Chapter 293: Bound to the Birth System and Becoming a Winner in Life Chapter 294: Natural Disaster End of Days Cannon Fodder (2)

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Main Character:

Shen Yao

"Sis, go out less lately. The weather's weird—it rains out of nowhere."

Rainy days make it hard to get a taxi, and getting soaked is annoying. Big Sister looked at Shen Yao's thin, frail frame and kindly advised her with a few words.

Shen Yao smiled and nodded, holding her umbrella, and watched Big Sister leave.

Turning around, she sighed, looked up at the gloomy sky above, and Shen Yao walked into the hotel not far away.

Because the room had been booked in advance, Shen Yao easily found her place after entering.

After finishing the necessary paperwork and ordering dinner to be sent to her room, Shen Yao didn't even have time to change her clothes before using the bathroom's hot water to take a shower.

Hah

Soaking her whole body in hot water, Shen Yao finally came back to life.

Putting on the pajamas she had taken out earlier, Shen Yao dried her hair with a towel in one hand, walked to the sofa, and looked out the window with an indifferent gaze.

Rumble—

Dense lightning accompanied by thunder filled Shen Yao's entire field of vision.

Her ears rang, and before she could reach up to rub them for relief, she heard the system, which had been silent, suddenly jump out and say something.

Shen Yao:... Huh?

Unexpected that the system could come back to life, Shen Yao asked what this mission was all about.

"Same as the previous world?" Both are ordinary modern societies.

"No, this world will experience natural disasters," the system spoke haltingly, as if lagging, repeating one sentence for a long time.

"Natural disasters?" End of Days instance? Similar to a non-zombie survival flow.

Thanks to her accumulated relevant experience, Shen Yao remembered that one of her lives seemed to be an ancient natural disaster survival instance.

"What time? You woke up this time—is it temporary or permanent?"

Shen Yao continued wiping her still-dripping hair, not taking natural disasters seriously at all.

That made sense; after all, she was a woman who could turn natural disaster survival into a struggle for supremacy over Tianxia. Could so-called natural disasters be more troublesome than what she had experienced? Shen Yao didn't believe it.

The system squeaked and creaked like an old machine: "Still don't know the situation for now, but it should be safe for the past few years."

After the system finished speaking, it fell silent for a while. By the time it spoke again, Shen Yao had finished dinner and was lying on the bed with her eyes closed, resting her mind.

"System, I need an accurate time." The world couldn't fall into chaos, otherwise no matter how well she completed her mission, she wouldn't get any rewards.

"Host, at the fastest, three years." That is to say, natural disasters would happen at the earliest three years later.

Shen Yao frowned. "Reason."

Natural disasters wouldn't happen for no reason. Based on the ancient natural disaster instances she had experienced, natural disasters were often accompanied by drought and famine.

In modern society, technology had advanced a lot, but the population was also exploding.

If a natural disaster broke out, the resulting calamity would be no less than the end of the world.

Shen Yao opened her eyes, stood up, and hugged her packed computer to her chest.

The system was puzzled until Shen Yao finished writing an email and, as a convenience, had the system send it to many official mailboxes domestically that could monitor climate changes or had the authority to make decisions.

System:...

"I know you can. Use merit to conceal it." As for whether they believed it, as long as she sent out enough, even if they didn't believe it, they would slowly start to suspect.

Moreover, Shen Yao looked at the pop-up webpage—either an earthquake here or a tsunami there, volcanoes that had been dead for hundreds or thousands of years starting to become active. What was this? All of it was evidence that could corroborate the content of her email!

After sleeping enough, Shen Yao opened her eyes the next day, feeling refreshed and energetic.

Coming to the window and pulling open the curtains, bright sunlight shone through the glass onto the ground.

The sky cleared overnight, as if yesterday's endless rain had just been a dream.

She exhaled.

Shen Yao went to the bathroom to wash up. After finishing, she called the system again and asked if the emails sent yesterday had any effect.

System:...

"Host, unsubstantiated news will only be treated as rumors."

No one would believe there would be natural disasters in three years, let alone in three months.

Humanity has relied on science to get to where they are today; asking them to abandon it is no different from a fool's dream.

"Only a few sporadic ones have shown movement, but it's just strengthening climate monitoring. Once it's discovered there's no abnormality, this email will be discarded and ignored."

After all, for a nonsensical email, no matter how much attention it attracts, it won't receive full devotion.

Last night, while Shen Yao was sleeping, the system secretly sneaked into the internet of this world to explore and learned that the situation here was similar to the previous life. It suddenly realized that some words spoken without basis couldn't be adopted or believed.

It reminded Shen Yao not to waste her thoughts on the emails; the merit spent wouldn't be refunded.

"Take it slow. If one day doesn't work, try two days; if two days don't work, try three days..." Shen Yao estimated the merit spent yesterday, compared it with her remaining stock, and thought, "Mm, I can still continue to spend recklessly."

"How much do you know about this world? Quickly send all relevant information to me."

Shen Yao was still completely in the dark now, and so was the system. She didn't ask, and it didn't take the initiative to say—it truly had not a bit of perceptiveness.

System:...

Being nagged by the host like this, the system suddenly realized it was derelict in its duty.

Aiyo

What was it waiting for? Quickly dump all information about this world into Shen Yao's brain. The system shrank its body and hid in the corner.

Shen Yao:...

Shen Yao felt that the longer she got along with the System, the more it let itself go.

Whether speaking or acting, the System was completely different from its initial nature; could this be the meaning of the assessment? Shen Yao couldn't quite figure it out.

A bunch of things were suddenly stuffed into her head, all sorts of miscellaneous items.

Shen Yao took a while to sort out the information, and at the same time she understood that this world looked similar to her previous life on the surface, but some things couldn't be counted on too much.

Once a natural disaster struck, everyone would be too busy looking after themselves; Shen Yao was just an ordinary woman, wanting to both take care of herself and complete System Tasks in such an environment—needless to say, the difficulty was quite high.

Fortunately, time wasn't urgent; Shen Yao recalled some novel experiences she had read, and could use these few years to build herself a safe residence where she could live.

Natural disasters meant rain, snow, hail, wind, and frost; generally speaking, one had to run to places with vast land, few people, and high altitude.

The city where Shen Yao attended university was inland, and its altitude was terrifyingly low.

Tsk tsk tsk, it seemed she still had to look for a foothold in several provinces and cities in the Southwest Direction.

However, the most urgent matter was still to make money first; without money, every step was difficult, and only with money could one live comfortably.

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Having the motivation to strive, Shen Yao became more active in her daily writing.

Besides writing, Shen Yao also went out to browse the shops around Jiang City, including but not limited to some malls and supermarkets, inquiring about local prices.

Of course, Shen Yao never came out empty-handed whenever she went in; she didn't buy many things, just enough to carry herself, and it didn't attract any attention at all.

All the miscellaneous items in the space were cleaned up by Shen Yao one by one; what should be moved was moved, what should be packed was packed, freeing up more space to store daily food and tools.

Such a long period of time was not meant for Shen Yao to waste; she also needed to plan for the future.

Even if the worst-case scenario developed in reality, she at least had to bring a child to live; how should the supplies for the two of them, mother and child, be arranged? All of these needed Shen Yao to handle in advance.

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September 1st, Jiang University opened for the semester.

Shen Yao ended her accommodation life at the hotel and ran to Jiang University with her suitcase to register.

After receiving the dormitory key and buying bedding with the accompaniment of senior students, Shen Yao finally had a temporary foothold.

If nothing unexpected happened, she would study at Jiang University for four full years and graduate.

However, according to the organized information, Shen Yao could stay at school for at most two years, and these two years weren't purely for staying; she also had to take the opportunity to make more money and store supplies.

Nowadays, she had quite a lot of deposits in her card; this money was enough for her to buy decent real estate in several provinces and cities in the Southwest Direction, after all, the economically developed cities in the country were not in the Southwest; that place was surrounded by mountains with high altitude, and from an economic perspective, it wasn't worthwhile to invest.

This was also the reason Shen Yao was anxious to buy a house; even if she sent out many emails, who in the whole world understood the situation more than she did.

Perhaps some people would prepare in advance to guard against trouble before it happens, but at most they would make some arrangements on the premise of not harming their own interests.

For example, building a house and installing glass, or perhaps quitting their jobs to hide in the countryside, or more extreme, stockpiling various foods and drinking water with long shelf lives.

It couldn't be said that there were no people who spent money to buy land in remote mountain areas to transform; it could only be said that the proportion of such people was very small.

Who could have more say than Shen Yao? So Shen Yao wasn't worried at all; she should go to school when she should go to school, and make money when she should make money; she looked carefree.

Time came to October, and the annual seven-day holiday began.

Shen Yao shouldered her luggage, bought a train ticket to the Southwest, and went on a spur-of-the-moment trip.

Of course, the purpose of this trip, Shen Yao had considered the meaning of a residence; the time was short and it might not be possible to finalize it, but during the upcoming winter break and New Year, Shen Yao had to get these done in advance; she didn't want to go back to living in Linshan.

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By her ears was the warm current of the wind blowing by; outside the window was the constantly receding scenery.

The journey wasn't long; Shen Yao only bought a hard seat; calculating the time, in two or three hours she would get off the train.

There were also college students around like Shen Yao going out, but compared to Shen Yao's loneliness, everyone else was in groups, very lively.

"Classmate, where are you from? Are you out to play?" The lively girl spoke up to start a conversation; even though Shen Yao didn't like to talk, she still couldn't stop the other person's enthusiasm.

"A person from Jiang City, just out for a walk," Shen Yao said after finishing, and took out headphones from her bag.

"Classmate, you..." The girl saw this and still wanted to say more, but was stopped by the girl beside her.

"Alright, can't you see she doesn't want to talk?" She even put on headphones; the meaning of refusal was obvious; how could she not know how to read people's expressions.

Shen Yao acted as if she hadn't heard, and busied herself by taking out a laptop to start working.

Anyway, they weren't very familiar; chatting or not had no meaning.

The people around took out playing cards to play with one another, occasionally joking and having a great time.

Shen Yao did her own work; until arriving at the station, she stood up and got off.

Compared to inland cities, the several provinces and cities in the Southwest Region were more desolate.

Even though Jiang City wasn't developed, compared to this mountain forest small city before her eyes, Jiang City was still better.

Shen Yao carried a bag on her back and held luggage she would use in her hand; she found a decent hotel and patiently inquired about the situation with the owner.

Confirming that taking a taxi to the city would take half an hour, she simply stayed here for a night.

The accommodation fee in the small town wasn't expensive, and the hotel Shen Yao found was genuine; she also wasn't afraid that someone would come to make things difficult for her.

After resting for a night, Shen Yao put on thicker autumn clothing and left; she was going to the Passenger Transport Station not far away to take a car.

The road to the city was difficult to walk, and the train wasn't as fast as the bus; Shen Yao had already learned a lot about the situation here through the internet; going to the city to walk around was also to conduct an on-site inspection to avoid problems.

After spending an hour, Shen Yao arrived at Changzhou City; the altitude here was generally above 2000 meters, and many people came here to play on a daily basis.

Shen Yao came to scout the place under the pretense of playing, so her itinerary was relatively tight; basically, after finishing one place, she hurried to the next, afraid there wouldn't be enough time and would delay the progress of things.

Fortunately, the plan Shen Yao formulated was relatively reasonable, and besides, she could also rely on the System to help her cheat.

The System currently showed no signs of entering hibernation; the whole system also gradually became lively, not as dull and stupid as when it first responded.

But learning from past mistakes, Shen Yao was afraid the System would disappear again silently and without a trace, neither alive nor dead; so she simply took advantage of this period to ruthlessly exploit the System, making it serve her.

The System belonged to the category of an arm that couldn't twist the thigh, and was also worried that if it wasn't around, the Host's tasks wouldn't be completed well, affecting rewards; that's why it appeared especially cooperative.

Basically, wherever Shen Yao pointed, the System struck; there wasn't a single complaint; just like an unreasonable person, it directly changed its sharp and mean nature.

"Host, this place isn't bad; the population isn't large, the environment is suitable, and there are hospitals and large supermarkets and malls nearby; besides, it's not close to the earthquake belt; if a natural disaster really strikes, this place will most likely be less affected."

You must know that besides high altitude, what was most abundant here were various mountain forests.

The system carried the air of someone hawking their own wares, constantly lobbying Shen Yao to buy a house.

Shen Yao was patient; if she said she wouldn't buy, she wouldn't buy—she wanted to look around some more.

"But you're going back to school," the system muttered to itself, "when would you have the time?"

"Take leave, say I'm sick with a fever, can't go back," Shen Yao said calmly, showing not a trace of illness herself.

System:...

Fine, say she's sick and she's sick; anyway, it's easy enough to make up a medical record.

Another day passed, and Shen Yao left here, boarding a train for cities at higher altitudes.

After about half a month, Shen Yao had visited all the cities she had her eye on—not in great detail, but enough to get a sense of the situation there.

In the end, Shen Yao chose to buy a house and settle in Rimu City, at an altitude of nearly 3000 meters.

For no other reason: this was a provincial capital with the relatively best environment, and considering the danger of natural disasters, Shen Yao couldn't stay away from crowds for too long.

Most of the people living in Rimu City were Han, the surrounding economy was developed, and it was a semi-tourist city of some renown.

Shen Yao had chosen the spot, then asked the intermediary to keep an eye on properties there. The residence had to balance geographical location and safety performance, and Shen Yao had to be cautious to the utmost.