An opportunity to become stronger, a gluttonous feast!

The edge of the safe zone was a very backward area.

It was backward in all aspects, not only reflected in the streets and the gathered crowd.

For example, this was also the case with education, which the United Government attached the greatest importance to.

The daily curriculum content for the senior year of [Ju'an School] consisted of some dull histories of the glorious past of the ancient human race and outdated scientific theories.

Now that the gods were ruling the world, the classes here were still talking about meaningless contents such as "separation of powers" and "social revolution".

Even the functions and geometry in mathematics, the force field analysis in physics, and the molecular structure in chemistry were powerless.

The old saying "If you master mathematics, physics, and chemistry well, you won't be afraid anywhere in the world" simply didn't work now.

These kinds of knowledge were the stepping stones for getting into school and finding jobs before the end of the world came.

But for today when the end of the world had arrived, they had completely lost their meaning.

There was only one way out if one wanted to turn things around.

Awaken the sequence ability.

Only by having the sequence ability could everything be changed.

However, the courses related to sequence abilities were not covered at all in this backward school at the edge of the safe zone.

In the poor edge area of the safe zone, it was almost impossible to find the trace of sequence ability users. The teachers were all ordinary people and had no chance to receive relevant education. So how could they teach the students?

Although Qin Siyang didn't know much about it, he believed that since the safe zone had been established for ten years and the awakening of sequence ability users had a history of five years, the United Government must have set up courses related to sequence users, but it just hadn't reached [Ju'an School] yet.

The lack of knowledge about the current world system made Qin Siyang unable to see any future here.

The courses related to sequence ability users were not only set up for those who wanted to awaken as sequence ability users but also for ordinary people.

Because the emergence of sequence ability users would surely give rise to many industries and create many job positions at the same time.

After ordinary people studied these courses, they would have a much wider range of jobs to engage in after graduation.

The platform and resources of [Ju'an School] were at the bottom level in the safe zone, and the paths that the students could take were extremely narrow.

They either had to compete for those few pitiful college entrance examination places or by some stroke of luck, awaken the sequence ability and become a sequence ability user.

However, in the past five years, the ancestral graves of the students in [Ju'an School] had been very "peaceful" (meaning no one had awakened the sequence ability).

The only hope for the students sitting in the classroom was to be admitted to the college specially established for ordinary people by the United Government with excellent college entrance examination results, and then work as a civilian or research staff in the United Government after graduation.

But judging from the previous school results, even the top ten students in the grade would have a hard time being admitted to such a college. Not to mention Qin Siyang, who was only around the 100th place in the grade.

In his previous life as a wage earner, Qin Siyang had learned a truth: don't make pointless efforts. Rest when it's time to rest and don't be hard on yourself.

Qin Siyang was just waiting for the lunch and dinner time to get a few more servings of food at the cafeteria as his meals for the weekend.

He didn't write any of his homework, so he was scolded by the teachers of all subjects.

Li Jingwen and her girlfriends were also scolded in the same way.

Li Jingwen's girlfriends had always copied her homework, and Li Jingwen's homework was all written by Qin Siyang.

Qin Siyang stopped his "sucking up" services, which directly disrupted the whole "industry chain".

Throughout the whole day, Li Jingwen would cast resentful glances at Qin Siyang from time to time, but Qin Siyang ignored her.

And several of Li Jingwen's close girlfriends were also giving her suggestions.

Qin Siyang was Li Jingwen's "sucker", and they could also benefit from it.

For example, asking Qin Siyang to help buy things, get food, and so on, and Qin Siyang would never refuse.

Now that Qin Siyang had stopped "sucking up", their interests were also damaged.

"Jingwen, don't worry. Maybe Qin Siyang suddenly encountered something that made him in a bad mood."

"Yes. Look, he has been in a daze all the time. Maybe he was stimulated by something."

Li Jingwen was a bit worried: "Then what should I do? Do I have to do my homework by myself in the future?

When I checked the homework answers with Zhou Yang today, I said I was sick and didn't have time to do the homework, but he said he couldn't tell that I was sick.

If this goes on, Zhou Yang will definitely find out my problem."

"Zhou Yang's uncle awakened the sequence ability a few days ago, and their family will surely benefit from it. If I can be with Zhou Yang, I can also help you a lot!"

Li Jingwen's girlfriend exclaimed: "Zhou Yang's uncle awakened the sequence ability?!! I heard that his uncle is the director of the education department here. I didn't expect that actually..."

The exclamation of her girlfriend made Li Jingwen feel a bit satisfied. She was the first to know about Zhou Yang's uncle awakening the sequence ability. This made her firmly believe that her relationship with Zhou Yang was already very close.

However, the variables brought by Qin Siyang now made her a bit annoyed.

"Let's not talk about things that far away. Just talk about the present. Qin Siyang studies quite well. If he doesn't help me with my homework, you won't be able to copy it either."

When Li Jingwen said this, her girlfriends became even more active in coming up with ideas. They thought that if Li Jingwen climbed up the social ladder in the future, they could also benefit from it to some extent.

"Jingwen, how about this? When school is over, you stop him and tell him..."

When it was time to leave school, Qin Siyang left all his textbooks on the desk.

Because his schoolbag was filled with food.

Today he was especially "shameless" in the cafeteria and took a lot more food. The cafeteria aunt didn't scold him either and gave him as much as he asked for.

Now, not to mention two meals a day for the weekend, he even had enough for three meals a day and supper.

He had already made up his mind. In the next few days, he would carry a schoolbag full of food and directly sleep near the exit of the safe zone.

As soon as a team of sequence ability users came back from hunting the gods, he would go up and take a chance.

If he was lucky, he could become stronger, and then slowly develop himself and find a chance to leave this damned place at the edge of the safe zone!

Just when he was happily on his way home, Li Jingwen suddenly appeared and blocked his way.

Qin Siyang frowned and looked at her, full of confusion.

Li Jingwen showed a lovely expression: "Qin Siyang, I reflected on myself again today and asked my heart. Actually, I have feelings for you in my heart. It's just that we are still too young now..."

"Get lost."

Before Li Jingwen could finish speaking, Qin Siyang coldly dropped these words and bypassed her in disgust, as if bypassing a pile of dog excrement.

Only Li Jingwen was left there, feeling bewildered.

She had thought that her showing weakness could make Qin Siyang change his mind. She didn't expect such a result!

Had Qin Siyang really changed? Then in the future, who could she ask to help her with her homework and who could she ask for breakfast to please Zhou Yang?

All the sweet words in her heart had no one to listen to.

Qin Siyang went home, took a cold shower, and then went to bed.

He had originally planned to go to the exit of the safe zone to wait tonight, but since he didn't rest well last night and his body was a bit tired now, he changed his mind.

He would stay at home tonight to recharge his energy and then go out early tomorrow morning.

Qin Siyang took a look at the huge black worm wriggling on the thick air defense glass outside the window, and then calmly pulled the curtains. He was already used to it.

Time to sleep!

...

In the early morning, the alarm clock woke Qin Siyang up.

Saturday had arrived.

He opened the curtains. Although it was still dark outside the window, it was indeed seven o'clock in the morning.

Qin Siyang quickly had his breakfast and was ready to set off.

He took a look at the calendar:

[Blue Star Era, January 2, 2010]

[Gregorian calendar, Saturday.]

[Lunar calendar, the year of Jichou, November 18th, It is suitable for burial]

"Suitable for burial? It seems that today's lunar calendar has nothing to do with me."

Because there was no sun, the temperature outside the safe zone continued to drop, and it was extremely cold.

Qin Siyang couldn't afford an expensive anti-freeze suit, so he had to wear several layers of thick clothes, wrapped up like a bear, and went out with a schoolbag full of food on his back.

There were many exits in the safe zone, and the nearest one was only a ten-minute walk from Qin Siyang's home.

However, this exit of the safe zone wasn't very big, and there weren't many wandering gods outside the exit. So usually, no sequence ability user team would set out from here for several days.

Fewer teams meant fewer opportunities for himself.

Qin Siyang decided to go to the largest exit of the safe zone near his residence — Exit No. [X] of the safe zone.

In the safe zone, only the larger exits of the safe zone would have serial numbers, which was convenient for sequence ability users to communicate and locate the team hunting tasks.

The smaller the serial number of the exit of the safe zone, it meant that there were more wandering gods outside this exit, and the gods were also more powerful.

Danger and opportunity coexisted. More gods meant more opportunities to kill the gods.

So there were more teams of sequence ability users gathering at those exits of the safe zone.

Exit No. [X] of the safe zone seemed to have a relatively backward serial number. The serial number of this exit was over one hundred thousand, and it was obviously not taken seriously in the safe zone where Qin Siyang was.

But Qin Siyang thought that even a small mosquito was still meat, and there would still be some teams of sequence ability users gathering here.

These kinds of knowledge were not taught by the school or the textbooks. Qin Siyang had seen them in the popular science posts on the [Godslaying Camp] forum during the half-hour of surfing the Internet yesterday.

Thinking that in just half an hour of surfing the Internet, he had learned something more useful than what he had learned in school for so many years, he felt a bit resentful in his heart: "Going to school is really of no use at all. It's better to surf the Internet."

"Alas, but surfing the Internet is too expensive, and it doesn't provide food.

Going to school is free and provides two meals. It would be great if the advantages of school and the Internet café could be combined."

Qin Siyang thought for a moment and then chuckled: "I should be grateful to the policy of the United Government for being able to fill my stomach. How can I have the right to dislike the school?"

It would take Qin Siyang more than two hours to reach Exit No. [X], but he was full of energy.

He was full of expectations for his future. That exit of the safe zone held the hope for him to get rid of his current fate.

The journey of more than two hours was somewhat monotonous.

Walking along the road, what he saw along the way were some dilapidated houses, most of which had already collapsed. The road was also full of gravel and dust because it hadn't been taken care of.

In order to get through these collapsed buildings and stones, he often had to climb up and down, which made him out of breath.

Although the journey was long, Qin Siyang didn't see many living people in the two hours. Occasionally, there were one or two passers-by, and they also looked in a hurry and weren't the residents here.

Four years ago, for some unknown reason, several pieces of the air defense glass here suddenly burst. The air defense glass was the barrier that isolate the gods from entering the safe zone. Once the glass burst, the residents here would lose their only support.

Many gods took the opportunity to rush in and launch attacks on the safe zone.

In order to prevent the situation from expanding, the United Government urgently dispatched a team of sequence ability users, eliminated and drove away all the invading gods, and then asked the engineering team to quickly repair the air defense glass here.

Fortunately, the United Government arranged everything very timely, and no large gods entered the safe zone. Otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

But this accident still caused a lot of losses. The original residents either died in that attack or moved away.

The United Government repaired the defensive works of the safe zone here, but didn't rebuild the streets and houses here.

Qin Siyang thought that probably once an unsafe incident occurred, people would no longer trust the safety of this place.

Even if the infrastructure was built well, no one would be willing to move here to live.

So the United Government simply didn't waste its efforts.

The lack of human presence also made Qin Siyang feel at ease. At least he didn't have to worry about someone robbing the food in his schoolbag.

Most of the people who graduated from [Ju'an School] couldn't find a job to make a living, which also made the public security here relatively poor.

For Qin Siyang, the absence of people was much more reassuring than the presence of people.

Finally, Qin Siyang saw a blue sign that was two people tall, on which the big characters "Exit No. [X] of the safe zone" were painted with white paint.

"Finally, I'm here."

When he reached Exit No. [X], he wanted to go over and check the situation, but he found that for some unknown reason, it was surrounded by a large number of people so tightly that he couldn't get through.

In order to find out what was going on inside, he had to find a higher mound of earth and observe carefully.

The first thing he saw was the protective gate of the exit.

This was the first time he had come to an exit of the safe zone with a serial number, and also the first time he had seen the gate of an exit of the safe zone with a serial number.

This gate was about seven or eight meters wide and three or four meters high. It seemed to be made of a special alloy and looked very thick.

There were many layers of protective glass on the protective gate, so many that he couldn't even see clearly outside the protection area through the glass.

In front of the protective gate, there were more than a dozen people wearing transparent helmets and orange-white striped anti-freeze suits.

An anti-freeze suit was worth more than two silver coins, which was an astronomical figure in Qin Siyang's world. Only sequence ability users could afford it.

Since the establishment of the United Government, the currency was no longer in units of countries, but was changed to copper coins, silver coins, and gold coins uniformly issued by the United Government.

Although they were called copper coins, silver coins, and gold coins, in order to support the large-scale use in the safe zones all over the world, these currencies were not made of pure precious metals. To be precise, they were various alloys.

Among them, copper coins were the least valuable because not only were the production costs of copper coins relatively low, but also many kinds of impurity metals were mixed in.

Generally speaking, the price of ten thousand copper coins was equivalent to the price of one silver coin. And the price of one thousand silver coins was equivalent to the price of one gold coin.

However, due to the low production cost of copper coins and the different proportions of other metals mixed in by the mints in different places, usually, it might take twelve thousand copper coins to exchange for one silver coin.

Silver coins were like tens of millions of assets in his previous life to Qin Siyang now, which were out of reach.

It seemed that they were the sequence ability users gathering at this exit.

The people wearing anti-freeze suits were only in the minority. In addition to these more than a dozen people, there were also thousands of ordinary people like Qin Siyang, who were all wrapped up tightly, surrounding this place.

Qin Siyang was a bit puzzled about what these people were doing.

Wasn't it only the sequence ability users who would gather at the exit?

At this time, two sequence ability users wearing anti-freeze suits took off their helmets. It seemed that they had completed the hunting task and were preparing to go back.

And hundreds of ordinary people around immediately surrounded them.

"Two officers, would you like to go and take a rest! There are excellent foot baths!"

"Two officers, I have extremely good dishes here!"

"I have a high-end apartment here that is provided for the two officers to live in for free! As long as the two officers are willing to take a few photos with me!"

"Officer, my daughter is still unmarried. As soon as she saw the heroic appearance of the officer, she decided that she would only marry the officer!"

"Officer, do you want a wife? If you already have a wife, I can be a concubine. I don't need a formal status either!"

The crowd rushed forward frantically, but they tacitly maintained a distance of more than one meter from the two sequence ability users.

And the two sequence ability users seemed to be used to this kind of scene and didn't stay for long. In the end, they just chose a high-end restaurant and a comfortable hotel and then left.

The two store owners they had chosen had excited red lights on their faces.

Qin Siyang was stunned when he saw the reactions of the crowd.

He knew that sequence ability users were sought after in this world, but he didn't expect it to be such a scene.

There was no doubt that these were all ordinary people at the edge of the safe zone. They pinned their hopes on getting close to a sequence ability user to get rid of their miserable current situation and live in a more comfortable place.

They, just like Qin Siyang, were also striving hard to achieve class leapfrogging. Unfortunately, none of them had the same luck as Qin Siyang and were likely to remain at the edge of the safe zone for their entire lives.

Thinking of this, Qin Siyang felt a sense of gratitude towards fate in his heart, and once again strengthened his determination.

"Heaven has bestowed upon me the [God Eater] sequence. I must become stronger!"

He tried to push through the crowd and get closer to the remaining dozen or so sequence ability users, but was immediately pushed aside.

"You brat, go to the back and queue up! What are you pushing forward for!"

Qin Siyang said, "I'm not here for the sequence ability users. I won't compete with you for business."

He just wanted to check if there were any god remains left behind in front. He wasn't interested in the sequence ability users.

However, others didn't believe his words.

Upon hearing Qin Siyang's words, the people around all laughed.

"Who are you trying to fool? Everyone who wants to push forward says the same thing."

Qin Siyang had no choice but to wait on the outermost perimeter.

The protective gate at the exit of the safe zone opened time and time again. Sequence ability users kept coming in and out, and the number of ordinary people surrounding the area gradually decreased.

By evening, Qin Siyang finally managed to get a position closer to the front.

Unlike others, whenever a sequence ability user returned from outside the safe zone, what he paid attention to was not the sequence ability users themselves, but the whereabouts of the god remains in their hands.

Unfortunately, all these remains were taken away by the United Government inspectors beside them, and he didn't manage to pick up a single one.

Just when Qin Siyang thought he would gain nothing today, another team of people returned from outside the safe zone.

One of the sequence ability users inspected his spoils and finally threw an ear infested with many worms onto the ground beside him.

"I got the wrong thing. This is useless and has wasted a space in my backpack." He complained.

Qin Siyang's eyes lit up when he saw the worm-infested ear. He swallowed hard and was ready to put it away when no one was paying attention.

However, a cleaner swept the ear into a dustpan and then turned away.

Qin Siyang was almost driven crazy! The piece of god remains that he had finally waited for was actually taken away!

He gave up his front-row position as a onlooker and immediately followed the cleaner out of the exit of the safe zone, hoping to find an opportunity to snatch the god's ear.

The cleaner didn't realize that someone was so interested in the "garbage" in the dustpan. He walked to the street corner and directly dumped the ear into the filthy trash can, and then left. Qin Siyang watched from the shadows as the cleaner walked away.

"Great!" Qin Siyang knew that his opportunity had come! After the cleaner left, Qin Siyang moved closer, intending to take the ear out of the trash can.

But just as he was about to move forward, he saw a person in a uniform approaching. The person glanced at the god remains in the trash can and then took out a notebook and recorded something.

Qin Siyang frowned: "The god remains in the trash can are actually being recorded? Is this really garbage or not?"

However, the staff member from the authority didn't pay much more attention. After recording, he walked away.

As soon as he left, Qin Siyang immediately ran over. He opened the lid of the trash can, and a strong smell of blood assailed his nostrils.

However, when he saw the scene inside the trash can, he was stunned.

There were actually many god remains inside!!

Qin Siyang's eyes widened, and his heart was pounding.

"Is this... a gluttonous feast?!!"