Chapter 340 - Its Hard to Fool Them, Even for Once (1/2)
The days and nights went by, and it was finally mid-August.
Fang Ning was finally bored of surfing the net.
The internet no longer satisfied his need for entertainment, and he was lying down in the internet café like a piece of salted fish.
The internet was no longer filled with gossip and breaking news of celebrities. Instead, videos on survival tutorials were dominating the front page of every outlet on the web.
This also led to the upward trend of survival streams on all live streaming sites.
Those videos fronted by Mr. Bear were considered classics, and people were constantly digging them out from the grave and reposting them online.
Recently, the most watched video series online was one with the title “Building a Survival Camp from Scratch”.
Fang Ning had watched a few videos in the series. The videos were simple yet filled with knowledge. What they were trying to demonstrate in their videos was to use basic materials easily obtainable such as wood and rock and guided the viewers on Paleolithic tools to Neolithic tools, followed by the Feudal eras…
All in all, a normal human with basic IQ and the patient to finish all ten plus videos would learn something useful.
They would learn how to start a fire from branches, building a wooden crib, creating tools, boiling water, cooking rice, pottery, making bow and arrows, hunting, land trimming, farming…
The video also taught about blacksmithing, but first they would need to find an ore mine.
Other than medical related tutorials and special care for fever and cold, the rest of the tutorials were filled with useful content.
With such educational videos and the upward trend in survival videos, the views came flooding every time their videos were uploaded, and they gained thousands of fans through the series.
However, Fang Ning never found them interesting.
He himself already had three basecamps where he could hide from the world; the System Space with a large stockpile of food, the Draconic Arcane Realm with a farm, as well as the Morality City that was still under construction.
Besides, with the help of Sir System and the support of multiple powerhouses, he had no use of those primitive survival skills.
He was a typical sarcastic human who never used his common senses… 1
All he wanted was the latest novel, the latest anime movies, and the latest video games.
Unfortunately for him, these things he wanted were slowly disappearing from the world.
MMORPGs were shutting down their servers, and online novel updates were halted. Single-player games websites were also not putting out any more creative games into the market.
All of these were because of the huge reduction in customers.
Even though the world was facing the biggest threat it faced, its chaotic level was greatly reduced with the Dragon God standing in the front line. Everyone knew that they would remain safe with a little bit more effort than they previously did.
However, who in the right mind would have the time and mood to play instead of trying to survive?
Many people took their entertainment away and returned to reality, focusing on preparing for the worst.
They would at least buy a few boxes of instant noodles even if they were poor.
Yes, the Dragon God promised that the sky would not fall, but he never said the sea wouldn’t rise to the level that it would drown everyone…
As days went by there were more and more news about the increased sea level. Tall waves were hitting the coast even before the moon went away, and multiple coastline cities had shut down their beaches for safety.
That was why people were busy stocking up dried food to prepare for when the flooding starts.
Try to buy 51 bowls of instant noodles by then?
You might not even get a single one.
In this instance, some innocent bystanders were affected by troubles unrelated to them.
Fang Ning was one of the affected people. Even when both his internet connection and power supply were working perfectly fine, he no longer felt entertained as his sources of joy were slowing disappearing.
After a moment, he stood up from boredom and said to a person who was cultivating, “Give me your body.”
System Notification: [The System has given control of its body to the host]
Fang Ning felt satisfied but confused at the same time.
“Why are you so obedient today?”
“I am always a nice system that follows orders.”
“You are only nice towards yourself, and you only trust your own orders. You must be eyeing my money again,” Fang Ning mumbled to himself while he regained control over his body.
He walked out of his bedroom to the farm villa.
The air was fresh and the sky was clear.
The environment was something rare in Qi City.
Since the start of the new era, most of the long-standing companies in the nation shifted their focuses and their men-power towards vitality-based industries.
While the vitality-based industry had their cons, they would always be better in their cleanliness aspect compared to traditional industries.
Fang Ning took a few breaths of fresh air before walking around the farm.
Suddenly, a farm worker in his forties walked toward him in a cowardly manner.
Fang Ning didn’t felt threatened… What could possibly go wrong under the watchful eyes of Sir System?
He looked at him for a moment and remembered.
This man was Master Luo Xingrong, the one in-charge of maintaining the gardens around the villa. They both had small talk a while ago.
Fang Ning was not bluffing when he said his memory was so great he could remember every book in a library. 2
He asked, “Master Luo, what’s wrong?”
That worker heard him called his name and immediately relaxed before his eyes got teary.
He couldn’t believe that the Dragon God, who was so high up in everything compared to him, somehow remembered his name even though they had only met once.
The man rubbed his teary eyes and said, “Hero, I have something in my mind but I feel like it’s hard for me to say it.”
Fang Ning waved his hands and replied, “Go ahead and don’t worry about it.”
Master Ruo held his hands and said, “I have a request. I hope to bring along my wife and kids to this farm… Of course they will not stay for free, you can deduct from my pay directly.”
Fang Ning understood him as he said his mind.
‘I knew it. How is it possible for the people to feel safer about the return of the moon even though the Dragon God had stepped up?
‘While the youngsters are learning survival skills from the internet, the older ones were more comfortable with trying to find help through their connections.
‘And where else is safer than the home of Vigilante A?’
Fang Ning thought about it and nodded, “Easy. You can talk to Butler Zheng about the necessary arrangement.”
Master Ruo thanked him and left.
Fang Ning looked at his back as he left and sighed.