Chapter 187: Survival System for Natural Disasters (16)

"Oh, my poor daughter! She's had a hard life since she was little, and now she's been dragged into some game by something from outer space. If anything happens to her, I'll never have peace of mind for the rest of my life!"

Chen Nianfang held a tissue, wiping the corners of her eyes and wailing.

If the neighborhood office hadn't called to verify, she wouldn't have known that the daughter she lost when she was little had been snatched into the game this time, being one of those 33 players.

It was just that she and her ex-husband had divorced twenty years ago, and later she had formed a new family with her current husband and had another daughter.

Now that her younger daughter had graduated from university and was working, so much time had passed that she had almost forgotten she once had another daughter.

Now that she had suddenly popped up, to tell the truth, she didn't feel the excitement or joy that outsiders assumed; on the contrary, she worried that after reuniting with her eldest daughter, she would be pestered by her.

A 26-year-old grown woman, who might go on blind dates or get married at any time—would she then need her biological mother to provide a dowry? In the future, when she had children, would she need her biological mother to help with the postpartum recovery?

She couldn't just refuse or not go!

The neighborhood office leaders and community Cadres all knew about this matter; so many pairs of eyes were watching!

Really! It would have been better if they hadn't come to tell her!

It can only be said that Chen Nianfang was born with a cold-blooded and selfish heart.

When encountering matters, the first thing she evaluated was whether her own personal interests would be harmed.

More than twenty years ago, because of her negligence, her young daughter went missing. She was afraid of taking responsibility, pushed the blame back and forth with her husband, and it eventually ended in divorce.

More than twenty years later, she had long since cast the daughter she had with her ex-husband to the back of her mind.

It was just that she saw the neighborhood office leaders and community Cadres attached extreme importance to her missing daughter, even bringing quite a few consolation gifts to her door for this reason, and sending people every day to keep her company and counsel her, so she pretended to be very concerned about her eldest daughter and pained at the thought of her.

And once these people who consoled her, counseled her, or the neighbors who blocked the doorway to watch the excitement left, Chen Nianfang immediately tossed aside the damp tissue and stood up from the sofa.

Three or five consolation gifts were piled up at the entryway.

If the Xie Family were here, they would surely find it strange: why were there not as many as their family received?

That was because the higher-level leaders also knew: Xie Yang had relied entirely on her foster family's efforts for the past twenty years, so the consolation was mainly directed at the foster family.

Chen Nianfang didn't know this; she looked through the consolation gifts, her mouth incessantly picking at them:

"Why did they send this kind of milk? We wouldn't even buy this kind of pure milk ourselves."

"The eggs clearly aren't free-range eggs, and the oil is just blended oil..."

"It's all just for show, tsk! They say it nicely—if you have any difficulties, just find the organization, and the organization will help solve them... Pfft! They don't even know how to pick good things for such a small amount of consolation gifts; who would believe their guarantees."

Father Xu was quite cheerful: "It's good enough to have something! It's better than having nothing."

Chen Nianfang rolled her eyes at him: "You're just like that, with no ambition at all. Oh, I have to tell Huihui; the house isn't lacking anything now, so maybe I should let her come home. Now that transportation is gradually returning to normal, she can come back if she can buy a ticket. There are too many typhoons and tsunamis in Lucheng; what if someone in the game hangs, and the Protective Shield for that corner of Lucheng happens to be missing?"

Xu Ninghui was stunned when she received the call from home.

The secret she had hidden from her family for two and a half years had been exposed just because the neighborhood office leaders and community Cadres came to visit?

So her mother had reunited with Xie Yang?

Oh, they couldn't reunite yet, because Xie Yang had been snatched into the game.

Otherwise, the country wouldn't have noticed a small person like Xie Yang.

For a moment, she couldn't describe how she felt inside.

On one hand, she hoped Xie Yang could survive to the end in the game and return safely;

On the other hand, she couldn't help but worry that after Xie Yang returned and reunited with her mother, it would inevitably break the warm and harmonious family atmosphere of her own home.

This left her tangled in every way.

"Sigh, why didn't the two of us get into the game? I actually really wanted to see it."

She leaned into her boyfriend's arms, her expression quite regretful:

"We were so well-prepared at the time! We wore everything we could think of and packed everything into our pockets. It's a pity... Xie Yang is just lucky..."

"Achoo!"

In the game, Xie Yang sniffled and hurriedly pulled her hand back into the quilt.

It seems the temperature dropped quite a bit last night!

When she got up in the morning two days ago and pushed aside the quilt to stretch, there was absolutely no chill like today.

If the temperature continued to drop, she planned to move the bed to the living room to be closer to the fireplace.

Minus ten-something degrees, just thinking about it made her cold.

She really wanted to just stay in the quilt like this.

But when she was dividing the supplies opened from the Blind Box Treasure Chest with Fu Zhangzheng yesterday, she heard him say that he wanted to explore the Wolf den thoroughly today to see if there were any more deeply buried Blind Box Treasure Chests.

It seems this guy is a "grinder" in reality too.

Of course, it could also be that he saw the supplies opened from the Blind Box Treasure Chest were quite good.

She had taken a fifteen-minute sulfur hot spring bath yesterday, applied fragrant body lotion, and even sprayed some orange perfume that represented good luck on her wrists; she was only a step away from burning incense and praying, so the treasure chest supplies opened were indeed very gratifying—

Gold Coin*80, Wolf Fur Cloak*1, Wolf Skin Armor*1, Top-grade Wolf Tooth Dagger*1, Wolf Skin Treasure Map Fragment*1.

It was agreed to split fifty-fifty; besides the 40 Gold Coins each, Fu Zhangzheng let Xie Yang choose the rest first.

She didn't stand on ceremony and took the Wolf Skin Armor and the Treasure Map Fragment.

The Wolf Fur Cloak and the Top-grade Wolf Tooth Dagger went to Fu Zhangzheng.

He was also very satisfied with this.

He felt that if he had opened it himself, he would have at most opened a pair of wolf fur underpants, and shouldn't have hoped for anything else.

Precisely because his luck was consistently bad, when he discovered this Blind Box Treasure Chest in the Wolf den yesterday, let alone being excited, his mood hadn't fluctuated at all.

It wasn't until he saw Xie Yang open a pile of supplies from this chest, each of which could be considered a treasure, that he changed his view on Blind Box Treasure Chests and decided to go to the Wolf den again today.

The reason the word "grind" became popular was because it was contagious.

One person grinding isn't called grinding; having others follow along to grind is true grinding.

Xie Yang felt she couldn't be lazy either.

She still had that area in the center of the island left to explore!

She scrambled up from the bed.

First, she fed the Tool Bench enough Iron Ore to let it continue manufacturing Iron Nails.

Next, she washed up and consumed the Nutrient Solution.

Then, she shouldered the "Second-hand Refined Steel Axe that could still fight" which she had manually repaired using the Tool Bench, and headed out into the biting polar wind!

As soon as she opened the door, she felt as if her body were leaking air; she felt cold everywhere.

The down jacket she was wearing was bought by the original owner when she was attending university in the north, and according to the merchant, it could withstand cold weather of -30℃.

But wasn't it only -15℃? Why was it having no effect?

【Host, don't forget to check in! Maybe your luck will be good today and you'll trigger a Material Treasure Chest!】

The Sub-system felt extremely aggrieved.

This Host was different from any Host it had followed before; she always forgot to check in.

Reminded by it, Xie Yang remembered that she still had this Task to complete.

She logged on and checked in.

【Ding! Material Treasure Chest triggered!】

The Sub-system was even more excited than Xie Yang:

【Host, look! I wasn't wrong, was I? As long as you persist in checking in, there will definitely be a harvest!】

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