I picked up attributes in Swallowing Star.

I picked up attributes in Swallowing Star.

Author: Braised Pork Rice Bowl Guy

Summary:

My name is Luo Yuan, and I'm currently in the world of Swallowing the Stars. Every day I'm either collecting attributes or on my way to collect attributes. I'm refined, easygoing, and unremarkable. Please don't mess with me, or I'll have no choice but to send your whole family to meet God. I don't want this either, but having you alive makes me feel insecure...

Chapter 1 Luo Yuan

"It all started in that summer at the end of the last century. Infected by the RR virus, the global death toll exceeded 2 billion. The first case of animal infection with the RR virus mutation occurred in the Middle East. An unknown species invaded the American continent. The North American United Army announced the abandonment of the thirteen states on the East Coast. The RR virus brought a brand new intelligent species, the monster. Humanity also entered the Great Nirvana Era."

Proposal No. 62, the "Comprehensive Nuclear Strike Plan," was implemented. Scientific studies had suggested that launching all nuclear weapons could destroy the Earth three times over. However, the Earth was not destroyed. Humanity has always held nuclear weapons as a last resort, believing they could wipe out everything. But in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which were bombed, plants grew the following year, demonstrating that the power of nuclear weapons is far less than humanity imagined.

The remaining humans sought refuge in underground bases. If a global nuclear war were to break out, human civilization itself would be the most likely target for destruction. Relying on military strength, technology, and the indomitable will of humanity, the five major powers survived, forming the Earth Alliance and establishing bases in 23 other regions. The most crucial reason was the emergence of warriors among humanity, who could use their combat prowess to contend with the monsters.

Yangzhou City, Jiangnan Base, Yi'an District No. 3 High School.

"Ding ding ding..." As the loud bell rang throughout the campus, a commotion broke out, and a large number of students poured out of the teaching buildings, walking towards the school gate in groups of three or five, chatting and laughing.

Luo Yuan put down his history textbook, stretched his stiff neck, packed his schoolbag, and prepared to go home after school.

"Sigh, it seems I really have transmigrated into the world of Swallowing the Stars," Luo Yuan thought to himself.

Three days ago, in the early morning, Luo Yuan was still watching TV series in his rented room. When he woke up, he found himself in this world, becoming a tenant in the South Bank Community, a low-rent housing complex. He lived in the same community as Luo Feng, but in a different building. He didn't bother to look for Luo Feng, since they didn't know each other and weren't classmates. The two had no connection whatsoever.

Back in his rented room in the South Bank neighborhood, Luo Yuan went straight into his room, locked it, and then lay down on the bed in a U-shape.

In this world, he is an orphan who grew up in an orphanage, a lonely and miserable child. He moved out to be independent after starting high school. During the day, he attends classes and does part-time jobs at night to barely make ends meet. As for martial arts, he doesn't have the means. Now, apart from being relatively healthy and handsome, he doesn't have any other advantages.

"Oh God, how am I supposed to survive in this dangerous world?" Luo Yuan asked the heavens in despair.

For the past three days, he had been thinking about his future. But after thinking for a long time, he realized that the only way out was to live a mediocre life, except for practicing martial arts. However, he was unwilling to accept this. He got up and took out his savings book. Looking at the 2000 yuan in savings, he felt exhausted. This amount of money was not even enough to eat, let alone practice martial arts.

As Luo Yuan was about to put the passbook back, he found a discount coupon for a one-day tour of the Extreme Martial Arts Academy in his drawer. The tour was for tomorrow, which happened to be Saturday. He decided to go and take a look. Although he couldn't get in without money, it would still be good to go. The Extreme Martial Arts Academy was the largest martial arts academy on Earth, founded by the world's strongest man, 'Hong'. He wanted to go and see it.

"Gurgle~" The sound from his stomach interrupted Luo Yuan's thoughts. Life is all about the mundane things, what's the use of thinking about those distant things?

As Luo Yuan walked out of his dormitory, he moved carefully because he was sharing an apartment with others. He had no choice because he was poor, and everyone living there was poor too. They should all be considerate of each other.

From Luo Yuan's previous memories, he only knew that his roommates had changed several times. The current roommate seemed to have just moved in recently, and he hadn't met her yet. He only heard the sound of someone opening and locking the door late at night. Judging from the long hair that fell out of the bathroom, it should be a woman, and the kind who works at night. This made him have some wild thoughts.

Luo Yuan didn't know if any of the tenants had returned yet, but he was still being cautious. He went to the kitchen, turned on the gas stove, and decided to make fried rice with yesterday's leftovers. Whether in his past life or this one, his cooking skills were still pretty good. Soon, the aroma of fried rice filled the small rented room.

"Click~"

Suddenly, the sound of the door opening rang out. Luo Yuan came out of the kitchen out of curiosity, only to see a slender, tall, and beautiful figure quickly enter the bathroom. Then came the sound of the bathroom door being locked from the inside, and a pleasant perfume scent filled the air.

"She must be a beauty," Luo Yuan thought to himself.

Luo Yuan sat in the living room eating fried rice while watching the news. After a while, the bathroom door opened, and a curvaceous beauty came out, wearing a cool T-shirt and shorts. The woman looked to be about twenty-four or twenty-five years old, with a beautiful face. She wasn't wearing makeup, and her eyes were lazy and indifferent. She looked a bit like the mature internet celebrity he had seen in his previous life, which made Luo Yuan swallow hard.

"Are you the roommate of this house?" A slightly husky, mature female voice came from the woman in front of me.

"Yes, hello, miss. My name is Luo Yuan, Yuan as in source. It's nice to meet you." Luo Yuan quickly adjusted his mindset and greeted her.

"Oh, how happy are you?" the mature woman said with a hint of teasing, a meaningful smile playing on her lips, her eyes also full of laughter.

"Uh, okay, sorry to bother you." Luo Yuan didn't say anything and continued eating.

Seeing that Luo Yuan ignored her, the woman in front of her became somewhat disheartened. She looked Luo Yuan up and down a few more times before speaking.

"Little brother, I haven't eaten yet. You're eating so deliciously, it's making me so hungry."

"There's more in the pot, go get some yourself," Luo Yuan said calmly, sensing that the woman in front of him was not someone to be trifled with.

"My name is Xu Qian. I hope you will take good care of me during our time as roommates."

The woman suddenly lost all her allure, speaking in a proper and neutral tone. Her cold eyes held no extra emotion. She simply picked up a fruit knife from the coffee table and began to skillfully wield it against an apple. Her knife skills were quite remarkable. Luo Yuan merely nodded. It seemed this was the woman's true nature. Society was simple, but people were complicated. It was best to be more careful in the future.

After finishing his meal, Luo Yuan took a shower and went to bed. Although he had only been in this world for three days, he dared not treat things with a playful attitude anymore. This was a real world, and the people here were all living, breathing human beings, a real world where one could lose their life at any moment.

P.S.: Dear gods, please give me rewards, monthly tickets, and add this to your favorites. I, Luo Yuan, am completely convinced.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 2 Ultimate Martial Arts Gym

The next morning, after washing up, Luo Yuan left without making a sound. The aloof woman named Xu Qian hadn't gone out the night before, and he didn't bother with her anymore. He felt that this woman was from a different world than him. Although she was polite to him on the surface, her arrogance and indifference were undeniable.

From God's perspective, this woman is nothing more than a background character in this world. Perhaps it's the lingering sense of being a loser from his past life that makes Luo Yuan have some inappropriate thoughts about beautiful women, which is definitely not the mindset a strong person should have.

"It seems there's a clear gap between myself and the strong, both in terms of strength and mindset," Luo Yuan shook his head self-deprecatingly.

On the bus, Luo Yuan sat in the back, his eyes taking in the unfamiliar surroundings. The ultra-modern buildings and electronic screens outside the window gave him a sense of disorientation and unreality, as well as a feeling of powerlessness and loneliness.

"This isn't my world. How am I supposed to live like this?" Luo Yuan thought to himself.

"The Extreme Martial Arts Hall stop has arrived. Passengers, please disembark."

As the bus's electronic voice announced his arrival, Luo Yuan got off. Gazing at the irregularly shaped building in the distance, brimming with high-tech sophistication, he knew that this was the sacred place in the hearts of countless martial arts practitioners—the Extreme Martial Arts Academy.

Luo Yuan walked to the back of the long queue. These people were all visiting the Extreme Martial Arts Academy. Most of them were ordinary children who were underage, but some were accompanied by adults. He also saw that the students of the Extreme Martial Arts Academy went directly into the special passage, swiped their cards and went in. This aroused the envy of the ordinary people present, and some adults took the opportunity to encourage their children to practice martial arts hard in the future.

Looking at the dashing figures of those burly students, Luo Yuan felt quite envious. This world was truly unfriendly to ordinary people. The protagonist of this world, Luo Feng, was the chosen one, possessing an extremely rare talent for mental power. Luo Yuan felt that if he didn't have any cheat codes, he would have lived an ordinary life like in his previous one. Of course, in this life, he would probably have died in a beast attack.

The martial arts gym, like a giant monster, sits here, its area larger than a high school. The main entrance is wide enough for ten cars to drive in side by side.

After having his ticket checked, Luo Yuan followed the crowd into the Extreme Martial Arts Hall. A guide was in front of him, holding a microphone and explaining its history and the heroic deeds of some famous figures.

Inside the martial arts school courtyard are three enormous, silver-white buildings, shaped like three spaceships.

These three giant buildings are the teaching building for junior students, the teaching building for intermediate students, and the teaching building for senior students.

The first and second floors of the advanced student training building are large teaching halls, each capable of accommodating thousands of people. The martial arts school's instructors teach in these halls. The entire Extreme Martial Arts School has approximately thirty to forty thousand students.

Students must be 16 years old to become students at the martial arts school. Those over 30 years old are prohibited from attending the school and thus occupying teaching resources.

The entire martial arts school has several hundred senior students, most of whom are in their twenties.

As a visitor, Luo Yuan could only visit the teaching building for beginners; he couldn't even think about the intermediate or advanced teaching buildings, as he wasn't qualified yet.

However, when Luo Yuan entered the first floor of the beginner's training building, he noticed white bubbles falling from the practitioners' bodies onto the ground in the spacious training hall. He rubbed his eyes in surprise. The Limit Martial Arts Academy had the most beginner students, so there were a lot of bubbles on the scene, but the others seemed not to see them.

"Hey, can you see the bubbles that fell on the ground?" Luo Yuan suddenly asked the little kid next to him who was also visiting.

The little kid looked at Luo Yuan like he was an idiot, rolled his eyes, and said, "You're sick."

After confirming that no one else could see the white bubbles, Luo Yuan boldly approached them.

"Strength +1".

"Strength +1".

"speed +1"

"speed +1"

Defense +1

Defense +1

........................

When Luo Yuan touched the bubbles, these characters flashed before his eyes. He also felt that his strength and speed had increased significantly, and he felt much more relaxed. It was like drinking a bottle of Sprite on a hot summer day, refreshing and cool, and he shivered.

A boundless joy welled up from the bottom of his heart. Could this be his golden finger? It seems that heaven has not abandoned him yet. He, Luo Yuan, is about to rise. He was so excited. He started walking around in the vast martial arts training hall on the first floor of the primary school teaching building. In the end, he even started running, and his speed increased.

His behavior also attracted the attention of those present. The ordinary people felt that this person was crazy, and watched Luo Yuan jumping up and down in the hall like he was a monkey.

However, the novice martial arts students went from initial disdain to frowning, and then to shock. Some of the new students felt that Luo Yuan was disturbing their cultivation and wanted to teach him a lesson, but they were stopped by the older students. Of course, some of the new students were chasing after Luo Yuan, but they found that they could not catch up with him.

The moment Luo Yuan disappeared from sight, everyone present was shocked. The situation also caught the attention of the instructors upstairs. A senior instructor came downstairs and saw what was happening. He was shocked, but he also took action. He couldn't let Luo Yuan continue like this, as it would have a bad influence.

The instructor flashed by and stopped Luo Yuan while running, but the momentum generated by Luo Yuan's running also dragged him several meters along the ground, and the instructor's shoes felt like they were about to be worn out.

Luo Yuan, who had been stopped, glared angrily at the instructor in front of him. The instructor was also panting heavily. He was only at the intermediate level and had come to the junior student teaching building to make a living because he was getting old.

"Whose student are you, kid, running around causing trouble here!" the instructor shouted. He was actually a little scared, afraid that the kid in front of him had some powerful background.

"Ahem, I'm here to visit, not to be a student." Luo Yuan awkwardly gave a fawning smile. He had gotten a little carried away, but when he saw the untouched bubbles disappear, his heart bled. It seemed these bubbles had an expiration date.

"How could someone who isn't a student have such speed and physical strength? Without instruction, how could they possibly possess such power?" the instructor said somewhat angrily, giving Luo Yuan a look that seemed to say, "You've read a lot of books, don't try to fool me."

Luo Yuan didn't explain anything. He planned to go upstairs to take a look. This beginner's teaching building has three floors. The first floor is full of newbies, with only some unpopular older students. The upper floors should be for older students who have been practicing martial arts for a long time.

"Excuse me, instructor, may I go upstairs to take a look?" Luo Yuan said politely.

"No, you can only visit the first floor. The upper floors are for older students," the instructor said in an unfriendly tone.

Luo Yuan didn't insist anymore. Haste makes waste. He had just gained some power and couldn't afford to get carried away. It seemed he still needed to get the student status of this Extreme Martial Arts Academy.

P.S.: Dear gods, please give me rewards, monthly tickets, and add this to your favorites. I, Luo Yuan, am completely convinced.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 3 Beginner Students

Seeing Luo Yuan's silence, the instructor next to him curled his lips. He figured the kid might be self-taught, so he didn't take him too seriously. After all, Luo Yuan's current strength was only equivalent to the peak of a beginner student, and there were many students like that in this Extreme Martial Arts Academy.

"Instructor, may I use the testing equipment here to see my current strength?" Luo Yuan pointed to the punching power testing machine and speed testing machine in the martial arts hall.

"No, you're not a student at the Extreme Martial Arts Academy, you're not authorized to use the equipment here," the instructor said impatiently.

Luo Yuan frowned and clenched his fist. It seemed that the instructor in front of him was a snobbish guy. Sure enough, he wasn't the main character. In fact, the instructor's behavior was more in line with reality, but there was nothing he could do.

Around noon, Luo Yuan walked out of the Extreme Martial Arts Academy with the crowd of visitors. He looked back at the academy with longing in his eyes. This was his experience base for improving his strength. What he needed now was to make money to get enough tuition fees to go in. But where could he get the money?

On the bus home, Luo Yuan kept thinking about how to make money. Bored, he started playing with his phone and opened a martial arts enthusiasts' forum. He asked a question: "How can an ordinary person quickly make a lot of money?" Unfortunately, no one answered. Perhaps it was because his level on the forum was too low, and no one paid attention to him.

Back in his rented apartment, Luo Yuan saw the aloof and beautiful Xu Qian sitting on the sofa in the living room, eating an apple and watching a gunfight movie. He felt a little strange; didn't women usually like watching romantic dramas and melodramatic soap operas?

Luo Yuan also took an apple, and without even peeling it, he started eating it. He stole a glance at Xu Qian's long legs for a while; they were so white. The woman who was watching the movie didn't pay any attention to him.

"Um, I'd like to ask you something. Do you know how ordinary people can quickly acquire a large amount of money?" Luo Yuan asked somewhat embarrassedly. As a transmigrator who had only been here for a few days, he wanted to ask the native in front of him for some information.

"What do you need the money for?" the aloof woman asked indifferently without turning her head.

"Um, I want to go to the Extreme Martial Arts Academy to train, and I need some tuition fees," Luo Yuan said honestly.

“You want to practice martial arts? This path is difficult and dangerous. Wouldn’t it be better to be an ordinary person?” Xu Qian turned to look at Luo Yuan, raising her beautiful eyebrows.

"In this world where strength reigns supreme, what's the difference between someone who doesn't practice martial arts and a salted fish!" Luo Yuan insisted. Now that he had a cheat code, he felt more confident.