Chapter 67: Extreme Heat 8
While the workers were helping to change the tire, the masters who had gone to chase the robbers had also returned.
“How was it? Where are the two robbers?”
The foreman asked.
“They got away, they climbed over the highway up ahead and disappeared,” the worker who chased them replied.
“But when they ran, money spilled out, and we picked it all up. I don’t know if it’s enough.”
The two masters took the money from their pockets and handed it all to Chu Yian.
Compared to the wad Chu Yian had just given out, this stack of money was indeed thinner. Counting carefully, there were five thousand four hundred yuan left.
“Is it less?”
Seeing her expression, the worker’s face changed, and he quickly clarified, “All the money we picked up is here. We didn’t take a single cent!”
“No, no!”
Hearing this, Chu Yian quickly waved her hand, “If it weren’t for you masters, let alone the money, I might have lost my life here.”
She counted out ten one-hundred-yuan bills and handed them with both hands to the foreman, who was the leader of the group, “Thank you for your help, masters. I’d like to treat you to something good for dinner tonight. Please accept this.”
“That’s not necessary.”
The foreman waved his hand, “We just happened to be here, so we helped. How could we take money from a young lady like you?”
He swiftly finished changing the tire on Chu Yian’s car and took a box of mineral water from her car. “We’ve been busy until now and are thirsty. This box of mineral water will be our thanks. It’s already dark; you should go home early, girl.”
Chu Yian didn’t stand on ceremony upon hearing this. She bowed to the group and drove her tricycle quickly back home.
Honestly, encountering those two robbers today was truly too thrilling.
She returned home, drank two large gulps of water, and only then calmed down.
She replayed the events of the evening.
First, it was too late and too dark. Even if she had a car, if someone tampered with the road, she wouldn’t be able to escape.
Secondly, she underestimated the wickedness of human hearts. Some robbers won’t let you go just because you cooperate with them. Chu Yian felt that she hadn’t done a good job with her self-protection; she should always carry a weapon wherever she goes!
If not a stick or a long knife, a kitchen knife would do.
Chu Yian thought to herself, found the meat-cutting knife in the kitchen, and swung it in the air by its handle. If she met bad people next time, first throw the treasure box, then swing the kitchen knife and chop them to death!
Speaking of the treasure box, the skill of creating something out of nothing had already cooled down today, but she had been out all day and hadn’t had time to open it.
What would she get this time?
Chu Yian eagerly reached her hand in, hoping to touch something useful. If it were a crossbow or a gun, that would be even better.
A valuable electrostatic capacitive keyboard.
Note: It will be reclaimed after this round of the game ends.
Good Item’s Voice: Language is the sharpest weapon, and text is the carrier of the weapon. An electrostatic capacitive keyboard allows you to furiously type ten thousand words without getting tired. Write brilliantly, speak eloquently, and use language to make your opponents submit!
Chu Yian stood frozen, holding the keyboard. Was the treasure box trying to make her a keyboard warrior?
I… I’m going to curse you!
￥%#@！#￥%&！！
Chu Yian’s face was expressionless, but she was swearing profusely in her heart.
Game Day Five.
Having learned from yesterday’s lesson, Chu Yian had already arranged to go out in the morning to stock up on supplies, buying them and returning immediately.
Food had been consumed these past few days, so her main focus was replenishing those items.
Besides these, gasoline was also something she bought every time she went out. Although her assets had shrunk significantly after last night’s robbery, they were still basically sufficient.
9 AM
The outdoor temperature had already risen to 40 degrees Celsius.
When Chu Yian returned, she saw the masters on the construction site still working. She drove past with a clatter, and upon arriving home, she took out the large watermelon that she had put in the well water to chill that morning.
Then she drove her tricycle with a clatter to deliver it to them.
“Beep beep—!”
Chu Yian parked her car under a tree whose leaves had been scorched yellow, honked twice, and then got out to look at them.
The workers immediately recognized the car, then stood on the iron scaffolding, waved their hands, and with parched voices, said, “What’s up, little sister? We’re about to finish work, no need for water.”
“Want some watermelon?”
Chu Yian brought out the large watermelon, tightly wrapped in a cotton quilt, from the back of the car and placed it on the table below, which held various tools and water cups.
In the height of summer, the allure of watermelon is immense.
Especially chilled watermelon.
The workers who had been on the iron scaffolding came down one after another. After Chu Yian cut and distributed the watermelon, it still exuded a faint coolness due to good insulation.
“This is comfortable!”
“The weather is too hot, this terrible weather.”
“Thank you, little sister.”
…a group of tanned workers said.
“You’re welcome.”
Chu Yian nodded.
Because she had only ever seen construction sites from a distance before, now suddenly entering one, she looked around with some curiosity.
There were rebar as thick as a thumb, all-iron hammers, hacksaws, and many construction tools she had never seen before.
Chu Yian looked at the large iron hammer, whose handle was even made of iron, and was immediately drawn to its solid appearance. If this thing hit someone, their internal organs would surely shift, and their brains would burst. Even if not used, carrying it on one’s shoulder would be a deterrent.
A thought stirred in her mind, and she wanted to pick it up and ask the foreman if it was for sale.
She couldn’t lift it.
As someone who found it difficult to carry a thirty-jin watermelon, she clearly hadn’t properly assessed her own strength. This large iron hammer would indeed be very intimidating on the shoulder, provided one could lift it.
Chu Yian used all her strength but couldn’t even budge this nearly hundred-jin sledgehammer, incurring the merciless ridicule of the construction masters behind her.
So what if she couldn’t move it?
Chu Yian nonchalantly walked away from the large iron hammer and picked up a one-meter-long, dozens-of-jin heavy rebar nearby. The tip of this rebar was still sharp. Although it was a bit slimmer than the sledgehammer, it was also very good.
“Master, can you sell me a piece of this rebar?”
“You want this?”
The workers looked over upon hearing her, and seeing her holding a watermelon-cutting knife in her right hand and the rebar in her left, they were stunned for a moment.
“If you want it, just take it,” the foreman said.
After all, one is soft-mouthed when eating someone’s food and soft-handed when taking someone’s things.
The most common things on this construction site were rebar, bricks, and concrete; taking one or two pieces was no big deal.
“But we can’t use it for mischief, we are law-abiding citizens,” the foreman emphasized solemnly.
“Of course, we must abide by the law!”
Chu Yian nodded. As long as the other party was law-abiding, she would be a good citizen.
After she finished speaking, she put the rebar and kitchen knife into the car. She turned to look at the unused cement in the mixer and the scattered bricks nearby, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration, “Masters, how about you sell me some bricks and cement?”
