Chapter 12 Excavators
What can ten thousand yuan do in modern society? Buy one-twentieth of a toilet in Yin City’s City Centre? Stay at a bathhouse for an extra three days? Buy a room full of leek boxes and lie in them?
One of the things Li Ang said to the possessing ghost yesterday was true. He really had a part-time job as a home tutor, and due to Li Ang’s grades, the pay for this side job was not low.
However, Yin City is the economic center of the Republic, an international city known for finance, shipping, trade, and technology innovation. Consumption is high, goods are expensive, and living conditions are difficult.
His part-time job’s salary could only cover rent, utilities, internet fees, and daily expenses. Spending a little more could lead to a deficit crisis.
Usually, Li Ang was so frugal that he wished he could split a one-yuan coin in half. Suddenly receiving more than ten thousand yuan in cash naturally meant he had to plan and budget carefully.
He opened Taobao and started shopping: CQB Tactical Bulletproof Vest, anti-stab gloves, anti-shrapnel goggles, all-black tactical pants with built-in knee pads, Tactical Boots, high-intensity flashlights, anti-wolf sprays, anti-wolf tasers, seamless steel pipes, Camping Hatchet, Cold Steel Little Tuna folding knife, nail guns, high-strength towing ropes for sailboats, empty oil drums, various machine tools including small punch presses, junior high school laboratory equipment including alcohol burners and flasks, copper material, wood, chemical fertilizers, and motorcycle shock absorber pipes.
All these items were purchased using different Taobao accounts, and the delivery addresses were scattered throughout Yin City. The total cost of all the items was just enough to spend the entire ten thousand yuan.
While waiting for the items to be delivered, Li Ang didn’t stay idle. He searched the internet for local urban legends in Yin City, leaving no stone unturned in his efforts.
Players only received rewards after completing tasks, and the best way to trigger tasks was to conduct field investigations and personally encounter those spooky, supernatural events.
These included things like creepy laughter echoing in apartment building corridors at midnight, green slime seeping from the walls of rental houses, and long strands of hair appearing daily under the pillows of single men.