Natural Disasters Strikes: I stockpiled like crazy! - Chapter 88

Chapter 88: Finishing the Coyotes
She also collected the ramps and tows.

Somewhere in the middle, Nanzhi wasn’t expecting Lin Weihao to actually owned a space of his own.

Surprised, Nanzhi asked, “You also have a space?”

Lin Weihao explained, “It was the space artifact you gave me before. After I woke up from the car crash, I wanted to search for you and return it but it was bound already to me for a strange reason.”

It was originally a small metal orb, the size of a cherry.

Everything he stored inside will be compressed a hundred times from its original size but its maximum capacity is only four hundred square feet total size of materials.

After storing some baby clothes, cribs, baby toys, milk, and maternity clothes, there was only 30% left of the vacant space.

Nanzhi slowly nodded.

She asked the system silently about it.

[The space artifact he mentioned must be a compression space. It’s one of the items listen in the system shop.]

Nanzhi’s eyes sparkled.

‘When can I unlock the system shop?’

[The prerequisite for it is 300 survival points and unlocking at least five system functions.]

She already unlocked Virtual Map, Virtual Farm, and Personal Inventory.

She needed two more.

As for the survival points she still lacks more than 200 points.

‘How about the function card that I obtained before, what use does it have?’

[When you reach level 10, you’ll be able to pick which function to unlock first.]

Nanzhi thought it was rather good. She can pick what she needed the most at the moment.

After they were done, they reunited with the rest of the team.

Yu Baoyin and Feng Ran didn’t come back empty handed.

The two were pulling small trolleys full of cans of soda.

“We found a vending machine!” Yu Baoyin was happy and showed Nanzhi the cans.

“Don’t worry Brother Lin you’ll find something good next time, I’ll share some sodas with you!” Feng Ran exclaimed after seeing Brother Lin and Lin returned empty handed.

However his happiness popped shortly Lin Weihao’s next words.

“We are riding motorcycles. How will you carry all of those things?”

“This…” Yu Baoyin and Feng Ran suddenly realized a big problem and their happiness vanished.

In the end, more than 80% of the soda cans could only be abandoned.

“Hic. Hic.”

The two were so sad that one would thought they lost their pets.

Lu Nanzhi and Lin Weihao secretly stored the rest of the cans in their spaces, when no one was paying attention.

For convenience, only three motorcycles were used and they employed a buddy system.

One would focus on driving, while the other will be the lookout and armed with a weapon.

Thankfully they didn’t encounter alien beasts.

They stopped on a small house that used to be a checkpoint near the highway where they met the coyotes.

While Bingwen and the other prepare lunch, Nanzhi and Lin Weihao used the excuse to relieve themselves to travel first to the small town full of coyotes.

Nanzhi set up traps using speakers and sound system and hide them behind and under debris.

She also smashed the meat of the bighead carp onto some muddy grounds and debris.

Lin Weihao dugs some small pits and embedded sharp metal rods and throw some broken glasses inside before covering them with torn tarpaulins.

Once done, the two searched for an area within the woods where there no animal tracks before taking out an airport ramp.

Nanzhi took out the sniper rifle, gave one to Lin Weihao, before positioning themselves on the flat platform above.

She opened her phone and sounds imitating mice, snakes, and frogs echoed on the area where the traps were.

After two minutes, Nanzhi could spot brown shadows dashing around, frantically trying to find the source of the sounds.

Some were also sniffing the fishy smell of the bighead carp’s meat.

She had read last night in the Ethology book that the sounds of their prey and the distressing sounds of other coyotes would lure coyotes.

Thankfully, her research paid off.

Bullets flew and one by one the coyotes were taken down.

The coyotes who wanted to escape were either shot in their feet and caught in Lin Weihao’s traps.

This affected their speed and coupled with Nanzhi’s newly acquired marksmanship skill and upgraded power, the battled ended anticlimactically.

Her ears rang with notification of EXP.

[You’ve gained 30 EXP.]

[You’ve gained 30 EXP.]

[…]

The total coyotes that they had lured were around 44 and Nanzhi had taken out more than half of them.

Lin Weihao couldn’t help be proud of his wife, “When did you become so good?”

“It’s just barely good,” Lu Nanzhi still missed some shots.

“Barely good? That’s definitely an excellent performance.” While firing, Lin Weihao was still paying attention to her.

Zhi Zhi’s accuracy was poor in the past.

That’s why he was incredibly surprised by her skills.

It was not very good to boast on a skill that she didn’t possess and just gained through the system.

Rather than that, Nanzhi was more impressed of Lin Weihao, “Your skills are the one that should be praised.”

Lin Weihao’s eyes crinkled in delight. Her praise is definitely music to his ears.

After making sure there was no more coyotes, Lu Nanzhi and Lin Weihao went to retrieve the sounds system, wires and speakers.

Nanzhi didn’t dig the spars on the spot and just stored all the coyotes’ corpses in her inventory because time was tight.

The two washed their bodies and hands of the blood before returning to the small house in the checkpoint.

Although the MREs was very unpalatable compared to Nanzhi’s soup last night, it was still filling.

To wash down the food, the group cleaned the sodas with wipeds, and their moods were uplifted a bit.

Feng Ran smacked his lips and regretfully said, “If only we have ice, this would have been more perfect.”

Nanzhi’s mind wandered to the blocks of ice in her inventory and sensed the temperature of the surroundings.

After lunch, the group set off and cautiously passed by the small town.

Bingwen, Feng Ran, and Hei Qian were relieved that none of those coyotes appeared.

Contrary to before, the temperature had dropped by a few degrees.

Could it be a snowstorm will be the next dungeon?

Nanzhi asked in her mind as they drove to the direction of the suburban area.