As for the area on the far right, it was shrouded in darkness, with several plumes of purple-gray mist faintly drifting within.
The items inside were the spoils Shen Ruoran had looted after killing the pirate from the Yashan tribe—the fourth-ranked pirate in the galaxy. The third area of the portable space came with its own purification effect, and Shen Ruoran had been waiting for those purple-gray mists to dissipate.
After all, the things inside were even feared by the System.
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Shen Ruoran immediately adjusted her state of mind and began to read carefully.
In seven days, Country R would insist on discharging over a million tons of nuclear wastewater. The marine ecosystem would attempt to save itself by altering the water cycle, causing torrential rain to envelop the entire planet.
The first to suffer would be Country R, the source of the discharge.
The heavy rain would last for three hundred days. The nuclear wastewater would eventually drift to City B, where Shen Ruoran was located, affecting the city’s water supply, air, and ecology from all sides. Nuclear radiation would be present everywhere.
Six months later, a certain radioactive element derived from the nuclear radiation would destroy the geological structure, causing frequent earthquakes across various regions.
Extreme heat, extreme cold, polar days, and polar nights would appear in succession.
Following that, biological mutations caused by nuclear radiation would occur. Surviving chickens, ducks, and dogs would develop an intense desire to attack humans. Plants would become carnivorous, and even humans themselves would undergo extremely distorted changes…
To summarize simply: they were to experience all the dire consequences brought about by the discharge of nuclear wastewater, and there would never be an end to it.
The World of Doomsday Natural Disasters lived up to its name. These were true natural disasters.
After finishing her reading, Shen Ruoran felt a headache coming on regarding the nuclear radiation mentioned in the disaster information. Her hometown didn’t have nuclear bombs, and she hadn’t heard of such things in the Quick-Wear worlds either.
However, she quickly convinced herself. At worst, she would just hide indoors and never go out. The System had said that absolute safety could be achieved within the building bound to the Management Point.
Carrying her one billion in assets, Shen Ruoran left the demolition house without looking back.
She couldn’t catch a car in the remote suburbs, so she called a taxi online. “Driver, to the Haoshang International Hotel.”
This hotel was the highest-priced eight-star hotel on the travel app. Shen Ruoran firmly believed that you get what you pay for; if she was going to stay somewhere, it had to be the best.
The System’s network was poor today, so the driver’s reception of the passenger’s itinerary was slightly delayed. Hearing Shen Ruoran speak, he thought he had misheard. He glanced in the rearview mirror and asked in a thick, local dialect: “Where to?”
There was an unpleasant smell of smoke left by a previous passenger in the car. Shen Ruoran disliked cigarettes the most; she frowned, pressed the window button, and repeated: “To the Haoshang International Hotel in this city.”
It seemed he hadn’t misheard. Moving his foot from the brake to the accelerator, the driver curled his lips in a sneer. Another girl who didn’t respect herself. Wearing cheap clothes from a street stall but having a decent face, what else could she be doing going to a place where rich people spend money besides selling herself?
Thinking of how long it had been since he last slept with a woman, the driver recalled the ecstatic feeling. His heart grew restless, and he spat out a filthy invitation.
“Little sister, you’re really good-looking. When I drop you off at Haoshang International, don’t get out. After I finish the order on the app, I’ll take you to another guesthouse to sleep. Of course, this ride will be on me, no charge. My technique is very good; I’ll take good care of you.”
Shen Ruoran’s pent-up fury had nowhere to go, and now someone was rushing to their death.
As a “law-abiding citizen,” she lowered her head. Her jet-black hair fell forward, perfectly concealing her beautiful eyes. Her fair fingers tapped on the mobile browser, quickly typing a few words on the keyboard:
— “Consequences of self-defense after the other party uses filthy, human rights-offending language.”
— Keep the recording as evidence. If you don’t hit them and call the police directly, the other party will go to the station for education. If you keep the recording but hit them and the injuries are not serious, compensation ranges from 100 to 300 yuan. If the injuries are serious, compensation ranges from 500 to 8,000 yuan.
Additionally, if the recording proves the other party had illegal intentions, as long as it isn’t life-threatening, the person acting in self-defense does not need to bear any punishment.
After gaining a brief understanding of this world’s laws, Shen Ruoran exited the browser, tapped “Record,” and put her phone in her pocket.
She said pitifully, “Driver, don’t be like this. I’m scared, I…”
Seeing Shen Ruoran’s feigned shyness in the rearview mirror, the driver became even more excited. He stuck out his thick tongue and greedily licked his severely peeling lips.
Shen Ruoran: “I’m going to Haoshang International. It wouldn’t be good to fake a completed order on the platform, right?”
Seeing that Shen Ruoran hadn’t explicitly refused, the driver became even bolder. “You don’t tell, I don’t tell—who would know?”
Her goal achieved, Shen Ruoran stopped the recording.
In a hidden corner near Haoshang International, a blind spot for surveillance.
The man was pinned down, his bloated rear end sticking up as he lay humiliated on the hood of his old new-energy car. He felt as if every bone in his body had been shattered. He wailed in pain, completely unable to resist.
“I’m calling the police! I’m going to call the police, you vicious dead woman!”
The pressure on his hand increased, and Shen Ruoran sneered. “Call the police? Heh… malicious insults, making a solicitation for prostitution, and intentional fraudulent order completion. Any one of those three crimes is enough for you to handle.”
She grabbed the man’s thinning hair and slammed his head against the wall. His disgusting face was covered in foul dust, making him look a bit like a White Impermanence from hell.
“Miss, you’re really good-looking… You don’t tell, I don’t tell—who would know.”
The phone clearly played back the conversation from a few minutes ago. The man’s face stiffened, and after a long while, he choked out, “You’re ruthless.”
The wide street was exactly where the biting wind blew through. The previously arrogant man now crouched in the corner, snot and tears flowing freely.
Shen Ruoran’s beating was very skillful. The places she hit didn’t look serious at all, and nothing would show up even if he went to the hospital for an exam. However, the driver was in agonizing pain; every movement felt like his bones were being ground together.
It was one thing to hit him, but why did she have to take all his money? Yet, he couldn’t call the police. She had an ironclad recording as evidence. If he reported it, his own life would be ruined. How would his friends and family look at him then?
Shen Ruoran used the driver’s money to book a presidential suite at Haoshang International and arranged for a waiter to deliver several sets of casual clothes and pajamas in her size.
Whenever possible after a workout, she would take a shower and change into clean clothes; otherwise, she would feel uncomfortable all over.
After washing up, Shen Ruoran changed into her pajamas and sprawled out on the leather sofa. She picked up her phone to place orders, renting 30 large suburban warehouses—ten each in the East, South, and West of the city—that were sparsely populated and equipped with surveillance. These would serve as transit stations for hoarding goods.
The big data monitoring technology in this world was relatively backward compared to the Blue Star she had lived on. To be safe, she still wiped the IP address of the computer in the hotel game room and applied absolute encryption and protection to her online shopping.
She calculated the delivery times, placed wholesale orders online from the original sources, and left a certain interval between delivery deadlines to prevent delivery drivers from meeting and chatting, which might lead them to notice something was amiss.