I've spent eighteen years saving up, and everyone thinks I'm a mute

Foreword: This novel is a male-oriented Urban High Martial Arts + Apocalyptic Survival + Harem + Ensemble Cast, and will also feature exquisite illustrations with random styles, leaning towards plot. Please read carefully, Yanzu and Yifei.

The following is a reference image for the protagonist:

Binhai University, on a bus heading to Mount Tai.

Jiangnan held a red certificate in his hand, his gaze falling on the boldface text stamped with an embossed seal on the inner page.

GOOGLE SEARCH TWKAN

[Level 2 Speech Disability Certificate]

[Holder: Jiangnan]

Looking at this Little Red Book that had accompanied him for many years, Jiangnan's mouth couldn't help but twitch.

He immediately stuffed it back into the bottom of his backpack with an expressionless face.

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

From the day he was found by the orphanage director by a septic tank in a public restroom...

He had been labeled as an abandoned infant, a mute, and autistic.

The caregivers at the orphanage pitied him.

His elementary school teacher took care of him.

The thugs in junior high bullied him because he couldn't shout back.

The campus belle in high school lamented that he had a handsome face but was a mute.

For a full eighteen years, three months, and six days.

No one knew that he wasn't a mute at all, except for Jiangnan himself.

He was just... too expensive.

Jiangnan turned his head, looking at the rapidly receding scenery outside the window, and with a thought.

A faint blue light screen, visible only to him, appeared before his eyes.

[Host: Jiangnan]

[Current Word Spirit Reserve: 6666 characters]

[Daily Quota: 1 character (extracted)]

[Status: Silence is Golden (Word Count Stackable)]

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

Jiangnan silently savored the number in his heart.

This was the result of him, since transmigrating, forcefully holding back for 6666 days.

Because this ridiculous system stipulated that he could only speak one word per day.

Although it could be stacked infinitely, for a transmigrator with an adult soul, this was a torture worse than imprisonment.

But to avoid wasting ammunition, he remained silent, using paper and pen to communicate with this world for eighteen years.

Sitting in the third-to-last row by the window, Jiangnan turned his head to look out the window, his eyes deep.

"Classmate Jiangnan, are you feeling carsick?"

"If you're uncomfortable, you must tell me, teacher. I have oranges here; smelling them will make you feel a bit better."

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

She had a quarter European ancestry, and her long wine-red hair was particularly dazzling in the sunlight, her skin even fairer.

At this moment, due to the slight sway of the vehicle, her voluptuous figure involuntarily tilted towards Jiangnan.

The surging waves of soft touch pressed tightly against Jiangnan's arm, squeezing and deforming with the vehicle's undulations.

Jiangnan felt the astonishing elasticity transmitted from his arm but merely shook his head with a calm expression.

He then took out a memo pad from his pocket and skillfully wrote two words.

[Not carsick.]

"That's good. We'll reach the Mount Tai service area soon. I'll treat you to something then."

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

Jiangnan subtly shifted closer to the window.

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

Besides this word count accumulation function, the system's core [Word Spirit Skill] required signing in at a specific location to obtain.

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

For eighteen years, no matter where he went, the panel always displayed only one line of red text.

[Current area is not within the service range.]

To find this damned sign-in point, he had been working part-time and saving money since he was young!

He signed up for various elderly tour groups during summer and winter vacations, traveling all over the motherland's beautiful rivers and mountains.

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

"Ding!"

Gazing at Mount Tai, which was within reach, Jiangnan tentatively clicked the [Sign In] button in his mind again.

[Error! The current area is not within the service range.]

"Damn it."

Jiangnan gave a middle finger in his mind.

Still not working? Is this system broken?

Just as he was full of complaints and preparing to rest with his eyes closed, a buzzing sound suddenly entered the ears of everyone inside the carriage.

"Zz!!!"

"Ah! My ears!"

"What sound is that?!"

The joyful atmosphere inside the carriage instantly exploded, and the classmates covered their ears in pain.

The squad leader Li Xin in the front row was singing karaoke with a microphone. At this moment, he let out a scream, and the microphone fell to the ground.

But this was just the beginning.

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

[Alarm! Future crisis is inevitable, Blue Star Will is activating the Emergency Plan.]

[Teleportation Program has been activated.]

[Countdown: One Minute.]

[All humans, please prepare yourselves. Bring your supplies, food, weapons, vehicles, and... your family members.]

[You will be teleported to the "Barbaric Realm," a world full of opportunity and death.]

[Only those who survive in this world until Sunrise will be qualified to return to Blue Star and become the Spark to save the future.]

[Good luck.]

As the voice fell, silence lingered in the carriage for two seconds.

Then, it erupted into laughter.

"Holy crap? Who is it? Who's playing a prank?"

Squad Leader Li Xin, a tall boy, took off his headphones, stood up, and looked around, laughing.

"Who connected to the car's Bluetooth? This radio drama dubbing is quite professional, making it seem real."

"Teacher Chen, is this a surprise program you arranged?"

"Hahahaha, Barbaric Realm? I'm on Douluo Continent! Who called Tang San?! Wegame One-Click Instant Kill Rune is ready!"

The classmates laughed and joked, not taking it seriously at all.

After all, in this Peaceful Era, the first reaction to such a Supernatural voice could only be a prank.

Only Chen Tong frowned. She stood up.

Her Sense of Responsibility as a teacher compelled her to maintain Order.

"Everyone, quiet down!"

Chen Tong clapped her hands, her gaze sweeping seriously across the entire carriage.

"No matter who is joking, we are in the middle of the drive. Do not disturb the Driver Master! Whoever connected to the Bluetooth, disconnect it quickly!"

However, the Driver Master Wang, who was driving, had a Pale Face at this moment, his hands gripping the Steering Wheel were Trembling.

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

Driver Master Wang's voice trembled, "The radio has been broken for a long time... and, this voice sounds like it's drilling into my brain..."

Just then, a uniform sound of Mobile Phone vibrating echoed through the carriage.

Buzz buzz buzz!

All their Mobile Phones received a Text Message at the exact same second.

Jiangnan lowered his head, looking at his Mobile Phone Screen.

It was a Highest Level Pop-up Message from [Huaxia Country Ministry of National Defense], a shocking red Exclamation Mark.

[Emergency Notice: All Citizens, please pay attention! The voice in your mind just now was not a Drill! It was not a Prank!]

[Please immediately follow the Instructions and grab all Survival Resources around you!]

[Repeat, this is not a Drill! To survive, please live until Sunrise!]

The Air inside the carriage instantly Solidified.

"This... this is real?"

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

"Wuwuwu... I want to go home, I don't want to go on the spring outing anymore!"

A timid girl burst into tears on the spot.

"Zz!"

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

Driver Wang Shifu, without bothering to turn off the engine, trembled as he frantically dialed his mobile phone.

"Hello? Wife! Pick up the phone! Quickly take our daughter! Bring food! Something has really happened!"

The inside of the carriage instantly descended into chaos.

Some screamed, some tried to jump out the window, some stood stunned.

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

Although Chen Tong's face was also deathly pale, she forced herself to spread her arms, trying to calm the out-of-control students.

"Everyone stay in the bus! Wang Shifu, lock the car doors! We'll be safer if we stick together!"

Amidst the chaos and panic, only Jiang Nan remained seated in the third row from the back, motionless.

He didn't scream, he didn't make a phone call, and his expression didn't show much fluctuation.

He just quietly looked out the window.

The originally azure sky was now turning a strange blood red, the world's curtain being torn open.

"Current area is not within the service range..."

Jiang Nan recalled the system prompt that had failed just now, and then remembered the mysterious voice saying "teleport to the Barbaric Realm."

Since there was no sign-in point here.

Then, would the new world he was about to go to be the map the system had been waiting for?

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

anticipation.

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

Jiang Nan gripped the pen in his hand, and with his other hand, he gently pressed on the memo paper with the numbers 6666 written on it.

If this was real, then the eighteen years of silence might just become deafening today.