Apocalypse Metamorphosis

Upheaval

Ugh!

Upon realizing what had happened, Alex Knight quickly reached into his throat, attempting to vomit out the meatball he had swallowed. He didn't want to risk being poisoned by it.

After retching for a while, all he managed to expel was a mixture of compressed biscuits and nausea, with no trace of the meatball remaining.

Feeling dizzy from the ordeal, Alex resigned himself to his fate.

"My life is just a cheap existence, what do I have to fear?" he bitterly chuckled inwardly.

Alex Knight had lived an entirely ordinary life as an average citizen. His family was similarly ordinary; his father worked in a local state-owned factory, while his mother was an elementary school teacher.

During primary school, Alex had lofty dreams—scientist, general, tycoon—he had imagined it all, and his grades were excellent, worthy of being called a top student.

But by junior high, the allure of arcades and video rooms on every street corner had captured Alex's attention. Barely managing to get into a county high school, he transformed from a model student to a frequent truant.

After performing poorly in the college entrance exams, his parents found a way to enlist him in the military.

His time in the military reinvigorated Alex to some extent. Though he didn't achieve third-class merit, he earned several distinctions as an outstanding soldier. According to his superiors, Alex was a natural-born soldier.

Because of this, the military arranged for Alex to take the military entrance exams.

If Alex had managed to get into a military academy, it might have been a good career path for him.

But Alex, already disillusioned with studying, ultimately failed to enter a military academy and eventually left the military.

In Alex's mind, with his excellent performance, returning to work in his hometown should have been fine.

However, Alex had underestimated the state of the world. Upon returning to his hometown, he discovered he had been assigned to a county battery factory on the brink of bankruptcy.

After two months on the job, Alex quit and arrived in Cuihu City, becoming a laborer in the big city.

Whenever he thought back on all this, Alex couldn't help but feel some regret. If only he had studied hard and gotten into a top university like Tsinghua or Peking, by now he might have been a department manager or something similar.

Considering that the CEO of his current company was merely a graduate of an ordinary university.

Of course, there's no such thing as a magic pill for regrets.

Originally, Alex had planned to drift through life like this, save up some money as he got older, return to his hometown, start a small business, and maybe find a spouse.

But now, it seemed like a new fork in his destiny had appeared?

Facing an unknown fate is a cruel thing.

Lying on the bed, Alex touched his somewhat sore stomach, and a musty smell pierced his nostrils, causing him to sneeze several times.

If he was going to die, he would die.

After several sneezes, Alex somehow relaxed and rested on the bed.

In this series of changes after waking up, Alex's spirit seemed to be on the verge of breaking, until now he relaxed a bit and felt particularly exhausted.

Before long, Alex fell into a dream state without knowing it.

"Saying to hit, hit! Saying to do, do it! Practice shooting with a gun and throwing grenades, aim accurately and throw far..."

A brief, powerful, and vigorous singing voice woke Alex from his sleep.

It was one of the military songs Alex learned when he was a soldier. Its name wasn't quite clear, probably called "Training Song," often chosen as a mandatory song before meals, with a group of rough old men roaring loudly with their rough voices, and then rushing to the cafeteria, magnificent like hungry tigers down the mountain.

Of course, for now, this was just a memory of Alex's former days.

After being startled awake, Alex's first reaction was to reach out for the empty wine bottle beside him, but this grab was empty, causing Alex's originally confused brain to suddenly startle. Opening his eyes and looking around, Alex found himself still in the rental house, lying in bed with his phone alarm clock on the pillow.

No way! Alex raised his body and looked around in a circle.

The dust on the floor and table disappeared, and the Zhang Liangying poster he had just posted on the wall a few days ago was extremely new. Zhang Liangying's delicate face was still radiant.

The grapefruit and apples on the small coffee table did not rot, and the aluminum alloy windows that the landlord boss had just changed did not show signs of dents or cracks.

In short, everything inside the house has returned to its original state.

What's going on?

Could it be that just now was a dream? But this dream is too real, isn't it?

After Alex regained his senses, he immediately reached out and touched his waist, feeling a hard object inserted into his belt.

It was the dagger, the dagger found in the otaku room, except that it had shrunk to the size of a pencil sharpener, and the handle was gone, a result of being corroded by the mucus of the snot bug.

Alex was stunned for a moment, then reached into his pocket and felt the lighter still there. There was also a worn-out backpack beside the bed. Opening it, he found mineral water, compressed biscuits, adult magazines, and the work permit of Michael Guan, but the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" was more tattered due to the corrosion of the snot bug's body fluids.

A cold sweat broke out on Alex's back for no reason.

Damn it! What's going on? Was it a dream or a real experience?

Rubbing his face, Alex turned off the alarm clock on his phone and sat on the bed for a while, staring blankly at the dim sky outside, but his mind was spinning rapidly.

Before he woke up, he found that the whole world seemed to have moved forward by hundreds of years in a flash. Everything appeared extremely worn out, then he found the dagger, went to the convenience store, found water and food, encountered men and snot bugs, and then killed the giant snot bug. After returning, he accidentally swallowed a meatball.

After thinking for a long time, Alex couldn't figure it out.

But soon Alex didn't have to think too much.

Suddenly, his stomach turned upside down, and Alex's face turned pale with pain, so he had to take the toilet paper and rush into the bathroom.

Gurgle gurgle dong!

A series of fart-like sounds exploded in a bathroom of more than a few square meters, followed by a strong odor spreading out, making Alex retch.

Looking down, Alex almost sat on the toilet bowl.

The once snow-white toilet bowl had changed color, covered with a large amount of dark blood stains and some minced meat-like things.

Looking at it, Alex's face turned pale. Could it be that he was going to die?

After a while, Alex felt a little relieved. With this mad pull, the severe pain in Alex's abdomen immediately eased, and his body became much more comfortable.