The Most Random System

Luckily, it's completed.

Lin Li let out a long breath of relief. The system's assessment of these tasks had been quite favorable towards him, very lifelike.

Perhaps it was the system's birthday gift to him.

[You have received a "Half-price Purchase Opportunity" *1]

[Half-price Purchase Opportunity: After use, you can choose any existing product in the [Store], giving you a chance to purchase it at half the price, rounding up to the nearest ten (i.e., a purchase worth fifty costs thirty system currency)]

Looking at the message that popped up afterward, Lin Li raised an eyebrow.

He then realized that this was a super prize worth 500 system currency.

Speak of the devil, and it appears.

What a windfall.

Lin Li was originally planning to wait until Wang Yuhui's delivery task was completed in the daytime to gather a thousand system currency to exchange for a mecha he had been longing to see.

But now, with this item, it meant he only needed to spend five hundred to get it.

His mood improved instantly.

If it weren't for someone perhaps watching him from behind the entrance, Lin Li would have reached out and hummed a little tune.

Now, there's half of the maximum time left to stay in the apocalypse, three hours.

Pressing the signal transmitter Shi Dongchen had given him, it didn't take long before he emerged from the tunnel entrance.

After searching for Lin Li for a while, he finally saw Lin Li and breathed a sigh of relief, then asked, "Brother Lin, were you looking for me? Is there something you need?"

"You don't need to keep the Beauty's room empty, it's no longer of use. You guys can take it back for yourselves."

"Weren't you previously asking me if I was interested in your world's weapons and technology? I'm relatively free now, you can introduce them to me." Lin Li said to him with a smile.

"No need, leave the room for... okay, okay! I'll go prepare right away!" After hearing the first part, Shi Dongchen, who wanted to deepen their relationship by keeping the room, nodded excitedly upon hearing Lin Li's request.

After a few words with the personnel guarding the entrance, Shi Dongchen came to Lin Li's side and started to give him a verbal introduction.

...

On the technical side, Lin Li didn't gain much. Among the survivors here, there were no scientists, nor anyone mastering any advanced technology.

And the basic civilian technologies were either similar in both worlds, or had some different terminologies, coupled with Lin Li's lack of knowledge in this area, making it like chicken talking to a duck, unclear and hard to understand.

As for weapons, the shelter indeed had some hard-to-obtain good stuff, at least for Lin Li, who lived in Tokyo University.

After all, in reality, Lin Li had no access nor would he attempt to illegally acquire these.

"Give me some of those weapons and ammunition when the time comes."

Lin Li fiddled with the firearms in his hand, after testing a few rounds, he said to Shi Dongchen.

Such things are indeed useless in reality for Lin Li, but in the apocalyptic world, keeping them in the "Qiankun Ring" as a ready replacement for current weapons is an absolute advantage.

You might not need them, but you can't be without them.

Moreover, keeping them at home poses no risk; the gun's style, color and details vary from reality, resembling toy guns more and would not arouse suspicion, and the ammunition can be stored separately.

"No problem!" Shi Dongchen readily agreed.

He wasn't afraid of Lin Li making requests, rather worried he wouldn't.

After Lin Li examined and selected the weapons, Shi Dongchen took out a box with a lock and unlocked it.

The box contained just one item, a blood-red irregular stone.

"What is this?" Lin Li asked.

"This was gathered over a year ago when eliminating mutants, and I thought Little Brother Lin might be interested in it," Shi Dongchen said.

"Hmm?" Lin Li moved the box closer to look. Indeed, there were two pieces, one as big as half a fist, and a smaller one completely covered about thumb-sized.

Lin Li picked it up for a closer look. The stone emitted faint pulsing red glows, it wasn't very hard, fingernails could leave a mark on it, and Lin Li felt he could even crush it.

As for any extraordinary elements, none were felt.

"Is this a mutation core... uh, what do you call it?"

"We haven't named it; let's call it a core."

"What is it used for?"

"When placed in front of ordinary zombies, it makes them a bit more frenzied. Suppose there's a zombie, and on one side is a human, and on the other is the core; they would prioritize attacking the core.

Secondly, I tested it with Hu Fei; when this touches the wounds of these Awakened, it gets absorbed into their bodies, making them feel better.

As for people like me, there's no reaction when it touches wounds.

Other uses are unknown as we didn't have much energy to invest in such items.

I've had these two pieces for a long time, but they haven't been of much use, so I plan to give them to you, Little Brother Lin."

Lin Li chuckled. That "giving" was artfully phrased.

But Lin Li wasn't shy.

"Then I'll accept them, although I don't know if I can take them with me."

Regarding the extraordinary aspects of this world, such things surely have research value.

If given, just take it; if not, you must demand it.

Seeing Lin Li accept, Shi Dongchen was even more pleased than Lin Li. Then he led Lin Li to the big gold block inside the shelter.

It was over twenty centimeters long, and ten-plus centimeters tall and wide. All faces except for the bottom, which was flat, were irregular, containing a chunk of gold with noticeable recent chisel marks on top.