Apocalypse: I became rich by selling zombie live broadcasts

Chapter 29: Thirty Years of Change in the Plant World

【Mutated plants! 】

【Me, me, me, I want to buy it! 】

[No matter what kind, I'll bid 10 million Abyss Coins!]

…The barrage of comments above the field of vision flashed so quickly that they formed a series of colorful lines, attracting Shi Nianzhen's attention.

She squinted her eyes for two seconds and then gave up.

Instead of spending time reading the comments, you might as well look out the window. You might have missed the mutated crops in those two seconds when you weren’t looking.

Probably knowing that she was not paying attention to the barrage, her cell phone suddenly rang loudly. It was the Lord of the Abyss calling.

Shi Nianzhen asked Pepe to connect the headset and answer the call with the headset
Lord of the Abyss: "Are you just looking for it with your eyes?"

A low voice came out from the headphones. The timbre was slightly different from when talking with the dragon head. It was more magnetic and gentle, with a hint of youthful youthfulness, which made people's ears feel hot.

Shi Nianzhen paused for a moment, cleared his throat, and then spoke: "Well, what else, collect all the food?"

As Shi Nianzhen said this, she raised her hand and the rice on both sides of the road flew towards her.

The car was instantly flooded with rice.

Shi Nianzhen didn't even have time to look and quickly stopped moving things into the warehouse.

Shi Nianzhen: "No, we won't be able to do that. We'll be drowned by the food and won't have time to identify it. I don't want to collect too much food from the roadside either. I feel like the food we can get on the roadside will save the lives of many survivors."

Shi Nianzhen: "Those who are unable to fight zombies and cannot travel far to find food, if they go out when the zombies are not active and walk to the edge of the fields, they can get some food."

Shi Nianzhen: "I can eat meat, so it's okay for others to have some soup."

Lord of the Abyss: "You are quite kind."

Shi Nianzhen: "...No, I don't mean well, I'm just hungry. I've gotten off topic. You called me, do you have any good suggestions?"

The Lord of the Abyss said, "I suggest you make flexible use of the drone. Its detection is comprehensive. Share your treasure appraisal ability with it, and it will instantly identify the mutant plants within its coverage area, much faster than you can alone."

Shi Nianzhen: "Is there such a use? I'll try it right away. Thanks for letting me know."

Lord of the Abyss: "Thanks cannot be just words."

Shi Nianzhen: "...What do you want?"

Abyss Overlord: "I've found some new mutant food. Remember to share some with me. I'm dead now."

The phone hangs up.

Shi Nianzhen frowned slightly.

So, the Abyss Lord’s hobby is eating? Why is he always thinking about her food?

Shi Nianzhen immediately bought another drone, and according to Penelope's suggestion, shared the power of the Eye of Appraisal, and flew it out.

Combined with the existing drones, the detection range of the two drones covers a kilometer around them, and as they move, they can detect a large area.

This search really worked.

Half an hour later.

Shi Nianzhen looked at the mutant plants brought back by the drone and raised his eyebrows slightly.

She chuckled, "Same person, different fate."

"My brother found mutant rice with a jasmine scent, and look what he found for me, foxtail grass!"

In her hand she held a plant of foxtail grass that was stronger than wheat.

Its roots are still covered with soil.

The inflorescence was unusually thick, and its bones were clearly visible. The spike was almost as thick as her wrist.

Before my eyes, the firefly wrote in small characters:
(Congratulations, you've discovered a new species in the universe.)
(First-level evolutionary foxtail grass, an annual herb, has the advantages of strong disease resistance, enlarged seeds, contains supernatural energy, is edible, and has considerable value.)
(Acquisition recommended.)
"I've heard that foxtail grass can be used to make noodles, but the seeds are too small and have little edible value."

The one in front of me is obviously of high edible value.

If there is no mutant wheat, this can be used as a substitute for wheat.

Shi Nianzhen couldn't stop laughing while looking at the dogtail grass.

[Zhenzhen, stop laughing. I have a friend who has been on a desolate planet for seven or eight years and hasn't found any alien species. It makes me feel a little uncomfortable.]

"If I find a wild mutant crop, I'll laugh even louder than she does!"

[Ah, I really want it, a mutant plant!]

[Zhenzhen, are you selling seeds? I don't have high requirements, just two seeds will do~]

……

After Shi Nianzhen sent out the drone, he enlarged the barrage a little. Now that he could see the barrage clearly, he couldn't help but say, "Baozi, I'm laughing because this thing was just a weed before the end of the world."

"If there is no famine, no one will eat it."

"But in the future, who knows how many people will depend on it for their livelihoods. This is what we call the wheel of fortune."

"Who would have thought that humans would one day survive by eating foxtail grass?"

Shi Nianzhen immediately wanted to upgrade her mobile apartment.

A portable apartment is the lowest form of portable home. Although it is called an apartment, it is actually just a master bedroom.

To upgrade to a portable home that can grow foxtail grass, she needs to at least upgrade to a balcony, which means at least three upgrades.

Upgrade once every 100,000 Abyss Coins.

Shi Nianzhen owned the living room, kitchen and balcony in turn.

With a balcony, the whole mobile apartment has changed a lot.

Looking out from the balcony, you can see the blue sky and white clouds, as well as the golden light falling from the clouds.

Shi Nianzhen was immersed in his portable apartment, slightly dazed.

Although Zhang Xixi's space has day and night, it is not the sky.

"Is this the real sky?" Shi Nianzhen asked in surprise.

"Of course!" Penelope said proudly, "This is a real other world. Your brother's world is nothing compared to this. His is at most a domain space."

"Domain space?" Shi Nianzhen asked.

"It is a slice of space that exists on the basis of your world as the main world."

"The portable home is an independent world. You will gradually understand the difference."

These words were all new to Shi Nianzhen, and she didn't understand their specific meanings. She just memorized them silently and planned to slowly understand these cosmic knowledge in the future.

Master Shi Nian was still sitting in the car, holding the grass in his hands.

My consciousness wandered around my portable home, but I couldn't go out of the apartment. I couldn't see whether there was soil on the ground outside the apartment and whether it was suitable for planting.

"Anyway, I want to plant this foxtail grass. I don't have any land or flower pots on the balcony."

"You can buy planters, or upgrade your apartment to a house, which will have flower beds and vegetable beds in the front and back yards, and you can plant directly in the ground."

"How much more money do I need to upgrade to a villa?"

She still has more than 1.4 million Abyss Coins, and she doesn't know if it's enough.

If that’s not enough, you might as well buy flower pots first.

No, I just waited until I got to the city center, found a flower shop, and bought the flower pots for free.

"You also need to upgrade at least two secondary bedrooms, two bathrooms, a master bedroom, a dining room, a terrace, a study, and a garage."

“Then you can unlock a small flower garden or vegetable patch.”

"That's one million," Shi Nianzhen said without blinking, "Let's upgrade it to a small vegetable garden."

She paused and asked, "Why upgrade so many secondary and master bedrooms? I only need one master bedroom."

"That's the thing about villas, they always have a lot of rooms," said Penelope.

"..." Shi Nianzhen pursed her lips and said nothing, thinking silently, she wondered how much money it would cost to upgrade it into a large manor where she could plant crops and raise livestock.

After this wave of upgrades, she only had more than 400,000 left.

Fortunately, these upgrades come with built-in decoration, so you only need to spend money on renovations.

The portable apartment was upgraded to a portable villa, with a back door leading to the backyard. Shi Nianzhen briefly left the car and entered the backyard, allowing the livestream audience to admire the apocalyptic farmland scenery.

The backyard was paved with fine white gravel, which made a crunching sound when stepped on. Eight vegetable beds, fenced in natural wood, were spread out within. Each bed was five square meters, more than enough to grow vegetables for her own consumption.

Shi Nianzhen didn't have any tools, so he used his supernatural power to dig a hole and planted the foxtail grass.

"By the way, Pepe, if it wants to continue evolving, does it need to use the fertilizer made from zombies?" Shi Nianzhen used headphones to communicate with Penelope outside.

"Yes, advanced alien nutrients, 40 Abyss Coins per gram."

"How much?" Shi Nianzhen's voice rose more than a degree.

The price of 40 per gram sounds cheap, but it is actually quite expensive.

Her zombie, weighing 18090 kilograms, was sold for 156 million Abyss coins, which is equivalent to about 0.17 Abyss coins per gram.

The price of advanced alien nutrients is more than 235 times that of zombie raw materials!
A full 235 times!
Shi Nianzhen gritted his teeth, twisted his face, and reluctantly spent 2 to buy a 500-gram bag of advanced exotic fertilizer to fertilize it.

"If it can't be upgraded to become more productive, energetic, and delicious, it would be a waste of such an expensive nutrient."

Shi Nianzhen was about to leave when he suddenly stopped and asked Penelope, "Will ordinary plants mutate if they use this nutrient?"

"That's the theory."

Shi Nianzhen paused and asked again, "What's the actual situation?"

"The success rate isn't high," Penelope said honestly, "so a lot of them use technology to improve the plant's genes first, and then use this nutrient to cultivate it over generations, artificially promoting its mutation."

Shi Nianzhen tilted her head: "It sounds like the direction of mutation can be controlled."

"Yes."

"There's a mutation breeding project in the mall. Once you purchase this project, you can have researchers breed the plants you specify."

Shi Nianzhen asked about the price and immediately gave up the idea.

Anyway, she is in the end times, and mutant plants are bound to appear. Wouldn't it be better to find the finished mutants directly from nature? Why does she have to spend 100 million Abyss Coins?

Survival of the fittest! Thank you for nature's gift. Shi Nianzhen glanced at the foxtail grass and returned to the outside world.

The car just entered the city.

The mountains and seas of corpses in front of me were staggering, and the endless zombies surged towards me like a tide.

The off-road vehicle went upstream and made a small breakthrough in the tide of zombies.

At the beginning, Shi Nianzhen used his car to hit the zombies, hoping to collect more to sell. Unexpectedly, not long after the collision, the hood of the car dented and black smoke came out.

Shi Nianzhen was extremely surprised. He hurriedly used his supernatural powers to push the zombies away, put the items in the car back into the warehouse, jumped out of the car, and stood in the distance to watch.

Her ability only protected the area within five meters around her, and the car was gradually filled with zombies.

"Why is there smoke?"

In her understanding, this would only happen when the temperature is high.

Penelope scanned the entire vehicle and sent a report, "The pipe connecting to the engine was broken and leaking oil, and the fire in the engine spread."

"Will it explode?"

“65% probability.”

"Can it be fixed?"

Shi Nian really didn't want to lose the car, so she spent money to upgrade the automatic driving system!
"This car's performance is too low, so I don't recommend repairing it," Penelope said. "Given your preference for value, it would be more cost-effective to buy a new car that's less prone to damage."

When Shi Nianzhen took a look at the crash-resistant car that Penelope mentioned, her heart immediately died.

Not cheaper than a villa.

Shi Nianzhen had no choice but to give up this idea, "Then take down the automatic driving system and take it away!"

Don't think that a penny of her money will be wasted.

Shi Nianzhen even used gravity to draw out the oil from the tank, and specially found a glass jar from the various supplies in the warehouse to store it.

“There is no need to disassemble the car, and this system can be installed infinitely. When you get a new car, you can install it again.

Shi Nianzhen looked at the other four cars in the warehouse. In this situation, neither sports cars nor luxury cars were suitable. It would be better to use an RV, which looked tall and crash-resistant.

Back on the road again, Shi Nianzhen also began to learn to take care of the car.

A powerful force field was built at the front of the car before the road to crashing into corpses was restarted.

As she drove away, she heard a bang behind her. She looked in the rearview mirror and saw that the SUV was on fire.

The zombies close to the off-road vehicle were blown away, fell into the zombie group on fire, and quickly set other zombies on fire.

Shi Nianzhen frowned.

There was laughter in the barrage.

【Look at Zhenzhen's reluctant expression. 】

Zhenzhen must be a sentimental person. That car must have been with her for a long time.

[Touch Zhenzhen, don’t cry, don’t cry~]

Shi Nianzhen looked at the comments and didn't know how to respond.

She only used this car for three days at most, and she was reluctant to part with it simply because it was her only off-road vehicle.

It's not about sentimentality.

"My dears, this car was sacrificed to fight zombies. It lived an ordinary life, but died a glorious death."

"Its cost must be included in the cost of the zombie. I will raise the starting price for the next zombie auction." Shi Nianzhen said.

【Ah, no! 】

【Ah, that's not necessary. 】

But isn't the auction based on the final price?

[A slightly higher or lower starting price will not affect the final price. ]

Shi Nianzhen looked at these comments and felt unhappy.

These fertilizers are making huge profits!
She glanced again in the rearview mirror.

There were too many zombies in Shenhai. The zombie that was on fire just now fell into the zombie group and quickly set other zombies on fire.

The fire spread among the zombies.

Zombies have no concept of putting out fire. Even if they are burning and screaming, they will still run after her.

If it continues to burn like this, the entire Shenhai might be set on fire.

Although the sea of ​​fire can destroy the corpses, the sea of ​​​​Shen will also be reduced to scorched earth.

There must be many survivors hiding in the city, and there are also a lot of supplies. The apocalypse is already difficult enough, there is no need for another fire.

Shi Nianzhen stopped the car and circled all the burning zombies, separating them from the other zombies.

Until the zombies turned to ashes and all the sparks were extinguished.

Shi Nianzhen just left.

While waiting for the fire to be put out, she was not idle either, and killed many zombies.

The drone also brought back a mutant rose with a gradient red and black color. Nianzhen could smell the rose fragrance from a long distance away.

(Congratulations, you've discovered a new species in the universe.)
(First-level Evolutionary Rose, upright shrub, resistant to disease, rich in fragrance, and edible for medicinal purposes. The following is the inspection report...)
(higher value)
(You will earn money if you buy it)
Shi Nian's eyes really lit up. This evaluation was higher than the previous one of the dogtail grass!

There is even an inspection report!
It turns out that the Treasure Appraisal Eye has this function?
When Shi Nianzhen took it in his hand, he was almost fainted by the fragrance. He immediately planted it on the vegetable bed and applied fertilizer.

With this, you can make anything from rose essential oil to rose candy.

Shi Nianzhen was in a very good mood.

The shadow of the off-road vehicle being scrapped finally passed from my mind.

Well, it's just a broken off-road vehicle. What's so sad about it? After leaving the city center, I have to find a 4S shop that sells off-road vehicles and buy some for free.

Shi Nianzhen gave herself a psychological massage and drove the RV into the Bund cleanly.

"My dear children, please look outside."

As Shi Nianzhen was speaking, the rear camera on her phone opened, and the image on the screen was split into two.
In the rear-camera footage, the exotic architectural complex forms the Bund, while modern buildings stand side by side on the other side of the Huangjiang River. The four landmark buildings stand out among them, with their glass facades gleaming in the sun, looking quite impressive.

Shi Nianzhen stopped the car and watched quietly for a while.

"Everyone, imagine the zombies walking around below as healthy, fashionable humans. Imagine a clean, bloodless street, and imagine the hustle and bustle of cars coming and going."

"There are also yachts and even cruise ships coming and going on the river."

“That’s probably what it was originally like.”

[Wow, I'm imagining this.]

[This city's construction is comparable to ours! ]

[It doesn't look too backward. 】

[No, it's not prosperous enough at all. There's a lot of undeveloped space in the sky.]

[Yes, yes, yes. Without Airbus, single-bay pipelines, and private aircraft, we are still a low-level civilization.]

[It doesn't look like they have biomechanical technology either. Look at the zombies on the street; none of them have mechanical bodies. This is the standard of a low-level civilization.]

[You're all talking about the technological side of things, what if this is also the magical side? ]

【impossible! 】

[Looking at the car Zhenzhen drives and the various machines on the roadside, you can tell that this must be a low-level world on the technological side!]

[But there is a theory - in the low-level world, everything is possible! The main direction of world development will change!]

There was an argument in the barrage.

Shi Nianzhen looked at the comments, trying to understand the meaning behind these new words.

In short, they are all very cyber and sci-fi.

She didn't know much about this kind of thing.

Maybe it's time to go to the library.

Shi Nianzhen thought so and drove the RV to a bank and stopped.

But before that, we should fill our treasury first.

The bank door was open, and Shi Nianzhen walked in without any hindrance - zombies were not an obstacle, they were walking money.

She had come to the bank with her mother before to rent a safe deposit box.

Knowing roughly where the safe was, I only had to search a little and soon found the right direction.

For some doors with visible locks, Shi Nianzhen could easily open the lock core by controlling it with gravity. For some doors where the locks could not be seen, Shi Nianzhen would use his powerful supernatural powers to violently dismantle them.

Soon, she came to a room where an entire wall was covered with safes. She opened all the safes, and the gold, silver, jewelry and important documents hidden inside were exposed before her eyes.

Shi Nianzhen looked at them one by one and took away all the valuables, even the diamond ring hidden in the ashes.

"What do you think these people were thinking, putting ashes in a bank safe?"

"Wouldn't it be good to put it in a funeral home?"

Shi Nianzhen didn't take any solace in it. He searched the rented safe and then searched the bank's treasury, taking away the gold reserves but leaving the cash untouched.

Shi Nianzhen robbed all the banks and jewelry stores one after another on this street and even in the surrounding blocks.

Later on, she just looked up and went wherever the mark said the value was high.

As they walked, Shi Nianzhen discovered some clues.

Whether it is a convenience store, a brand store, or a large shopping mall or shopping center, all are open.

That is,

People were still doing business as usual on August 17, so the 17th should be the time period when people mainly turned into zombies.

Assistant, you went out on the 16th and must have encountered an accident.

(End of this chapter)