Chapter 364 Scheme
Humans who have turned into zombies are used to generate crystal cores. Superhumans who have evolved in the virus but are not infected are lured by the system to become laborers who collect crystal cores.
Meng Shiwan, the host, is the system's assistant.
What a terrifying, yet simple and straightforward scheme!
Thinking about it now, Meng Shiwan feels utterly horrified.
For humans, crystal cores were originally useless, except for making ability-enhancing fluids.
Even as currency, gold is more practical.
How did these crystal cores, which are basically useless to humans, gradually become currency and something that everyone is now scrambling to find?
It's all because of Meng Shiwan.
Because you can buy ability-enhancing liquid and fresh crops from Meng Shiwan using crystal cores.
Because crystal cores are a form of currency in Dawn Base, used to purchase the most needed items, crystal cores, which should have been useless, have now become a currency that people are vying to possess.
Once all the crystal cores flow into Meng Shiwan's hands, Meng Shiwan will use these crystal cores to expand the space farm and purchase power-enhancing fluid or other items from the system.
Ultimately, there was only one result: crystal cores from across the country, and even the world, flowed into the system's pockets through Meng Shiwan's hands.
Whether they are zombies, superhumans, or survivors, they are all being played like monkeys by the system... no, to be precise, by the creatures behind the system.
Zombies are used to generate crystal nuclei.
The superhumans collect crystal cores.
Did the survivors who were lucky enough to survive truly escape unscathed?
No!
Even humans themselves know that the human reproductive capacity is very strong.
The survivors will survive, recuperate, and reproduce again. Once all the zombies in the world are killed, these reproduced survivors will be like sheep in a pen, spreading the virus again, turning them into zombies, and producing crystal cores. The next survivors will then reproduce again, one generation after another, like an endless supply of leeks.
The wicked yet simple scheme is similar to the way humans used to domesticate livestock.
They are raised in captivity, raised to adulthood, have offspring for breeding, then killed. When those offspring grow up, they have more offspring, which are then killed. And so on...
But those creatures are more vicious than humans.
If people raise sheep in enclosures, then at least the sheep are killed by people.
Those creatures turned this planet into a slaughterhouse, and humans became livestock for producing crystal cores. They even made humans actively and happily kill humans who had turned into zombies to help them collect crystal cores.
This scheme has an even more ingenious aspect: the system leaves humanity with hope and grants Meng Shiwan, the assistant, even greater benefits.
Even if Meng Shiwan knew about the system's plan, she might still continue to follow the system and aid and abet evil because of these benefits.
Like Gu Jinchen, he was unwilling for the apocalypse to end because he was addicted to the benefits the system offered.
Meng Shiwan is now facing the same choice.
Amidst the global catastrophe, Meng Shiwan alone possesses a farm that can be cultivated, and this farm can continue to expand, allowing her to freely develop her power.
If she were even more ruthless, she could do anything on this farm, regardless of morality, and no one would dare to disobey her.
Because she controls the farm, and the farm controls the lifeline of humanity worldwide.
Without her farm constantly producing crops, humanity's situation would only become more difficult, and it might even lead to extinction.
Just as Gu Jinchen said, Meng Shiwan could dominate the human world with the benefits given by the system, and everyone would have to be subservient to her.
To become king and dominate.
To reign supreme over all of humanity.
Who among the rulers of all dynasties has ever achieved this?
She obtained all of this effortlessly, without even paying any price. All she had to do was follow her current path, sell crops to earn crystal cores, and then use those crystal cores to buy what she needed from the system.
There are no costs involved; she simply acts like a merchant, reselling goods. Sellers are satisfied, buyers are satisfied, and she can even make a large profit from it.
She doesn't have to give anything; she just needs to pretend she doesn't know about the system's schemes to use the farm to become the sole overlord in the human world.
Such tempting offers! Who wouldn't be tempted?
If it weren't for Meng Qingyue's love-struck mind and her single-minded desire to fight to the death with Gu Jinchen, this kind of good thing would never have come to Meng Shiwan.
No wonder, no wonder the old man Xiao Yuye mentioned was watching her from the very beginning, wanting to steal her system.
Faced with such benefits, who could resist?
"What tempting offers!"
Meng Shiwan put her hands behind her head and looked at the sky to the side.
The night was beautiful, the moon was round, and the stars were bright.
She could just lie here, stay at the Dawn Base, and live a carefree life, and she would have everything.
As for those survivors who are harvested one after another in the system's schemes, does Meng Shiwan care?
Is she the kind of person who cares about the lives of others and the fate of all living beings?
The system suddenly spoke up, "You've been preoccupied lately, but I can't hear your thoughts. Are you on guard against me?"
Meng Shiwan asked it, "System, what do you want most?"
The system scoffed, "Do I even need to ask? It's a crystal core."
Meng Shiwan asked again, "Why do you insist on the crystal core? Do you really remember nothing?"
In her previous dream, Meng Qingyue said that her system spoke many profound words, indicating that the system in her previous life was not so naive and knew the whole plan.
But why does the system in this life seem to know nothing about anything?
Could it be that Meng Qingyue did something to the system?
The system was puzzled. "What should I remember? I'm just following instructions."
After it finished speaking, Meng Shiwan remained silent for a while. As a system, it also sensed that the atmosphere today seemed a bit off.
It had never seen Meng Shiwan so calm before.
It tentatively asked, "And what about you? What do you want most?"
Meng Shiwan looked up at the sky and thought carefully. "Before the apocalypse, I imagined that after graduating from university, I would travel around the world in a motorhome, stopping wherever I wanted, like now, lying in the motorhome and seeing different scenery."
When I get tired of wandering, I'll come back and get married. Or maybe I won't. Perhaps I'll fall in love with the freedom of the world and break up with Gu Jinchen. Who knows?
In the three years of the apocalypse in my previous life, what I wanted most was to have enough to eat every day and kill Meng Qingyue and Gu Jinchen to avenge myself. Unfortunately, I didn't manage to do it in the end.
Reborn, in this life, my first thought was simply to live, to live well with Taxue, to live freely, to eat my fill every day, and if I was lucky enough to survive until the end of the apocalypse, to travel the world with Taxue and see the sights.
The system then asked, "And what about now? What do you want most right now?"
Meng Shiwan thought about it for a long time but still couldn't figure it out. "I don't know, let me think about it some more."
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