14 Iceberg Snowfield-Day 3

Wood is in short supply

[Visitor Reception Card: A permanent item that allows one invitation per day, with customizable time. Valid only for friends.]

After confirming the use, the prop card and the game panel are merged, and the friend section immediately has an additional function - [Invite].

Yan Lan’s friend list could be counted on one hand, so she had to ask Shi Yuanyuan to come out and try it out.

After the invitation was sent, the other party did not respond immediately. It seems that he was away for some reason.

The water on the stove just boiled, so she forked off the stovetop, took out two packets of instant noodles from the cabinet, tore them open, put them in the pot first, and then added the seasoning.

She had received a set of dishes and cutlery before, so she took out two, rinsed them with water, and placed them on the dining table. She placed the larger one on her side and pushed the smaller one to Snowball's side.

Snowball stared with his big eyes and compared it with the bowl in front of him. When he found something different, he kept chirping, waving his two paws, causing his round body to bounce up and down.

Although they couldn't communicate verbally, Yan Lan could easily understand its meaning after getting along with it.

Unexpectedly, this little guy is quite smart. Yan Lan chuckled and comforted him, "Be good~ This is the only bowl I have. I'll give it to you after you finish eating."

Snowball then stopped chirping, knocked on the wall of the bowl, and urged Yan Lan to feed him quickly.

Yan Lan came to the dining table with a pot in one hand and a pair of chopsticks in the other.

Snowball stared at the chopsticks, afraid that she would take less, and as soon as the bowl was full, he couldn't wait to slurp it up.

Yan Lan couldn't help but twitch the corner of her mouth. The starving ghost looked like it had been reincarnated and had been treated harshly.

After serving herself a bowl, she sat down on the sofa opposite.

The noodles are cooked to perfection, the taste is chewy and the soup base is rich and juicy. The fragrance of wheat melts in your mouth instantly after one bite.

In this cold winter, it was so comfortable to eat a mouthful of fragrant noodles. She quickly slurped up the instant noodles and even drank the noodle soup.

After drinking the hot noodle soup, my stomach felt warm.

The snowball on the opposite side had long disappeared. At this moment, it had finished its instant noodles and flew to the cooking table with the bowl in its arms, pretending to add more rice to itself.

Yan Lan looked very unhappy. It seemed that having too strong a learning ability was not always a good thing.

At this moment, there was a regular knock on the door of the RV.

Yan Lan paused, thinking she had heard wrongly. It had been the sixth day, and she had not seen a single living person except herself.

She shook her head and continued to watch Snowball's movements.

“Bang, bang, bang!”

The knocking continued. A flash of lightning flashed through Yan Lan's mind, and she quickly got up and ran to open the door.

As the car door opened, the familiar yet unfamiliar face outside appeared in front of me. He seemed very cold, with his hands on his chest and stamping his feet on the spot.

"Hey, come in quickly!"

Yan Lan greeted him hurriedly. It turned out that the visitor was teleported to the door. If it weren't for the knock on the door, she would have almost forgotten about it.

"Wow, it's so warm in there." Shi Yuanyuan couldn't wait to walk in.

Yan Lan closed the door, led him to the dining table and sat him down, and handed him one of the hand warmers.

Shi Yuanyuan stretched out his stiff hands and pressed them against the metal furnace wall. He couldn't help but breathe in the fragrance in the air: "What a nice smell!"

Yan Lan glanced at Xueqiu, who was about to drop the pot on his head at the counter, and said to him, "I just had instant noodles. Would you like some?"

Shi Yuanyuan's throat slid open, and he swallowed hard, refusing with a tangled expression: "No... no need, I just ate, ahahaha."

Yan Landuo glanced at him and didn't force him. He planned to give him a pack of instant noodles when he shared the profits next time.

At this moment, Snowball filled a bowl with instant noodles and flew over.

Shi Yuanyuan looked straight at it and saw a soft and cute creature flying with a bowl bigger than its body on its shoulder. It seemed to be worried that the soup in the bowl would spill, so it flew very carefully.

He opened his mouth wide, still in shock for a long time, "This...what is this?"

"This is the little elf I found in the snow, named Snowball," Yan Lan introduced them. "Snowball, this is Shi Yuanyuan, our partner."

Her original intention was to let Xueqiu and Shi Yuanyuan say hello, but who knew that the glutton just gave them a look and then lowered his head to continue slurping his instant noodles.

With an awkward smile, he said, "I'm sorry, it...it's a bit greedy."

Shi Yuanyuan was still in shock: "Haha...it's okay, just saying hello when we meet."

Seeing his pale face and dark blue lips, Yan Lan couldn't help but ask, "Are you still cold?"

Shi Yuanyuan quickly shook his head: "No, no, no, yours is much better than my off-road vehicle. At least you have the air conditioner on, so it's warm."

Yan Lan felt bad. Shi Yuanyuan was living like this, so how miserable must the other players be.

She found a pen and paper and drew a simple charcoal brazier on the table. She walked to the table and threw two pieces of wood on it. After a sound of sawing wood, a wooden charcoal brazier was made.

She placed the charcoal brazier under the dining table and took out several sticks of charcoal and lit them.

The charcoal fire burned red, and the temperature inside the RV rose by several degrees.

Shi Yuanyuan watched Yan Lan's actions the entire time and was extremely surprised: "Is this how those charcoal and toilet paper are produced?"

Yan Lan nodded: "Yeah."

Shi Yuanyuan couldn't help but give a thumbs up: "Awesome!"

Yan Lan: "You can stay here with me this morning. It will be convenient for communication and save resources."

Shi Yuanyuan was very grateful: "Thank you."

As long as he started selling charcoal, he couldn't concentrate on driving. He wasn't going to collect treasure chests anyway, so he might as well stay with Yan Lan. Besides, it was really warm here.

"Snowball, let's drive the car after dinner. We are about to set off~" Seeing Snowball pour the last drop of soup into his mouth, Yan Lan gave the order in time.

Shi Yuanyuan was warming his frozen hands over the charcoal fire when he was shocked again: "It can drive?!!"

Speaking of this, Yan Lan glanced at Snowball's back and said coldly, "He knows a lot more."

In order to drive, he left her on the road!

Snowball felt a little cool on his back for a moment. He put down the bowl and flew to the driving seat. After a while, the RV started to move steadily.

Yan Lan clasped her hands together and looked at Shi Yuanyuan: "Then let's get to work~"

Shi Yuanyuan's hands were already warm: "Okay, then I'll continue selling charcoal."

All the charcoal was sold out yesterday and there was no stock left, so we had to make and sell it now.

Shi Yuanyuan is responsible for connecting with players, while Yan Lan is responsible for production on the manufacturing table.

Once they started working, the two of them got rid of the initial awkwardness and even started chatting about family matters.

Shi Yuanyuan: "Yan Lan, which city were you in before the game?"

Yan Lan: "City B."

Shi Yuanyuan exclaimed: "Wow, then we are so destined. I am in City A, and it just happens to be next door."

"That's pretty close."

I just don't know if I can go back.

"Do you live with your parents?"

"No, I'm an orphan and grew up in an orphanage."

Shi Yuanyuan was stunned for a moment, and he looked over with a guilty conscience. Seeing Yan Lan's expression normal, he breathed a sigh of relief: "Well, I was almost an orphan since I was a child, but I also have a cousin."

"My cousin is so handsome..."

When Shi Yuanyuan talked about his cousin, he couldn't stop talking until a player came online and messaged him.

The two of them were on the scene, so there was no need to give supplies back and forth. After Yan Lan gave birth, Shi Yuanyuan took the supplies and sold them directly.

"Yan Lan, he said he only had 5 pieces of wood left and asked if he could get a discount."

Yan Lan's hands kept moving: "Then you should set the price to the lowest limit."

The reason I asked for 10 pieces of wood was to collect upgrade materials, and I specifically chose the highest price.

Upgrading is not so urgent now, wood is in short supply, and there is no problem in lowering the price.

Shi Yuanyuan nodded: "Okay, then let's set it to 5 pieces of wood."

After selling for half an hour, he asked again, "Nowadays, many people don't have wood and want to exchange it for upgraded materials. What should we do?"

Yan Lan frowned, stopped what she was doing, turned around and asked, "How many pieces of wood did you change today?"

Shi Yuanyuan checked: "Exactly 500."

"So little?"

"Yeah, not even one-fifth of yesterday's."

To stimulate everyone's enthusiasm for collecting wood, Shi Yuanyuan even made a special appeal in the group chat: "Buy wood vigorously, 5 wood for one charcoal."

Soon, a player replied: "Even if the price is reduced, I can't afford it. Don't you know I only collected 2 pieces of wood in the whole morning?"

"Yes, they are all buried in the snow and we can't see them. We don't have the ability to see clearly."

"The treasure chest detector can detect treasure chests, but it can't detect wood. All the wood I have today was decomposed from treasure chests, so I just need to exchange it for a piece of charcoal."

"Hiss~ We're not really going to freeze to death in the next few days, are we?"

"No, it's only the third day!"

One player, unwilling to give up, asked, "Shi Yuanyuan, are you really out of wood? Didn't you replace a lot of wood a few days ago?"

Shi Yuanyuan: "Really no more."

"Jin Da Bang! Yes, isn't Jin Da Bang still selling charcoal? Go stock up quickly."

Jiang Tiantian appeared at the right time: "Sorry, we just sold out the last batch of charcoal, but we still have some toilet paper in stock, first come first served~"

"Huh? I didn't expect the most scarce thing to be the most inconspicuous wood. If I had known about the novice period, I would have picked up more."

"Yes, at that time, there was only one piece of wood every few kilometers. I thought it was useless. Now it's too late to regret it."

Shi Yuanyuan turned off the panel and sighed.

Excluding the 3,000 pieces to be sold today, they only have 1,000 pieces of wood left, and even with what they received from today's transaction, it is not enough to sell tomorrow morning.

He asked, "What shall we do? We can't get by without charcoal."

Yan Lan was also a little depressed: "There will always be a way."

3,000 pieces of charcoal were produced in 4 hours. The production was fast and they were sold even faster. Shi Yuanyuan quickly finished his work this morning.

Yan Lan finally handed him 50 pieces of wood and said, "This is for you, if... I mean if."

"If there's really no more wood to replace it with, you can keep this for yourself."

Everyone is selfish. If you can't protect everyone, then do your best to protect those who are important to you.