Saving System: Calm Down, My Fleeing Host!

Chapter 339 - 331: Instance Quest

"Han Yi will take care of it."

After dropping this sentence, the person gracefully stepped out.

What does it mean?

This means trusting Han Yi to bring those people back safely.

How can a natural disaster be handled by human power?

Especially such a rare hailstorm, more impacts would result in serious injuries if not worse.

"Let’s hope so!"

Someone murmured to themselves, giving themselves reassurance, took precautions, and also stepped into the night.

This night was destined to be a sleepless one.

The dark sky, shrouded in wild winds and blizzards, transformed into countless wailing ghosts, seemingly ready to devour everyone, mixed with hail like icicles, killing silently.

This night, an uncountable number of vibrant lives were lost.

People struggled in sorrow and despair, waiting unwillingly and painfully for the dawn.

The fortunate ones left alive were barely hanging by a thread, while those who froze or got pelted to death lay coldly in the snow, unattended.

The next day, the winds howled, the blizzard continued to rage, the sky was muddy and dark, with the temperature at minus thirty-eight and a half degrees.

Even though the hail had stopped, the outside environment was extremely poor.

Hearing the description from the returning team members of how terrifying the weather was last night, everyone’s curiosity was piqued.

They all went to the cave entrance, but hadn’t set foot out of the corridor. The extremely low temperature rushing in from outside the entrance had already made them withdraw their steps.

This wasn’t a place for humans to stay; stepping outside might turn one into an ice sculpture.

Only then did everyone realize, thankfully and with emotion, that it was a wise decision to have listened to the captain and moved into the Underground City in time; otherwise, they might not have woken up last night.

The Han Family felt especially fortunate, thankful for having a good Clan Leader, who made a decisive choice to turn to Mr. Cheng and come to the Underground City in time. Grateful that Mr. Cheng was willing to take them in, allowing them to avoid this disaster; otherwise, they could have awakened to see their corpses this morning.

Early in the morning, Cheng Xiaoxiao hadn’t even woken up when a sudden task disturbed her good dream.

Large red text, flashing continually, seemed very urgent.

[System Rescue Task Activated]

[System Rescue Task Activated]

This wasn’t how it used to be; could there be some special person to save this time?

Cheng Xiaoxiao opened the character panel.

[Monthly Task: Detection indicates that an important villain will successfully complete an Evil Skill at midnight tomorrow. Please rescue the infant who is about to be refined by midnight. Task completion rate is 100%. Task success rewards: two Crystal Fragments, task failure results in soul obliteration]

Cheng Xiaoxiao was dumbfounded.

This is not fair, what does ’successful Evil Skill’ mean? Like in "The East is Red"?

What kind of world did she traverse into?

It’s neither agricultural nor commercial, nor is it building infrastructure in a famine; could it be a high-level martial arts world?

Even in high martial arts, they don’t practice Evil Skills with children, and just hearing ’important villain’ indicates a formidable character. How could she, a nobody, rescue someone under the eyes of a big shot?

This... she can’t handle it!

Is this the end of the line?

Thinking it would end there?

No, there’s more to follow.

[Dungeon Task: Detection shows the world is currently in disarray. Please follow the map prompts, search for and rescue innocent humans. Task rewards: permanent short-distance Space Transmitter, task gratitude points, and energy value are calculated at double]

Issuing two tasks at once, treating me like an ox, not even giving a break.

Plus, the tasks are so perverse; she’s just a newbie Bronze level, sending her a Challenger-level mission!

"77, isn’t the soul obliteration too severe? Can’t we negotiate?"

System: "... Once the task is issued, headquarters can’t privately change it; they don’t have the high authority."

Cheng Xiaoxiao, deceased....

After a long time, resigned, she said: "Then can we discuss, maybe give an invisibility device; a space button that stores living beings; or a tool that temporarily boosts combat power tenfold."

System: "..."

Believing the host must be daydreaming.

Seeing no response from the system, do none of these exist?

She wouldn’t risk her life, "Then is there any body armor that can withstand high damage?"

As the system remained silent for a long time, Cheng Xiaoxiao’s frustration rose.

"Asking for a horse to run without giving it grass, what logic is this, knowing the opponent is a master, yet sending me to my death. Then I’d choose to lie flat; in any case, sooner or later, it’s death."

"You haven’t even tried, how can you conclude you can’t do it?"

"Do I need to try? I’m just a minor character, one slap and I’m dust, just think about Sima Yinlong that day, he could crush me with a finger."

System: "..."

The host really is a weakling.

"Have you thought about what the task content is? Why stop the completion of the Evil Skill, surely because once achieved, he’d be invincible in the world, unmatched. By then, he would spread havoc everywhere, causing mass suffering. Deductively, someone one step away from the top isn’t a low-level being, likely an Innate Grandmaster or above. Even Zhou Yanlan and that Sikong Yinlong might not be his match. Asking someone like us to stop his ascension, a hundred of me wouldn’t be enough to die."

System: The host has a point.

"Well then, I’ll ask headquarters if there’s anything for self-defense."

Cheng Xiaoxiao secretly rejoiced, that’s right; if not now, when to exploit them? Use an opportunity to get perks, why save it for later?

However, this task is indeed more troublesome than any before.

If she doesn’t prepare thoroughly, her life is at risk.

"Wait a moment."

Seeing the system about to disappear, Cheng Xiaoxiao quickly called out, "What’s with the dungeon task?"

"Oh, I just asked the headquarters. It seems the disaster is too great this time; too many living beings have perished, causing an imbalance in energy. Rescuing lives to reach the minimum balance is needed, or else the world collapses, and we all go down with it. Hence, a long-term rescue mission was issued."

She understood that the steep drop in temperature and sudden hail caused countless casualties.

Given a long-term task isn’t impossible, but the reasoning must be clear. How could they vaguely agree just like that?

The people needing rescue must be from all over the place! If she ran around everywhere, what would become of her Underground City?

And even if she saved someone then, what about their lives afterwards? She couldn’t save them and just walk away or give them a hundred or eighty pounds of grain and leave!

Where would she get so many points to spend, and a hundred or eighty pounds of grain wouldn’t last long, it’s only a temporary fix, saving them in vain.

Teaching someone to fish is better than giving them fish.

Such simple reasoning needed to be explained to the system, it’s truly worrying.

The system, hearing the logic, naturally combined the two matters and went to reason with headquarters.

After sending the system to ask for benefits, Cheng Xiaoxiao ate a few bites of food, spent a lot of System Coins painfully, bought several pieces of top-grade cold-resistant clothing from the mall, and gave them to her second brother.

She asked him to send someone down the mountain to check on Yuan Yang City, and if there were people to rescue, it wouldn’t hurt to help. Of course, any free materials should be brought back.

After everything was arranged, she quietly left on a snowboard.