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The cause of the incident was a terrible plague.
With the development of technology, interstellar people are almost not afraid of any disease, except for one kind - a strange, ancient virus from the universe that has mutated for too long.
Not long ago, an infectious disease suddenly broke out in a certain urban area. Because there was no cure and the death rate was extremely rapid, the hospitals were overwhelmed overnight. By the fifth day, when the disease was discovered, the death toll reported in the media alone was already over ten thousand—an unimaginable number.
The good news is that the infectious disease has been temporarily contained within City W.
The bad news is that, because the source of the epidemic remains unknown, there's no cure. Rumors circulate that the plague originated with a Balsam Starite who, unable to control his primal desires, ingested a foul-smelling, virus-laden space object, becoming infected. This infection then entered the W City customs office, killing tens of thousands of people.
Public opinion was in an uproar, and people demanded that the Xiangzhi people make a public apology and explain the source of the pollution.
No matter how the Balsamites explained, countless people still condemned them. Many city-states closed off access to them, and some Balsamites working on other planets were even deported.
"This is outrageous!" After explaining the situation to Ye Miaomiao, the tour group immediately prepared to return. "At first, public opinion was saying that no large objects of unknown shape had entered W City during those few days, and they suspected a virus outbreak within W City! And now, in the blink of an eye, the blame is being placed on us. Damn it!"
Those who plan to travel to Hungry Hungry will naturally give up their visas.
At this juncture, they have no mood to eat, drink and have fun.
Ye Miaomiao expressed her sympathy and understanding, but...she felt helpless and wanted to cry but had no tears as she watched the figure of the Balsam Star flying away like a shooting star.
Those who flew away were not tourists, but her cash cow!
However, after Ye Miaomiao calmed down and calmed down, she became even more worried about this sudden disaster. After experiencing so many disasters, she already had PTSD just by hearing the word "infectious disease".
After all, the tourism industry was hit, and Ye Miaomiao only lost billions of energy stones. She could just bear the pain and earn it back in the future. But a disaster across the entire galaxy... would really cost lives.
However, the interstellar people, whose medical technology has been well developed long ago, should be able to handle it smoothly, and her tourists will be back soon.
——Ye Miaomiao was inexplicably confident about this and soon focused on her own expedition against the Maoxing locusts.
Time flies, and the Spring Paradise has just ended. Hungry Hungry has stockpiled enough supplies for the expedition - thanks to the contribution of the Balsam Star people.
[Hello dear player, congratulations on successfully resisting six rounds of disasters!
The seventh round of disasters is approaching, this time titled "Shadow of Doom: Origin." We regret to inform you that this round is a high-level disaster. You will not receive any disaster-related information, and the special damage caused by this round will be accumulated into the next round. Please take precautions!
[Your only mission of resistance - to survive!
The disaster is about to begin, good luck, we are with you! ]
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"There is no clue yet as to what this round of disaster is."
As the days passed, the ice melted and the temperature rose. The sea level remained high, but the slightly higher territories became available. The various territories came down from the plateau and began to rebuild their territories.
Hungry Hungry began another round of refugee sheltering, and the population of Lichun Star surpassed 1,000. Scientists began researching ways to push Lichun Star away from the star, and several crops adapted to the planet's environment began to be mass-produced.
Everything seems to be going in a good direction, except... people have no idea about the disaster of [Shadow of Doom: Origin].
Ye Miaomiao was quite worried. From her gaming experience, she knew that a high-level disaster could radiate the entire galaxy. Could Civilization actually unleash a catastrophic catastrophe across the entire galaxy? It was a game originally inspired by StarCraft.
But some terrifying clues tempted Ye Miaomiao to think further. A plague unseen in a thousand years had just broken out in the interstellar space. Although it was only within W City, wasn't this the beginning of the disaster? Intellectually, Ye Miaomiao felt that this plague had nothing to do with hunger, hunger, hunger, or at least not with [Shadow of Doom: Origin]. But emotionally, Ye Miaomiao felt a sense of crisis -
If this were true, the entire galaxy would be in tatters. So, faced with a problem that even interstellar organizations couldn't handle, what would Hunger Hunger do?
A sense of urgency urged Ye Miaomiao. She decided not to wait for the disaster to come and set off as soon as possible to eliminate the hairy locusts.
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Along with the hungry army, two adventure teams and a scientific expedition team also set out. Out of some subtle "thieves never leave empty-handed" mentality, Ye Miaomiao felt that although the neighboring galaxy was far away, if there were rare resources, they had to be stockpiled no matter how far away.
Even the energy stone spaceship took three full days to reach the next galaxy, and another day to reach the vicinity of the Maoxing Locust.
"Boss," Mingyi said worriedly, "the spy robots have reported back. While the Hair Star Locusts are comparable in strength to the Tager Rockworms, as a [Nomadic] civilization, their defenses are more stringent. They even have patrolling spaceships. Taking them down will require a fierce battle."
She heard about the last time they attacked the Tager Rockworm without any injuries, and knew that she could not repeat it this time, and a slight regret passed through her heart.
"Don't worry, at most we can just postpone our return," Ye Miaomiao said calmly, "Let's consume it slowly and try to avoid a direct confrontation. After all, their resource storage is limited, and our stockpiles are still increasing every day."
These words of wealth and security immediately made Mingyi's eyes light up when she looked at Ye Miaomiao. She immediately echoed Ye Miaomiao's words and agreed, "Boss, this is a brilliant plan! Let's play guerrilla warfare and harass them from behind!"
After that, he quickly said, "Guerrilla scoring team, boss, let's team up so we can look after each other."
Ye Miaomiao had long wanted to drive her new mecha out for some exercise, but she had no legitimate reason. After hearing Mingyi say this, she nodded slightly.
Mingyi was overjoyed.
Fang Yan and Scott, who were about to invite Ye Miaomiao to join them, choked at the same time. Who knew Mingyi would be so fast? But since they had already formed a team, it would be difficult to break it up.
"I'll join in too."
"Let me join you."
Fang Yan and Scott said at the same time.
Scott simply thought they were on an important mission and wanted to tag along. Fang Yan, however, understood their personalities too well. Just by looking at their identical, excited expressions, he knew that if Ye Miaomiao started a fire, Mingyi would definitely fan the flames. If he didn't tag along, there was no telling what would happen. He was truly worried.
"Then you two can form a team, so you can look after each other." Mingyi said immediately, turning to Ye Miaomiao, "Boss, should we go explore the surrounding terrain first?"
Seeing Ye Miaomiao nod slightly, she immediately helped Ye Miaomiao walk out without even glancing at the remaining two people.
Scott, feeling like he was being manipulated by a palace intrigue, widened his eyes and looked at Fang Yan for help. Fang Yan rubbed his brows a little irritably. After all, his trust in Ye Miaomiao outweighed his worry. "Let's do as she says and harass her first."
Scott nodded in agreement.
The eradication plan was in full swing here, and the Hungry Hungry Space Station was also not idle.
Li Yihan was monitoring the situation on the ground.
On the third day after Ye Miaomiao left, some changes finally occurred on the ground. First, islands began to rise from the lightless sea. They were large and small, but the strange thing was that they were not islands.
Overnight, skyscrapers appeared out of thin air on the island. Suspecting it was the center of a new disaster, a place rich in resources, Li Yihan rushed over to investigate, only to discover to her amazement that the skyscrapers were nothing but mirages.
She walked across the island's flat ground, but couldn't touch the lush greenery. She passed through walls made of steel. Faceless people came and went around her, talking and laughing. Li Yihan could hear the clamor, but couldn't make out what they were saying. It was like a bustling pantomime, with silence amidst the noise.
Of course, there is no food to eat in the department store.
Soon, Li Yihan discovered something even more shocking.
She had been to most of the locations where these projections originated. As a business person who traveled extensively both domestically and internationally, she could recognize most of the cities—the capital of Harmony, the central city of Cuba Blue...these cities were exactly the same as they had been before the apocalypse, with little change.
Li Yihan specifically found the city where Ye Miaomiao lived before the apocalypse. A helicopter flew through the projection of the rental house in mid-air. She saw a faceless man sitting at a computer desk playing "Civilization". There were also various stockpiled supplies in the room.
It was indeed the Ye Miaomiao she knew. Li Yihan wanted to laugh, but couldn't. The inexplicable disaster before her was far beyond her cognition, and even made Li Yihan feel creepy.
She looked at the calendar hanging on the wall, and it was exactly the tenth day before the advent of Civilization.
She immediately contacted Ye Miaomiao, who remained calm and said, "It's a little scary, but isn't that a good thing?"
"It's the uncanny valley effect. Who knew...eh?" Li Yihan was shocked. "Good news?"
"Since this is a pre-apocalyptic city, doesn't that mean we can finally understand what caused the apocalypse? And," Miaomiao said to me with a tone of reasoning, "there's a lot of technology that was even more advanced before the apocalypse. We can just go into the lab and steal, no, take the technology. We can even see inside some machines and steal, no, take the mechanical design drawings."
Li Yihan: “…” I thought I was perverted enough, but I didn’t expect you to be even more perverted.
"This is the shadow of the next disaster, doomsday!"
Ye Miaomiao typed a question mark, expressing a subtle doubt: "If I don't steal, if I don't take, will the disaster not come?"
To be honest, Li Yihan was immediately convinced by Ye Miaomiao.
Are these mirages scary? Yes, they are, but in terms of their value, they are valuable enough to make people forget the scary part.
"The way to make money lies in this." Li Yihan ignited his fighting spirit. "Don't worry, when you come back, I will definitely give you a big gift! By the way...how long will it take you to come back?"
Ye Miaomiao: "It will take some time, maybe a week."
In fact, according to Fang Yan’s plan, it will take more than a week.
Because they used various methods to explore in depth, they discovered that the Maoxing Locust's spaceship was extremely special. It was ring-shaped, with a hollow in the middle, and it was currently encircling a planet - obviously, it was plundering this planet.
For this reason, Hungry Hungry's harassment and consumption plan had to be considered a plan with a very low success rate, because they did not know how many resources the plundered planet had - if it was a lot, then continuing the harassment for a year or two might not be effective.
"A forced attack isn't impossible," Scott silently laid out the sand table and analyzed it from a professional perspective. "A circular formation does have the advantage of being able to attack from all sides, but its disadvantage is also obvious. It's impossible to concentrate troops in one place."
"Surround the point and attack the reinforcements." Fang Yan accurately summarized his meaning with an idiom.
This was indeed a good idea, but it would inevitably involve a major battle. Mingyi, the commander of this operation, still remembered her previous, unscathed attack on the Tager rockworms. She felt that she could at least minimize the losses to be worthy of the title of Hungry Commander.
"What if we..." Mingyi pointed to the planet in the middle, "cut off the connection between the locusts and the planet?"
According to their observations, the Maoxing locusts lacked the technology of a "space hub," meaning they were still using primitive methods of transporting supplies. If the pipelines connecting the planets were severed, the locusts would be unable to transport supplies to their spacecraft in a short period of time, returning to their original starting point—harassment warfare.
The others nodded. This was indeed a better way, but how to implement it... Several people frowned, but it was a more difficult problem.
While several people were having a heated discussion, Ye Miaomiao turned her head and said a few words to the team member next to her. The latter opened his eyes wide in surprise and then trotted away.
"It's impossible to cut it off completely." After a moment, Scott emphasized again. As for the reason, he had repeated it twice.
"We can't just sit there and wait for death. As you said, we'll lose a lot of resources, and there's a high chance our people will die!" Mingyi was getting tired of talking. She raised her voice and emphasized again, "There are no insurmountable difficulties, only people who can't solve them!"
Seeing that the two were about to quarrel, Fang Yan frowned and turned to look at Ye Miaomiao, who was watching the two people's rising temperature leisurely, and even had the mood to talk to the newcomer next to her.
Fang Yan: “…” He sighed and stopped the two of them.
Now the conversation between Ye Miaomiao and that person could be heard clearly.
"What are the chances?" they heard Ye Miaomiao ask.
"Eighty percent. From a certain perspective, the probability of human existence is only sixty percent. Eighty percent is already a very high probability." Another person was wearing a white coat. On the hungry spaceship, people dressed in this coat were either doctors or scientists.
But if it was a doctor, these people who often got injured and ended up in the hospital by accident had never met such a person.
Fortunately, Ye Miaomiao gave them an answer quickly.
Seeing that the quarrel had stopped, Ye Miaomiao said firmly: "We can cut off the connection between the locusts and the planet."
Scott: “?” If he wasn’t facing Ye Miaomiao, he would have wanted to bring out that explanation for the third time.
Mingyi looked at him smugly, with a look that said, "See, I told you so." Then she asked Ye Miaomiao, "Should we launch a sudden attack, or a stealthy one?"
"Neither." Ye Miaomiao asked mysteriously, "Have you ever considered the possibility that a planet that can produce a large amount of resources and even allow locusts to feed on it for so long without being destroyed means one thing."
Everyone pricked up their ears.
"There is life on this planet, even intelligent life that has developed to a certain level."
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