Just as she finished reading, another notification popped up.
“Congratulations, player Qi Xu 〖Invincible Black Whirlwind〗, on achieving the highest score in the Fast and Furious instance across Hua Region 88! Would you like to make a region-wide announcement? Doing so will grant generous rewards!”
Qi Xu nodded. “Announce it!”
Qi Xu did not bother reading the announcement itself; she only cared about the rewards.
“Congratulations on obtaining Intermediate Backpack Expansion Card ×1, Vehicle Upgrade Card Fragment ×2 (2/10).”
There were only two rewards, but both were remarkably practical.
Her supplies were steadily piling up. Small items that barely took up physical space, like screws, could not even earn a slot in her inventory backpack anymore!
The first-place rewards she had just received were still dumped in a messy heap in the cargo bed. The Intermediate Backpack Expansion Card added another 100 slots to her inventory backpack, solving her most urgent problem right away.
Otherwise, she would have had to spend ages moving things around before going to sleep at night.
With that, Qi Xu swept everything straight into her inventory backpack, leaving only the universal solar charger in the cargo bed.
On the leaderboard earlier, Qi Xu had also spotted a familiar name: Possessed by Bad Luck. With 9,931 players currently left in Subdivision 666, running into them here was quite a coincidence.
She just had no idea which player they were.
With a gender-neutral handle like that, she would never have connected the name to a face even if they had met.
It served the exact same purpose as her own Invincible Black Whirlwind—muddying the waters to keep oneself safe.
Qi Xu opened her personal player panel. Seeing her supplies packed to the brim was deeply satisfying.
【Player: Qi Xu Female 24 years old 〖Green Menace〗〖Scrap Recycler〗
Survival Coins: 219
ID: 8866620010608
Nickname: Invincible Black Whirlwind
Health: 56 (Sweetie, are your sleeves filled with lead? Looks like you’re hurt.)
Fatigue: 76 (Nearing the critical threshold. Hey, take a breather if you don’t want to drop dead.)
Strength: 27 (One punch! You just tickled the enemy!)
Stamina: 29 (On par with a modern college student failing their physical fitness test)
Agility: 34 (Finally looking like a normal person)
Overall Combat Power: 46 (All technique and no substance. You’re pretty weird—are you using cheats?)
Supplies: dried noodles ×1, eggs ×2, mineral water 550ml ×6, exquisite small cooking pot ×1, inventory backpack 120 slots, complete sets of clothes ×3, sterile spare underwear ×1, solar charger, metal ×9, iron blocks ×17, rubber ×10, gasoline ×7, screws ×37, machete ×1, wood blocks ×26, silver blocks ×2, glass ×13, leather ×10, Sanitary Pad Blueprint, three packs of sanitary pads, Fully Automatic Water Condenser Blueprint, Fully Automatic Water Condenser, instant noodles ×3, compressed biscuits ×5, small bread rolls ×6, sesame paste vegetarian tripe ×10, honeysuckle pomelo juice ×3, 10 jin of rice, smoke grenade ×3, eight-treasure porridge ×10, fever medicine, Basic Vehicle Repair Card, carrot seeds, Pocket Orange Tree seed, pocket flowerpot, crop nutrient solution, Vehicle Upgrade Card Fragment ×2, Green Fur ×122.
Reading through the list made Qi Xu a little dizzy. Her Fatigue really was too high. First, she swapped out her title, switching back to 〖Carefree Kiddo〗 for its +3 bonus to each basic attribute. Green monsters were not everywhere; she could always equip the other title again when she ran into them.
Qi Xu drank a pouch of honeysuckle juice and took a moment to recover instead of hitting the road right away.
While she was caught up fighting the green-furred monsters earlier, she had not noticed it, but now that she had stopped, both arms felt heavy as lead. Even lifting them was a struggle, and the right side of her body was slightly numb.
At one point, a green-furred monster had spawned too close and rammed straight into her. It had not injured her, but the spot was definitely sore and aching now.
No wonder her Health had dropped so low too.
Qi Xu lay flat on her back in the electric tricycle’s cargo bed, looking up at the light screen. The one nice thing about this interface compared to a phone was that she did not have to hold it up with her hands—pretty convenient.
The chat lobby was especially lively, mostly because the bold, flashing region-wide announcement was still pinned to the very top of the chat page.
There was no way to view the regional chat lobby yet, though. Everyone only had permission to speak in Subdivision 666.
Qi Xu scrolled through the messages to see if anyone had figured out her real appearance.
Wanderer 666: “Boss Invincible hid it way too well, even pretending to be an ordinary player right alongside us. Good thing I have sharp eyes!”
Qi Xu raised an eyebrow slightly. For a second, she thought she had been recognized—after all, the loophole in her story was pretty obvious.
A score that high had to come from killing green-furred monsters, and as the last person to cross the finish line, she was the only one who had the time to farm them.
Right after that, however, the player added: “Boss Invincible is around 1.8 meters tall, a muscular guy, probably a trained fighter. He got 1,380 points, so he must have cleared some hidden mission. Anyone got intel on that?”
Freely Mad: “If we had intel, we wouldn’t have lost 5 types of supplies! I’m losing my mind here. I finally scraped together three Vehicle Upgrade Cards, and now they’re all fucking gone!”
Ziwei Where Are You: “You don’t have it as bad as me. Right before entering the instance, I transferred all my supplies to my good friend. Then I placed 7th from the bottom, so the system didn’t deduct anything from me—except my friend vanished.”
Player 1030: “Was it your Ziwei?”
Ziwei Where Are You: “No, how could my Ziwei do that to me? Can any kind soul spare some help? This kid is about to starve to death. I’ll definitely repay you generously in the future.”
Player 1122: “If that’s what you’re talking about, I’ve got things to do.”
Seeing no further discussion about herself, Qi Xu shut off the screen completely and lay in the cargo bed for a comfortable half-hour nap. When she woke up and saw her Fatigue had dropped by 20 points, she sat up and took out the pocket flowerpot.
She currently had two kinds of seeds: the orange tree and the carrot seeds.
After a moment’s hesitation, Qi Xu decided to plant the orange tree first.
Growing any kind of crop was very simple—just bury it in the flowerpot, sprinkle on the nutrient solution, and that was it.
It took 10 days to mature. Qi Xu tucked the orange tree into the innermost corner of the vehicle seat and tied the flowerpot down with a piece of rope so a sudden stop or start would not tip it over.
Then she set off once more.
Her luck with crates in the afternoon was nowhere near as good as in the morning. She only ran into one the entire time, and inside was a hairless rat that she could not even be bothered to kill.
At 9 p.m., night fell once again.
Qi Xu breathed a sigh of relief. She was tired—bone-deep tired. That brief nap around midday had barely made a dent, and now every single inch of her body ached.
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