Chapter 16: Deadly Infection 1
He didn’t mind, but Chu Yian minded a lot.
“Master, just drop me off at the nearest pharmacy.”
Two thousand yuan had to last thirty days under abnormal circumstances, so she had to be frugal.
Chu Yian arrived at the nearest pharmacy, and the taxi fare cost twenty yuan.
Entering the pharmacy, she went straight to the mask section.
It was an infectious disease, so masks were a must-buy.
Five boxes of masks, 200 pieces, 50 yuan;
Antibiotics: 5 boxes of Amoxicillin, 5 boxes of Cephalosporin, 5 boxes of Penicillin, all for fighting bacteria, totaling 325 yuan;
Fever reducers: 20 boxes, for strong fever reduction and to prevent convulsions, totaling 300 yuan;
Medical protective suits: 10 sets, totaling 320 yuan;
Medical gloves: 50 pairs, totaling 25 yuan.
Besides these three obvious items, Chu Yian also bought a can of amino acid powder for 278 yuan to boost her immunity.
The pharmacy gave her an 80% discount and rounded down since she bought so much. But even so, she spent a total of 1,000 yuan. Adding the taxi fare, the 2,000 yuan given by the game instantly dwindled to 980.
The game had just begun, and she had already spent half of her budget.
She hadn’t found a place to stay yet, and she still didn’t know what she would eat or drink for the next thirty days.
Chu Yian froze after paying.
She suddenly had the illusion that even without the flu, she wouldn’t survive thirty days. What was going on?
Chu Yian, carrying large and small bags, painstakingly moved to a nearby public restroom. When no one was in the restroom, she took out her treasure box.
The treasure box had a ‘creation from nothing’ skill that could be used once every three days.
Chu Yian rubbed her hands and reached into the glowing white treasure box. A moment later, she touched a cold object again.
This was a… baseball bat.
The transparent game screen instantly popped up at this moment.
A common, ordinary baseball bat.
Note: It will be reclaimed after this round of the game ends.
Item’s Inner Voice: Made of soft aluminum, you can buy an identical one for 120 yuan in the store. It’s an essential item for softball training, and also a necessary good for self-defense.
Compared to the pistol with unlimited bullets she drew in the previous game, a baseball bat was really nothing special.
But it was decent for self-defense.
Chu Yian placed the medicines she bought and the baseball bat into the treasure box. No matter how she optimized space, these items took up two-thirds of its capacity.
After doing all this, she sat on the toilet lid, lost in thought.
The three most important things right now: making money, finding a safe place to stay, and figuring out how to live for the next thirty days.
In fact, if she solved the first problem, the others would fall into place.
Making money… but where to make money?
Conventional method: find a job. Advantage: highly feasible. Disadvantage: increased risk of contact with people.
Unconventional method… Chu Yian suddenly looked at the heavy, fist-sized treasure box in her palm.
An hour later.
She again spent a ‘huge sum’ on a taxi to find a rare modern pawn shop in the city.
Chu Yian ‘Duang’ed’ the heavy treasure box onto the pawn shop’s counter. “Boss, how much can you give me for this?”
Listening to the clinking sound of pure gold and examining the embedded gems with a magnifying glass, the boss held the treasure, somewhat reluctant to part with it. “Little girl, where did you get this? Is it for collateral or to pawn?”
“None of your business where I got it.”
At this moment, Chu Yian had rolled up one pant leg and had deliberately used some cosmetics from a nearby store to give herself a rebellious smoky eye look.
“This young lady is pawning it. My family has plenty of these things.”
The boss heard her words and sized her up, thinking she didn’t look like she had plenty, but rather like she had stolen it from someone else.
This pure gold, jewel-encrusted square box… He weighed it in his hand, then gave a number, “Twenty thousand yuan.”
The price of the gold in this box alone would require adding a zero to the number he gave.
The boss was quite unscrupulous.
“Deal!”
Chu Yian nodded decisively. Twenty thousand yuan for a month would be more than enough.
However, seeing her nod so readily, the boss regretted offering too much.
But twenty thousand yuan was not even a fraction of the item’s true value, and he was afraid of revealing its true worth. He quickly handed the money to Chu Yian, completed the sales contract, and then sent her away.
After she had left and was far away, he eagerly opened his mouth and bit into the gold block.
Couldn’t bite it?
The pawn shop boss was stunned, then turned to grab something, attempting to pry off the gems on the box.
Couldn’t pry them off either?
Could it be that after a lifetime of hunting eagles, he was finally pecked in the eye by one?
He put down the treasure box and quickly opened professional appraisal equipment to identify the item. However, in an inadvertent turn, the treasure box vanished into thin air!
Where was the gold box?
The pawn shop boss squatted on the ground, searching for a long time. Where was his big gold box?
Of course, it had returned to Chu Yian’s hands.
The treasure box had two major ‘no-nos’: it could not be dropped, and it could not be destroyed.
It was simply a tool for getting something for nothing.
Sorry, pawn shop boss.
Chu Yian whispered in her heart.
In special times, to survive, she was a bad person.
Now that she had money in her bag, Chu Yian’s walking posture became more upright.
She first found a local agent and located a new apartment building that was sparsely populated and secluded. She spent three thousand yuan to rent a standard one-bedroom apartment. There were a total of three households on this floor, and besides her, the other two were unoccupied.
Quite good.
Chu Yian paid the rent, and once the agent and landlord left, she took everything out of her treasure box.
During normal times on Blue Star, there had been several large-scale epidemics. As someone who had experienced epidemics, Chu Yian knew that this amount of medical supplies was completely insufficient.
Food, water, and daily necessities all had to be prepared.
Chu Yian rested in the house for a while, then went to the nearest supermarket to buy supplies.
Mineral water, she directly carried four large boxes back.
She also bought some rice and noodles;
Fruits and snacks were also a must;
Meat, vegetables, and seasonings definitely had to be there too;
Plus some easy-to-store compressed biscuits, instant noodles, instant rice, canned goods, chocolate, Snickers, and so on.
After buying food, she went to the household section to buy toilet paper, laundry detergent, toothpaste, toothbrushes, and other daily necessities.
It took Chu Yian three round trips to move all these items.
She spent 2,622 at the supermarket for these things.
Adding the 3,000 yuan for rent, a total of 5,622, she still had 15,358 yuan left.
Chu Yian silently calculated her finances, then, carrying the last bag of food, hurried back to her rented apartment. Just on the street outside the supermarket, she suddenly saw a shop that sold doors and changed locks.
Chu Yian, who was about to leave, paused and turned to go inside.
“Boss, how much does it cost to change a lock here? Can you also add an anti-theft door?”
