Chapter 49: Original Text
"Diamonite metal? What the fuck..." Ni Mengxue couldn’t stop herself from swearing.
Diamonite metal was an interstellar metal commonly used to build machines for electrocuting items. Its speciality was that it could store and conduct an enormous amount of electrical energy without melting or becoming damaged.
Even more importantly, it was highly corrosion-resistant and could maintain its conductivity for hundreds of years.
She immediately opened her storage space and checked the newly received reward.
A mountain of dark silver metal appeared inside, each piece covered with faint blue lines that resembled lightning veins.
"Forty thousand kilograms..."
With this much Diamonite metal, she could build far more than a simple electric fence. She could create a proper high-voltage defensive system around the base.
If she could obtain enough other materials, she could even build energy-storage equipment and establish a stable power supply.
Most importantly, Diamonite metal was almost impossible to destroy through ordinary physical means. Even a level 20 superhuman would have difficulty damaging it, let alone level 20 zombies or a zombie king.
"This system really knows when to give me something useful. I wish I could get polyester, nylon, aerogel, thin foam, yarn, and microcapsules... in that way temperature-controlling clothes can be made too! System, remember this... next time give me these too!"
No response.
"Classic system-type behaviour." She murmured and checked her merit points. Not only metal, but even merit points were transferred to her, making her soaring balance reach 40,000!
"Hm... what kind of grand deed did I even finish that I got such a reward for?" Curious, she clicked on the info button hovering in the achievement section.
A few lines of text appeared in front of her.
[Fu Sinan and Fu Jing are villainous side characters. In the original text, they were meant to suffer until, during a scuffle with Snake, Fu Sinan would be pushed into a zombie horde and become a zombie himself.]
"Maybe that scuffle was meant to happen today..." she guessed.
[Even after becoming a zombie, Fu Sinan retained consciousness. He scavenged food from the neighbouring areas and brought it for his brother. Snake, the local bully and newly recruited bodyguard of Su Yao’s daughter, noticed their interaction.]
"How did this local bully even end up near the protagonist’s children?" She murmured. Aren’t protagonists supposed to be some kind of saint?
Why would they hire someone with a background of bullying others?
[Snake truthfully reported everything to Su Yao, who went there to investigate. She saw Fu Sinan biting Fu Jing and started to fight them. Her daughter, by accident, used the powerful tool given by her father, Song Yan, and killed Fu Jing during the chaos. Feeling guilty for her sin, she even apologized.]
"What kind of ridiculous plot is this..." She frowned. Even if an apocalypse had arrived, no one would hand over overpowering weapons to children.
Let alone others, even the child’s safety would be in question. Until and unless someone had trained their child, no mindful parent would leave such an item in their child’s hands.
But if Su Yao’s daughter was indeed trained... there is no such thing as a mistake.
[Fu Sinan, unable to bear the loss, lunged at Su Yao’s daughter. He ended up biting her but was killed the next instance by Song Yan. By a twist of fate, Su Yao’s daughter awakened a special ability related to zombies.]
"So basically I snatched away my niece’s opportunity?" She asked with a bored expression. No one responded to her, but she knew that the situation wasn’t as simple as it seemed.
"Perhaps Fu Sinan had some kind of special ability? Whoever he could bite could awaken an ability? So he was trying to bite his brother and yet... due to interference... the person who ended up benefiting was Su Yao’s daughter." She guessed.
However, there was no way to verify it now. Fu Jing died before he could answer... and Fu Sinan died too. In this life, surely both of them won’t have the same fate.
"Sigh... let’s drop the matter. I should focus on getting 10,000 merit points." Just as she finished murmuring, she noticed that 5 rooms had been built, and even the furniture and cafeteria were ready.
In the past few days, she had hoarded bread and butter, compressed biscuits, cup noodles, canned meats, and honey! Now she can list them and earn money.
Each time a citizen from her base bought food, she would earn 0.1 merit. Far too small, but a mosquito’s meat is still meat!
After placing all of them in the room, she used point infusion to upgrade the furniture, and once done, she started to rent out her house.
Within 2 minutes of her listing, all 5 rooms were rented. Grinning from ear to ear, she received her next mission.
[Mission (Small Time Landlady): Rent 10 rooms! Reward: Open the exchange marketplace for once.]
"Marketplace... meaning I can connect with other hosts too." Ni Mengxue thought and checked her base. Noticing the temperature around her base, she frowned.
"I need to make the temperature-controlling chip for the houses..." She murmured and walked toward Lu Yucai’s room.
Just as she was about to knock, she heard the sound of groaning. Curious, she peeked inside and saw Lu Yucai walking a few steps.
Her eyes brightened up; the treatment plan was working, and it was only a matter of time before he would be able to walk normally.
Not wanting to disturb him, she returned to the living room and made her plan.
"Hm... I need to have zombie crystals on hand. That’s the hard currency here. I also need to buy an RV."
If possible, she wanted to make a hover car, but...
"Don’t think about it..."
[Host there is a way to unlock the industrial workshop quickly.]
Ni Mengxue’s eyes brightened up. This was the first time that the system had taken the initiative on its own.
’Maybe the condition of the base has made it feel worried?’
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