Cheng Shuili wandered around the inside of her vehicle before finally turning to the sink placed next to the sunroom.
Counting it up, today was already the third day since the strawberries had moved into their new home.
Cheng Shuili stared at the shrunken strawberry plants inside the sunroom for a moment. Compared to two days ago, they had grown quite a bit and had even blossomed, but...
What about the fruit that was supposed to ripen today?
Cheng Shuili had a bad premonition. Surely the famine couldn't be stopping her strawberries from bearing fruit, could it?
With a nervous heart, she pulled up the plant's growth status.
【Strawberry Plant】
【Growth Status: Healthy (Affected by current disaster, growth is stagnant)】
【Estimated fruiting time: After growth resumes!】
After reading the text clearly, Cheng Shuili felt a wave of darkness wash over her. Why would a famine affect this?
These were crops! These were things she had planted herself!
If even crops she planted herself were subject to the influence of a disaster, wasn't the survival environment for them as survivors just a bit too harsh?
Cheng Shuili had previously planned that once she was no longer short on energy stones, she would mass-produce sunrooms and fill every one of them with plants. She could produce all the raw ingredients needed for cooking herself, which would not only save a large amount of game coins spent on staples, but she could also sell the surplus to other players.
But with the current situation...
Cheng Shuili sighed. What had to be done still had to be done, it was just that the returns would definitely be a large chunk smaller.
The fourth day of the famine arrived silently.
For Cheng Shuili, today was no different from yesterday.
Most beastmen walked straight around their vehicle; one could say they were very quick-witted. Occasionally, a few beastmen without eyes would insist on coming to her vehicle to rob it, only to be beaten up by Cheng Shuili and Su Rui together and tossed off.
However, the six thousand-plus designated player duel cards Cheng Shuili still had left couldn't be sold today.
The players who needed to buy them already had, and the market demand was truly no longer there. To be more specific, there was essentially no demand left.
What was most scarce now was food.
As for the designated player duel cards, she would just keep them.
The few people in the team needed these cards for training anyway, and this card would definitely be useful in the future...
If the system hadn't issued so many this time, where would Cheng Shuili find such cheap designated player duel cards?
She had originally intended to keep some for her own people, so now it was just that a few more remained.
But as long as she didn't lose money, everything was fine.
With 001, the trades that would have taken Cheng Shuili several days to handle were all completed yesterday.
Originally, she would have worried about the dividend split with Xinxue, but after discovering that 001 could also do this, Cheng Shuili left it to the system with peace of mind.
After gifting the vehicle upgrade material shards, vehicle cards, and blueprints—things that were relatively valuable—to Xinxue, Xinxue returned the items to Cheng Shuili.
Her vehicle had just been upgraded, and the number of vehicle upgrade material shards required for the next upgrade was too high to save up for in a short time. Plus, since the system had just raised the monster levels, they certainly wouldn't be raised again anytime soon, so she wasn't in a hurry.
Most importantly, Xinxue knew Cheng Shuili needed these things. Therefore, compared to letting them gather dust in her own hands, she was more willing to give them to Cheng Shuili.
As for the vehicle cards and such, Xinxue's response was: "They're too valuable. It feels like such a waste to keep them. And I'm used to using basic materials for trading anyway; I can't bear to use these cards, but I also can't bear to trade them away. It's better if the Boss holds onto them."
When 001 saw this long string of messages, it glitched out, so it had to ask Cheng Shuili to reply in person.
Cheng Shuili guessed that Xinxue was probably just a bit embarrassed. After all, they had agreed from the start that Xinxue would be fully responsible for these trades while Cheng Shuili provided the information, with profits split fifty-fifty.
Since Cheng Shuili had gotten involved in this trade personally, Xinxue probably felt they couldn't do a fifty-fifty split this time?
Cheng Shuili occasionally didn't know what to say. Other people's teammates were ready to fight to the death over a little profit, but the few of them were all humble and accommodating to each other. It really was...
"Is their moral standard too high?"
Cheng Shuili muttered to herself, but suddenly felt something wasn't quite right.
When this person first started reselling, she had been truly ruthless. If she offended someone, she was definitely number one, and no one was number two.
Morals?
Did she have any?
Cheng Shuili fell silent for a moment, suddenly realizing that this person was definitely just being falsely polite with her.
Polite, huh...
Since Xinxue didn't want them, she would just have to accept them.
It didn't matter if the kid was shy; if she took a few more losses, she wouldn't be shy anymore.
Now that they were all under Cheng Shuili's protective umbrella, they didn't know how sinister the outside world was, and there were many things Cheng Shuili had to worry about.
Cheng Shuili shook her head. It really was a heavy burden and a long road ahead.
But thoughts aside, Cheng Shuili still gave those automatic driving cards to Xinxue. This person loved curling up inside her vehicle to scroll through the regional channel, so completing the daily mileage was the most agonizing thing for her.
As for the fact that the automatic driving cards couldn't open supply crates...
Actually, Xinxue rarely opened supply crates even when she drove herself. It was a small matter if trash was opened, but if she opened a monster she couldn't beat, losing her life would be the end of it.
Furthermore, under Cheng Shuili's leadership, she was already wealthy enough to be dripping with oil, so she cared even less about the meager supplies opened from crates.
While the group here could be described as living in harmony, the scene on the other side was practically a living hell.
Xiao Wang was a member of the lowest rank in the official organization.
He usually had to turn in 20% of the supplies he obtained for public use. He had been dissatisfied with this before, but ever since the drifters appeared, he had begun to thank the organization over and over again.
Xiao Wang was unlucky.
He was among the first survivors to encounter drifters. When everyone was still completely ignorant about drifters, he had all the food on his vehicle taken away by them.
But compared to other players who had their food taken, Xiao Wang was lucky.
The organization shouldered the responsibilities it ought to, neither abandoning nor giving up. For every meal, the organization provided Xiao Wang with food for free.
Although it was just the most ordinary compressed biscuit and mineral water, to Xiao Wang, as long as he could still live, there was still hope for everything!
The organization not only provided him with food but also tallied the number of people lacking designated player duel cards, saying they would purchase them in bulk and distribute them according to demand.
Of course, this was not free.
Players who received a designated player duel card had to turn in supplies of equal value afterward.
If they couldn't produce them now, they could owe it for a while.
Xiao Wang thought to himself that there was no food left on his vehicle anyway; what could those beastmen take even if they came to rob him again?
He was now someone with nothing to lose; he had no use for a designated player duel card at all.
Things went as he expected. Every time, the beastmen would walk straight into his vehicle, search around, and leave indignantly after finding no food.
Xiao Wang had initially been in the mood to mock these beastmen for wasting their effort, but on the fourth day of the famine, which was today.
Xiao Wang discovered that something seemed very wrong.
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