03

Maddy widely opened eyes were fixed on the screen, where the shadow could be seen among the grass, encountering an "enormous" ant. The shadow raised its fist and attacked it ferociously.

[You have attacked the ant with your full strength, causing it 7 points of damage, but because your strength is too weak, it could only cause a minor injury to the ant.]

[Your leg has kicked the ant's head, because of attacking its weak point, the ant has suffered 26 points of damage, causing serious damage to the ant.]

[The ant has begun its counterattack after entering a near-death state. Lifting its pincers, it crushed your right arm, resulting in you losing most of your military strength.]

[You bellowed in pain and launched a kick. Because you were extremely angry, this kick has caused 'furious strike', causing the ant 19 points of damage, the ant has been killed by you.]

[Congratulations, you have successfully killed the ant. You have gained 1 experience point and 1 ability point, but you have also caught the attention of the ant colony, beware of their revenge.]

"Damn!"

Even though he already knew what will happen Maddy still astonished, reading it and personally experiencing it really make him excited.

The ant was dead! It had really been killed by his shadow!

It must be known that this was only one ant from the real world. Even though it was minute, it was still a life, was this really only a hack system, only a software?

Maddy was filled with excitement .

But regardless of whatever he felt, the hack system still continued its work. Not long had passed, when the shadow in the dense "grass forest", encountered yet another ant. However, this time there were no surprises and the shadow which had already lost its right arm got killed immediately by the second ant.

When the shadow was crushed, it transformed into countless black dots and passed through all obstructions from the lawn downstairs as it returned back inside Maddy's body.

Another message popped up on the screen:

[Shadow has died. After ten minutes, your shadow will resurrect and continue to advance automatically in the hack system. You still have two more chances of resurrection for today, please cherish them.]

[Reminder, the system has detected some kind of strength inside your body, do you want to use your current experience points to strengthen it?]

"Yes."

Maddy didn't think too much about it. He was already dizzy from the big meat pie that had fallen into his lap, so he subconsciously agreed. Within an instant, he sensed a kind of warmth in his body, traces of heat collected in his chest from his four limbs and hundreds of bones, a kind of strength seemed to come forth from deep inside.

After a few second the warmth disappeared, checking his body Maddy didn't see any difference.

"If there is no changes outside the body, maybe the it strengthen something inside my body, anywhay I can save it first and use experience points after I gained sanctuary system."

While Maddy was getting more and more excited, from outside his room, the sound of an girl voice penetrated into the room:

"Maddy open the door didn't you see what time is it?"

Maddy woken up from his excitement.

Maddy recognized the voice it is his friend Jessica Dy, like himself she was also a orphan.

But unlike himself, she didn't know who is her parents is all she know that she was orphaned at the age of 1 year old.

Since Jessica is older than him he treat Jessica more than friend.

"Coming coming."

Maddy excitedly replied, agreeing in a loud voice; not long after, within a comfortable small dining hall, the table was filled with three meat and two vegetable dishes and one soup.

"So sumptuous? What's the occasion today?"

Maddy didn't wash his hand before quickly grabbing a sweet and sour pork chop and shoved it in his mouth. He loudly said in unclear voice:

"So good, so good."

Three meat and two vegetable dishes, this was quite normal in families that were wealthy, but normally, ordinary families didn't dare to be so extravagant. Although in the interstellar age the land under human's control was much greater compared to the dark ages, in the countryside areas, vast stretches of land were still occupied by variation beasts.

Thus, such a sumptuous evening meal would have cost at least 30 Levi dollars. At the slums, this amount was sufficient for the poor people to survive for a whole month; even in an ordinary household, three meat and two vegetable dishes were still considered quite extravagant.

"Naturally it is a happy occasion. Next week you will finally be able to enter the sanctuary, I wish that we will be teleported in the same base."

 Jessica, said unable to contain her happiness.

"Yeah, i also wish that we will teleported in the same base so that I can protect you."

"Good, but let's not speak of protecting me, you couldn't even defeat me in a spar, forget it. The important thing is your exams which happened a few days ago, how did they go?"

Jessica wasn't that easy to deal with, changing the subject, she inquired about his high school exams from a few days ago.

"Hey,Jessica, can't we leave this disappointing matter for another time, it's not like you don't know how your friend would perform, yet you still ask how it went, why not just let nature take its course."

Maddy's mood dampened after hearing about his exams, he didn't want to talk about the matters of exams as he didn't expect anything from them.

In this new age, an ordinary person has three routes that they could take.

The first route was following the same structure of society as was done before the dark ages. From primary school to middle school then going on to higher education. Normally, the lowest rung people would undergo education in a primary school for five years since it was free.