Chapter 338: Get ready, let’s do something big
Then someone asked, "A bug for some food?"
"Yes, provided I have confiscated it. To be fair, those who arrive at the base first will have priority to exchange with me."
The group chat was quickly flooded with these two topics. Jingshu stopped reading and asked Su Mali privately, "Are you really accepting it or are you just pretending to? I'm afraid you have to be so roundabout just to give those students more food."
Su Mali quickly responded with a crying-laughing emoji, expressing her helplessness. "Don't you know that the higher-ups have issued an order to conduct genetic recombination and research on transforming these insects into new food?
But currently, only silkworm pupae, cicadas, and stick insects offer the most suitable protein and fat for human consumption. At the very least, we're trying to mass-produce cockroaches and turn them into a compressed protein food, but progress hasn't been great. Someone has discovered dark pigments in slowly evolving insects, which contain a lot of protein, so we're thinking of doing more research on them."
Jingshu then remembered that these experiments had already begun. It was thanks to the research that she had started a few years in advance that she was able to produce these genetically mutated foods in the extremely cold era when nothing could be grown.
Compressed cockroach protein food... Jingshu had never heard of this. Wait, wait, wait, damn, was this the protein food fried in corpse oil that she ate in her previous life? Ugh... Jingshu almost vomited after knowing the truth.
Jingshu had to swallow a few braised eggs to calm herself down, but she was still not satisfied, so she mixed all the braised beef with chili sauce and ate a whole bowl of it. Only then did she feel better.
Damn, how many things is the government hiding from ordinary people like them? Jingshu didn’t dare to think about it, nor did she want to think about it anymore. After discussing the relevant matters with Su Mali, she started practicing Rubik’s Cube.
The news also reported a piece of bad news. The global catastrophic earthquake is likely not accidental and will not stop in a short time. It is even likely to continue for a considerable period of time like a rainstorm.
"The Earth's orbital shift and gravitational disturbances have caused irregularities in its rotation and revolution, disrupting its seasons. Relevant data indicates that this global earthquake wasn't caused by an external force, but rather by the Earth's internal self-regulation. Previously, Earth's rotation was too fast, and now it's too slow. The forces of these two forces tore apart a vortex of energy, which we collectively call a tornado earthquake."
"To put it simply, once the Earth has completed its self-regulation, the apocalypse will be over, so please hold on for a while longer..."
News anchors have a really hard time. Every time there is a disaster, they have to find a topic to talk about the end of the world. Jingshu almost believed it herself.
Rumble!
The ground began to shake violently again. The lightning and thunder outside did not weaken with time, but instead seemed to be getting stronger and stronger.
The crowd who took refuge in the wetland park gradually couldn't stay there any longer. Some of them evacuated back, but were buried alive on the way. The other group of people were frightened and hurried back. The news spread from one to ten, and from ten to a hundred, and it became more and more exaggerated. In the end, hundreds of people were buried alive by the earthquake as soon as they walked out of the door.
Jingshu knew this was the situation. Although the Banana Community did not collapse due to the earthquake, if she said she wanted to go back to live there, she would probably be drowned in the spit of her family. Sometimes it is so painful. She knew that the Banana Community would not collapse due to the earthquake, but she could not go back. She had to pretend to be very scared, and she could not predict the future.
Therefore, when Jingshu was about to go out on the morning of the third day, she encountered great obstacles. After eating more than 20 pork and vermicelli buns and assuring countless times that Sumali's bodyguards would protect them, Jingshu got on Sumali's extended commercial vehicle and went to Xishan.
Before leaving, Jing Ye made sure Jing Shu carried a black backpack. This backpack had a mechanism that he had developed based on Jing Shu's ideas over the past two days. In dangerous moments, it would react to the surroundings, instantly popping out long and thin claws that would stay around like a spider web, and then bounce Jing Shu away.
"How is it?" Jing Ye asked expectantly.
Jing Shu wiped the sweat off her face and said, "Master, this thing is good, but I guess only I can use it. Who among you can carry these dozens of kilograms?"
? "
Master Jing: "...I'm just giving it a try first. If it works, I'll modify it and make it out of aluminum alloy. It will be much lighter."
Su Mali looked at Jingshu with envy as she carried the black iron rack on her back, and said that if it was developed, she would also buy one.
When Jingshu and Sumali arrived, there were already more than 20 people waiting at the gate of Xishan Base. It can be said that most of Jingshu's high school classmates, except those who were not dead, were present.
Because the weather was too cold, everyone kept breathing heavily, stamping their feet, and some were even running. Compared to last year's gathering, today, the second day of 2025, when she saw her classmates again, she felt that she had indeed lost a lot of weight. Just like in her previous life, she was starting to become skin and bones.
As always, Su Mali was wearing a bubble skirt made of the latest technology thermal material, with a hat and gloves. She was fully equipped yet cute and luxurious. She was full of energy and looked like a pink and tender little princess. She was also very light, just like spring clothes.
In comparison, Jingshu is much more ordinary. Before the apocalypse, she wore a white down jacket with black leggings. In order to keep warm, Jingshu put on autumn trousers and woolen pants. Before the apocalypse, this outfit would have made her a neat and tidy girl. But now, in the third year of the apocalypse, after experiencing droughts, floods, and earthquakes, she can still wear such a clean white down jacket... She is really a girl with a lot of money at home.
"Here we come!"
"They're coming!"
Then I saw classmates in strange clothes running over. Of course, there were a few who were dressed neatly and cleanly, which was really rare.
But before they could chat for even a minute, Jingshu's phone rang. It was Yang Yang!
What should have been a lively scene of greetings suddenly became unusually quiet. Everyone's attention shifted to Jingshu. Everyone subconsciously stopped talking. They couldn't say why, but they were afraid of disturbing the boss who was making a phone call.
Jingshu frowned and answered the phone, feeling a bad premonition.
"Hello?"
"Hurry up and get ready, we're going to make this a big deal."
On the other end of the phone came Yang Yang's suppressed yet uncontrollable excitement, as if a beast in a cage was roaring with all its might, wanting to go out, longing for freedom, but before going out it was afraid of waking up the enemy, so it couldn't suppress its growl.
He tried his best to control himself from showing too much emotion.
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