Task 1
The passage of time has become the sword of Damocles hanging over our heads.
The hairy locusts may descend at any time. The most important thing for the resistance faction is, first, to ensure the basic operation of the territory, and second, to complete the task as much as possible and try to reverse the trend of things.
It's easy to say, but when it comes to advanced disasters, there's nothing simple about it.
Ye Miaomiao, always at ease, ate, drank, and slept as usual. After a short while of browsing the screen, she fell into a deep sleep. On the other side of the quiet territory, Fang Yan tossed and turned, unable to sleep.
He simply stood up and stood by the window.
When it is confirmed that a high-level disaster has arrived, an instinctive fear comes over me.
No one feared a high-level disaster more than he did. Imagine a mid-level disaster is like a disturbed anthill. Even if the ants try hard, one or two will always survive. A high-level disaster is like a fire sweeping across the plains—too large, too vast, unstoppable, and beyond the ants' imagination.
Certain death, no one can escape——
In the previous life, the advanced catastrophe arrived later, giving humanity more time to develop civilization, but still, no territory survived. The fall of the last territory meant that even if some still managed to survive, they would no longer have any shelter.
If there's nothing I can do...
Fang Yan was silent for a long moment, then he tapped the screen and pulled out a golden card.
【Butterfly Effect:...
(Unique Active Effect): Please note that consuming this card as a one-time item will grant you a chance to perform a powerful Wing Flutter at an irreversible cost. Note: There is only one SSR-level Butterfly Effect card in the pool, and this choice cannot be reversed.
What a... damn game.
After a moment, Fang Yan threw the card back into the light screen in a rare annoyance.
A dim light emanated from the right window. The people inside, still unaware of the threat of a high-level disaster, gathered together to drink and play finger-guessing games. Just as their laughter began to rise, it would be restrained in time and subsided.
"Keep your voice down, Captain Fang next door must be asleep!"
"If you wake me up, I will definitely have to practice more." The voice was rough and Fang Yan immediately recognized who it was.
"No," another person confirmed, "It's one in the morning now, Captain Fang must be fast asleep. Speaking of which, Captain Fang doesn't have a nightlife? Lord Ye went out for drinks several times without asking the captain? I thought they..."
"Isn't it?"
The sound of gossip became much quieter. Fang Yan leaned against the window for a while before realizing that he had inadvertently pricked up his ears to eavesdrop on the conversation next door.
He coughed awkwardly. The incident dispelled some of his fear of disaster and his sleepiness was completely gone.
The next morning, Ye Miaomiao was faced with Fang Yan's panda eyes.
"What did you do last night?" Ye Miaomiao was surprised by this pair of eyes that were both haggard and energetic. She distracted her attention and looked at other team members, trying to find clues.
Fang Yan noticed this and immediately remembered the gossip from last night. He quickly said, "I looked at the screen for a while. The news on Taoduoduo is quite interesting."
#Are you an adventist or a survivor?#
#Detailed analysis of why I think Adventism is better#
#After listening to netizens' analysis, I want to choose the Advent faction, but the territory has chosen the non-Advent faction. What should I do?#
Last night, several trending searches hit Taoduoduo's headlines, none of which were related to specific products. Those who stayed up late to post spam and top posts had transformed Taoduoduo from a shopping app into a large-scale forum.
Ye Miaomiao also browsed Taoduo for a while before going to bed. She was not surprised to see that many people wanted to choose the Advent Faction. She even laughed out loud when she saw some incredible remarks, such as "turning into a locust might be a good thing, at least you can eat anything."
However, a particularly outrageous term in the serious hot searches made Ye Miaomiao excited.
"Did you see that trending search #hungryhungrycan't afford to eat#? Who can't afford to eat? I was wondering who was so bored as to criticize us, so I followed the clues and found out that the content was actually a food anchor from our territory threatening to eat locusts. It's really..."
Ye Miaomiao wanted to clap her hands and exclaim: "That's amazing! That's wonderful! They are worthy of being our hungry residents. This spirit is worthy of praise."
Fang Yan, who hadn't even looked at Tao Duoduo, said, "..." He was so worried that he couldn't sleep. Someone was still threatening to eat locusts? Seeing Ye Miaomiao's high spirits, Fang Yan's depression was inexplicably cleared up a little: "I'll go take a look after work."
The team quickly assembled, and without further delay, the weapons and props produced overnight were ready, and the group quickly set out to start "Task One." Ye Miaomiao no longer had the heart to chat, and with the ambition of eating locusts in her heart, she inexplicably felt that this mission would be completed -
After all, this is not just her confidence.
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Thousands of miles away, Baita City.
William chose the Adventists without much hesitation.
Many people in the territory suspected that he was influenced by his sister. After all, in fact, Baita City was not weak, so there was no need to give up hope from the beginning.
Only William himself knew that his choice had nothing to do with Margaret, his sister who only cried and begged for candy. He knew very well what he wanted - the highest power.
Now the path is before him. Although the word "servant" sounds unpleasant, from another perspective, it means being a human being with the highest power and being able to survive.
Therefore, many people believe that only territories that are in a complete mess will choose the Advent Sect, and no one will do the Advent Sect's missions. In fact, this is not the case.
In the group chat, the Adventist lords who were pulled into the group by the system quickly became familiar with each other.
At first, the conversation was polite, but then someone complained, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense. Soon, a quarrel broke out, and those who didn't join in the verbal battle either made sarcastic remarks and fanned the flames, or kept silent and played the game.
After William finished reading the Adventist mission and was about to gather everyone to complete it, he opened the group chat and saw only a bunch of foul language.
"What a bunch of idiots." He immediately gave up his previous plan and turned off the screen.
In short, they are "slightly inferior" and "like ants". The truly powerful territories are all in the resistance faction. From the perspective of the camp, those territories cannot become potential teammates of Baita City.
[Advent Faction's only mission: Activate the signal transmitter. (Attachment: Mission details)]
William recalled the contents of the attachment he had just carefully read.
The transmitter was located in the heart of the central zone, requiring traversing several oases to reach. However, all edible food in the oases had become a locust food reserve. Even without reaching the central zone, William knew for sure that the number of locusts surviving there was unimaginable.
He had originally thought that as a member of the Advent Sect, he might not be attacked by locusts. However, after looking through the chat logs of the Advent Sect group chat, it seemed that these locusts were just ordinary pests without intelligence, attacking everyone indiscriminately.
Find a way to cross the oasis and turn on the signal transmitter.
"Brother, my dear William! Let me go, I want to see my brother!" Margaret kept arguing at the window, "Don't resist! You can't make the same mistake as me. You have to greet the adults, they are gods!"
"And hungry hungry, be careful hungry hungry, they..."
Ever since Margaret's territory was conquered, his sister has been mentally unstable and often does some puzzling things. It is said that she hoarded a large amount of discarded flour containing wheat bran some time ago, which cost her a lot of points.
If William was not just an illegitimate child and wanted to rely on Margaret to stabilize the people's hearts that were shaken after they chose the Adventists, he would have thrown this "king of a fallen country" out of the White Tower long ago to avoid being contaminated by bad luck.
"Let her in."
Margaret walked in excitedly, only to see William's ferocious face: "I swear to God, if you come near me again, you lunatic, I will chop off your head, no matter if you are my sister in name or not!"
Seeing that Margaret was frightened by her own brother and ran away, William released the message and began to prepare for the Adventists' only mission.
What he didn't know was that Margaret, who was running faster and faster in the distance and crashing into the wall, was stunned for a moment and suddenly frowned.
Why does she care so much about being hungry?
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In the evening, Ye Miaomiao and others finally approached the center of the central area - a place that both the resistance faction and the advent faction cared about.
[Congratulations on completing your mission—finding the truth about the locust survivors.]
Billions of years ago, Maoxing could no longer sustain the proliferation of locusts, making it unsuitable for life. However, the locusts that prospered on Maoxing did not vanish. The vastness of the universe meant they could find a second, third, or even countless planets suitable for locust survival. Unfortunately, time didn't allow the Maoxing locusts to search everywhere. Their predatory nature led them to come up with a brilliant idea: the Dandelion Project.
Rapidly breed countless low-energy locusts and transport them to every planet within the exploration area. Distribute them across the planet like dandelions, and deploy signal transmitters in each breeding area. Once certain conditions are met, the signal transmitters will activate. Assuming that more than half of the signal transmitters on a planet are activated, the signal will be strong enough for the hairy star locusts to quickly detect and reach the planet via interstellar jump.
[Unfortunately, Earth has been included in the Dandelion Project.]
[There are currently 1,000 transmitters stored on Earth. You must destroy at least half of them to prevent the arrival of the Hairy Star Locusts (this outcome will result in a high-level disaster). Current progress: 1/500; mission deadline: 240 hours.]
Ye Miaomiao: "..." She looked at the broken pieces in front of her, and what she thought about was not how easy it was to smash them with one hammer, but the long journey she had come.
How about we discuss how many units to destroy?
There are only seventeen people in total including all the resistance factions and the hungry ones. Even if they work hard for a whole day in each territory, they still can't get even a fraction of the total mission requirements.
Besides, each territory is only adjacent to one central area. At least Ye Miaomiao cannot find a second central area within a radius of 5,000 meters. Where can she find a second signal transmitter?
What’s worse is that there is a note at the end -
[Please note that your enemy faction, the Advent Faction, only needs to activate one signal transmitter to successfully transmit a signal. After the Advent Faction mission is completed, no matter how many signal transmitters you destroy, it will be useless.]
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