Chapter 2

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Ling Yichen was considered experienced and knowledgeable. Only then did he remember that before the apocalypse, there was a genre in online novels that involved systems.

However, in the history before his rebirth, he had no such experience. Where did this system come from?

“You have a newbie gift bag that you have yet to receive. Do you want to receive it?”

“Receive.”

Since he couldn’t figure it out, he didn’t have to figure it out for the time being. He had already done his best before his rebirth, but he still couldn’t defeat that group of foreign race leaders. Perhaps it would be very different if he used another method.

If those authors didn’t write nonsense, he would have obtained a cheat.

“Congratulations to the Ruler for obtaining an [Insect Clan Mother Nest].”

“Congratulations to the Ruler for obtaining an [Unknown Insect Egg] (Mortal Body Rank-1).”

“Congratulations to the Ruler for obtaining a [Beginner’s Handbook of the Ruler of the Insect Clan].”

Listening to the system notification, Ling Yichen looked towards the core region of the land that had a radius of only 3m. The so-called Insect Clan Mother Nest had appeared.

[Building]: Insect Clan Mother Nest

[Level]: Level-1

[Introduction]: The base with the highest authority among the Insect Clan. The control centre of the Mother Nest has not been activated.

[Abilities]: Information Processing, Commanding Operations, Construction

Ling Yichen looked at the Insect Clan Mother Nest in front of him, which was only about one square meter large. He slowly shifted his gaze to an egg and a book at the side.

[Unknown Insect Egg] (Rank-1 Mortal Body): Can randomly incubate a unique Initial Mortal Body Rank-1 insect. Can be incubated in the [Incubation Yard].

Did the word “unique” mean that the species was extinct?

Did that mean that there was only one in the world?

[Beginner’s Handbook of the Ruler of the Insect Clan]: It allows the Ruler to understand the functions of the Hive System.

Seeing this introduction, the moment Ling Yichen had the thought of reading this book, it turned into a beam of light and flew towards the Insect Clan Mother Nest.

At this moment, a lot of information appeared in Ling Yichen’s mind, allowing him to understand what the Ruler of the Insect Clan was.

The Insect Clan here were somewhat similar to the characters in StarCraft, which he had played before. However, there were many obvious differences, or rather, they were more complicated.

“What are you doing? Do you want to skip school? Come down quickly!”

Before Ling Yichen could experience the system functions, the shout of a security guard came from afar.

Ling Yichen did not stay any longer. He simply jumped over the wall and ran to the street.

Ling Yichen’s parents died in a car accident half a year ago, leaving only his sister to rely on him. She was three years younger than him and was currently studying in the third year of junior high school. Her name was Ling Zixing.

Before he was reborn, he had tried his best to find his sister. For this reason, he had risked his life to break into her middle school. However, in the end, he found a corpse. From the corpse, he could tell that she had died at the hands of a mutated creature.

After this rebirth, he would not allow such a thing to happen again!

It was class time. His sister would mute her phone. She wouldn’t even turn on vibrations.

There was still time. He could go buy some equipment and supplies first.

After their parents died, they also obtained a sum of money. The siblings could be considered to have no worries about food and clothing.

However, after the apocalypse began, the money gradually lost its use. In the end, even if one had a hundred million yuan, one could only use it to warm yourself up or wipe their butt.

Just as he ran out, the driver he had called while he was still in school had also arrived.

There were less than three hours before the apocalypse began.

Although Ling Yichen looked calm on the surface, he was actually messing with the Hive System.

If he wanted to hatch that unknown insect egg, he had to build an Insect Clan building, the [Incubation Yard].

[Building]: Incubation Yard

[Level]: Level-1

[Introduction]: A breeding ground for larvae.

[Abilities]: Egg Production, Egg Hatching

[Production Consumption]: Consumes 10 units of organic matter to produce larvae.

[Requirements]: Construction requires 100 units of organic matter.

[Time]: 10 minutes

Ling Yichen did not have a single unit of organic matter. If he wanted to obtain organic matter, he needed nourishment.

The bodies of carbon-based creatures could be used as nutrients to be transformed into organic matter.

The apocalypse had yet to begin, and there were not many human corpses. Ling Yichen could only hope that he could buy chicken, duck, and fish.

He could only hope that this unknown insect egg could hatch into a powerful insect.

…

At the market.

Ling Yichen first came here and went in to buy some meat. Then, he threw it into the Insect Nest Demiplane to convert it into organic matter.

Ling Yichen was the Ruler of the Insect Clan and the owner of the Insect Nest Demiplane. He could transfer items from the outside world to the Insect Nest Demiplane.

“Convert.”

Converting materials into organic matter was the function of the Insect Nest Demiplane.

The few bags of meat that had just appeared in the Insect Nest Demiplane were being converted into organic matter bit by bit.

The speed was not very fast because the Insect Nest Demiplane was still very weak.

Moreover, there was another type of Insect Clan Building called the [Organic Conversion Pool]. It could speed up the conversion of organic matter, but he did not have the capital to build it at the moment.

After that, Ling Yichen continued to buy a large amount of food. He pretended to put it in his bag, but in fact, he had already thrown it into the Insect Nest Demiplane.

When he had spent a decent amount of money, Ling Yichen took a taxi to another place. He wanted to buy a powerful weapon there.

His destination was Old Jin’s hardware store. The owner of this store was very impressive. He was especially bold and actually dared to modify nail guns to make them prohibited items under the gun control policy.

Before Ling Yichen was reborn, he had teamed up with the boss of this shop, Old Jin. However, Old Jin tried to kill Ling Yichen in order to monopolize the gains.

In the end, Ling Yichen naturally survived because his talent was an extremely strong recovery ability.

Meanwhile, Old Jin had no talent. He relied on a nail gun that he had modified before the apocalypse. It could shoot ten times in a row, allowing Old Jin to do well.

Ling Yichen walked into Old Jin’s hardware store alone. As the boss, Old Jin came over to greet him.

“What do you need?”

“Your modified nail gun.”

When Old Jin heard this, he was stunned on the spot. A sense of fear swept over him.

This was impossible. How did this person know that he had modified nail guns? He had clearly not told anyone!

Just as Old Jin was about to deny it, Ling Yichen spoke again.

“You don’t have to deny it. As long as you sell it to me, I won’t tell anyone. You can modify another one in the future, right? Also, pack all your nail projectiles for me.”

Old Jin instantly hesitated. He was already selling guns. If word got out, he would be sentenced!

Although ordinary nail guns did not belong to the gun category and were only a type of fastening tool that inserted nails into structures, after his modifications, they had already been forcefully classified into the gun category.

“What are you going to do with it?” Old Jin was a little nervous.

“Don’t worry, I won’t mess around. I’m just playing with it.”

Ling Yichen saw that Old Jin did not seem to believe him, so he could only threaten him coldly, “Of course, you can choose not to sell it to me, but you should know the consequences. There’s someone outside who came with me. Two people are watching you. You have no chance to get rid of your work.”

This time, Ling Yichen gave the driver an extra 100 yuan as a tip and asked him to wait for him before returning to his house.

Old Jin glanced outside the shop and saw that there was indeed another person in the car. In the end, he sighed. If he didn’t agree today, he would probably be arrested by the police.

More importantly, Old Jin felt that Ling Yichen was a very dangerous person throughout. The indifference in his eyes as he looked down on him seemed to be natural.

It was as if… It was the same look he had when he saw an ant by the roadside!

“All right, I’ll sell it to you.”

Seeing that he had achieved his goal, Ling Yichen said in satisfaction, “Don’t worry, I won’t let you suffer a loss. I’ll pay 5,000 yuan. The nail projectiles will be considered separately. In addition, I’ll buy some blades. It’ll be even better if you have some knives or darts.”

Old Jin inadvertently shivered at this.

Ling Yichen’s eyes narrowed. This guy really had these things.

This sentence was used by Ling Yichen to test Old Jin. In the past hundred years of the apocalypse, he had trained a pair of eyes that could detect lies. He could determine whether a person was lying from their eyes and some subtle expressions, as well as what they were thinking.

Ling Yichen said directly, “Sell those to me too. I’ll go in with you to get it.”

Old Jin let out a long breath and obediently did as he was told. He asked Ling Yichen to go inside with him to get the goods.