“Damn! Hot mulled wine?! Barbecue?! How do you deserve to live so well?”
“How can you be like this! We are freezing here, yet you have the mood to enjoy yourself? Don’t you feel guilty seeing your own compatriots suffering?”
“You have so many supplies? What’s wrong with sharing a little?”
Share… it?
Before she died in her previous life, she never saw a single person give her a hand; they were even waiting for her to die so they could eat her remains.
However, adding this fuel was enough.
Wen Xi took a sip of the mulled wine but gagged before swallowing it—it tasted terrible.
It was only good for showing off.
Wen Xi spat it all out and replaced it with a matcha boba tea; only then did she start typing.
[Wen Xi (Sun Warm Patch)]: “Price list updated.jpg
“Cotton quilt: 10g of gold per item.
“Cotton clothing: 10g of gold per item.
“Electric heater: 10g of gold per unit.
“Payment first, then shipping. No bargaining accepted.”
[Fu Ruoyao (Invincible Villa)]: “Are you crazy? You want gold! Profiting from a national disaster at a time like this?!”
[Fu Zhishan (None)]: “Everyone, don’t be fooled! She’s just robbing us while we’re in trouble! Our family doesn’t feel cold at all! It’s impossible for the temperature to drop further.”
So desperate.
She could practically hear the sounds of their incompetent barking through the screen.
Wen Xi watched the Fu father and daughter jumping up and down, happily taking a bite of her barbecue.
Why gold? Because according to the information she possessed, someone had unlocked a forecasting system, claiming that the stage following the Black Rain Ice Age was related to gold.
Her main quest was to stay alive—
Improve herself, take revenge, and survive until the very end of the apocalypse!
Therefore, she had to seize business opportunities and collect gold from now on. If she dared to set this price, she wasn’t afraid of no one buying.
Sure enough, someone immediately undercut them.
“You’re of course not cold! Why would your villa be cold? Anyway, if the temperature drops further and people freeze to death, it won’t be you guys!”
“Gold? Does it have to be gold? Is a gold necklace okay? If it is, let’s trade.”
“Money is not okay? I don’t have gold, but I have other luxury goods. If you need them, I’ll trade now!”
“Damn… I want one too!”
Orders flew in like snowflakes.
Just as Wen Xi was about to reply, the administrator suddenly popped up.
[007 Group Official Administrator – Bai Shi]: “To support transactions among group members, our researchers have used their ability items to enable an online parcel delivery function. All members in the group can use the ‘Transfer’ function to conduct transactions.”
[007 Group Official Administrator – Bai Shi]: “We only deduct 1% of the seller’s tax as a shipping fee.”
They were rushing to collect taxes.
What, is the apocalypse pension fund running low again?
Wen Xi slammed her milk tea onto the table.
She accepted it.
Going through official sales channels wouldn’t overexpose her abilities. At the very least, her teleportation ability wouldn’t be revealed; she would, at most, be considered a mass producer of warm items.
Receive orders.
Ship goods.
Watch the two people named Fu in the group jump around.
Receive orders.
Ship goods.
[Ding! You have completed the side quest: Complete a transaction with a total cost of fifty thousand within 48 hours]
[Reward]: Expand the function area, unlock the game app “Extreme Survival”
A prompt suddenly popped up on the phone screen, and Wen Xi’s eyes lit up.
She cast aside the other unaccepted orders.
With a thought.
The function area indeed had an extra blood-red game icon, similar to the “Battle Royale” shooting adventure games she used to play.
After clicking it, the interface was so simple it was almost primitive.
There was only a pixelated character with a blurred face, labeled with the name [Wen Xi], and her physical data was displayed in full.
[Name]: Wen Xi
[Age]: 22
[Physical Strength]: 69 (Not cut out for manual labor, can’t climb nine floors)
[Intelligence]: 80 (Linked to your self-preservation ability; don’t bother looking, you’d lose anyway)
[Luck]: 69 (Barely passing; no great destiny here)
[Combat Power]: 66 (Has techniques, has combat awareness; can handle ordinary people)
[Kind Reminder: Little girl, if you don’t strengthen yourself, even the strongest cheats won’t work!]
…
“Hiss, this phone’s modules are truly planning for me to develop comprehensively.”
Wen Xi pondered, concluding—
First, it provided supplies to meet her basic survival needs.
Then, it issued various tasks, prompting her to constantly improve her living environment and unlock more phone features.
It allowed her to expand her market and connections, collect other essential items she wanted, and even improve her own combat power to possess the ability to protect herself.
Hiss… truly comprehensive.
She really wanted to know what else could be unlocked by later tasks.
As Wen Xi thought about this, she turned her attention back to the game and clicked start after creating the character.
The environment within the game changed, becoming the same extreme cold weather as in reality.
[Current Mode]: Ice Age (Difficulty: S-Class)
[Task]: Successfully hunt one prey within a day to receive rewards, such as ability items.
[Reward]: Anti-Cold Gene (Permanent)
“Anti-Cold Gene?” Wen Xi’s breathing stalled.
In her previous life, she had heard of this reward, but very few people obtained it. It was said that one could move freely in temperatures below negative one hundred degrees, where even polar bears would have to call you “boss.”
Wen Xi clicked accept without hesitation.
[Task accepted successfully]
The phone screen flickered, and the pixelated character instantly turned into a stream of light and submerged into Wen Xi’s forehead.
“Hiss—”
Wen Xi suddenly covered her temples as countless data streams exploded before her eyes.
A few seconds later.
The primitive game interface on the phone screen had actually changed into her room. At the same time, in her eyes, translucent status bars hovered everywhere in her real-world room.
Even the charcoal stove was labeled with: [Heating Equipment: Durability 87%].
It wasn’t the same type of evaluation as the one in the photo; it was more practical.
“Ninini!” a few little soldiers gathered around in panic.
“I’m fine.”
Wen Xi shook her head and suddenly discovered that even above the little soldiers’ heads, tags appeared: [Little Soldier No. 003: Loyalty 100%].
She tried to move her limbs, and a large amount of fighting techniques suddenly appeared in her muscle memory, as if she had truly been struggling in the glaciers for years.
“This glacier game can actually connect with reality.”
Wen Xi picked up the machete by the tent, and she saw the pixelated character in the game wave its hand and simultaneously grip a machete.
Even the little color blocks of the machete were exactly the same.
Wen Xi switched to a longbow, and the pixelated character on the screen also switched to a longbow.
“It really is.”
Wen Xi confirmed the settings and shifted her gaze to the top right of the game screen, to the enemy detection circle found in every shooting game.
Except for her, the red dots representing people around her were at a certain distance from her—one look, and she knew they were her neighbors.
Just as she wanted to understand more, a red warning suddenly popped up on the game interface:
[Hostile target detected x2]
[Distance: 3 meters (Approaching)]
[Danger Level: D (Can be easily killed)]
Wen Xi: ?！！！！！！
A gift from the heavens!
Someone was actually coming to find their own death.