Apocalypse: The Supporting Actress Made a Comeback novel Chapter 23

Chapter 23: 021 Energy Riot

The energy upheaval caused by the meteorite's fall not only destroyed many municipal facilities but also severely affected transportation everywhere. Most critically, the energy tumult brought about virus mutation. Fortunately, there is always a sliver of hope, as the virus mutation resulted not only in zombies but also in the awakening of some individuals.

This night of the meteorite fall was a key moment for awakenings. With the energy upheaval, absorbing as much energy as possible upon awakening would provide a significant advantage.

Fang Yuxin was well aware of this and naturally did not want to miss the opportunity. In fact, her insistence on hastily having the villa renovated and moving in with her family was precisely because this newly developed area was unaffected by the meteorite impact.

That night, no one in the villa slept, it was only the Fang Family there, all the bodyguards and housemaids had left one after another. Due to the increasingly severe flu, their families were ill, more or less, and naturally, they were worried. After learning of this, Fang Yuxin simply gave them leave and money to go home to care for their families.

She didn't know how many of these people would survive after the apocalypse, let alone what would happen to their families, but with many people separated from their loved ones or scattered from their kin after the apocalypse, rather than having these people stay, it was better to let them go home and reunite with their families. Regardless of what the apocalypse would bring, being with their own families was better than being separated and unknowing whether they are dead or alive.

That night, the Fang Family did not sleep and waited until midnight. As soon as the meteorite appeared, Fang Yuxin led her entire family, including Bai Qianqian, into the Qingmu Spiritual Mansion.

Inside the grand hall, there were many Spirit Gathering Arrays. Since the Qingmu Spiritual Mansion recognized its owner, the Spirit Gathering Arrays automatically activated, absorbing the spiritual energy between heaven and earth. This time, due to the energy turmoil, the spiritual energy absorbed by the Spirit Gathering Arrays was vastly more concentrated than usual—more than ten or a hundred times! As soon as Fang Yuxin led her family into the Qingmu Spiritual Mansion, she felt the much denser spiritual energy within.

Upon entering the grand hall, the spiritual energy was even denser, almost becoming a mist visible to the naked eye. Fang Yuxin advised her family members to find places to sit and let their bodies experience the wash of spiritual energy. If nothing unexpected occurred, Yu Yang should be able to awaken the Wind Superpower. As for Jintang and Qianhe, and the remaining Bai Qianqian, she dared not hope too much.

The chances of becoming an Awakener were not high. In the early days of the apocalypse, almost two-thirds of the world's population turned into zombies, and among the remaining third of the survivors, only one in ten were Awakeners. It was only with the emergence of Elemental Stones and Elemental Crystals that ordinary survivors had the chance to awaken.

Aside from Elemental Crystals, ordinary survivors who were scratched by zombies and infected with the Zombie Virus also had a chance to awaken, although the likelihood was very low, and most became zombies. Comparatively, obtaining Elemental Crystals was much safer, providing ordinary people with a chance to awaken superpowers, albeit with lower talent than those who awakened spontaneously, unless they could find an Elemental Crystal to enhance their talent, otherwise their future achievements would be limited.

And Elemental Crystals were hidden within Elemental Stones. Elemental Stones were fragments of the fallen meteor, whose outer layers, burned during descent, had smoothed into something resembling pebbles. The surface of an Elemental Stone was extremely hard and varied in size, each containing Elemental Crystals of different properties. However, not all meteor fragments became Elemental Stones. Some fragments contained nothing and were called "empty stones."