Tao Shushu was having a dream. In the dream, the world she lived in was a novel, and she, Tao Shushu, was the stupid cannon fodder that set off the female protagonist’s academic genius halo.

All the achievements and awards that Tao Shushu had won were labeled as cheating, and another girl easily took away the glory that Tao Shushu had worked hard to obtain.

The business that Tao Shushu’s parents built and the factory technology that far exceeded the world’s technological level had also been taken over by that girl.

Because they blocked the girl’s path, Tao Shushu and her loving parents suffered a miserable ending.

Just as Tao Shushu wanted to carefully see the girl’s face, she suddenly woke up.

Someone was patting the back of her head.

The conditioned reflex from the apocalypse made Tao Shushu instinctively flash to the side and swiftly dodge.

“Hiss!” The invigilator of this exam, Zhang Hai, the head teacher of the class, slammed his hand heavily on the table and cried out in pain. Then he angrily scolded, “Tao Shushu, were you pretending to sleep? You slept through the entire exam, then you immediately hid when I cautioned you!”

As soon as this voice rang out, everyone in the classroom was attracted.

Tao Shushu woke up from her terrifying dream and realized that this was no longer the end of the world, but the peaceful Blue Star world she had been in for over a decade.

Zhang Hai glared at Tao Shushu, slammed the table, and cursed, “You got so proud after getting full marks in physics several times. Not only do you not respect the exam discipline, you also don’t respect the teacher. Get out of the exam room right now. I’ll go find the principal after this exam is over.”

Tao Shushu glanced at the clock at the front of the classroom. There were only ten minutes left until the end of the exam; she whispered, “Teacher, if you shout so loudly, it’ll affect other students’.”

Tao Shushu glanced at her blank test paper, and a hazy feeling of not being able to see the questions clearly appeared! She simply picked up her stationery and walked quickly out of the classroom.

Zhang Hai slammed the door behind her and said, “Stand in the hallway and reflect on yourself.”

Tao Shushu softly spoke in a voice that only Zhang Hai could hear, “You reminded me ten minutes before the paper was due. Teacher, you really think highly of me.”

“You!” Zhang Hai cursed, “You don’t know what’s good for you…”

Another invigilator rushed over: “Teacher Zhang, the exam isn’t over yet.”

Tao Shushu paid no attention to the closed exam room door.

Physics was Tao Shushu’s strong suit, and she was accustomed to browsing through the paper before answering.

Tao Shushu also maintained the same habit in this exam; however, as soon as she finished reading the paper, she suddenly felt that the words on the paper had become blurry.

There seemed to be a force preventing her from seeing the words on the exam paper clearly.

When she tried to look, a strong drowsiness swept over her, and Tao Shushu fell asleep until she was awakened by the invigilator ten minutes before submitting the paper.

Tao Shushu originally traveled to this world from the end of the world.

The abnormal drowsiness during the exam, coupled with the details in the dream, confirmed to Tao Shushu that the dream was real!

Thinking of the scene in her dream where the Tao family was devastated by the female protagonist and her beloved parents begged in despair, Tao Shushu suddenly felt angry. She would never allow the so-called female protagonist to harm her parents.

Now was the time when the plot of the book had just begun. The transfer student scored full marks in physics, chemistry, and biology, and the “academic master,” Tao Shushu, was accused of cheating.

It was also on this day that something happened at home, so Tao Shushu prepared to send a message to remind her parents.

She turned on her phone, and only then did she realize there was no signal. In order to approach the college entrance examination, Huiwen High School would use signal-blocking devices and layers of security checks for every exam.

Tao Shushu was about to turn off her phone when her finger accidentally touched an inconspicuous icon on the desktop. The icon activated without signal and began rapidly downloading and updating patches.

Half a minute later, a cute Q-version character icon lit up on Tao Shushu’s phone, with words below the icon: ‘The Ability of the End Times.’

It seemed to be a parenting game.

This icon lay alone outside a neatly arranged folder, causing great discomfort for someone with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Tao Shushu didn’t remember downloading this game. Because she had experienced the end of the world in her previous life, she never watched any apocalyptic works in this life. She clicked on the icon and was about to delete it.

Suddenly, a pop-up window popped up: Rebuild the base, save humanity: the ultra-realistic doomsday survival mobile game “End of the World Ability” has been officially launched. Produced by the strongest holographic universe company. Play now and enjoy discovering the truth of the world, being immune to the aura of the child of luck, and many other exclusive benefits for our players!

If this world was really a novel, then wasn’t the heroine the child of luck?

The finger that was about to click delete changed direction, and Tao Shushu opened the game.

After clicking on the game, a question and a 10-second countdown appeared on the page with a prompt: This game isn’t suitable for players under the age of twelve. Please answer the question to unlock the game.

The question was very simple for Tao Shushu.

[What is the hexadecimal number 208 converted into decimal?]

In the world before she came here, almost everyone knew maths. Tao Shushu didn’t need to think and directly filled in 520 in the brackets.

Tao Shushu unsurely thought to herself: [Playing games still required solving problems? Wasn’t this a way for the game company to drive away customers?]

The word ‘bingo’ popped up on the screen.

The game page began to load, and a beautiful portrait flashes on the screen. The man on the card was wearing a dark combat uniform, with straight, long legs wrapped in the uniform. He held a weapon in one hand and a glowing ball in the other. Dark blood seeped through his gloves, leaving a few bloodstains on the silver particle gun.

As a uniform lover, Tao Shushu couldn’t take her eyes off him. 

He was injured, but he still straightened his back and stood straight.

The game illustrations filled with a sense of battle hit Tao Shushu’s aesthetic, and just as she was staring intently, the screen animation changed again.

Darkness began to engulf the entire card surface from all around, leaving only the hand tightly gripping the particle gun.

His joints were distinct, and his skin looked as cold as jade.

The hand moved, and a beam of light burst out from the tip of the particle gun, splitting the darkness with lightning.

The screen dimmed for a moment, but Tao Shushu noticed a prompt with sharp eyes: to save memory space, the Q-version art style has been automatically selected.

Q version? But the handsome guy in the portrait just now should be the original artwork style.

Tao Shushu searched for a while but couldn’t find the button to switch the art style. Another scene appeared on the screen.

Under dim sunlight, large patches of weeds undulated with the wind.

The screen gradually zoomed in, and in the depths of the grassland, a Q-shaped little person was confronting a lion with a mouth full of fangs.

The little character in the game held a particle gun that was longer than himself, kicked his short legs, and stabbed at the lion.

Tao Shushu chuckled, the Q art style was too cute. She wanted to give the artist a reward.

The game character shot the lion in the eye with a particle gun, but his own hand was also grazed by its fangs, and blood spilled all over the ground. The lion opened its mouth wide and roared, pouncing more fiercely.

Tao Shushu’s heart was gripped by this thrilling scene, and she couldn’t take her eyes off it.

Fortunately, the game character dodged and threw a fatal blow with all his strength.

A fierce light flashed, and the lion’s massive body shook a few times before it roared and retreated into the grass.

As soon as Tao Shushu breathed a sigh of relief, she saw that the game character had collapsed from exhaustion.

The sky in the game was getting darker and darker, black sand was floating and spinning in the wind, and plants on the grassland were growing at a strange speed, almost drowning the body of the little person in the blink of an eye.

Tao Shushu tried to fiddle with the screen, but there was no response on her phone.

“How do you play this game?” Tao Shushu murmured as she poked the screen, but she still couldn’t find the joystick.

Fortunately, Tao Shushu waited for a few seconds, and the game finally jumped to the next interface, where the plot introduction appeared:

[In the year 2085 of the Central Calendar, an unprecedented apocalyptic crisis broke out in the C1 galaxy. Led by a supercomputer named “Chu,” the artificial intelligence system violated the principle of not harming humans and began to expel humans. Then, the climate became abnormal, and plants and animals mutated. A zombie virus began to spread among the surviving humans, and humans were saddened to find that their friends who were fighting side by side yesterday had turned into zombies that posed a deadly threat in the blink of an eye…]

After reading the background introduction, Tao Shushu clicked on the character panel of the game character.

Name: Nan Yuan

Gender: Male

Age: 17

Ability: Light, undeveloped

Location: Barren Planet No. 215 (no faction)

The game interface stayed at the node after the plot introduction, and the little character lay on the gravel stained with blood. His face was pale, and there was no fluctuation in his chest, like a fragile jade carving.

Tao Shushu glanced at the game interface, where there were three value bars at the top. The green one was for health, the red one was for stamina, and the black one was for power.

The health value showed 5/100, which looked very dangerous.

Tao Shushu began to attempt adding life to the little character.

And while Tao Shushu was exploring, the grass around Nan Yuan grew taller, forming an impenetrable cage with Nan Yuan as the center.

The rustling wind blew the grass like an unknown music, and a blade of grass peeked out like a venomous snake spitting out letters, probing its fingertips as it climbed towards the southern abyss.

Tao Shushu swiped on the screen, and the stems and leaves only deviated slightly from the direction, still persistently moving towards the cub, Nan Yuan.

It seemed that interaction could be achieved through screen force. Tao Shushu decided to find a weapon; the particle gun held in Nan Yuan’s hand would be good.

However, as soon as Tao Shushu placed her finger on the particle gun, Nan Yuan, who was unconscious, frowned and clenched the weapon in his hand even harder.

The cub was very alert.

Looking at the blue veins on the little character’s hands that were visibly stretched from trying too hard, Tao Shushu gave up the idea of using the mobile particle gun to cut the grass.

She continued, exerting force to push the stems and leaves away.

Those plants seemed to have wisdom; discovering that one grass didn’t encounter resistance, the other grasses tried to stick out their roots and grab nutrients from the unconscious human.

Soon, the cub was surrounded by mutated grass.

Pushing them one by one was too tiring.

Tao Shushu had an idea and used two fingers to tug on the screen, tying the protruding grass into knots and allowing them to engage in internal combat.

“Playing games is so tiring.” Tao Shushu looked at her own achievements with satisfaction and sighed.

Suddenly, a grass whooshed towards the direction of the cub.

Cub, danger!

Without hesitation, Tao Shushu reached out her finger and placed it beside the cub’s body.

Her finger brushed against the top of the particle gun.

The particle gun emitted a dazzling light source, emitting a cold light. The plants that were directly exposed to the cold light withered one after another, and the glass that was trying to attack broke into two pieces and quickly turned into powder.

Tao Shushu only then noticed that there was a groove at the top of the particle gun, in which a spherical gemstone was placed. She should have just touched the gemstone, but now it seemed to have exhausted its energy and was gradually disintegrating and weathering.

The character’s health value became 3.

If she didn’t save the cub, he’d die, and the surrounding grass hadn’t been completely wiped out yet. She didn’t know when it would grow back.

Tao Shushu looked at the top of the screen, but there were no game prompts, only a question mark.

Tao Shushu grabbed the grass around her with her fingers, trying to find fallen items and other props.

At this moment, a prompt popped up on the screen: The intelligent biological verification has been passed, and the game function is open.

After all, it was a game that you had to answer a question to play, so no matter how idiotic the game prompts were, they didn’t cause Tao Shushu to think deeply.

As this prompt appeared and disappeared, a task prompt popped up on the screen: Task 1: Rescue Nan Yuan surrounded by mutated blood-eating grass.

Blood-eating grass should be the name of these plants that grew wildly and attacked, but how could they be eliminated? Tao Shushu explored for a while but still couldn’t find a way.

She had a sudden idea and decided to click on recharge to take a look. Usually, the first recharge would give away items, which were usually related to the current level. Maybe she could find some clues from here.

After opening the recharge, the game got stuck.

A stuck page would always interrupt people’s concentration. Tao Shushu was waiting when the door of the classroom in front of her opened.

The students in the first exam room submitted their papers one after another.

Tao Shushu glared back at Zhang Hai, who was glaring through the crack in the door.

Several classmates wanted to come over and comfort Tao Shushu.

Zhang Hai opened the door and said, “After submitting the exam papers, leave. Don’t linger at the entrance of the exam room.”

Tao Shushu smiled at her classmates and continued to lower her head to play the game. She pressed the button on her phone and was immediately confronted by the mutated plants growing wildly on the screen.

Tao Shushu originally thought that, like other games, when players left the game, the time in the game would be static. However, in this game, when players left, the game world continued to run.

Tao Shushu looked at the health value at the top; luckily it had stayed at 3/100 without decreasing.