Disaster Strikes: I Open a Supermarket on an Ancient Highway

[All characters are from ancient times + road survival + natural disasters + heroine blessed with good luck] Ming Zhao believes that signing up on the spot for the natural-disaster road survival game was the best decision she ever made. But becoming a traveling supply merchant during the game was pure misplaced kindness, brought on by having too much to eat. She really had eaten too much. During the desert drought, other players go hungry for days at a time. Parched like mummies, they even eat dried-out tree roots. Ming Zhao: “Dig, dig with the hoe. What’s this, a canteen? A cactus that produces water? A seedling that automatically forms drops of water? Selling cheap! One bowl of water for a bag of sand!” During the floods, the other players from ancient times drift along in the water, looking like wrinkled steamed buns that haven’t quite soaked through. Ming Zhao: “Found a plank, found another plank. What’s that, rope to tie the planks together? That makes a raft! Trade fish oil for a raft!” - Droughts, torrential rain, floods, mudslides, polar nights, extreme cold, insect plagues, rampant plant growth... Ming Zhao travels onward, reaping every benefit the disaster-stricken road has to offer. Panning for gold in the desert, salvaging timber in the rain, hunting for treasure in the mud, fishing in the water... She collects whatever she can see, and digs up whatever she can’t. Ming Zhao trades with others using her bulging personal backpack. She never takes advantage of people in their time of need, earning her the nickname “the generous lady” from the players’ merchants’ guild. [Congratulations to player Ming Zhao for achieving the “10,000 Trades” milestone! You have saved four-tenths of the people of the Antai Dynasty and changed the ending of the “Collapsing World”!]