Chapter 602: Bound to the Childbirth System and Became a Winner in Life Chapter 603 Infinite Flow Cannon Fodder (50)

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Main Character:

Shen Yao

One strike per creature, and in an instant over half the mutated animal corpses on the ground were down.

Shen Yao held nothing back; because she finished them off so rapidly, the pressure the others should have borne plummeted, indirectly averting potential personnel losses.

"Sister Shen"

He Jie came running over in a scramble, handing Shen Yao a small package.

By the look of it the area wasn't large, only palm-sized for an adult; the innermost layer was a steel-structured four-sided box.

Shen Yao raised an eyebrow, "Where'd this come from?"

He Jie gave a sly grin, his shifty eyes scanning the chaotic surroundings, then pointed toward the Third Squad's direction — everything was understood without words.

Shen Yao: ……

Shen Yao waved her hand, telling He Jie to hurry back, while her own hand moved lightly and the package vanished in an instant — presumably stored in her space.

The chaotic environment persisted for a while; the crowd drove away, leaving a ground littered with animal corpses.

Shen Yao finally had time to open the package in her space; the box bore a combination lock on top.

She studied it for a moment — only to hear a *click*, and the box sprang open, revealing the item inside.

Unexpectedly, inside lay a sheet of paper, its color somewhat yellowed, with a matte texture to the touch.

Shen Yao unfolded the paper, scanning the many entries recorded on it.

"System, this is a plant research report — how did it end up in the Third Squad's hands?"

Calling it important would be a stretch, but calling it useless isn't quite right either — it still has some use at present.

Shen Yao propped her chin on one hand, her gaze gradually going blank and drifting far.

"Host, I know if this gets handed over, the Official side will give a generous reward."

At this time period, the most critical matter is cultivating new crop varieties.

For the Reception Area to develop, to progress, to feed this many people, food is indispensable.

"Then hand it over."

But not through her own hands — it must be converted into genuine results, complete and whole, and submitted that way.

She folded the paper neatly, put it back into her space, and sat in the vehicle perfectly at ease.

The fleet continued forward; this time no further mishaps occurred on the road.

The people who had joined from Sa City let out a breath of relief — they'd said it themselves, how could they be that miserable?

The fleet returned smoothly to the Reception Area; the handover and report were handled by Official Personnel. For temporary workers like Shen Yao, they only needed to return to their residence and rest; as for the generous rewards previously promised, someone would naturally deliver them to the door.

Shen Yao and Xu Ningchen rested at the residence for three days; the Second Squad's Person in Charge delivered rewards including weapons.

All were items produced by the Reception Area itself; setting aside whether their effects were good or bad, the key point is they represent the Reception Area's technological level.

Shen Yao gave the upgraded iron rod a swing, and there was also a whole crate of biological bombs.

"For future outings, you can take these for use."

Splitting them evenly between herself and Xu Ningchen, then storing the bulk in Space Storage, Shen Yao rapped her knuckles on the tabletop and mentioned they needed to seize the time.

Then let's seize the time.

The content recorded on the paper was taken by Xu Ningchen to put into practice; the Official planting zone isn't accessible to just anyone, but Shen Yao and Xu Ningchen are exceptions.

They directly secured a plot from the Official side for experiments, and the two of them cooperated with each other.

Over the next several months, neither of them left the Reception Area again; the fruit of their labor was several new plant varieties with better effects — high yield, easy to plant, and suited to all kinds of regions.

"The shortcoming is the seeds are too few; large-scale promotion will still take a few years."

What they lack most right now is time, so they still have to think of other methods.

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"Sister Shen, Sister Shen"

He Jie, wearing a white lab coat, came rushing out of the research institute looking for someone.

At this moment Shen Yao was training in the plaza; aside from the Official side, no one would come here.

"Where's Xu Hai?"

Shen Yao stopped the iron rod in her hand; the rod was just over a meter long, her go-to weapon lately, and ranked in her top three for handiness.

"The research institute has matters to attend to; Xu Hai worried certain people wouldn't stay put," so he specially stayed behind to personally keep watch — after all, this concerns their Instance Mission.

"Mm, once we get this travel pass, we'll set out from the Reception Area.

Ask the others if they want to move together as well?" Barring accidents, this is their last outing before clearing the Instance.

If they fail, what's deducted isn't time, but the points they've accumulated.

Points are that important — clearing a single High Difficulty Instance yields only a hundred points, while one mission failure deducts a thousand points.

Moreover, not every attempt can fail — there's a limit on the number of times.

Once the bottom line is crossed, mission failure means the Tasker's death; the consciousness belonging to a person will vanish completely.

He Jie nodded at those words, indicating those people would definitely be willing to go together.

This isn't the early stage of the Instance anymore; everyone is unwilling to give up on the Territory Token, fantasizing they can obtain it by relying on themselves.

Right now Taskers in the Reception Area are increasing, and quite a few have already triggered Instance Missions.

There are no eternal enemies, and no eternal friends.

Since there's no deep hatred between them that can't be resolved, cooperation gets put on the agenda.

"Talk to them. The leading position cannot be conceded; everything else can be negotiated."

Shen Yao was not the type to treat power as her life, but in a multi-person team like this, if she did not take the lead, many voices would arise.

Noisy voices would affect decision-making to a certain extent; for example, some things needed a set tone, and everyone had their own thoughts and ideas—what should be done?

He Jie nodded in agreement and turned around to go discuss the plan with the others.

Of course, He Jie was the high-and-mighty Party A, while the others were the humble Party B; as long as no one made an exorbitant demand for more, no one would risk offending a Big Shot over a single instance mission.

Forming enmity is easy; making amends is hard.

One had the intention, the other had the will, and it was very easy for both parties to reach a consensus.

Considering that the research institute still needed time, including those seeds needing to be cultivated, everyone waited patiently in the Reception Area for a month before setting out.

At this time, less than one year remained of the three-year mission period triggered by Shen Yao.

What they needed to do now was to go to other vast uninhabited areas, plant these seeds unaffected by HY elements, wait for them to take root and sprout, and improve the environment of the whole country.

This was not a matter of urgency; even these people, in order to complete the mission, needed to act separately.

Shen Yao and Xu Ningchen were responsible for the coastal area with the greatest difficulty; there were not only mutated creatures there, but various epidemics were rampant, and there was basically no survival space for humans.

The safer inland areas and the Reception Area—the Reception Area was handled by officials, while the inland was the business of these Taskers; everyone's purpose was consistent, and there was no worry about someone reneging halfway and planting a trap for others.

"Set out!"

Shen Yao sat in the frontmost Che Xiang; He Jie and Xu Hai were like two baggage-carrying lackeys, surrounding Shen Yao on the left and right, and even if Shen Yao frowned slightly, these two would open their mouths to show concern.

Shen Yao:...

There's really no need; she's not some piece of trash!

"Rest well. The place we're going is dangerous; if you're worried, you can choose a simpler place."

For example, areas near the inland, or positions near the Reception Area.

Those places had human presence due to the terrain and were not as desolate as imagined.

He Jie and Xu Hai shook their heads, indicating they also had ambitious thoughts; since they could earn more points, why should they hide in the back as shrinking turtles?

Moreover, they were different from others, having a Big Shot guiding them all the way; if they still couldn't make it to the surface, they might as well find a brick to smash themselves to death.

"Once decided, work hard on your own," Shen Yao did not want to see the two of them being too useless.

After briefly explaining a few things, Shen Yao closed her eyes to rest her spirit.

The car fleet traveled along the route planned early that morning; no matter what they encountered during the journey, they did not deviate from the route.

People on the car fleet left one after another; when only half remained, they encountered a rather troublesome matter—a group of mutated cacti.

Silver thin needles the length of fingers flashed in the sunlight; Shen Yao and the others had to temporarily abandon the vehicle and adopt a detour strategy to shake off this group of cacti.

Even with martial prowess as high as Shen Yao's, her hand was poked with two holes by the cactus's thin needles; the blood had been stopped, and a thick layer of inhibitor was applied on top.

"Sister Shen"

He Jie, sweating profusely, dragged a large bag of mutated stems and leaves over.

Indicating that everything he could search for was here; creatures like cacti were not easy to handle, as the thin needles on their bodies could continuously shoot outward, and if one's martial value was slightly insufficient, they would easily be shot into a sieve.

He Jie and Xu Hai were able to collect these thanks to the weapons provided by the Reception Area and various sneaky scavenging.

The cacti Shen Yao handled herself had been put into her space; the cactus's thin needles had a numbing effect, including the stems and leaves which also had an anti-inflammatory effect.

Gathering materials locally in the wild was relatively difficult; what Shen Yao considered most was being prepared for any eventuality.

The bag of cacti He Jie dragged over was all put into Shen Yao's space.

From this point on, the original half of the population was diverted again.

Shen Yao and Xu Ningchen's destination remained unchanged, causing He Jie and Xu Hai who followed them to not be relaxed either; the fair and tender appearance they had when eating at the Reception Area earlier had become dark and thin; if not for a pair of eyes that were astonishingly bright, no one would doubt they were being abused.

"Be careful!"

Shen Yao's iron rod was thrown out, directly smashing into the giant eagle that flew over and pounced.

The giant eagle with wings spread over ten meters swooped down, bringing up clouds of dust and smoke.

Because of the iron rod Shen Yao threw, the giant eagle had to give up the prey right before its eyes and could only pull back to increase distance, waiting for the next opportunity.

Xu Hai, who escaped from the eagle's beak, breathed a sigh of relief and scrambled toward Shen Yao's back.

It was also his bad luck; after going out for a trip, he was targeted by a giant eagle passing through the sky; fortunately, Shen Yao was by his side to lend a hand and help, otherwise he would have become the giant eagle's little snack.

He Jie saw the situation and hurriedly grabbed Xu Hai; the two of them, without further ado, hid in the vehicle.

As for the giant eagle outside? Leave it to the Big Shot to solve; they'd better not drag their feet.

After about half an hour, Shen Yao raised her hand and knocked on the vehicle's window: "Get down."

He Jie and Xu Hai pushed open the car door and saw the giant eagle not far away, cut into two sections.

"Collect the feathers; burn everything else," mutated creatures were toxic, especially animals; there was basically nothing usable on their entire bodies.

The giant eagle's feathers had a warming effect; when they set out it was autumn, followed immediately by a winter with severe temperature drops.

Although they had prepared quite a lot of living supplies, no one could guarantee how long they would actually need to run on the road within a year.

The giant eagle stared with a pair of eyes, dying with unresolved grievances; He Jie and Xu Hai took action, and after a few swishes, they shaved the giant eagle completely bald.

Huh~

That's a bit hard on the eyes!

He Jie and Xu Hai, one digging a pit and one starting a fire, until the giant eagle's corpse was burned to ashes; the pit dug by the iron hoe was also refilled with soil, and only then did the four of them get in the vehicle to continue forward.

"Sister Shen, Brother Xu, we can reach G Province in half a month."

Before the incident, this was a populous province with a developed economy; after the incident, a large number of mutated creatures gathered here, they reproduced and survived, taking the place of the hosts.

Nowadays they planned to plant new product plants on this uninhabited territory; to prevent the new species of plants from being eliminated before they grew up, they also had to live here for a period of time.

He Jie and Xu Hai could no longer cling to big thighs; they were assigned by Shen Yao to go do work.

"These are seeds; this is the survival range of the mutated creatures around here."

Shen Yao told them to be careful, and to contact her promptly if they encountered anything they couldn't resolve.

After sending them away, Shen Yao picked up her tools and seriously went down to the fields to farm.

The seeds of the new variety plants did not need holes dug and soil filled, nor did they need watering and fertilizing.

These specially bred seeds, generation after generation, not only carried the excellent genes of previous generations, but also gained additional excellent environmental adaptability; when they grew to a certain extent, they would compete with mutant creatures for nutrition, restrict the development of mutant creatures, and alleviate the threat mutant creatures posed to humanity.

It had to be said, the people of Hua Xia carried planting genes within themselves.

Even if they weren't interested when young, once this valve gap was opened, it would be beyond their own control.

Shen Yao fell in love with the feeling of farming, and her long-unquiet heart became peaceful and tranquil.

Xu Ningchen was not here; the two of them had gone to the most dangerous place in G Province, and as long as they could grow the new variety plants, their mission in G Province could be announced as completed.

'Host, how long do we have to stay here?'

'That's what I should be asking you.'

'How would I know? The clearance judgment for the Instance has clear criteria.'

'You understand so well, why ask me what to do?'

System:...

The System stifledly complained that it was truly bored, with no gossip around, it just wanted to chat casually with the Host, why block it so harshly.

'Casual? Your casualness is deliberately probing and testing?'

'Host, mutual trust.'

Shen Yao rolled her eyes; she didn't have that thing, not going for the kill and framing was already having a bottom line.

'If you're idle with nothing to do, go find information about the Territory Token; the Territory Token is related to the Reception Area, but not within the Reception Area's scope.'

In these past two years she had run to many Reception Areas, but hadn't even seen a hair of the Territory Token.

The System muttered softly, 'The Host doesn't know, how could I know?'

'That's why I'm asking you to find it,' Shen Yao was not courteous at all, even defining the scope, 'It's right around G Province; trust in your capability.'

System:...

How strange, how did the Host know there would be gains around G Province.

With an 'oh' it agreed, the System pondered how it should respond to the Host; it definitely couldn't tell the truth, as a System with integrity and a bottom line, it had to guard its System settings, just, reveal a little bit.