It's come to this, let's sleep first

"Hoo~"

Jiang Mian returned to her small apartment, casually kicked her shoes aside, and plopped down on the bed.

"So close, I almost died."

If she hadn't been prepared and acted so well just now, she would have been locked up for at least a week without being able to explain herself.

She knew that the potion she used before could only last for half a month!

She didn't know if it was because she was hungry.

Since awakening, she hadn't even reached the threshold of First Order, let alone activated her full abilities.

The five awakening paths in this world were Myriad Spirits, Soul, Element, Radiance, and War.

The Calamity Sequence, on the other hand, was divided into Silent Death, Nightmare, Calamity, Chaos, and Slaughter.

Paths, in essence, were just classifications for various Sequence Abilities.

The Sequence Ability she awakened, [Doomsday], belonged to the peak of the [Calamity] path, encompassing all abilities related to natural disasters.

Once developed, its killing range would definitely be the highest among the five Calamity paths.

But to activate it, she needed to be in a "relatively saturated" state, either by devouring a Calamity Core, or... the flesh and blood of an Awakened.

Jiang Mian considered herself mentally sound. To make her eat "people"...

She couldn't do it. Absolutely couldn't.

But if she were to hunt Calamities, leaving the city required not only an overt Awakened identity but also the ability to handle crises.

Here's the problem.

She couldn't eat enough, so she couldn't activate her abilities.

She couldn't use her abilities to hunt because she couldn't eat enough.

It's a vicious cycle.

But what if she abandoned the Inhibitor and continuously stimulated her mind, perhaps she could fully enter First Order? The consequences... would probably be a significant reduction in the Inhibitor's duration and a greatly accelerated rate of mutation?

"What is all this..."

Jiang Mian ran a hand through her hair in annoyance, her once smooth strands becoming messy.

It was one thing that she had transmigrated and changed gender, but her awakened ability was also all for show and not practical. Sequence Three sounded pretty high, but it didn't even give her an initial skill...

No, she couldn't say that. Did being a big eater count?

After awakening, her appetite became surprisingly large.

Based on her original bird-like stomach, she would be full after just one bowl of rice. Now, she started with at least three bowls per meal.

This led to her, despite improved physical fitness, having her meal expenses double, adding insult to injury for her already empty wallet.

"Sigh, I still need to find a way to get money for medicine..."

Jiang Mian got up somewhat listlessly. She still had some money left, which could last for a while, but she couldn't just sit around and spend it all.

She dragged her tired steps to the bathroom, took off her glasses, turned on the faucet, and wanted to wash her face to clear her head.

Cold water droplets slid down her cheeks. Jiang Mian looked up and into the mirror.

It was a face that anyone would find demure and quiet, with a hint of childishness between her brows and eyes.

No wonder that Security Officer uncle had interrogated her sternly for a few sentences before giving up.

With her current appearance, she easily evoked a desire to protect in others.

Jiang Mian tried to replicate the expression she had made at the Public Security Bureau earlier. However, halfway through posing, she couldn't hold it in anymore.

"What am I even doing..."

She patted her face, casually tossed her glasses onto the bedside table, and opened the wardrobe to search for clean clothes, preparing to take a shower.

Although she had successfully awakened, the enhancement to her physical fitness hadn't fully kicked in yet.

Moreover, she had been in a "starving" state. As for her abilities feeding back to heal her myopia, she couldn't think about that for now.

Her current prescription wasn't very high, around three hundred degrees. Although she could see well enough without glasses, she was used to wearing them.

By the time Jiang Mian finished her shower and walked out of the bathroom wearing a slip dress, it was already past three o'clock.

Jiang Mian usually lived frugally, and since she was at home, she didn't pay much attention to it. After all, she was alone.

After becoming a girl, although she had adapted for a while, it still felt like a dream. Many sensations were different from before, for example...

She lowered her head. Two small mounds gently swayed with her movements as she walked. The fair skin made her eyes ache.

Despite having a pure and quiet appearance, why were these parts so mature? One hand couldn't even cover them...

Because of this, both the former Jiang Mian and the current her chose loose school uniforms when going out, and the black hoodie she wore today.

Jiang Mian was in her third year of high school this year, with only a little over a month left until the college entrance examination. However, she had no intention of preparing for it, her mind filled with how to get money, buy medicine, and fill her stomach.

She should have been happy that her mental issues had just eased, but thinking about these matters made her feel suffocated.

She couldn't possibly use her looks to find a rich sugar daddy, could she?

She was a man before, after all. Even if she starved to death, jumped from her home, she would never rely on a man to make a living.

So... since things have come to this, let's sleep first.

Jiang Mian was truly out of options and decided to leave the problem to her tomorrow self.

"Zzz..."

In the early morning, Jiang Mian went to school with faint dark circles under her eyes, yawning uncontrollably on the way.

If she hadn't encountered that incident last night, she wouldn't have slept only three hours.

"Why... after transmigrating, I have to experience high school senior year again..."

The Fifth Middle School she attended was considered a City Key School, located in the more prosperous South City, producing many outstanding students every year.

Of course, this "outstanding" referred to students who became Awakened each year.

In this world, all schools divided students into two types.

One was Martial Arts Students, meaning students who had awakened abilities.

Once awakened, they no longer had to participate in exams, essentially graduating on the spot and could choose their Desired University.

With the power of Radiance Path Awakened, Base Cities could carve out passable routes in the mist, and the issue of inter-city communication had been preliminarily resolved.

In this life, her father had died because of the construction of such a passage.

Although it was an engineering project that promoted communication between cities, Jiang Mian couldn't muster any good feelings towards it.

The second type was College Entrance Exam Students, with a system similar to her Previous Life.

But even after graduation, job positions in each Base City were quite limited. Many ended up delivering food, entering factories... or even becoming Cleaners.

If it weren't for the hassle of dropping out, Jiang Mian would have run away long ago.

After all, academic qualifications weren't important here, not to mention she had the secret of being a Mutant.

As for pretending to be an Awakened...

She hadn't not considered it. After all, her Acting Skills were here. Moreover, if she could officially reach First Order, she could also master abilities similar to the Elemental Path.

In previous years, there were a few lucky individuals who, after failing to awaken, were unwilling to give up and attempted a Second Awakening, which actually succeeded.

If her abilities could fully awaken, and she could find an opportunity to Replicate them...

Jiang Mian was contemplating various things when she unknowingly walked into the Classroom of Class 3-8.

As soon as she appeared, several gazes in the classroom focused on her, including some Brothers she had been close with in her Previous Life.

Jiang Mian's scalp tingled. It had been a month since she arrived, and she still couldn't adapt to their "enthusiastic" attitude.

Being lusted after by her Brothers... was too terrifying!