Chapter 28 p1
◎ Good heavens ◎
The surrounding air changed in an instant.
After the system prompt disappeared from her sight, Yu Chi clearly felt the temperature of the entire world rising sharply. The air seemed to have been ignited, and she could almost hear a crackling sound.
The refreshing night suddenly became stuffy and hot, bringing with it an indescribable sense of irritability.
Yu Chi breathed normally, but when the air entered her body, it burned her throat and lungs like fire, and a dull pain came from her heart.
She tugged at her collar irritably.
In this temperature, she felt she had no energy to do anything.
Beads of sweat, fine and dense, appeared on her forehead and the tip of her nose. In just a few dozen seconds, her whole body was as drenched as if she had just been pulled out of the water.
Yu Chi endured the discomfort in her body, quickly ran into the cabin, turned on the automatic air conditioner, and set it to a sub-zero temperature.
The cold air from the air conditioner blew on her face, and the stuffiness dissipated a lot. She sighed, finally feeling alive again.
It was only when the temperature in the cabin slowly dropped under the effect of the air conditioner, no longer as hot as before, that she turned the air conditioner’s temperature up a bit.
Yu Chi had long expected that the extreme heat would not be easy to bear, but she had not expected that even breathing would be a kind of pain in such an environment. She at least had an automatic air conditioner to alleviate it, while the others…
She opened the channel and, not surprisingly, saw a flood of complaints.
【Fuck, I feel like I’m going to evaporate in the next second.】
【How the hell are we supposed to survive this? This is basically not letting people live.】
【If a contaminated creature comes in this situation, it will be a sure kill.】
【This is killing me. Even the seawater is boiling hot… I just wanted to jump in to cool down, but I almost got scalded to death.】
【So thirsty, I’m dying of thirst… Can someone give me some water to drink?】
【Lying still, reducing activity… although it’s not very useful, I feel like I’m going to die.】
【Heatstroke, sunstroke… hehe, they’re all waiting for us.】
【My friend who was just chatting with me suddenly stopped replying… I don’t know how he is.】
…
Yu Chi closed the channel, took out the 2000 water purifiers she had made yesterday, listed them in her player shop, and then adjusted the price to 40 crystals.
…Natural disasters are too hard to endure. There will be one every three months from now on. If all of humanity dies, am I supposed to drift on the sea alone?
—The more people who survive, the greater her own chances of survival.
The water purifiers were limited to one per person. As soon as they were put on the shelves, they were instantly snatched up by the players who had been paying close attention to the [DazedFish Shop].
The players who didn’t get one howled under the shop, hoping she could sell more.
Although the extreme heat natural disaster had just begun, most people had already realized something from the rapidly changing environment. For the next month, they would not only have to endure the scorching heat but also likely suffer from a lack of water and hunger.
Materials were usually obtained from the marine debris tides and by killing contaminated creatures. But in the extreme heat, both of these methods of obtaining materials were very difficult.
Yu Chi chugged more than half a bottle of water, only then did she feel the burning in her throat subside a little.
A normal water purifier only produced 1L of water a day. It might be enough on a normal day, but it was not enough in this situation. However, for many players, it was better than nothing.
She rubbed her chin thoughtfully. Besides water purifiers, she could also make something else—like an ungraded small fan.
She could make this kind of ungraded item with mental meditation without a blueprint.
But before she did, Yu Chi planned to secretly check out the positive reviews others had for her—she was just a little girl who liked to see others praise her!
However…
【I’m done. If you’re going to lower the price, lower it more. What’s the point of lowering it by 40? Those who can’t afford it still can’t afford it.】
【The number one on the wealth ranking is the richest person in the entire district. Now that the production cost of water purifiers is out, he has the nerve to sell them for 40 crystals.】
【Those who profit from such disasters will not have a good end.】
【No, are you all crazy? If you can’t afford it, don’t buy it. Who are you trying to morally blackmail here?】
【What? Are you his dog?】
【Hilarious. If you can’t afford it, just die. I’m actually glad there are fewer people to compete with.】
【If DazedFish is really a kind top player, he should lower the price to one crystal. We will be very grateful to you.】
【What a moron. Why don’t you ask others to lower their prices?】
…
Yu Chi: “…” Damn it.
It was she who was too kind, so much so that she had forgotten that humans are inherently greedy.
Yu Chi had once seen people who had never done charity not being cursed, but people who had done charity but donated a small amount were inexplicably attacked.
She didn’t understand it then, and of course, she didn’t understand it now either.
【GrumpyBro】: They’re all just complete idiots. Don’t pay attention to them.
【SurfingTheSea】: They’re probably driven mad by the heat. There’s not a single person in the top ten of the rankings who isn’t being cursed at.
Almost at the same time, these two messages popped up on Yu Chi’s screen. She touched her nose, thinking, am I a fragile top player?
They’re actually trying to comfort me.
Yu Chi could understand the players’ madness. The temperature continued to rise. Let alone the other players, even she wanted to shout and vent.
But understanding was one thing. Those who had attacked her were in for a treat.
Yu Chi’s eyes curved. She remembered that the player shop had a block function.
Her water purifiers, spirit plants, and even the small fans in the future… these players would surely be very happy to know that they didn’t have to spend a lot of money to buy them.
Yu Chi spent half an hour and put the most vocal IDs in the channel and the other players who had echoed them on the no-purchase blacklist.
She counted, and there were over a hundred.
But so what—she was not short of buyers.
She could understand them watching from the sidelines, but trying to use moral blackmail to get her to lower the price and take advantage of the situation…
Yu Chi: (Smiling)
Speaking out would only make these people jump around even more. Yu Chi silently finished this and moved her attention elsewhere.
She first gave a heart to the two good partners who had comforted her.
[SurfingTheSea] replied with a heart, while [GrumpyBro] said he didn’t want to be in a relationship.
Yu Chi: …
Sometimes I really suspect that this brother is just being abstract.
But SurfingTheSea was right. Basically, everyone in the top 10 of the rankings had been cursed at.
With her as the starting point, this resistance from the bottom-tier players against the high-end players gradually spread to every player on the rankings, and the top 10 were the hardest-hit area.
In fact, this trend had already existed before, but now everyone’s hostility had been completely aroused.
Yu Chi sat in the cabin, enjoying the air conditioning, and stared blankly at a spot in the air.
Actually, when she saw herself being cursed at in the channel, she was also a little sad… She remembered that at the beginning, she had just wanted to mind her own business, earn the money she wanted to earn, and then live a good life.
But now she had started to take the initiative to lower the prices for the players—was she really getting too full of herself?
Yu Chi was shocked and quickly knocked her head hard.
Wake up, DazedFish! You’re too weak to be a savior!
After some self-reflection, Yu Chi no longer paid attention to the channel. Although the natural disaster had already arrived, since it didn’t affect her for the time being…
So, she went to bed first. Good night!
Yu Chi slept very peacefully in the cold air of the air conditioner, while the outside world had descended into madness due to the extreme heat. No one could sleep in this terrifying temperature, and if they couldn’t sleep, they had to cause trouble.
A few players incited other players and formed an uprising faction, believing that the high-end players were watching from the sidelines and that they could only rely on themselves to survive.
There was nothing wrong with this idea, but it was a problem to target the high-end players.
They first started to attack the shops of various life-skill players, with all kinds of curses and boycotts. The [DazedFish] shop had more fans, so the situation was not so bad.
Other shops had a hard time. The life-skill players were made miserable by these people. Coupled with the hot weather, they wished they could rush over and kill the others one by one.
After cursing the life-skill players, they turned their target to the strength ranking, as if they wanted to use this opportunity to establish their organization’s prestige.
The few people in the lead had gotten a teleportation item from somewhere, and their primary target was the number one on the ranking.
They felt that these players on the strength ranking were just lucky, and it was no problem for several people to fight one.
—It was said that three people went, and although their strength was not on the rankings, it was not bad (the fish’s suspicious gaze)… and then they were instantly killed.
The most interesting thing was that the number one on the ranking was not satisfied after killing these people. He followed the internet cable and killed nearly a hundred people, directly disbanding this uprising organization.
After this incident, the channel was quiet for a full half an hour, until someone tremblingly came out and asked—have the contaminated creatures become fewer? Only then did it become active again.
However, the atmosphere in the active channel became very kind. All kinds of messy remarks were instantly cleared, and everyone discussed the natural disaster with righteousness and analyzed the situation, as if the entire District 1 was a harmonious and loving family.
A community of shared destiny, indeed, was beaten out.
When Yu Chi woke up in the morning and heard about this, she only felt endless regret for not being able to witness this gossip—it would be a lifelong regret!
【DazedFish】: Is there a follow-up?
【ZhangSanAskedMeOut】: No, the number one on the ranking didn’t say anything. He went anonymous again after killing people, and no one in the channel dared to mention this matter.
Yu Chi nodded in understanding. Although she felt that those people were audacious and deserved to be killed, even she felt a little creeped out after hearing about this.
Isn’t a teleportation item a rare-grade item? How could this guy take out a bunch of them as if he were playing?
【ZhangSanAskedMeOut】: I heard that the number one on the ranking has a Legendary item. Even if everyone is in isolation, their spirits can still meet in the same space.
What… what a terrifying boss item! Yu Chi’s eyes widened in horror.
【ZhangSanAskedMeOut】: But I’m not sure if it’s true.
It was said that after the number one on the ranking had killed people last night, a post suddenly appeared on the forum in the middle of the night, saying that someone kept calling him to a meeting when he was sleeping. He hated meetings the most in his life and had angrily refused.