As soon as Wei Cheng clicked open the [Personal Information Section], he heard Can Can exclaim in amazement: “It’s Frog Can Can!”
This section was quite simple, with Can Can’s close-up photo immediately catching the eye.
It was unclear whether this System often browsed the internet, but it had actually taken a lens-close-up shot of the pretty Can Can, making his eyes appear perfectly round and his face even more like a fuzzy little peach butt—truly adorably comical.
[Can Can]
Identity: House Owner
Age: 3 years old
Height: 85 cm (slightly short)
Apocalypse Survival Ability: 1 day (?)
Cute Pet: No data available
Base: No data available
Twisty Coin Balance: 101
Safe House Stockpile: 0
Wiggle Car Transformation Level: Initial Form
Contract Companion: No data available
Sole Bound Person:
[Wei Cheng]
Age: 8 years old
Height: 150 cm
Apocalypse Survival Ability: Ten years (?)
Base: No data available
Loyalty: 100%
Without the safe house, Can Can’s survival ability in the apocalypse alone would only be one day…
Just looking at this line, Wei Cheng felt a faint, lingering sadness spreading in his chest.
He didn’t even dare to think further.
Suddenly, the nap-time whistle sounded, and Teacher Xiao Mei began calling the children back to sleep.
“Gege.”
Can Can was so anxious he was spinning in circles: “Gege, when can Can Can eat the green lollipop?”
Wei Cheng, his eyes red, snapped back to attention and patted Can Can’s head: “We’ll buy it for Can Can when we go back to the dormitory later.”
They weren’t very familiar with the safe house’s stockpiling process yet, so to be safe, they had to wait until everyone was completely gone before entering to stock up. Otherwise, if discovered, it might bring trouble.
He glanced at the wiggle car on the ground again: “This car…”
Now that he knew this car was special, Wei Cheng felt uneasy leaving it casually on the playground.
As soon as he finished speaking, the wiggle car on the ground vanished into thin air.
Can Can shook his head: “The wiggle car ran into Can Can’s head!”
Wei Cheng quickly pulled up the panel and saw the [Twisty Car Safe House Section] flashing.
Clicking in, he found the 3D image of the Little Cloud Twisty Car slowly rotating on the right side of the page, with (Wiggle Car Status: Stored) floating above it.
The left side of the page was grayed out, displaying only a few large words: [Safe House Stockpile: Activate by Purchasing Goods]
“Wei Cheng, Can Can?”
Teacher Xiao Mei searched around and finally found the two children behind the old building.
“Don’t play around anymore, come back with Teacher for nap time.”
Wei Cheng quickly replied: “Okay, Teacher. I’ll take Can Can to the bathroom and we’ll be right back.”
Teacher Xiao Mei looked around: “Huh? Can Can, where’s your wiggle car?”
Wei Cheng slightly tightened his grip on Can Can’s hand. Time was too tight; he hadn’t had a chance to teach Can Can what to say…
“Can Can hid it!”
Can Can covered his mouth with his little hand, giggling: “Only Gege and Can Can know where it’s hidden!”
Teacher Xiao Mei didn’t think much of it and was actually pleased: “Is that so? Then it seems Can Can and Chengcheng are already very, very good friends.”
Wei Cheng breathed a sigh of relief and smiled again.
As the saying goes, a child’s character at three predicts their future at seven—his little brother was sure to grow up very clever.
However, on the way back, he still carefully instructed Can Can not to tell anyone about this matter.
Can Can looked innocent: “So I can’t tell Xiaotiao, Ming Ming, or Teacher Xiao Mei either?”
“Do not tell anyone where your wiggle car is, and never speak of what you saw today to anyone.”
Having survived ten years in the Apocalypse, Wei Cheng had encountered too many people and understood all too well what human nature meant. A group of people who were comrades fighting side by side one moment could turn on each other over a bag of moldy rice the next.
Though his conscience remained intact, he trusted no one except Can Can.
He decided to emphasize the gravity of the situation, lowering his voice: “If others find out about this, both Can Can and Gege will be in danger. We could be taken away by bad people and locked in a dark room.”
Can Can’s chubby face tensed up: “Will we be killed?”
Wei Cheng nodded silently.
If this secret were discovered, their fate would be even more brutal than death.
At that point, death might even be a release.
“Don’t be afraid, Gege!”
Can Can crossed his little hands over his chest, then thrust a small fist upward like a sticky rice ball, baring his teeth fiercely: “Can-traman will protect you! Can Can will punch them!”
Wei Cheng bent down and patted his head, smiling: “Alright, with Can Can Ultraman protecting me, I’m not afraid of anything.”
When they returned to the dormitory, Wang Xiao Tiao was already asleep.
After Teacher Xiao Mei finished checking the dormitory, the two children eagerly entered Cloud Mall.
At the mall entrance stood two shopping carts with screens, one large and one small, seemingly designed specifically for their heights.
Wei Cheng asked: “Does Can Can want to push the small cart and shop by himself, or come with Gege?”
Can Can placed his little hands on the edge of the shopping cart, his big eyes sparkling like stars: “Can Gege put Can Can in the big cart and push him?”
“Of course, come here.”
Wei Cheng lifted Can Can into the cart: “Is this comfortable?”
As soon as he sat down, Can Can swung his little legs and clapped his hands: “Comfortable! Comfortable! Gege push Can Can to shop!”
“Hold on tight, Gege is going to speed up!”
Can Can cheered, his curly hair puffing up in the wind: “Whee! Gege runs so fast!”
Wei Cheng spent quite some time just pushing Can Can quickly through the food and fresh produce section. He only glanced from afar at the large red signs for 【Educational Resources】, 【Medical】, and 【Machinery】.
Can Can’s face flushed from excitement, and he mustered the courage to stand up in the shopping cart, gently touching his brother’s face with his little hand: “Gege, rest.”
“Gege isn’t tired. Should I push you around a bit more?”
“No more running.”
Can Can yawned, rubbing his eyes: “Gege, Can Can wants to eat a green lollipop.”
“Then sit tight, Gege will take you to buy one.”
Wei Cheng pushed Can Can toward the food section. The map on the shopping cart screen showed them where to find the items they were looking for. Soon, he located the fragrant candy corner.
“Can Can, there are so many candies here.”
“Can Can?”
Wei Cheng looked down to see Can Can’s slightly drooping, thick black eyelashes. His chubby face was pressed against the cart basket, fast asleep.
Wei Cheng quickly picked up the child, who breathed steadily, only trembling slightly with his round little belly, showing no sign of waking.
He carried Can Can back to the dormitory, settled him in, and returned to the mall.
【Food】and【Fresh Produce】basically cover all food items available on the market. Besides snacks, beverages, and bottled water, there are various baked goods, refrigerated fruits and vegetables, frozen and chilled ready-to-eat meals, seafood and meat, grains, oils, seasonings, crop seeds, agricultural by-products, and liquid dairy products. Further down in【Daily Necessities】, there are all kinds of toiletries, paper towels, kitchen utensils, gas stoves, household appliances… Additionally, there are hardware products, outdoor survival supplies, and a dazzling array of children’s toys, seasonal clothing, shoes, socks, and backpacks…
【Educational Resources】include many books, materials, and electronic products, while【Medical】resembles a massive medical warehouse. Currently, only【Machinery】remains in a locked state.
After browsing around, Wei Cheng guessed that the wholesale prices in Cloud Mall shouldn’t differ much from those in the real world. Although he never had the chance to learn about real-world wholesale prices, he knew that a bag of potato chips typically costs around five yuan in real life, while in Cloud Mall, it’s only about one to one and a half yuan.
Wei Cheng first selected candies and fruits for Can Can, then returned to the real world as well.
Actually, they could also stock up in the Cloud Mall section on the System Panel, where purchased goods would be directly placed in the empty safe house.
Wei Cheng directly opened one of the four major sections on the panel—【Cloud Mall Section】.
He first stocked up on twenty 19L barrels of Nongfu Spring bottled water, followed by twenty boxes of 550ml*24 bottles of mineral water.
Curiously, he glanced at Can Can’s【Personal Information Section】and noticed that the Twisty Coin balance hadn’t changed.
What’s going on? He had already spent several hundred yuan on water.
Wei Cheng thought for a moment, then typed “rice” into the Mall’s search bar.
The best rice could cost dozens of yuan per kilogram, while the cheapest was 3.5 yuan per kilogram.
This type of rice is usually blended or mixed, and people nowadays rarely buy it to eat. However, during the Apocalypse, obtaining two kilograms of blended rice might require killing twenty Zombies.
It’s unclear who discovered it, but inside the brains of Zombies, there is a type of black-green stone. These stones are odorless, non-toxic, and function similarly to the gradually depleting coal at the time, so many people collect these black-green stones to exchange for survival supplies.
Wei Cheng bought fifty 20-kilogram bags of blended rice, spending a total of 3,500 yuan.
At this point, he noticed a change in the Twisty Coin balance.
【Twisty Coin Balance: 97】
【Safe House Stockpile: 0.01】
【Wiggle Car Transformation Progress: Initial Form】
There was still 97,000 yuan left.
So, the balance only changes after spending 1,000 yuan.
To be honest, if the wiggle car’s transformation progress had nothing to do with the safe house stockpile, they wouldn’t need to rush to stock up. As long as they completed tasks, they could earn money, and wouldn’t it be more convenient to buy whatever they wanted to eat later?
However, the wiggle car is an important escape vehicle for them, so they must find a way to upgrade it to its initial form before the Apocalypse arrives.
With so much rice and water, the stockpile is only 0.01?
Wei Cheng had a sudden idea and searched for large appliances like refrigerators.
Three options popped up.
Combined French Door + Four-Door Refrigerator (Shelf Life: 50 years) – 40 Twisty Coins
Four-Door Refrigerator (Shelf Life: 10 years) – 10 Twisty Coins
Beside the words “shelf life” in the lower left corner was a small question mark. When he clicked on it, an explanation appeared: A shelf life of 5 years means that any item placed in the refrigerator will remain perfectly preserved for fifty years.
Wei Cheng pondered for a moment, then decided to solve the problem once and for all by purchasing the refrigerator that cost 40 Twisty Coins.
However, the moment he bought the refrigerator, he saw:
【Twisty Coin Balance: 57】
【Safe House Stockpile: 1】
【Wiggle Car Transformation Progress: Initial Form 1 (Reach 10 to unlock two-person escape)】
The money was well spent! It turned out that the more expensive the items stocked, the faster the wiggle car’s transformation progressed!
Wei Cheng quickly stocked up on a hundred bags of 20kg premium rice and a hundred bags of 25kg premium flour. He didn’t forget to add a hundred barrels of soybean oil, along with fifty buckets of rich soup instant noodles, fifty buckets of children’s instant noodles, twenty boxes of 60g100 Jinluo ham sausages, and twenty boxes of 30g100 additive-free pure beef and fish sausages for children. For the braised meat self-heating rice meals, there were thirty varieties in total, and he stocked four boxes of each, totaling 120 boxes.
Appliances in the Mall could only be used in the safe house. For survival outside, one had to rely on gas cylinders and portable stoves.
After some thought, Wei Cheng only bought an electric kettle, a rice cooker, and a frying pan for the safe house. As for gas stoves and portable stoves, he stocked a hundred of each first.
This time, he spent another 35,000 yuan.
Now, his Twisty Coin balance was down to 22,000 yuan, and the other two categories had also changed.
【Twisty Coin Balance: 22】
【Safe House Stockpile: 2】
【Wiggle Car Transformation Progress: Initial Form 2 (Reach 10 to unlock two-person escape)】
So, roughly 40,000 yuan could exchange for 1 point in stockpile and 1 point in transformation progress.
The tightness in Wei Cheng’s chest gradually eased. He and Can Can wouldn’t have to go hungry for a long time to come.
Now, the top priority was to complete tasks, stock up on supplies, and upgrade the escape wiggle car. There was no rush to return to the countryside to dig for gold.
Suddenly, a rustling sound came from beside him. Turning his head, he saw Can Can rubbing his eyes and slowly pushing himself up from the small bed.
“Gege.”
Freshly awakened, Can Can looked a bit fluffy, and his voice was like that of a little kitten: “Where’s the candy…?”
“Look at your bedside.”
“Melon.”
Can Can’s eyes widened a little. Huffing and puffing, he cradled two green horned melons, almost overwhelmed with joy. He kept pressing his little face against them, nuzzling and touching them: “They’re fragrant melons.”
Author’s Note:
Our baby Can Can got to eat sweet melons on Children’s Day!
Wishing all our dear readers a happy Children’s Day too!