Apocalypse: I became rich by selling zombie live broadcasts

Chapter 39 The Food Crisis May Be Worse

The sea seemed dead.

During the ten days that Shi Nianzhen was stranded on the shallows, he didn't see any fish, shrimp or crabs. Even under the sand, he couldn't dig up any clams, scallops or razor clams.

With the naked eye, she couldn't see any difference in the water.

But Shi Nianzhen deduced that since all land plants and animals were affected by the apocalypse, the sea could not be spared.

Shi Nianzhen spent ten days at the beach, and his swimming skills improved greatly. He could roll and swim freely in the water like a water monkey.

With the help of the gravitational power, you can ascend or dive at will, and your body will not suffer from decompression sickness due to water pressure.

She stayed peacefully on the shore for ten days. As she became more familiar with the sea water, Shi Nianzhen's fear of the deep sea dissipated a lot.

Since we are staying in the water anyway, we might as well swim into the sea and look for some mutated seafood.

These past few days, she has been lying on the beach and has sent drones to search the surroundings, retrieving many mutant plants and animals.

For example, the stems of the Chinese cabbage that is half a person tall, thin and long are all fiber, and when you chew it, there will be residue, and its edible value is greatly reduced.

For example, cochineal beetles as big as eggplants can eat an entire cactus in one meal. If you kill them, blood will splatter all over the floor, resembling a murder scene.

Another example is the leek, whose leaves are only one finger long, but whose smell is several times stronger than before. The leek is planted in the backyard of the portable villa, and the whole backyard is plagued by the smell of leek and rose, making it almost unbearable.

There are also the most productive lotus stems that no longer bloom after mutation, lotus flowers with huge leaves that have turned into twins... There are more than ten kinds of strange and bizarre mutated plants and animals.

Shi Nianzhen kept them all in the backyard.

He planned to sell the mutant species, which seemed to have no edible value, to Zhang Xixi's uncle.

Their scientific researchers can find value in it.

In short, Shi Nian really felt that it was time to set out to conquer the sea.

She did not rush into the deep water, but swam along the coastline, intending to look for cages or rafts that others used to raise fish in the shallow sea.

As Shi Nianzhen's exploration of the sea area continues to expand.

Her heart gradually began to lift.

There were no small fish or shrimp in the sea. She swam all day and only saw a few fish in the distance.

"This isn't right."

Isn’t it said that the sea is all water? No, isn’t it said that the variety and number of marine life far exceeds that of land life?

But the number of marine creatures she saw in the past ten days could be counted on one hand.

Taking advantage of the brightest sunlight at noon, Shi Nianzhen frowned and stared at the sea water carefully.

After looking for a while and seeing nothing, she gave up and sank to the bottom of the sea.

If all the fish and shrimp are dead, they will eventually sink to the bottom of the sea. If they have not been dead for a long time, they should not have decayed completely, and there will always be some debris left.

As they got closer to the seabed, the light gradually dimmed, and Shi Nianzhen's mood became heavy.

The seabed is littered with the remains of marine life.

The ones whose shapes can be seen include fish, shrimps and crabs. There are countless marine creatures whose shapes cannot be seen and have rotted away, with only some white body tissues left.

Shi Nianzhen took out a shovel and dug ten meters but still couldn't find the real seabed.

She didn't expect the situation in the sea to be so serious.

Shi Nianzhen thought of the few fish he had seen before, which were probably those that survived after mutation.

I don’t know what the situation is like in the sea, and I don’t know whether those scientific researchers know it.

Shi Nianzhen thought about it, surfaced, and sent out a drone.

"Go and find out where there are fish farms at sea."

Shi Nianzhen shared the pictures of offshore farms that he found online with the drone.

The drone took off.

Shi Nianzhen looked towards the distant coastline.

These days, she saw the weeds on the coast withering and leaves falling, and thought it was a natural reaction to the cooler autumn weather.

But now, after seeing the situation in the sea, she felt that it might be more than just the autumn that caused it.

She still remembered what Zhang Xixi had said, that researchers had discovered that ordinary plants on land were slowly withering, so Zhang Xixi's team also had a part-time job looking for mutant plants.

What if this slow withering away was faster than she imagined?

Shi Nianzhen dived into the water, followed the coast, and found a river to swim into.

As she continued to move deeper into the land, Shi Nianzhen could see that the grass along the shore had withered and fallen, even causing a blockage in the river. She came ashore wrapped in a special ice pack. The rice paddies on the shore were different from the golden appearance of ten days ago.

The plants have become much more withered and yellow, and even the rice ears hanging on them have become gray in color, like stale rice.

Shi Nianzhen frowned.

Even if the country has granaries and a lot of grain is stored in the granaries, the granaries cannot be empty.

It must have been corrupted by the beginning of the last days.

Apart from the vacuum-packed commercial grain, these in the fields may be the last batch of grain that can be harvested.

There are zombies outside and no food inside. If we lose this batch of food, the difficulty of human survival will increase significantly.

The food crisis may be more serious than she thought.

Shi Nianzhen looked at these fields and felt that they could not be wasted.

She thought about it, started a live broadcast, and specifically directed it to the Lord of the Abyss.

Since her future is tied to his, he probably won't refuse if she asks him for advice.

When you have resources at hand, you must make good use of them and not waste them.

The rice fields behind him and Nianzhen appeared on the live broadcast screen together.

She said to the camera: "This is a special live broadcast."

"Boss, only you can see it."

The red and black bold and enlarged barrage:

[If you need anything, you can just call me or video chat. Why are you doing a livestream?]

[And what are you wearing? Shouldn't you be in the water?]

【Was it painful to get ashore?】

Shi Nianzhen looked down at the ice pack clothes she was wearing, which were made of countless small ice packs hung on the bed sheet.

“Only live streaming can deliver these things to you.”

"This is ice pack clothing. It'll hold you over for a short while on shore."

"It doesn't hurt now."

"I don't have much time, listen to me-"

"The rice behind me is in an emergency situation where it will rot in the fields if it is not harvested."

As Shi Nianzhen spoke, he pulled some rice over through the air and directly connected a one-cent link to the Lord of the Abyss.

"Take a picture of the link and see what kind of energy is eroding the rice so quickly."

The link disappeared in seconds.

[Disaster] Red and black barrages appear immediately.

【Only awakened abilities can slightly resist it. 】

[Zombies, the failed products of a disaster that failed to awaken their superpowers, can be transformed into nutrients that aid in the awakening of superpowers through a series of processes such as fermentation and purification.]

【I remember it was sold in the mall. 】

"Yes, I know." Shi Nianzhen said.

"The problem I'm facing now is how to rescue this batch of grain, but my special ability can only attract rice in a small area, and there is a lot of grain waiting to be harvested."

"Even if we use a rice harvester, the efficiency won't be very high if there aren't enough people."

“Is there a way to quickly attract the rice?”

[Strengthen your mental strength and control over your supernatural powers. As long as your mental strength covers an area, you can use your supernatural powers at will.]

[How high your efficiency is, how much mental strength you need.]

"How to improve mental strength?"

[When Intelligence exceeds 300, the Mental Strength attribute will appear on the Basic Attributes page, and you can then add points.]

Shi Nianzhen blinked.

Immediately exit the app and open your personal page.

She remembered that affinity was an attribute that could only be obtained after the resonance degree exceeded 300, but the professional attribute was activated in advance.

Can mental strength also be increased through professional attributes?
Modified


(End of this chapter)