Natural Disasters Strikes: I stockpiled like crazy! - Chapter 40

Chapter 40: Returning Home
But that lad said that he was from the military?

If he wasn’t, then why would he go all the trouble to save them?

It was only then that they realized that they never got their rescuer’s name.

Because of the fear of snakes appearing so suddenly and the biting coldness, they never got a proper conversation with that rescuer.

Their attention was then transferred to the guard Ding Xiaode who had been with the mysterious rescuer earlier but even he didn’t know the name.

As to what Professor Zhang Heng and the group thought didn’t matter to Nanzhi, all that matters to her was the rewards.

Ding—

[Special Mission is completed.]

[Special Mission Reward: 2000 experience points and awakening mental power serum is distributed in the player’s inventory.]

[Hidden Mission: Save people in the dungeon is 90% completed.]

[You’ve gained 160 experience points.]

[You’ve leveled up!]

[Player: Lu Nanzhi Level 6 (1, 170/1, 400)]

If only she can also gained EXP from killing snakes, then it would be wonderful.

But…

Nanzhi looked at syringe containing blue liquid on the inventory slot and the exhaustion of her body was gone.

It might be because the military had come here and conduct a force evacuation, this small district seems empty. Except for the sounds of the rain, it was quiet.

She could tell it by the opened windows. No one would let the window opened during this heavy rain unless they used it as an exit.

Nanzhi looked at the time on the watch.

[4:10 p.m.]

She sailed home.

By the time Nanzhi arrived at the entrance of the community, it was already 20 minutes past five. Even though it was still not night, the darkened sky made the surroundings hard to see.

Nanzhi saw a lot of lights flashing from the buildings on the way.

To make it less noticeable, she travelled behind the buildings until she reached the Empire Residential Building.

She looked ahead and saw that half of the first floor was already submerged.

Finding a cover, Nanzhi deflated the boat before swimming across, reaching the stairs.

The residents of the first floor were either loitering around the second floor’s hallway or squeezed in with the second floor’s tenants.

Since the power grid stop ceased supplying electricity, the residents could only rely on flashlights and candle.

At this moment there was a sound of footsteps coming from the stairs.

They had eaten their dinner early and started chatting with each other and their conversation led to them sharing scary stories.

“What was that?”

They moved their flashlights towards the direction of the stairs and saw a figure standing shrouded in all black, faceless, with only its hair cascading in front.

One thing came to their minds.

“Ahhh!”

They were scared and scrambled away.

“A ghost! A water ghost! There’s a water ghost!”

Nanzhi swept her drenched hair to the side, utterly speechless.

…..

Nanzhi used the stairs to climb to the 21st floor. Punching the number combination on the keypad lock, she opened the door.

The latch number door lock didn’t need power or battery.

Nanzhi made sure that the balcony doors were closed before running the generator. The unit was brightly lit.

First and foremost, she took a warm bath before changing into a warm set of clothes.

She sat on the sofa. On her palm, a half-foot syringe appeared.

[Awakening Mental Power Serum]

[-Once injected, host has 99% chance of awakening a specific talent.]

Only 99% chance but there still 1% to fail.

Nanzhi shake the negative thoughts off her head.

Nanzhi didn’t take it immediately and made sure she was on the most optimal condition.

Since she was exhausted from the rescue mission, she didn’t cook and only withdraw the reserve foods from the inventory.

Her appetite was surprisingly good and she finished six cups of rice, three bowls of warm duck soup, fried wontons, stir-fried bitter gourd with egg, a whole spicy kung pao chicken and a whole strawberry cake.

For the rest of the night, she stayed on the bed and turned on the radio, listening to the news.

The peak of the disaster hadn’t yet arrived, there were still a few channels delivering news.

All the news was reports of the magnitude of destruction, casualties and the number of displaced families.

Almost half of the world was hit by a super typhoon at the same time.

Right now, the S Country, H Country, and C Country were in the headline.

However there was positive news among these. With the strange disappearance of water in the reservoirs, the speed of the water rising in some parts of the H Country and C Country became slow and it gave the citizens ample time to evacuate.

The governments were furious about this matter before but now they were all full of gratefulness.

Nanzhi sunk into a deep sleep after listening to this.

In the morning, when her limbs were no longer sore and cold, she ate breakfast and did a little exercise before taking out the syringe.

She asked in the empty space, “Are you there? This serum doesn’t have any bad side effects, right?”

Thankfully, the system answered her.

[Yes. It’s 100% safe with a mortality rate of 0%.]

[Host can reassure that the system will not in any way endanger the host.]

She was not entirely trustful of it but if this system didn’t have any good intentions towards her, there was no reason to give her a virtual farm or make the missions optional and not mandatory.

It must have a different goal. But as long as she received benefits, she’ll cooperate along.

Getting her assurance, Nanzhi took a deep breath, searched for the vein in right arm and injected herself.

A cool sensation travelled to all parts of her body, as if she bathed in a semi-icy lake. Contrary to her expectations, the effects were very therapeutic unlike what she heard from how others painfully describe their awakening.

It continued for ten minutes until the effects wears off.

At the end, she heard the system say:

[Congratulations for awakening you Mental Power!]