When Lin Wanwan was wrapping the entire vehicle compartment with the graphene quilts earlier, Lin Duoduo had been helping out the whole time.
Now, seeing her sister drink a bottle of water, she brought out that bottle of Golden Archangel mineral water she had drawn yesterday and took a big gulp as well.
Seeing the mineral water she took out, Lin Wanwan raised her eyebrows.
This wretched kid sure knew how to enjoy herself—that was a bottle of mineral water worth tens of thousands, with real gold added inside, yet she didn’t even pass it over to her dear sister for a taste.
However, time was short right now, so she wouldn’t argue with this little kid; it was time to do business.
Lin Wanwan first mimicked a villain’s laugh, letting out a few sinister *jie-jie-jie* chuckles.
Her strange chuckles nearly choked Lin Duoduo, who was drinking water off to the side.
“Sister, are you alright?”
“What could possibly be wrong with me?”
“If nothing’s wrong, then why are you laughing like that? It’s pretty scary.”
Hearing her sister say her laugh was scary, Lin Wanwan curled her lips—this wretched kid was truly not cute at all.
However, she had no time to bicker with Lin Duoduo. She got up, crawled into the driver’s seat, and looked at the light screen.
6,992,314/10,000,000.
The top line of numbers on the light screen had already changed to start with a six.
In other words, during the brief period since this extreme cold disaster descended, several thousand more people had died.
These were several thousand people, all dead in less than half an hour.
And this was with a natural disaster that had been weakened by a full 40%.
Lin Wanwan turned her gaze to the contents of the group chat.
At this moment, no one in the group chat was idly chatting anymore; everyone was crying for help, and messages were flooding the screen.
“Someone save me, I’m freezing to death!”
This single sentence was being sent simultaneously by hundreds of people.
However, no one paid any attention to such blunt pleas for help; everyone was too busy looking out for themselves.
Lin Wanwan skipped past these useless messages and focused on the buy requests—that was what she needed.
“Stove! Stove! Who has a stove? I’m willing to trade!”
“Down jacket, women’s down jacket! Who has a down jacket? I’m willing to trade a blueprint for it!”
“I have a spare blanket here, contact me with your offer!”
“Did any of you see treasure chests? I just went down to pick up a treasure chest, and now my feet have lost all feeling from the cold.”
“Who has medicine?”
“Ah, I can’t take it anymore! You guys keep toughing it out on your own!”
The moment that sentence was sent, the person’s profile picture turned gray.
As time slowly passed, the messages on the screen did not decrease; instead, they kept increasing.
However, Lin Wanwan did not proactively contact anyone, because the disaster had just descended and many people had not put out their best goods yet, so she was in no rush.
“Ah, my bread actually froze solid! How am I supposed to eat this?”
“Yeah, my water froze solid too—I can’t drink it at all.”
“The frost outside is sweet! If you don’t believe me, try a taste.”
Seeing this message, Lin Wanwan almost burst out laughing.
It was already the end of the world and everyone was struggling to survive, yet someone was still playing around like this.
After a moment’s thought, Lin Wanwan clicked on the person who wanted to trade a blueprint for a down jacket and started a private chat with her.
“What kind of blueprint is your blueprint?”
“Do you have a down jacket?”
“I don’t have a down jacket,” Lin Wanwan stated honestly.
“If you don’t have a down jacket, why are you asking so much? Isn’t that boring?”
Looking at the other party’s message, Lin Wanwan felt that she seemed a bit impatient.
“I indeed don’t have a down jacket, but I have a down quilt. A graphene down quilt at that—the self-heating kind.”
After Lin Wanwan sent the message, the other party surprisingly did not reply for a full minute.
Just as Lin Wanwan thought the other party had given up on trading with her, a series of messages came through.
“A graphene down quilt?”
“It can self-heat?”
“Sister, I admit the voice I spoke with earlier was a bit too loud. Can you forgive me?”
“My blueprint is a portable toilet specifically for RVs. Do you see if I can trade it with you?”
A toilet? A portable toilet?
If it were another item, Lin Wanwan might not care—after all, in an extreme cold apocalypse, what she held was hard currency, and she could trade for whatever she wanted.
However, speaking of toilets, especially portable toilets, Lin Wanwan needed one far too much.
As two girls, her sister and she relieving themselves in the open wilderness every day was indeed a bit embarrassing. Especially when her sister went down alone, she felt very worried.
Just this morning, she had even given her a scolding because she went down to poop.
Theoretically speaking, a portable toilet was of higher value than her graphene quilt.
However, that was only in theory.
Right now, against the backdrop of an extreme cold disaster, her quilt should be worth slightly more than a toilet.
At this thought, she sent a message to the other party:
“My quilt is 1.8 meters by 2 meters, large enough that you can not only cover yourself with it, but also pad half under your body—more than enough to keep warm.”
The other party was presumably waiting for Lin Wanwan’s message the entire time; shortly after the message was sent, a reply came back.
“Sister, I’m willing to trade with you, do you think that’s okay?”
“It’s fine, but in this current environment, a toilet really isn’t that important. Parking by the roadside when no one is around, one can solve physiological needs anywhere. See if you have anything else to add?”
After finishing these words, Lin Wanwan felt she had the face of a miser.
However, she did not regret it.
In this highway survival world where nobody knew anyone, in order to let her sister and herself live better, so be it if she acted like a miser.
After sending the message, the other party remained silent for a full minute this time before replying again.
“Sister, I do have a few more things here, see if you need them?”
“What?”
“I still have 5 bottles of water and two loaves of bread here now. A set of ceramic tableware, and a kitchen knife.”
“That’s all?”
“That’s all. I can’t give you the kitchen knife—it’s for my self-defense. Can I give you all the rest?”
Seeing the other party speak so pitifully, Lin Wanwan curled her lips.
In this world, whoever trusted the other party was a fool. She was no fool, so how could she possibly trust the other party?
The lessons learned from her past life were already more than enough.
After thinking for a moment, she sent a message to the other party:
“Keep the water and bread. We’re both women, so I shouldn’t be too heartless either. Give me that set of tableware plus the portable toilet blueprint, and I’ll trade you a set of graphene quilt for them. Do you see if that’s okay?”
After the message was sent, the other party did not reply this time, but immediately initiated a trade request.
This impatient?
Lin Wanwan looked at the items placed on the trade request—a set of ceramic tableware and a portable toilet blueprint. After confirming everything was correct, she took out a light orb for a graphene quilt and placed it on as well.
The other party also confirmed without error and quickly clicked trade.
Obtaining the other party’s items, Lin Wanwan was very happy.
A good start to a successful trade—not bad.
She turned her gaze toward her next target.