[BL] Back to the Peak

Ch2: Entrance to the City

Chapter 2 - Entrance to the City

Shi Qingyang was 16 in 3016. That same year, his life experienced its first low point.

Shi Qingyang was born in Spark city, a third-tier city in China's southeastern part that belonged to Anhang City. The third-tier city was one of the smaller cities, however, since people cannot live outside, Spark City, though small, was home to 500,000 people. The majority of whom lived underground where entire families could be crammed together into a ten-square-meter room.

Shi Qingyang's present situation wasn't particularly bad. After all, since he was underage, he was entitled to 1,500 credits of pocket money every month. But, prior to that, his life wasn't particularly good either. It was mediocre in this city.

On February 24, 3016, was Shi Qingyang's sixteenth birthday and he was injected with rad-medicine, which successfully induced his rad-power. Not only that, a month later, his body was stable enough for a physical examination.

Overall, good results. Double C- for rad-tolerance and-rad control.

Rad was an abbreviation for radiation energy. Since the asteroid's impact in 2045, the entire Earth has become engulfed in heavy radiation. A significant number of animals, humans, and plants perished. People hid underground. They survived thanks to special radiation-resistant cities. 

After surviving the disaster, humanity found that all animals were essentially extinct, that all plants contained radioactive particles, and that the only living being that had adapted to such a harsh environment were the inconspicuous insects. Insects propagate and evolve at a fast rate. They too perish in large numbers, but more of them have adapted to the radiation-filled atmosphere and mutated. After mutations insects became monsters.

Unarmed humans were defenseless against them.

Before discovering rad-power, humans could only use heavy weaponry against mutated insects. After being exposed to radiation, certain people can develop a type of violent energy in their bodies. This form of energy released by radiation was known as rad-power and it has the ability to strengthen the human body.

Since relying solely on radiation to evoke this power resulted in a very high mortality rate, humans later developed rad-medicine. Now, as long as you were 16 years old, you must go to the hospital to be injected with rad-medicine to induce rad-power. About 80% of people can awaken it. After success, you must test Rad-tolerance and Rad-control. Rad-tolerance measures how much radiation energy a person can absorb, while rad-control measures how much radiation energy a person can control.

Radiation was a very violent force. There were many historical accounts of bodies breaking down due to an inability to regulate rad-power in their body. One of the examples was Shi Qingyang in his previous life.

The E rating was the worst of these two assessments since E grade people have no chance of ever becoming a rad-warrior in their lifetime.

Rad-warriors begin at the D grade and may advance to either the first or second level. The C grade will progress to the third or fourth rank in rad-warrior. The B grade could advance to fifth or sixth level rad-warrior. A grade may advance to the seventh rank of rad-warrior. Farther was the S grade, as well as the legendary SS and SSS grades.

Nowadays, some individuals have been born with rad-power, and their rad- tolerance and rad-control will exceed the S grade. These people were undeniably the darlings of heaven, and they will never appear in a tiny third-tier city like Spark City. The best grade here was a B. When anyone achieves a double grade B, they were automatically transferred to a second-tier city.

Shi Qingyang double C grade was a good result. With those marks, he will also attend Spark Academy and learn about the use of radiation energy.

In cities today, people can only grow a restricted number of crops, which cannot satisfy the food needs of so many citizens. The mutant insect meat outside the city acts as an alternative food source and only rad-warriors were allowed to leave the city's protected zones. That's why almost everyone wishes to be a rad-warrior, and Shi Qingyang wasn't an exception.