I Hoard Supplies and Raise a Child in the Wasteland World by Drawing Cards (GL) - Chapter 19

As if hearing Lin Ran’s question, the system explained, “Darling, the cards displayed by the card-drawing system are random each time. Maybe next time it’ll be much better, hehe.”

If the system had a physical body, Lin Ran would have dragged it out and beaten it up. Other people’s systems and special abilities were so cool. Why was hers so terrible?

Not only could anyone who met the requirements draw a card, but half of the cards inside were also useless. Lin Ran was speechless.

She was now operating with the attitude of trying anything, even if it was a long shot. She glanced at the 10 items on the screen again, took a deep breath, and pressed the “start drawing” button on the screen.

A red box appeared on the screen, starting to spin clockwise around the ten items. A few seconds later, Lin Ran saw the red box stop on Wahaha. The next moment, the card-drawing machine emitted a golden light, and a card with Wahaha on it appeared in the air in front of Lin Ran, as if waiting for her to take it.

Lin Ran felt like she was having a hard time breathing, but she gritted her teeth and grabbed the card. The golden light from the card-drawing machine immediately disappeared, and at the same time, only nine items were left on the screen. The Wahaha was no longer there.

Lin Ran was a little dumbfounded, staring at the card without any reaction.

The system thought Lin Ran didn’t know how to use it and kindly reminded her, “Darling, the card’s properties are written on the back. Your mind is connected to the card. You can take out or use the items in the card with a single thought.”

Lin Ran’s face was ashen, and her hand holding the card was trembling slightly. She had almost lost her life for this, and she got a pack of Wahaha. If she had known this, she would have been better off staying in the small supermarket downstairs. There were more Wahaha drinks there, and she wouldn’t have had to fight so hard.

Lin Ran took a few deep breaths. She admitted that when she saw the Wahaha, she was a little disheartened.

“Okay, fine, Wahaha,” Lin Ran muttered through gritted teeth.

She flipped the card over and saw that it said: Wahaha Card Properties: Grade E Card, the fifth lowest grade of cards (there are a total of six grades, this is the second to last one~), one of the most beloved drinks of children. A combination of fruit and milk flavor. In the apocalypse, it might allow you to relive the joys of childhood~

Lin Ran almost crushed the thing. 100 zombie cores! She had risked her life for them, and this was it? Six grades in total, and she got the second-to-last one.

She should have expected it. Her luck was terrible. She couldn’t even drink water without a toothache.

She gritted her teeth and looked at how many cores she had left. Fortunately, when she was running up the fire escape, she had killed many zombies and kicked over a dozen of them downstairs. In total, she now had 92 zombie cores left.

Lin Ran told herself to stay calm. She couldn’t panic, especially now, or they would really have to wait to die on the rooftop.

She took the compound crossbow out of her backpack. There were 10 arrows left in the quiver. Although Lin Ran had 50 more arrows in her space, she couldn’t be sure about the situation. The 50 arrows were very precious to her, and she had to use them sparingly.

She looked up at Mo Shuyu and saw her standing quietly three or four steps away, watching her. Mo Shuyu must have seen the series of actions she had performed at the card-drawing system, including the card glowing gold and landing in front of her, but Mo Shuyu didn’t ask anything.

Lin Ran was quite satisfied with Mo Shuyu. She could barely take care of herself, so she didn’t have time to explain these things to Mo Shuyu.

On the other side, Mo Shuyu saw that Lin Ran was dejected, so she didn’t dare to disturb her. She just stayed quietly on the side. She had also seen the strange machine. Lin Ran seemed to have drawn a card from it, but Mo Shuyu was relatively calm at the time because she thought she had also discovered another one of Lin Ran’s secrets.

When she and Lin Ran were running up the fire escape, Mo Shuyu thought she saw Lin Ran’s Tang Dao disappear out of thin air, and then reappear in Lin Ran’s hand the next moment.

But Mo Shuyu didn’t plan on asking Lin Ran about any of this. Lin Ran probably didn’t want her to know so much. It was better for her to stay quiet.

Lin Ran looked at the card in front of her, took a few breaths, and with a thought, the card flashed. The next moment, the card in Lin Ran’s hand turned into a pack of Wahaha.

Lin Ran looked at the Wahaha, a mix of laughter and tears.

She simply sat down and found a pack of wet wipes from her backpack to wipe the bl00d off her hands.

Lin Ran then opened the pack of Wahaha. She put a straw in two of the bottles and handed one to Mo Shuyu. “Drink it. Let’s rest a bit before we figure something out.”

“Okay,” Mo Shuyu said, taking the Wahaha. But she didn’t dare to drink it. This Wahaha seemed to have come from the card. Was it really safe to drink?

Lin Ran saw that she wasn’t drinking it and didn’t bother with her. She picked up her own bottle, put it to her mouth, and started drinking. She had used up a lot of energy just now. Drinking something with sugar was good for replenishment. Lin Ran could only console herself with this thought.

Mo Shuyu was also thirsty. Seeing that Lin Ran was already drinking, she also sat down and started drinking the Wahaha.

Looking at the two remaining bottles of Wahaha, Lin Ran thought for a moment and put them back in her backpack. She had spent 100 cores on these four bottles of Wahaha.

Lin Ran put her backpack beside her and rested on the ground for ten minutes. Then she took her compound crossbow and arrows and walked toward the zombies. The rooftop was still completely surrounded by zombies, and the zombies in front were so squeezed by the ones behind them that they were like pancakes, stuck to the “transparent wall.”

Lin Ran loaded an arrow. She shot at one of the zombies in the very front. The arrow shot through the air with a whoosh and hit the zombie right in the forehead.

Lin Ran’s eyes lit up. The zombies in the very front couldn’t move because they were so squeezed by the ones behind them. Wasn’t this like a stationary target? That meant killing zombies would be easier, and she could definitely collect more zombie cores to draw cards.

But when she thought about her luck, Lin Ran couldn’t be happy. In any case, she couldn’t worry about it too much. She had to collect the cores first.

With that thought, she used the remaining nine arrows to shoot them one by one. Since the zombies in front couldn’t move, Lin Ran would shoot, then go and pull the arrow out, and then continue shooting at the zombies in the very front.

After she had shot all the zombies in the front, Lin Ran was exhausted and fell to the ground again. At the same time, the voice of System 33 sounded in her ears: “Congratulations, darling. You have killed a total of 87 zombies and obtained 87 zombie cores. With the 92 cores you had left, you now have a total of 179 Grade 1 zombie cores.”

Lin Ran breathed a sigh of relief. She sat on the ground, exhausted, with the compound crossbow. 179 cores, enough for her to draw a card again. Lin Ran’s physical strength was at its limit, and she lay on the ground to recover for a while.

Mo Shuyu was a little worried about Lin Ran. She went over and asked cautiously, “Are you okay?”

Lin Ran opened her eyes and looked at Mo Shuyu. She sighed. She took out her phone and checked the time. It was 5:10 p.m. In less than two hours, the card-drawing machine would disappear, and the zombies would no longer be contained.

Lin Ran didn’t answer Mo Shuyu’s question. Instead, she asked, “How’s your luck usually?”