Chapter 172: Disaster Survival System (1)

"System, what is going on?"

Xie Yang knitted her brows and gazed at the Sky Screen.

It was ten o'clock at night.

The city where she was located was enduring the strongest typhoon and tsunami since records began on this planet.

Residents of the Lin-hai District had already evacuated in an orderly fashion under official organization ten days ago.

Although the Haiyun Wan residential complex where the original body lived was marketed as having sea views, it was actually quite a distance from the sea, so it did not fall within the scope of this evacuation.

However, this typhoon seemed determined to stay, hovering over the city for over ten days with no signs of leaving.

Every day brought torrential typhoon rains, with rainfall once exceeding 1000mm.

In the first few days, citizens were happy about the "suspension of work and school," staying at home, closing doors and windows, playing games, and binge-watching shows, enjoying the rare leisure time of a corporate slave.

However, as the rain poured down wildly without abating, the residential complexes that hadn't evacuated saw their roads submerged and their ground floors flooded, with water gradually rising toward the second and third floors; everyone panicked.

Coupled with the fact that the food stockpiled before the typhoon was running low and the power tripped this morning, residents who only had an Induction Cooker and electric kettle and no natural gas supply could no longer sit still.

"When will this rain stop? We're about to run out of food at home!"

"The power outage is too troublesome! I can't even get a drink of hot water."

"God bless! Please don't cut off the water and gas! My mom stockpiled Rice and flour, but no ready-to-eat food. Now that the power is out, the rice cooker and electric stew pot don't work. If the gas is cut off too, we're completely finished!"

"Have you guys checked the internet? It's not just raining here; other cities are raining too. They all say it's been raining for days, and there are floods all over the country."

"More than just the country! Didn't you watch the international news? Those low-lying island nations have already been submerged; they're completely gone!"

"Damn! This is the rhythm of the apocalypse! No! I have to go stockpile some food tomorrow! What's most important in the apocalypse? It's definitely food, no explanation needed!"

"How are you going to stockpile? The water level is already at the first and a half floor!"

"Swim over! I just don't know if the supermarket is open..."

In the Haiyun Wan owners' group, messages from various residents kept scrolling by.

When Xie Yang woke up, she was holding her phone.

Before the original body lost consciousness, she was replying to her colleague and junior, Xu Ninghui, who rented an apartment downstairs in 1003.

Xu Ninghui asked her if she wanted to go to the supermarket together tomorrow to buy food. She replied "Okay," then complained at length, saying that the biscuits, bread, and self-heating meals at home were all gone, and only a few packs of instant noodles remained. But because of the power outage, she couldn't boil hot water, and she couldn't bring herself to eat the dry noodles, so she had been hungry since morning...

【Huihui, have you ever heard of a 'System'? Just now I had a hallucination in my ear; I actually heard a buzzing sound of electricity, and then something calling itself the 'Disaster Survival System' said it wanted to bind with me...】

This unfinished text was still lying in the input field.

Xie Yang deleted it immediately.

She ignored the Disaster Survival System she had just captured and recovered, letting it stay in her sea of consciousness for now.

This recovery went quite smoothly; the timing was just right, handled in time just after the Sub-system had bound with the original body and before it could unbind to seek the next Host.

But the Main System said the Task progress was only 50% complete, so she couldn't turn in the Task and leave yet.

Xie Yang let the Main System help her exchange for a Nutrient Solution and a Physical Fitness Potion, telling it to deduct the points itself and go on credit if they weren't enough.

【Understood, Host!】

There were point rewards from the previous plane, so even after deducting the debt and interest, the current point account was quite substantial.

The Main System didn't say anything extra and skillfully exchanged a Primary Nutrient Solution and a Permanent Physical Fitness Potion for her.

A Primary Nutrient Solution cost 99 points per bottle, and one bottle lasted a day.

After drinking one, the severe hypoglycemia symptoms like heart palpitations and night sweats finally disappeared.

With another Permanent Physical Fitness Potion, Xie Yang finally felt like she had come back to life.

She quickly found a set of clothes, went into the bathroom, and took a cold-water combat shower, washing away the body toxins secreted on the surface of her skin.

Only then did she have time to receive the original body's personal situation and the environment she was currently in.

The original body was 26 years old, two years out of graduate school, and currently working at a tech company with about a hundred people.

But she had always hoped to pass the civil service exam, so work was just a way for her to earn living expenses; she clocked in and out right on time.

Instead, when at home, she would study late into the night and wake up early on weekends, swearing she would pass next year.

This time, because of the typhoon, the municipal government required the suspension of work and school, and her company gave the employees time off; the original body couldn't have been happier.

While others were at home binge-watching shows and scrolling through short videos, she was at home frantically grinding through past exam papers.

But after grinding for a few days, she realized something was wrong: why did this year's typhoon refuse to leave once it arrived?

The food she had stockpiled was running thin!

The original body was not a good cook, and because she worked during the day and had her own study plan after work, she rarely cooked; for her three meals a day, she either ordered takeout or ate at the company Canteen.

The only things in the refrigerator that could be called ingredients were a carton of eggs; the rest were fruits, yogurt, or various drinks and Mineral Water.

The biscuits, bread, instant noodles, self-heating Hot Pot, self-heating meals, and some snacks were brought back from the supermarket at the entrance of the complex on the day the holiday started.

She thought the typhoon would pass in three or four days at most, so she bought enough for about a week, thinking it would be plenty.

Who knew that after ten days, the typhoon would still be spinning over the city, bringing wave after wave of flood-like typhoon rain, occasionally causing frequent tsunamis.

Now even weather experts couldn't predict when the typhoon would leave, so for the past few days, she tried her best not to eat unless hungry, and even then, only ate a few bites to pad her stomach to avoid hypoglycemia attacks.

It wasn't until this morning that she discovered the power was out.

And there were only a few packs of instant noodles left at home that required hot water; the other dry rations were finished.

Just as she was anxious and lost, the "Disaster Survival System" bound with her.

Before she could figure it out, Xu Ninghui sent a message saying her boyfriend had borrowed a hovercraft that could fit three or four people if they squeezed, and asked if she wanted to team up to go out and stockpile food.

Xu Ninghui was a junior she met while studying for her master's degree at Ming University, and both of them joined the company last year.

They trained at the same time, started work at the same time, and their apartments happened to be in the same building; Xu Ninghui lived in 1003 and she in 1602, so they were closer than other colleagues.

But because Xu Ninghui had a boyfriend and the two were already living together, even though they were neighbors upstairs and downstairs, the original body rarely contacted her after work, fearing she would disturb them.

She didn't expect that at her most difficult and helpless moment, Xu Ninghui would take the initiative to send a message inviting her to go out and forage, which moved the original body deeply.

Xu Ninghui also comforted her not to worry, saying that things would work out in the end, the difficult days would eventually pass, and the sunshine would arrive soon.

She suddenly felt the urge to pour her heart out.

She just hadn't expected that, in the midst of the shock and alarm, her hypoglycemia would cause a delay in myocardial repolarization, sending her straight to her death.

(End of this chapter)