Chapter 119. Global Anomaly

     Before opening her eyes, Ye Mo used her mental power to quickly scan around, making sure she was in her long-lost room. There were no strange humans around, so she sat up from the bed.

     Suihou Pearl and the worn red deep clothes were by her side. In the storage ring, spirit stones and material resources were still there, but the mechanisms, equipment, and medicines disappeared. The belt space, elf space, and artifact weapons in the dungeon were all gone.

     With HawkEye gone, there’s one less quiet companion, and it feels very strange. In this instance, what Ye Mo is most worried and regretful about is precisely HawkEye, who fell into Nidhogg’s mouth along with her.

     The World Tree has been reborn, but will HawkEye be reborn as well?

     In addition, the scars and cocoons on Ye Mo’s body also disappeared. It was indeed the simulated data of her body that entered the copy.

     On the bedside table, the hot water in the mug was still steaming, and the time on the main screen of the mobile phone was: 14:23.

     The time she entered the instance game was only a few seconds off, which made Ye Mo breathe a sigh of relief. She tapped on the icon for the Survivor app, but as soon as she entered, a red window popped up:

   【 System is currently updating 】.

    This time, the system update is a bit slow.

     During the update, the forum and mall status bars are inaccessible, and even checking personal status or attributes is not possible. Fortunately, the improved physical qualities have not been reverted, and the mental abilities are still there.

     Just as she was thinking about this, her phone suddenly received a call. It was an unknown number without a contact name, and the address displayed was from Shenzhen, Guangdong. Ye Mo clicked the green button to answer and said, “Hello?”

     A strange male voice sounded, with a clear voice, pure Mandarin without an accent: “Maria?”

     “Yes.”

     “Congratulations on clearing the copy.”

     Ye Mo smiled: “Likewise, Watson.”

     In a white space, Watson and Wang Xue heard,

 

   【Congratulations to the Chief Survivor for successfully clearing the E-Class dungeon!】,

 

     They only had time to exchange a glance before being whisked back to the real world.

     Because Watson had booked a physical examination for Grandma Ye and sent deworming medicine to Wang Xue, he had both Ye Mo and Wang Xue’s phone numbers. Since he had just separated from Wang Xue less than a minute ago, he chose to call Ye Mo first.

     “Is the E-level dungeon very difficult?”

     Ye Mo’s answer was concise and to the point: “It’s a life-or-death struggle.”

     The two briefly and concisely exchanged information about the dungeon. Following that, Watson added that he was using a testing array and had discovered a relationship between the revival of spiritual energy in the real world and clearing dungeons.

     “Right after exiting the dungeon, the spiritual energy in the real world experienced a noticeable increase, and this increase hasn’t stopped yet, it’s continuing to rise. It might be related to your successful clearing of the E-Class dungeon, Maria.”

     “Mm.”

     Unlike the Survivor app, spiritual energy is a good thing for living beings, but the world changes and social unrest it may bring are uncertain. Everything has advantages and disadvantages.

     Watson has decided to bring one of his older brothers into this. Not to have him join the system app, but to improve himself, to have the ability to protect himself no matter what the future holds.

     Ye Mo, considering that Grandma Ye is so old, decided not to scare her and didn’t mention it for the time being.

     Their first phone call ended here.

…

     Ye Mo also received Wang Xue’s phone number from Watson. While dialing the phone, she got out of bed and opened the bedroom curtains, and the room suddenly became much brighter.

     It’s raining outside the window, a gentle drizzle. The magnolias and peonies in the yard are in bloom, and I remember they were just buds yesterday. The greenery seems to be growing more lushly. Her mental power told her that this was definitely not an illusion.

     If plants have life energy, that is, intelligence, their emotions at this time should be joyful and happy.

     Ye Mo left the living room. Bandit, who was sleeping, twitched his eyelids twice, saw the poop-shovel officer, and then closed them again. The two little white mice in the living room were chirping and seemed to be more lively than in the morning.

     “Hello? Sister Jing?” Wang Xue’s voice was quite sweet, which was quite different from the dungeon.

     “It’s me.”

     “Congratulations to the chief survivor for successfully passing the level. Sprinkle flowers!”

     Chatting with Wang Xue doesn’t require considering any awkwardness or unfamiliarity. Familiarity and intimacy develop naturally. The vivid and lifelike description of their life in the white space, even the subtle expressions when Ye Mo changed her name, were not overlooked. With a touch of exaggerated humor, it makes people can’t help but smile knowingly when listening to it

     Wang Xue: “Sister Jing, I’m so happy that you were able to pass the level! Let’s play together again after the system update.”

     Ye Mo smiled: “Okay.”

     The two chatted more nonsense.

     Before hanging up the phone, Wang Xue kept talking about the delicious food made by the fairy sister in the village, such as sour soup fish, chili ribs, turtle and phoenix soup, miancai ba, pounded fish, and guanchang ba, because she is now in a Miao mountain village in a certain autonomous prefecture in Yunnan Province.

     “For the sake of the beautiful scenery and delicious food, I plan to stay here for a year. I won’t say more, I won’t say more. The effect of the bigu pill has ended, I’m going out, wow, a beautiful and rare rainbow, this green mountain and green water is also too beautiful!”

     “Rainbow?”

     “Yes, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, there is really a seven-color rainbow, very clear, I want to make a wish!”

     There are more and more voices talking on Wang Xue’s side, many people have obvious local accents, and some ethnic languages, probably talking about rainbows.

     …

     Ye Mo hung up the phone. On the dining table in front of her, she had prepared for herself ten cups of bubble tea, ten chocolate cakes, five boxes of donuts, dozens of pounds of spicy beef, dozens of pounds of spicy chicken feet, two servings of hot and sour noodles, countless flatbreads, and various grilled skewers.

     Whether there’s a rainbow or not doesn’t really matter. She suddenly really wants to try some authentic local cuisine.

     The increase in physical fitness will bring hunger, and spiritual energy entering the body can relieve hunger, but there is not enough spiritual energy in reality. The appetite in the real world is greater than that in the copy world. Eat it!

     The hot and sour noodles, still steaming and easy to slurp, were the first to be devoured. They were so delicious!

     Sweet, sour, spicy, numbing, fragrant… food is definitely the greatest invention in the world, giving a feeling of happiness to the point of tears. Ye Mo devoured the food in the living room without any regard for her image.

     Slurp, slurp the soup, so fragrant!

     “Woof woof woof woo—”

     The big black dog, smelling the aroma, wagged its tail like a sieve, circling the dining table. Its little eyes were pitiful, until Bandit picked up its own dog bowl and, in a very human-like manner, patted it twice with its paw, woofing three times. Ye Mo reluctantly gave it two chicken feet.

     “Woof woof woof!”

     “No, you have dog food!”

     “Woof woof!”

     “This is the last one!”

     “Woof!”

     …

     Ye Mo and Bandit quarreled childishly for an hour, wandered in the garden for half an hour, and took a bath for another hour to relax her body and mind in the warm water, then shrunk into the sofa and took out her phone.

     It was discovered that the survivor app update was not yet complete. On the contrary, strange natural phenomena from various places have become trending topics on the hot search news.

     #Yunnan Seven-Colored Rainbow, Spanning Seven Great Mountains.#

     #Giant Python Appears in Mount Tai, 119 Firefighters Rushed to the Scene.#

     #Flame Tornado Appears in Xinjiang, 100-Foot-High Vertical Radially Rotating Fire Whirl.#

     #Dragon Water Suction Phenomenon Appears in Dongting Lake, Thousands of Netizens Suspected of Filming the True Form of the Water Dragon?#

     #Sudden Late Spring and Early Summer Tides in the Qiantang River, Tens of Thousands of Residents Temporarily Evacuated.#

     #A Young Man from the Northeast Proposed to a Goddess, Just as He Was Saying His Vows, a Bolt of Lightning Struck from the Clear Sky, and a Torrential Rain Arrived Suddenly. Is it the Angry Single Old Man in the Sky? Or is the Young Man Too Scummy to Provoke the Wrath of Heaven?#

     Ye Mo: “…”

     In comparison, the light rain in Beijing is nothing out of the ordinary.

     Climate hot searches are different from death hot searches. The scope of what is seen is much broader, and now the internet is highly developed, with many apps for recording short videos of daily life, and netizens are hotly debating it, so it can’t be taken down.

     Moreover, it’s not just within the country. Going over the Great Firewall to look at foreign news, today there are also many more live streamers sharing strange phenomena. Russia saw colorful snow, Norway had a kaleidoscope of colorful auroras, the African desert region saw a rather large-scale mirage…

     One or two strange weather phenomena appearing alone wouldn’t be much, but when these magical natural scenes appear together, that’s really amazing. Even Weibo has several trending topics about the weather.

     Netizens have all kinds of speculations.

     It’s not surprising that Ye Mo saw the words “spiritual energy revival” in the comments, and there were even some experts or so-called experts who came out to explain it, and there were even many Internet celebrities and even stars who took advantage of the popularity.

     Until 6:30 in the afternoon, most areas of China had entered the night, but in the large and small cities and villages near 25 degrees to 42 degrees north latitude, what appeared in the sky was no longer the moon and stars.

     Instead,

     — A magical meteor shower!

     In short, today is a magical day. Many people have used up their wishes for the past few years this afternoon.

     The place where Ye Mo lives happens to be around 39 degrees north latitude. Sitting on the balcony, she can see meteors streaking across the night sky. While petting her dog, she watched for more than ten minutes, and finally heard the voice of the survivor system.

   【The internal beta test has come to a successful conclusion. Thank you for your valuable participation, Survivors.】

   【The system update is complete, adding a survivor master area, displaying the top 100 rankings of Earth’s strength, multiple updated functions such as the system task, system mall, and system forum, please explore on your own. The public beta has been opened, I wish all survivors to reach the peak of strength! 】

     Has the internal beta test ended?

     Ye Mo opened the system app with doubts, and the first dialog box popped up:  【Welcome, Chief Survivor Ye Mo, to log in to your account. It has been detected that the current account name for the Chief Survivor is ‘Traveler’. Do you want to change it to another account name?】 

     She paused for two seconds on the word “chief” and said, “No change.”

     Soon, two global announcements popped up in Ye Mo’s ears and on the homepage of the survivor app.

   【Strong Player Announcement: Congratulations to survivor ‘Traveler’ for earning the title of ‘Chief Survivor’, reward: All attributes +3, Free attribute points +3.】

   【Strong Player Announcement: Congratulations to survivor ‘Traveler’ for completing the first E-grade dungeon raid, reward: All attributes +3, Free attribute points +3.】 

     The mechanical voice actually had emotional inflections, and colorful fireworks effects appeared on the phone’s dialog box.

     Ye Mo: “…”

     The fireworks display lasted a full three minutes. During that time, Wang Xue even called for half a minute to shower him with praise and congratulations. It was clear that these two announcements were true global notifications.