An Yinong with a plug-in went into the forest, just like a fish into the sea. He felt that many plants were greeting him. An Yinong tentatively conveyed his meaning: I want to find something to eat.
A tree laden with fruit started to shake, dropping a shower of ripe fruit. Other trees were delighted to have his attention, and they too dropped a shower of fruit.
“Thank you very much.”
In addition to edible fruits, An Yinong also harvested many edible vegetables under the guidance of the plants, and they allowed him to break off some branches and leaves.
“Even movies dare to be shot like this.” The audience in An Yinong’s live broadcast room became more and more curious. What kind of special ability did this person have? Why was he so favored by nature?
When he arrived at the creek with a full harvest, all the fish he had caught had been processed. Qin sat on a round stone and silently looked at him.
“Great, Qin is great!” He put down the firewood and looked at the fish meat after the scales, internal organs and bones were removed in amazement. The fish bones next to him were clean and no meat was wasted.
Suddenly being praised for such a small thing, the corners of Qin’s mouth rose by 0.1 centimeter, then quickly smoothed down. He put the cleaned fish meat into the bucket and picked up other things on the ground. He prepared to find a place to sleep for the night with An Yinong and then light a fire to cook.
Seeing Qin’s virtuous performance, the audience in the live broadcast room were all moved. They cried, “If I had known that Qin liked to be praised, I would have come on stage a few years earlier! Who doesn’t know how to praise others?!”
“Don’t be so bashful. How many years earlier? You would have fainted if you saw Qin a few years earlier. Even now, you have the guts to say something to Qin. You are brave.”
“It seems that there is something strange about this contestant. He is definitely not an ordinary person.”
It got dark quickly, and luckily they found a place at night before it got dark. There was a cave, built halfway up the cliff. Because there was a huge rock blocking the view at the entrance, the cave was very hidden. The entrance of the cave was three or four meters wide, with a small mouth and a big interior, and there was a lot of space inside.
Here, An Yinong found rock paintings on the former stone tomb, which contained paintings of animals and some paintings resembling sacrificial or celebratory ceremonies. In the corners of the cave, they also found some hay, animal bones, broken pottery shards, torn animal skins and other items. Qin cleaned out all the debris.
“There is no strange smell. Either the original owner is gone or dead.” An Yinong held a torch and checked it. It was spotless.
Qin had piled up stones to make a stove, and any small gaps had been blocked with mud. It was obvious that he was an expert at home work. The stove was built, the firewood was lit, the water was boiled, and An Yinong began to cook the fish.
The fish was small, and the meat was little, so it would be cooked in a short while. Then he picked up another piece of wood and used a knife to carve a spatula and a bowl. As a result, he had only carved out a spatula when Qin had already carved out three perfectly shaped wooden bowls. The wooden bowls were hastily washed and filled with fish soup.
“It would taste better if you add a little salt.” An Yinong held the bowl and drank the steaming hot fish soup. He felt very full and only added a little less seasoning.
Feng Chi had buried his face in the food bowl. Qin said that the raw fish after gutting was the same as hay to him. Food was only for sustaining life, so the taste was not important.
In addition to fish, they also shared the roasted prey from before. This rabbit-like prey was cut into pieces, skewered and roasted by the fire.
Several pots of fish soup were cooked, and skewers of barbecued meat were consumed. In the end, Qin was full, but An Yinong ate another bucket. The amount of food needed during the differentiation period seemed to be more.
“Differentiation period.” Qin said affirmatively.
The light from the fire illuminated An Yinong’s young and tender face. He was extremely handsome, but also delicate. This face was in the process of transformation, and only after the differentiation period was over would his true appearance be revealed.
“Differentiation period. Being plotted against by someone, this month will be very troublesome.” An Yinong held the pot and poured the remaining fish into the bowl, “I wanted to give up the game, but it seems a bit regrettable to give up just like that.”
At this point, An Yinong said, “When you agreed to team up with me, you kept watching my hair because you were worried that I would have a hard time living here during the differentiation period, so you were willing to team up with me?”
Qin was stunned and turned away, An Yinong laughed quietly.
After finishing the last bowl of fish soup, An Yinong took the wooden bowls and kitchen utensils to the cave entrance and prepared to wash them with water from the bucket. However, the water in the bucket began to ripple, as if something was shaking. A breeze swept through.
“Is it an earthquake?” An Yinong raised his head, but noticed Qin beside him looking sharply towards the direction of the forest.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The ripples on the water became more and more obvious, the vibrations under his feet became more and more obvious, and a flock of birds in the distant forest took flight in fright.
An Yinong took the money and prepared to run away, but the ground shook for only a few minutes before it calmed down. The animals that had left the forest returned again, and the wind stopped its restlessness.
“What happened? Was there an earthquake?”
An Yinong and his companion knew what was happening in the distance because they were on the third area, while the earthquake occurred in the sea on the first area. The game venue was made up of circles of rings. The environment inside the rings was the same, and the mechanisms and tests were also the same.
The outermost layer was the sea and coast, the white circle. The second layer was blue, representing the coastal plains, with hundreds of large and small lakes and mudflats. And An Yinong was in the third layer, green, representing forests and grasslands. An Yinong’s place was very far away from the outermost area, and it would take a day to walk there, so he could only feel a little aftershock from here.
“The test for the contestants is about to begin. Tonight will be a sleepy night.” The host in charge of commentary was replaced by another one. She was still wearing exaggerated makeup, but her voice was low and hoarse, reminiscent of a venomous snake.
The audience asked what kind of test the contestants would have, was it just an earthquake? The host smiled and said it was a secret, it was a huge surprise.
The players involved didn’t know any of this, and An Yinong also knew that he just had a good feeling. He said that he had a good feeling since he entered the game.
It was already dark outside, so running out now was not the ideal option. They had to stay in this cave for one night. He would follow the map to find the treasure chest the next day.
They boiled some water and poured half of it into a water bag (a preserving bag) for use the day. The rest was used for washing.
At the entrance of the cave, Qin was adding branches to the fire and An Yinong was wiping his face. Although they had just met, there was a special tacit understanding between them, as if they were old friends who had not seen each other for a long time.
After a quick scrub, the two prepared to rest. An Yinong threw out the portable tent, when it hit the ground it bounced into a yurt that could accommodate at least four people.
“You watch the first half of the night from nine to one, and I’ll watch the second half of the night from one to five,” He said.
Qin’s expression changed. He sat down in front of the fire and used a small branch to stir the charcoal in it. An Yinong’s mouth curled up, and he and Feng Chi went into the tent. Qin was outside alone, looking at the fire with a serious expression.
In the tent, he put down his bow and arrows, his flying machine, and other things, and turned the ring. The ring lit up, providing enough light.
It was a big empty tent, and he could feel the small rocks underneath him even when he lay down. However, given the conditions, he was very picky, so he activated the warm-keeping mode of his protective suit and slept next to Fengchi, whose furry body was warm and soft.
At the outermost layer of this game’s main venue, the seabed earthquake once again came into play, causing waves of more than ten meters high.
The tremors of the earthquake traveled all the way from the bottom of the sea to An Yinong in the cave. He knew it was an earthquake and he was just affected. Instead of worrying about it, he should rest well and conserve his energy. At the same time, the players on the first area had already started packing their luggage, preparing to leave at night – according to the nature of the game, this kind of strong earthquake was definitely meant to scare them.
Only a small number of contestants were still collecting food and salt on the beach. These people lived in a high-tech era and had little understanding of natural disasters. Seeing that nothing was happening on the coast, they collected supplies.
“A bunch of idiots.” One contestant, who had already sensed what was going to happen, looked back.
The clean moonlight was blocked by dark clouds. The sky and the earth darkened. The seawater on the shore retreated rapidly, revealing the wet seabed. The small seafood left behind and the players catching seafood on the beach looked at all this at a loss.
“What happened?” They stared blankly at the seabed which had retreated several dozen meters, and it seemed a little pale.
“Hahaha, there are so many seafood!” Several contestants rushed forward to pick up the larger seafood left after the tide receded. They were so happy that it seemed like a festival, until a white line appeared in their sight.
“What is that?”
“Is it a cloud?”
The huge wave was moving very fast and in the blink of an eye it turned into a thick white line. Finally, they knew what it was.
“Earthquake, low tide, huge waves… tsunami! It’s a tsunami!”
The contestants rushed to higher places like crazy, but it was still too late as a white wall appeared on the sea.
“Run!” They rolled and crawled towards the shore, and some of them immediately transformed into insect form.
Some insects spread their wings, revealing thin wings like plastic film, and then they flew up after vibrating their wings. Some insects that could burrow into the ground transformed and frantically dug holes in the sand, trying to hide themselves in the earth before the tsunami came.
Only those players who could fly and burrow but were slow were unlucky. They watched the white wall getting closer and closer, and desperately pressed the ‘Give Up’ button on their watches.
“Knowing about tsunamis is a ‘hazard perception’ course taught in elementary school. Why are these contestants always unwilling to study this course well? Do you still remember why the survival game started?” The audience on the official platform quietly watched the live broadcast room go dark.
“Nance bombing?”
Because they lost their fighting power due to the comfortable life after entering the interstellar space, a planet was easily destroyed by the invading alien race. Only then did they realize that the war had never ended.
The aliens still often used force to test them, destroying this continent today and attacking that sea area the next day, sending fleets to patrol their Zerg star field, splitting their Zerg, using spies to steal the Zerg gene bank to set up biological laboratories, and trying to control them from the perspectives of economy and entertainment.
It could not be denied that these alien races were successful, so there was an anti-war reflection alliance among the Zerg. The Anti-War Reflection Alliance reflected every day on the Zerg’s warmongering and lack of humanitarian spirit.
Under such circumstances, more than a dozen Zerg countries held a meeting and thought that the situation could not be allowed to deteriorate further. They built an information wall and hoped that the people would be ready for war immediately.
Of course, in that situation, universal militia was a fantasy, so there was a “compulsory requirement for 50% of high-end combat power and high-level Zerg to serve in the military” and a “survival game of life and death that is compulsory for all ages to participate.”
The scope of players in the post-survival game was narrowed down to young and middle-aged people aged 18 to 48, not disabled or pregnant, not military personnel, and they only had to participate once in their lifetime. Players were given the options of “giving up participating in the game” and “transferring it to family members.”
It was extreme, but effective. It not only eased the class conflicts within the Zerg, but also allowed the Zerg to exercise and participate in training.
It was like a sword hanging overhead, telling all Zergs that they must have fighting power, because you never know when an accident will happen.
WhiteMoon x BlackSun 