7: The collapse of order

"You're Tang Ping, right? I'm Manager Wang Yanyan!" The woman's voice carried an air of arrogance.

"After a unanimous decision by the company's board of directors, we plan to establish a Survivor Base. As a company employee, you have the right to join first!"

"However, before joining, your Shelter's characteristics and Talent will need to be registered. The company will then arrange suitable work for you based on this."

Beep beep beep~~~

"Hello! Hello! Tang Ping!" Manager Wang Yanyan was stunned, followed by anger: "Fine, fine, you, Tang Ping, actually dared to hang up on me! Don't even think about joining the Shengtian Survivor Base in the future!"

A man's voice came from inside the room: "Wang Yanyan, what's wrong? Such a temper."

Manager Wang Yanyan immediately put on a fawning expression, her voice strained as she spoke: "It's nothing, Director Sheng. Just an ungrateful brat who refused to join our Shengtian Survivor Base."

"Oh?" The man's tone was somewhat surprised: "What's his name? It seems he must have obtained a good Shelter or Talent. If possible, give him a promotion. It's necessary to win him over as one of our own."

Manager Wang Yanyan's expression flickered between different emotions, then she hesitantly spoke: "Director Sheng, this kid just graduated a year ago. He's young and arrogant. If he really did obtain a good Shelter or Talent, he might be conceited and difficult to win over."

The man chuckled lightly: "Conceited? He's just a clown. If he really refuses to join, then eliminate him. This Jiangcheng City will inevitably belong to our Shengtian Group in the future."

"Director Sheng is right."

Manager Wang Yanyan immediately flattered him. She didn't think what Director Sheng said was exaggerated at all, because she knew that the Director Sheng in front of her had a jade mountain worth hundreds of millions as his Shelter, obtained an SSS-rank Shelter characteristic, and even awakened an S-rank Talent!

He was destined to be a hegemon in the future!

However, Manager Wang Yanyan had no intention of contacting Tang Ping again. She was worried that he might actually join the group, or even have his Talent noticed by Director Sheng and become a high-level executive. Once he became a high-level executive, he might very well overshadow her, so she simply chose to forget about him and then secretly find an opportunity to kill him.

Staring at the dashing Director Sheng, Manager Wang Yanyan's heart suddenly burned with desire. She touched her face.

"Director Sheng~~~"

...On the other side, Tang Ping hung up the phone, muttering curses: "What the hell, it's the apocalypse, and they still want me to work like an ox? Are they out of their minds?"

Indeed, they were sick. Not seriously ill, but they wouldn't say such things otherwise.

Suddenly, Tang Ping seemed to remember something, and his body trembled!

"Holy crap! Shengtian Survivor Base! I remember that the Safe Zone my body lived in a hundred years later seemed to be one of the Safe Zones under the Shengtian Group!"

Tang Ping's mood instantly became heavy. For no other reason than that, in his memory, the Shengtian Group a hundred years later was an absolute super behemoth!

It was an existence that the Tang Ping whose body he possessed a hundred years later wouldn't even dare to imagine.

Let alone the Shengtian Group, even the Safe Zone he lived in was an insurmountable force for that Tang Ping of later generations.

Within the first ring of the Safe Zone, there were many high-level players. According to the descriptions in his memory, within the first ring, there was even sunlight, clean air, and water. That place was simply a paradise on earth a hundred years after the apocalypse!

In his nine years of compulsory education, the Safe Zone was praised without reservation, so Tang Ping had a deep impression of it.

Things like the hundred-meter-tall Tree of sunlight, which could purify all contamination and allow sunlight to shine upon the land, full of vitality.

And the Spring of Inexhaustible Water, which could continuously flow with clean water. This water could even purify contaminated bodies and wash away all fatigue.

There was also the Hundred-Meter Sacred Beast, guarding the peace and stability of the Safe Zone.

All sorts of magical and incredible things were thus easily displayed in textbooks, which showed how powerful the Shengtian Group was.

But even so, Tang Ping still had no desire to join the Shengtian Group.

What if it was powerful? That was a hundred years later. And with him now, would this behemoth truly be the same as in later generations?

Everything could be changed.

Tang Ping came out of the small supermarket. Now that the initial ten minutes had passed, finding a treasure chest was no longer an easy task.

So Tang Ping decided to find a corner, hide his Shelter well, and rest tonight first.

Too much had happened today; his mind and body were already very tired.

Finding another secluded alley, Tang Ping set up his Shelter, disguised the door as a manhole cover again, and then entered the Shelter.

After returning to the Shelter, his mind and body were greatly relaxed, but Tang Ping did not rest immediately. He took a hamburger and, while eating, opened the chat channel, which every player in the Doomsday Game possessed.

There were three channels in total: World Channel, Regional Channel, and Server Channel.

He was in the 012369 server channel.

He checked the server. His current server was a random chat group of ten thousand people from the Regional Channel.

As for the Regional Channel, it had a map, and that map included Jiangcheng City, the entire Jiangcheng City map.

The server chat was composed of ten thousand random players from this map.

But Tang Ping clearly noticed that the server chat no longer had ten thousand people.

9862 / 10000

"Only a little over an hour has passed, and over a hundred people have already died!" Tang Ping was alarmed. He knew that the entire Jiangcheng City had over twenty million people. At this rate, the number of deaths was astonishing.

However, thinking about it, it didn't seem that exaggerated, because the level ten sandstorm came completely suddenly. A large portion of these people might have died in car accidents, plus being crushed by heavy objects.

The number of people who truly died due to the natural disaster should be small. After all, although a level ten sandstorm was terrifying, it wasn't to the extent of destroying the world. As long as one found a house, they could basically take Shelter.

Not to mention the Shelter.

"I wonder how many people successfully chose a Shelter," Tang Ping thought to himself. The timing of the Shelter's appearance was very unfair to the Great Xia Kingdom.

He clicked on the group chat, and the messages inside had exploded.

"Did you guys find any treasure chests? I just found two things called doomsday treasure chests outside. I've brought them back to my Shelter, but I haven't dared to open them yet."

"Brother, it's fine. There are good things inside. Open them quickly. Maybe there are treasures that can increase your strength. The world has changed now, and an extra bit of strength is an extra guarantee."

"Bro, don't listen to his nonsense. I just saw with my own eyes someone open a treasure chest, and a monster immediately jumped out and bit that person's head off!"

"Don't listen to him! This guy is lying, he just doesn't want you to open the treasure chest. I've opened three doomsday treasure chests myself, and I haven't seen any monster you're talking about."

"I can guarantee it! There really is a monster inside! Bro, think about what good it does me to lie to you. I can't go and steal your treasure chest."

"Don't listen to him! This person has an item that can specifically pinpoint people's locations. Before, an old guy argued with him, and he directly took out this thing to threaten that old guy!"

"Brother, I'm not lying to you. There are good things in the treasure chest. I've analyzed it, and at worst, you can get an attribute stone, which can increase your four-dimensional attributes and genuinely improve your strength!"

"What are these doomsday treasure chests you're talking about? Why haven't I encountered any? The power is out outside now, how did you find the treasure chests?"

"I heard in the group that treasure chests are easy to find, almost every few steps you can see one, but then they said it seems hard to find now. I've been hiding at home, so I don't know what's going on."

"Little sister, no need to look anymore. I found that doomsday treasure chests seem to only appear randomly in the first ten minutes of the sandstorm. At that time, you could almost casually stroll around and find one, but now they are very hard to find."

"Ah! They're gone! Is there any big brother who can give me a treasure chest? I really want to see one too."

"Urgent! Urgent! I just contacted my parents, grandparents, and maternal grandparents. They all didn't choose a Shelter. Is there any way to let them choose a Shelter again!"

"It's hopeless. Didn't they say it was only for thirty minutes before? I don't think they'll appear again in the future. If you want your parents and relatives to survive the apocalypse, you can only bring them into your Shelter."

"I have a way to get a Shelter!"

"What way? What way! My two younger brothers also didn't choose a Shelter!"

"Kill people! Kill other players and pick up the shelter items they drop. You can pick them up and bind them yourself."

"I've tried it, it's real and effective."

"Heh heh!"

The server chat instantly fell silent.

Tang Ping looked at the chat messages inside and sighed: "The apocalypse, it has finally begun."