Could this be related to the storm?
After hesitating for a moment, the desire to go out and check the situation took over.
“I’ll go out and take a look.”
“Wait!” Gu Ming quickly grabbed him. “Don’t go out!”
“Small storms don’t stop this quickly, let alone a superstorm. If you go out now and the situation worsens, you won’t have a fixed position and won’t know where to roll to.”
Just as he was speaking, a violent shake struck without warning.
Both of them fell hard to the ground.
This time, the shaking went on for a long time without stopping. Lin Ya was no longer hesitant; he opened the door while crawling and turned back to Gu Ming, saying, “Stay here. I’ll go check the situation; don’t worry, I’ll be fine.”
If this storm was crucial to the mission, then he had to act. If he did nothing, the mission would still fail.
So he had to go out; even if he died, he wouldn’t regret failing the mission.
Gu Ming silently glanced at him, sighed, and crawled over to close the door behind him.
Well, he couldn’t stop him anyway.
…
Lin Ya stumbled his way down to the lowest level of the dormitory building, supporting himself on the stairs. On the way, he encountered military guards in protective suits.
“Get back! It’s dangerous outside!” one of them shouted. With the command coming through the walkie-talkie, they didn’t have time to worry about Lin Ya running around. A team quickly rushed him towards a secure area.
“Warning! Warning!”
“A superstorm is approaching; all personnel inside the base should take cover!”
The rumbling noise intensified with the shaking of the base, causing Lin Ya discomfort and dizziness. Yet he continued to move toward the passage he had come from.
The people beside him pulled at his arm, trying to get him to join them in the safe zone, but he shrugged them off.
“Hey! Where do you think you’re going?! Stop running around!”
[Beep! Task completion 55%]
How did it increase?
Lin Ya, puzzled, finally saw the hidden task prompt.
[Seed of Hope]
This is getting more abstract…
He ground his teeth and found himself in a dark passageway, temporarily taking cover.
Speaking of the seed of hope, Lin Ya thought of the mango seeds and succulent cuttings he handed over to the lab. Could it be this?
He also recalled the jumble of supplies gathered from the system space and the mutated sweet potatoes.
Lin Ya stuffed everything into that passage, leaving only enough space for people to walk through. The rest was filled with items: paper, pens, books, clothes, quilts, and a bunch of small miscellaneous items.
In the end, he took three branches of the mutated plant along with a large number of succulent cuttings, the mutated mango, and all the mutated sweet potatoes and placed them together.
[Beep! Task completion 95%]
The moment all items were taken out, the task completion shot up to 95%, proving that his speculation was correct.
As for why it wasn’t 100%, it might be because these items had not been discovered yet, or perhaps because the superstorm hadn’t stopped.
Lin Ya didn’t stay in one place; these items would soon be found. After thinking for a moment, he took out paper, a pen, and a flashlight, writing down the original owner’s name and the location of the hope base, hoping that the southern base could send some supplies and his remains back to the hope base.
That was the place the original owner longed to return to.
He left the note and got up to leave.
Deep underground in the base, the lower levels were all dormitory areas, except for the special high-level areas that were forbidden to enter. Lin Ya walked down level by level, encountering no one along the way; they must have all gone to take refuge.
[Beep! Task completion 100%]
With the task completion prompt announced, the familiar palpitating feeling returned—
Lin Ya slowly sat down against the stairs.
He felt a bit regretful for not saying goodbye to the only acquaintance in this world. However, he was about to leave; it didn’t seem right for others to see him in such a helpless state.
As the vibrations ceased, Lin Ya vaguely heard shouts.
“Hey! What happened to you?”
The last scene he saw before closing his eyes was Gu Ming rushing over with a worried expression.
[You have left the desert wasteland post-apocalyptic world]
Congratulations to the host, Lin Ya, for completing the survival task.
[Survival Points +200, Survival Points +5]
Survival system panel
Host: Lin Ya
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Survival Points: 9
Survival Points: 325
Survived worlds: Ice World, Virus Apocalypse, Tornado World, Drought World, Desert Wasteland Apocalypse
In the blink of an eye, Lin Ya was instantly transported to the counterattack world.
This was an era focused on entertainment.
Lin Ya woke up again in a bright European-style room, transitioning from the dark, polluted stairway passage to a bright, clean, and fragrant soft bed in the next moment.
[Why was the task from the previous world hidden?]
The survival system, usually silent, explained: [In the previous world, only you managed to unlock the hidden task. In fact, simply entering the base successfully completed the task.]
[If you hadn’t brought back edible mutated plants, the hidden task wouldn’t have triggered. This task may still be completed by others later, but since you finished the hidden task, this world has been cleared.]
[Does the host wish to watch the follow-up of the task world?]
“Watch.”
Lin Ya learned that the superstorm had swept away all mutated plants and animals on the ground, along with the mountains of abandoned buildings. The base was spared due to its deep underground location, with only the top levels suffering damage.
In the following days, relying on the seed of mutated plants that Lin Ya left behind, scientists discovered methods for planting them. The next year, they had a bountiful harvest of mutated sweet potatoes and mutated succulents, which fed all five bases.
Then the Earth revitalized, and everyone started anew.
Chapter 43 is missing.