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As time passed, the data continued to update.
Amidst the notifications, Yun Xin received a message:
[The player, through exceptionally high Perception, provided early warnings and indirectly saved 131,973 lives in Instance 117912—”Earthquake Disaster.” Completion Evaluation: SSS. Rewards: Strength +1, Agility +1, Vitality +1, Spirit +1.]
[The player, through exceptionally high Perception, provided early warnings and saved six lives in Instance 117915—”Natural Gas Pipeline Leak and Explosion.” Completion Evaluation: B. Rewards: Strength +0.1, Agility +0.1, Vitality +0.2.]
Looking at the text on the transparent panel, Yun Xin suddenly remembered that her city’s permanent population was 880,000. This meant that, aside from those who would have been safe anyway, she had saved 130,000 lives.
After the disaster, countless supplies were sent to the affected areas, and numerous volunteers rushed to the scene, offering their labor and expertise.
When the situation stabilized slightly, Zhu Lin returned home. To her grief, she discovered that her family’s self-built house had collapsed. Fortunately, her parents were unharmed.
Zhou Rui stared mournfully at the pile of rubble. “I just moved in… all my belongings are inside the house…”
Yun Xin used an excuse to slip away and check on her home. To her dismay, the grand villa hadn’t been spared—it had also collapsed.
After that, they could only wait for news.
Over a month of arduous rescue efforts, some survivors buried underground were successfully saved.
The military delivered bricks and lumber to begin constructing temporary shelters for the homeless victims to survive the winter.
Just then, their long-lost Boss found the three of them.
After some time apart, the Boss’s once-spirited face was etched with weariness. “The house I bought was right in the heart of the disaster zone. After the earthquake, it collapsed, and my car was crushed. The government has promised to help rebuild later, but who knows how many years that will take? For now, they’re just offering some subsidies.”
“I checked the branch store earlier—the shop is severely damaged, and the interior furnishings and equipment are almost completely destroyed.”
“I’ve thought about it for a long time. I’m not going to reopen the shop. You’re on your own now!”
“Boss…” Zhu Lin didn’t know what to say.
When she first learned her family’s building had collapsed, Zhu Lin felt deeply saddened. But compared to the Boss’s situation, it seemed like a minor setback.
After all, the building had been built by her own family, with limited funds. The rental income collected over the years had already recouped the construction costs several times over.
Her father told her that all the rent money saved over the years was still in the bank. Although their family had also suffered losses in the earthquake, the damage was limited, and they could easily rebuild in the future.
Even if they had to move to another city and start over, it wouldn’t be a problem.
The Boss was different.
He had come from the countryside, worked for years to save money, and finally started his own business. Just as his business was thriving, allowing him to buy a house, a car, and start a family, and he seemed on the verge of becoming a life winner, disaster struck, reducing his more than a decade of hard work to nothing overnight.
Such a devastating fall from grace would be difficult for anyone to accept.
The Boss didn’t say another word. He paid their salaries, gave them an extra month’s pay, waved his hand, and hurried away.
His solitary figure, walking away, carried an indescribable sense of loneliness.
Zhu Lin felt her heart ache and wanted to return the money to the Boss.
But Zhou Rui said, “Keep it. If the Boss hadn’t genuinely wanted to give it, he wouldn’t have come all this way.”
“It’s precisely because the Boss is so kind that it hurts even more,” Zhu Lin said bitterly. “Why should our peaceful, stable lives be shattered like this?”
Earthquakes are natural disasters. What reason or logic can you apply when such a calamity strikes?
Zhou Rui looked at Zhu Lin, thinking she might be so angry she’d lost her mind.
He turned to Yun Xin. “What are your plans now?”
“I’m going to another city,” Yun Xin replied.
The last thing she could do for this battered city was to distance herself from it.
Zhu Lin wanted to ask her to stay, but she didn’t know how to phrase it.
“What a coincidence, I’m planning to try my luck in another city too,” Zhou Rui added. “The economy here won’t recover for at least three years. I’ll come back when things are back to normal, if the opportunity arises.”
“Why are you both leaving?” Zhu Lin asked, feeling a surge of disappointment.
Yun Xin told her, “All feasts must eventually end.”
“Then… at least let’s exchange phone numbers?” Zhu Lin relented.
“No need,” Yun Xin said. After bidding them farewell, she left with a flourish.
Zhu Lin stared blankly, an indescribable melancholy settling in her heart.
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