"Brother."
"Brother! Wake up!"
"You fucking traveled to another world and you're still sleeping like a dead pig!"
Lu Mingze roared helplessly.
Lu Mingfei sat in the second-to-last row beside the wall, with a window to his left and waves of cicada calls drifting in from outside.
His classmates sported hair in every color and used all sorts of methods to get through this dull history class. Quite a few, like Lu Mingfei, were sleeping with their heads on their desks.
"Er..." An old man stood at the lectern, reading from a textbook. "And so humanity faced its greatest trial. In the final year of the twentieth century, a massive meteorite from outer space struck Antarctica."
What is this, Armageddon? What about America, the beacon of the world? Where were your deep-sea oil drillers? You made that movie back in 1998, but when a real meteorite showed up, you did nothing!
"The Antarctic ice melted in an instant, sea levels rose, and the Earth's axis tilted. Abnormal weather threatening the survival of living things ravaged the globe. Thus, thousands of species, along with half of humanity, vanished forever."
Listen, Lu Mingfei. History class is the most important.
"This was the well-known Second Impact. Economic collapse, ethnic conflict, civil wars... Those who survived the catastrophe endured a terrible nightmare."
Second Impact? Does that mean there was a First Impact? What was that, the extinction of the dinosaurs?
"But fifteen years later, in just fifteen years, we have actually recovered to this extent. This is not only thanks to humanity's strengths, but could also be called the fruit of your parents' blood, sweat, and hard work."
Ha ha, humanity...
"Well, that will be all for today."
"Stand. Bow."
As the bell rang, the lifeless classroom suddenly came alive.
"So hot. Where's the