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4: Three people, hundreds of schemes.

[Ding!]

[A goddess meeting the System’s standards detected, starting a detailed scan.]

[Name: Zhou Wan’er]

[Age: 18]

[Appearance: 90 points]

[Figure: 92 points]

[Inner Quality: 100 points (a blank slate)]

[Overall score: 93 points]

[Assessment: Taking her in unlocks one random supply item.]

The photo on Shen Yi’s phone showed a girl dressed in a Lolita outfit.

She seemed to stand only about 1.6 m tall, not exactly statuesque, her figure a little childish, yet her face was adorable, her features delicate, her skin fair, and the Lolita dress made her look even cuter.

Especially eye-catching were the pale calves half-hidden beneath the skirt, wrapped in white socks.

In short, she was an extremely cute girl.

She was also a freshman this year, still very green.

Zhou Wan’er: “Big brother, do I really have to come to you in person? Is there any other way… the black fog is terribly dangerous, you know. One of my roommates went into it by accident yesterday and never came back.” (voice message)

Zhou Wan’er: “Big brother, please think of another way, pretty please.” (voice message)

Her voice sounded pleasant, a textbook loli tone with only a slight affectation, perfectly controlled.

Anyone who didn’t know better might mistake her for an anime character’s voice actress.

Shen Yi: “So you want me to risk my life to find you, give you water and food, and even provide door-to-door delivery?”

Zhou Wan’er: “No, no, that’s not what I meant…” (voice message)

Zhou Wan’er: “I absolutely wasn’t asking you to take any risks, big brother! Please don’t be angry, I’m sorry, okay? Don’t be mad, alright?” (voice message)

Her voice was soft and sticky-sweet; she knew exactly how to act cutesy.

Shen Yi: “Campus A boys’ dorm, room 606. If you can make it here, food and water are on the house; if you can’t, forget it.”

After sending that reply, Shen Yi ignored the little green-tea girl.

He wasn’t about to let a sweet voice and a few cries of “big brother” cloud his judgment and make him sprint over there.

Anyone with half a brain could read the meaning behind her words.

She simply thought it was dangerous and didn’t dare step outside.

She knew the black fog was dangerous; did she think he didn’t?

Shen Yi had no intention of indulging this innocent girl.

In the apocalypse, a man absolutely couldn’t let the little head rule the big one, or he would die without even knowing how.

The longer the black fog lingered, the more desperate people became for water.

Two days ago, Shen Yi’s ads had him flamed, cursed, and kicked out of groups; now the situation had flipped, and people tagged him for water every so often while even the group owners spoke to him humbly…

In short, Shen Yi had no shortage of girls to take in.

Over the past few days he had stockpiled hundreds of thousands of bottles of mineral water in his warehouse… he could wash his face and feet with it every day and still not run out.

That’s right… wash his feet!

Others would never imagine Shen Yi wasting water like that…

To him, though, it wasn’t really waste; it was just normal living, and he wasn’t deliberately pouring it away.

The time he had poured out half a bottle had been solely to provoke Xu Wanting; under normal circumstances he wouldn’t squander water, since it was his own resource.

Lying on the bed, Shen Yi scrolled through the friend requests and spotted one from Xu Wanting.

It looked like the proud goddess couldn’t hold out any longer.

The only question was whether she had decided to gamble.

With that thought, Shen Yi accepted her request.

…

Campus B, girls’ dormitory.

Inside a room on the top floor.

A cute-looking girl and her two roommates were staring at a phone screen, reading the chat log.

“That guy is such a clueless straight man!” the short-haired girl complained.

“Straight man? He’s more like reinforced concrete! Zero emotional intelligence! I bet he doesn’t even have a girlfriend!” the long-haired girl snapped.

As for the cute girl holding the phone, Zhou Wan’er herself, she was frowning, unable to decide how to reply to Shen Yi.

Strictly speaking, the conversation had reached a dead end.

There was nothing left to say.

He clearly didn’t want to drag things out and was completely unmoved by her cutesy act…

Even though it had always worked before.

Just the day before yesterday she had used the same trick to make a male classmate bring her water, although it seemed he had died after entering the black fog.

That hadn’t been her intention, and she didn’t feel it was her fault.

She had hoped the boy would survive and deliver the water.

Afterward, Zhou Wan’er had tried contacting other suitors, but many were unreachable; she didn’t know whether they were already dead.

Those she did reach either had nothing to eat or drink themselves or gave all kinds of excuses, which infuriated her!

By chance she then saw Shen Yi’s post in the group offering to shelter girls.

So she had sent him a friend request.

She had chosen her best photo and added a sweet voice message, hoping Shen Yi would bring her water and supplies.

But to her surprise he had completely ignored her.

This was the first time she had hit a wall with a boy.

Her method had been infallible until now.

It was truly vexing.

“Little Yue, Little Mei, what do you think we should do now? The water is almost gone… at most we have enough for the three of us to drink once more today,” Zhou Wan’er asked hesitantly, genuinely too scared to go downstairs.

The screams from downstairs these last two days had kept her from sleeping.

Her two roommates looked at each other helplessly, equally at a loss.

Although they were in the habit of hoarding snacks, they hadn’t stored much water, and most of the snacks were already gone; without rescue they would soon be starving.

“I’ll try calling the police again!” The short-haired girl on the upper bunk grabbed her phone and dialed, and while climbing down, she covertly stuffed a bottle of soda into her bedding when Zhou Wan’er and the long-haired girl weren’t looking.

With the mosquito net in the way, the stash wouldn’t be easily discovered.

“I’m going to the bathroom, Wan’er, don’t sneak any water while I’m gone…” The long-haired girl laughed as she left; once she saw no one was following, she hurried into the next restroom and hid the snacks and half bottle of water in an even more secret spot.

They absolutely couldn’t be found.

Seeing that her two roommates weren’t paying attention, Zhou Wan’er quietly nudged a bottle of soda deep under the bed with her white-socked foot, all the while wearing a worried expression about their food and water and sighing from time to time.

She looked as if they were on the verge of disaster.

In this tiny dorm room, three girls hid hundreds of petty schemes.

And this situation was far from rare.

With rescue nowhere in sight and supplies growing scarcer, survivors’ moral compasses were crumbling fast.

In some residential complexes, violent bloodshed over resources had already broken out.

Disasters often bring out the darkness in human hearts.

At the same time, Shen Yi also received a plea for help from Xu Wanting.

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