All of the audience liked to watch the fun, no matter how big the event, especially the Zerg audience.
Civilized times dictated that they could not act recklessly, but the violent genes in their bones made them crave killing and thrilling games. The killing in the virtual world could not satisfy their little hobby, so this kind of real-life game could satisfy their needs to a certain extent. This was one of the reasons why survival games had existed for so many years.
A group of loyal fans of the game shouted “beautiful and exciting”, and other people sighed: people were so insignificant in the face of natural disasters. Even the Zerg in the interstellar era still had no room to fight back against the “revenge” of nature.
The organizers of the game eliminated 70% of the contestants this time, and the remaining 30% had already left overnight. The competition between them became more brutal and murderous. The few lucky ones who landed on the fourth layer had no idea what was happening in the outer circles. They watched with horror as the number of survivors plummeted.
“I smell death.” Feeling the crisis, the contestants quickly gathered food, medicine and equipment. So many people were eliminated on the first day, and the game would only get harder and harder.
The rain lasted until dawn. The noises in the distance also stopped as the rain tapered off. The sun came out, and the golden light fell fairly on every life and every drop of water. Everything looked so beautiful.
This was the morning layer of the third day.
An Yinong stood at the top of the cliff. The cave where they had stayed before had long been flooded. The water had not yet receded. Corpses and wood were floating in the water. There were also some lucky ones who did not die yesterday. They survived by holding on to driftwood or other things.
These people had already climbed up the cliff, and An Yinong tried to trade with them, using the supplies and intelligence they had collected as commodities.
Now An Yinong knew that beyond the forest was a plain, and beyond the plains was the sea. There was a tsunami the day before yesterday, and the tsunami washed away the plain area. But this was not the end. The worst was the sudden drop to dozens of degrees below zero. The plains were quickly covered with ice and snow. When they got there, the forests and grasslands were washed away by the flood.
“Ordinary protective clothing could not withstand such severe cold. When the cold current passed, the sea water froze over and many animals froze to death.” Talking about yesterday’s experience, the contestant still felt a chill on his back.
He came from the plains and was the first group of people to arrive in the forest area. More people followed him. The survivors gathered on the top of the cliff, discussing whether to collect supplies first or rush to the north.
Seeing An Yinong was about to leave, the contestant asked again: “Are you going to go in too?”
“Yes,” An Yinong nodded, “So many people and animals died here. When the sea water recedes and the bodies rot, it might cause a plague.”
Moreover, the game team obviously wanted to force them into the inner circle, so how could they let the survivors live here? There must be other tricks, so it would be better for them to know some tricks and move into the inner circle as soon as possible.
“A-choo!” An Yinong hugged his arms. It was still very cold here, which was very unfriendly to those who were wearing thin autumn clothes.
He walked to the corner, where Qin and Fengchi were waiting for him. Qin’s face was intimidating, so it was An Yinong who was talking to the survivors.
“They came from the south…” He recounted what he had learned, and then gave his own guess: “The game company wants to ‘force’ us in a certain direction. We don’t know the details yet, but we can’t stay here any longer.”
Qin nodded, then took out a bag: “Salt.”
“Eh? Sea salt?” An Yinong held the bag of salt from who knows where, his eyes curved, “Did you remember what I said?”
“Um.”
The survivors walked north in groups, and the trio also continued to move forward.
“Thank you.” They didn’t say much more, nor did they try to get close to him. Instead, they packed up their things and left. After all, they were competitors.
The tall and thin man asked the green-braided girl, “Do you still like him?”
The girl with green braids knew who he was talking about, and she said bitterly, “I dare not.”
Now only An Yinong, Qin and Feng Chi were left here. Fengchi jumped on the ground, showing An Yinong the wind on his feet. On the second day of his birth, Fengchi mastered the ability of ‘wind’.
“I hope that one day you will be as strong as your parents.” An Yinong said, touching its neck.
Going north, there was a mountain forest with towering rock walls, as if this land had been squeezed by people. The rock layers were fractured and uneven, forming continuous mountains and gullies.
The winged Zerg could fly directly over in a straight line, and those that could burrow could take underground passages. But for those who had no wings and could not dig underground, it was really a difficult task for them to climb over a heavy mountain.
Affected by his differentiation period, An Yinong, who had been consuming energy all night and had not eaten, soon became too hungry to walk. But he was not willing to show his strength at this moment, until his foot slipped and he almost fell off the mountain.
Qin caught him with his arm: “I’m sorry, I overlooked it. You need to rest and eat now.”
“Ah? No, it’s okay, it’s not like that.” An Yinong, who was suddenly carried on someone’s back, felt a little uncomfortable, but his physical condition was not good at the moment. In the end, he lay on this broad back and was led towards a cliff.
The sound of the wind was heard, and the breeze was blowing under his feet.
“Wait a moment.” Qin stayed under the tree and jumped down from the top of the cliff.
It was morning and people started to arrive into An Yinong’s live broadcast room one after another. They looked at An Yinong, who was lying there like a useless fish, and wondered what was going on.
“Finally, he couldn’t stand being in a team with him, so he left?” someone made malicious speculation.
The next second, Qin came out, holding a bunch of eggs with shells as white as jade in his arms: “Eat this, just eat it raw.”
An Yinong took the egg that Qin handed over. It was slightly larger than a pigeon egg. He cracked the eggshell a little, put his lips to the gap, and sucked the egg liquid out. Surprisingly, it did not taste fishy at all, but rather refreshing, like jelly.
After this bite of food, he felt like he was alive again, and another egg was placed in front of him. Knowing that he was in the critical period of differentiation, An Yinong did not politely push him away. He accepted Qin’s kindness. Egg after egg increased the energy flowing in his body, and An Yinong’s complexion seemed to become a little rosier.
Qin looked at him and felt an indescribable sense of satisfaction. He didn’t understand what this strange feeling was, but just followed his instincts and wanted to provide more and better food.
“Qin! If you are being controlled, just blink!” The audience in Qin’s live broadcast room were all in pain. When had they ever seen the straightest man in the universe specifically looking for this kind of nutritional supplements for people to eat?
His own situation was so bad now, with his strength on the verge of death, yet he still climbed the cliff to look for the three-legged bird’s eggs. Was it for a teammate who coveted his beauty?
“Admit it, your emperor is in love.”
“Nonsense! I suspect this person has a similar ability to ‘bewitching’ the soul, not only for insects, but also for birds, beasts and plants. I just don’t know how he did it, he is still in the differentiation stage.”
“How could it be love? The emperor never said he liked me.”
“Maybe… because I like you, I can’t say it out loud? After all, Qin’s current situation is not suitable.”
When this barrage appeared, there was three seconds of silence in the live broadcast room, followed by dozens or hundreds of rebuttals.
“Are you on drugs? Why do you have such horrible thoughts?”
“Think about it with your rusty head, it’s been hit by a piano!”
This was a very mild rebuttal. Other rebuttals were like a hail of bullets, which had shocked the audience who proposed that idea before and made them doubt whether they were crazy.
When An Yinong felt that he could not eat anymore, Qin still had ten eggs in his arms.
They had only a few hours’ shelf life after being taken from the nest, and Qin ate all the rest. He froze the shells, crushed them, and swept them into the grass. They went out again.
From day to night, the two of them made a nest under a tree. Qin refused to sleep in the tent, so he sat under the tree and looked up at the starry sky. The night sky here was so beautiful, with shining stars of various colors scattered all over the sky like gems on a black cloth.
An Yinong was looking at the sky from below. His face was almost completely white, and his hands were also completely white. They felt smooth to the touch, with the texture of plastic film.
What exactly was the differentiation period? As far as he could remember, he had only seen the differentiation period of the protagonist in the story. During that period, the protagonist stayed in the room, and the original owner spent almost all his money to buy all kinds of good things to feed him.
Speaking of which, what the protagonist of the story had was the inheritance left by the original owner’s parents. The original owner’s parents made a will, and all the inheritance was given to the adopted boy, with only a small portion given to the original owner, which was not even enough to support him for years. So the original owner started working at the age of ten to support the delicate plot protagonist.
“It’s really scary, the pheromones of the protagonist…”
Because of Qin’s care, An Yinong never felt hungry again. On the fifth day of the game, the two encountered a river washed out by a mountain spring. The gurgling river brought fish and shrimps, as well as news from afar.
An Yinong pulled his hand out of the water and said happily, “We can get out of these mountains by following this river.”
Qin never asked An Yinong how he knew that, everyone had secrets.
As a result, before they got out of the mountains, they found a tribal settlement. This was a cave-dwelling tribe with dozens of hemispherical houses built with hay, mud and wood.
The house was divided into three functional areas, and many things were inside, with animal skins and hay scattered all over the floor, as well as wooden basins and pottery jars. The outside of the house was covered with some special gum to prevent water and cracking.
An Yinong also found fields for farming and houses for raising livestock.
“The houses outside are the smallest and shortest, and the surrounding planting land is also small. The houses closer to the center are taller, and there are even colored stones inlaid on the houses. People are beginning to pay attention to the beauty of the houses.”
Judging from the functions of the houses, the distribution of the buildings, and the tools used, this was already a well-established tribe, and classes were beginning to emerge. In the middle of the tribe stood the most beautiful and largest rounded house. An Yinong suspected that this was either the house of the tribal leader or the wizard’s house.
“Is this the queen?” On the stone wall of the fire pit, An Yinong found a stone sculpture with three pairs of wings. It was as long as his calf, with three pairs of wings, very abstract.
“It’s a statue of a god,” said Qin.
Statue of a deity?
“Some small tribes carved statues for worship or prayer.”
“Even in ancient times, queens weren’t everywhere?”
Seeing An Yinong’s puzzled expression, Qin paused for a moment, then quickly calmed down: “The Zerg can have many countries, but there can only be one queen. When the queen is born, all Zerg will feel it.”
“So that’s how it is. It’s really strange. In the past, when conditions were bad, queens were still born. However, in the technological age, the Zerg have almost solved absolute poverty, but the queen has disappeared from sight. Is it a genetic problem or a problem of nutritional intake?” An Yinong couldn’t figure it out.
Qin was silent for a while, and finally gave him an answer: “The queen is made, not born.”
An Yinong seemed to understand, but he didn’t get hung up on it. So many scientists and historians had been studying this question for thousands of years without finding an answer, so why should he get hung up on it?
When he left the room, he looked back at the stone statue: He still didn’t like the Zerg, but…
“If the world can have a queen, please show up soon.”
WhiteMoon x BlackSun 