Seeing this, Lu Yuelan couldn’t help but secretly marvel. In the past, people said that buying a car was easy but maintaining one was hard, that was already considered an exaggeration. But now that she was in this highway survival game, it was truly impossible to afford keeping a vehicle.
Fortunately, according to “Watch Me Punch the Bull From Afar,” there was a beginner discount period right now. The shop was offering massive discounts, so there might be a chance to go and take advantage of it to scrape together enough resources to support herself.
But that was all for later. The more important thing right now was completing her occupational mission and earning resource coins to buy supplies.
This was Lu Yuelan’s first time refueling at a gas station, and the process involved quite a few steps. It took some time before she could officially start the task. After this, things would likely become much faster and not as complicated as today.
After finishing her conversation with “Watch Me Punch the Bull From Afar,” Lu Yuelan began today’s mission. She activated the “Summon Cub” skill and headed toward the golden-edged multi-lane road.
During the boring waiting period, Lu Yuelan decided to follow the system’s suggestion and eat something. She rubbed her hands together left and right, then began the exciting moment, the talent skill lottery draw.
As the saying goes, listen to advice and you’ll be fed; whether you’re lucky or not depends on this moment.
Similar to the vehicle gacha, a dazzling golden wheel appeared in front of Lu Yuelan, filled with skills such as “Strength of an Ox,” “Speed Demon,” and “Flash Step.”
Lu Yuelan was practically drooling. These were all skills that greatly boosted combat power, perfect for her, a physically weak shut-in. As long as she drew even one, she wouldn’t have to worry about her life being threatened by others anymore.
God knows how desperate she had been when she saw her attribute panel earlier. Her combat ability was so poor that she had seriously considered jumping off a building to respawn, just to avoid encountering dangerous people and suffering.
Now, seeing something that could improve her combat strength, Lu Yuelan was almost moved to tears. This was the last ray of hope for a shut-in like her.
But as the pointer slowly came to a stop in the smallest possible segment on the wheel, Lu Yuelan froze, her face blank with confusion.
All other grid slots contained various useful skills, large or small, except for this one, which contained a random profession.
At first glance, it looked like Lu Yuelan had hit the jackpot and obtained an extra profession. The problem was that she already had one profession.
Whether the two professions could be used simultaneously was still unknown. Even if they could, profession-based tasks were extremely difficult. As a homebody, she would struggle to complete them at all. Wasn’t this just wasting a draw? Oh great heavens, this couldn’t be how they treated a believer like this.
In order not to waste the draw, Lu Yuelan, who didn’t even believe in gods, actually started praying to the heavens, hoping they would hear her thoughts and leave her a way out.
【Beep. Congratulations to player Lu Yuelan for obtaining a second profession: Waste Recycling Worker.】
Hearing the system’s cheerful notification, Lu Yuelan’s expression went blank. This skill sounded extremely low-tier, even worse than her original childcare instructor profession. She had basically drawn a trash-tier job.
Forget it. She would treat it as having an extra job and an extra safety net. Earning money for two parallel cards might even be faster.
Since it was already done, Lu Yuelan could only accept this not-so-great reward. She opened the Waste Recycling Worker information panel and carefully read the description, determined to earn more resource coins and buy a parallel card.
【Waste Recycling Worker: Literally means performing waste recycling work. Other methods are to be explored by the player.】
The explanation was so simple it left Lu Yuelan speechless. How was this any different from saying nothing at all? This system had really mastered the art of nonsense. Did it really need to study Blue Star culture so seriously? If it had to learn, it should at least learn something useful, this kind of thing was pointless. It wasn’t cute like it was at the beginning anymore.
【Beep beep. Detected a nearby transport request from a cub. As a childcare instructor driver, do you accept the order?】
“Accept, accept, accept. I haven’t even completed today’s mission yet anyway. I’ll finish the occupational task first, then go run mileage.”
Lu Yuelan had originally thought this mission would take a long time before she got an order, but unexpectedly, a request appeared so quickly. After accepting it, she received the little cutie’s coordinates and immediately sped toward the destination.
The journey was smooth and uneventful, with nothing unusual happening, and she quickly arrived.
However, after looking around for a long time, and even getting up to check carefully in case she had missed something, she still couldn’t find any sign of the child. She couldn’t help muttering to herself.
“What’s going on? Don’t tell me even this little school bus is as directionally challenged as I am and can’t find the destination… but there wasn’t even a fork in the road just now. Even if it wanted to go the wrong way, that would’ve been hard to do!”
Lu Yuelan was on the verge of breaking down. The order was almost about to time out. Who knew what would happen in this terrifying, strange world if an order wasn’t completed?
“Hey, what are you mumbling about, woman? Hurry up and open the door for me. Do you even know how much you’ll have to pay if you interrupt my fun?”
Great, she hadn’t come to the wrong place. The “little cutie” was indeed here.
But he was a bit rude. How could he call the teacher “woman”? She would have to properly teach this child what respect for teachers meant.
Following the direction of the voice, Lu Yuelan looked over, and her eyes suddenly widened.
Who was this adorable, puppy-like little kid in front of her? So cute. She really wanted to pet him.
No one knew that Lu Yuelan was a total fan of cute things. Anything small and adorable was her weakness. That was even why she chose childcare instructor as her profession, to interact with lots of cute children and also have plenty of free time to do what she liked. It was basically killing two birds with one stone.
Could she have misread the job description? Was this not a childcare instructor at all, but actually a beast tamer profession, and she was supposed to contract this adorable little “puppy” as a pet?
Lu Yuelan opened her childcare instructor panel in confusion and checked it.
【Childcare Instructor: When encountering cubs on the road, you can feed them, train them, and transport them.】
Huh? It didn’t actually say whether the “cubs” referred to humans or small animals. It seemed she had made an assumption, thinking that because her profession was childcare, she would naturally be taking care of human children.
Oh no. She had no experience taking care of animal cubs, especially not something that looked like a highly intelligent alien species.
But since things had already come to this point, Lu Yuelan could only bite the bullet. She opened the driver’s door, walked over to the little puppy-like child, picked up the tiny creature, barely the size of her palm, and placed it in the passenger seat, then helped fasten the seatbelt.
She then returned to the driver’s seat, buckled herself in, and turned to greet the little one with a sweet smile.
“Good morning, little baby. I’m your Teacher Lulu. Nice to meet you, please take care of me.”
“Hello, Teacher Lulu. My name is Lang Tianya. I’m going to the park today to play with other children. Please hurry up and take me there. If you’re late, I won’t give you a five-star review.”
No matter how good his smile was, it didn’t matter, he was a principled male Heavenly Wolf.
The little Lang Tianya felt his face heat up. For the first time, he was grateful that his fur was black so nothing could be seen. Otherwise, he would have completely embarrassed himself as the young master of the Heavenly Wolf clan. He wouldn’t even be able to act imposing in front of the other cubs anymore.