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1.28% Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse / Chapter 7: Leveling Up Her Special Ability

章 7: Leveling Up Her Special Ability

編集者: EndlessFantasy Translation

When Su Jin went out today, she purposely brought a backpack with her. There was no way she would do something as blatant as putting something directly into her dimension from outside. With this, she could pretend to put her things into her backpack but slip them into the dimension instead.

She returned to the food street again, buying more deep-fried skewers. She watched intently as the hawker shook chili flakes and cumin powder all over the glistening skewers, fresh out of the oil. When he put the skewers into an equally-crispy fried bread, Su Jin barely stopped herself from drooling.

She was obsessed with these light snacks, and she preferred bold flavors too. In the past, she used to worry that her skin would break out or turn sallow if she ate anything too oily or spicy. Now that she had the immortal pills from the dimension, though, she could throw those concerns away.

The stall owner handed Su Jin the flatbread, stuffed to the brim with other ingredients. As she paid him, he could not help but give her another glance or two. The girl was way too pretty! Her skin was all soft and supple, even fairer than tofu. Tsk-tsk.

Su Jin had no idea what he was thinking, though. Throwing all appearances aside, she stuffed her face with the bread and fried skewer snacks. It was just spicy enough and sooo tasty!

The beef noodles she had last time were pretty good too, so Su Jin returned for seconds. Just as before, she ordered two extra slices of beef with her noodles, and she was quite satisfied with the whole experience.

Next, she followed her navigation app to the nearest supermarket. Su Jin did not hold back, filling up her cart as she browsed the aisles. She made especially sure to take more preserved foods like vacuum-packed biscuits, ham, sausages, and canned foods. Finally, she reached the cold section and stared at the ice cream in the freezers. Cravings aside, a plan was gradually coming to her, so she decisively two large tubs of ice cream as well.

At the cashier, Su Jin looked at her piled-up cart and asked for two plastic bags for camouflaging purposes. After all, it was impossible for her to fit all that into her backpack.

Su Jin paid with her e-wallet. She had borrowed money from Lu Hao, yes, but she was by no means poor. In fact, she had quite a sizable nest egg of her own. She had been working and saving up for a few years, plus she had received tons of monetary gifts from her relatives before her wedding. Even the dowry her mother had prepared for her was still firmly within her grasp.

The cashier wondered for a second how such a petite lady could carry all those things by herself. The cans were not light, after all. Nevertheless, when she saw how easily Su Jin picked up the two bags, she could not help but admire her. This lady was both pretty and strong, what a rare sight! She was much better than those pretend princesses.

Su Jin did not know that strangers were already labeling her a 'strong independent woman'. She simply went to a corner of the lounge, which happened to be part of the surveillance cameras' blind spot, and pretended to transfer the ice cream from the plastic bags into her backpack.

She wanted to see if food deteriorated slower in the dimension.

It was nine o'clock at night by the time she finished eating and strolling around. Su Jin eventually decided to head back to the hotel.

Since it was in the middle of May, G Province was getting hotter and stuffier by the day. When Su Jin opened the remaining box of ice cream in her room, she was a little miffed to see that it had almost melted away completely. Only a tiny part at the very center was still solid. The mini-fridge in the hotel room could refrigerate but not freeze anything.

Still, though most of it was now ice-cream soup, Su Jin ate the whole thing anyway. She understood the importance of zero wastage more than anyone.

Once she was done, Su Jin remembered the rest of the supplies she had bought that day, and she whisked them all into the Wood Spirit Dimension with a wave of her hand. After that, she entered the dimension herself and found that everything she had put away was standing properly on the stone platform she had first landed on.

Did that mean she would have to manually rearrange everything she kept into the dimension? Su Jin remembered reading on the jade tablet that the owner of the dimension could categorize the items inside with nothing more than a thought, though.

Su Jin looked at the small pile of supplies on the stone platform and thought of the stone table in the mansion's courtyard. The next instant, the supplies vanished. Su Jin hastily ran into Lu Mansion and, as expected, all the supplies were on the stone table. Phew, thank goodness, that meant she did not have to carry everything herself. If she brought in a large machine or a car or anything like that, it would be a real pain if she had to move it manually.

This time, Su Jin's main objective in coming here was to survey the land in this dimension and figure out just how big it really was.

The land was neatly tilled in squares. Su Jin used her mind to teleport to the bank of the small stream running through the dimension. The water was crystal clear, and there were many shiny round pebbles at the bottom of the stream. Seriously, the stream looked like it came right out of a fairy tale. Also, the water never stopped flowing, but where exactly was the source?

Su Jin did not know where the source was, so she could not just teleport there on a whim. When she looked upstream, all she saw in the distance was a thick fog. It looked like the fog she saw in Lin Xiuyuan's Red Alert game, indicating that the area up ahead had yet to be unlocked.

In that case, it seemed like the areas within this dimension had to be slowly explored and unlocked too. The jade tablet had not stated how to unlock the dimension, though, so she had to take it one step at a time.

Su Jin teleported herself back to the pill refinery. She had not paid attention to the lower shelves beneath the square pill drawers before, and now she found that there were old books inside the shelves explaining how to make and use every type of pill.

If she had noticed these books earlier, she may not have had to suffer through all that pain. Thankfully, things turned out alright in the end. The books introduced the elemental pills and how to use them as well. Once a cultivator took the Marrow Cleansing Pill and cleaned out the impurities in her body, they could start using these pills to draw out their internal energy. Someone who wanted to cultivate fire-type abilities, for instance, should take the Fire Regeneration Pill. At the same time, each method and cultivator's chances of success differed. If someone failed after taking the Fire Regeneration Pill, they could take another elemental pill that was not fire-based seven days later. It was crucial that they did not take the same type of pill twice, because it would damage their nerves and render them unable to keep cultivating.

These elemental pills were somewhat similar to the special abilities some people awakened to after the apocalypse. If her family members did not gain any abilities, they might be able to train themselves anyway using these pills. It was truly a real-life cheat code!

Su Jin already had her wood-type special ability. If she ate another pill now, could she perhaps awaken another cultivation method? Then again, there were benefits to specializing in one element. Su Jin was more than happy with her wood-type, so she decided not to try anything else. Her wood-type ability was good for both offense and defense, and now she had a trump card in the Wood Spirit Dimension too. There was no need for her to risk trying anything else.

She practiced her wood-type special ability for a while in the dimension and realized that she had reached Level 4. The vines she whipped out were not quite the same as the ones in her past life, though.

In the past life, her wood-type ability was stronger than everyone else's, but she could only produce one type of vine. Now, she had two types of vines, a thick one and a thin one. Su Jin poked at them and was surprised to find that the thicker one had a surface as hard as concrete. No matter how hard she tried, she could not break it. As for the thin vines, when Su Jin gripped them, she could feel something like an endless stream flowing into her body. She had had the fortune of experiencing this once before in the past life– it was the power of healing-type ability users.

Could her vines heal now? Su Jin was not afraid of pain, so she ran her finger down a leaf from the thicker vine. She realized that the leaves had barely noticeable ragged edges, and the leaves themselves were as solid as blades.

With just a bit of force, Su Jin cut her skin on the leaf's edge. Just then, Su Jin wrapped the thin vines around her finger and felt a soothing energy flow over her. To her pleasant surprise, it was just as she hypothesized. Her wood-type ability could heal now!

Perhaps it was because wood represented life to begin with. Nevertheless, there were so many wood-type ability users in her past life too, but no one discovered anything like this.

Su Jin was quite happy with the fruits of her training today. No matter how strong the dimension was, nothing beat the feeling of satisfaction that came with making herself stronger. Although she was the owner of this dimension for now, anything could happen in the future. The best and only way was to keep strengthening herself.

Su Jin stepped out of the dimension and saw that it was not even ten o'clock at night yet. As a bonafide night owl, Su Jin turned on her laptop and went online to buy more supplies.

Things were so much cheaper online, and if she bought a lot at once, she could score bulk prices and extra coupons. It felt so good to just buy more and more things with pure abandon like this.

The first thing Su Jin did was to choose some rice and flour from the basic groceries section. Her grandparents liked noodles, so she added a few more bags of flour. Next, she got several dozen barrels of peanut oil. She did not dare to buy too much at once, though, because she might end up giving her family a heart attack when the supplies arrived. For now, Su Jin just wanted to scratch her online shopping itch.

Lu Hao was busy and away from home these days, so Su Jin entered her grandparents' address for the delivery. Her parents went there for free food almost every day, anyway.

After that, she went to the outdoor section and chose a few hardy truck tents, followed by some portable stoves and gas canisters. She had used these before when she went camping, and they were both cheap and convenient to carry around. She could use them when she was with outsiders and could not enter the dimension. Oh, and she got some heavy-duty windbreakers too. They were great as a shield against the zombie virus.

Su Jin counted her family members on her hands and decided to go for 500 sets first. To be honest, she could have easily bought 2000 and that would not have been enough, but the seller said that they only had 500 in their warehouse right now, so Su Jin could buy them again later if she was in no hurry. If she bought in bulk again, they offered her a great price too. Su Jin agreed, telling them that she wanted to open a camping supplies store and asking the boss to give her a wholesale discount.

The bald boss on the other end of the transaction grabbed his customer service guy's hand excitedly. This customer was not starting a store here, a warehouse was more like it. The bald boss emphasized again and again that they had to score this huge fish. This customer was quite a big deal, and the customer service guy was equally excited. If this deal went through, he would fill his monthly quota all at once. What a wonderful day! He could afford to add another chicken drumstick to his supper that night.

Age and body type did not matter when it came to buying windbreakers. Even the size could be estimated, and the jackets were practically unisex. They were great for keeping the cold out and the heat in, so Su Jin could not get enough of them.

As with before, Su Jin entered her grandparents' address. She had to remember to warn her family tomorrow, or they might think she had gone bad when they started receiving all these goods.

Having finally satiated her thirst for online shopping, Su Jin began to feel sleepy. As she continued to list out which supplies she had to hoard, she inadvertently fell asleep.


章 8: Wei Xiaoyan

編集者: EndlessFantasy Translation

The next day, Su Jin took the subway to the exhibition as usual. She arrived earlier than almost everyone else, but there was one person even earlier than her. Su Jin did not know who it was, though.

Wei Xiaoyan had felt uncomfortable from the moment she saw Su Jin for the first time. She had purposely dolled up nicely to report for her first day, thinking that she should have the spotlight today, but this newcomer had instantly outshone her.

Su Jin looked at Wei Xiaoyan, who was glaring at her extremely viciously. She did not know this overly-tanned girl, did she?

Was this Wang Linda's recommended newbie?

Just then, Wang Linda walked in, wiping her hands with a paper napkin. She greeted them as she tossed the napkin into a trash can by the wall. When she actually saw Su Jin, though, she felt her heart thump in her chest. Since when had Su Jin been so pretty? She could barely pull her eyes away. In comparison, her cousin looked like an ugly duckling.

Wang Linda had been rather unhappy with Wei Xiaoyan's appearance today to begin with. This was an exhibition, not a banquet, yet Wei Xiaoyan had caked her face with make-up. The thick eyeshadow and heavy mascara made her look like she would melt if anyone threw water on her. Wang Linda had to resist a strong urge to spray her face with make-up remover.

However, the moment Wei Xiaoyan saw her, she ran up to Wang Linda and hugged the latter's arm. "Cousin Linda, I've been waiting for you! But who is that woman? She's not part of your company, is she?"

"Didn't I tell you not to call me 'cousin' here?"

"Yeah, yeah. Sis Linda it is." Wei Xiaoyan hurriedly let go of Wang Linda's arm. Wang Linda had told her in advance that it would be best if the company did not find out that they were related. That would shine a bad light on them.

Su Jin rolled her eyes. So Wang Linda's new recommendation was her cousin? Figures.

Wang Linda hastily told Su Jin, "Lil Jin, this is Xiaoyan, your replacement. Her full name is Wei Xiaoyan. Please don't tell anyone what you just heard, alright?"

'You want me to keep a secret, but you won't pay me a fee for my silence? Well played,' Su Jin thought mischievously.

"I get it, Sis Linda. Don't worry, I won't tell anyone. Besides, I'll be leaving in a few days, so you two will have to keep the show running without me." It felt good to know their little secret and have some leverage on them. Su Jin did not hold back with her eloquent nonsense.

"You're leaving in a few days, Big Sis Su Jin? What a shame." Wei Xiaoyan instantly felt relieved when she heard that Su Jin would not stay here for long.

Big Sis Su Jin, was it? Oh-hoho~

Wang Linda was feeling slightly awkward too. Wei Xiaoyan was far from fair, and her features were plain and flat. Add that to her thick make-up today, and it would not be hard to believe that she was in her thirties. In comparison, Su Jin's skin was as fair and smooth as porcelain. How could Wei Xiaoyan call her 'Big Sis' as though she was so much younger?

Seriously, cousin, open your eyes and use your brain!

Su Jin did not bother holding it against this newly-graduated little snake, either. By then, their other colleagues from the branch were arriving in turn, so they could not just stand around chatting any longer.

Assistant Zhang ran up to Su Jin and asked her on the sly, "Tell me, did you go to the spa and get a facial done? Why're you so pretty today?"

"As if! I just used a facial mask and took a shower." She was not lying. She had simply taken a shower and then had an extremely foul-smelling homemade 'clay mask'.

"What miraculous mask did you use? Send me the link!" Assistant Zhang immediately behaved like a squealing girl friend, asking Su Jin for her secrets excitedly.

"..." Why was he, a grown man, behaving like this?

To be honest, though, Su Jin always thought Assistant Zhang exuded some real bottom energy. He was the spitting image of the silly bottoms she would read about in BL novels. It was just a shame that there was no one else for her to ship him with.

"Um, the mask is my homemade recipe. I'll teach you when I find the time." Su Jin hastily tried to pull the wool over Assistant Zhang's eyes.

"Okay, okay! Don't forget, alright?" Assistant Zhang had faith in Su Jin. For some reason, from the very first time he saw her, he had the feeling that she was a very reliable person. Later, when they somehow ended up becoming great friends, he realized that Su Jin was more than just reliable. She was practically the ticket to the top that everyone wished they could hitch a ride with~~

All morning, Su Jin patiently taught Wei Xiaoyan everything she needed to know. Wei Xiaoyan's basic English was decent, but she was lacking when it came to the actual practice.

For instance, there was a foreign client who tried talking to Wei Xiaoyan for a while, but a few lines later he just shook his head and turned back to chat with Su Jin. As the two of them conversed away happily, Wei Xiaoyan felt so embarrassed that she flushed bright red, even if it was slightly difficult to see under all her make-up.

Su Jin wanted to whip Wei Xiaoyan into shape as soon as possible too, because that meant she would have more time to slack off. She had not seen the displays in the other halls yet, and time was running out. Now that she had her dimension, there were plenty of things she wanted to buy.

Wang Linda was anxious as well. After all, she had recommended Wei Xiaoyan for the job, and she relied on Wei Xiaoyan's communication skills to secure her own sales commissions. She could only pray that her decision would not backfire on her now.

During the noon break, Su Jin went to the restroom at the exhibition center and snuck into the dimension. She had bought an extra set of stir-fried glass noodles that morning and thrown them into the dimension. Even at noon, they were as hot as they were in the morning when she bought them. Oh, and there was the ice cream from last night too. Su Jin ate her noodles as she looked at the ice cream she had tossed in here last night.

The ice cream had not melted at all. Did the dimension really have preservation properties? Before this, she just assumed that the food would spoil at a slower rate in here, but it seemed that the dimension had other surprises in store. In that case, she could make more food and keep them in here from now on.

She did not want anyone to suspect anything, so she left the dimension as soon as she was done eating. A glance at her watch told her that only two minutes had passed.

While it was still noon break, Su Jin headed to the blades stall she had visited yesterday.

The bespectacled man at the stall ran toward her the second he saw her. "Miss Su, ya really came!"

He had thought that she had just been browsing yesterday. While she did say that she wanted to make an order, she was just a dainty young lady. Why would she want so many knives?

"I told you I'd drop by, didn't I?" Su Jin said with a smile.

The bespectacled man rubbed his eyes. Phew, he thought her beauty would blind him for a second there. She had not been this pretty yesterday… Whatever, his business was more important.

Su Jin was still looking at the knife that had cut her yesterday. In order not to arouse suspicions, she had put a bandage on her wound before leaving the hotel that morning. After all, her colleagues had seen her injury yesterday, and there was no way it would recover completely overnight.

The bespectacled man hurriedly introduced the knife to her, but no matter how he tried to sell it, it was just a normal watermelon knife in anyone else's eyes. At the most, it might be used for killing pigs.

As the rest of the crowd that had gathered began to dissipate once more, the man grew desperate and told Su Jin that he would give it to her at a discount.

Su Jin played with the watermelon knife in her hands, feeling quite happy with it. The blade was light, decently sharp, and longer than usual. That way, she would not dirty her hands if she used it to behead zombies.

Su Jin asked for the price and decisively booked all of the man's existing stock.

The bespectacled man was stunned. Their knives were high quality, but they had limited uses. These days, knives were not allowed on high-speed trains, planes, or buses, so many people did not dare to buy them even if they were interested. How were they supposed to bring them home? That was why the company had arranged a deal with the delivery services and offered a full delivery package to try and boost their pathetic sales.

Yet here this young girl was buying 362 of these knives. Could she be part of some underworld gang? Su Jin smiled at him sweetly, and the bespectacled man immediately dismissed that possibility. The lady looked so weak and dainty, there was no way she would be involved in such violent things.

The weak and dainty walked into the booth and looked around at the other knives. Common ones like vegetable and fruit knives were all displayed outside, because there was a higher demand for them. What Su Jin really wanted were the blades inside.

She read the labels for each of the blades. There were deer horn knives, jade folding knives, Damascus steel knives, Damascus hand knives, bayonets, Cold Steel knives, butterfly knives, katanas, Tamahagane knives, karambits, and even some faux-traditional machetes, crescent blades, and swords.

There was an especially eye-catching blade called the Demon Claw. Its hilt and blade were merged into one, and the blade had a nice sleek shape that curved beautifully up to the tip.

The bespectacled man was all smiles as he introduced the blade to Su Jin. The Demon Claw was an in-house design. Although the blade and hilt looked conjoined, they were actually made of different materials. The hilt was made of carbon fiber and the blade was made of Damascus steel, a famous metal that made great long-lasting blades.

As the man was getting more and more carried away with his sales pitch, Su Jin asked for the price and was relieved to hear that it was only 5000 yuan per sword. She made an order for twenty of those and then got a few other blades, including a pretty Mopp folding knife. It was lightweight, cute, but also sharp. Su Jin got one for her younger cousin Mao Qiqi too.

Although he did not know why Su Jin wanted to buy so many knives, the bespectacled man never expected to make such a big transaction out of nowhere. The total bill came up to 630 thousand, and he only breathed easy when Su Jin swiped her card without a moment's hesitation.

"Miss Su, may I know your delivery address?" The bespectacled man's manner of speaking turned polite without him even realizing it.

Tsk, how could she forget about that? She had a magic dimension now, so she would not need to send anything back home. That would save her a lot of potential trouble.

"Don't bother with the delivery, I have a friend who can help me transport them. Right, could you just tell me where your factory is? I'll get my friend to pick the stuff up in their car."

Was that really orright? They get ta save another big bill in delivery fees like that. The bespectacled man was delighted, writing down their factory address as he asked, "Ya'er such a pleasure ta do business with, Miss Su. May I know when you'll be coming to pick up the goods?"

"Let's make it this Saturday morning. I'll tell you once we head out." Su Jin already had someone in mind to go there with her.


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