After rubbing his stomach, Shen Muyu immediately opened the online store and started shopping.
With food drop rates so high these days, items like these in the shop have seen massive price drops. It's a good time to use up the large amount of basic supplies you've accumulated and lighten your backpack load.
"Original potato chips? A little bit... Bread? No, too hard... Wow! You even sell sausages? Baymax, your snacks are here..."
Although these snacks were of different types, they could all be put into the same compartment in the backpack, so Shen Muyu bought them without any hesitation, not worried at all about not having a place to put them.
After browsing through the online store, Shen Muyu spotted a drawing that interested him.
Milling machine (disposable): A magical machine that turns wheat into pure white flour.
Materials: 30 iron blocks, 10 plastics, 10 rubbers, 1 internal combustion engine
Shen Muyu originally planned to grind it up little by little by himself, but he didn't expect to get such a magical tool.
Because it was a one-time drawing, Shen Muyu used a discarded refrigerator as a replacement. The seller also added a fuel engine, which Shen Muyu negotiated; otherwise, she would have been at a disadvantage, since hers was a finished product.
Especially recently, a car refrigerator appeared in the mall. It was very small but very expensive, so the seller was willing to add more features to it.
However, the price of that car refrigerator really made Shen Muyu's mouth water, so he also posted a link to it.
Shen Muyu set the price to be about three times the original price, but because Xiao A was there to replenish the stock at any time, the traded goods were not fixed. They would take whatever they needed, as long as the proportion was about right.
As for her previous concern about meat prices, that issue is now naturally resolved. She has enough fish to last her for at least six months, so if the price isn't right, she can simply not change her diet.
In fact, Shen Muyu also encountered three resource boxes with unknown animals in the past two days, but he didn't open them because he had nowhere else to put them, and they were piled up together with the previous points boxes.
In this way, she wouldn't have to worry about not having meat to eat, and she could sell the refrigerator. She couldn't just stand by and watch others make all the money.
It was almost midnight, so Shen Muyu took out a wad of paper that had been soaked in water and put it into her ear, while telling Da Bai to keep watch.
She saw in the chat that an unidentified singing creature appeared at midnight yesterday, so she decided to wait and see what kind of creature it was.
Instead of aquatic life appearing at midnight, we received an event notification from the organizers.
"I believe that the two days we've spent together have helped you adapt to the current world environment."
"Are you starting to feel a little bored? Let me inject some fresh energy into your uneventful lives."
"You may be randomly selected to try out some mini-games at any time tomorrow. You can get rewards for completing the games, and the higher your completion rate, the richer the rewards."
"The difficulty of the games varies, and what you get depends entirely on luck. However, the more complex and difficult the game, the higher the reward will be."
"Looking forward to your performance!"
As soon as the light screen appeared, Shen Muyu took off her homemade earplugs. Sure enough, the organizers wouldn't let them have it too easy; the difficulty level was about to increase.
"Big White, remember to wake me if that song plays again." Seeing that more than ten minutes had passed and the thing still hadn't appeared, Shen Muyu yawned and crawled into bed.
The singing seemed to only work on living beings like them, because Little A didn't hear any singing at all last night, so Shen Muyu could only pin her hopes on Big White.
"Woof woof!" Big White barked twice to indicate that it understood.
Seeing this, Shen Muyu closed her eyes in relief.
Nothing happened that night, and the unknown creature did not reappear. Shen Muyu slept soundly until dawn, only waking up when his alarm clock rang.
After completing the standard training routine, Shen Muyu embarked on his journey for the day. Since the game was going to appear randomly anyway, he figured he might as well get going early and collect more resource boxes.
"It's already midnight and I still haven't met anyone?" Shen Muyu scanned the chat area and found that apart from those who were anxiously waiting, no one had said they had entered the game yet. Could it be that they had entered but didn't have time to share?
"Never mind, let's eat first." Shen Muyu went to the workroom and took out the stewed pork knuckle that was cooked until tender.
This thing was put in the rice cooker last night, and now it can be easily pried open with just a gentle pinch. It smells amazing.
However, Shen Muyu only managed to eat a few bites of this delicious food before being transported into the so-called game, as if the game couldn't stand her eating so well.
"Welcome to the game 'Cross-Grid'."
"This is a game with no difficulty whatsoever, it's all about luck, but don't worry, the rewards for this game will be much higher than other games, after all, lucky people always have privileges."
"In order not to affect the next person's gaming experience, all your chat functions will be turned off until 8 PM tonight."
"Now let me explain the rules of the game to you."
"The dice that appear in front of you will be your weapon in this game, and you will have one chance to roll them before the start of each round."
"In the first round, you can only move forward if you roll a 5 or a 6. If you roll any other number, you will be punished by staying in place for an hour."
"When you successfully roll a 5 or a 6, the barrier will open, and you will officially enter the game and advance the corresponding number of points."
"As you move forward, you will see three colored squares: green is a reward square, red is a penalty square, and white is a normal square. Stopping here will neither bring a reward nor a penalty."
"The grid has boundaries. You can pass the level by crossing all the grids. If you fail to pass the level, you will be automatically logged out at 8 pm."
"Each time you roll the dice, you only have three minutes to prepare. After each roll, you need to get to the square of the number you rolled within three minutes. If you exceed the time limit, you will be penalized."
"These are all the rules of the game. Please make your first throw."
As soon as the rules were explained, a die appeared in Shen Muyu's hand.
Instead of throwing, she observed her surroundings.
The area here is actually no different from the outside; it's still a wide road with a cliff on one side and a river on the other.
The difference is that the road in the middle is covered by a square grid, and there are horizontal lines inside that divide the road into grids of uniform length.
There is now a transparent but rippling curtain in front of Shen Muyu. According to the rules she just heard, the curtain will only disappear if she projects a 5 or a 6. Otherwise, she will be trapped in this small square.
"Let's begin then," Shen Muyu said softly, rubbing the dice in his hand.
With Shen Muyu's throw, the dice were tossed upwards. When they fell, they should have landed on the control panel in front of them, but instead, they hovered a few centimeters above the control panel and began to spin.
Shen Muyu tried to pry it open, but it seemed to pass right through nothingness, probably to prevent external interference.
"6 o'clock, 6 o'clock, 6 o'clock..." Shen Muyu clasped her hands together and kept muttering to herself. From her, one could see the situation of the first six squares. The other squares were white, but the sixth one was green.
Gradually, the dice slowed down and eventually stopped spinning on a 3.
"Ah!" Shen Muyu's expression froze for a moment. Her luck had been pretty good since she came to this game world, so how did it suddenly turn out like this?
Shen Muyu, still somewhat unwilling to give up, tried to touch the stopped die, but as always, he passed right through it.
"Your final points..."