After clearing out the infected people from the perimeter, the gas station was quiet and there was no movement inside.
Was the mission completed? Liu Nian wasn't sure.
This ridiculous task wasn't issued by the system, so there's no way to cheat.
"Forget it, let's go in and take a look! What a hassle." Liu Nian grumbled a few times, wondering if they could just sit around doing nothing.
However, if there are so many infected people outside, there are usually still a lot of supplies left inside, which can be considered as extra reward for this mission.
The gas station is a single-story building with a small footprint, consisting of three interconnected rooms.
The first room, visible through the open window, is a small convenience store. The second room has a sign indicating it's a staff break room. The third room has no sign and the window is closed, so the condition inside is unknown. In addition, there is a separate toilet next to it.
Upon opening the door of the convenience store, the furnishings of the small room, which is about ten square meters, are clearly visible, and most importantly, there are no infected individuals.
Just open the spatial ring and throw everything away; it will automatically categorize and arrange things once they're in the spatial storage.
Awesome! My OCD is ecstatic!
Ten minutes later, looking at the bare walls of the convenience store, Liu Nian smiled with satisfaction.
Satisfied, Liu Nian left the office. There were no infected people in the staff break room, but most of the lockers were locked. Too lazy to unlock them, Liu Nian simply left.
The last room, whose situation was unknown, had an unlocked door. As soon as the door was pushed open, a dark figure pounced on it.
Having been through countless battles, he was no longer alarmed by this sudden attack.
Without panicking, he muttered inwardly, "Bone Armor!"
As an instant-cast spell, the Bone Armor was immediately applied to the body.
The dark figure crashed into the bone armor and was then knocked back by the recoil.
It missed its first attack, and then turned tail and tried to charge forward again.
But the army of summoned creatures had already squeezed through the door, rushing towards it in an endless stream.
Liu Nian followed the light and saw its silhouette clearly.
It must be a zombie dog; it's so rotten that you can't tell what breed it is.
It looks like it mutated immediately after the apocalypse, otherwise it wouldn't have rotted to this extent.
Information gathering
Mutant Dog (lv3)
It is indeed a mutated creature, and cannot yet be called a demon.
With only 60 HP, it was just as strong as a skeleton. Sure enough, it was quickly defeated after being surrounded in the confined space.
[Congratulations to player Liu Nian for successfully killing the mutated dog and gaining five experience points.]
Five experience points, not bad, even a little bit is still something.
At this point, Liu Nian's magic points had exceeded 1,000, and his experience points were 1,576/1,800. He was about to level up after completing the task.
Defeating the regional boss gave a lot of experience, making his leveling up much smoother.
Finally, only the toilet was left. To make sure we didn't miss anything, we still had to go and check it out.
The men's restroom has three toilets, and the toilet doors are very high, so you can see if there are any infected people just by looking down.
The women's restroom, cough cough, I'm a decent person, this is all for the mission.
The women's restroom has five stalls, and surprisingly, there was an infected person in the third stall.
Looking at the infected person whose legs were the only part of their body, Liu Nian sighed inwardly. He was right to come in, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to complete the mission.
Opening the cubicle, wow, there were two infected people, one of whom, who was clearly smaller, had his feet on the toilet seat.
You city folks really know how to have fun, you're quite interesting.
The male infected person held tightly to the waist of the female infected person until his death.
They firmly adhere to the motto: "To die beneath the peony is to be romantic even in death."
Having learned from past mistakes, Liu Nian dared not be careless and opened the last two doors one by one.
If another infected person hiding up there goes undetected, and the mission is deemed a failure, then we'll have suffered a huge loss.
Unaware of the infected person, they unexpectedly discovered the long-lost treasure chest on the last toilet seat.
Judging from its appearance, it should be a silver-level treasure chest.
Liu Nian nervously placed her hand on the treasure chest.
What good things will they give us?
The thirty-second wait to open the box felt like an eternity.
Congratulations to player Liu Nian for successfully opening the Silver Treasure Chest!
Then, the person touching the treasure chest found a bunch of crowns and two cards.
Krona was thrown directly into the space, and it showed that there were sixty more.
The cards consist of one resource card and one item card.
Two servings of egg pancakes
The item card is the familiar stamina potion.
Both are great, and the key is that they were free. Sometimes, if you lower your expectations, you'll find that satisfaction is actually very simple.
After this incident, Liu Nian went back and opened the doors of the men's restroom one by one, and found no infected people!
Humming a little tune, I returned to the convenience store and took out all the oil drums inside.
Take the gas nozzle and pour the gas into the drum. As a hoarder, these precious supplies are not to be missed.
In the past, filling up to 95 liters of gasoline would bankrupt you, but now you can fill it up as much as you want.
Throw all the full oil drums into the space; now half of the space ring is filled with matter.
What is happiness? This is it!
After filling up the motorcycle with gas, Liu Nian left the gas station and returned to the city to complete the mission.
The hall was still packed with people. Liu Nian didn't understand why before, but now she did.
This is slow, there's no way around it, the task verification mechanism is cumbersome and complicated.
Just like Liu Nian, submitting the task wasn't the end of it. An F-level errand task would then appear on the lobby screen, asking the player to go to the gas station to pick up a task item, thus verifying Liu Nian's task completion.
Sigh, it's not easy to make a living!
If you want to eat, you have to tolerate its disgusting mechanism. Thinking about the experience points, I'll put up with it!
What's even more disgusting is that you can't take on the next task until you've finished handing over this one.
Fortunately, the errand-running tasks have time limits, otherwise this inefficiency would really drive a perfectionist crazy.
I have no idea which brain-dead game designer came up with this game mechanic, fuck it!
I glanced at my watch; it was already past midnight by the time I'd made the round trip. Time to eat.
Without a house, I can only stay in a hotel.
Buying a house is out of the question; houses in the city are ridiculously expensive.
Of course, you can build one outside yourself, but the security cannot be guaranteed.
It's so hard, I just want to give up!
They left their stalls all the way to the street vendor area, where a vacant lot next to the street vendor area was designated as a public area by the city lord.
Small dwellings made of various tents and cardboard boxes can be seen everywhere.
Liu Nian chose to start a fire on a deserted spot.
Cooking is absolutely out of the question, in this lifetime…
If I don't have enough confidence, I can't say it. What if I get proven wrong by the audience?
Seeing Liu Nian take out firewood and other utensils from his travel bag, many people around him cast envious glances.
However, upon discovering Liu Nian's equipment, many of the malicious gazes were withdrawn.
Liu Nian ignored all of this; at that moment, he was writing something on a piece of paper.
Once you've finished writing, put it on the rack next to the pot and wait for the person to come!
"Looking for a chef. Just need to cook one meal. The salary is one loaf of bread. I like spicy food!"
Looking at the note in front of Liu Nian, someone in the crowd read it aloud in a low voice.
Around Liu Nian, seasonings and ingredients were piled up on the ground, and steam was rising from a pot on a simple stove made of bricks.
Looking at the crowd of onlookers, not a single one came forward to ask what was wrong. Had I offered too low a price? Liu Nian was a little confused!
The crowd hesitated for a moment when they saw the exorbitant reward. Could they really afford to embarrass themselves by offering such a reward?
At this moment, a man with a little girl gritted his teeth, pushed through the crowd, and became the first to step forward. He had no food left at home, so he decided to give it a try!
"I've studied Sichuan cuisine, do you think I can handle it?" The man rubbed his hands together, his back hunched, and asked earnestly.
The little girl clung to the man's legs, peeked out from behind his waist, and looked timidly at Liu Nian.
The two were dressed simply but neatly, anxiously awaiting Liu Nian's verdict.
The girl swallowed hard, her eyes filled with longing, and Liu Nian's heart skipped a beat.
After calming herself down, she looked at the man, Liu Nian, and said calmly, "Okay."
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