Thanks to the high-protein meals provided by the swarms, the spiders’ physiques strengthened dramatically.Yuntun unleashed Queen’s Dominion, a formless, commanding pressure blanketing the gravid females, while Yun Luohe took out the Spider-Breeding Crystal.The crystal shed a soft blue glow, gently stimulating the brood instinct of the mothers.Under the dual catalysis of Yuntun’s Dominion and the Spider-Breeding Crystal,Watermelon, Wintermelon, and several other qualified Crimson-Bloods and Gold-Shells began laying almost simultaneously.Crystal-clear, slime-sheathed eggs squeezed quickly from their bellies.Watermelon alone laid more than thirty eggs in one go.Wintermelon wouldn’t be outdone—she laid over a dozen eggs with a special green luster.The workers’ laying efficiency far exceeded the standards in the Spider Breeding Compendium. With Yuntun—the broodmother—assisting, they produced over forty eggs in the very first half-day batch.At this pace, for the next few days they’d yield at least a hundred eggs daily.Carefully, Yun Luohe collected the eggs, then used crystals to upgrade the Spider House.She built a new incubation room, installing constant-temperature-and-humidity units modified from incubators.She placed the eggs inside and tended them with care.After the upgrade, the Spider House expanded severalfold and was partitioned into zones—incubation, rearing, training—each with its own area.Once the spiderlings grew, they’d be housed by class.Every class would have its own Spider House.Over the next two days, Yun Luohe’s reef became a high-efficiency spider breeding and processing center.Yuntun directed the combat spiders to hunt the swarms. The Scavenger Corrosive Spiders cleaned the battlefield and decomposed part of the corpses into nutrient broth for the spiders—feeding them full.She also had the Horticulture Nannies and the Scavenger Corrosives handle reef cleanup and repairs.An endless stream of insect meat and nutrient broth came back, with priority going to mothers in late term and nursery stock.With the binge-feeding, breeding surged.Backed by ample nutrition and Yuntun’s mental catalysis, the newest eggs sped through development.After just one day and night, the first batch began to hatch.Dense, rice-grain-sized spiderlings crawled out of the eggs.Yun planned to sell a portion and raise the rest for battle—let them eat their fill of insects, then continue breeding.To lower the barrier for using spiders, Yun compiled a spider-feeding protocol so buyers could raise new-hatched spiderlings with specific foods.For example, feed toxin-bearing giant insects to Crimson-Bloods; feed shell fragments to Gold-Shells—both would stimulate development and help them accept new handlers faster.That way, even simple commands from buyers would be obeyed. With time, the spiders would work more and more to their owners’ intent.Once everything was ready, Yun posted a new, ultra-concise trade thread on the forum.She listed every spider’s capabilities and prices clearly, and set tonight’s auction time for 8:00 p.m.Quantity limited; while supplies last.Auction format; upgrade materials prioritized; within ten minutes, the highest bidder wins.Three lots tonight, each lot auctioning ten spiders simultaneously.New stock would be posted daily—but the sooner you got them, the sooner you could use them.The thread immediately blew up the cross-district chat of the whole apocalypse game.Players from every district piled into the comments.“Skip the auction—I’ll buy outright. Crimson-Bloods and Gold-Shells—how many you have is how many I’ll take! We can talk price. I’ve got rare mats and high-grade goods.”“If you’re selling, why not list fixed prices? Why an auction? Profiteering off disaster!”“What’s with the sour grapes? Go raise spiders and sell them yourself, then! Disaster profiteering—please. There are plenty lining up to buy. You just want Yun Luohe not to sell so you can feel better, huh.”“Is Yun Luohe the only one with spiders? Can you make them cheaper? My reef’s nearly chewed bare. I’m out of high-grade mats.”“How does she have that many spiders? Is something off?”Praise or doubt—none of it swayed Yun Luohe.By the time the Starwish Tree matured, Yun had already assembled the materials for an upgrade.She also pushed her reef rating to 1000.She prioritized upgrading the reef, then offered enough sacrifices and made the Health Wish.The Starwish Tree’s fruit flared with dazzling light.The offerings were fully absorbed until they vanished.[Wish Successful…][Health Wish: Flora and fauna on the reef +80% Health; diseases greatly reduced.][Note: To change the wish, wait 15 days.]After the prompts, the reef seemed unchanged.But she could feel that something was different.Watching closely—Soon she saw a gleam—light motes wrapped the crops; the radiation-green fog no longer drifted near them.The livestock calmed as well. Threatened by bugs for days, they’d been in poor condition. Now they perked up and started eating feed.As for the spiders in the Spider House, they brimmed with vigor, as if ready to head right back out.Yun Luohe was deeply satisfied. The grind hadn’t been for nothing.Less than half a month of autumn remained. With the Starwish Tree and her spider legion, her reef likely wouldn’t face further problems.(© Unlimited good reads, all at Jinjiang Literature City.)Next, she’d focus on rapidly expanding and upgrading the reef—and wait for winter to arrive.At this moment, the reef-upgrade countdown showed 25 hours remaining.—Meanwhile, the Management-Training Sub-Group and others in the Mutual Aid Association began small-scale spider breeding themselves.Though far behind Yun in scale, efficiency, and spider quality, they were gradually getting some eggs.None of those eggs left District 2; they circulated internally.As a result, District 2 players had the highest survival rate in this swarm disaster.Organizations in other districts spared no cost to buy spiders, but without breeding methods, most failed—unless they paid even more to buy the full Spider Breeding Compendium from Tianji Pavilion.Within the upgrade countdown, the swarm at Yun’s reef was under control. She simply loaned out part of her spider legion to friends—let them fight the disaster and return the squads afterward.This only worked with people she trusted—Mu Zitang, Cheng Xuening, and Yu Chenjin.Yun first loaned a batch to Cheng Xuening, whose swarm problem was particularly severe, and she was alone on her reef with lower combat stats—harder hit than others.She dispatched three spider squads.First came a combat-dense Crimson-Blood unit to Cheng Xuening’s reef to start the slaughter.When they’d nearly cleared it, Watermelon led in a detachment of fifty Horticulture Nannies.True to their worker nature, they got straight to work like mad.They spewed silver-white silk to rapidly repair the reef’s wreckage,reinforcing damaged walls and roofs at speed.Huge breaches were layered over with dense meshes, sealing the roaring swarms outside.Next came the Scavenger Corrosive cleanup crew.(© Unlimited good reads, all at Jinjiang Literature City.)Thirty Scavenger Corrosives formed a sanitation squad and dissolved a massive volume of corpses.The three squads visited Cheng Xuening’s and Mu Zitang’s in turn—half a day for each—and quickly solved their problems.Afterward, Yun contacted Yu Chenjin to say she’d loan him squads in a couple of days.But it seemed Yu had already handled his swarm; he only needed Nannies and Corrosives to help clean up.Mu Zitang: “Yun, thank you—so much. That mountain of bugs at my door is finally gone. Even if we’d killed them all, just seeing the pile would’ve kept my Sanity dropping, and my parents were about to be stunk to death by those carcasses. It’s good now. Finally fixed.”Cheng Xuening: “Luohe, I owe you. Your workers are seriously strong. I’m tempted to raise a few more. I used to be scared of crawlers like this, but the more I look, the cuter they get.”(© Unlimited good reads, all at Jinjiang Literature City.)Yun had intended to loan them for free, but when the squads came back, they all added extra goods—lots of high-grade materials and ingredients.She no longer lacked ordinary ingredients, so they procured rare ingredients and spices.Perfect timing—Yun was collecting seasonings. Her Seasoning Bottle task required using 10 high-grade spices in cooking to unlock the Seasoning Bottle.She inventoried at once.Cheng Xuening gave Snow Pepper Powder—a mutant chili ground to powder. It carried a special spicy energy that quickly activated the palate, drove off chill, and even boosted Sanity.There was also Emerald Rattan Pepper—green Sichuan pepper borne on a mutant vine—richly fragrant with numbing aroma.Crushed, it flooded dishes with a unique profile.Both came from islands Cheng Xuening had visited.Mu Zitang found Obsidian Salt Crystals—a black mineral sea salt.It had a distinctive mineral umami that heightened ingredients’ native flavors and, with long-term use, could raise Stamina.He also sent Purple-Oil Cinnamon—warm and spicy-sweet, excellent for desserts and drinks.Yu Chenjin secured two rarer spices.Dragon’s Blood Resin—concentrated sap from Dragon’s Blood trees—deep red as blood, viscous in texture.Its flavor was extremely complex, blending smoke, fruit, and a strange fruity note.A top-tier enhancer for aroma and color; foods made with it could maximally stimulate a player’s Traits, teasing out latent Trait skills.Yun had previously gotten a mutant-resin recipe, but this Dragon’s Blood Resin formed naturally.You might not find even one resin lump across dozens of Dragon’s Blood trees.Yu only had a single lump.But one lump could be ground into a dozen grams of spice.Besides the resin, he had a special black truffle—a fiercely complex, heady aroma like nuts fused with chocolate. Its unique fragrance and active compounds worked well on metabolism and the nervous system.Foods made with it could significantly raise Sanity and Stamina.Six spices total; five happened to meet the unlock requirements.To check if a spice qualified, you just tried putting it into the Seasoning Bottle—if it went in, it counted.After testing, only Emerald Rattan Pepper didn’t qualify.The task required high-grade spices; looks like Emerald Rattan Pepper, while rare, was slightly short of the grade.Even so, getting Snow Pepper Powder, Obsidian Salt Crystals, Purple-Oil Cinnamon, Dragon’s Blood Resin, and Black Truffle in one go was excellent.Yun learned they all came from various islands. Mu Zitang had traded from other districts’ players, but those origins were islands as well.So Yun’s next target was to lead the spider legion to the autumn islands.From current intel, autumn islands teemed with rare herbs, materials from deadly insects, and wild fruits and vegetables.The reef’s insects were eaten out. To keep breeding spiders, she needed a lot of bugs to feed them.Since the bugs were gone here, she could take the legion elsewhere for a feast.Yun pulled intel from Tianji Pavilion for the Four Seasons Main Islands Atlas · Autumn Volume.[Autumn Islands:Limited Main Islands (50% boarding chance) — Resource-rich, high danger: Maple Island, Ancient Tree IslandLimited Resource Islands (32%) — Single-resource, medium danger: Hive Island, Chestnut Island, Poison Vine Island, Mushroom Island, Golden Fruit Island, Hawthorn Island, Wild Goose Island, Ginkgo IslandFour-Seasons Islands (15%) — Diverse resources, hidden opportunities, extreme danger: Spider Island, Bat Island, Volcano Island, Mechanical IslandUnknown Wild Islands (3%) — Extremely scarce resources; hidden blueprints possible.]She then pulled detailed intel on each island.She’d already been to the main autumn islands.This time she’d just use a Random Island Card. Anywhere would do—no need to waste a Designated Island Card.Before going, though, she needed to review the intel for each island—no cramming at the last minute. Study first, then prep thoroughly.But there were so many islands that the intel ran long, and Yun had to read while prepping today’s ingredients.The Mad Chef Tournament had already been underway for a few days.Beyond [N O V E L I G H T] completing daily cooking, she was also tackling dishes from the menu with intent.The menu had long since been issued—fifty dishes total.Within seven days, she only needed to finish and submit any ten; the more completed, the higher the score.Naturally, Yun planned to complete them all if possible. With worker spiders helping, she had more time now.For her one creative dish, she’d do Provencal Braised Venison.From the menu, she also chose a venison dish—Spicy Braised Venison.That way she could process the venison together and save herself trouble.She cut half a cleaned venison into chunks and blanched them in an earthen pot.She tossed in bay leaves and ginger to strip the rankness—right.She remembered the fresh batch from the Brewery Workshop, hurried to fetch it, and planned to add some later for aroma and de-funking.While waiting, she read the island notes.Boiling water rolled, froth reddened with blood—but bay leaf and ginger drove the gamey smell up and out. Yun skimmed off the scum.When it was about ready, she brought out a flat cast-iron pan to toast spices and then sear the venison.She added some of her own-pressed corn oil. The fragrance rose quickly; the pan crackled. In went rock sugar and spices.Roubao arrived on the smell.With spiders handling insects these days, it was idle—just needed to fish for shells.It hadn’t done hard labor, but the moment it sniffed something tasty, it bounded in.“Meow! Save some for me, too.”Yun smiled. “Sure. I’m heading out tomorrow—sorry to trouble you with the house again.”“Meow!!” Roubao was used to it by now, but huffed at her anyway.“Don’t worry—I’ll set aside extra for you tonight.”The venison in the other earthen pot was blanched.Yun lifted the chunks to drain and tossed them into the freshly toasted aromatics to stir-fry.Oil and spice wrapped the meat, forming a glossy red crust.Yun nodded—looking good.Next was a long simmer to get flavor deep.By the time she’d finished reading, the dishes were done.She submitted both to the Mad Chef Tournament system for judging.[Mad Chef Tournament—Daily Task Complete!]Submitted Dish: [Provencal Braised Venison][System Evaluating…][Mad Chef Tournament—Advanced Dish Complete!]Submitted Dish: [Spicy Braised Venison][Randomly selecting players for tasting… Please wait…]

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