Chapter 30: Spring Season Day 3 (2) Zhao Linlang’s Prophecy Card…
Fang Min: Don't worry, we wouldn't do that. But why are you suddenly saying that, Linlang? Did you discover something?
Zhao Linlang: Among my ranking rewards is a prediction card that allows me to predict a future event at a random time. I just got back and the system prompted me to use it. As soon as I took it out, I saw countless vines sprouting from the plant-free land. It was so dense and dense. Luckily, I don't have trypophobia, or I'd have vomited.
Fang Min: Oh my god, this is scary! What should I do? There's no vegetation on the sand around me! I'm not expecting it to be covered in vines by tomorrow morning!
Yu Luowei: This should only apply to survivors with more severe environmental damage. After all, the system says that the severity of the disaster will be increased if the environmental damage is severe.
Zhao Linlang: Yes, my prediction card clearly shows that the ground has been damaged.
Fang Min: That's good, that's good. I was so scared. But Linlang, your prediction card is amazing. Can you predict whether we can finally pass this game?
Zhao Linlang: No, it's a random prediction. I can't even control it to predict what I want. But I still have two chances. If I see anything new, I'll share it with you.
Yu Luowei: Thank you, Linlang, but will you still post this message to the channel? It's best not to.
Zhao Linlang: Well, after last time's lesson, it definitely won't happen again. It's good enough for us to know. However, after I saw the prophecy, someone named Zhou Jianhui came to me to exchange information. I told him about it, and he said he would appropriately inform more people.
[Fang Min: Who is Zhou Jianhui? How did he know you had intelligence and come to you to exchange information? And how did he inform more people?]
[Yu Luowei: He seems to be on the leaderboard as well. I've seen his name before. It should be a related ranking reward.]
Zhao Linlang: Yes, he said he got a random prediction card, but it only shows who has better intelligence. But the information he gave me was what we already knew, and right now, the vines are the biggest threat. So I made him take six packs of compressed biscuits as compensation, two packs each for us.
[Zhao Linlang: As for the notification, he said he met a lot of people during the transaction and would pass the news on to them.]
Zhao Linlang: "But Luowei, has Jin Yu been looking for you these days? He's been asking me if I'm the first person to get a forest farm. I kept saying no, but he didn't seem to believe me. He only stopped talking until your wood shop was officially registered a few days ago."
Yu Luowei: No, but he's harassed me many times before for various reasons, and I haven't paid any attention to him in a long time. Now that we have enough intelligence, I'm going to block him and not give him the chance to harass me again.
Yu Luowei had mentioned the name of her wood shop to them when she changed it, so they could buy wood directly at a discount (through gifting between friends). Zhao Linlang didn't say anything at the time, but now she knows Jin Yu has harassed her. However, her wood shop hasn't received any new messages in the past two days, so Yu Luowei decided to add 1402 to her name, which was their room number at university, to prevent friends from recognizing her due to the fear of having the same name.
After changing her name, Yu Luowei received another private message from Fang Min:
Fang Min: Weiwei, do you feel that Linlang is, well, a little too kind? If you still think destroying the surrounding environment will reduce the appearance of monsters, then I don't think there's any need to save them.
Yu Luowei: People are different. Actually, you and I share the same idea, but Linlang might have other ideas. She's made progress since last time, and she hasn't used our intelligence or harmed our interests. She might need to think about it for a while. We can remind her more in the group chat.
[Fang Min: Yeah, well, if we were ordinary people, we'd probably be grateful to Linlang! It would be better if we weren't in the game.]
During the zombie apocalypse, Yu Luowei's country was filled with selfless soldiers and scientists who were not afraid of infection and were studying zombies. Therefore, Zhao Linlang's actions were understandable as long as they didn't harm Yu Luowei's interests. After all, everyone was dispersed now, and simply releasing some intelligence wouldn't be more dangerous than a zombie apocalypse.
After finishing the chat, Yu Luowei went to work. Before unboxing, Yu Luowei prepared the last bit of lion blood. After two days of exploration, fire magic is extremely useful in this season.
First, she looked at the new skill card. Unlike the last one, this one had lower damage and a lower level, but it had no limit on how many times it could be used. As long as it was equipped, it could be used continuously. However, asking Yu Luowei to bite monsters wasn't practical, so she opened the pet page to see if she could equip Ma Tuan with it.
As soon as he approached the pet page with the skill card, a skill bar appeared at the bottom. There were three slots in total, and the first two were already occupied by Ma Tuan's own talents. Yu Luowei tried it and found that he could equip this skill card on it, but not the previous one.
Temporarily equipping Ma Tuan with the Bite skill card, Yu Luowei went to check on Ma Tuan's status. Ma Tuan was just playing with the two little rabbits made of willow branches. When Yu Luowei went over, she saw it attacking one of the little rabbits and biting it to pieces.
Ma Tuan was shocked when he looked at the pile of weeds. He had no idea how he had damaged it. When he saw Yu Luowei coming, he immediately went to Yu Luowei for comfort.
Yu Luowei picked up Ma Tuan and comforted him. Perhaps Ma Tuan was too young and had accidentally used a skill. She used her consciousness to convey the reason to Ma Tuan, and she didn't know if he understood, but he did gradually calm down. Once Ma Tuan had fully recovered, Yu Luowei put him back in his nest and temporarily took out the skill card, planning to give it to him tomorrow when he went out.
But no matter what, Ma Tuan made great contributions today. Before Yu Luowei left, he not only stuffed a few pieces of emerald bamboo into his pocket, but also put a few extra peaches in it as a reward for Ma Tuan.
After returning home, I officially unpacked the box. Today's box contained two more gas masks, a 1L bottle of growth inhibitory fluid, and five detoxification pills.
Yu Luowei glanced at the instructions. A gas mask can block all toxic gases, but it's only effective for 24 hours, and if the concentration is too high, the effective time will be reduced. Growth-inhibiting fluid is a special item for this season, specifically targeted at vines and plants. It not only inhibits plant mutations but also directly kills non-mutated vines, preventing them from growing. The detoxification pill, as the name suggests, can neutralize all non-lethal toxins if taken within ten minutes of poisoning.
There were also some crystals, fire crystals, and an oven; the rest were normal daily necessities. However, the appearance of the detoxification pills and gas mask made Yu Luowei very suspicious. Inhaling the floral fragrance outside would cause poisoning. Seeing that it wasn't dark yet, he decided to head to the bushes to see how strong the fragrance was and test the effectiveness of the inhibitory fluid.
The floral scent outside was unchanged from this morning. Yu Luowei held the detoxification pill in her hand and, standing by the fence, took a few gulps. Aside from a long cough from choking, she didn't feel any poisoning. It seemed the floral scent hadn't yet developed a toxin.
He calmly put away the detoxification pills and walked out of the base. The vines in the bushes were small, and after Yu Luowei sprayed them a few times, the vines fell off the bushes. The bushes seemed fine at the moment. Yu Luowei sprayed the bushes in a circle, and dealt with the vines around the fence before returning.
This inhibitor allows you to check the remaining amount at any time. I've used about 150ml this time. Yu Luo sighed slightly, still needing to use it sparingly. It's useful, but it came out a little late. If it had been available on day one, maybe there wouldn't be any Bamboo King. Then again, I probably wouldn't have encountered Ma Tuan either. It's a mixed bag of pros and cons.
Next came the joyful dinner time. Since she had an oven today, Yu Luowei decided to splurge and make some bread using the electric card.
This time, Yu Luowei used up the leftover flour from making steamed buns last time. She baked two large loaves of bread and ate them with jam. She also took out half of the peach blossoms, washed them, and placed them by the campfire to dry. She could make tea with them later.
This lion's blood was indeed quite useful. Ever since Yu Luowei finished her last cup, she could not only control the flames more precisely, but even control the temperature within a small area. For example, in the shelter, she could control the temperature near the peach blossoms to speed up the drying process.
This discovery surprised her greatly. Fortunately, she had left some lion blood, otherwise she would regret it now.
Everything was settled. Before going to bed, Yu Luowei looked at the market again. A new message was received under the wooden shop:
【Lu Zhi: Micro-tracing Biology】
【Lin Zhixia: Grapes.】
【Jiang Nian'an: Watermelon!】
【Su Tang: Strawberry?】
Yu Luowei suddenly became happy. The first one was the senior who started the business with her. The second one was the first version of the company's name, which no one knew except the two of them. The third one was her roommate. This was a code word that the four of them had agreed on during a night talk in the dormitory. It was composed of their favorite fruits and punctuation marks. It was just a sudden whim at the time when I was in the middle school, but I didn't expect it to be used today. Yu Luowei quickly replied:
【Yu Luowei: Peach,】
Then he replied to Lu Zhi as a senior to confirm his identity.
Unfortunately, private chats between different zones were not allowed, and comments under the shop were visible to everyone, so after they recognized each other, they couldn't chat openly. They briefly talked about their current situation and ended the conversation. However, this made Yu Luowei happy enough.
Lu Zhi and Lin Zhixia were in different zones, while Jiang Nian'an and Su Tang were both in zones 21, 36, and 9. This made Yu Luowei very envious. Although she was an introvert, she couldn't stand not having friends to chat with. It was for this reason that she ended up in the official base during the zombie apocalypse. Fortunately, she came to the game and met Fang Min and later Zhao Linlang, otherwise she might have lost her mind by now.
Today, the number of people in the district has dropped to more than 40,000. After the end of this season, it will definitely be integrated into a new district. Yu Luowei put the goods on the shelves and entered the fourth day with the beautiful hope of "integrating with the district where my friends are at that time."
The name of the new season appeared in the upper right corner of the manual: [Spring Season, Day 4]. Yu Luowei glanced at the manual after waking up. Because it hadn't rained yesterday, the chat channel began to question Jin Yu's initial intelligence. Jin Yu remained silent, leaving only some members of the support group to defend him.
After flipping through the manual for a few times and finding no useful information, Yu Luowei was about to close the manual when he suddenly discovered that the base's defense value had dropped by twenty or thirty points.
This startled Yu Luowei. She first walked around the base but didn't find anything unusual. Unsure if it was the scent of flowers outside or some other reason, Yu Luowei became more cautious.
He equipped Ma Tuan with the skill card, and then put the nest into the pet space. Yu Luowei put on a disposable mask and a poison mask, and took the inhibitory liquid directly into his hand before officially setting off.
Aside from more flowers in the bushes, nothing else had changed, and the vines hadn't grown back. Meanwhile, the trees and vines in the forest had grown considerably thicker. It seemed the inhibitory fluid had done the trick. Yu Luowei thought about getting a few more treasure chests today to see if she could find more inhibitory fluid. However, judging by the plant mutations this season, killing them might also yield treasure chests, making the overall probability much higher than last season.
Seeing flowers in the bushes, Yu Luowei had initially assumed the inhibitory fluid had no effect on them. But upon seeing the forest, she realized she was completely wrong. The forest had transformed into a sea of flowers. Even trees like the pine trees, which normally don't flower, were now covered in colorful blossoms. A closer look revealed that the flowers were coming from the vines on the trees.
Just by looking at it, one could imagine how strong the fragrance was today. Yu Luowei couldn't help but tighten her gas mask a little more, leaving no gaps. Then she fired a few fireballs towards the area with the most flowers, trying to burn some of them. Otherwise, this forest would be unbearable.
Using mental power to control the flames so they wouldn't spread to other places, Yu Luowei's mind soon sent a warning. Fortunately, the flowers around him were almost burnt out, so Yu Luowei put away the flames and prepared to start investigating the culprit that had caused the base's defense to decline.
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