At the extermination point.

Watching the cockroaches climb over her body through the hazmat suit, Chen Shanshan forced herself to suppress the creepy feeling.

Protecting the GoPro camera and keeping a calm voice, she said:

"Dear viewers, as you can see, the largest cockroach force we've found so far has reached the edge of Guo Moruo Square.

I will now follow the cockroach army into the scene to bring you a live broadcast.

If nothing unexpected happens, this should be the final battle!

I am Chen Shanshan. If you like it, please give me a monthly pass... cough, a one-click triplet!"

After saying this, rows of praising comments immediately floated across the screen:

"6666!"

"Awesome!!"

"Ocean of cockroaches, true loner!"

Seeing the popularity in the live stream room soar with each passing second, Chen Shanshan's heart steadied:

Her all-or-nothing gamble was not wrong!

As a graduate of Chuannan Media University, Chen Shanshan, like many ordinary people, was striving for her life and future.

However, in today's society, for an ordinary person, it's not hard to make ends meet, but to make a name for oneself is another level of difficulty—especially in fields related to the system.

She has no high-ranking parents, nor does she have a powerful 'sponsor.'

Chen Shanshan joined Sichuan TV three years ago, only recently transitioning from an intern to a stationed reporter in Wannan.

Even in this Sichuan Province Observation interview team, she was just a front-end commentary reporter.

Her main task was to chat with Ouyang Li to bridge the time until the cockroach pesticide took effect, ensuring the audience didn't depart from boredom.

Following the normal trajectory.

She might need to work a few more years before maybe getting a promotion to a provincial TV reporter.

Thus, when she learned from cameraman Master Zhang that the camera was blocked by cockroaches, the young girl had an idea:

This is an opportunity.

An opportunity that could change her life!

And the cost would be her walking into the swarm of cockroaches, getting up close and personal with countless cockroaches.

Then Chen Shanshan thought carefully for five minutes, becoming increasingly determined in her resolve:

Currently, the whole network's viewer count on the live stream was massive. Although she didn't have the specific backstage data, it surely had tens of millions as a minimum.

If suddenly someone starts a live broadcast while all nearby devices are rendered useless...

Not to mention eight digits, seven digits of real viewers would be no problem!

This kind of viewer base, combined with keywords like cockroach army and lone female reporter live broadcasting, would definitely stir up considerable buzz online!

With high buzz, the remaining issues were no longer of concern for Chen Shanshan.

Because there is a precedent.

The most famous case being the CCTV reporter Liu Xiaoqian.

He was originally just a regular reporter at the Latin American Center Station, but he became a sensation in 2014's "Entering the 'City of God'" by calmly entering a gang's lair for an interview.

Now, this cool guy with a gentle voice has over seven million followers on his self-media account, and his job grade has been promoted by four levels. Even if he resigns, he can still live a carefree life.

Another less known name is Yu Jinmin.

This person's name might be a bit tongue-twisting, but quite a few have watched his videos:

When Typhoon Mangkhut struck, a 280-pound reporter stood rock-solid on an empty Bund, single-handedly covering the Bund, thus getting dubbed a "typhoon-exclusive reporter..."

This person is Yu Jinmin, who was also just an intern at Beijing News.

By a stroke of luck, he went viral due to Typhoon Mangkhut, garnering over 80 million views across the internet.

Now, Yu Jinmin not only has become a full-fledged reporter, but also frequently appears in news stories.

Every year when there's a typhoon, many netizens inevitably mention him.

Thus, Chen Shanshan wasn't worried about becoming a one-hit wonder that wasted her topic traffic.

These days, even some central media know the trap of pitting genders against each other, not to mention Sichuan Province Observation, which is a mainstay for such media on the internet.

Indeed.

Given the character of internet users, she might very well get labeled as Cockroach Lady or something.

But so what?

Cockroach Lady is Cockroach Lady. At least it's a more upright opportunity than those granted to sugar daddies, and this was an opportunity earned by one's own abilities!

Then this young girl took a deep breath and proceeded alongside the cockroach army.

A few minutes later.

Apart from the action camera's lens, her protective suit was already covered with cockroaches, likely numbering no less than five or six hundred.

Moreover, due to being near the extermination center, plenty of pheromones had also clung to her, leading to the number of cockroaches on her suit continuing to increase.

Luckily, the protective suit provided by Ke Da was of high quality, without any tears or seams breaking open, otherwise, that would have been a big problem.

Crack—

With every step Chen Shanshan took, many cockroach bodies were crushed.

"You know what I just thought of?"

Walking along, Chen Shanshan gently flicked a cockroach off the lens and filming the ground, said:

"Hearing these crunching sounds, I thought of the time when I was a kid stepping on pebbles at Grandma's house, full of childhood memories....."

Seeing rows of question marks on the screen, the girl chuckled:

"Alright, alright, back to the topic, let's watch the live broadcast, look, the cockroaches are eating the bait....."

She adjusted the focus a bit, locking the view to the front.

At this moment.

Cai Cai Zi's cockroach army had already reached the central point of extermination, and before them lay the corpses of their fellow cockroaches.

These corpses exuded the enticing aroma of nerve toxins, tempting the roaches to taste a few bites.

At this point, filled with wild instincts, the cockroaches could no longer be controlled, their wings and limbs crackled.

The once barely orderly cockroach stream now seemed like it had burst through a dam.

With a clatter, they scattered, invading the square.

Some went mad, gnawing at the corpses, while others pursued the surviving third and fourth generation infected ones, engaging in the most primitive clapping for love.

Food and sex are natural instincts, the ancients were not wrong.

Hundreds of thousands of cockroaches started an outdoor party at Guo Moruo Square.

And naturally, Cai Cai Zi was among them.

Snap—

Only to see Cai Cai Zi open her strong jaws, biting off a piece of a fellow corpse, slowly savoring the marinated hind leg.

On her massive body perched five or six cockroaches, exchanging lymph fluid among themselves.

As she ate, an image of her grandfather flashed in Cai Cai Zi's mind—or rather, a genetic fragment imprinted with biological instincts.

Cai Cai Zi's grandfather was also a giant American cockroach, but had been stomped to death when Cai Cai Zi was very small.

The biped seemed to have said something at the time, but unfortunately, Cai Cai Zi was just a bug and couldn't understand human words.

Thus, Cai Cai Zi continued to gnaw, while the number of cockroaches in the square kept increasing.

Half an hour later.

The number of cockroaches in the square reached about seven hundred thousand.

Chen Shanshan stood amidst the cockroach pile, accompanied by colleagues from other media—as Sichuan Province Observation sent someone for live coverage, other media also reacted accordingly.

However, due to the time difference, Sichuan Province Observation's audience numbers were securely leading.

Meanwhile.

The discussion of the topic #Chen Shanshan# had surged to seventh place on the trending list.

Furthermore worth mentioning.

By this time, the internet was no longer filled with initial reproach.

Instead, there was admiration for Ke Da's technology and fear of the cockroach species.

Of course.

Under the posts claiming they would wash their hair upside-down, streak, or eat feces if successful, the spectators were similarly busy settling scores in autumn.

Fifteen minutes later, the number of cockroaches at Guo Moruo Square reached.....

One million two hundred thousand!

Bear in mind.

In theory, the entire East District's cockroach count was at most about two million!

Fortunately, considering Guo Moruo Square as the core extermination point, the command center had deployed a sufficient amount of bait on this square, otherwise they might have had to use drones for some air drops.

Previously, the highest cockroach pile at Building 14 appeared near the pipe outside the building, almost forty centimeters high, higher than the third-floor dormitory stack.

This cockroach pile formation was somewhat coincidental, buffered by the wall and having an actual base width of only about fifty centimeters.

The main reason was that many poisoned cockroaches flew out of the pipe mouth and fell from exhaustion, forming a gathering point upon death.

But today's cockroach situation at the square was quite different:

Director Guan of the security department had preemptively erected a circle of plastic barriers around the square, about one and a half meters high.

Healthy cockroaches could easily climb over such plastic barriers, but for the poisoned ones, they were an impassable chasm.

Thus, except for a few lucky ones who escaped, the rest of the cockroaches were 'locked' within the square.

At this time, glancing around.

The thickness of cockroaches on the ground was estimated at fifteen centimeters, densely packed past the ankles.

In the middle, a massive cockroach hill rose at the highest whiteboard bait point, about 1.5 meters high!

Countless cockroaches emitted their dying buzz across the square, accompanied by dismembered legs, antennae, and fallen wings everywhere.

The cockroach Empire that had dominated the East District of Ke Da for decades ended under the watchful eye of the world!

Although, within such a vast base, a small number of individuals were still stubbornly alive.

Cai Cai Zi was one of them.

Her two hind legs had been completely gnawed by her peers, and her body was stained with countless fluids, yet her two slender antennae continued to dance madly.

She crawled slowly through the pile of cockroaches, her body and mind extremely stimulated by the nerve toxin!

Moments later.

The greatly excited false queen suddenly erupted with a powerful energy.

Opening her four wings, she flew slowly upwards!

She flew and flew, feeling as if she had become the Sun, the sole ruler above the ground!

However, it wasn't long.

Cai Cai Zi suddenly felt dizzy, her strength drained in an instant—the targeted receptor proteins had finally closed her sodium ion channels, completely cutting off her vitality!

With an easterly wind from the northwest direction at a 41-degree angle blowing through.

This false queen fell powerlessly onto the ground.

Coincidentally, her landing spot was right in Chen Shanshan's path.

At that moment, Chen Shanshan was chatting with the audience, and with a crunching sound, she realized she might have stepped on something.

One second later.

Cai Cai Zi heard the last syllable of her life—the same as what her grandfather heard before he died:

"Ah... squashed it."

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