Shi Man sneered. Shi Dashan was no good, and Shi Dahai was no good either.
He had contributed a lot to her disembowelment.
What's more, Shi Man also recalled another disgusting thing her so-called 'successful' Sanjiu did before the apocalypse arrived.
Sure enough, Shi Dahai spoke, "You came out of a third-rate university and can't find any job; even if you marry, no one will look at you."
"I have a dinner party tomorrow; you come with me. It's an early arrangement for your internship. Dress nicely. If it weren't for you being my niece, such a good opportunity wouldn't be yours."
Shi Man almost burst out laughing.
A good opportunity?
Taking his own niece out to accompany guests and drink? Is it the kind of good opportunity where he would actively get his own niece drunk and send her to an old man's bed?
If Shi Man hadn't been lucky in her previous life and saved by a kind person, Shi Dahai's scheme would have almost succeeded.
"I truly don't deserve such a good opportunity. Isn't my cousin also over eighteen? Give her this good opportunity instead," Shi Man said sarcastically, "Father and daughter fighting side by side, it's a pity to let outsiders benefit from such a good thing."
Shi Dahai was enraged and embarrassed. He wanted Shi Man to accompany guests and sleep with them; how could he let his own daughter go?
"Shi Man, you're just like your mother, ungrateful and short-sighted! Tomorrow, you're getting out of this old house!"
"My house, and you tell me to get out?" Shi Man retorted without backing down, "If you want the house, pay for it. If you don't have money, then get out. Anyway, if you don't buy it, there are plenty of people who want to!"
"Shi Man! Are you tired of living? How dare you speak to my dad like that!" A beautifully dressed girl, covered in luxury brand logos, stepped out of a Mercedes-Benz.
It was Shi Man's cousin, Shi Dahai's daughter, Shi Aixue.
"What are you? You've been a servant in my house since childhood. If my parents hadn't given you food, you wouldn't be alive now, you ungrateful stinking beggar!"
Shi Aixue swung the LV bag in her hand towards Shi Man's face. Shi Man dodged, and the bag hit Shi Dahai directly on the bridge of his nose.
"Ouch!"
"Dad!!" Shi Aixue was startled. As she rushed forward, a sharp meow sounded.
Shi Aixue saw a white blur pounce on her, and a sharp pain spread across her face.
"Ah ah ah ah!!!"
Shi Man watched with wide eyes as Milk, fur bristling, unleashed a flurry of 'meow' punches on Shi Aixue, scratching her face until it was covered in blood.
As soon as Milk landed, Shi Man, quick as a flash, picked up Milk and immediately rushed into the house, slamming the door shut.
Outside, Shi Aixue and Shi Dahai's screams and curses echoed incessantly.
"My face!! Ah ah ah ah!!!"
"That damn cat! That damn cat scratched my face, I'm going to skin it alive!!"
"Shi Man, you bitch, get out here!!"
Shi Dahai was also shaking with rage, banging on the door, "Shi Man, you immediately come out with that little beast you're raising! You're simply lawless! Get out here and kneel to Xiaoxue and apologize!"
Inside the door, Milk's white fur was bristling, and it kept meowing and cursing, though Shi Man couldn't understand, she could feel how foul Milk's language was!
"Good Milk, those two piles of shit outside, we'll bury them later."
Shi Man comforted Milk, then said to the two outside:
"There's a rich second-generation at school who wants to buy this house for seven Million. He'll sign the contract the day after tomorrow and directly transfer the money. Sanjiu, instead of wasting time cursing me, you'd better think carefully."
"For the sake of our kinship, I'll sell it to you for six Million, with tears in my eyes. We'll sign the contract tomorrow morning at 10 AM. No waiting if you're late."
Shi Dahai couldn't open the door and was thoroughly angered by Shi Man's words. Plus, with his daughter scratched, he had no mind to continue wasting time.
He quickly took his daughter to the Hospital for a rabies vaccine. Shi Aixue was still cursing loudly in the car, "Dad, you're not really going to spend six Million on this broken house, are you? This house originally belonged to our family!"
"Why should we give the money to that little bitch Shi Man!"
Shi Dahai's face was also very grim: "Don't meddle in adult affairs. Why did you come down to join the fun just now? If your face is disfigured, how will you ever marry?"
Upon hearing this, Shi Aixue threw a tantrum and cried, cursing Shi Man as a bitch and vowing to catch Milk and scald it to death with boiling water!
Shi Aixue was so angry that she messaged her boyfriend to complain.
Her boyfriend's family had a little money, but he was expelled from high school for fighting and brawling and had befriended a group of scoundrels in society.
Hearing that Shi Aixue was bullied, her boyfriend immediately declared that he would bring people to deal with Shi Man tomorrow!
Shi Dahai drove, but his mind was on the house.
His company urgently needed capital turnover, and he had already inquired about the house's demolition. As soon as he signed, he could get the demolition compensation.
Six Million, he could find a way to raise it. Shi Dahai was a businessman. Shi Man wanted him to pay six Million for the house? Fine! He could pay it out, and he could get it back just the same!
He had to act fast; Shi Dashan and Shi Chengcai would definitely make their moves too.
Shi Dahai was indeed not wrong.
Shi Chengcai had indeed called Shi Man many times, but Shi Man had no time to bother with him. Later, Shi Chengcai sent a WeChat message.
Sanjiu: 【Xiaoman, Sanjiu has a friend who works at the planning bureau. They say your house is to be demolished, but the demolition funds haven't been approved yet. In a few days, they'll cut off water and electricity for forced demolition.】
Sanjiu: 【How about this, I'll give you one hundred thousand, and you transfer the house to me. Don't feel burdened, don't feel like you're taking advantage of Sanjiu. It's okay if I take a loss, transferring the ownership doesn't really matter, the main thing is to shut up your Dajiu and Erjiu.】
After listening to the WeChat voice message, Shi Man felt disgusted and wanted to vomit.
Shi Dashan was bad, Shi Dahai was poisonous, and Shi Chengcai was insidious.
Shi Man directly sent a voice message back: 【Dajiu offered five Million, Erjiu offered six Million, Sanjiu, you should at least offer four Million. One day to consider, no waiting if you're late.】
After replying to the message, she threw her phone aside, hugged Milk, and buried her face in its soft belly, taking a few deep breaths, feeling her spirits recover somewhat.
After Milk protested with meows, Shi Man put it down, and with a thought, the cat food cans she had purchased earlier appeared in her hand.
"Meow meow meow~~"
Milk's meows immediately became urgent.
"Alright, alright, I'll open the can for you right away." Shi Man poured the can into the cat bowl and watched it bury its head, eating and purring. She took the opportunity to pat its cat butt, and before Milk could protest, she burst out laughing and got up to go to the small room.
Once inside the folding space, seeing the additional supplies within, Shi Man felt a sense of security.
However, the amount of goods she stocked today, when viewed against the entire space, was truly... little!
Too little!
Shi Man came out of the warehouse, pulled out her phone, and started buying again. C City was known as the 'City of Play' across the country, the most prosperous place for nightlife.
Even at three or four in the morning, you could find all sorts of late-night snacks.
Shi Man first ordered ten sets of KFC and M Family buckets with ice cream McFlurry, then ordered a large quantity of grilled skewers, grilled oysters, scallops, crawfish, spicy snails, spicy grilled fish, and stir-fried bullfrog, a total of one hundred portions, from ten different stores.
Braised dishes were also not to be missed: duck necks, duck feet, duck tongues, duck intestines, various braised dishes, hundreds of portions delivered to her home.
The bubble tea shop was also open: taro bobo, grass jelly, double-skin Milk, mango pomelo sago, 'duck shit' Milk tea... Whatever categories the shop had, she ordered them all, twenty portions of each.
It would take some time for the delivery, so Shi Man also searched online for solar panel and generator purchase channels. Online ordering was too late, but fortunately, there were small distributors in the suburban counties near C City. She contacted them and arranged to pick up the goods tomorrow.
Besides that, there was the most important thing: weapons.
Firearms were out of the question for now. Buying controlled knives was unrealistic, but things like baseball bats, golf clubs, and self-defense telescopic batons could be purchased first. In addition, there were animal electric repellers, which carried an electric current, similar to stun guns.
Besides that, there was another good thing.
A nail gun for renovation.
In her previous life, Shi Man met a skilled modifier. Because she saved his life, he gave her a modified nail gun and taught her how to modify it, which wasn't too difficult.
Shi Man first bought tens of thousands of steel balls online. These were not restricted and would arrive tomorrow, as she didn't have the ability to hand-make bullets yet.
A modified nail gun, paired with steel balls, aimed at vulnerable spots like eyes and ears, could certainly kill someone.
Shi Man was also preparing to look for hardware stores, as some modification materials still needed to be purchased. Then, the computer screen went black... and emitted a burnt smell.
Shi Man: "..."
She suppressed the urge to curse!
Miscalculation! This broken computer was a third-hand item she bought in college, and it finally broke down now!
She would have to buy a new computer tomorrow, and change her phone too.
Shi Man looked at the empty room and suddenly felt that there were still many things to buy.
"Oh, right!"
She remembered that during the upgrade, the system had prompted that the interior had been reinstalled (decoration style selectable). During the day, she was busy stocking up, so she didn't care about the living environment. Now she could study it.
Shi Man brought up the control panel and saw several options for decoration styles: minimalist, Chinese retro, American country...
Shi Man felt dizzy and simply chose a minimalist style.
The next moment, the interior of the originally bare building underwent a drastic change. Warm-toned marble tiles paired with milky white and light gray walls, walnut wood floors in the rooms, and a bathroom transformed with a wet and dry separation area, all clean, elegant, and bright!
Shi Man ran through all four floors and found that all four floors had been renovated to a complete fine decoration. She then went to the fifth-floor terrace. The terrace was also covered with moisture-proof wooden boards and had a glass canopy.
Shi Man was not at ease, so she ran downstairs and stood under the street light, carefully observing her house, confirming that from the outside, it still looked like the old, dilapidated, dangerous building, and the fifth-floor terrace still had ugly, bare tin sheets drooping. Only then did she breathe a sigh of relief.
Just then, Shi Man's ordered deliveries started arriving one after another.
For the next two hours, she was constantly receiving deliveries, until her hands were numb.
Sometimes four or five delivery drivers would appear together, carrying large and small bags, looking at Shi Man with extremely strange expressions.
To this, Shi Man remained calm, smiling and saying, "My house is having a party tonight, there are a lot of people."
The delivery drivers: Having a party in a dangerous building? Aren't you afraid the building will collapse? It would be more appropriate for you to have a haunted house adventure tonight!
As she picked up deliveries, Milk followed behind her, constantly vigilant. If anyone dared to act inappropriately towards Shi Man, Milk would immediately unleash its 'meow' punches!
She put all the deliveries into the warehouse, locked them fresh permanently, and could take them out whenever she wanted to eat.
Just as Shi Man was about to rest, a notification sound rang out.
Ding-dong—
【Host has collected over one hundred types of materials, unlocking waterproof and earthquake-resistant functions. Current waterproof and earthquake-resistant levels: Level 2 flood, Level 6 earthquake. Next upgrade requires over five hundred types of materials.】
【Detected points reached five thousand. Points doubled during novice period, current ten thousand points. Can upgrade homestead again, proceed with upgrade?】
Shi Man jolted. Rest? What rest! I can still fight!