Great Cataclysm

May 15, 2018. The May sunlight had gradually become gentler, yet a faint chill that pierced to the bone still lingered in people's hearts.

Dragon City, 13th Settlement Zone.

On the warm streets, a sturdy man wandered along in boredom. The glaring sunlight made him squint as he enjoyed this rare sunbath.

"Ugh, when will I finally break through and become a Warrior? The Grand Nirvana has already lasted five years, yet I still can't see any hope. Don't tell me I won't even live to see City Lord Luo rise to power."

Lu Yunhe raised his head and glanced at the blazing sun hanging high in the sky, unable to stop himself from sighing inwardly.

He had been reborn, and in the world of Swallowed Star at that. It should have been a double dose of happiness, yet Lu Yunhe simply could not bring himself to feel happy, because he had been reborn too early.

His memories of his past life had awakened in childhood, and he had thought this was an ordinary modern urban world. Though he had no cheat ability, he could still ride the tide with his memories from his past life. He might not become fabulously wealthy, but at the very least, he could become a rich man who did not need to worry about small expenses.

Lu Yunhe had been content with that. He had never harbored much ambition.

Who could have expected that, in 2013, a sudden virus would shatter his dream?

When the R Virus first appeared, Lu Yunhe had not paid it much attention. It had merely seemed somewhat familiar. But the instant the RR Virus emerged, he completely understood which world he had crossed into.

Swallowed Star!

How should he put it? When Lu Yunhe realized that he was in the world of Swallowed Star, he had actually been rather happy.

Earth was safe, and City Lord Luo was absurdly powerful.

He would not even need to do anything. A few years after the plot began, he could catch a ride and muddle his way to the Planetary Level, gaining a lifespan of over a thousand years. As long as he befriended Luo Feng, it would not be difficult to become an Immortal in the later stages and live as long as the universe.

Although Earth would go through several crises along the way, they would not truly have much impact on Earthlings, and Luo Feng would quickly resolve them anyway.

The future was wonderful. Unfortunately, Lu Yunhe was still decades away from the start of the plot. It was hard to say whether he could even live long enough to see Luo Feng be born.

The Grand Nirvana period was humanity's most dangerous era, as well as one of Earth's most important turning points.

After Earth entered the early twenty-first century, several viral influenzas underwent more than a decade of continuous mutation, eventually forming the RR Virus. It possessed an outrageous fatality rate of nearly 30 percent and could even spread through the air. It was utterly unscientific.

The only fortunate thing was that the physical limits of the human survivors who lived through it were also shattered. Almost everyone's strength, speed, cellular activity, and skin toughness increased by more than double. Even an ordinary person could easily surpass the former world records for weightlifting and the hundred-meter dash.

But humans were not the only ones whose physical fitness increased. The creatures of nature were no exception.

In an ordinary world, that might not have mattered. Humanity's thermal weapons were no joke.

But in the world of Swallowed Star, the universe was filled with boundless Cosmic Primal Energy, waiting for any life-form that met the requirements to absorb it and evolve itself.

Even if Earthlings' physical fitness doubled, they were still far from meeting that requirement. But animals, whose physical fitness had already been powerful to begin with, could easily meet the standard with the help of the RR Virus and absorb the omnipresent Cosmic Primal Energy.

Then, in a short period of time, they completed their evolution. Their bodies strengthened until they no longer feared bullets or artillery fire, their intelligence increased until they understood command and cooperation... and in an instant, they overtook humanity's ten thousand years of development on a curve. (Though this was actually the proper path of this world.)

It was not until September 2015, beginning with the attack launched by the countless creatures of the ocean, that Monsters evolved from innumerable birds and beasts began attacking human settlements. The war between humanity and Monsters erupted, and the entire world entered total war.

In the early days of the war, Lu Yunhe still held onto certain hopes. Unfortunately, he had no cheat ability, and his physical talent was not high. Faced with war after war, he could only drift with the current and blend into the masses, utterly inconspicuous.

"Compared to those who died, at least I'm still alive."

The total war had lasted three years now. The prolonged high-pressure environment had washed away Lu Yunhe's impatience, as well as the pride buried deep in his heart that came from being a transmigrator. He had truly integrated into this world.

"The eight-year Grand Nirvana will end in another three years. Just hold on a little longer."

Lu Yunhe consoled himself inwardly. The words also reminded him of certain war films from his past life, and a barely noticeable smile appeared on his face.

Beep, beep, beep.

Just then, the communicator at Lu Yunhe's waist rang. "Brother Lu, a worker at the No. 9 Bullet Production Line has suffered heatstroke and passed out. Please hurry and arrange for someone to take his place."

A hurried voice sounded, then hurriedly hung up.

"Then I have to be able to find someone first. Where isn't short on manpower?"

Lu Yunhe shook his head helplessly, racking his brains to figure out where he could transfer someone to fill the position.

That was right. Lu Yunhe was currently the manager of this district, responsible for allocating supplies throughout the area and ensuring the residents' safety.

After five years of training, Lu Yunhe's physical strength had reached around eight hundred kilograms. One more step forward, and he could become a Quasi-Warrior.

Thus, under the military's unified deployment, Lu Yunhe had been assigned to this relatively safe protected zone.

The Grand Nirvana had already lasted five years. Warriors had already become War God Level existences, their strength reaching a terrifying tens or even hundreds of tons. They could play a decisive role in a small-scale war.

But for most basic-level Warriors, their status and role were rather awkward.

Because the military had always been the force truly holding the front line, and this remained true even when the plot began.

Without sufficient logistical support and wilderness bases, if these low-level Warriors dared to leave the military and venture out, they would be torn apart by Monsters the next moment. That was not even considering issues such as Weapons and Equipment for Warriors.

Therefore, the main role of formal Warriors was to assist the troops, dealing with isolated Monsters or those that charged directly at them.

As for Quasi-Warriors like Lu Yunhe, they were mainly responsible for protecting the people in the protected zones while also handling some management work.

In a crisis concerning life and death, deploying a large number of people to maintain internal security was far too wasteful. Yet order could not be left unmaintained either. Stable logistics were also of utmost importance, not to mention humanity's darker side.

"Looks like I'll have to send Old Zhou over."

After thinking it over, Lu Yunhe concluded that every place was short on manpower, but the bullet production line was clearly more important.

After dealing with the factory's issue, the breeding base came looking for him as well. Some meat pigs had gone berserk, and they urgently needed him, a Quasi-Warrior, to suppress them.

Then, under countless watchful eyes, Emperor Lu suppressed Tianpeng with one hand.

"Yunhe, there's something else I need to trouble you with."

Worn out after suppressing the breeding farm, Old Zhou, the uncle responsible for feeding the animals, found Lu Yunhe with a grave expression and led him aside.

I had always loved Swallowed Star fanfiction, but I had not seen any I could keep reading for a long time, so I simply decided to write one myself.