a prank?"

Class president Li Xin, a tall boy, took off his headphones, stood up, and looked around with a smile:

"Who connected to the bus's Bluetooth? This radio drama voice acting is pretty professional, almost sounds real."

"Teacher Chen, did you arrange this surprise program?"

"Hahaha, Wilderness Realm? I’m still in Douluo Continent! Who's Tang San?! Wegame's one-click kill rune is ready!"

The students laughed, not taking it seriously at all.

After all, in peaceful times, the first reaction to such supernatural sounds could only be a prank.

Only Chen Tong frowned, standing up.

As a teacher, she felt responsible for maintaining order.

"Everyone, quiet down!"

Chen Tong clapped her hands, her gaze sternly sweeping across the bus.

"No matter who's joking, we're on the road now, don't distract the driver! Whoever connected the Bluetooth, disconnect it immediately!"

However, the driver, Master Wang, was pale, his hands trembling on the steering wheel.

"Teacher Chen... it's not Bluetooth..."

Master Wang's voice trembled, "The radio's been broken for a long time... and this sound seems to be coming from inside our heads..."

At this moment, a uniform vibration of phones echoed through the bus.

Buzz buzz buzz!

Everyone's phone received a message at the same second.

Jiang Nan looked down at his phone screen.

It was a top-level pop-up message from the **[Ministry of National Defense of China]**, the red exclamation mark was alarming.

**[Emergency Notice: Attention all citizens! The voice in your mind just now is not a drill! Not a prank!]**

**[Please immediately follow the instructions and grab all survival resources around you!]**

**[Repeat, this is not a drill! For survival, please live until sunrise!]**

The air in the bus instantly froze.

"This... is this real?"

Li Xin's hand holding the phone froze mid-air, the smile on his face collapsing instantly, "A message from the Ministry of National Defense? Not a scam?"

"Woo woo woo... I want to go home, I don't want to go on a spring trip anymore!"

A timid girl burst into tears on the spot.

"Screech!"

The bus suddenly braked hard, stopping on the shoulder of the highway.

Driver Master Wang, too frantic to turn off the engine, frantically dialed his phone with trembling hands.

"Hello? Honey! Pick up the phone! Take our daughter! Bring food! Something really happened!"

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The bus turned into chaos.

Some screamed, some tried to jump out the window, some were dumbfounded.

"Everyone, don't panic! Don't run around!"

Though Chen Tong's face was also pale, she forced herself to open her arms, trying to calm the panicking students.

"Stay on the bus! Master Wang, lock the doors! It's safer to stay together!"

Amidst the chaos and panic, only Jiang Nan remained seated in the third-to-last row, unmoving.

He didn't scream, didn't make a call, not even his expression changed much.

He just quietly watched the scene outside the window.

The once azure sky was now turning a bizarre blood-red, the curtain of the world was being torn apart.

"Current area not within service range..."

Jiang Nan recalled the system's failure message earlier and the mysterious voice's mention of "transmission to the Wilderness Realm."

Since there was no check-in point here.

Then, could the new world they were about to enter be the map the system had been waiting for all along?

Amidst the chaotic cries, Jiang Nan's pitch-black eyes held no fear, but rather a hint of...

Anticipation.

**[Countdown: 10...9...8...]**

Jiang Nan gripped the pen in his hand, his other hand gently pressing on the note with the number 6666 written on it.

If it's true, then this eighteen years of silence might just end today, with a deafening roar.