Chapter 13
The contents of this 4-star supply box surprised and delighted Qiao Ning!
It is a skill book called "Blazing Blade Technique":
Level: Blue (Can be upgraded by fusing with other skills of the same type)
Effect: Attack +3000
When attacking with knife-type weapons, each attack will inflict a burning flame effect.
There is a 10% chance to trigger the "Burning Body" passive effect, causing the enemy's entire body to burn, and subsequent attack damage is doubled.
These attribute effects... are absolutely comparable to a set of purple gear!
Is it really that powerful just by using a blue skill book?
Qiao Ning was wondering why there was no system notification this time when the skill bar was unlocked, when a system message arrived unexpectedly. It again asked Qiao Ning to choose whether to announce it to the entire server.
There are no rewards, and all information can be hidden.
Since there was no reward, Qiao Ning didn't bother with a district-wide announcement and simply refused.
Learning skills with a skill book is very simple; you just need to click to use it. The feeling after learning it is amazing, like someone has poured a huge amount of energy into you from above, making you want to go out and run 10,000 meters.
Perhaps because the sword technique was related to fire, after Qiao Ning finished learning it, her whole body felt burning hot, as if she had a high fever, and her face was flushed.
This state lasted for about ten minutes before returning to normal.
The items found in the remaining 64 supply crates weren't much compared to before, but compared to others, it was still incredibly lucky.
100 units of gasoline, 10 liters of drinking water
Moisturizing Set * 10
10 humidifying water balls
Snacks (as needed), vegetables and fruits (as needed), 10 catties rice, 5 catties chicken breast, 2 catties beef, 2 catties lamb, 1 barbecue set (including 3 catties of various barbecue seasonings, 100 barbecue skewers, and 1 indoor barbecue grill)
I didn't get any blueprints or other items. All I got were 10 doses of internal and external wound medicine, and 10 boxes of a special medicine for heatstroke.
Finally, there was a bundle of scallions with roots and a small bag of mung bean seeds.
The scallions looked as if they had just been pulled from the ground, with some soil still clinging to their roots.
Qiao Ning didn't know much about planting, but she knew that scallions were quite easy to grow, as were mung beans.
The game has a magical item called a planting pot, which makes it even simpler. You just need to plant the green onions in the pot and bury the mung beans in the soil that comes with the planting pot. You don't even need to water them.
Qiao Ning tried watering it, and the system immediately displayed a message indicating that the plant had suffered moderate flooding on the planter icon.
The growth time for scallions, which originally only takes 3 hours to grow, and mung beans, which can sprout in 10 minutes, has been doubled.
Qiao Ning: ...
What could she say? She could only obediently let them develop and grow on their own, and stop trying to force them to grow faster.
She always used the multi-purpose toilet flush, but strangely, the fertilizer tank was always empty, without a single grain of fertilizer.
The item description didn't specify how to make the toilet decompose into a large amount of fertilizer; Qiao Ning would have to figure it out slowly over time.
After taking stock and packing up the supplies, Qiao Ning began to cook dinner.
Today, a barbecue set was released, and Qiao Ning thought she might as well have a barbecue.
She took a portion of pork belly, beef, and mutton, cut them into slices or small pieces, and marinated them with seasonings.
After marinating for an hour or so, skewer them with metal skewers and put them in the oven.
This small oven is also electric, meaning it consumes gasoline—about 0.5 units of gasoline per hour. She can afford that amount of electricity.
In addition to meat, Qiao Ning also grilled mushrooms, chives, leafy greens, potato slices, green peppers, and tofu, aiming for a balanced meal of meat and vegetables.
Open another can of Fanta, eat a lamb skewer, and then take a swig of Fanta—it's incredibly satisfying.
She grilled a total of 60 skewers, including both meat and vegetables, and left about half untouched. When she saw Li Yangxing's email, she casually sent it to him.
Li Yangxing sent her a batch of materials as usual. It wasn't much, just a few hundred items, with only a few dozen for the gold nuggets and glue.
[Sister Qiao, I didn't get much material today, please make do with this for now. I'll get more tomorrow and send it to you. This little bit isn't worth you exchanging rare resources for it, please don't send me anything...]
When Qiao Ning saw the message, she had already sent the barbecue, along with a few bottles of Fanta and Coke.
Sure enough, Li Yangxing immediately responded with a squealing scream: 【Ahhhhh, Sister Qiao!!! You're a god!!! Where did you get this barbecue?! It's so delicious!!! It smells amazing!!】
[You have no idea how much random stuff I found today, but I didn't find much food or drinks. Sister Qiao, this barbecue and soda you gave me was a lifesaver! I don't know how to repay you!]
Qiao Ning wasn't feeling guilty at first, but his excited thanks made her a little embarrassed... Although she hadn't touched the skewers, they were still leftovers.
After thinking for a moment, she mailed Li Yangxing two liters of drinking water and two doses of medicine for internal and external injuries.
The materials he mailed today totaled over a thousand yuan. Especially the glue; Qiao Ning glanced at the trading market and saw that very few people were selling it today. Almost no one had opened any stores, and only a handful were selling it at ridiculously high prices.
After finishing her transaction with Li Yangxing and chatting for a while, Qiao Ning tidied up and prepared to go to sleep.
As dawn approached, Qiao Ning groggily got up and harvested the scallions. She had harvested the mung beans once the night before and hadn't planted any more; these plants have a short maturation period and aren't suitable for planting at night, otherwise she wouldn't know how many times she would have to get up during the night. Plants left unharvested will wither and turn into planting soil. Fruit trees, on the other hand, will have their fallen fruit turn into soil.
A single planting pot can hold a maximum of three types of plants.
Qiao Ning didn't dare plant plants with long maturation periods, lest they produce seeds with short maturation periods later and there was nowhere to plant them. Therefore, she could only leave the other two spots empty for the time being.
She had put a lot of humidifiers in her car, so she didn't feel any negative effects from the drought. Last night before going to bed, just to be on the safe side, she also applied protective film to her car and reinforced her tires, just in case the disaster level escalated again on the 6th day and damaged her car.
As it turns out, Qiao Ning's worries were not unfounded at all.
At 8 a.m., on the sixth day of the natural disaster, Qiao Ning opened the chat channel and was immediately frightened by the ever-decreasing number of online users.
Almost every second, several people are missing.
[Help! I didn't put enough humidifier balls in last night, and this morning the system warned me I've got some kind of heatstroke. I'm sweating profusely, no matter how much water I drink, I'm still thirsty, and I feel weak all over. My head is spinning. How am I supposed to drive around looking for supplies? How am I supposed to deal with the treasure-guarding monsters like this...?]
[Upstairs, quickly use the special medicine for heatstroke; a little bit will cure it. Make sure to keep the humidity inside the car above 20%. Humidity below 20% is considered severe dryness and will definitely cause heatstroke!]
[Where can I find this miracle cure? I saw someone selling it before, but I didn't know the details and didn't buy it. Now I really regret it and have nowhere to cry.]
[Qiao Ning will be listing more and more medicines; just keep an eye out and try to buy them. At this point, it's all about speed.]
Why didn't she bring more at once? This stingy approach won't save many lives.
[Upstairs, get your head checked. I don't need to explain how scarce the cure for heatstroke is, do you think their medicine is unlimited? They can list as many as they want? They're only selling materials we don't need, which is already being considerate. What more do you want?]
[Yeah, don't go too far, really. Everyone's having a tough time, but that's no reason for you to morally blackmail them. If you think someone's stingy is problematic, then don't buy their medicine. Just lie down and wait to die; save the supplies for others.]
Qiao Ning has sold off some of the medicines she no longer needs, exchanging them for materials. She currently has a large stock of materials.
She combined five pieces of mixed gold in the manufacturing process and melted them into the car body. She left the remaining materials untouched, saving them to make other things.
[There are more supply crates today, but there are also more guard monsters! Even 1-star supply crates are starting to have guard monsters, how are we supposed to survive?! Is this the power of Day 6 of the Cataclysm? I can't imagine how terrible Day 7 of the Cataclysm will be.]
Stop thinking about it, it'll only make you more desperate. Just focus on living well now. As for whether you'll see the sun rise tomorrow... we'll see tomorrow.
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