Advanced Disaster

[Please choose your camp for this time——(From the Diplomatic Office)]

At six in the morning, after receiving the news that the associated disaster had been upgraded to "high level", almost all lords received an additional option.

This is a mechanic unique to advanced disasters. At this level, disasters go beyond simple floods and droughts. Besides cosmic natural disasters like supernova explosions and black holes, there are also disasters brought on by intelligent life, such as interstellar battles and alien invasions. The latter require players to choose a faction.

Please choose your camp:

Advent Faction: Support the arrival of the Maoxing Locusts on Earth. You will work to establish contact with the Locusts. After successfully completing the mission "Zerg Scourge," you will survive as a Zerg attendant.

Resistance: Reject the Mao Star locusts from descending upon Earth. Dedicate yourself to exterminating the locusts. Successfully completing the mission "Destroy Even the Farthest" will end this round of disasters and grant you all of Mao Star's resources.

Survivor: Whether the Maoxing Locusts descend or not has nothing to do with you. You will receive a small amount of resources and will not receive any quests.

Remaining time: 12 hours. Select the specified time and the system will match you with a camp.

Ye Miaomiao had just woken up and her mind was still not very clear. She read the entire notification in a daze, cursing in her heart.

The farming and stockpiling she had longed for would have to be delayed again. Kill the locusts? Whoever wants to kill them can do it. In her rage, she nearly touched the survivors with her finger, but at the last moment, she rubbed her forehead and came to her senses.

This is clearly a word game.

The locust swarms are a high-level disaster. The industrial age encountering the dimensionality reduction attack of the interstellar Zerg invasion is like a mantis trying to stop a car or a child wanting to learn advanced mathematics. There is no possibility.

Rather than being a survivor group, it would be more accurate to say that they are the group that "sit and wait for all the tall people to die before dying themselves". In the end, no one can survive.

Ye Miaomiao shuddered, realizing this was a supposed trap. She immediately sent a message to customer service, asking what was going on.

The automatic reply from the other side is: "Hello, I don't understand your question at the moment! Please enter keywords..."

Ye Miaomiao gritted her teeth and said, "Switch to manual labor."

After a long time, the other side automatically replied: "Sorry, customer service is temporarily offline."

Damn it! Ye Miaomiao silently accumulated a hundred negative reviews for the customer service. She suddenly sat up from the bed, not even having the energy to wash up. She could only hastily wipe her face, force herself to calm down, and continue studying the previous notice.

First of all, natural disasters are random. “Locusts will appear when drought is extreme” and “Locusts will appear after a long drought”. She was not surprised that a locust plague appeared in the drought hell. She could only sigh that she was unlucky enough to encounter an advanced version.

Secondly, there was the issue of choosing a faction. Choosing the "Advent Faction" meant becoming a Zerg servant was out of the question, but Ye Miaomiao still had a fallback option: the "Biochemical Ascension Path." Rather than becoming a bug, it would be better to transform into a monster with a humanoid form. Before that, she would still have some strength to resist.

So she would only choose the "resistance faction" and the "survivor faction".

However, Ye Miaomiao felt that there was almost no difference between the latter two factions——

No matter which faction you choose, it's a dead end, but the difference is whether you die first or die later.

Finally, the question was how to act. The mission "Destroy at a Distance" would provide a lot of information about the Zerg, so Ye Miaomiao decided to take the initiative and choose the resistance faction.

Before that, she looked at the light screen...

A huge fan-shaped map is divided into three parts, with territories of three camps selected on it.

In a short period of time, many territories have chosen their own camps.

The resistance faction does not have a single territory to choose from, the survivor faction has the most, but the advent faction actually has several territory options.

Ye Miaomiao casually clicked on a territory——

"Survivor Territory: Love to eat red oil noodles

Lord: Zhang Ruo

Military: The enemy's military level is like an ant to you;

Economy: The other party's economic level is slightly lower than yours;

Technology: The other party's technological level is like an ant to you:

Note: You can contact this territory using the Department of Foreign Affairs for more specific information."

Ye Miaomiao remembered Hung Hung's top ranking in various territory rankings and didn't click on other territories. As expected, most of the territories were like ants or slightly inferior. She couldn't expect these people to become taller. The best thing to do was to save herself.

She no longer hesitated and clicked on "Resistance Faction". The light screen panel immediately received the task "Kill even if far away".

Mission 1: Uncover the truth about the locust survivors. (Attachment: Mission details)

As Ye Miaomiao expected, some information about locusts was given in the mission details.

She pored over the details, finding the words "survivors" and "arrival" quite significant. While the Hairy Star Locusts were interstellar creatures, they hadn't yet reached Earth, and the survivors they left behind were nothing more than ordinary locusts.

Humanity is not without chance.

"Prepare your guns." She immediately sent a message to the mechanics at the research institute, warning them of the need for immediate action. They also needed insect repellent and pesticides... If it were just a common locust plague, it would be fine, but the "hairy star locusts" were clearly interstellar creatures.

Ye Miaomiao was calculating the weapons with the highest damage and props of all sizes in her territory, intending to add all of them to her combat power.

Survive, do whatever it takes.

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“I grabbed the air conditioner!”

The joy of the originally happy event was diluted by the sudden high-level accompanying disaster.

However, when the cold wind blew out and dispelled all the stuffiness, Yu Xin felt that life had become fun again.

She walked briskly and turned on the screen recording function.

She pulled fresh mushrooms, beef, butter, and various seasonings from the refrigerator... and then a bag of flour. She washed her hands first and slowly began kneading the dough, explaining, "Our hands are very warm. To control the temperature, it's best to knead the dough with the base of your palm."

As he spoke, the camera turned to the air conditioner, "Unfortunately, the room temperature is a little cold today. I need to rub my hands before I do it."

"The steak is made from fresh beef that was just slaughtered today. I specifically chose the back half of the tenderloin because this part of the beef rarely moves and is very tender. Not only is it much more expensive, it's also very hard to get."

While showing the steak, the pan was heated and the lubricating butter fell into the pan. The rich milky aroma could be smelled through the screen.

The beef is put into the pot, making a delicious sizzling sound, and garlic cloves and rosemary are neatly placed on both sides.

Holding the spoon with clean hands, pour butter on the beef spoonful by spoonful. The whole piece of beef is heated evenly, and the Maillard effect is fully exerted, making the brown meat more tempting.

Then stir-fry the mushrooms, wrap the mushroom sauce with ham, and then the beef... The procedures are complicated and tedious, and a simple piece of fried beef gradually becomes expensive and delicious.

"Today we're making a modified version of Beef Wellington. You can click the link below to purchase it. Each portion is a full meal, and each portion comes with a glass of iced plum juice. There's also a link to add to cart. Everyone is welcome to purchase!"

"Don't worry if you haven't bought any. I will post videos on time to sell lunch and dinner. Please follow me and learn my cooking techniques. You can also try it at home!"

Finally it was done. Yu Xin arranged the tables, chairs and tableware, aimed the camera at the plates, and while enjoying the delicious food leisurely, she extracted a few clips and quickly sent them to Taoduoduo, waiting for buyers to come.

She was a food anchor before the apocalypse, and afterward, she was starving and ready to endure the torment of the apocalypse. Unexpectedly, when Taoduoduo launched, she returned to her roots and became the platform's first food anchor.

Being the first one always has some special meaning.

Thinking of this, Yu Xin added another sentence at the end -

"A new companion disaster has arrived. I hope everyone will fight hard! Isn't it just a locust plague? If I get a chance, I'll try making grilled and fried locusts. Of all things in the world, only food cannot be innocent! Over 10,000 likes, the next episode will be fried locusts!"

After finishing the editing, it was successfully published.

It immediately went viral on Taoduoduo, with the number of likes quickly exceeding ten thousand and heading towards the hundred thousand mark.

For most people, the apocalypse is already on the eve of a world war, a feeling of uncertainty. It's like being forced to sleep on a cold, hard desk or chair as a student. Even though your arms hurt from using the pillow and you kept complaining, you still slept soundly.

People in the doomsday are able to ignore any terrible disaster, no matter how they risk life and death, or live in fear. They continue to indulge in their daily lives and maintain their previous living habits. Although it seems a little abnormal, compared with the time before the doomsday, isn’t this just their usual daily life?

Yu Xin's videos are the most ordinary food videos, making fun of the most worrying locust disaster and giving people an outlet to vent their fears.

What about intermediate or advanced disasters, locust crises or locust swarms? Anything that doesn't look human is just food for the hungry. While they're worrying about disasters, the hungry are already thinking about whether to fry or grill it.

"Of course it's better fried, with more spice, I love it."

"Locusts eat food, and we eat locusts, which is equivalent to us eating food. Perfect logic."

"Suddenly I'm not afraid anymore. By the way...aren't the locusts in the locust plague poisonous?"

The comments were abuzz with discussion, with most people coming for the food. However, some people were more attentive and noticed the refrigerator and air conditioner in the background, as well as the various fresh fruits and vegetables that had accidentally appeared in the refrigerator.

"As expected of a Hungry Hungry territory with a god-like economy, technology, and military."

In a distant territory, the lord was struggling to decide which camp to choose while browsing Taoduoduo when he accidentally saw this video.

He knew that Hungry Hungry was very strong, but it was a different feeling than seeing it with his own eyes.

Forget refrigerators and air conditioning. His territory now only had a dozen or so people left, barely able to afford food or shelter. The surrounding territories weren't much different, and every day was a tense situation. Many territories had already chosen the Adventists to survive, truly fearless.

He looked at the few territories of the resistance faction, at the forefront of which was Hungry Hungry, and couldn't help but think in his heart -

If territories like Hung Hung Hung don't resist, they will really be hopeless.

"I choose the survivors." He pondered for a moment and made his choice.