Wu Sisi lives in the shantytown area after the apocalypse, enduring abuse from her adoptive parents Wen Dashan and Liu Ying, who want to exploit her awakening reward for themselves. On the eve of the Awakening Day, strange murmurs in unknown languages begin echoing in her ears. During a scavenging expedition into the ruins, she discovers a nest of Six-Eared Monster young, smashes them, and dips the blood on her adoptive family, knowing the returning mother monster will hunt them. The monster kills Liu Ying and chases the group; Wu Sisi escapes without saving her adoptive father or brother. She later posts online that her whole family is dead. At the awakening ceremony, when her turn arrives, her spiritual energy fails to open normally due to an obstructed Sea of Consciousness. Ancient voices from those murmurs sacrifice something to give her their language and offer to open her Sea of Consciousness with their power, warning it might make her talent different. She agrees. The awakening instrument then displays multiple high-grade talent light clusters: wood, wind, lightning, and finally a special talent beyond S grade, identified as Healing System. However, black smoke emanates from her body, alarming the registrar Yuan Qiu, who throws glutinous rice at her. The lead official Sima Chi confirms the instrument is correct and treats Wu Sisi as a valuable special talent user. Wu Sisi, while feigning depression, deliberately mentions the murmurs to gauge reactions. Later in her spiritual space, she enters a strange temple where the voices give her a beast skin as a gift before she is pushed awake. She absorbs four crystal cores, again emitting black smoke, and Yuan Qiu reflexively throws more glutinous rice. The aircraft carrying the awakeners to the Ability Academy is then attacked by hundreds of Second Tier snipe birds. Sima Chi orders a mechanical bee swarm to distract them, sacrificing the swarm to destroy many birds, but dozens survive and pursue relentlessly. Without other options, Sima Chi decides to lower the aircraft and confront the snipe birds herself, supported by teaching assistant Yuan Qiu and other personnel, while ordering the aircraft to retreat to a safe distance. They are determined to protect the new awakeners, especially Wu Sisi. The aircraft begins its descent as the battle looms.
