Chapter 9: Just Say You Can't Just Pick Up Men Willy-Nilly!

"I need you to lend me a hand."

In his current state, he truly could not crawl inside by himself.

When Ruan Mian reached out to help him, she realized both his hands were hanging limp and completely immobile; they were likely broken.

Even more terrifying was a gash on one wrist so deep the bone was visible, with blood pouring out like a fountain.

No wonder he couldn't use his Light Brain!

"I'll help you, but if I accidentally pull on your wounds, don't blame me."

This person could easily immobilize her; even injured like this, his strength was terrifyingly immense. If he wanted her life, it wouldn't take more than the blink of an eye.

Ruan Mian felt she had to get the ugly truth out first.

"Do I look like such a petty person?" His face, pale from excessive blood loss, was cold as pine wood on an icy mountain, high and unreachable, even though his tone carried a hint of amusement.

Ruan Mian thought to herself, 'What villain would ever call themselves a villain?'

Yet, her hands were quick; she intentionally avoided his injured arms, draped one of his limp wrists over her shoulder, and wrapped an arm around his waist and back.

A stench of blood rushed into her nose.

Faintly, it was mixed with a lingering fragrance, like pine wood, or perhaps licorice fields after snow had melted, which managed to mask some of the bloody smell.

It wasn't quite so suffocating.

The man's body was very tall, visually estimated to be nearly 1.9 meters; Ruan Mian's line of sight only reached his chest.

When Nüwa created humans, she was a bit biased...

It took almost all her strength to pull him up; she didn't know what material his clothes were made of, but they were stiff and chafed her arms until they ached.

After finally moving him into the Medical Pod, Ruan Mian was nearly exhausted and wanted to collapse on the ground to rest.

"After the treatment starts in a moment, put both me and the Medical Pod into your Light Brain."

Ruan Mian:???

A Light Brain can store people?

That's too advanced!

Does that mean I won't have to buy tickets when traveling in the future?

Just stuff them into a suitcase—no, into the Light Brain—and be done with it?

"Alright, I understand, you go in."

After clicking to start the treatment, the originally transparent Medical Pod door was instantly shrouded in a layer of white mist, making it impossible to see inside.

That was just as well, as she didn't want to see anything too bloody.

Perhaps she had stayed in this Interstellar place for too long; the air lacked the stench of rotting corpses and the pervasive smell of blood, and although the surroundings were piled with all kinds of trash, there were no severed limbs or terrifying zombies.

It felt as if she had returned to the peaceful days before the apocalypse.

She suspected she might have PTSD; otherwise, why would she have felt so disgusted and repulsed by this man's blood just now? She really didn't want to encounter any bloody scenes at all.

While lost in thought, she stored the Medical Pod in front of her into her own Light Brain.

But before she could take a single step, the Light Brain emitted a terrifying sound.

【Hello, your Human Storage Space is in arrears, please renew your payment as soon as possible.】

Human Storage Space?

There's such a thing?

And when did she fall into arrears?

Clicking in to look, she discovered that this Human Storage Space was another dimension within the Light Brain where she had just stored the man and the Medical Pod.

A white Medical Pod lay quietly inside, with a meter on it that kept jumping with a price.

Only, there was a negative sign in front of it.

It was already at negative 2000, and the number kept jumping upward.

Only then did she clearly see the line of small print below: the listed price was 500 Interstellar Coins per second.

Help!

This is practically robbery!

Wait!

Ruan Mian immediately opened her account; the balance inside was zero, and there was even the amount she currently owed below it.

The sky has fallen!

After working so hard for so long, she was back to square one in an instant, and even worse off, saddled with a massive debt.

No, she couldn't keep this Medical Pod in there for even a second!

She tried to take the Medical Pod out, but it wouldn't work!

【You are in arrears, please pay the debt as soon as possible. Only after the debt is cleared can items and people be retrieved. The Human Storage System has a maximum limit of 24 hours; exceeding this time limit will result in forced execution. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.】

What is this? It can't be taken out? And it needs 24 hours? And forced execution?

24 hours is over 86,000 seconds, that's over 40 million!

No wonder people don't dare to skip out on the fare; this price is enough to build another tourist attraction herself.

She knew it was a trap, but she didn't expect the trap to be this big.

Picking up the large basin she had found, she hurried home; she had to get home quickly to earn money!

"What's wrong?"

Lu Yi had just picked a large basket of tomatoes; seeing Ruan Mian return with a look of panic, he felt some worry and his guard went up.

However, his Light Brain did not sound a danger alarm.

"I'm dying!"

Ruan Mian's face looked terrible, she was on the verge of tears, but her hands didn't stop moving for a second.

"Lu Yi, go help me fetch some more soil and fill this pot up."

"What on earth happened?"

Ruan Mian didn't even have time to reply; her hands moved even faster, putting all the roasted sweet potatoes into her Light Brain.

"Me, me, me, sob, sob, sob, I've been scammed!!!"

The corners of Ruan Mian's mouth turned down instinctively, and the corners of her eyes turned red; she looked so aggrieved that it seemed she would shed tears the next second.

"I worked so hard to earn a little money, is it easy for me..."

She gave a rough account of what had just happened, becoming more annoyed and angrier as she spoke.

"You tell me, isn't this returning kindness with enmity? Isn't it too much!"

Hearing Ruan Mian's words, Lu Yi's brows furrowed deeply; someone who appeared in this Wasteland Garbage Dump and was also injured—this person's identity was not simple.

"Wait."

Lu Yi spoke up, interrupting Ruan Mian's next actions; what he said next brought Ruan Mian new hope.

"I have a way to make the storage space inside the Light Brain pause the price calculation."

There's such a good thing?!

"Quick, quick, quick, then hurry up and operate it!"

A touch of softness suddenly covered her wrist; the neatly trimmed, rounded fingernails were a faint pink, as cute as she was.

The skin that she touched felt as if it had been scalded, making him unable to help but flinch.

The look in his pupils deepened by a few shades.

His protruding Adam's apple bobbed up and down, and his voice turned somewhat hoarse, "No rush, I will help you."

The low, deep voice sounded like music to Ruan Mian's ears at this moment.

"Quick, quick, quick, I'm almost dying of anxiety!"

Lu Yi brought up her Light Brain and performed a series of operations; the price on the meter indeed stopped.

His method was to apply for temporary storage, pay off the debt first, and then take out the Medical Pod.

However, the deadline was two weeks.

If the outstanding amount was not paid off within two weeks, the items would flow into the market for auction.

"Lu Yi, you're so amazing!"

A pair of starry eyes gazed at him, filled with a softness that made him almost collapse in defeat...