The Star River Era! The Dimensional Freedom Demon

After thoroughly dissecting the tabby cat, Ji Chen continued to explore changes in the wild.

This time, it's farmland.

October is the season for autumn planting.

However, no wheat sprouted in the fields, and no other crops either.

The overgrown weeds in the field suppressed the living space of these crops, absorbed the nutrients that should have been supplied to these crops, and then grew so lush and dense that they blocked out the sunlight.

Ji Chen found a farmer with a worried look on his face on the road. After asking him some questions, he learned that the weeds in the field had become so bad that they could not be cured by pesticides. As for stronger pesticides, the farmers dared not try them, for fear of uprooting the already weak crops as well.

It's not that no one wants to pull weeds from the fields, but the weeds are not what they used to be. Farmers say that many people in their village have pulled so many weeds that their hands are almost raw, but they haven't even finished pulling half an acre of weeds.

Ji Chen shook his head inwardly. Judging from the situation, these weeds would only get worse and worse, and the few remaining crops would probably be squeezed out and turn into withered matter, becoming new nutrients for the weeds.

Competition among plants is not as bloody as that among animals, but it is equally brutal.

Taking one last look at the farmland, Ji Chen, unusually, felt a surge of pure kindness and advised the farmer that it would be safer to live in the city, especially since almost half the city's population had died, leaving enough space for the nearby rural residents.

The farmer was somewhat tempted, but in the end he shook his head and rejected Ji Chen's proposal.

"The city is nice, but it's not as comfortable as living in the village. Besides, I heard that food is rationed there. If we just grow some grain in our small yard in the countryside and take care of it, it's not comparable to living in the city."

In the future, it won't just be weeds that are scary; there will be other things too.

But Ji Chen's words swirled in his mind, and he still didn't say them aloud.

Respect individual destiny.

Fewer people in the city will reduce his management costs.

On the way back, Ji Chen also began to suspect that crops were no match for weeds.

Modern crops are "deformed" offspring that have undergone rigorous selection in laboratories, eliminating unnecessary survival skills and developing solely for production. They are incomparable to weeds that are constantly evolving under the pressure of various pesticides.

After racialization, these disparities are likely to become even greater.

"In the future, it is feared that there will be little new grain production, and D City will only be able to rely on the grain stored in the past."

Ji Chen had a plan in mind.

The granaries in D city are quite large. In the past, they played a role in controlling grain prices and stabilizing commodity prices. In emergencies, they could also serve as grain reserves after war.

The grain reserves inside are enough to feed three million people for five years.

If this grain is not destroyed, it is more than enough to feed D city, where almost half of the population has died.

There are absolutely no problems, at least in the short term. As for the future...

Soilless cultivation and isolation, or waiting for nature to automatically select crops that can compete with weeds, are both methods.

. . . . . .

When Ji Chen returned to his residence, he suddenly discovered that the fishpond in the original owner's manor had become murky and stained with blood.

"Things are far from peaceful."

After some exploration, Ji Chen had a basic understanding of the situation ahead.

The rise of beasts disrupts the order of humanity.

Plant disorder has occurred, but the threat is not yet apparent.

Over the next few days, Ji Chen's life returned to normal.

In the morning, we studied the changes in various organisms and determined the racial hierarchy of each organism.

This concerns Ji Chen's choice of apostle, and there is no room for carelessness. In order to expand the skill slots as much as possible and make the apostle's potential higher, Ji Chen must choose creatures that start from the first tier or even the zero tier.

Ji Chen took this very seriously, but that was all he did.

Because the power system of this world does not actually value the initial aptitude of organisms. Through layers of evolution, even an ordinary domestic chicken can become the strongest creature in the world if it evolves well.

Therefore, Ji Chen decided to take a path of winning by sheer numbers.

He plans to establish an evolutionary pipeline to create first-order biological apostles on a large scale, guide them through one or two key evolutions, and then select the most promising individuals for focused cultivation.

Of course, Ji Chen's dimensional points are not infinite; even with large-scale creation, he can only create those creatures with unique features.

Ji Chen refused to believe that with such a powerful cheat code, he couldn't conquer this world.

How could Ye Xiao, or any other creatures with great potential, possibly resist these nonsensical dog breeds?!

. . . . . .

In the afternoon, Ji Chen would patrol the city, not only to assess the situation in his territory but also to try and catch Ye Xiao.

Liu Yan was still in his hands. Ji Chen believed that any sycophant who hadn't yet been deeply betrayed by the goddess would definitely be lurking nearby, drawn by her scent.

Moreover, the wilderness is becoming more and more dangerous, and Ye Xiao will eventually have to return to the city to recuperate.

At the same time, Ji Chen would also hold a top-level decision-making meeting every afternoon at four o'clock to personally hear reports on the progress of the military factory construction and make decisions on a series of core political matters concerning the development of D City.

He also observed whether those high-ranking individuals he had imprinted with the Life and Death Seal had broken free of his control due to racial assimilation.

Reinforce any parts that may have detached, and also reinforce any parts that have not detached.

(P.S.: During this period, apart from Ji Chen and some of the hidden technological nobles who have undergone racial transformation, the rest of the humans have not yet completed it. As for superpowers, they are awakened by certain humans with extraordinary talents after racial transformation.)

In the evening, Ji Chen would order people to prepare a large amount of food for a feast, using the "Hungry Python Devouring Elephant" skill to store enough energy, and then activate the accelerated training mode to level up the skill.

His strength steadily increased in this daily cycle.

As time went by, the external situation became increasingly severe.

After Ji Chen occupied D City and wiped it out, he never actually lost contact with the outside world.

While verbally criticizing D City, the provincial and Da Xuan Federation officials also brought a lot of information from the outside world.

First, on the 10th and 11th, there were coups organized by the bureaucratic class in various parts of the Great Xuan Federation. Some succeeded, but most failed.

In addition, the large-scale deaths caused by the virus, including the deaths of many veteran politicians, have also led to changes in the political landscape in other places.

Therefore, Ji Chen's decision to declaring D City an independent state of emergency and adopting a militarized form was not actually out of place in the political arena of Da Xuan, which had experienced a major earthquake.

During the exchange of information, Ji Chen not only learned that zombie outbreaks had occurred in various places, but also learned an important piece of news.

On October 17, an unprecedented large-scale animal tide occurred in the continent of Amur, which is the most polluted in terms of modernization, but also boasts the world's richest biodiversity and the largest number and variety of large wild animals.

From south to north, almost no area in the Great Black Continent was spared from the beast tide.

In just two days, more than 30 of the 50 countries and regions were wiped out by this beast tide, with casualties exceeding 500 million.

If it weren't for the vast desert as a barrier, the entire continent of Black Africa would likely have been overwhelmed by this beast tide.

This message was not spread among the public, for fear that the already fragile order would completely collapse.

Based on humanitarian principles and in order to gain a deeper understanding of the animal tide, major countries, after careful consideration, ultimately dispatched international rescue cargo ships.