Chapter 89: Global Nuclear Explosion 1
It was a loss.
People who bought expensive things basically lost out.
After the game information was released, You Che’s private messages came in one after another.
[Friend 2991876542: Holy crap, Big Chu, you’re truly a god.]
[Friend 2991876542: Luckily, I didn’t buy the pistol for 45 points back then. I heard several point-rich bigwigs lost terribly this time.]
“So these things are all one-time use items; once they’re brought into the game, they’re gone. When you add everything up, only the books are the most cost-effective.”
Why cost-effective?
Because books don’t have to be brought into the game.
As long as they’re not brought into the game, these books can be used indefinitely. Once all the knowledge is absorbed, the items can even be sold off.
Cost-effective, incredibly worthwhile!
Besides a longbow which cost him 10 points, the two books he bought about vehicles cost a total of 14 points. If he hadn’t listened to Big Chu and had bought just a gun for 45 points, he’d be crying his eyes out now.
Some people are bigwigs, but she is a bigwig in every aspect.
Gratitude.
Besides gratitude, there was only adoration.
At this moment, You Che had completely turned into a mindless fan.
Reality, Day Two
Players who didn’t earn points in the last round of the game and failed to sell their game items when the trading platform opened had already died.
The forum was filled with sorrow and wailing.
Chu Yian didn’t check the forum today; instead, she focused on reading the books she had bought until a new round of the game began again.
[This Round’s Game: Global Nuclear Blast]
[Game Content: Nuclear bombs worldwide will detonate at 21:00 on the first day of the game. Players need to survive the nuclear blast and find and enter a human survival base within 15 days.]
[Initial Funds: 2000 coins]
[Initial Supplies: ID card, 1 set of clothing, communication device]
[Current Total Players: 3,893,829,399]
Less than 3.9 billion people remained.
She remembered that at the start of the previous game, there were still 6 billion players; today, 2 billion people were gone in just one day.
[Hello, Player Chu Yian. You currently possess Class II game items: driver’s license, crossbow, “Compendium of Chinese Medicine,” “Special Forces Survival Manual,” “Compendium of Trap Making,” “Women’s Self-Defense Techniques,” ant duvet, glue, eye drops, brooch, enema.]
“Do you wish to bring some or all of the above game items? You have 60 seconds to choose.”
If the game hadn’t listed them, Chu Yian wouldn’t have known she had bought so many things.
She definitely wouldn’t bring any books.
Driver’s license and crossbow… Chu Yian pondered for a moment. The crossbow was too expensive; she was a little reluctant to part with it. In this round of the game, with a nuclear blast on the first day, no one would likely be waiting by the roadside to check driver’s licenses.
She wouldn’t bring those two either.
The remaining items she had bought because she listened to You Che. To be honest, she didn’t know what these things were for.
She decided on a few things she wouldn’t need, then blindly picked two items from the miscellaneous ones.
The ant duvet and the brooch.
As soon as she selected these two items, the time was up, not giving her a chance to think further.
No need to overthink; the game used to not have these things, and didn’t she still get through it?
Chu Yian comforted herself. When she opened her eyes again, she was already in the game world. She checked the items on her person: a backpack, a phone, an ID card, a set of clothes, and a four-piece bedding set.
Besides these, the ant duvet and the brooch were summoned. When she thought of these two items, their corresponding patterns appeared in the air. By clicking on the images, the items would fall into her hand, giving it an even more game-like feel.
It was the first day of the game, 14:03.
By her estimation, there were still 7 hours until the global nuclear blast.
That wasn’t much time!
Chu Yian’s first reaction wasn’t to open a blind box or make money, but to escape.
She had learned in school as a child that when all the world’s nuclear bombs exploded, the power of the blast would be enough to destroy all human civilization. It was from that moment on that she developed a natural fear of nuclear weapons and nuclear explosions.
And what about the game world at this moment?
Tall buildings stood all around, and vehicles whizzed past her.
Music played from a nearby store, and the streets were filled with couples, office workers, or families coming and going. There was also a group of elderly men and women dressed in festive attire, beating gongs and drums to celebrate the grand opening of a store.
Everything looked ordinary and unbelievably beautiful.
It wasn’t until a plane roared overhead that it interrupted her momentary daze.
With less than seven hours until the nuclear blast, how should she escape, and where should she escape to?
Chu Yian found an internet cafe and immediately rented a computer. Her phone was also busy, searching for where to survive if a nuclear blast were to occur in the city now.
Although she had always feared nuclear blasts, she always felt it wouldn’t actually happen, so her attention to it was naturally not high.
But now, for the sake of her own life, she frantically searched for relevant information. A very unfamiliar term appeared on the computer screen—the Dead Hand system.
The Dead Hand system is owned by almost every major nuclear-armed nation.
It is composed of a small group of professional soldiers who spend years in dark underground bunkers, constantly monitoring various sensors without blinking, tracking data such as external power grids, seismic waves, satellite signals, and radiation levels. Once the Dead Hand system loses contact with the national command center, all of that major power’s nuclear weapons will be launched simultaneously towards all pre-set targets (major world powers).
The Dead Hand system can be said to be the nation’s last line of defense, a true nuclear deterrent, aiming for mutual destruction.
It is a threat and also a form of destruction.
As soon as one Dead Hand system is activated, the Dead Hand systems of other nuclear-armed powers will also be activated in a chain reaction.
At that point, neither strong nor weak nations would be able to escape.
Chu Yian looked at the information she found. These nuclear weapons would target densely populated cities. Even cities with over 1 million people would face at least one nuclear warhead attack.
Seeing this, she quickly looked up the total population of City X online: 22.01 million.
“Holy crap!”
Seeing this number, she couldn’t help but blurt out a curse, drawing glances from those nearby.
Chu Yian ignored the others and continued her search.
Underground is the best place to hide from a nuclear explosion.
Air-raid shelters, subway stations, bank vaults, or at the very least, a parking garage.
Of course, not all places are that effective. If she was extremely unlucky and was near or at the center of the explosion, hiding anywhere would be useless, and she would simply end the game early.
