Infinite Disasters: I Hoarded My Way to Godhood novel Chapter 8

Chapter 8: Chapter 8: Doomsday Hot Search, Live Streaming Flight

Seraphina Sullivan returned home, carrying two large bags of hot pot ingredients. Just as she stuffed the sliced beef and tripe into the fridge, her phone started vibrating like crazy.

She frowned and pulled it out to see—

"Weibo, TikTok, my feed, all the major forums... everything’s blowing up!"

Number one trending: #TheApocalypseBegins!#

’It blew up this fast?’ Seraphina clicked on the topic and found it flooded with videos and posts published by Players.

She clicked on the top post.

The user, SkywardPig, had posted a video. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

In the video, he wore a mask and excitedly brandished a short metal dagger. "Listen up, everyone! You might not believe this, but I was just pulled into an apocalypse instance and had to survive in there for seven days! And because of this mysterious system, our world is now entering an age of apocalypse. The system said so itself! I don’t know what kind of apocalypse it’ll be, but it’s really happening! And this dagger? I got it in the instance!"

The comments section instantly exploded:

JustHereForTheTea: [This is so fake. I can buy a knife just like that at the corner store. An apocalypse? Are you writing a novel or something?]

BabyIsReallyCute: [@JustHereForTheTea I can back him up, I just got back too! But the problem is... my awakened Talent is ’Makeup’! What the hell is the use of that in an apocalypse?! What am I supposed to do?!]

SkywardPig: [Don’t panic, sis. I suggest you start stockpiling supplies right away. You can also hoard stuff in the instances since we can basically ’shop’ for free. Grab as much as you can! Practice your looting speed before the next one!]

SpicyBoi: [Are you all having a collective eighth-grader syndrome attack? Apocalypse instances, lmao, you’ve played so many games you’ve gone crazy.]

JustHereForTheTea: [Exactly! If you’re going to hire shills, at least get better actors. This is so over the top! A Makeup Talent? What’s next, are you gonna tell us you can fly?]

SkywardPig: [But I really can fly!]

JustHereForTheTea: [?? I don’t believe you. Pics or it didn’t happen!]

...

Seraphina watched the discussion continue. Many users didn’t believe SkywardPig, assuming it was just a stunt to build an account and farm for traffic.

However, the key factor that made the topic explode was a video from overseas of a person who could control flames.

This person also claimed to have been chosen to participate in the Disaster Game.

Seraphina swished a piece of tripe in her hot pot while scrolling through her phone, watching the online debate grow more and more heated.

Most users still believed the video of someone controlling flames from overseas was just a clickbait stunt by some influencer, with many mocking it as simple special effects.

"See? People overseas do it differently. SkywardPig just runs his mouth, but this other guy is already using advanced special effects and video editing."

However, just as the debate reached its peak—

[SkywardPig has suddenly gone live!]

The title read: [Player Demonstrating Talent Ability Live. Doubters Welcome!]

Seraphina raised an eyebrow and immediately clicked to watch.

The livestream feed was shaky, seemingly filmed from the rooftop of a tall building. The camera pointed at the night sky as the wind howled.

SkywardPig still didn’t show his face, but his voice came through clearly:

"I know you all don’t believe me, so—I’m just going to show you the proof!"

The next second, the camera whipped around and panned down to the street below.

It was a drop of more than twenty stories!

The comments instantly flooded the screen:

"Holy crap! If he falls from there, they can start planning the wake!"

"Streamer, don’t do anything crazy! Don’t get carried away just because of some online argument. I still don’t believe you’ll jump, but you don’t have to risk your life to get famous."

However, SkywardPig just let out a soft chuckle, and then—

He leaped off the edge!

"AHHHH—!" Screams from onlookers on the street erupted through the stream.

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