Chapter 294: After Binding the Child-Bearing System, Becoming a Winner in Life Chapter 295: Natural Disaster Apocalypse Cannon Fodder

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Main Character:

Shen Yao

By the time Shen Yao took the plane back to Jiang City, it was already late October.

She had stayed in Rimu City for quite a long time, especially after confirming the An Family.

Unfortunately, good houses are hard to come by; Shen Yao looked at several in a row, but they were either in too remote a location, too noisy surroundings, or had inconvenient transportation.

Shen Yao: ……

Shen Yao had no choice but to entrust the housing intermediary to continue searching for her, while she herself returned to Jiang City first; before chaos broke out, she could not waste all her time on these matters.

"Mm, you keep an eye out; as long as it's suitable, price is not an issue."

The money in Shen Yao's card was increasing by the day; she was completely unconcerned about housing prices.

Hanging up the call with the rental intermediary, Shen Yao turned around, picked up the textbooks on the desk, and hurriedly left the dormitory, running to the teaching building for class.

On the way, she ran into a few classmates from the same major; everyone had set out from the dormitory, but because Shen Yao's daily life was overly busy, her relationship with her roommates was ordinary, and compared to walking together she preferred to come and go alone, appearing not very sociable.

Fortunately, students at this time were relatively simple; at most they complained a bit behind her back about Shen Yao's behavior, but on the surface it was still all smiles and pleasantries.

"The class monitor said you were sick; how are you?" The girls chatted and laughed; the worries they could have were mostly just trivial little matters.

"Much better, just not used to the water and soil." She hadn't hidden her trip to the Southwest; the classmates were puzzled but wouldn't pry to the bottom of it.

Mostly they looked at Shen Yao with a few pitying glances, lamenting that high-altitude places weren't suitable for travel, telling her to pay more attention in the future, and that was the end of it.

What could they say? If someone had a taboo about this kind of thing in their heart, the more they said the more wrong they'd be.

Although university students were foolish, they weren't truly without social awareness.

Shen Yao smiled and exchanged a couple of sentences with them; soon, the teaching building arrived.

Entering the classroom for the class and sitting down, Shen Yao put down the textbook in her hand, then opened her phone again; this class was an elective.

Ding-ding-dang-dang——

Fortunately the phone ringer was already turned off; otherwise it's hard to imagine the scene of being disturbed by the sound.

Shen Yao watched the numbers in her bank card jumping constantly, and at the fastest speed threw out the stocks in her hand.

Stock trading can't make you fabulously wealthy, and there's no need to put all her energy into it.

Writing books, however — Shen Yao deeply felt she had some talent for it; the previous book she started had ever-improving data, so she simply wrote another one, and the data exploded directly, multiplying her income several times over.

Perhaps because she found the joy of life in writing, Shen Yao's novel theory combined with reality, giving people an added sense of immersion.

Even the very first serialized novel — the editor hinted at selling the copyright; if it weren't for the fact that it was a long-form work, Shen Yao might have earned another sum in copyright fees.

But this was already impressive; Shen Yao used her daily spare time to get her driver's license and such at light speed, then bought a used car, and on weekends drove it everywhere.

Her stockpiling plan was a long-term strategy; on ordinary days going to the supermarket was just buying a few catties of rice and flour, adding some side dishes — basically a hit-and-run approach, sometimes even driving out of Jiang City to purchase in other surrounding cities.

Under such unrestrained arrangements, who would suspect Shen Yao was hoarding supplies? They'd only think it was ordinary family purchasing, and the kind with a simple household population at that.

Shen Yao's emails kept going out; when she came across good items she'd buy them back, and she kept looking at houses in Rimu City until the semester ended and winter break arrived.

Shen Yao packed her things, dragged her suitcase, and went straight to Rimu City. After several months of continuous searching, the housing intermediary finally found a few houses that satisfied Shen Yao.

Whether from price or geographical location, they all met Shen Yao's expected standards.

This break, Shen Yao planned to go directly to Rimu City to handle the house follow-up, including renovation and a series of matters, striving to move into the new house next year.

"Miss Shen, you're right to think that; our intermediary work emphasizes mutual willingness."

The intermediary patted his chest and guaranteed the few houses he introduced were absolutely safe; among them two were in the villa district — although the price was higher, the security level around there was very high, and the residents inside were all wealthy people, extremely suitable for a tenant like Shen Yao.

Shen Yao: ……

Shen Yao felt the intermediary's words were too absolute; the villa district was good, but when the natural disaster descended, the villa district would be the primary target certain people set their sights on.

She herself had learned some boxing and kicking skills, all slowly picked up after coming here; in reality she simply didn't have the ability to overturn clouds and rain, and compared to the unusable storage bag, the supplies the space could actually use were pitifully few.

Under such circumstances, for Shen Yao to still live ostentatiously in the villa district — that would truly be an old birthday star hanging himself, tired of living long.

Directly eliminating the villa district, Shen Yao fixed her gaze on the other few properties.

Finally, having the intermediary lead her to run through each one, Shen Yao took a liking to one located in the city center, with a supermarket, hospital, and mall nearby — an old community.

The community was truly dilapidated; its exterior wasn't as eye-catching as new communities, but the residents in this community were mostly local government personnel.

And the community's construction materials were good; not a hundred meters from the community were the police station and fire brigade.

Shen Yao was very satisfied just looking at it; especially since the community price wasn't expensive, even paying in full wouldn't be a burden.

Shen Yao acted decisively, pointing at this house and signing a contract with the owner; front to back, not even half a month, and the house had already been transferred into her name.

With the house secured, Shen Yao then found a renovation team to start remodeling and reinforcing the house, especially several glass panes and the main gate, which needed to be replaced with sturdy, durable varieties to prevent trouble later.

"The requirements are just these; the rest, you can arrange as you see fit."

Including the interior layout also needed remodeling; the layout even needed to be torn down and rebuilt.

It was only because Shen Yao paid readily and didn't haggle that a general renovation team would agree to such messy demands.

"Miss Shen, rest assured; we'll handle it according to the blueprints; contact us anytime if there are problems."

Facing a deep-pocketed sugar daddy, even if they grumbled in their hearts they had to keep a pleasant face.

This financial backer looked beautiful and picky, but who made the other party pay so much? And wanting everything top-grade — they could just earn a middleman's profit and have a fat year.

"Mm, call if there's anything; I'm leaving first." Whether she stayed here or not made no difference; Shen Yao felt she could take the opportunity to stroll around Rimu City — as her future place of living, she needed to understand it more.

Rapidly shifting her mindset and integrating into it — not to mention other things, just this adaptability alone was extremely outstanding.

Moreover, she held various efficacy pills in her hand; some were provided by the system, some were finished products she refined herself in the spiritual energy world; taking advantage of the natural disaster not having occurred yet, she should supplement her body where needed.

The thoughts in her mind were somewhat many; currently the place Shen Yao lived was a hotel.

Although Rimu City couldn't compare to inland cities in prosperity, it was still a tourist city; tourists coming to play streamed in incessantly every day.

The hotel Shen Yao stayed at had raised its prices considerably during the New Year period; if her net worth weren't quite substantial, she truly might not have been able to afford it.

Sigh

Looks like she still needs to make money; having no money absolutely will not do.

Tilting her head back, she popped an alchemy pill into her mouth, chewed it a few times, swallowed it mixed with the warm water at her side, and Shen Yao rubbed her cheeks expressionlessly, "System, has the time not changed yet?"

Besides sending emails persistently every day, the thing Shen Yao did most was ask the system about the arrival time of the natural disaster.

The system used to say three years, three years; recently it had already changed its tune to two years and eight months, showing that it wasn't entirely without knowledge, that it still had exact information channels.

"Host, the time is not fixed, but within two and a half years, it is safe."

When it came to concrete information, the system couldn't speak, so it could only make its words vague, leaving Shen Yao to guess, guess, guess.

Fortunately Shen Yao nowadays has patience, able to play this kind of guessing game; otherwise, swap in another more cruel world, and Shen Yao would likely have thrown in the towel directly.

"Two and a half years, not long if you say it's long, not short if you say it's short," Shen Yao looked out the window with slight fatigue; staying at a hotel has this one advantage, you can gaze at the distant scenery.

As the year-end approached, the New Year atmosphere in Rimu City became increasingly rich.

Shen Yao went out less during ordinary days, spending most of her time holed up in the hotel; occasionally she would buy some express deliveries sent to her room door, a part for daily use, a part put into space storage.

The space slowly became rich in the daily accumulation of little by much, and this was also Shen Yao's guarantee of being able to live.

An ordinary person, even carrying a cheat, facing natural disaster and end of days, what can she do, only try her best to preserve herself from these influences.

Unwilling to ponder boring troubles, Shen Yao spent money to rent a car, driving all over every day; the house side naturally needed watching, but the renovation team people were serious and responsible, Shen Yao mostly only needed to take one glance, most of her time was put on other matters.

With the ding-dong clang-clang of bell sounds ringing out, Shen Yao felt the New Year atmosphere.

Early in the morning she changed into newly bought cotton padded jacket and trousers, all bright red appearance, wearing them on her body like a walking moving red envelope.

Technology advances, people's lives become wealthy; even during New Year, there are still open shops outside.

The hotel prepared New Year gifts, but here cannot compare to professional restaurants; Shen Yao simply spent lavishly to order New Year's Eve dinner, went early to check in and taste.

Also young people are increasingly letting loose; people coming out were more than imagined; Shen Yao found her seat, eyes measuring the surrounding crowd.

Men, women, old, young all present; there were even several mischievous children running and jumping and playing noisily all over.

Shen Yao sat in her seat appearing lonely and alone, but she was very composed; surprisingly no one came over to strike up conversation.

"Miss Shen"

The waiter carried a serving tray, on it placed the lavish banquet Shen Yao had customized early on.

Just one person eating, definitely cannot finish; Shen Yao merely wanted to join the liveliness, otherwise hiding alone in the hotel is simply too miserable.

"Trouble to pack three portions of chicken soup," also experience newly learned from novels; items stored in space will not spoil; packing cooked food back is convenient and fast.

Of course, places where space can be used are not many; Shen Yao buys cooked food mostly on impulse, not like novel protagonists who specially hoard goods.

Besides, Shen Yao does not have a novel protagonist's super large space; her space is completely accumulated from one mission reward after another.

Besides chicken soup, Shen Yao also ordered several portions of dim sum and rice with tasty dishes, all the restaurant's signature specialties, also the best-selling kinds in the shop.

The waiter nodded, noted Shen Yao's requests, then served up all the other dishes, only then leaving.

Not to mention, restaurants during New Year are all very busy; people like Shen Yao who don't cook themselves, who like to run outside to spend money eating, are not a few.

Even whole families coming out one after another; looking like several generations under one roof; a rare reunited family.

Ears filled with surrounding people's laughter; not far away a television projecting. Shen Yao ate while watching; although no one accompanied her, she could still enjoy herself.

"Hey, Brother, that girl, so pretty," at a seat not far from Shen Yao, a girl of only fifteen or sixteen tugged at the young man, speaking softly.

The young man's countenance clear and beautiful, eyebrows and eyes peaceful; a rare good appearance.

"Don't discuss other people, impolite," the young man finished a bowl of soup, then patiently picked dishes for his sister.

The girl heard this and huffed, thinking in her heart she does this for whom; my family has brother just grown up, pity big-aged bachelor.

"Mom and Dad made you go on blind dates, Brother, if you don't find someone, you'll really be single a lifetime."

The girl frowned, expression somewhat worried; clearly she truly worries.

Young man: ……

"Thinking too much," he not yet thirty years old.

The girl covered her head flicked by fingers, tone muffled, "Definitely not me thinking too much," clearly just family's big brother too picky.

But that Elder Sister really pretty ah, better looking than those celebrities.

The girl's eyes unconsciously glanced again at Shen Yao not far away.

As for the young man beside her, naturally also saw Shen Yao's countenance; however not as flower-crazy as his sister, staring without letting go.

……

Eaten full drunk enough, carrying packed-up dishes back to hotel, Shen Yao took a hot water bath, slept past comfortably.

Opened eyes again, another new year.

New Year text messages on phone incessant; many were classmates; Shen Yao patiently replied to several; then put on clothes and continued shopping streets.

Rimu City is a city bearing local characteristics; people here are warm pure.

Shen Yao came out most time just walking everywhere looking; if say buy something, definitely cannot empty-handed; but also won't buy too much.

Carrying snacks just bought from mall, Shen Yao put on furry hat, only revealing a pair of beautiful eyes.

Raised head looking around, randomly found a direction; not yet stepped out, she heard ahead chaotic noisy clamor.

Hm?

What's wrong?

Ahead chaotic noisy; wouldn't be accident right; but big New Year; still in pedestrian street kind of place; what could happen.

Shen Yao's heart's emerging thought negated; person stood in original place unmoving; until front crowd began slowly leaning back.

Shen Yao: ……

Shen Yao decided at once; retreated backward; regardless what happens ahead, she herself dodging is enough.

Result also unknown if own luck bad; while retreating accidentally didn't step stable; body began tilting sideways.

She was about to fall, but fortunately a pair of lean, strong hands suddenly appeared at her waist, pulling her back.