Volume One: The Arrival of the Apocalypse Chapter 52: Apocalypse Base, Survival Guide

During lunch, everyone in the camp was in high spirits.

Aside from the canteen's generous supply of vegetables and the piece of frozen watermelon served to each person as dessert, the most important thing was that everyone knew, thanks to the morning's experiment, the camp had mastered a method for rapid agricultural production in the apocalypse.

Starting today, the camp's most basic survival problem had been resolved; what remained was the question of how to live better in this doomsday world.

After lunch, at Xiang Xiaoxiao’s request, Xiang Chenguang escorted her to the camp's office building to use the internet.

Xiang Xiaoxiao had always been enthusiastic about using the internet to understand the outside world. Because her desktop computer at home was too bulky, it had not been brought along during the migration, but there were several desktop computers in the camp's office building.

Although they were somewhat outdated, browsing information online was not a problem.

Xiang Chenguang sat cross-legged to the side and began practicing the Innate Skill.

The morning's exploration of the spatial rift had given him a trace of urgency. Tier 3 monsters that could appear at any moment made him realize that, although the anti-trope system kept his strength ahead of the vast majority of people, his competitors in the apocalypse were not humans, but otherworldly invasive creatures of unknown tiers that could appear at any time.

The morning battle with the blood-sucking demon bat made him realize that the Innate Skill was even more powerful than he had imagined. It would likely be his greatest reliance for a long time to come in countering the bizarre and varied otherworldly invasive creatures.

Faced with the blood-sucking demon bat's infrasonic attack and blood-control ability, had it not been for the Innate True Qi's resistance to abnormal statuses, even if his level had been higher and his three-dimensional attributes exceeded 25 points, he might still have fallen victim to it.

Therefore, while killing monsters to raise his level, he also had to increase the proficiency of the Innate Skill as quickly as possible. Advancing both simultaneously was the only way to rapidly boost his strength.

However, just as he had calmed his mind and guided the circulation of his Innate True Qi for one complete cycle, Xiang Xiaoxiao exclaimed from nearby, "Brother, come and look! The military has built apocalyptic bases in places like Beijing, Modu, and Yuecheng."

The forum Xiang Xiaoxiao had been frequenting lately was called Apocalypse Online, a forum that had suddenly risen to prominence after the end of the world. Many people posted their observations and experiences of the apocalypse there.

The video of the military annihilating bizarre insects that Xiang Xiaoxiao had shown them last time was also a hot post discovered on this Apocalypse Online forum.

Right now, the hottest posts on the entire Apocalypse Online forum were announcements in the name of the military about the establishment of major apocalyptic bases in places like Beijing and Modu.

Xiang Chenguang carefully browsed these major popular posts, which used text and pictures to explain the process and locations of the establishment of the major apocalyptic bases.

It was not that the military had cleared out the otherworldly invasive creatures in major cities like Beijing in just a few days.

In an apocalyptic era where radio waves could no longer be transmitted at all, rendering much advanced military equipment and precision-guided weapons unusable, completely clearing out invasive monsters from a major city was basically impossible.

The major apocalyptic bases had merely established relatively secure fortress bases in the suburbs of the cities. At the end of each of these posts was the exact same video: national leaders calling on people across the country to make good use of the Apocalypse Survival System, kill invasive monsters, and carry out self-rescue.

The military would also expand the scale of the bases as much as possible while ensuring the safety of the existing apocalyptic bases, in order to shelter more citizens.

At the same time, citizens near the major apocalyptic bases could, if capable, attempt to travel to the apocalyptic bases—provided, of course, that they had the ability to ensure their own safety.

Additionally, Xiang Chenguang discovered an extraordinary thing: Xiang Xiaoxiao’s nickname on this Apocalypse Online forum was Little Martial God.

Her account level didn't seem low either, at least higher than the vast majority of users posting beneath those major threads.

It seemed Xiang Xiaoxiao had not posted sparsely on this forum during her days in the old government residential compound.

Considering that with no one to maintain them, the electricity and internet systems could collapse at any moment, or be inexplicably destroyed by some monster any day now, Xiang Chenguang decided to organize the information and guesses regarding the apocalypse he had grasped during this period into an Apocalyptic Survival Guide and post it on the forum.

The second main quest, Global Competition, revealed a great deal of information. First, the system planned to push Earth to escape the solar system a month later.

The required energy depended on humanity worldwide killing otherworldly invasive creatures to accumulate power.

Combining this with the spiritual energy points they gained from killing otherworldly invasive creatures—whose corpses would rapidly become desiccated after death—along with the timing of the Apocalypse Survival System's appearance, he could make the following guesses:

Earth, which originally lacked supernatural powers, began to possess them after overlapping with different dimensions.

To explain it using the worldview of web novels about spiritual Qi recovery, Earth was originally a low-energy world lacking spiritual Qi, incapable of giving birth to supernatural powers.

As Earth overlapped with otherworldly spaces, spiritual Qi began to appear on Earth, and simultaneously, the Apocalypse Survival System was activated.

The system could extract the spiritual Qi from the otherworldly creatures killed by the host, allowing the host to rapidly enhance their strength.

At the same time, the system also extracted a portion of the spiritual energy and stored it as the energy for Earth to break away from the solar system.

To ensure there was enough energy a month later to initiate the plan of escaping the solar system, the system had issued the second main quest, encouraging all hosts to kill more otherworldly invasive creatures.

Therefore, helping more people adapt to this apocalypse as soon as possible and killing more otherworldly invasive creatures was actually helping oneself.

Otherwise, if the Eastern Hemisphere lost the global competition, their living environment would sharply deteriorate a month later, and the superpower-farming technique they had just researched would likely become useless once the Eastern Hemisphere plunged into eternal night.

There was an even worse possibility: a month later, the Apocalypse Survival System failed to accumulate enough energy and could not push Earth out of the solar system.

Then, according to the description of the second main quest, Earth would likely be devoured and decomposed in the increasingly severe spatial overlaps, and the fate of humans surviving by relying on Earth could well be imagined.

Therefore, to avoid facing these two possible bad endings, he had to try his best to let more people survive in this apocalypse.

Thus, dictated by him and recorded by Xiang Xiaoxiao, they used Xiang Xiaoxiao's account to publish a post titled "Apocalyptic Survival Guide" on the Apocalypse Online forum.

The post was written from the tone of an expert who had reached Tier 1 or above, detailing the changes that would occur upon reaching Tier 1 and the function of evolution points.

It then listed the habits and special abilities of a series of relatively common monsters in the apocalypse.

Furthermore, it also made public the method they had successfully tested that very morning: using the corpses of otherworldly creatures as fertilizer and using superpowers to rapidly ripen crops.

Finally, it explained the difference between spatial gaps and spatial rifts, and predicted that in the near future, monsters of Tier 3 and above would invade Earth.

It called on everyone to take advantage of the current period when monsters' strengths were generally not too high to raise their own levels as quickly as possible, in order to cope with even stronger monsters in the future.