85: Chapter 85 Trading White Crystal Cores for Hot Pot? This is a Huge Loss!

Lin Yuan looked at Su Muxue.

Su Muxue did not back down.

She spoke very calmly.

To her, life wasn't something to be traded for tears. It was traded for value.

Jiang Xiaowan finally couldn't hold on any longer.

Tears fell.

She knelt and moved forward half a step, her fingertips digging into the carpet fibers.

"I accept my punishment."

"Lin Yuan, from now on, I won't talk about the Jiang Family, and I won't talk about cooperation."

"I was just afraid of dying."

"I am stupid."

"From now on, I will listen to you in everything."

Su Muxue looked down at her.

"If you want to live, swear an oath."

Jiang Xiaowan looked up.

Tears hung on her face.

She used to hate scenes like this the most.

Kneeling and begging for mercy.

Swearing oaths.

Like a low-class person playing the victim.

Now, she, the eldest miss of the Jiang Family, was kneeling here herself.

Begging only for a chance to survive.

"I, Jiang Xiaowan, swear."

"Starting today, my life belongs to Lin Yuan."

"My mouth belongs to Lin Yuan."

"My hands and feet belong to Lin Yuan."

"I will not touch communications, will not transmit messages, and will not meet outsiders in private."

"If I dare to betray you again, let me be dragged out by a horde of zombies and gnawed clean bit by bit."

Her throat choked up.

"Even if my father watches with his own eyes, he won't be able to save me."

The hall was so quiet that only the low hum of the ventilation system remained.

Tang Qiqi muttered softly.

"This oath is a bit ruthless."

Qin Yumo glanced at her.

Tang Qiqi immediately hugged her pillow tightly and shut up.

Lin Yuan was silent for a moment.

He looked at Su Xiaonuan.

"Get her a servant's outfit."

"Change her room to the utility room."

"Starting today, her activity range is limited to the living room and the utility room."

"Without permission, she is not allowed to go to the third floor."

"She is not allowed to touch any communication equipment."

Jiang Xiaowan's body trembled.

Utility room.

Servant's outfit.

Privileges wiped out.

This was crueler than beating her.

It was dragging her down from the position of the eldest miss of the Jiang Family and stepping on her into the mud.

Lin Yuan looked down at her.

"If you harbor any thoughts of betrayal again, I will kill you directly."

"Don't ask me how I judge it."

"I don't need evidence."

"As long as I think there is a problem with you, you must die."

Jiang Xiaowan lowered her head.

"I understand."

Su Xiaonuan immediately began to adjust the permissions.

Her face was still a bit pale, but her hands were already steady.

"The third-floor communication room is changed to dual-person verification."

"Install facial recognition on the second floor."

"The living room screen is changed to closed mode."

"All external communications must be manually enabled by General Manager Lin or me."

After she finished speaking, she looked at the logs again.

"There was a trace of an external scan in the third-floor log last night."

"The source was scrubbed."

"I will continue to investigate."

Lin Yuan glanced at her.

"Find out."

Su Xiaonuan lowered her head.

"Understood."

Jiang Xiaowan was taken by Wang Ya to change clothes.

Ten minutes later, she returned to the hall.

The black and white servant outfit was on her, and the hem of the skirt couldn't hide those long legs.

Her eyes were still red, but this time she didn't dare to put on airs.

She walked to Su Muxue and lowered her head.

"Thank you."

Su Muxue pushed up her gloves.

"Don't thank me."

"Next time, I will personally sign your death certificate."

Jiang Xiaowan bit her lip.

"Understood."

Tang Qiqi poked half her head out.

"The long-legs version has updated to the maid DLC."

Jiang Xiaowan's fingers twitched.

In the past, she could have retorted to Tang Qiqi ten times over.

Now, she just kept her head down.

[Ding! Target Jiang Xiaowan (Beauty 92), Favorability +1%! Current Favorability: 7%!]

Lin Yuan glanced at the system notification.

It went up.

This meant she wasn't completely stupid.

If it had dropped just now, she would already be a corpse.

Su Xiaonuan enlarged the log.

The scrubbed source address only had a string of residual code left.

[YDTG-EX...]

"It's the internal network format of Cloud Top Palace."

Su Xiaonuan continued to scroll down, her face turning paler.

"General Manager Lin,"

"The scan time overlaps with the time Miss Jiang opened the back door."

"In other words... the other party didn't scan it by accident."

"He was waiting for this opening."

... South Suburb Military District.

The acid rain had just stopped, and black water was still accumulating on the parade ground.

Shen Qingyue was wearing a brand-new, snow-white combat uniform, standing in front of an armored vehicle.

Behind her was the temporarily assembled Superpower squad.

C-rank Metal-type Ability user Li Cheng stood the straightest.

The other three were one Fire-type, one Wind-type, and one Enhancement-type.

The soldiers looked at Shen Qingyue with awe in their eyes.

Yesterday, with one sentence, she suppressed Director Li Wenhui and saved Old Zhou.

Today, she personally led the team to counterattack Jiangcheng.

In many people's eyes, she was no longer just the eldest miss of the Shen Family.

She was the queen of the new order.

An old veteran squatted by the car, took a bite of a compressed biscuit, and his face scrunched up.

"If you gave this stuff to a dog, the dog would have to consider it for three seconds."

Someone nearby laughed.

Shen Qingyue heard it.

She curled her lips and took out three white crystal cores.

The mall interface that only she could see popped up.

[White crystal core × 3]

[Exchangeable: Single-person hot pot set]

Shen Qingyue glanced at it.

"Exchange."

The next second, a steaming copper pot, beef slices, tripe, duck blood, and sour plum drink filled a folding table out of thin air.

The parade ground was silent for a second.

Then, cheers erupted.

"Captain Shen is awesome!"

"Holy crap! Hot pot!"

"This is what you call a queen of the apocalypse!"

Li Cheng looked at Shen Qingyue, his eyes even brighter.

If Lin Yuan were here, he would only curse her as an idiot.

Three gray crystal cores were enough to provide electricity for a family of three for three days.

And a white crystal core contained ten times the energy of a gray one!

Shen Qingyue traded a month's worth of electricity for a meal of hot pot.

But nobody knew.

The soldiers only knew that by following Shen Qingyue, there was meat to eat.

In the distance, Director Li Wenhui stood on the second floor of the temporary command building, holding a thermos cup.

He watched the cheers on the parade ground and smiled.

A confidant nearby whispered: "Director, her popularity is rising too fast."

Director Li Wenhui took a sip of water.

"Popularity is fire."

"Burning others is called prestige."

"Burning yourself is called an accident."

He watched Shen Qingyue.

"Let her burn for a while."

"Notify supply vehicle No. 3 to delay departure; I need to discuss something with the leaders."

The confidant lowered his head.

"Understood."

On the parade ground, Shen Qingyue opened the map.

"First target, Jiangcheng University."

"Satellite imagery shows that there are laboratories, technical personnel, and a large number of survivors there."

She paused.

"After we finish, we will take a detour to Cloud Top Palace."

Captain Han Xue stood behind the crowd, looking up at her.

Shen Qingyue smiled.

"My best friend is over there."

"She is helping me watch a very useful dog."

The convoy set off.

Six armored vehicles, two supply vehicles, and one command vehicle.

One supply vehicle was said to have some malfunctions and had not yet set off.

Shen Qingyue didn't care at all.

On the way, they passed a high-end supermarket.

Shen Qingyue ordered it to be cleared.

There weren't many zombies.

The Superpower squad took action, gunfire coordinated, and quickly cleared the perimeter.

Soldiers rushed into the mall.

Inside, there were still counters for red wine, cigarettes, drinks, and luxury goods.

Shen Qingyue, holding the twenty-plus crystal cores just collected, was in a very good mood.

"Take as much as you can."

"Those who follow me on missions today won't be shortchanged."

The soldiers cheered again.

Someone dropped a medical kit and replaced it with two cases of white liquor.

Someone unloaded a spare magazine and stuffed in a few bottles of drinks.

Others carried out several luxury bags.

Shen Qingyue even picked out two herself.

One for herself.

One prepared to throw to He Manman.

Captain Han Xue finally couldn't help it.

"Captain Shen."

"Ammunition and medical supplies cannot be discarded."

"We are entering the city, the route is unknown, and the density of the zombie horde is unknown."

Shen Qingyue glanced at her.

"I can just manifest more when the time comes."

Captain Han Xue suppressed her anger.

"crystal cores are not infinite."

Shen Qingyue's voice turned cold.

"Captain Han Xue."

"Are you the commander, or am I the commander?"

Captain Han Xue did not refute.

She looked at the medical kit that had been thrown by the shelf and bent down to pick it up.

But Li Cheng, smelling of hot pot, stepped in first and pressed a case of drinks on top of it.

"Captain Han, Captain Shen said that's enough."

Captain Han Xue's hand stopped in mid-air.

The worship of young people was harder to dismantle than a gun.

At the same time, Director Li Wenhui's secret telegram was sent to the military district high command.

[Comrade Shen Qingyue's Superpower is special, but there is serious extravagance and waste.]

[Suggest suspending regular supplies.]

[Promote the practical application of her Superpower.]

[Reduce inventory pressure on the military district.]

The last line of text, he typed himself.

[If the operation fails, Shen Qingyue will bear full responsibility for the command error.]

After sending the secret telegram, he sent another message to Shen Qingyue's channel: "Captain Shen, stay safe. The military district is proud of you."

At the same time, in the basement of the Library of Jiangcheng University, in the darkness, a slender claw slowly emerged from the drain.