Chapter 14: The Mileage Card

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[Good Deeds by the Day: Do you still have medicine? I don’t know how much you have, but always remember to save one pill for yourself before giving it to others.]

[Good Deeds by the Day: Thank you for the medicine; I really needed it. I argued with him at the registry office for ten minutes, but he refused to give me the medicine. Your medicine saved me.]

Suya’s heart skipped a beat when she saw this message.

[Invincible Tyrannosaurus Warlord: Boss, have you been infected too?]

[Good Deeds by the Day: No.]

[Invincible Tyrannosaurus Warlord: Then why do you want it?]

[Good Deeds by the Day: To save people. To save everyone.]

“Good Deeds by the Day” didn’t respond to Suya’s private messages further, but Suya saw their presence in the chat hall.

[Good Deeds by the Day: I have the special medicine. If anyone needs it, please message me privately. Any basic material will do; no trading channels involved.]

[Sleepy Not Early: I want some, I want some.]

[The Emperor Has Passed: Me too!!!]

[Free Wind: Don’t tell me you’ll play us like the registry guy did.]

[Proud and Untouchable: I believe in Boss Good Deeds by the Day. The day I had no food, he gave me some directly. Boss, I will always follow you!!!]

[Apology or Registry: The scammer is here. The scammer is here. (Chat screenshot) This guy was just trying to buy medicine from me, now he says he has medicine himself. Who would believe that?]

[Highly Rated: I thought he could really help everyone, but turns out he’s a fraud. Not using official channels is suspicious. Maybe he’s trying to swindle us when we’re all dying. How despicable.]

[Passionate American Junior Falls for Cold Hiroshima Senior: What fraud? I already got the medicine from the boss. (Picture) Boss, I love you @Good Deeds by the Day, muah muah muah~]

[Master Debater Level One: The above is a shill, case closed.]

[Misfortune is a Blessing: The situation is urgent. If he really wanted to help, why charge for basic materials? It should be free.]

[Medical Student Going Crazy: Everyone copy this message and spread it, so no one misses it.]

[Medical Student Going Crazy: Boss Good Deeds by the Day has the special medicine. If you need it, message him privately. Any basic material is fine; no trading channels.]

[Fireworks Fade Quickly: I’ve already exchanged for the medicine; the boss isn’t lying! Boss Good Deeds by the Day has the special medicine. If you need it, message him privately. Any basic material is fine; no trading channels.]

Players spontaneously flooded the chat, passing along the news that “Good Deeds by the Day” had the special medicine.

Though Suya hadn’t obtained medicine from them, she was genuinely grateful. In such desperate times, standing up to distribute medicine was an act of kindness in itself. Road survival was treacherous; no one could say if such generosity would attract dangerous attention. “Good Deeds by the Day” dared to risk everything to help others—such courage was truly admirable.

Though she didn’t know how they obtained so much medicine, Suya respected everyone’s secrets and quietly left the chat hall.

It was already 8 a.m. Suya showed no signs of the plague, so she left Nightmare Hotel and returned to the highway.

[System 2712 is reluctantly at your service. Now announcing today’s mileage.]

[Today’s mileage: 100 kilometers (Newbie protection period).]

Suya: ?

Day one—1 kilometer, day two—10 kilometers, and on day three it’s 100 kilometers?

With the system doing this, Suya worried if tomorrow’s mileage would jump to 1,000 kilometers.

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At her scooter’s speed of 25 km/h, that would be nearly impossible.

Besides, many players were still sick with the plague today. “Good Deeds by the Day” couldn’t possibly distribute medicine to everyone instantly. Were they expected to drag their weak bodies to cover the mileage?

“Damn system!” Suya cursed angrily, then obediently rode off.

Dare to mess with a college student?

Then you’ve kicked a cotton ball!

You won’t face any retaliation.

A pissed-off college student only gets fluffier.

...

Suya rode continuously for four hours, finally completing the required 100 kilometers by lunchtime.

Along the way, she found one golden chest, three silver chests, four bronze chests, and six wooden chests—quite a haul.

Parking by the roadside, Suya checked her battery life. With less than 2% left, she quickly removed the old battery and replaced it with a new one.

After swapping batteries, she didn’t rush to open the chests. Instead, she boiled water, mixed her milk tea powder, and prepared a bowl of instant noodles. While waiting for the noodles, she ate a can of eight-treasure porridge.

With lunch settled, Suya sipped her milk tea and reviewed her basic stats.

[Player: Suya (Invincible Tyrannosaurus Warlord)]

[Health: 110]

[Strength: 27 (Barely okay)]

[Stamina: 22 (Why no exercise? Don’t you like it?)]

[Speed: 15 (No need to watch the tortoise and the hare race without you)]

[Overall Combat Power: 24 (Slight improvement, don’t get cocky)]

[Identity: Slacker (Current Luck: 18)]

[Weapon: Hardware Sacred Hammer (Attack Power 16)]

Every stat had improved slightly from the base level. The biggest surprise was her luck, which had quietly risen to 18.

She had inched closer to being the luckiest player on the server.

Suya began to daydream of her lucky life as a top-tier player—every chest yielding the highest-grade glory box, endless supplies pouring out, her vehicle’s speed effortlessly surpassing 300 km/h...

Daydream over, Suya looked at her modest electric scooter and sighed helplessly.

“Forget it. One must cherish the present and be content. Time to get to work!”

She said this, grabbed her Hardware Sacred Hammer, and started opening the chests.

—30 minutes later—

Fourteen chests, fourteen rats.

Suya: “I don’t know who the luckiest kid in the world is, but I must be the unluckiest non-lucky one.”

She felt utterly cursed.

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Every chest yielded rats, but worse, before, chests would spawn monsters and supplies simultaneously. Today, out of 14 chests, 10 spawned only monsters with no supplies at all.

Including the golden chest!

The only consolation was the Hardware Sacred Hammer’s attack power increasing by 7 points.

She sat on the ground resting for a while, feeling unwell. She quickly took a dose of the plague special medicine. After resting some more, she began collecting supplies.

[Supplies: Backpack Upgrade Card ×1, 10 km Mileage Card ×1, Bottled Water ×10, Cola ×5, Iced Tea ×5, Braised Beef Noodles ×5, Shrimp Fish Cake Noodles ×5, Potato Chips ×5, Eight-Treasure Porridge ×5, Meat Floss Cake ×5, Compressed Biscuits ×5, French Bread ×5, Whole Wheat Bread ×5, Sausage ×5, Chocolate Bar ×5, Fresh Tomato ×1, Fresh Cucumber ×1, Crisp Bok Choy ×1, Fresh Potato ×1, Fresh Lettuce ×1, Fresh Broccoli ×1, Fresh Corn ×1, Fresh Baby Cabbage ×1, Fresh Beef ×1, Fresh Pork ×1, Fresh Chicken ×1, Fresh Duck ×1]

Suya picked up the backpack upgrade card and used it without hesitation.

Of course, she knew the higher the backpack level, the better the upgrade effect. But her level four backpack was full. Without upgrading, she’d have to carry two large bags in each hand and hang two more on the scooter to continue.

Some players might tolerate that, but Suya wouldn’t.

She preferred to endure hardship only when necessary, not when it could be avoided.

The level four backpack quickly upgraded to level five, doubling its capacity.

Suya then examined the 10 km mileage card.

[10 km Mileage Card: Upon use, automatically grants 10 km of basic daily mileage (can be stacked).]

Reading the description, her eyes lit up instantly.

This mileage card was the greatest invention for highway survival. If she could find a bunch of them, mileage would keep stacking until she got tired of it. Waking up each day would mean hundreds of kilometers already completed, no more worries about daily travel.

Without a second thought, Suya clicked “Confirm Use.” Her mileage instantly rose to 110 km, and her luck as a slacker didn’t drop.

“Alright, I’ve decided. From now on, I’m going to start collecting mileage cards.”

Invincible Tyrannosaurus Warlord Suya had made up her mind.

But first, she needed to organize the supplies in the chests.

She hadn’t realized before, but once she started, she was shocked.

Every remaining item was either food or drink—no other categories at all.

After yesterday’s event where opening a chest yielded plague medicine, and today everyone got infected, Suya sensed strongly that all players would get massive food supplies today, but starting tomorrow and for a long time afterward, there would be none.

The system planned to starve everyone to death.

She needed to prepare.

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Meanwhile, elsewhere.

Yu Zhu had just sent out another batch of plague medicine when the game manual popped up a notification.

[Warning: Following reports from enthusiastic players, player “Good Deeds by the Day” detected malicious use of identity skills to disrupt trade order. Player identity information is being modified.]

[Identity: Philanthropist (Gifting supplies yields double returns, limited to 10 times daily).]

Receiving this outcome, Yu Zhu sneered contemptuously: “Hah, nerf me? Enjoy yourself.”