Chapter 1: Collective Awakening in School
Dongling City, at 8: am on the last Saturday of April, in the auditorium of the Second High School, students from five classes of senior year were waiting for the unified awakening test in order of class.

The students were talking about it, this awakening would determine their future.

The boys and girls in each class stood in four rows. They could whisper to each other in front, behind, and left and right by turning their bodies slightly. They had not stopped until now, and the auditorium was filled with a buzzing noise.

"Hey, Ye Na, what power do you want to awaken?"

The female classmate standing next to Ye Na pulled at the sleeve of her school uniform.

"Anything is fine. I'm not picky."

Ye Na looked at the big stage in front of her with a smile. She was not worried about the test results because she had awakened early three days ago.

There was a fresh wound on her thumb joint caused by a planer. She happened to buy mushrooms with roots and soil that day. After washing the vegetables, she found a circle of small white blisters around the wound, which was extremely itchy. Later that night, she felt uncomfortable. After the whole family fell asleep in the middle of the night, she felt more and more uncomfortable. She got up and took her temperature and found that she had a low fever.

I had a fever for two days in a row, but the symptoms were not obvious. I was the only one who knew how uncomfortable I felt, so I didn't take any medicine, and I didn't tell my parents, for fear that they would blame me for doing such a thing when I was so close to awakening.

She drank more water and washed her face more often, hoping to cool down quickly. Her mother even blamed her for using too much water. She didn't expect that this was actually the process of awakening and she had superpowers from then on.

The manifestation of this ability was strange, but the opportunity was the box of mushrooms, because after she awakened, she found that she could release spores.

Strictly speaking, it is a fungus, because spores are part of the fungus and the reproductive body of the fungus. Fungi are nature's cleaners, decomposing all organic matter, promoting natural circulation, and maintaining ecological balance.

Ye Na has also verified this.

When she was surprised that her fever had finally subsided and she discovered that she had awakened, the released spores decomposed the kitchen waste that had not been cleaned up in time. The small amount of energy produced during the conversion process was fed back to Yenna, replenishing her weak body a little bit. The mycelium left after the decomposition released spores back into her body before dissipating, bringing another wave of abundant energy, making her body recover all of a sudden. Her muscles felt full and full of strength.

Ye Na was overjoyed at the joy of awakening early, but she kept it to herself and didn't tell anyone. Her ability to keep calm was one of her few strengths.

As a newbie who had just awakened, she had no one to guide her and knew nothing about the direction and potential of the development of her superpowers. She felt that if she told her family now that she had awakened but on-site testing found that her potential was not good, it would be a greater disappointment.

Therefore, she had kept the news of her early awakening to herself until today, hoping to get the official certificate of her awakening, and then perform it publicly when she returned home to announce the good news, giving the whole family a big surprise.

Ye Na's mind was full of thoughts, and the chatter of her classmates could still be heard in her ears.

"I hope to awaken a power that can make money. I have to make money quickly."

"Do you think you can wake up?"

"I'm sure I can." Ye Na said confidently, not caring about the sneers around her.

"I'm turning adult this month, so I won't get any underage subsidies next month. My grades aren't good enough to get into a university out of town, so I just want to awaken, even crappy abilities are fine."

Ye Na stopped smiling a little and showed the same worried expression as the classmates around her, but when she thought of her own abilities, she was still excited in her heart.

"Oh, me too. I got my last subsidy last month, and my parents said I was eating and drinking for free, but I'm still working at home. As long as I'm at home, all the housework is mine, including washing clothes, cooking, and taking care of my younger siblings. They don't even take out the trash. If I were a nanny in another family, I'd be making money."

"Why are you angry? You can't fight back. It's your dad's fault that they gave birth to you in the wrong month. You didn't get your subsidy before you even graduated from high school. Ye Nai nudged her with her elbow. "Pfft, Ye Nai, you're such a mouth." The female classmate looked at her with admiration, "If I say that when I go back, I'll get a mixed doubles match."

Ye Nai shrugged, "Then there is no other way. You can either fight back, or hold it in, or think of a way out quickly, or else you will get uterine fibroids and breast hyperplasia."

The female classmate couldn't resist and shrugged. Although Ye Nai looked honest and introverted, he could never stop saying something shocking.

Their conversation was heard by the male and female classmates around them, and they all had sympathetic expressions. It is very difficult for adults who do not earn money to stay at home. This is a common social phenomenon nowadays.

Fifty years ago, alien worlds invaded, and a large number of alien plants and beasts and organized enemies swarmed out of the dimensional channels that opened all over the world, leaving the Blue Planet in tatters. Many small and weak countries were destroyed, and their land became enemy territory. Half of the population in their countries died, and industry and agriculture were greatly affected. Fortunately, they had sufficient weapons and equipment, and the military and civilians were fearless of death, so they managed to save the country.

The entire country was in ruins, productivity had dropped significantly, technology had regressed, food and clothing were insufficient, and those who survived had a hard time surviving, so of course they wouldn't want to have children. But the country wanted new populations, so it gave real money for it. From birth to the month of adulthood, there was money every month, and it was really enough to cover the expenses of the child. Otherwise, there wouldn't be the current birth rate of several children in every family.

Parents are used to receiving government subsidies, which of course lays the root cause of family conflicts. When children become adults but are temporarily unable to earn money independently, parents will settle accounts with their children. This is the current situation.

Of course, there are families who love their children, and there are parents who are willing to raise their children regardless of whether they are independent or not, but they account for a very small proportion of ordinary families like theirs.

Finally, at almost 9 o'clock, the school leaders arrived with the awakening team, and the head teachers of each class immediately maintained order in their class.

The huge auditorium fell silent for a moment, without even a cough.

Organizing senior high school students to take a unified awakening test is an annual routine. The school leaders don't say any polite words. They just ask the class teachers to keep an eye on their students and ask them to go on stage in order of their class numbers to touch the awakening stone.

The awakening stone is a product of Blue Star since the revival of spiritual energy. Otherwise, it would have been very difficult to find an awakener in the past. However, after fifty years of alien invasion, only about thirty pieces have been discovered in the country. Whenever they are used, a fully-equipped army must be sent to escort each piece to prevent any accidents.

Ye Nai was in Class 3 of Senior 3. There were more than 70 students in the first two classes combined. Each person only had to stand there for a few seconds to get the result.

This process is quick and beautiful. In less than a minute, the awakened person will have lights of various colors representing the types of superpowers. The richer the color and the brighter the light, the better the potential for the superpower.

Six people awakened in the first group.

Seven people in Class 7 awakened.

It's shift three's turn.

Yenna’s student number is 19, and 18 of the 2 people before her have awakened.

"Number 19, Ye Na." The head teacher called the name with the class roster.

"arrive."

"Go."

(End of this chapter)