Chapter 1: Shrunk

In a classroom of Grade 12, Class 4.

On the spacious ground, a black ant was restlessly shifting, darting round in all instructions, its antennae twitching.

Chen Mu sat along with his again in opposition to the nook of a desk, holding a paper clip tightly in his hand.

After taking three deep breaths, he all of the sudden rotated and thrust the paper clip ahead with a shining tip, precisely hitting the ant’s head and the connection to its physique.

The black ant, nearly to withstand, suffered a deadly blow. Its legs and antennae continued to twitch vigorously because the nerves hadn’t fully died.

Chen Mu stared on the ant, which step by step stopped shifting, speechless for a very long time.

…

One hour in the past.

Chen Mu found that his physique had shrunk.The inaugural add of this chapter happened through N0v3l-B1n.

At first, it was an odd expertise. Every thing round him immediately magnified numerous instances. The classroom’s roof grew to become an unimaginably excessive sky, and desks and chairs became towering buildings. The entire classroom appeared like a whole universe.

He did not know the way large he was now, however beforehand, he might simply crush ants underfoot, and now he was virtually as small as just a little calf.

He had no thought what prompted his physique to shrink; it was a thriller.

However after being misplaced for a minute, his robust will to outlive compelled him to shortly alter his mindset.

As a child, he was deserted on the doorstep of an orphanage known as “Qi Dian.” He endured bullying and hardships throughout his childhood, was later adopted, skilled a number of foster households, and labored onerous to assist his research. Whereas he won’t have had probably the most privileged upbringing, at the least he developed a stronger resilience in comparison with his friends.

He did not know the scenario of his classmates, so he considered discovering somebody first after which figuring issues out.

Nonetheless, simply as he took a couple of steps, his legs trembled when he noticed an ant all of the sudden seem in entrance of him.

It was a neighborhood Japanese carpenter ant, also called the “large black ant,” with a physique size of over ten millimeters, shiny black, and filled with vitality. Chen Mu used to catch and playfully kill lots of them throughout his childhood. These ants normally stayed open air and infrequently confirmed up indoors, not to mention in a clear classroom that was cleaned every single day.

Chen Mu felt it was a merciless accident that he encountered a particularly fierce ant as quickly as he grew to become small.

And because the ant “noticed” him, it instantly charged towards him, waving its antennae.

After they first met, they’d a couple of fights, however regardless of Wei Dalei being virtually two meters tall in junior excessive, he could not beat the seemingly skinny and weak Chen Mu. After a couple of makes an attempt, Wei Dalei fully surrendered and began calling him “boss.” In a while, they grew to become actually shut buddies. After all, the primary purpose for this was that Wei Dalei’s grades weren’t nice, and he all the time needed Chen Mu to assist him copy his homework or help throughout exams.

Amongst Dong Junwei’s group, there have been some tall boys. After they encountered the identical ants earlier, everybody was frightened and did not know what to do. It was a lady who saved them by reminding everybody to choose up small stones or items of filth and throw them again on the ants, barely saving their lives.

After all, after they say “stones,” it is extra like small pebbles or bits of filth.

Wei Dalei was conscious of Chen Mu’s energy and fierceness, however the others had no thought.

Since highschool, Chen Mu hadn’t clashed with anybody, and nobody might have anticipated that this seemingly odd and unnoticed classmate could be so formidable.

Dong Junwei was the category monitor, strong-willed, and accountable. Even after shrinking, she had been the one gathering the classmates collectively, sustaining everybody’s fragile morale. Now, seeing Chen Mu including energy to their group naturally made her pleased.

“Let’s verify once more, did everybody who was within the classroom simply now make it right here?”

“Sure, we’re all right here.”

A lady mentioned, “As we speak, there’s an trade exercise with one other faculty, and most of them went to the sports activities area. Those who had been within the classroom at the moment needs to be us.”

After confirming, they fashioned a circle.

They used to have a typical purpose, however now they checked out one another, not realizing what to do.

“Class monitor, what ought to we do subsequent?” somebody requested.

“For now, we will solely attempt our greatest to outlive. As you all noticed, a couple of scattered ants had been sufficient to make us helpless. If we won’t change again to our unique measurement in a short while, survival will likely be an enormous drawback.”

Although Dong Junwei had been encouraging everybody, she did not have a lot certainty herself. In any case, nobody had skilled such an absurd scenario.

“However I need to go dwelling. I do not know the way my dad and mom are doing now.” A small and skinny woman mentioned tearfully.

“Overlook about going dwelling for now.” Tang Jing, who had all the time been quiet and reserved, all of the sudden spoke up.

Tang Jing had glorious grades and was often called a high pupil. Furthermore, her data past the curriculum was intensive, and he or she gained varied miscellaneous competitors awards. When the category used to argue about one thing, her intervention would settle the matter.

“Why?” The woman was on the verge of tears, feeling like her solely hope was crumbling.

Tang Jing defined, “Based mostly on my statement, our present top is about two centimeters or much less. If my guess is appropriate, the scaling is decreased to 1% of the unique measurement. It means somebody who was 1.7 meters tall is now 1.7 centimeters. Contemplating our present state, strolling 10 kilometers could be equal to strolling 1000 kilometers up to now. Take into consideration how far your private home is from the college, and now there is no automobile to choose you up.”