“Who’s there?!”
The robber recoiled three steps, clutching her severed left hand, her eyes wide with shock behind the mask.
Wen Xi didn’t waste any time; her shoelaces flashed again.
“Swish!”
A second teleportation. She appeared to the robber’s left, transforming her machete slash into a thrust, aiming straight for the ribs.
The robber blocked hastily, but her forearm was slashed with a cut deep enough to reach the bone, blood splattering onto the wall.
“You’re asking for death!”
The robber roared. Suddenly, a military dagger appeared in her left hand, striking at Wen Xi’s throat like a viper.
Wen Xi leaned back to dodge; the dagger grazed the collar of her raincoat, slicing off several strands of hair.
The two engaged in a fierce close-quarters battle within the narrow office.
Wen Xi’s machete clashed with the military dagger, sparks flying. The teleportation ability of her supernatural shoelaces made her movements unpredictable.
The robber was at a disadvantage because of this, relying on her superior combat skills to narrowly evade fatal strikes.
“Bang!”
The robber suddenly fired her gun. Wen Xi, as if she had anticipated it, sidestepped. The bullet whizzed past the shoulder she had occupied after teleporting, blasting a hole in the wall behind her.
Wen Xi seized the moment, rolled, and violently threw the “palm-thunder” device that the curator had dropped.
“Swish!”
The robber instinctively fired at it, but by the time she realized it was the flying device, it was too late!
“Bang!”
Fire flashed, smoke rose, and wooden splinters flew everywhere.
“You’ll regret this.” The robber couldn’t see clearly, gritting her teeth and saying, “Do you know who I am?”
Whether I know or not, I’m still robbing you. Do I need to know the name of a security guard when I rob a bank?
“A dead person.”
Wen Xi bluffed with a cool remark, snatched up the Item-Producing Magic Box, and tucked it into her inventory, which she had specially cleared out beforehand.
Taking and eating while running—she escaped directly!
As for the fallen seal, it had long since been carried away by the little soldiers who were observing from the shadows.
Before leaving.
Wen Xi took one last look at the office.
The curator’s corpse lay on the ground, the robber glared through the smoke while raising her gun to fire, and the entire room was permeated with the smell of blood and gunpowder.
She leaped out of the broken window and was immediately enveloped by the freezing rain.
Using the remaining teleportation charges, she escaped and disappeared into the night.
When she reached a safe area, the teleportation charges for her shoelaces were exhausted. She didn’t leave, however, as if waiting for something, until a sound echoed in the darkness.
“Ninini!”
The little soldiers emerged from various corners, circling Wen Xi excitedly while holding up the seal.
“Well done! I have rewards for you when we get back.” Wen Xi rubbed their little heads and picked up the seal.
The next instant.
【Beep! Congratulations!】 【Level 3 Upgrade Mission: Obtain a high-level “conceptual” supernatural item (2/1). Mission successfully over-completed!】 【Distributing rewards…】
A blinding golden light burst from the phone panel, and Wen Xi closed her eyes instinctively.
When she opened them again, there was a model of a wooden cabin the size of a matchbox in her palm.
【Reward for over-completion: Gold 100g】 【Portable Survival Cabin (Initial)】 【Area: 20㎡ (Can be expanded by paying gold; click to view specific prices)】 【Function: Simple shelter from the rain】 【Friendly reminder: You can pay gold to add functions such as flood protection, fire protection, strong corrosion protection, etc.; click to view specific prices】 【Note: A portable residence that can be deployed and packed up at any time; never worry about sleeping on the streets again~】
Another timely blessing!
Wen Xi weighed the model, her mouth curling upward.
She had gold. She knew there would be items requiring it, so she had prepared well in advance!
“This way, I can establish my own survival base step by step, and I can take my house with me wherever I run.”
She had truly achieved a state where she could run, and her “temple” could run with her!
…
When Wen Xi returned to the commercial building encampment, the horizon was already tinged with the white of dawn.
She crawled into her tent and sat on the mattress. Only then did she take out the matchbox-sized cabin model to study it.
The 【Portable Survival Cabin】 glowed faintly in her palm.
“View function prices.”
Wen Xi commanded in a low voice.
She didn’t have much gold on hand and didn’t have a strong obsession with expansion; as long as she could put down a bed and rest peacefully, that was enough.
A translucent interface immediately popped up before her eyes:
【Flood protection function: 50g gold】 【Fire protection function: 50g gold】 【Strong corrosion protection function: 80g gold】 【Constant temperature system: 130g gold】 【Stealth mode: 320g gold】
Various functions.
They were expensive, but worth it.
Wen Xi opened the safe in her inventory to take stock of her gold reserves. Including the over-completion reward she just received, she actually had only—
245g!
“Turns out I’m the poor one!”
Wen Xi’s heart was set on the constant temperature system; she couldn’t always hole up inside the mattress!
Taking a deep breath, Wen Xi opened the memo on her phone to review the inventory of supplies she had accumulated over the past two days through her shopping fund:
【Antibiotics x 12 bottles】 【Vacuum-sealed meat x 20kg】 【Compressed biscuits x 8 boxes】 【Self-heating hot pot x 20】 【Down sleeping bags x 3】
These were all hard currency, especially the antibiotics and down sleeping bags. Wen Xi calculated the trading plans she was about to execute, her fingers tapping unconsciously on her knees.
There were surely many people in the apocalypse who were in urgent need of these.
Thinking of this, Wen Xi glanced at the 007 group again.
People in the group were constantly tagging her, begging for supplies, and the prices offered were getting higher and higher.
There were also people exchanging their own supplies, mostly water and compressed biscuits allocated by the authorities. Unfortunately, Wen Xi had been wandering around these past two days without a fixed place to live and hadn’t even had time to pick up her own rations.
But she didn’t need to; if she picked them up and her IP address was tracked, that would be trouble.
…She had to move forward with the supply trading quickly.
Her customer base was still small, and acquiring gold was too slow… if things went on like this, when would it ever end!
“Gurgle…”
Her stomach urged her to act. Wen Xi gave up on thinking and opened the shopping app.
The next second.
【Beep! Your level has increased. Your daily shopping limit has been refreshed to 10,000 yuan!】
Wen Xi: ?!!
One day, my special someone will come to see me, bringing lots and lots of money!!