001 New Era
In the cramped room, under the soft light, a simple single bed is arranged side by side with an old writing desk.
On one side of the door, one side was placed in a mirror about a foot square on the wall, and the young face of a young man was reflected in it, with a hint of confusion in his eyes.
"Tu tuk tuk."
A knock on the door sounded, and a middle-aged woman's voice came from outside the door:
"Xiao Che, it's already very late. Why don't you sleep? I'll go to school to take the beastmaster test tomorrow."
The confused look in the boy's eyes dissipated and he replied, "I understand, mom, I'll go to bed right away."
The slight footsteps outside the door walked to the other side, and the boy showed an indescribable smile on his face, and he muttered to himself:
"What should I do if I have so much trouble? Since I have come, I will be at peace. This is also a new starting point for life."
The boy's name is Zhang Che, who is a senior high school student at Ganwei No. 2 Middle School in the central city of the Mercury Alliance.
Mercury, a planet in another world, has a highly similar technological development and political relationship to the Earth, but the area of Mercury is ten times that of the Earth.
36 years ago, it was divided into hundreds of countries and regions.
However, just 36 years ago, Mercury ushered in a catastrophe.
A violent space storm swept the world. After the storm subsided, Mercury was devastated, more than half of the buildings were destroyed, and nearly one-third of the population was injured and injured, as if it had experienced a disaster in the end.
Just when people thought the disaster was over, mysterious space gates suddenly appeared around the world, and countless strange beasts surged out from the space gates and attacked madly at the human settlements.
These strange beasts are all kinds of strange and terrifying. Even the weakest ones are comparable to wild beasts. Among them, the powerful ones, even if they use missiles, can only severely damage them and are difficult to completely eliminate them.
The entire war lasted for a full three years. Many weak countries were completely extinct by alien beasts, and major countries also suffered heavy casualties. The population of Mercury once again shrank sharply by half, and the remaining population was only one-third of the previous disaster.
What is most incredible is that after these strange beasts die, they will not leave corpses, but will turn into balls of light and shadow and fly back to the mysterious space gates, causing Mercury humans to study the characteristics of these strange beasts to be unavailable.
During the Three Years War, although the strange beasts were not completely eliminated, they were driven out of the settlement area by humans, and the two sides confronted each other evenly.
During the stalemate of the war, the remaining countries on Mercury sought cooperation, and finally established the Mercury Alliance, and formed a large number of expedition teams composed of soldiers and scientific researchers, entering the space gate regardless of life and death, seeking ways to completely eliminate strange beasts.
After the expedition team entered the space gate, they found that this was a vast and boundless world, where all technological products were useless, and guns became useless fire sticks. People could only fight against the same and different beasts with the cold weapons they carried.
When the expedition team successfully killed the strange beast in this world, they were shocked to find that although the killed strange beast would not leave any corpses, it had a certain probability that it would turn into a strange card. Those who are stronger than ordinary people can actually resonate with the card, thereby activating the card, either turning it into a combat body of the strange beast during his lifetime, or turning it into a weapon and armor, greatly enhancing the strength of the members of the expedition team.
This kind of card is called a strange beast card.
People who can stimulate spiritual resonance with the same beast cards are called beastmasters.
At this point, a new era is coming!
After discovering this secret, the alliance government immediately invested a lot of manpower and entered various space gates, destroyed a large number of strange beasts inside, and cultivated one beastmaster after another.
In order to restore the peace and stability of Mercury as soon as possible, the first batch of beastmasters moved to the battlefield and returned to Mercury to eliminate strange beasts, and at the same time, they were also able to obtain more strange beast cards.
However, what was unexpected again was that after the remaining alien beasts on Mercury were killed by the beastmaster through the alien beast, they could actually leave behind corpses, but could not form new alien beast cards.
But for the alliance, this is enough. With the corpse of the alien beast, relevant research can be carried out immediately. At least the materials with various characteristics of the alien beast are very advanced new resources.
The balance of war was deviated as more and more powerful beastmasters emerged. In the end, a few years later, the remaining strange beasts on Mercury were almost wiped out.
Just when most people thought Mercury would be completely peaceful, government departments, research units, and consortiums all regretted that there was no new source of research materials, ten years after the first opening of the space gate, endless strange beasts once again surged out.
Although the strange beasts that came out this time were not much different from the last one, the powerful ones were no longer able to be killed by heavy weapons such as missiles. In the end, they could only be wiped out by the best of the first batch of beastmasters at the cost of heavy casualties.
At this point, the Mercury Alliance realized the cruelty of the new era, that is, every ten years, the space gates will open one after another, and every time the strange beasts that surge out from it, the advanced combat power will be improved to a certain extent.
This is both an opportunity and a challenge for the Mercury Alliance.
More and more types of corpses of alien beasts play an important role in improving Mercury's technological level in all aspects. However, more powerful alien beasts also mean that Mercury Alliance will be at risk of collapse if it is not paid attention.
When the nuclear weapons are not used in consideration of the living environment, the advanced beast master becomes the backbone of resisting the attack of alien beasts.
Gradually, beastmasters became the most respected and wanted to become profession, and were also one of the highest social status.
But not everyone can become a beastmaster successfully. If the same beast card is used to stimulate spiritual resonance, it requires a certain amount of mental strength.
Over the past few decades, research has shown that if you want to become a beastmaster, you need to reach the age of 16 at least. Once you are over 18 years old and cannot become a beastmaster, the possibility of becoming a beastmaster in the future will become very small, and the probability is so small that there are no one in a thousand.
Zhang Che will be 18 in half a month. Before that, since he was 16 years old, he has participated in four beastmaster tests at school, but they all failed.
If you still fail the test this time, then a high-level profession like Beastmaster will say goodbye to him completely.
"Haha, isn't this a signature waste stream start for a girl? I didn't expect that as soon as I came here, God arranged such a bloody set. This is not popular now, okay!"
Zhang Che smiled bitterly, shook his head, turned off the lights and went to bed.
It’s useless to think too much. Since God has allowed me to travel through time, how could I not arrange a golden finger for myself? It’s just a matter of time.
Chapter completed!