When Yun Luohe made landfall, the sight before her made her heart sink.Just as expected, the reef had changed drastically.Radiation fog drifted everywhere. Eggs writhed inside it, clinging to the reef’s seaweed, flowers, grasses, shrubs, trees… incubating right on those surfaces.She hurried back into the house. After a full day without sleep, she was exhausted—but there was no time to rest.A mountain of work waited—and the most critical task wasn’t done yet.She went straight to the Starwish Tree. It was at the brink: leaves yellowed and dropping, the trunk’s black blotches nearly running together.A sour rot hung in the air.She took out the Ruby Bottle of emerald sap.Per the guidebook, she mixed the sap with the highest-concentration Golden Nutrient Solution, then poured the blend around the Starwish Tree’s roots.As it soaked in, a sheath of emerald light seemed to wrap the trunk, the sap flowing upward from the roots.The black blotches slowly faded.The reek of decay gave way to a clean, grassy fragrance.Watching closely—and checking with Scanning Eye—she found a faint yet stubborn pulse of life emerging within the trunk.Yun Luohe exhaled long. The taut wire in her chest finally eased.The Starwish Tree’s crisis was, at last, resolved.Soon after,she noticed the runes on the Starwish Tree changing.Leaning in, she saw the rune-shapes turn crisper.Each corresponding sigil now opened a detailed text description.The circlet-of-stars crown corresponded to the Luck wish: one golden pearl every two days.Offerings: Mother-of-Pearl ×10, Golden Seahorse ×5, Lucky Four-Leaf Clover ×3.The grain-and-fruit totem corresponded to the Harvest wish: all crop yields +50%.Offerings: Emerald Tree Sap ×50 ml, Golden Royal Jelly ×2, Symbiosis Crystal ×1.The shield-and-thorns totem corresponded to the Defense wish: a protective barrier forms outside the reef, avoiding 80% of attacks.Offerings: Lava Turtle Shell ×5, Deep-Sea Black Iron ×20, Gold-Shell Shards ×10.The tree-of-life entwined with healing vines corresponded to the Health wish: flora and fauna on the reef +80% health, drastically reducing disease.Offerings: Emerald Tree Sap ×50 ml, Symbiosis Crystal ×2, Sapphires ×2.The forest-and-running-fallow-deer totem corresponded to the Ecology wish: the reef’s ecosystem accelerates, spawning various wild plants and animals.Offerings: Deer Antlers ×2, Cattle Horns ×2, Crocodile Hide ×5, Sharkskin ×5.In addition, a countdown line appeared: [Starwish Tree maturation countdown: 5 days.]A halo like the outline of a forming fruit glimmered faintly on the trunk. No guess needed—that was the soon-to-mature Starwish Fruit.Yun Luohe still couldn’t decide which wish to make.For now, she had a workable plan.With the Autumn Disaster upgraded and an insect plague about to run wild, the reef’s flora and fauna would be under assault. She intended to make the Health wish to protect at least 80% of the plants and animals.And that wish could be swapped later.Once they weathered this insect-plague crisis, she’d switch to another wish.—At daybreak…The sky was no longer blue, smothered by heavy cloud.The ceiling hung low; sunlight couldn’t punch through. The dim light pressed on the mind.Shrubs and trees that had been lush on the reef now looked drained.Leaves were filmed over with eggs. In the pens and the coop, clotted black egg masses sat like wads of rotten cotton.Worse, fish and shrimp carcasses lay scattered along the tide line; those rotting bodies had become favored egg-beds. From a distance, the sea surface seemed mottled with the stuff—nauseating.“My vegetable patch is nothing but eggs—I’m going to puke! All that work growing those greens!”“This is horrifying. I checked the woods—eggs everywhere. What do we do? Once they grow, my reef will be overrun.”“Some have already grown—and they fly and swim! Pesticide kind of works, but only on some small ones. The big ones don’t care at all.”“Three days to upgrade reefs? With what? Is the system trying to kill us?”“Check the Trade Hub!! All the anti-insect agents are gone!”Yun Luohe grabbed a few hours of sleep in bed, then got up.(Unlimited good reads, all at Jinjiang Literature City.)Before the eggs fully hatched, there was a lot of mitigation and prevention to do.At minimum, she needed to protect the reef’s plants and animals through the days until the Starwish Tree matured.The animals were penned, but these insects would damage structures; if they could chew stone, wood was nothing.She would use the anti-radiation plantings she already had to build a perimeter barrier around the reef.She’d add Yuntun’s tough silk webbing into the defenses so that when the insects swarmed, the traps would glue them down.Spiders are natural enemies of insects—this part was ideal.She had plenty of silk.Seeing the chat scroll—most players panicked, some already despairing that they could not survive—Yun Luohe thought briefly, then posted a few messages.“We still have time. The hatching is only the opening movement. From hatch to grown takes at least two to three days. In that window, there’s a lot we can do.”“Even if you can’t upgrade your reef, at least reinforce your buildings and stockpile food.”“There has to be a way to live.”Thanks to last night’s early warning, the night owls had found countless unhatched eggs around their reefs and managed to burn many of them.Now organizations and players across districts were working to find the swarm’s weak points.Mu Zitang chimed in then.“Hang in there. Tianji Pavilion is collecting intel on the eggs. We plan to consolidate a comprehensive report and release it free to all districts so everyone can get through the insect plague as safely as possible.”“But there are too many—how do we even defend? We don’t have a weapon that can wipe out that many at once.” (Unlimited good reads, all at Jinjiang Literature City.)“When locusts pass, nothing grows. They’ll strip people to the bone.”“Ugh, I’ve got trypophobia—so many eggs and my hands go limp.”“Then we overcome it—together. If we want to live, we push through. If you’ve already decided you’ll die, then there’s nothing to say—just wait for it.”“We’ve made it this far. I don’t care what you all do—I’m living. End times or not, bugs are still food.”“Yeah, insect plague—so what!”Just then, Si Qi posted her research results.Strictly speaking, they weren’t much yet, but she wanted to give people some confidence, so she put them up first.After seeing Yun Luohe’s warning last night, she’d grabbed as many kinds of eggs as she could and started testing.Preliminary findings: certain sonic frequencies interfere with some insects; flame is effective against clustered swarms.Which meant they could set sonic repellent towers in fields, woods, and along the reef edge, and pair them with flame-spray traps—enough to blunt some of the incoming waves.With those in hand—and with their houses reinforced—players had a solid shot at survival.In the channel, the mood finally shifted from groans and complaints to high morale and fighting spirit.Relieved, Yun Luohe set about sealing every gap in the villa.Going over her building materials, she decided to pack seams with a silk–clay mix—belt and suspenders.Doors and windows would get layered protections; critical items like the Trash Bin — Transform into Treasure and supply crates would go down into the cellar.Once the villa was reinforced, she’d fortify the greenhouse.It was a closed glasshouse, so for now no eggs had gotten in; inside were fresh vegetables and medicinal plants—if the greenhouse fell, the loss would be brutal.Some players’ water came from outdoor storage, now ruined with eggs soaking in it.Thankfully, Yun Luohe’s reserves were mostly in lidded buckets, safe from contamination.They’d make it through the autumn.Next, with Roubao in tow, she harvested every mature crop in the fields.For the unripe plots, she threw up a temporary canopy with canvas and planks and stretched a fine Crimson-Blood Spider mesh across it—no bugs getting in.She built ten sonic repellers to cover the fields, livestock pens, and the villa perimeter,ensuring most insects wouldn’t carpet those zones.Once the worker-spiders matured, she wouldn’t have to do everything herself.For now, they were still in raising phase—three to five days before they could work.So she crafted fuel traps herself and laid out the defenses.A full day to harden the perimeter, another half-day making devices, then she moved on to training the spiders in the spider houses.She would use these ➤ NоvеⅠight ➤ (Read more on our source) spiders against the insect swarms.The Crimson-Blood Spiders and Gold-Shell Spiders were grown; some worker classes still weren’t.She handed the training to Yuntun.After so many battles alongside her, Yuntun was more than capable of training them.With that assignment given, she could rest easy.By evening, Yun Luohe contacted Yang Mian—she needed some new weapons.“What kind of weapon are you making?”Yang Mian hadn’t received materials from her yet and didn’t know what she wanted.“I plan to coat melee weapons with a strong insecticide. Better yet, make some bombs that can disperse insecticide—something like canisters that, when burning, release insect-killing smoke.”“I can’t make that alone. I’ll need certain chemicals and fuels.”“I’ll loop in Si Qi and have her research group assist, and I’ll also reach out to players in other districts.”Every district now faced the same army of swarms; the forum was buzzing about it.Yun Luohe intended to coordinate across districts. Against a disaster of this scale, there was no need to fight alone. If the system had merged districts, they’d use the advantage.Through the Trade Hub and the forum, she could contact the organizations in other districts.She would pursue trades and alliances—sharing the swarms’ weaknesses and effective defenses.With her pace—and Tianji Pavilion’s support—district leaders signed up for Tianji Pavilion memberships in short order.That same night, Yun Luohe and Mu Zitang bought anti-radiation agents and antidotes from the Regeneration Association.From the Mechanics Guild they purchased fortification blueprints and sonic weapons.Mu Zitang also contacted the Ark Chamber’s president and sent over several Conch Communicators for liaison.Yun Luohe set Si Qi’s research group to collaborate with the Regeneration Association on anti-swarm agents.Repellents hadn’t yielded much yet, but under joint effort, the anti-radiation formula got an upgrade.On the morning of Day 15, after two days, the first-hatched larvae—nursed by the radiation fog, gnawing anything living for nutrients—completed development at an astonishing pace. Cannibalism even appeared among them. Growth spiked, and their sizes turned massive.The insect plague had truly arrived.Countless hard-shelled flyers of every variety—radiation giant moths, poison locusts, cockroach-things swinging long scythes—gathered into masses.Over every player’s reef, “black clouds” formed.Those “black clouds” were insects.If you hadn’t gone out early to clear and destroy eggs, there were far more of them.If you had, there were only one or two clouds.Too many clouds blotted the sky. The frantic thrumming of their wings—nothing on its own—merged into a deafening sonic barrage that drove Sanity into a steady plunge; listen long enough and minds would crack.Like the radiation fog, these clouds ate anything alive: vegetation stripped bare in their wake, bark peeled, everything picked clean.Players peeking from their houses didn’t dare step out.One step and the cloud would mark you as food—bones and all.If the pens or coop weren’t well protected—if a wall got chewed open—once the swarm poured in, every animal inside would be doomed.Many reefs rang with animal screams.And those were just the flyers.The ground swarms were racing through their growth as well.When the centipedes, scorpions, and other crawling larvae came of age, things would only get worse.

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