76 Doomsday Diary 6

◎Cooling down◎

When they heard the new note in the diary, everyone put down what they were doing and quickly gathered around the dining table.

"Yan Lan, you should read it. After all, this is a diary recorded from your perspective." Shi Yuanyuan said as he handed the diary with a brown and yellow cowhide cover to Yan Lan.

Yan Lan didn't refuse. She went straight to the diary, cleared her throat, and read aloud: "Doomsday Diary: Day 4."

"Last night, a teammate who went out searching for supplies finally returned safely, bringing back a lot of supplies. We've all been starving for days, and our stomachs are giving out. Now we can finally eat a bite, and our health has stabilized."

"To communicate with the outside world, we need to build a radio, but we're still missing several key parts. The atmosphere in the basement is becoming increasingly depressing, affecting everyone's mental state. We desperately want to get out of here as soon as possible. So, another teammate stepped forward and decided to go out and search for the missing parts."

As soon as he finished speaking, Shi Yuanyuan raised his hand decisively: "Then this task today can finally be handed over to me."

The diary mentioned "another teammate," which meant it definitely wasn't Yan Lan, the diary's owner. Yuan Zhou had just returned yesterday and needed to rest, and Luo Wen was relatively weak on the team. Therefore, Shi Yuanyuan was the most suitable choice.

Yuan Zhou glanced around at his teammates and sighed, "Our team is truly harmonious. I've seen so many competing teams on the world channel quarreling and turning against each other to avoid going out to investigate. In comparison, the atmosphere in our team is truly remarkable."

Shi Yuanyuan's lips curled up when he heard this, as proud as a peacock: "Of course not. Don't you see who's on our team?"

Yan Lan and Luo Wen also looked at him with smiles, their eyes full of care and warmth.

This competition is a level-clearing system, and players who clear the levels and rank at the top will naturally receive extremely generous rewards.

Even if you don't complete the game successfully, you can still get a participation prize as long as you participate to the end. The prerequisite for winning the prize is that the player remains alive at the end of the game.

Many people formed temporary teams for the sole purpose of reward. Exploration was dangerous and arduous; returning safely was fine, but dying out there was not only suffering, but also a pure loss for their teammates.

Therefore, although their choice is somewhat selfish, it is also understandable.

Ultimately, the relationship between teammates is not deep enough and there is no trust between each other.

But there are also many friendly and harmonious teams like Yan Lan's. There are quite a few in District H-38 alone, such as Lu Xiaokui's team, Yang Xue sisters, Xie Yuan's team, etc.

Shi Yuanyuan was about to tell his cousin in the "Let's Get Rich Together" group chat that he was about to go out exploring when he accidentally glanced at the soon-to-be-ending career cooldown timer on his personal screen. He immediately screamed excitedly, "Look everyone! There are only a few seconds left on my career cooldown!"

Upon hearing this, Yan Lan quickly checked her sign-in system and skill cooldown status, and a bright smile immediately spread across her face: "Me too, that's great!"

Shi Yuanyuan was so excited that he quickly clasped his hands together, closed his eyes, and prayed devoutly: "Ancestors in heaven, grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles, please bless me and Yan Lan to double the supply drops today. After the game, I will burn paper money for you, piles of paper money~"

Because the first cooldown period was over, everyone's mood was high.

Perhaps Shi Yuanyuan's prayers had paid off, as his takeout order actually contained a whole, steaming, fragrant roast chicken. Yan Lan also signed in and received a palm-sized five-nut mooncake.

Shi Yuanyuan's eyes hesitated and lingered between the mooncakes and the roast chicken. Finally, his gaze skipped over the roast chicken with heartache and fell firmly on the packaged mooncake.

"Yan Lan, you should use your magnification skills on mooncakes. Mooncakes are very filling and easy to store."

Although roast chicken is delicious, it cannot keep warm or fresh because the backpack compartments are blocked. Food that is durable and filling is the best choice, so everyone chose the inconspicuous five-nut mooncake.

Yan Lan nodded, then turned her palm downward, and a force surged out from her palm and slowly poured into the mooncake.

As the skill was released, the mooncake began to slowly expand, gradually expanding from the original palm size to the size of a plate.

However, it did not stop, it continued to expand, and the onlookers could not help but hold their breath, clenching their fists and praying excitedly: "Bigger, bigger!"

Finally, the mooncake stopped expanding and turned into a huge "mooncake pot" with a diameter of 40 cm and a thickness of 5 cm. It felt heavy in the hand.

Shi Yuanyuan fondly caressed the enormous mooncake; Snowball danced happily around the table, as if choosing what to eat. Even Luo Wen, usually taciturn and devoted, could hardly conceal his excitement, repeating several times, "We won't be hungry for the next few days."

With plenty of food, everyone no longer needed to be cautious about saving. The freshly-baked fragrant roast chicken was happily shared by four adults and an elf, and everyone was very satisfied.

After a hearty meal, Shi Yuanyuan prepared to go out to search for supplies. Luo Wen carefully packed some food for him to take with him.

Shi Yuanyuan gratefully accepted the food, put on his pistol, and set out on a journey to search for supplies.

That night, a large group of rats rushed into the basement. They had sharp teeth and would gnaw frantically at any edible thing they saw, even the rotten wood.

The sudden attack caught many teams off guard. The food they had painstakingly stored was eaten up almost overnight. The group chat immediately exploded with everyone complaining.

"Oh my god, this game setting is too bad! I collected food with great difficulty and was reluctant to eat it myself, but it was all ruined by these damn rats!" A female player vented indignantly.

"That's right! I was so angry, but they all ran away and I didn't catch any of them. Otherwise, I could have had some rat meat to eat." Someone immediately echoed.

Besides the complaints, some rational players also stood up to analyze: "This is just a lack of foresight. Actually, this level has a hint. I guess many people must have found rat poison in the basement, but most people don't realize its importance. If rat poison had been spread, the rats would have died in the past few days, so why would they come to steal our food?"

"Then the hint in this game is way too subtle! Who would have thought rat poison was used to keep rats away? I thought it was for us to eat when we're hungry!"

"Excuse me, player, are you trying to make fun of me? You're not using rat poison to keep rats away, but to eat them. How could you possibly think of that?"

"I think he's right. If you're truly at your wit's end, taking rat poison might temporarily boost your health. After all, in this game, running out of health just means you're teleported to the survival map, not actually dead."

"Look, a lot of people have the same idea as me. What's wrong with eating some rat poison?"

"Eating rat poison is okay, but spreading it is so weird. I don't think anyone would be so bored as to spread it!"

"I bet a red bean paste bun that there's no such thing!"

Actually, it really does exist.

Yan Lan's team was an exception. Not only was their food preserved safely, but not even a trace of a mouse was seen. This was all due to Luo Wen's unintentional act.

On the first day of exploring the basement, they stumbled upon a rat hole. Since the basement was so run-down, a rat hole was perfectly normal, so almost no one paid much attention to it.

But then when they were searching for supplies, they found a bag of rat poison.

Luo Wen felt that this dark and damp basement must be full of snakes, insects, rats and ants, so when she saw the packet of rat poison, she spread it in every corner without hesitation.

At that time, several teammates were very puzzled by her behavior of spreading rat poison.

Luo Wen explained that he did this kind of thing too many times when he was a child, so he couldn't help but spread rat poison when he saw it.

When she was a child, she lived with her grandparents in a dilapidated wooden house. The house had a simple structure and was often haunted by mice. Once they started to gnaw on the wood, her house would become uninhabitable. So in order to protect the wooden house, she and her grandmother developed the habit of regularly sprinkling rat poison in the corners of the wall.

No one expected that this unintentional act would eventually become the key to protecting food.

Shi Yuanyuan was searching for supplies outside. After learning the news through the group chat, he praised Luo Wen highly.

Luo Ben was shy to begin with, and her face turned red when she was praised. She picked up a rag sheepishly and began to wipe the small table non-stop. She wiped the table so shiny that it could even reflect people's shadows.

Doomsday Diary: Day 5.

As the first ray of sunlight in the morning shines through the cracks in the basement, a new day quietly begins.

With sufficient food supplies, everyone's spirits remained high and their health values ​​remained steadily within the healthy range of 80 to 100.

The two men went out to search for supplies, while the three girls stayed in the basement. They got up, washed, ate breakfast, and read their diaries in an orderly manner according to the established daily routine.

However, today's diary entry brings an unusual hint.

Yan Lan flipped open her diary, her eyes falling on a line of eye-catching text. Her brows furrowed slightly. "The latest news is that two teammates who were out searching for supplies were attacked by unknown forces. The medicine they were carrying is running low, and they are in urgent need of medical assistance."

"We happen to have a professional medical worker in our team, and it is perfect for her to go to the rescue."

After reading today's diary, they almost turned their eyes to Luo Wen at the same time, and both of them showed deep worry on their faces.

Luo Wen is not only proficient in medicine, but also a medical worker with a career as a "pharmacist". It is undoubtedly appropriate for her to go to provide support.

But at the same time, her combat ability is also the weakest. Since Ji Zhou and Shi Yuanyuan couldn't withstand the attack, how could she cope with it?

Moreover, the source of this information is really strange.