Apocalypse: I became rich by selling zombie live broadcasts

Chapter 97 If you don’t eat the toast, you will be punished by drinking wine

The blue planet is frozen for thousands of miles, and snow drifts for tens of thousands of miles.

A month has passed since the first operation to eliminate the calamity. The world is a vast expanse of white; just as spring was beginning on Earth, winter has returned.

However, it's much better than during the previous acid rain. At least people can wear thick clothes and go out to find supplies. Most importantly, now as long as you sign a contract, you can become a professional and join the production.

As the environment of Earth deteriorates, the surface vegetation has withered away due to a series of disasters, making the existence of mutated plants particularly prominent.

With generous rewards, various mutated plants flocked to the base, and under the cultivation of scientists, the first batch of mutated crop seeds suitable for planting and production were produced.

—For example, Shi Nianzhen's mutated foxtail grass, and Zhang Xixi's jasmine-scented rice.

Shi Nianzhen left the breeding problem of the miniature pigs to the scientists to solve, and then cleared out all the zombies from the clothing factory. The staff sent by the base began to restore the production line so that more people could have warm clothes to cope with the possible prolonged low temperatures.

She sat outside the door, wearing only a dark blue trench coat, live-streaming herself selling zombies.

[Sister Zhen, has your world gone from acid rain to extreme cold?]

Seeing that there were many comments asking this question, she gave an answer:
"The current temperature is 10 degrees Celsius lower than usual for winter. Our galaxy is passing through a region with high concentrations of cosmic matter, blocking light and heat, causing a global temperature drop of 10 degrees Celsius."

Shi Nianzhen hesitated for a moment, "This shouldn't be called extreme cold."

It doesn't even qualify as an ice age.

"Why didn't the last calamity cause you any trouble?" Another comment asked.

Shi Nianzhen: "Hmm? You've forgotten about those shooting stars?"

[Weren't those shooting stars destroyed by you and your assistant? They didn't cause any trouble.]

Shi Nianzhen looked up at the sky, her gaze seemingly piercing through the clouds and reaching into outer space. The solar system was traversing through magnificent nebulae.

According to scientists' calculations, this nebula, called NAG36, was originally located about 2 light-years away from the solar system.

Now, for reasons unknown, the two sides have come together.

This put the entire planet on high alert—at the earliest possible moment, on the verge of a planetary collision.

"The crisis is not over."

"What happened that day could have happened at any time."

Shi Nianzhen looked at the mountain of zombies not far away and said, "Moreover, the zombies have evolved."

The gray energy emanating from that calamity increased the overall strength of the zombies.

For Shi Nianzhen, it was no different from before, but for other Blue Star people, the apocalypse was even more difficult, and the bodies of many ordinary people who were neither superpowered nor professional became more vulnerable.

Some have also accused Shih Nien-chen of overestimating his abilities and provoking disaster, which has made the end times even more difficult.

Shi Nianzhen did not try to deny it. He provided a batch of supplies, including clothing, food, housing, transportation, and weapons, and actively helped to restore production.

Nowadays, she has more supporters than critics.

Shi Nianzhen chatted casually with the viewers in the live stream, and then ended the broadcast after selling all the zombies.

Before Shi Nianzhen could even get up from the snow, Penelope's voice rang out:
"Master, you have received a private message."

"Who sent it?" Shi Nianzhen asked.

"Zhi Zhang, Second Legion of Gray Star".

Shi Nianzhen raised an eyebrow. The name sounded familiar, but she wasn't sure who it was.

“That’s the last buyer of the zombie you auctioned off the first time,” Penelope reminded her.

Upon hearing this, Shi Nianzhen remembered the buyer who gave her her first pot of gold: a person from a highly civilized world who had purchased zombies under his real name.

This person was so arrogant back then that he told his competitors to go to Gray Planet and kill him.

"What did he say?" Shi Nianzhen asked.

"He said that the higher-ups on Gray Star saw your live broadcast of failing to eliminate the calamity and couldn't bear to see the humans of Blue Star struggling in the apocalypse. Gray Star will help Blue Star eliminate the calamity and provide zombie breeding technology, composting technology, and sales customers to help Blue Star emerge from the apocalypse."

Shi Nianzhen narrowed her eyes slightly and asked calmly, "What's the price?"

"Blue Star became a subordinate small world of Gray Star. Ninety percent of the profits from selling zombie fertilizer and the products produced by Blue Star were given to Gray Star as tribute."

"Fuck it!" Shi Nianzhen cursed.

"Zombie farming technology?" Shi Nianzhen sneered. "Are you trying to turn all the people of Earth into zombies and raise them like pigs?"

If they actually agree, then Blue Star will truly be hopeless.

"We want 90% of the produce!"

"They're trying to plunder my head!"

Shi Nianzhen's eyebrows furrowed, wishing she could start a live stream right now and give Hui Yuanxing a good scolding.

No, scolding won't solve anything. It would be better if all the people on Gray Star were reincarnated as humans!

"Pepe, there's no need to rush to respond. Let's wait a week."

Blue Star needs some time to prepare.

Shi Nianzhen gritted her teeth, racking her brains for a solution.

Qin Kong walked out of the factory and sat down next to her. "What's troubling you?"

Shi Nianzhen explained it to him.

Qin Kong raised an eyebrow after hearing this. "You're actually troubled by something like this? I thought you'd just come knocking on their door."

"..." Shi Nianzhen's previously agitated heart was strangely soothed by these words. "Then I have to be able to get by too."

“That’s easy. Doesn’t the Abyss Mall sell starships? Just buy one and you can get through,” Qin Kong said.

Shi Nianzhen looked at him with resentment.

It's not that there's no way to buy a starship, it's just that it costs 100 million Abyss Coins!
If she buys this, she'll be broke again. She worked so hard selling zombies for so long and even risked her life streaming to save up this money!
How infuriating! He didn't even offer a discount!

Shi Nianzhen gritted her teeth, shifted her gaze from his face to the snow-covered mountains in the distance, and tried to calm herself down before saying:
"Grey Planet was easy in the past, but advanced civilizations are bound to be full of powerful individuals. What if I, alone, plus you at most, can't defeat them?"

Qin Kong tilted his head slightly, his tone confident: "With the Abyss Ruler backing you up, what are you afraid of?"

Shi Nianzhen's gaze returned to his face. "Are you sure he'll help me with something like this?"

Qin Kong looked at her with a half-smile, "Why not? This is your world. If someone wants to take Purgatory's territory from you, you should be prepared to bear their wrath."

"Does he care that much about Blue Star?" Shi Nianzhen stared intently at Qin Kong.

Qin Kong crossed his arms. "How do you know he doesn't care?"

“Because there are only three people in Purgatory here—you, me, and Bei Mian—I’m embarrassed to say that Purgatory has taken over this place,” Shi Nianzhen said honestly.

Qin Kong shook his head and chuckled, "In short, he won't let go of any opportunity to seize someone else's territory."

Shi Nianzhen understood and asked, "What faction's territory is Gray Yuan Star?"

"neutral."

Shi Nianzhen smiled with narrowed eyes, "Then I can disappear on Gray Origin Star."

"No need. Just refuse outright. If Gray Star knows what's good for them, fine. But if they dare to make things difficult, we'll come knocking on their door," Qin Kong said.

Shi Nianzhen refused. "If you won't listen to reason, you'll have to suffer the consequences," the other party replied.

After rejecting the inexplicable offer, Shi Nianzhen didn't take it to heart and spent her days running around looking for winter supplies.

But three days later, after another of her live streams ended, the other party suddenly sent her an ultimatum: "We're giving you one last chance. If Blue Star still refuses to submit to Gray Star, we will take strong measures."

Shi Nianzhen frowned deeply. "Damn it, do they want to invade interstellar space?"

Qin Kong handed her some honey lemon water to soothe her throat.

"There are world barriers between worlds. To cross the universe and reach them, besides a starship, one needs the strength of an Abyss Overlord."

"What about the Lord of the Underworld last time?"

“She barely made it to the edge.” Qin Kong explained, sitting next to her, “Starships are a huge undertaking and consume a lot of resources. A mere Gray Origin Star can’t support just a few. It’s not like we have a life-or-death feud. We wouldn’t come all this way for some fertilizer. If they dare to start their starships, we can intercept them en route.”

"So you have nothing to be afraid of. At most, they'll support a few puppets from Earth to fight against you," Qin Kong said.

"That puts me at ease."

Shi Nianzhen had just sent the rejection message when she suddenly felt dizzy. The planet beneath her feet tilted slightly without warning, but it didn't escape her supernatural ability.

“Strange, the direction of the force field on Earth has changed slightly,” Shi Nianzhen said.

Qin Kong frowned slightly, looked up into the distance, glanced at the sky, then at the ground, and then at the sun.

After a while, he squinted and said, "The angle of the sunlight has changed slightly."

"Was it Gray Star who did this?" Shi Nianzhen's eyes widened in surprise. "They can remotely control Blue Star?"

Qin Kong frowned. "Destroying a planet is easy, but such micro-management requires powerful control."

"I don't recall any such figure existing among the neutral factions."

"But we can't rule out the possibility that they have other foreign aid," Shi Nianzhen said.

Qin Kong: "...In short, it's best to warn the people in your world about this."

When Shi Nianzhen reported this to the main base, they quickly received the scientists' test results: "The orbital eccentricity of Blue Star has increased!"

"Not only that, the tilt angle of Earth's rotation has also decreased!"

Shi Nianzhen, not understanding, asked, "What does this mean? What impact will it have?"

Geologists and geologists were shouting loudly on the other end of the phone:

"It means Earth is finished!"

We're all going to hell!

"I heard you've been to the world of the dead. I wonder if you know the people there well? Could you arrange a government job for me?"

"Teachers, please believe me, hell is truly not as good as the apocalypse," Shi Nianzhen interrupted them. "Can any of you explain this a little? Maybe Earth can still be saved?"

"Now even the dead end is a dead end?" the scientist on the other end said.

"Okay, then I'll give you a free lesson."

"The increased eccentricity of Earth's orbit around the sun will cause it to lose some of its atmosphere as it approaches the sun, due to the sun's gravitational pull. This will reduce the atmospheric and carbon dioxide concentrations, decrease its insulating effect on the Earth's surface, and weaken the greenhouse effect."

"In other words, the atmosphere will become thinner and the climate will become colder. Because the atmosphere cannot recover at a rate that it loses, Earth will become colder year by year."

"There is a projection on the exact rate at which the temperature will cool down, but we will need to see the specific figures at that time. In short, the projection is not optimistic. We should enter the glacial period in three to five years at most, or one to two years at the shortest."

"An unprecedented ice age is coming, and it's getting colder and colder; it will never return."

"As for the decrease in the tilt angle of Earth's rotation, you can understand it as Earth's rotation angle changing from tilting backward to tilting forward."

"When the sun is closer, the days in the Northern Hemisphere will be longer and the nights shorter, the area of ​​polar day in the Arctic will expand, causing glaciers to melt and absorb a large amount of heat from the atmosphere, thus lowering the temperature in other parts of the planet. Meanwhile, the Southern Hemisphere will be in winter, the polar night area will expand, and the ice cap will also expand."

"During the Southern Hemisphere summer, Antarctica will melt larger and more ice sheets due to intense polar day, absorbing more atmospheric heat and exacerbating the cooling, while most of the warm and suitable areas in the Northern Hemisphere will be covered by glaciers and turn into permafrost under the cover of polar night."

"In short, the habitable area for humans is shrinking, and an ice age is about to begin."

"In the future, there will be various environmental problems such as cooling temperatures, thinning atmosphere, falling sea levels, dry climate, and continuous expansion of deserts."

"Compared to this, zombies are not a real catastrophe."

"Perhaps we should study how to eat zombies."

"Pah! Who wants to eat human flesh? If you want to eat it, you can eat it yourself!"

"This winter is already long and freezing cold, so maybe things aren't that bad."

"Perhaps the ice and snow can freeze the zombies, bringing another kind of hope?"

"That's not impossible."

A group of people started discussing it in a conference call.

Shi Nianzhen listened in and understood that Blue Star had entered a state of extreme cold.

She gritted her teeth and finally asked the question that had been on her mind: "Um, will you blame me for refusing Gray Star's offer?"

There was a pause in the conference call, and everyone fell silent.

Silence is spreading.

“If we agree to submit, the Blue Star problem will be solved,” Shi Nianzhen said.

"The people of Blue Star will never submit." Jiang Ping, who had been silent until now, finally spoke.

"Who would want to be a slave to a conquered nation, oh no, I mean a slave to a fallen star?"

"In short, being colonized is worse than death."

“But I think it would be better to learn their methods for dealing with the apocalypse first, and then seek independence.” Some people disagreed.

"You mean you first become a traitor and then betray the country?"

"Pah, you're the traitor! Don't say such nasty things. This is called feigned surrender."

"I agree, only children make choices, adults want it all!"

"We must grasp both the solution to the apocalypse and independence and freedom!"

"Do you think advanced civilizations are fools?"

"Exactly! They can manipulate our planet and its orbit from so far away. I don't need to explain what kind of power that is, right? They can throw us back into the apocalypse with a flick of their finger!"

"So you mean you want to kneel down and let your descendants become slaves?"

The conference call ended without reaching a conclusion.

A day later, Shi Nianzhen received a call from Jiang Ping, the head of the base.

"Comrade Shi Nianzhen, the organization has decided to relocate all survivors from various places to the tropics, and we need your strong support for this."

Shi Nianzhen became a heartless porter.

From that day on, Shi Nianzhen became an emotionless cog in the machine, moved wherever she was needed.

First, they went south to help clear out a zombie-free area so that the people there could build a new base.

(End of this chapter)