Natural Disasters Strikes: I stockpiled like crazy!

All around the country, the rivers and streams had vanished entirely, leaving behind cracked beds of dried mud.

In the military base, not a soul could be seen inside the buildings or on the surface. All the people were underground.

Because the underground shelters in the community center were built hastily, they were not as good as the underground bunkers of the military base. The heat still reached them, but the temperature was not as intense as on the surface. However, with the space being so limited, it was stuffy, like being inside a hot spring.

Still, no one voiced any complaints. In retrospect, if they were still in the Longmen Base, not to mention this heat wave, they would have long starved to death.

They are already lucky.

At the crucial moment, Nanzhi distributed the heat-resistance serums she prepared, using coconut juice as a cover to avoid suspicion.

When her stock of electrolyte mix was running out, she substituted it with coconut juice she extracted from the coconuts harvested from the virtual farm, and it worked well.

The serum tasted like coconut juice. It was just that the color was off. Nanzhi couldn't change that. This is the second compensation she thought of.

But under the dim light inside the underground shelter, it was barely noticeable. Since everyone was thirsty from the heat and trusted Nanzhi and her group, they drank the serums nonetheless. The heat dissipated in an instant.

"Is it just me, or is it less hot now?"

"I also feel like the temperature dropped. Was it because of the coconut juice?"

"Either that, or has the weather outside improved?"

Someone climbed the ladder and tried to open the hatch to the surface, but he stopped when his hand touched the hot wooden latch. Even with the insulated paint, the wood was still hot.

After that, no one attempted to check the weather again and obediently waited inside.

Unlike them, some people were unlucky. The death toll kept rising and rising. Even alien beasts that failed to find proper shelter became piles of dried corpses.

Only those below the heat line were spared.

Nanzhi and her group were also in the underground shelter.

Because she couldn't enter the Game Lobby, she busied herself with the virtual farm. Since she had been busy making serums, she had neglected it.

When harvesting ordinary crops, she had to set multiple alarms, which sometimes felt overwhelming.

"System, is there any way for one side of the virtual farm to be fully automated? Instead of planting them one by one manually, can I set a schedule instead so some crops can be repeatedly harvested and sown without my intervention?"

[You can use the upgrade card. After the upgrade, the virtual farm will expand to 40 more slots, and you can set a plan for each plot, whether manual or system-automated. When you set a plot to system-automated, a virtual robot will take care of the plot and follow the schedule and plans you set.]

There was such a good thing?

Nanzhi paused. She only had one upgrade card left. The guild function would open soon. She wanted to save it for the Guild Function.

She didn't decide immediately and chose to wait until the Guild Function was unlocked. There were only ten hours left.

She remembered that she hadn't checked the system store yet. She had been so busy grinding EXP yesterday and making serums that it slipped her mind.

She recited the words "System Store" in her mind.

A translucent panel unfolded before her eyes like a sheet of glass suspended in the air.

Rows of items appeared in neat categories represented by small floating icons. Some looked ordinary, while others pulsed faintly with strange light, as if they contained hidden power.

Beside the items were short descriptions written in glowing text, along with a price marked in survival points.

Included among the items being sold were the upgrade cards, which were priced at 200 survival points each.

There were also the special seeds she had obtained, along with the serum recipes and serums she had made so far. Their prices ranged from fifty to one hundred survival points each.

She was thankful that she had obtained the plants and serum recipes for free in the mini dungeon.

The awakening ability serum recipe was still expensive, marked at 1,000 survival points.

Next to it was the healing serum, which could heal heavy injuries and even reattach severed limbs, helping patients recover their limbs. It was priced at 800 points.

The healing serum recipe caught Nanzhi's full attention, but she had to withdraw her gaze because her points were insufficient.

The items hadn't changed much from what she remembered while playing the mobile version. The system store was filled with the same props like thermal suits and cooling suits, priced at 100 points per set.

Nanzhi's eyes stopped at a particular item—Instant Ability Recovery Serum.

She lowered her eyes and saw the price—300 points.

After her experience with the alien beast tide, the significance of such a serum became even more evident. They had just been lucky that it was only a tide caused by stimulants. If it had been a tide caused by a high-rank alien beast, with their pitiful numbers, the outcome might have been different.

She wanted to buy the recipe, but she was worried it would be useless if she didn't have all the ingredients to make it.

She looked at the seed section first and found something familiar.

Wait, wasn't this the alien plant that Weihao mentioned they fought in Amber City in his previous life?

Weihao had said it was a vine-type plant that had six red-petaled flowers on its vines, whose appearance resembled a rafflesia.

Nanzhi read the description of the plant.

[Main component of Instant Ability Recovery Serum. Fruits grown in the main root can be consumed to improve control over ability.]

Her heart beat faster after reading the description.

But she was bound to be disappointed when she saw the price.

200 survival points for one seed.

"System, can you give me any discount?"

[I can't. The prices here are fixed.]

She was unsure if she could get another emergency mission like the tide that granted survival points. She had to try another avenue.

Weihao was sitting beside her.

In order to avoid suspicion, Nanzhi grabbed Weihao's hand and wrote her question on his palm to confirm that she didn't remember wrongly.

"Remember the alien plant you said we fought in Amber City in your past life? Do you still remember its appearance and its location?"