Qiao Li had just finished setting up a hundred shelters for stray cats when, in the blink of an eye, she found herself in a natural-disaster game, running a shelter for displaced people.
Qiao Li stared in disbelief. "What kind of shelter?"
She looked down to see she had automatically changed into a Red Cross uniform. In her hands was a little notebook of this quarter's targets, and her account held the seven-figure operating funds that had just been deposited.
[Please note: This world is currently in the extreme-cold disaster phase. Crop growth suppression +3, frostbite probability +10, power outages, random hailstorms, random landslides... Operators must meet their charity targets without running a deficit.]
Qiao Li, thinking it over: "...So you're saying you'll give me money to run the place, and as long as I don't go bankrupt, I'm fine?"
Who says charity has to be free? Even philanthropists have to eat!
So she picked up some ingredients that wouldn't sell at her little restaurant, collected some junk, and opened up with zero start-up costs.
Word spread that the charity shelter had opened, selling unbelievably cheap items. Players who had been busy digging holes for shelter hurried back to the surface.
The once-shabby shelter had changed beyond recognition. A crowd as dense as ants braved the snow to queue in front of it, even including wealthy players bundled up in bulky clothes.
Just then, a flyer drifted by.
[New paid private rooms, with hot water available for a limited time, a comfortable temperature, and a spicy hot pot meal set. Slowly restores health. Member price: xx]
[Also available at half price for a limited time: heating tents, winter-warming milk tea, lamps with unlimited power, fresh eggs, and more.]
[New gift: chicks, while supplies last.]
How could it be so cheap? And they had everything, just as you'd expect from a charity!
The players who had been digging holes were deeply moved. They hurried into the crowd to queue, laughing with delight:
Oh my gosh, I'm so good at saving money! This winter's going to be a breeze.
Theme: People's indomitable spirit in the face of hardship
