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Chapter 714: Zero Hour Stray

"Average? Has everyone been averaged?"

The words spoken by the person in the coffin clearly failed to persuade Lun Qin. She was deeply troubled, for she only wished to live an ordinary life. She had endured enough of the feeling of being fearfully watched by everyone like a monster over the past decade.

"This is the average power value of 7,689,300,142 people on Water Blue Star at midnight last night, not counting the power of any weapons."

"Then may I ask... who, then, made us all 'averaged'?"

"..."

"Zero Hour Stray,"

"SS-rank Treasure. Effect: It will update the host's power every twenty-four hours. Every day at midnight, the host's internal power will be refreshed to the average value of all humans worldwide at that moment."

Lun Qin noticed an interface had appeared in her field of vision.

"This thing on my chest is called Zero Hour Stray?"

...

After a series of inexplicable exchanges, she finally understood the current situation.

The coffin that had inexplicably appeared on her bed contained the entity that called itself 'Bai', the mysterious life form she had encountered in the previous Water Blue Star world.

Lun Qin had tried many times and many methods to extract information from Bai, but all had failed without exception.

This coffin wasn't heavy; at least for Lun Qin, whose strength had been enhanced several hundredfold, lifting it with one hand was no problem at all. Yet, it was impervious to water and fire, and unharmed by blades or axes.

Even if she used all her strength, she couldn't harm it in the slightest.

Over the next few days, Lun Qin could only do her best to adapt to her newly acquired power, because compared to the power she wielded, her control was simply too weak.

She was extremely worried that if she now 'gently' patted her brother's shoulder, it would be like a knife cutting through butter, and she would directly sever his entire shoulder.

Aside from the drastic changes on the first day, in the subsequent days, Lun Qin felt her power gradually stabilize. In this peaceful world, where humanity as a whole was in a dynamic equilibrium, the average value would be hard-pressed to undergo significant fluctuations.

"Will it be 'lifting the poor and helping the weak, with everyone becoming like a dragon', or 'slaughtering all living beings to reign supreme as a solitary king'?" Bai Mo, lying within the Heaven-Concealing Coffin, was quite curious what method she would ultimately use to raise the average human military power when circumstances forced her to choose to become stronger.

...

"Water, instant noodles, fire axe, bandages, aspirin..." Yu Nan, who had now changed into a new outfit, hummed a little tune as he bought things at the supermarket according to the listed inventory.

According to the Main God's description, he could roughly guess that this apocalypse was likely caused by some kind of monster invasion.

If possible, he didn't want to simply survive in the apocalypse; he wanted to announce this matter to the whole world.

One nation, or even the entire world, preparing together to cope with the difficulty of the apocalypse would certainly be less difficult than fighting individually after the collapse of order.

But he didn't have the courage.

Because every time Yu Nan had this thought, he would feel a sense of his hair standing on end, his instincts warning him never to do so.

The great tide of destiny in this world was to move towards an apocalypse of collapsing order. Anyone who tried to resist destiny would be crushed to dust, utterly annihilated.

Just for the price he paid for the text message he had sent earlier, Yu Nan had already coughed up blood several times.

Destiny could not be resisted; he could only go with the flow.

In the few days since he got the phone, his phone's home screen had gained hundreds of apps, all kinds of online micro-loans. Some were as much as three to five thousand, others as little as one to two thousand; he had managed to secure over three hundred thousand in total.

As long as he could get a loan, Yu Nan applied for them all, not caring at all if they were predatory loans.

In just one month's time, the money he would owe would exceed five hundred thousand. But by then, the apocalypse would have arrived. What are debts? Can they be eaten?

...

He wasn't the only one doing similar things.

The Reincarnators who had been drawn into the dream realm, apart from the more than twenty who had already initiated the Reincarnation Tribulation and couldn't recover their memories in a short time, all others began their preparations.

Here, they lost all their power and became ordinary people again, losing most of their advantages as Reincarnators.

Without the supernatural powers from other dimensions and without knowing the plot's direction, apart from memories of once being a Reincarnator, they were no different from the ordinary people of Water Blue Star.

In the face of the monsters pouring out in the apocalypse, they were equally pitiful individuals struggling to survive.

"Nail steel plates onto the last window. Tomorrow the apocalypse will be here."

Yu Nan used the strongest steel he could buy to seal up the doors and windows of his rented house.

In these two houses, he stored large quantities of food, purified water, and other daily necessities.

Anything he could think of, he bought a pile of.

Yu Nan had calculated that if he consumed a maximum of 2 catties of rice per day, these ten-plus tons of rice would be enough for one person to eat for over a decade.

To reduce trouble, he even made special trips to over ten grain and oil stores in the city, buying twenty bags from each, but still attracted some attention.

After all, a normal person at such a retail grain and oil store would at most buy two or three bags, about a hundred catties of rice.

Rice isn't something that stores well; without a specialized warehouse, it easily gets rice weevils.

Besides supplies, Yu Nan also acquired through the black market, at great expense, a small pistol, along with a hundred rounds of ammunition.

As a low-tier Reincarnator with relatively rich experience, his pistol skills were quite good.

Additionally, he also obtained crossbows, which were relatively easy to acquire, and certain poisons.

This series of actions actually attracted the attention of the local Investigation Department.

Yu Nan had too little time left; he could no longer pay attention to these things.

On the last peaceful night, he lay clothed with a gun in his hand, and it took great effort to force himself to sleep.

...

"The sun has disappeared!"

At eight in the morning, the sky suddenly darkened.

A few thugs, cigarette butts dangling from their mouths, who had been leisurely strolling down the street, were so scared that they dropped their cigarettes on the ground.

"I don't remember the news reporting an eclipse." A passing office worker, holding their phone, began looking through the dense stream of push notifications.

"Look, it seems like the whole world is talking about the sun disappearing."

"..."

"Sis, why is it dark again? Is it a black downpour? Does that mean I don't have to go to school?" With an excited expression but sleepy eyes, Lun Heping walked out of his room excitedly.

These past few days, he had felt that his sister was a little strange. It seemed she was somewhat distant from him, trying every possible way to avoid him touching her and not wanting to talk much with him.

But Lun Heping, who was in his rebellious teenage phase, only wanted to create more opportunities for conversation and physical contact, making Lun Qin truly miserable.