One Second Per Bottle of Mineral Water, Mastering Countless Goddesses
Chapter 4

Three People, Hundreds of Schemes

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Ding!

A goddess meeting the system's standards has been detected. Beginning detailed scan. Name: Zhou Wan'er Age: 18 Appearance: 90 points Figure: 92 points Inner self: 100 points (a blank slate) Total score: 93 points Evaluation: Taking her in can unlock one random supply item.

The photo on Shen Yi's phone screen showed a girl dressed in Lolita clothing.

She looked to be around 1.6 meters tall—not particularly tall, and not especially sexy either. She was a little young-looking... but her face was adorable, her features delicate, and her skin fair. Combined with the Lolita clothing, she looked even cuter.

Especially the half-exposed section of her fair, tender calves beneath her Lolita skirt, clad in white socks—it drew the eye even more.

In short, she was a very cute girl.

And a freshman who had just started university this year. Very young.

Zhou Wan'er: "Big brother, do I have to come find you in person? Is there any other way... The Black Fog is really dangerous. One of my roommates accidentally entered it yesterday and never came back. (Voice message)"

Zhou Wan'er: "Big brother, please think of another way. Please. (Voice message)"

Zhou Wan'er's voice was pleasant, the standard loli type. Though it was slightly affected, it wasn't obvious, and she controlled her tone very well.

Anyone who didn't know better might have thought she was a voice actress for some anime girl.

Shen Yi: "So you want me to risk my life to find you? Give you water, give you food, and deliver it right to your door?"

Zhou Wan'er: "No, no, that's not what I meant... (Voice message)"

Zhou Wan'er: "I absolutely didn't mean for you to take a risk, big brother! Don't be angry, okay? I apologize, I'm sorry... Please don't be angry, all right? (Voice message)"

Her voice was soft and sweet, and she was very good at acting cute.

Shen Yi: "Campus A, boys' dormitory, Room 606. If you can make it here, food and drinks are guaranteed. If not, forget it."

After sending that message, Shen Yi stopped responding to that little green tea.

He wasn't about to rush over to find her just because her voice sounded nice and she called him big brother a few times.

Anyone with half a brain could see what she meant.

Wasn't it just that she thought it was dangerous and didn't dare leave her room?

She knew the Black Fog was dangerous. Did he not?

Shen Yi wasn't going to indulge that little green tea!

In the apocalypse, he absolutely couldn't let his little head control his big head. Otherwise, he wouldn't even know how he died.

The longer the Black Fog remained, the more desperately people needed water.

When Shen Yi posted advertisements two days ago, people would insult him, curse at him, and kick him out of group chats. But over the past two days, the situation had completely reversed. People occasionally tagged him in the groups to beg for water, and even the group owners had started speaking humbly to him...

In any case, Shen Yi had no shortage of girls to take in!

Over the past few days, several hundred thousand bottles of mineral water had accumulated in his warehouse... Even if he washed his face and feet with mineral water every day, he couldn't use it all up!

That's right, wash his feet!

Other people probably couldn't even imagine Shen Yi wasting water like that...

But to him, it wasn't really a waste. It was simply normal life. He wasn't deliberately pouring it out or throwing it away.

The time he deliberately poured out half a bottle of water before had only been to provoke Xu Wanting. Under normal circumstances, he wouldn't waste water either. After all, it was all his own resource.

Lying on his bed, Shen Yi browsed through the friend requests he had received and noticed one from Xu Wanting.

It seemed even that proud goddess couldn't hold out any longer.

He just didn't know whether she had made up her mind to take a gamble.

With that thought in mind, Shen Yi accepted Xu Wanting's friend request.

Campus B, girls' dormitory.

Inside a dorm room on the top floor.

A cute-looking girl and her two roommates stared at a phone screen, reading the chat history on it.

"This guy is seriously such a straight man!" a short-haired girl complained.

"More than a straight man—he's a total straight man! He has zero emotional intelligence! I bet he definitely doesn't have a girlfriend!" the other long-haired girl griped furiously.

As for the other cute girl, the phone's owner, Zhou Wan'er, she was frowning as well, unsure how to reply to Shen Yi's message.

More accurately, the conversation had already ended here.

There was nothing left to say.

He clearly didn't want to play along and wasn't falling for her cute act at all...

Even though it had always worked before.

Just the day before yesterday, Zhou Wan'er had used this method to get a boy from her class to bring her water. Though that boy seemed to have died after entering the Black Fog.

But she hadn't wanted that either. It wasn't her fault.

She had hoped that boy could make it over alive and bring her water.

After that, it wasn't as though Zhou Wan'er hadn't contacted other boys who had pursued her before. It was just that many of them couldn't be reached, and she didn't know whether they were already dead.

Of those she could contact, either they had no food or water themselves, or they made all kinds of excuses to turn her down, which made Zhou Wan'er furious!

Then, by chance, Zhou Wan'er saw Shen Yi posting messages in a group chat about taking in girls.

So she added him as a friend.

She had specifically picked the best photo she had taken, then added a sweet voice message, hoping Shen Yi would come deliver water and supplies to her.

Unexpectedly, he completely ignored it.

It was the first time Zhou Wan'er had hit a wall with a boy.

In the past, this method had always worked.

It was truly troubling.

"Xiao Yue, Xiao Mei, what do you think we should do now? We're almost out of water. What we have left is only enough for the three of us to drink once more today at most," Zhou Wan'er asked hesitantly. She truly didn't dare go downstairs.

The screams from downstairs over the past two days had frightened her so badly that she hadn't been sleeping well.

The two roommates looked at each other, neither having any idea.

Though both of them had a habit of keeping snacks, they hadn't stored much water, and more than half their snacks were already gone. If help didn't arrive, they would soon go hungry.

"I'll try calling the police again!" The short-haired girl on the top bunk picked up her phone and began dialing. At the same time, while climbing down and taking advantage of Zhou Wan'er and the long-haired girl not paying attention, she quietly stuffed a bottle of drink into her bedding.

With the mosquito net blocking the view, hidden things wouldn't be easily discovered.

"I need to use the bathroom. Wan'er, don't secretly drink the water..." The long-haired girl smiled as she walked out of the dorm. After checking that no one had followed her, she hurried to the bathroom next door and moved the snacks and half bottle of mineral water she had hidden to an even more concealed spot.

They absolutely couldn't be discovered.

Seeing that neither roommate was paying attention to her, Zhou Wan'er quietly nudged a bottle of drink beneath her bed farther inward with her small feet in white socks. Yet she wore an expression of worry over water and food, sighing from time to time.

As if they were about to reach a dead end.

In one tiny dorm room, three girls harbored hundreds of schemes.

And this sort of situation was far from uncommon.

As rescue efforts failed to arrive and supplies became increasingly scarce, survivors' moral standards were rapidly collapsing.

In some residential complexes, violent and bloody incidents had already broken out over supplies.

Disasters often brought out the evil in people's hearts.

At the same time,

Shen Yi also received Xu Wanting's plea for help.

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