Chapter 501: High Terrain

That sentence silenced the channel for a few seconds, then sparked even greater panic.

"WTF! Stop talking! I'm already starting to feel itching all over my body!"

"No way, I need to find a way to get some disinfectant… Who has any spare?"

"Disinfectant? Where can we find it now! Even if someone listed it on Jiao Yi Zhan, we can't afford it!"

"@Wu Ya Zuo Fei Ji, Black Feather Lao Da, please be kind and sell some basic medicine or disinfectant! The price is negotiable!"

"Right, right, right! @Wu Ya Zuo Fei Ji, save the kids!"

Cheng Shuili lay on the bed, watching the regional channel constantly @ her with messages, her brows slightly furrowed.

She indeed has medicine; the newly upgraded medical station synthesizer can produce them steadily.

But selling them on a large scale directly?

Medical supplies have always been scarce resources; if they sell them like this, who wouldn't be jealous?

Jealousy can bring unpredictable consequences, and Cheng Shuili doesn't want such outcomes.

However, it can't be completely ignored. Proper aid can soothe people's hearts and further strengthen Black Feather's reputation and influence. The key lies in what they should do.

Cheng Shuili switched back to the internal management channel of Black Feather; unsurprisingly, Xinxue hasn't rested yet.

【Wu Ya Zuo Fei Ji】: Did you see the situation in the regional channel?

【Xin Xue Chuji】: Saw it, Lao Da. Are we going to sell medical supplies? Like the special plague cure last time? If we really sell, I can arrange it tonight and start selling first thing tomorrow morning.

What Xinxue said is exactly what Cheng Shuili wanted to say.

The Game Coin is right there, and she obviously wants it.

But Hei Yu An Quan Qu, already a target of everyone's arrows for lacking water, would, if we publicly sold medical supplies, cause those wolves already on the brink of death to refuse to wait even a moment.

Cheng Shuili isn't afraid of them, but she also doesn't want to be besieged and attacked right now.

【Wu Ya Zuo Fei Ji】: No, the medical station just upgraded; for such large‑scale sales, the little medical supplies we just synthesized are far insufficient.

【Xin Xue Chuji】: Then…

Cheng Shuili didn't beat around the bush: "Take a batch of goods, and according to the way you previously used Mai Dong Xi, release them directly on the Jiao Yi Zhan channel."

Xinxue immediately understood Cheng Shuili's meaning, "Alright, Lao Da! I guarantee no one will know this batch came from Black Feather!"

Cheng Shuili was pleased, she pursed her lips in a smile and reminded, "Rest early."

She certainly doesn't want to lose such an able subordinate.

After finishing these, Cheng Shuili contentedly closed the chat window, put on the blindfold she had snatched from Wan Yi, and fell into sleep in no time.

The flood peaked in the early hours of Monday; after the water rose again, within Hei Yu An Quan Qu, a thin layer of water finally appeared.

Although not much, the night‑watch water‑monitor immediately became alert, posted several messages in the group, and then received Xinxue's reply.

【Xin Xue Chuji】: All items have been dealt with; the water level is still too low now, waiting for it to rise a bit more, then we'll call the members resting in the parking lot.

【Water Monitor】: Received!

Because the water level rose again, in the silent night countless people wailed in the regional channel.

The monsters that appear at night float around the protective dome; after the vehicle is flooded, the whole world has no light, and with water all around, it's pitch dark—no one can see a hand in front of them. Apart from the regional channel, sleepless players have no other way to pass the time.

Although they have lived in this world for quite a long time, this time is clearly different.

Night sky dark? No problem, the vehicle has lights.

At night the monsters are outside the protective dome, looking terrifying? People are inside the vehicle, sitting or lying down, can't see anything outside, so they can naturally sleep soundly.

Now, soaked by water not to mention, the monsters outside the dome are hideously ugly, and they can only stare at them, with nowhere to lie down.

Someone finally managed to move a chair onto the vehicle's roof, finally able to sit and rest a bit, and immediately started showing off in the regional channel:

"Exhausted to death, finally can sit and rest a bit. I thought the wooden chair I bought was useless, didn't expect it to come in handy. But sitting too long hurts the butt; definitely not as comfortable as lying down."

The other players still struggling on the roof immediately freaked out.

"Having a chair to sit is enough, okay? You still want to lie down?! We're all standing and haven't said anything, you kid… just wait for death!"

"Exactly, exactly! Wait for death! Whoever kills him, remember to snatch the chair."

"The two upstairs are idiots, right? Forget where the flood has reached, why are they using duel cards late at night?"

"Then use them during the day."

The showing‑off player couldn't hold back: "Do I have to die today?"

"Who told you to show off? Don't you understand the principle of 'the guilty bear the blame'?"

"Exactly, on what grounds do you live better than us! Everyone's in the flood, the vehicles are soaked!"

"If you die, you deserve it!"

Darkness and icy fear, mixed with jealousy and malice, ferment in the invisible channel, twisting into a mud‑filled quagmire of hostility.

The player with the wooden chair perhaps only wanted to flaunt a tiny sense of superiority at first, but was instantly targeted by countless crimson eyes born of desperation, becoming the focus of all arrows.

The regional channel's language grew increasingly vicious, evolving from insults to concrete threats, and people even began discussing how to divide that insignificant wooden chair after dawn.

Human nature's ugliness under extreme conditions is laid bare.

Cheng Shuili was woken by the successive vibrations of the group chat, took off the blindfold, read the message and learned that water finally appeared in the safety zone, and now it has risen to about knee‑high for a person.

She was stunned, read the message again, and finally came to her senses.

It turned out that Hei Yu An Quan Qu had no water accumulation, not because she had hit some bug again.

Cheng Shuili thought, opened the regional channel for a glance, someone had been reporting the flood depth, and just now that person said the flood rose a bit more.

Where it rose, the safety zone rose along with it.

It seems… the safety zone previously had no water simply because the terrain was high.

Cheng Shuili immediately realized that perhaps some factions' territories also lacked water, but those territories didn't attract the same attention as Hei Yu An Quan Qu, so they weren't much discussed.

Moreover, with recent merging of zones, most players' attention isn't on this matter.

Thinking this, Cheng Shuili immediately summoned 001.

Sleep‑dazed 001: "???"

Isn't this the time when people sleep?

Of course, this system certainly never rests, but people sleep at this time every day, so its staying awake is useless!