If there was ever a chance in the future, she would definitely repay Big Brother Monkey’s kindness properly.
For now, the most important thing was to keep moving. She still had three kilometers left before reaching the required distance when she ran into a garbage station, so she went inside to hunt for “treasures.”
After coming out of the garbage station, Lu Yuelan didn’t stop the vehicle. She continued pushing forward at full speed. Along the way, whenever she saw small boxes, she would spare a moment to pick them up and place them in the back seat, planning to open them all at night.
What confused her was this: weren’t green boxes supposed to be very rare, with a low drop rate? So why, in just one afternoon, had almost all the boxes she picked up been green ones, with only one or two yellow ones mixed in?
From childhood to now, her luck had never been particularly good. She wasn’t exactly extremely unlucky, but she was definitely nowhere near the level of a so-called “lucky person.”
Under normal circumstances, green boxes were supposed to be scarce, but she had found so many. When things were abnormal, there was usually something strange behind it.
That night, after Lu Yuelan had covered over ten kilometers, half again the required distance, she stopped to rest. She went online to check discussions, wanting to see if anyone else had the same situation so she could decide whether she should open her boxes.
【One Two Three Four Five: Strange. Aren’t green boxes supposed to have a low appearance rate in the newbie phase? How come my wife keeps finding nothing but green boxes?】
【Earth Is Too Dangerous, I Want to Go Back to Mars : Wow, grandma is amazing, all green boxes! Unlike me, I only get black boxes on the road, and the drop rate is extremely low. I even got a single chopstick once, so frustrating. Who eats a meal with just one chopstick?】
【Watch Me Punch the Bull From Afar: Haha, little guy, you can try going to the green belts nearby and breaking off a branch to make another chopstick.】
【Heaven Himself Is the Strongest: Little guy, since you found a way to get fuel, I’m out of gas too. Help me top up a bit.】
【Earth is Too Dangerous, I Want to Go Back to Mars: Sorry, big brother, I’m also someone who’s been helped by others. I don’t have the ability to get fuel myself.】
【Heaven Himself Is the Strongest: Then send me her contact information. I’ll go ask her directly.】
【Earth is Too Dangerous, I Want to Go Back to Mars: That… it seems she’s dealing with something. I can’t reach her recently.】
【Heaven Himself Is the Strongest: If you don’t want to help, just say so. Why make up so many excuses.】
【Earth is Too Dangerous, I Want to Go Back to Mars: I really can’t contact her. I even have something I wanted to give her, but I haven’t had the chance.】
【Heaven Himself Is the Strongest: It’s just refueling. Why would you need to give her anything? Little guy, don’t get fooled just because you’re young. Don’t let people trick you into handing over all your supplies. When you’re crying on the ground later, no one will feel sorry for you. These “saintly do-gooders” are the most annoying.】
【Earth is Too Dangerous, I Want to Go Back to Mars: You jerk, don’t slander that big sister. If it weren’t for her help, I wouldn’t have been able to complete my mission today. I would have ended up like those who failed to meet the required travel distance, directly wiped out.】
Earth is Too Dangerous, I Want to Go Back to Mars didn’t notice that the number of people on the screen had already dropped by ten thousand. This was only the death toll in one subdivision of Zone 88, Division 888. The numbers in other areas were unknown. The mortality rate was alarmingly high, especially considering this was still the first day under the newbie protection period. Once the protection period ended, no one knew how many would die.
Lu Yuelan frowned in thought, feeling deeply worried about her future situation in the game.
【Heaven Himself Is the Strongest: That person is clearly playing the long game, fishing for a big catch. They’re trying to scam a kid like you. Look at you now, you’re even planning to hand over all your supplies. Who would believe she isn’t a scammer?】
【Earth is Too Dangerous, I Want to Go Back to Mars: Bullshit. That big sister is really nice. She didn’t take a single thing from me. She even trusted me enough to hand over all her belongings and asked me to buy things for her. Don’t come here trying to sow discord in our strong battle friendship.】
Lu Yuelan didn’t know what “strong battle friendship” she supposedly had with this kid, they weren’t even on the same wavelength.
But in defending her, the kid had unintentionally revealed that he possessed a special occupation. If things went wrong, it could easily put him in mortal danger.
Who knew whether this game had tracking or location systems? Even Lu Yuelan herself wanted such a tool so she could locate her nephew and grandmother in advance and check on their situation.
It wasn’t impossible that others had already obtained some kind of tracking or positioning item. If that were the case, the kid would be in danger.
After thinking it over, Lu Yuelan decided to intervene in the regional channel.
【Please Take Your Seat, Princess: Heaven Himself Is the Strongest, why are you, an adult, picking on a kid? Do you think buying things doesn’t cost money? With how thick your skin is, you just want to freeload and still try to mislead the kid into acting like you. It’s disgusting.】
Lu Yuelan spoke up to shift everyone’s attention, preventing more people from noticing anything unusual and stopping jealous or greedy eyes from focusing on a child.
【Heaven Himself Is the Strongest: This disgusting woman. “Please Take Your Seat, Princess”? Why don’t you just declare yourself Queen while you’re at it? That would sound even more impressive and domineering.】
【Please Take Your Seat, Princess: Please don’t change the subject. I just saw it, you asked the kid for fuel and had zero intention of paying. Acting like it’s completely natural to freeload is really disgusting.】
【Heaven Himself Is the Strongest: You damn woman, what nonsense are you spouting? I’m the CEO of Wanmeng Group. Do you think I’d even be stingy over this little bit of fuel cost? It’s just that the kid doesn’t have fuel on hand and got tricked by a bad woman. I was just worried and trying to persuade the kid.】
【I Am the Real Winner in Life: Exactly. Our Brother CEO is what kind of person? Would he care about such a tiny amount of fuel money? The entire massive Wanmeng Group belongs to him. You people should be sensible and just go refill the CEO’s fuel for him. When he rises in the future, you’ll all be sitting back and making money.】
【Please Take Your Seat, Princess: What you’re saying is your so-called CEO is just trying to scam a child with empty promises and no real cost on his part. And you’re talking about “the future”, this isn’t a peaceful era. Your Brother CEO might not even survive long enough to see that future. If he dies the next second, wouldn’t the kid’s money just go straight down the drain?】
If this person weren’t some Wanmeng Group CEO, Lu Yuelan wouldn’t have been this angry, but precisely because he was that so-called high-ranking scumbag, she had no reason to hold back.
Because of this man, her once-gentle aunt had her heart completely shattered and ended up drowning her sorrows in alcohol at a bar, where she was taken advantage of while unconscious.
Even though her aunt later gave birth to a very cute nephew that Lu Yuelan liked a lot, that was no excuse for the scumbag to escape responsibility.
Thinking about it, the situation was almost absurdly melodramatic. Originally, that nephew should have been Lu Yuelan’s biological maternal cousin. Unfortunately, both sides of the family had their own terrible parents.
When Lu Yuelan had just grown up, barely fourteen or fifteen years old, those disgusting adults tried to use parental authority to force her into an arranged marriage, and her “fiancé” was a gambling addict with a history of domestic violence.
At the time, Lu Yuelan was still away at school and hadn’t returned. The matter blew up badly; it was said her parents had taken a bride price and gone to her grandmother’s house to make a scene.
The grandmother couldn’t swallow the insult, and also didn’t want her precious granddaughter to be dragged down by those shameless parents in the future, so she claimed there was no such granddaughter in the family. Instead, she said the girl was actually the daughter of her deceased elder son who had been left outside, and that she had only been registered under her son’s name to make the girl’s identity sound more proper.
To silence those unreasonable people, the grandmother also sought out the old clan leader who was still alive. She asked him to revise the family genealogy and officially moved Lu Yuelan under her deceased eldest son’s branch. Then, holding a letter written by the clan leader, she went to the police station to ask the clan leader’s son, who worked there as an officer, to pull some strings. After going through a series of procedures, she formally registered Lu Yuelan under the grandmother’s eldest son’s household, completely severing any connection with that pair of scumbag parents.
When Lu Yuelan came back from school, she only then learned that her identity had completely changed, from the grandmother’s eldest granddaughter to the daughter of her uncle’s branch, her generational ranking forcibly shifted upward.
In addition, since her aunt never married and had a son who took the mother’s surname, the boy was simply treated as her “eldest nephew.” As for the aunt, Lu Yuelan had always been used to calling her that and couldn’t be bothered to change it. The generational mess was left as it was, after all, it didn’t affect the fact that they had grown up together since childhood.
Recalling those bitter memories, Lu Yuelan then looked at that scumbag again, her anger flaring up as she prepared to go head-to-head with him and demand justice for her aunt. But the next message poured cold water all over her, instantly draining her fighting spirit.
【Earth is Too Dangerous, I Want to Go Back to Mars: @Please Take Your Seat, Princess, big sister, don’t be angry. It’s not good for your health to get so worked up. That guy didn’t trick baby out of any money. Big sister doesn’t need to worry about baby.】
Seeing the child’s innocent, childlike words, Lu Yuelan felt a wave of guilt rise in her heart.
She had dragged a small child into the complicated world of adults because of her personal grievances. As a certified professional childcare educator, she truly felt she had failed in her duty.