The earth hit an all-time low with the appearance of the apocalypse, but unlike any good fantasy and litrpg story, neither magic nor the system appeared.

thus having all humans struggle to survive in this new dawn, the new era we may say, as humans love classifying everything...

this new era, humans must survive alone because the consequence is consuming all life on earth.

our science has found that those monsters that have appeared overnight, are not, suffice to say, actually alive, they are not made out of cells of any kind, but out of energy, which means once they die we can hopefully convert this energy into things we human can use.

but there is a small problem, this energy is inert, and it solemnly interacts with matter. but we do have noticed, that a very minuscule amount of that energy is attracted to the brain, but also to a certain saturation, once hit no matter the concentration of the energy outside, the energy, which we will call x energy (what humans love to call unknown stuff with the x letter, fire me I will do the same), so once the concentration of particles of the x energy I certain t particles, and the brain has absorbed y particles, then the number of particles will always be t+y particles, as we haven't succeded consuming this energy.

no benefit has been found, maybe it is a part of the mage profession or a worrier, but thus far, the uses of this energy are few if any, in the following days we are going to do some research on a special tree we have found in our base, we believe the tree is capable of generating this x energy and also consuming it at an incredible rate.

in our research, we have found that by slaughtering monsters near this tree, a concerning fact arises, it sucked dry all the x energy generated near its trunk, so far it is the only tree we have found to do so, which is concerning, and we conclude that this x energy may have so mutation capabilities but more research is needed.

I the researcher, badge name E serial 11B, Carton, at camp refuge number A7w4 here sending this report under classifying privilege to the head of global research newly founded joint forces the X initiative research center, best regard researcher Carton Billy may we face this new dawn together and prevail

researcher badge name E serial 11B

How is it going Billy with your update report said Rebecca.

not many results, to be honest, I just put a lengthy introduction to say fill in our luck of finding, hope they won't notice, as far as we could tell the tree doesn't evolve at all, except some minor improvement once in a time, and this doesn't make any sense where does the energy go to, and why is it the only one, hell, we no other camp in the entire world has found an animal that consum x energy let alone create it, this tree is special but we don't know anything about it.

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though we must go research this tree if we want any more resources poured into our refugee camp, what say, wanna grab some lunch?

Billy said.

sorry, I have already promised my brother James to go grab lunch by that tree, you know he only eats near me and is afraid of strangers.

doesn't help that food is hard to become bt commodity.

is it safe?

I mean eating under the tree?

you know it is a strange tree in the whole world, without even knowing what is so special about it, maybe, I don't know, maybe it stops devouring x energy and starts devouring the energy in the human body.

stop being so paranoid, Mr. Drama Queen we all know that the energy in the body is stored in molecules, and doesn't have a medium to be carried on, unlike the x energy which has the x particles, pretty stupid name must I add, why did you come up with that by the way?

don know, it has to have a name though, nobody bothered to give it a name since the start of the apocalypse a year ago, somebody got to name it already, though I am glad they accepted the name and even created this all-global institution.

anyway have fun eating with James, you know where I am if you need me.

thanks, and of course, I know where to meet you.

I also know where not to meet you on a research field day, which is not anywhere outside this very lab, hell even you have a bedroom in the lab...

heyy, I like this lab, and it has its buses that if the whole world is on fire or something like that, I am safe, I kept all my life savings to build this lab.

plus it is only because of me that this camp refuge number A7w4 base is still standing and created, if not for my decisive action of procuring all the necessary production lines to survive in the apocalypse before the apocalypse even happened don't know who would stand here until today...

I made a mistake, Rebecca said

which mistake Billy said

I made the mistake that you are not a drama queen, you are the paranoid queen, how could you ever justify being so prepared to prepare for the end of the world and put it in a reasonable sentence just to justify never going outside of your lab out of field trip days, and why did you name it camp refuge number A7w4 base couldn't you name it, maybe super prepared based to the end of the world base?

naa it's not catchy, ok i am going to it by Rebecca have fun with James...

thanks have fun Billy...