Chapter 3 Chapter 3 Save Him! Burdened with Debt
After reopening the refresh system, Su Qing first picked out the edible things.
[Rotten Bread - Bread x 4, refreshable]
[Moldy Cookies - Cookies x 7, Refreshable]
[Contaminated Mineral Water - Mineral Water x 15, Refreshable]
[Deflated and Sour Cans - Cans x 15, Refreshable]
[Crushed Instant Noodles - Instant Noodles x 8, Refreshable]
[Mouldy flour - 5kg flour x 4, can be refreshed]
[Insect-infested and moldy rice - 5kg of rice x 2, refreshable]
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After searching every corner of most cities, it was rare to still have these things a year after the end of the world. All kinds of moldy, rotten and inedible things in the eyes of others were treasures to Su Qing.
There are also many kinds of snacks, daily necessities, and so on that can be refreshed. From having nothing to achieving a well-off life, it only took two days. Happiness came too suddenly.
Su Qing first refreshed the canned food, bread and mineral water, and then ate a simple meal by the light of the flashlight.
After a busy day, she felt sleepy after eating, so she fell on the bed and fell asleep quickly.
Su Qing slept soundly that night. When he woke up, it was already past noon. He took out the toothbrush and toothpaste he found in the supermarket and washed up thoroughly.
After dinner, Su Qing began to plan.
First, she had to plant the fields. It was not enough to eat only bread and biscuits every day as they lacked necessary nutrition. She had rice and flour, and also collected pots and bowls in the supermarket, but there was no stove, so she needed to build a simple kitchen.
Drinking water is also a problem. You can't last long relying solely on the water in your backpack.
There is also the problem of the toilet. For the past two days, she has been digging a hole with a wooden stick at a distance behind the wooden house and then filling the hole up. This is really troublesome, and she dare not come out at night and can only hold it in until morning.
"System, is there a toilet I can exchange for?"
“Upgrade the house and all the features in the house can be updated.”
Su Qing clicked on the house icon and saw that the upgrade required 1000 stones, 1000 wood, 1000 steel, 1000 sand, 1000 cement, 1000 bricks and tiles, and 1000 glass.
My goodness, she only had wood and nothing else. She needed to go to many places such as building materials factories, steel mills, cement factories, stone factories, etc. to collect these materials.
Looking at the newly generated route map, these factories are not located together, and some are very far away. As she currently has insufficient gasoline, it will take at least one or two months to collect enough gasoline by walking and looking for car gasoline. It seems that the house cannot be upgraded in a short time.
Alas, times are tough, I’d better start farming first.
Some of the seeds found in the supply and marketing cooperatives are good and can be planted directly, while some seeds have rotted. Fortunately, they can be refreshed in the mall, and the ones that are refreshed are super-edition seeds that are more efficient and high-yielding.
Su Qing has never farmed before, but there are operation reminders on the planting interface.
First, she used tools to turn the soil in the field. The soil was very soft after being refreshed. She carried a hoe and buried her head in the field, digging the soil for several hours, and the first step of planting was completed.
Then Su Qing picked out several kinds of fruits and vegetables with relatively short growing periods, and planted seeds of lettuce, cabbage, rapeseed, spinach, carrots, cherry tomatoes, and strawberries. She also planted corn. She also soaked the wheat seeds in water and placed them in containers, waiting for the malt to grow before planting them in the fields.
She had previously found some wrinkled potatoes and sweet potatoes that were almost dry and dehydrated in the supermarket. Not knowing whether they could still grow anything, she planted them out of an inexplicable trust in this magical land.
After planting everything, Su Qing was so tired that he could hardly straighten his back. He looked up at the sky and saw that it was already sunset.
The next step in planting requires watering. She only has a dozen bottles of mineral water and a few barrels of sealed purified water found at a water station in the city. These have to be kept for daily drinking. Moreover, the water is not enough to irrigate all the fields, and subsequent watering is also a problem.
Su Qing was in a dilemma for a moment and could only ask the system for help.
"System, is there a river nearby?"
"Scanning... Scan completed. There's a stream on the mountain 500 meters south of the cabin, and a river 2 kilometers east of the cabin."
Su Qing had some empty buckets collected at the water station in her backpack. She could fill these buckets and use them to water the fields, thus solving the water problem.
After resting for a while, she got up and went to look for a nearby stream.
Walking up the mountain, Su Qing discovered that there were many bamboos growing here. He remembered watching survival videos before and learned that bamboo could be used to make many things and was a treasure.
Taking out the axe, she laboriously chopped down a few bamboos as she walked and put them away. She also dug out some bamboo shoots. It seems that things can still grow in sparsely populated areas.
When she reached the water source, she took out the empty buckets from her backpack and started filling them one by one. She didn't know how long it took, but she finally filled all the fifty or so buckets she had received.
The stream looked exceptionally clean. Besides being used to irrigate the fields, it could also be used for daily washing, which would allow her to save a lot of drinking water.
Su Qing had consumed too much physical energy today, and he dragged his tired body back.
As I was walking, I heard a slight noise in the bushes ahead.
Su Qing was a little scared, wondering if it was some ferocious beast. He was about to leave quickly, but he saw a huge rabbit jumping out from the bushes. There was some blood on the rabbit's fur, and it disappeared after a few jumps.
She was marveling at the rabbit's plump body and agile movements. As the leaves of the bushes swayed, Su Qing seemed to vaguely see a figure lying inside.
Thinking of the blood on the rabbit just now, she took out a wooden stick, held it in her hand and walked over carefully. She stretched out the stick and gently pushed aside the leaves to peek inside.
He saw a man covered in blood lying on the grass. He looked seriously injured. Su Qing was startled and subconsciously walked forward. He tentatively felt his pulse and sniffed his breath.
Still alive! His breath was faint. His clothes were torn and covered with wounds. His blood had stained the ground beneath him. His face was as pale as paper, and it was obvious that he had lost too much blood.
what to do?
Su Qing looked carefully at the wounds on the man's body. There were knife wounds and gunshot wounds, but no wounds caused by zombies.
She was a little conflicted. In such an environment with a shortage of medical care and medicine and everyone being in danger, there was no one to call, and she didn't know whether this person was good or bad. She shouldn't really care.
But if she just let him bleed to death...it would have been fine if she hadn't discovered it, but now that she had, she couldn't bear to watch a life disappear like that.
"System! Is there any medicine that can heal his injuries?" She remembered seeing some medicines that could be exchanged in the exchange mall before.
"Yes, there is, but your current gold coins are not enough to redeem it, host."
"I'll give you credit first! I'll finish the mission and give you the supply as soon as possible!"
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"Host, our system doesn't allow credit."
"He's almost dead! You have to learn to be flexible in everything! I'll get more gold coins sooner or later. I'm just using them in advance, but I'm not going to pay them back. I'll give you interest."
How could this host it encountered be so good at bargaining? This system wanted to cry.
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"Host... he is seriously injured. You need to pay 50,000 gold coins. Do you know how many tasks you have completed?"
Fifty thousand gold coins? She had completed two tasks and only earned a total of three hundred gold coins. Looking at this, fifty thousand seemed a bit out of reach.
"Host, you now have two choices. One is that the system can advance you 50,000 gold coins, but you need to pay it back within two months. Otherwise, you will be punished and lose the system's protection. All dangers will depend on you. The other is to give up saving this person."
After hearing this, Su Qing looked at the person on the ground. If she couldn't pay off her debts and lost the protection of the system, she would probably die soon in this world. At the same time, she would also have to bear the risk that this person might be a bad person.
If she didn't save him, she would feel uneasy and would go against her conscience.
She stood there hesitant for a moment, staring at the man in a daze.
Just when she was about to give up after weighing the pros and cons, her feet suddenly tightened. The person seemed to sense someone next to him and subconsciously reached out to hold her ankle.
"Um...help..."
The man made a weak sound, and then his hand lost its strength and fell at Su Qing's feet, and there was no movement anymore.
Su Qing stiffly lowered his head to look at the bloodstains on his ankle left by the man's hand, and clenched his fists tightly. Human life is at stake, so he decided to take a gamble!
We’ll talk about the future later.
"Save him!"
"Okay, the contract automatically takes effect. The exchange mall has been updated with the required items. From this moment on, deduct the 200 gold coins you currently have. You must pay back a total of 49,800 gold coins within 59 days! If you fail to do so, the system will remove your protection."
Su Qing could no longer sense the man's presence, so she quickly opened the exchange mall and saw a row of medicines at the front. She looked at these things but didn't know how to operate them.
"What should I do?"
"First, inject the first and second injections into his body. Use staples to close any large wounds, and apply ointment to any minor injuries. There are also two bullets in his body that you need to remove."
Su Qing first exchanged the injection, injected it into the man with trembling hands, and then exchanged for a set of medical tools.
Holding the tweezers in his hand, Su Qing felt a little dizzy as he looked at the wound that was still bleeding.
"Is there no anesthetic?" It would be painful to put it directly into the wound, right?
"The second injection you gave him was a highly effective anesthetic, and its effects will take effect quickly."
That’s good. Su Qing endured the discomfort and inserted the tweezers.
The person on the ground seemed to sense something and trembled slightly. Su Qing was so scared that the wound on his hand bleeds more.
Seeing that the man's face looked even worse, she quickly took out the tweezers and apologized to the unconscious man, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I haven't done this before. Please bear with me for now. I'll try to be quick."
After saying that, he picked up the tweezers and started operating again.
After a lot of effort, she finally got the two bullets out. She then took out a stapler, which looked similar to a stapler, with staples that needed to be stapled into the skin.
After treating all the wounds, Su Qing finally breathed a sigh of relief. She was exhausted and sweating. Her body had been tense when she sewed up the wounds. Now that she relaxed, her muscles ached all over. She was unable to support herself and fell to her knees on the ground.
It's so tiring! She never wants to experience using staples to pierce human flesh again...
Su Qing sat on the ground for a long time before she recovered a little. She took out a bottle of water and carefully washed the blood off her hands with some heartache.
Turning my head to look at the man on the ground, I found that he was quite handsome, with thick black eyebrows deeply furrowed and thin lips tightly pursed. His face was pale and colorless due to excessive blood loss, and his face was covered with dust and blood, but it could not hide his handsomeness.
But... he looked quite disheveled.
She took off the man's tattered shirt and tore most of his pants, leaving only the important parts below the waist and above the thighs covered.
The white ointment was smeared all over his body, and the gauze was wrapped in strange shapes. Looking at his own craftsmanship, Su Qing felt a little ashamed.
The man's breathing had gradually stabilized at this time, and he seemed to be out of danger, but she couldn't just leave him in the wild. If he encountered some wild beast or zombie, her rescue would be in vain.
How to bring the people back to the wooden house was a problem. After thinking for a while, Su Qing took out a few bamboos, cut them into the required length with an axe, and took out a few long ropes. He tied the bamboos together to make a bamboo raft, leaving a piece of rope at the front.
After much effort, they finally moved the person onto the bamboo raft. Su Qing pulled the rope and dragged the person down the mountain little by little.
"What a sin! In novels, people who travel through time don't just enjoy the luxury of being a superior person, they also have the golden fingers to realize their grand plans. But I'm in a different situation! When I came here, I started out in a desolate mountain wilderness with nothing. I have to rely on myself for everything, from farming to building infrastructure."
Su Qing paused for a moment, glanced back at the unconscious man on the raft, tightened the rope around his shoulders, and hauled the raft forward with all his might. "I finally saw a living soul, but now I have to take on a huge debt to save him. Has any novel protagonist tasked with saving the world ever been as miserable as me? Reality is truly cruel."
She kept muttering all the way and didn't notice that the man on the bamboo raft moved his hands a few times, opened his eyes and looked around unfocused for a few times before slowly closing them again.
"System, tell me! How can I be worthy of the responsibility of ending the apocalypse and changing the course of the world?"
"Host, don't be so pessimistic. The system will help you."
“Can the debt be forgiven?”
"No."
"Goodbye, hang up now."
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