CHAPTER 150: CHINESE ARE TOO SCARY!

For instance, two months ago in the north, the Red Gang created chaos and stole a batch of weapons, firing a shot across the bow to divert the United States’ attention to that region. This made them believe Huaxia was just there to steal weapons, considering the whole world was in disarray and in dire need of them.

While that region was in turmoil, it was only recently that high-ranking officials in the United States discovered that these damned Chinese had, months ago, deceived everyone by infiltrating their core personnel. They had managed to substitute key individuals and, through disguise, perfectly replicate their appearances.

They had even collected their retinal scans and fingerprints. More impressively, they used voice changers to mimic their voices exactly.

Furthermore, it was said that an expert in interrogation had been in charge of torturing various core personnel throughout, keeping them under constant surveillance. If the impersonators encountered any issues while interacting with others, they would coerce these core personnel on how to react. Nobody dared to play any tricks, as this person was also proficient in advanced psychology and counter-interrogation techniques, employing multiple lines of questioning. If the person being interrogated tried to be clever... the consequences would be extremely grim.

By the way, this expert liked to carry his signature weapon. Since water was so scarce in the United States, he had modified it from injecting water to injecting various rotten corpse insect eggs...

This allowed the impersonators to live with the families of those they impersonated for several days, and the families did not notice anything amiss!

While creating a diversion to attract their attention on one front, they quietly secured and stole all these items on another. By the time the United States noticed, it was too late!

The Chinese were terrifying!

Not many days later, the United States finally established a big data base in Huaxia, and both sides reached a friendly cooperation agreement. The video of the ambassadors shaking hands was released, and Jing Shu could see Huaxia’s ambassador flashing a sharp yet adorable, fang-like smile.

Eventually, Huaxia won by a narrow margin. Jing Shu felt a thrill inside; although she didn’t understand the intricacies, she still wanted to exclaim: Huaxia rocks!

「...」

After officially incorporating Virtual Coin into the currency system, the Government also began to re-price the chaotic market step-by-step. As for individual transactions and their methods, those would have to wait until next year.

Previously, there hadn’t been time, but now, having freed up resources, the Government finally collected all the charging stations. Henceforth, they would be used as ’official goods.’ To use a charging station to recharge an energy car would now cost 6 Virtual Coins per use.

Due to this high cost, many people stopped driving and simply switched to bicycles. After all, 6 Virtual Coins could buy three rice meals, which was a significant expense for ordinary families.

When Mr. Jing learned of this, he gave Jing Shu a thumbs up. "See? My daughter is farsighted! We grabbed one early on. Now we generate our own power and use it without any cost."

Jing Shu rolled her eyes. "Dad, a thief was about to steal it, and we just happened to run into them, okay? Don’t make it sound like I deliberately set out to grab it."

Mr. Jing just laughed foolishly while Grandma Jing called from the side that it was time to wash hands and eat.

Meanwhile, Wu You’ai was lounging on the couch, squinting while eating ice cream. He sent a message to the group before lazily going to wash his hands:

"@everyone, starting next week, the supermarket will supply various clothes, bedding, and kitchenware—basically all those things we used to trade Virtual Coins for. However, to prevent profiteering, the prices of these items will increase by 20%. Also, toilet paper will be launched at 0.5 Virtual Coins per pack."

Wang Cuihua sent a voice message: "What a rip-off! Buying low from us and selling high back to us. Even the toilet paper is so expensive!"

Fatty Girl: "That’s to keep us from wasting things, isn’t it? To be honest, I’m used to not using toilet paper anymore. There’s nothing hands can’t solve."

Luo Zhu: "Do you usually use your right hand or your left?"

Fatty Girl: "I usually use my right hand. What about you?"

Luo Zhu: "Ever since Li Yuetian caught me and had me ’reformed’ for a few days, I mostly find a rock and rub against it."

Fatty Girl: "[Bowing with hands clasped] You’re incredible. Now I know why the stones downstairs all have a particular smell."

「...」

On November 5th, the black pig at Jing Shu’s house also gave birth to a litter. Time flew so quickly; unknowingly, a whole year had passed since Jing Shu was reborn. She still remembered her nervousness and how she drooled over everything when she first came back...

Of course, she didn’t drool anymore; she just swallowed hard. The greatest happiness, Jing Shu felt, was being able to eat whatever you wanted, whenever you wanted. Just like now, when she was craving pork jerky.

So she immediately slaughtered a pig and spent several days making it into dried meat slices. She placed these in the Magic Cube Space, occasionally eating a few pieces. Sweet and spicy, each piece slowly chewed in her mouth—truly a profound happiness.

She thanked the thieving heavens for allowing her two months to frantically gather resources. Now, everything she ate, used, or had grown—hadn’t she bought it all herself? Was any of it not useful?

To ensure a more prosperous future, Mr. Jing took six piglets to his workplace the next day. His promotion depended entirely on them. The remaining four piglets were raised at home, to be slaughtered for meat when they grew up.

Jing Shu was reassured. Mr. Jing had finally become ambitious. Previously, he had only planned to work for a while and reassess after the Dark Day ended. But now, Mr. Jing was putting all his energy into managing the livestock farm as a career.

By now, no one was foolishly waiting for the Dark Day to end anymore; what mattered was figuring out how to survive better.

By the way, the custom-made PVC set Jing Shu had requested was long since ready. It took Jing Shu and Mr. Jing two days to install the top cover, the four water collection tanks, and the RV garage’s top cover according to the instructions.

Its shape was somewhat awkward but understandable. One could imagine it as a gigantic, square, PVC waterproof umbrella covering the entire villa. Considering the potential for wind and rain, this umbrella was much larger than the villa and slanted, directing rainwater and insects straight into the water collection tanks, which required periodic cleaning.

This way, no matter how many days of heavy rain poured, the area around the villa wouldn’t get flooded.

Mr. Jing had also prepared the wiper mechanism. When needed, they could activate it from inside the villa to scrape off any red earthworms sticking to the cover and direct them into the water collection tanks.

Even though Yao Zixin had told himself a thousand times not to be curious, after finishing the installation, he still couldn’t help but ask, "It’s so hot, and you’re covering the house with a blanket. What’s the point of doing this?"

Jing Shu then sent him the online news articles and various posts predicting that within three months, sea levels would rise, and heavy floods and torrential rain would occur everywhere.

"If it really rains that much, my house has an open terrace. It will definitely get flooded. It’s better to take precautions early."

"Even drinking water is a struggle now. If you hadn’t given us those 50 liters of water, my family would have died of thirst. These kinds of posts have been around for a year without coming true. Part of the population that migrated from Japan to Chao County even went back. So you see, the talk of rising sea levels is unreliable. Besides, they said the Dark Day would end in two months, yet it’s almost been a year now. The authorities have even admitted that the apocalypse has arrived."