Chapter 433: Apocalyptic Trading System (5)

After a long while, she finally found her voice: "Daughter, you..."

Xie Yang smiled at her: "Mom, I am an Ability User now."

Yu Baozhi suddenly realized: "So, your fever yesterday wasn't because you were overtired, but because you were actually scratched by a Zombie? And you just happened to survive the Alienation and, as a blessing in disguise, became an Ability User?"

Seeing her daughter nod, Yu Baozhi let out a long sigh of relief, then pulled her daughter over: "Let Mom see, what kind of ability is this? Is it Great Strength? Is there anywhere on your body that feels uncomfortable?"

"I don't feel uncomfortable," Xie Yang let her inspect her, "but what I awakened is not a strength ability."

"Then what is it?" Yu Baozhi was puzzled, "You can carry such a heavy steel cabinet around, and you're saying it's not a strength ability?"

Xie Yang reached out her hand and opened her palm, where a small, glowing blue bottle lay: "My ability is Trading, and my Great Strength was traded for with gold bars. I also exchanged one for you; this is it. Drink it and you will be able to become as strong as me."

"..."

Yu Baozhi was half-doubting, but she still took the small bottle her daughter handed her, unscrewed the cap, and drank it in one gulp.

She stood motionless for about half a minute, just about to ask if her daughter was teasing her, deliberately taking a calcium supplement with the packaging torn off to trick her into saying it was a Great Strength potion?

The next second, she discovered she could bend a solid metal rod with her bare hands.

"!!!"

Yu Baozhi swallowed hard: "D-daughter, Mom isn't dreaming, right?"

Xie Yang couldn't help but laugh.

How could it be enough to just pretend she had awakened a strength ability?

She had to make sure the people she trusted around her each possessed one!

Not only that, she also discovered a Plant Domestication Technique on the Trading Platform that was enough to pass for a Wood Ability.

"Mom, don't you like planting vegetables and flowers? Try this."

She loaded all the gold bars in her hand into Trading Coins, spent 50,000 to activate the Storage Function, and spent another 2,000 to buy a Plant Domestication Technique for Yu Baozhi, taking out a card that shimmered with silver light.

According to the description, it said that by sticking it to one's forehead, one could obtain all abilities related to plants.

It sounded incredible.

But this time Yu Baozhi believed it deeply, and without a word, she took the card and stuck it to her forehead.

In an instant, the card scattered into specks of golden light and vanished into nothingness.

One minute later, Yu Baozhi used a watermelon seed that some employee had spat on the ground before the apocalypse to force-grow a mature, large Watermelon.

Although there was only one, it was enough to be pleasantly surprised.

Xie Yang: Damn! This Trading System is quite interesting!

Yu Baozhi: Goodness! My daughter's ability is just too magical! From now on, as long as there are seeds, there will be plenty of melons, fruits, and vegetables!

"Mom, do you feel weak or uncomfortable in your body?"

"It's fine, nothing uncomfortable."

"That's good. These seeds were obtained through Trading. Keep some on you, and if you encounter danger, force-grow them."

Xie Yang spent 10 Trading Coins to exchange for a small bag of thorn seeds, a small bag of rose seeds, and a small bag of raspberry seeds.

In a hurry, she only found these three types of thorny plant seeds for Yu Baozhi to carry with her, so that if she encountered Zombies or ill-intentioned people, she could quickly force-grow them and throw them hard.

Besides self-defense, the raspberry fruit could also quench thirst.

Yu Baozhi listened to her daughter and put several portions in her pants pockets and the side pockets of her backpack.

"Daughter, you said these were all traded for with gold bars? Is there a limit to the number of trades? Will it cause harm to your body?"

Xie Yang shook her head: "No limits, and no harm. At least I haven't felt any so far."

Yu Baozhi then took out all the gold bars she had and gave them to her daughter:

"Then you take all of these and trade for whatever you need. It's a pity that your father and brother don't know what the situation is. If only we knew where they were. If they can't come over, we two can go find them."

With her current strength, carrying a small car was more than enough.

If a Zombie came, she could just pick up a car and throw it at them, smashing them to pieces.

Not to mention the magical Plant Domestication Technique, which added another layer of security.

Xie Yang had the same intention.

"Mom, then should I buy an Invisible Searcher with city-wide range?"

"Are there enough gold bars?"

"Enough!"

She had checked; an Invisible Searcher that could cover the entire city could be bought for 8,800 Trading Coins.

After charging all the gold bars given by Ms. Yu into Trading Coins, the previously tight balance instantly became wealthy again.

She immediately bought an Invisible Searcher in the shape of a Little Bee.

"It looks so exquisite? It's so small, can it really search for the situation over at the University Town?"

"It's my first time using it too, let's try."

Xie Yang followed the operating steps in the manual and deployed the "Little Bee."

The accompanying Observation Panel was about the same size as a mobile phone interface.

After the "Little Bee" ascended, the city landscape from the Little Bee's perspective appeared on the panel.

Xie Yang adjusted the flight altitude of the "Little Bee" to ensure she could see the people on the ground, so as not to miss Xie Yongcheng and his son.

Just like that, the mother and daughter laid out an anti-slip mat that had been on display at some foreign trade company, sat on the mat with their backs against the steel cabinet, took turns staring at the Observation Panel, gnawing on Vegetarian Meal Buns when hungry, and drinking water when thirsty.

The Trading Platform did have all kinds of food and drinks. Xie Yang asked her what she wanted to eat; the Trading Coins were currently very sufficient, so she could still satisfy her cravings.

But with her husband and son's lives currently unknown, how could Yu Baozhi have any appetite? She just ate a few bites to fill her stomach.

Xie Yang didn't spend any effort on food either.

When it was Yu Baozhi's turn to watch the panel, she would browse the Trading Platform page by page, buying whatever was useful.

Knight Lightning Gun? It can materialize lightning? Wouldn't that be very similar to a Thunder Ability? Buy it!

Ice Control Technique? It can control various liquid molecules and rapidly transform liquids into ice? Isn't that an Ice Element ability? Buy!

Beast Domestication Technique? Just like the Plant Domestication Technique, this is an ability that can control birds and beasts, buy!

Recovery Healing Technique? As the name suggests, it is for healing the sick and saving lives; regardless of whether this is among the abilities, buy!

"Found them, found them! Yang Yang, your dad and your brother are still alive! That's great! That's great!"

Pulled back to reality by Yu Baozhi's excited and choked-up announcement, Xie Yang discovered that the 100,000 Trading Coins she had squandered were now down to three digits...

The "Little Bee" hovered over the search target.

Xie Yang lowered its flight altitude until she could clearly see the situation of her cheap dad and brother.

The father and son were currently at a gas station refueling a car they had picked up on the road.

Xie Yongcheng's own car broke down as soon as it left University Town; fortunately, there was a paper map in the car bought many years ago, and after the mobile phone lost signal, they relied entirely on this map to grope their way back to the city area.

It is evident they suffered quite a bit along the way.

The father and son looked quite disheveled, but fortunately, they were alive and in one piece, which could be considered a very good result.

"Your dad and the others are in the East District, quite a distance from us, and there is a busy downtown area in between; relying on just the two of them, I'm afraid they won't be able to make it over..." Yu Baozhi weighed the options repeatedly and then resolutely said, "Mom wants to go pick them up, you stay here..."

"We will go together."