"Four people? Are they the ones who entered the mine before?"
Lin Xianping held his phone, but looked at the middle-aged man and the director, who were standing at attention, clearly asking them.
Neither of them spoke.
Encountering these two, Lin Xianping couldn't resort to any violence, so he simply instructed his subordinate.
"Try to blast open the mine."
After hanging up the phone, he saw a message from his old man.
"How is it? Can we take people down to investigate?"
"We have to wait a bit longer."
After sending the message, he sat on the stool brought by his subordinate and looked at the director and the middle-aged man, a fake smile appearing on his face as if wearing a mask.
"Aren't you two going to say something?"
...
The trio in the underground jungle garden were unaware of everything happening outside...
Or rather, Zhou Niannian and Dai Xiaomei were unaware.
Only Jiang Fan received a system notification.
[Detected that the host's live stream has been forcibly closed. Daily traffic settlement reset to zero. If a new live stream is not started, it will affect the daily viewing settlement.]
[Do you want to start a new live stream?]
The inorganic voice clearly and distinctly told him that something might have happened outside.
But what happened outside was irrelevant to him now; what mattered was starting the live stream.
His current source of survival points mainly came from the daily viewer settlement.
This was a no-brainer. Jiang Fan silently replied "yes" in his mind.
Outside, viewers who were still protesting on various social media platforms suddenly received a notification.
"Quick, go to Shark! Jiang Shen's live stream is on!!!"
Those who were protesting immediately became excited upon seeing the news.
They opened the Shark platform, found the streamer with the ID 'Jiang Shang Qian Fan', and indeed, the live stream was on.
Zhou Ye also hadn't expected Jiang Fan to start a live stream. He was stunned for a moment, then clicked to enter.
The streamer account, which didn't even have a profile picture, now had millions of followers.
The number of viewers in the live stream was also in the millions.
When he clicked in, the number was still growing.
Eight million.
Ten million.
Thirty million.
Fifty million.
One hundred million!
Every second, a massive amount of traffic flowed into the live stream.
A streamer without a profile picture instantly surged to the top of the Shark platform's popularity rankings.
This abnormal situation was also reported to Lin Xianping.
The command he received was to shut down all live streams, yet one was left open. How could this be?
However...
"Boss, we can't shut it down. The code for this live stream is completely garbled, and the transmitted signal is very strange. We can't intercept it."
The coding method for the signal was unlike anything they had ever seen. Even these information experts were helpless.
The middle-aged man's eyes lit up upon hearing this answer.
But he was unwilling to reveal anything.
Lin Xianping felt annoyed.
He knew that the people from the National Research Institute were different from normal research institutions; they were a bunch of lunatics.
If he wanted to get any information out of them, he would have to consider the truthfulness of their words.
He felt that he shouldn't be wasting his time on this matter.
Seeing another urgent message from his old man, Lin Xianping turned off his phone and stood up.
Instead of dallying here, he might as well go and see for himself...
He thought this and clicked on Jiang Fan's live stream, wanting to see if there was anything unusual.
The newly opened live stream had extremely high popularity, exceeding two hundred million views within ten minutes.
On the screen, Zhou Niannian, who had just finished discussing 'quantum mechanics', put aside her previous questions and looked at Jiang Fan.
"We've finished eating. Shall we explore the surroundings now?"
"We also need to establish a shelter, after all, there's the sun. I don't know if there's a moon, or other climatic changes."
Dai Xiaomei chimed in from the side, trying to offer suggestions.
These suggestions were indeed what they needed at the moment.
Jiang Fan nodded and briefly introduced the surrounding environment to them.
"There's a swamp nearby, and many plants that are extinct outside are growing around it."
"No signs of large animals have been found yet, but there should be small ones."
"I also saw some scale wood suitable for making coal. I don't know how long we'll be here, but at least we need to prepare for continuous fire."
Upon hearing his words, Zhou Niannian and Dai Xiaomei nodded repeatedly.
As expected of a master expert, his words were professional.
There were many things here that they hadn't noticed.
However...
Zhou Niannian replayed Jiang Fan's words several times in her mind and finally grasped the key point.
"Wait, you said there are many... extinct plants?!"
Her voice rose, seemingly in disbelief.
To prove it, Jiang Fan gestured to the tree stump beneath her.
"That's *Encephalartos woodii*. Its genes are singular and lack diversity, making it one of the rarest plants in the world. It's the only surviving male tree; no female trees can be found for reproduction, making it effectively extinct."
"Fortunately, you are sitting on the stump of a female *Encephalartos woodii*."
Her words made Zhou Niannian freeze for a moment, then she jumped up from the stump as if her backside was on fire.
"Ahhhh! No way! I, I just randomly picked up a tree stump, how could this be so coincidental? This is truly a rare edition?!"
The moment she thought that the tree stump she picked up might be the last female *Encephalartos woodii* on Earth, she even felt like she was a sinner of the ages.
There were many viewers in the live stream who were drawn by the underground jungle. Upon hearing Jiang Fan's introduction, they were simply stunned.
"Holy cow, I just checked. It's all true! This streamer is a god! Could he be some kind of paleo-biology research scientist?"
"Jiang Fan, let me introduce you to the wilderness survival expert, hahaha! Just by looking at Jiang Shen's expression, I know he's teasing Sister Zhou."
"Suddenly realized that Jiang Shen always likes to tease Sister Zhou. Ah, what kind of romantic smell is this?"
"Old Woman: It's clearly a story about three people, but I can't even have a name."
The audience was thoroughly entertained.
Zhou Niannian and Dai Xiaomei were popular female streamers on the Shark platform.
Combined with Jiang Shen, who was skilled in exploration, they could easily create endless memes.
Lin Lao, who was also watching the live stream, his face darkened as he looked at the female *Encephalartos woodii* stump, stamping his feet furiously in front of the mine.
"Why can't we go in yet? Look at them, what a mess they've made of the jungle!!!"
"Just a moment, we're preparing to blast it open."
"Wait, wait, wait! I feel like you're going to make me wait until the end of time, you brat!!!"
Lin Lao and his colleagues were extremely anxious, but it was all useless if they couldn't get in.
Even the explosives couldn't reveal the true face of the mysterious passage. It was as if the dark passage could only be entered by four specific people. Even other streamers who had participated in the competition couldn't get in.
Extremely anxious, Lin Lao could only watch the live stream to satisfy his craving.
Fortunately, Jiang Fan only intended to scare Zhou Niannian. Behind her, there was a healthy-looking *Encephalartos woodii*.
However, at this moment, the ocean in the sky seemed to have changed.
After a surge of waves, a tiny, indistinguishable dot appeared.
It was Dai Xiaomei, who was looking up to avoid watching the couple's affection, that discovered it.
"Quick, look!!! Someone else is coming in!!!"