Strawberry Potted Plant

Watermelon is delicious on its own, but chilled watermelon is even better!

When Cheng Shuili saw that the watermelons were all identical in size, she knew there had to be something strange about them. Now that she was eating one, she finally understood what that oddity was.

It was oddly good!

This was simply a peerless, perfect melon!

Twenty pounds, seedless, combining all the advantages of sandy-fleshed and watery-fleshed watermelons. One bite filled her mouth with juice, and if she leaned in close, she could even smell the faint, natural fragrance of the fruit.

Cheng Shuili would always be obsessed with the natural fragrance of every fruit.

Except for durian.

【New Snow Clearing】: It's so delicious! Boss! Boss! How many game coins did you pay for this? I'm usually disdainful of gluttony, but I really like this!

【Liang Shanbo vs. Pig】: I like it too! New Snow, New Snow! If I can't afford it, can we buy one together? We can split it into four pieces for everyone, just like the boss did.

【New Snow Clearing】: Absolutely!

Cheng Shuili happened to see the messages from these two gluttonous girls.

【Angry Crow Takes Flight】: 300 game coins each.

【New Snow Clearing】: ???

【Liang Shanbo vs. Pig】: ???

【New Snow Clearing】: Boss, if I throw it back up now, can I trade it back for game coins?

【Liang Shanbo vs. Pig】: New Snow, you're so gross!

The two chatted for a bit, preparing to continue with dinner.

Cheng Shuili, however, felt a bit full.

In the past, she definitely would have eaten something more. She always stayed up late, so she naturally had to eat more, otherwise, she would be too hungry to sleep in the middle of the night.

But ever since entering this hellhole, her routine had become terrifyingly normal.

She didn't sleep too late, and her wake-up time was incredibly early.

It always felt like being stuck in a dead-end job: 'Early eight to late eight, seven days a week with no weekends, but the daily wage can only buy a single carrot.'

Thinking about it like that, she felt it might be better to just die.

Cheng Shuili forced a smile. She had to keep living, if only for the sake of the watermelon.

Tomorrow is the fifth day of the Extreme Cold. The 【First Place Exclusive Key Information】 she received earlier stated it clearly: on the fifth day, random supply drops would appear. Red smoke indicates supplies, and green smoke indicates monsters.

This information is easy to verify, but verifying it is a matter of life and death.

After all, no one knows what kind of monster might emerge from a supply crate.

In any case, it was sellable.

She opened the chat box with Glory directly. Selling information—it had to be this sucker again.

【Angry Crow Takes Flight】: A small piece of news. It will be useful tomorrow.

Zhao Hong really wanted to pretend he didn't see this message.

His luck today was terrible. He had opened several crates, all of which contained monsters. His arm had even been bitten by one. Luckily, the monster wasn't venomous, or he would be dead by now.

His Glory account had accumulated so much prestige that the organization would naturally do everything in its power to save him.

It's just that...

Whether one can survive is one thing, but how painful it is while surviving is another.

Zhao Hong was in agonizing pain.

The kind of pain that made him want to roll on the ground. Although the monster wasn't venomous, after biting him, it had licked his wound with its tongue.

The monster's tongue was covered in barbs. While Zhao Hong had managed to stab the monster to death, the barbs were still deeply embedded in his flesh!

After the monster vanished, these barbs did not.

Zhao Hong had borrowed a pair of tweezers and, biting down on a towel, pulled the barbs out one by one. He had only just finished bandaging it when he received the message from Crow.

Perhaps his psychological defenses were weakened by the injury.

Looking at Crow's message now, he felt incredibly frustrated. Why was it that she always knew so much information? And why could they only buy it from her?

In that moment, Zhao Hong couldn't help but imagine himself following Crow.

He quickly calmed down, shaking his head to push the thought out of his mind. He was the spokesperson; in a sense, he was the entire organization.

Anyone could leave the organization, but he could not.

Zhao Hong calmed his emotions and finally raised his hand to reply to Crow's message.

【Glory Shines on Blue Star】: What do you want?

What did she want?

Cheng Shuili was also thinking about what she should ask for this time. She didn't need vehicle upgrade material shards for now; she was lacking too many, and even if she asked them for some, she wouldn't be able to upgrade after this transaction anyway.

Only game coins—you can never have enough of those!

And they definitely had game coins. This currency was almost inexhaustible; as long as they completed their mileage, they could earn 10 game coins every day!

Cheng Shuili smiled. The last piece of information sold for 670 game coins; she couldn't lower the price this time, could she?

【Angry Crow Takes Flight】: 670 game coins.

Zhao Hong gave a bitter laugh and sent a voice message directly. His tone sounded genuinely earnest.

【Glory Shines on Blue Star】: We don't have 67 people anymore. Highway Merges kill people, and opening crates to find monsters also kills people. There are only 56 people left now.

Hmm, very pitiful.

But what did that have to do with Cheng Shuili?

It had been two days; these people could certainly scrape together 670 game coins.

【Angry Crow Takes Flight】: If you don't want more people to die, it's best to buy this information.

That meant no price reduction.

Zhao Hong felt helpless, but he had long known that emotional appeals didn't work on Crow.

When she traded with him, she was always terrifyingly rational. No matter what he said, Crow would hold firm to the price she had set.

Thinking about it now, Zhao Hong finally realized that he had never succeeded in haggling with Crow.

If such a person were the boss...

Zhao Hong fell silent. He really did want to follow Crow.

This transaction went very smoothly. The Glory side paid quite readily, and Cheng Shuili was equally forthright, explaining everything she knew clearly.

She also made a copy and sent it to the small group of four, just in case any of those three ran into trouble.

Including the newly acquired 670 game coins, Cheng Shuili had a total of 6,197 game coins on hand. She was still quite wealthy.

On the fifth day of the Extreme Cold, the wind and snow remained unchanged. This is the Extreme Cold; every time you open your eyes, it's a vast, white world.

Cheng Shuili went about her morning routine as usual: morning exercise, checking the Regional Channel for any missed news, and opening the trading channel to see if there was anything good.

With this look, she actually saw something quite decent.

【Bureau Chief】: Selling plants, strawberry potted plant. Includes soil, and the strawberry is still alive and well. Trading for food and water! Need both food and water. Don't come to me if you're begging; I'm starving to death too, otherwise, I wouldn't be selling such a good thing.

A strawberry potted plant!

The rarity of such a thing in this hellhole is self-evident! Even fruit at the Trading Post is sold at such high prices!

Since this person only wanted food and water, and Cheng Shuili had Wan Yi as her backer, she was least lacking in good food and drink. She could satisfy any requirement, so she decisively clicked on the private chat.

【Angry Crow Takes Flight】: Do you have a picture?

She had to inspect the goods first!

【Bureau Chief】: I do. I don't want things like compressed biscuits or mineral water. If you can't accept that, we don't need to talk.

【Angry Crow Takes Flight】: That's not a problem.

【Bureau Chief】: You're a generous boss! Here is what the strawberry potted plant looks like. (Image)

Cheng Shuili's finger hovered over the interface of the trading channel, her eyes fixed on the photo of the strawberry plant.

The plant in the photo was a vibrant, glossy green, growing small white flowers, though it hadn't borne fruit yet. Cheng Shuili had grown strawberries at home when she was a child; she could tell just by the leaves that this was indeed a strawberry plant.

This person wasn't lying.

Cheng Shuili opened her refrigerator to check. The fried chicken meal she had obtained last time was still inside.