The Apocalypse? I Go Beachcombing for Mutant Creatures and Go Viral! [Livestream]

[Violent monster-slaying, money-loving shou x soft, scheming, melodramatic jellyfish gong]

When Ji Kongkong starved to death in the apocalypse, he happened to be scooped up at random by a System.

He was lying on a deserted island beach, barely able to breathe and waiting to die, when a voice suddenly sounded by his ear: [Do you want money?]

At that, Ji Kongkong sprang back to life on the spot, eyes shining. "I do! I do! I do!"

The System's inner thoughts: I accidentally scooped up a poor dead guy!

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Reborn into the apocalypse, Ji Kongkong receives just one mission from the System: livestream beachcombing.

Catch "normal" seafood, gain followers, and exchange them for items and money!

Before Ji Kongkong can figure out why the word "normal" needs to be specially emphasized, a two- or three-meter-long tentacle reaches out of the purple sea and slaps him away.

Faced with a bewildered Ji Kongkong, the System coughs guiltily: [The seafood is, uh, a little big (°ー°〃)]

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As a newcomer dropped into a livestream of mutated creatures on the shore, Ji Kongkong is on an island polluted by mutagens, where the mutated creatures are extremely aggressive.

Almost no one has ever taken on this livestream, and no one expects him to succeed.

When a mutated octopus attacks, all the viewers think the frail young man is about to die here. But Ji Kongkong immediately launches into a sliding side kick and knocks it out with a direct hit to the head.

Viewers who had tuned out come back and cautiously post comments:

[Blood-soaked beachcombing?]

[The more intense the beachcombing, the more I like it!]

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Ji Kongkong could have kept being this cool, if he hadn't found a normal strawberry-chocolate on the beach: a flower hat jellyfish.

The jellyfish looks perfectly normal. Ji Kongkong pokes it. This is money! Pick it up!

After another trip beachcombing, Ji Kongkong discovers that the jellyfish he's been raising has turned into a person...

Comments: [Ooh, pink bubbles~]

Ji Kongkong clenches his fist. He blew those bubbles on purpose, okay!

Luo Yang, now human, blinks his pink-and-blue eyes, on the verge of tears, and clings softly to Ji Kongkong's side. "Darling, are you going to kick me out?"

The comments scream: [Holy crap! Give us a hundred episodes!]

→ This blurb is hopeless. I give up (T_T)

→ I've nearly gone bald over this blurb, so here's a spoiler: it's a story about bizarre beachcombing and a whole lot of conspiracy theories.

→ Slow burn. I recommend starting from chapters 16 or 17.

→ Beginner writing, lots of headcanon, all made up as I go.

→ Logic serves the story and is entirely imaginary. Don't apply it to real life.

→ The gong is a flower hat jellyfish. Don't read if that bothers you.

→ This isn't an ordinary beachcombing or food story. It's more like fighting monsters in the apocalypse.

Theme: Protecting the environment is everyone's responsibility