Evil God Invasion and a Cheat

"Where am I?"

Cao Fengqi sat on a green wooden bed, staring blankly at the unfamiliar surroundings.

Hadn't he been up all night playing games?

"Why does it hurt everywhere I touch? Am I dying?"

A sudden stabbing pain in his head made him mutter under his breath.

"He's awake! Fengqi's awake!"

"Fengqi, don't move, don't move! Your arm is broken."

A chorus of concerned voices reached him. Cao Fengqi turned his head, feeling as though it were about to explode.

"Ah!" he screamed as a flood of information poured into his mind.

"Uncle died again. Grandpa, can I have Uncle's stick now?"

That childish display of filial piety was the last thing Cao Fengqi heard before losing consciousness.

An unknown black substance left the sky gray and hazy, even casting a black veil over the sun.

The world behind them was shrouded in black mist, like a giant abyssal beast ready to devour anyone.

Crowded all around were strange houses stacked together from a strange metal he didn't recognize, crude yet wondrous.

There were white doors giving off a faint glow, skeletal lanterns hanging from door lintels, and spring couplets written in an unknown script.

The houses ranged from a dozen square meters for the smallest to just fifty or sixty for the largest.

After waking, Cao Fengqi stood in the doorway and looked around. From the memories in his mind, he knew what these houses were called.

Shelters!

Places where the people of Blue Star could take refuge and survive.

"Fengqi, have something to eat."

Inside the house, a woman nearing sixty looked worriedly at her son and called out to him.

At the mention of food, Cao Fengqi felt how empty his stomach was.

He turned to look at "his" mother. The familiarity he felt from his body made him nod. "Okay, Mom."

He walked over, his gaze falling on the small dining table in the cramped room.

There was a green wild vegetable soup with barely any oil in it.

He paused and looked at his mother Liu Xiuxiu's slightly thin, pale face.

"Mommy, I'm hungry."

Beside her, Dabao clutched his mother Liu Chunying's arm and swallowed as he looked at the wild vegetable soup.

"Your grandpa went to the market to buy you something to eat."

Liu Xiuxiu immediately answered, looking at her eldest grandson.

"Grandma, is Grandpa buying us meat?"

Dabao's eyes lit up when he heard that. He tilted his head up and asked, his face full of anticipation.

"Heh heh."

Liu Xiuxiu gave an awkward laugh and went over to pick him up. "You'll find out when your grandpa gets back."

Cao Fengqi's gaze fell on a young married woman and two children.

The young woman before him, who had a wonderful figure and beautiful looks, was his sister-in-law.

The two children, Dabao and Xiaobao, were his nephew and niece.

"Dabao, do you want some?"

Cao Fengqi looked at his rather skinny nephew, then glanced at the wild vegetable soup in front of him and asked.

Dabao immediately tilted his head toward him and answered without hesitation, "Yes."

"Keep wanting it. I'm hungry too."

Cao Fengqi picked up the soup made from unknown wild vegetables and polished it off in a few gulps.

That'll teach you to say I died.

Dabao stared at him, stunned for a moment. His lips slowly turned down, and tears began to well up in his eyes.

"Oh, you child."

Liu Xiuxiu glared at Cao Fengqi, then noticed her husband returning and hurriedly said, "Don't cry, Dabao. Look, your grandpa's back, and he brought you something tasty."

Dabao never did start crying. He looked eagerly toward the door.

"Dabao, Xiaobao, look what Grandpa brought you! Your favorite, fried bugs."

At the door, the weathered, one-armed Cao Jiancheng smiled broadly at the sight of his grandson and granddaughter and lifted the bag in his hand.

"Wow, Grandpa's the best!"

Dabao and Xiaobao rushed over, shouting happily.

"Dad, why did you buy something so impractical again?"

Liu Chunying knitted her brows and couldn't help speaking up.

"I've already bought them, and the children like them."

Cao Jiancheng came inside, took a jar of ointment from his pocket, and handed it to Cao Fengqi. "Bone Spirit Paste. Apply it to the fracture."

"Dad, did you sell the Moon Spirit Stones?"

At the sight of the Bone Spirit Paste, Liu Chunying's expression changed again.

"I know what I'm doing."

Cao Jiancheng answered expressionlessly.

"Cao Fengqi gave ten Moon Spirit Stones to that woman, and now you're spending them recklessly again... Will the Moon Spirit Stones we have left even last us until we reach the city?"

Liu Chunying looked anxious.

"The group is resting today. I'll enter the Lost Land in a little while and see if I can find anything," Cao Jiancheng said dully, without answering her question.

"Dad, you only have one chance left to enter the Lost Land. If..."

Liu Chunying's face was full of worry for the future. Her chest rose and fell slightly as she looked coldly at Cao Fengqi. "It's all because of you. Wu Qianqian was obviously playing you for a fool, and you still fawned over her like a dog. Sooner or later, you'll squander all the resources your brother left behind. You..."

"Enough. Fengyun helped your family a lot when he was alive too. And now?"

Cao Jiancheng frowned and interrupted her.

At the mention of her family, Liu Chunying's expression froze. She gritted her teeth and clenched her fists tightly.

"Your eldest uncle, third uncle, and two aunts are all in Tianbei Base City. Your eldest uncle was even a minor leader there at the time. Nothing should have happened to them. If we're careful with our supplies, we have enough to last until we get there."

Cao Jiancheng spoke more gently to his daughter-in-law, then turned his gaze to his second son and sighed silently. "Forget about that girl from the Wu family. We can't afford the bride price, and she doesn't like you either. If she did, she wouldn't have let you risk your life catching Moonlight Worms. Don't be foolish again."

If his son hadn't just survived a brush with death, he would have liked to give him a harsh lesson.

Sigh!

"Mm."

Hearing his father's words and recalling this body's outrageous past behavior, Cao Fengqi nodded silently.

"Hm?"

His prompt, straightforward answer left Cao Jiancheng, Liu Xiuxiu, and Liu Chunying slightly stunned.

Before, whenever they told him to stay away from Wu Qianqian, he would kick up a life-or-death fuss. Yet now he had agreed so readily?

Was he brushing them off, or had his close brush with death brought him to his senses?

"I hope you'll keep your word."

Liu Chunying glanced at Cao Fengqi, then walked straight over, took the bowls from the table, and carried them outside to wash.

Cao Fengqi glanced at his sister-in-law's graceful figure, then looked at the Bone Spirit Paste in his hand. Information appeared before his eyes.

[Bone Spirit Paste: level 2 quality]

[Effect: applied to the body, it can quickly heal fractures and speed the recovery of broken bones.]

Yes, he could see the quality of items. It wasn't his golden finger, but an ability everyone possessed.

In 2026, ten years ago, Blue Star's consciousness had suddenly awakened, and a message had appeared in everyone's minds.

[The evil god is about to invade Blue Star. All my children, please resist the evil god's invasion.]

[Blue Star will connect to the Lost Land, which has suffered the evil god's invasion. Children aged fifteen and over may enter the Lost Land to seek resources, build shelters to resist the evil god's offspring, and seek powerful transcendent power.]

[Blue Star will bless every one of his children.]

From then on, the world changed drastically. The whole of Blue Star was shrouded in a gray, hazy evil substance.

Large amounts of vegetation began to wither, and the strange and evil began to breed.

Humanity entered a terrifying era of survival.

Cao Fengqi applied the Bone Spirit Paste to the fracture in his right arm. A warm, tingling sensation spread through it.

His swollen arm recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the pain quickly faded.

This was one of the Lost Land's precious resources.

With a thought, Cao Fengqi brought up his own stats.

[Cao Fengqi.]

[Transcendent Sequence: none]

[Physique: 14]

[Spiritual power: 7]

[Equipment: none]

[Supplies: none]

[Lost Land: 5/10]

[Blue Star's Blessing: Gathering Technique, Insight, Construction, Language and Writing Comprehension.]

[Open cheat?]

He looked at his information, and at what he remembered...

"Huh?"

Cao Fengqi looked at the last line of information, a startled expression appearing on his face.

That definitely wasn't in his memories.