Chapter 22 System Mall

The rain had been pouring for a whole week. While it didn’t affect Lu Chenxi and Chenyue much, as they had plenty of food and warm clothes, they were starting to get bored. Even with the sketchbooks and storybooks, they were running out of things to do.

However, other players weren’t so comfortable. Due to the week-long downpour, they couldn’t go out to collect supplies.

Not every player was as lucky. By the third day of the rain, some players had already run out of water and food. Having three days’ worth of supplies was the result of some players being frugal.

The unlucky ones: “Same world, different experiences, sob sob～”.

Besides food and water, some players hadn’t had time to prepare warm clothes. The temperature dropped too suddenly. Who could have imagined that it would go from sunny and breezy to a raging storm, with the temperature dropping by 20 degrees? Their bodies couldn’t handle it.

Some players chose to venture out in the rain to find supplies. The lucky ones caught a cold and had a fever, while the unlucky ones died directly.

According to a survivor who went out in the heavy rain, he happened to run into a group of skeleton monsters. If he hadn’t randomly opened a hidden aura item, it was questionable whether he would even be able to post in the chat channel now.

For a while, countless players were complaining, feeling hopeless and giving up.

Perhaps their resentment had an effect:

[Ding, detecting dissatisfaction among the majority of players in the survival game world. Out of humanitarian concern and to increase player survival rates, the system has temporarily decided to open the System Mall function for everyone.]

[Considering the current difficult conditions of most players, the system has carefully considered and decided to give each player 10 System Coins as a benefit. Subsequent System Coins will need to be obtained by players themselves.]

[The rules for obtaining System Coins are as follows:

1. From now on, completing the daily sign-in task will reward one System Coin.

2. Players will be rewarded 10 System Coins for killing each Level 1 creature, 100 System Coins for Level 2, and so on.

3. System Coins can be found in treasure chests, in the wild, in water, in sand, in rocks. There’s no limit to where you can find them, only your imagination.

4. Of course, there are many ways to obtain System Coins waiting for players to discover themselves. We won’t list them all here.

]

[That’s all for now. Hope you all stay alive. See you next time.]

The system suddenly appeared and spoke a long speech before disappearing again.

Lu Chenxi opened the system panel and found that a System Mall interface had been lit up.

[System Mall]

[Balance: 10 Coins]

[Available Items]

500ml Pure Water: 1 Coin

200g Bread: 1 Coin

Large Chicken Leg: 1 Coin

100g Edible Salt: 1 Coin

Flint: 1 Coin

Cotton Coat: 2 Coins

Cotton Blanket: 3 Coins

Umbrella: 2 Coins

Cold Medicine: 5 Coins

…

There were all sorts of daily necessities, enough to meet the needs of players.

However, the prices were not cheap. With the 10 System Coins given by the system, they could only buy 5 bottles of water and 5 loaves of bread. Even with careful budgeting, it would only last for three to five days.

Lu Chenxi didn’t plan to buy anything from the System Mall for now. They didn’t lack water or food, and they couldn’t afford the things they needed.

The System Mall also sold weapons and territories, which were expensive items, but they cost hundreds or even thousands of System Coins.

However, Lu Chenxi didn’t need them. Other players did.

Those players who were hungry and thirsty could buy water and food from the System Mall, and those who had a cold and fever could buy the cold medicine they needed.

The chat channel buzzed with excitement among the players:

“Oh my god, I finally have food! Seriously, I almost thought I was going to die.”

“I can’t believe the system is actually decent. It gave us a way to survive.”

“Are you saying the system is good? It’s the one who put us in this hellhole!”

“Exactly! If it wasn’t for the system, we wouldn’t be starving and suffering like this. I was a rich kid on Blue Star.”

“Did you guys forget? It’s because Blue Star was severely damaged that the system brought us to this game world.”

For a moment, the chat channel fell silent. Yes, because of humanity’s reckless destruction, Blue Star was beyond repair.

Earthquakes, typhoons, snowstorms, floods, and all sorts of natural disasters occurred frequently. It was Blue Star’s way of warning everyone.

All the players fell into deep thought.

After a while, someone finally livened things up again:

“Wuwuwu, I really miss my mom and dad. I wonder how they’re doing on Blue Star.”

“I miss my wife and son too. Without me earning money to support the family, how will they survive as a widow and orphan?”

“Well, I’m an orphan anyway, I don’t have any relatives, so I don’t have to endure the pain of separation. Maybe that’s the luckiest thing.”

“Thank you, system, for letting my daughter team up with me.”

…….

Lu Chenxi was also grateful to the system for bringing Chenyue to her side.

Chenyue, who was beside her, also understood the topic of everyone’s chat. She hugged her sister tightly: “It’s so good, me and sister are always together.”

Lu Chenxi also felt lucky to be able to stay by her sister’s side. Otherwise, she might not have made it to this point and would have quietly died like some of the other players.

On the third day after the System Mall opened, the heavy rain finally began to subside.

After the rain stopped, the players resumed their daily routine of collecting supplies.

Obviously, everyone was working harder this time. They were all scared by the heavy rain and wanted to store more supplies to deal with unexpected situations.

Lu Chenxi and Chenyue were no exception. Although the heavy rain didn’t affect them as much as others, it had consumed a lot of their inventory.

They had to continue working hard and fill their space to the brim. Their hamster attribute was activated.

After the rain stopped, Lu Chenxi took Chenyue to check on the vegetables in their garden outside.

As expected, everything was ruined. All the vegetables were drowned, after all, it had been raining for so long.

Lu Chenxi was heartbroken, but she could only comfort herself by saying, “At least we got to eat two meals of cabbage, it’s not a complete loss.”

Fortunately, the soil could still be used. After cleaning up the drowned vegetables, Lu Chenxi started thinking about what to plant.

“Sister, let’s plant watermelons again,” Chenyue suggested.

Lu Chenxi, being a democratic person, agreed. They didn’t seem to have any other seeds, and they could trade for some backups next time they had the chance.

She planted all the watermelon seeds she had received from the system’s space. They didn’t even need to water them, the soil was still very wet. If they watered them, they might drown the watermelon seeds.

After planting the watermelons, Lu Chenxi and Chenyue went back to their old routine: fishing!

“There’s nothing else to do in this deserted place. It’s just a simple life for us sea dwellers. We don’t know when we’ll be able to go ashore.”

Lu Chenxi, who was looking forward to it, didn’t know that they were not far from going ashore. In the items Chenyue had opened in the treasure chest this time, there was a chance for them to go ashore.