The male supporting character was actually myself.

The main reason was that she felt the other person didn't seem to be well-off, and he seemed quite nervous, so she was worried that he couldn't afford the testing fees, or that he would have an emotional breakdown if the results differed from his expectations. She figured it was better to let him deal with the manufacturer and avoid trouble.

"Are you sure it's just the most basic nutrient solution?" Chen Luoqi, quite disheartened, suddenly raised his voice.

The receptionist was startled, thinking to herself, "She really is a neurotic!"

This kind of person should never be provoked or provoked. She then gave a professional smile and shook her head, saying, "I'm just judging based on the sample you sent. After all, you can't see what's inside with the naked eye. To know the accurate information, you need to have it analyzed, which will cost two thousand five. The results will be available tomorrow afternoon."

Injection techniques are probably obsolete;

It costs 2,800 yuan to identify the outer material and 2,500 yuan for the liquid, which adds up to more than 5,000 yuan, which is no small amount!

Chen Luoqi was conflicted. Should he borrow money from a friend to get the test done?

The main problem is that he's uneducated and lacks knowledge; he had no idea that hospitals had injectable nutrient solutions. According to the pretty receptionist, identifying the liquid is probably pointless; the only thing worth looking forward to is the material itself.

It's a high-tech product from the wasteland world, after all. Maybe it contains some rare materials or has a more advanced and special manufacturing process. But the research institute probably doesn't care about the manufacturing process, right?

He struggled with the decision for a long time, but in the end, reason prevailed.

money!

Money is the most pressing issue that needs to be addressed right now!

You can't spend money before you've even gotten any benefits from the wasteland, can you?

No, we still need to try entering the wasteland. If we can get a single gold bar, we can easily and directly solve all our current problems...

Having made up his mind, Chen Luoqi emerged from the small research institute, carrying an old canvas bag in a disheveled state.

Fortunately, the area was relatively remote, and he found a secluded corner where no one was around and eagerly pressed the button on the small black box.

"Holy crap! We're doomed!"

The moment he pressed the button, Chen Luoqi belatedly realized—damn it, there aren't even the most basic protective measures! What if we end up in the wasteland exposed to radiation?!

However, it was too late. As he pressed the button and regretted it, everything went black before his eyes.

"Gulp!" Chen Luoqi swallowed.

He had never seen such a dark place before. The pitch blackness, combined with the extreme silence, allowed him to clearly hear the pounding of his heart.

What place is this?

Chen Luoqi took a few steps forward and touched the cold, hard wall, feeling slightly relieved.

It must be inside a building, so there's no need to worry about radiation. At worst, I can just buy iodine tablets and soak them in water to remove any residual radiation when I get back.

He groped in the dark trying to find an exit, at the very least he had to figure out where he was.

However, the more he touched it, the more disappointed he became.

No door!

The feeling of stone beneath my feet was similar to the feeling of the first time I traveled through time.

Does this mean that no matter where I press the button, I'll always end up in the same place in the wasteland?

After being stunned for a while, Chen Luoqi slapped himself hard on the forehead. "You idiot! How could you forget what you brought with you?"

He reached into his pocket, took out his phone, and turned on the flashlight, finally able to see the situation in the room clearly.

It really is the room I traveled to last time; even the graffiti on the walls hasn't changed, but all the doors are sealed off! Holy crap, have we been discovered? Otherwise, why would the owner of the safe house completely seal this place off?

Chen Luoqi gradually felt despair.

No matter where you try, the only destination is this room; but the owner of the safe house obviously has superpowers or installed cameras or something similar in the house beforehand, since you've already been exposed, that's why they sealed it off.

Shining his flashlight, he touched the cold doors, wondering if he could open them with a cutting tool.

The more important problem now is that the power has been cut off in the room!

Damn it, no power means my little box will never be able to go back once the battery is depleted, and even if I bring the cutting machine, I can't use it. I wonder if there are any cutting tools online that come with built-in batteries...

After walking around the huge room from beginning to end, Chen Luoqi discovered something even more despairing—there were no ventilation openings in the room!

This means that if you stay here for too long, you will suffer from oxygen deficiency. You can't exactly bring an oxygen tank with you when you travel through time, can you?

If we can't get out, what's the point of crossing over even with an oxygen tank?

Without water or electricity, even if it's a temporary place to sleep without having to pay for rent, I still can't sleep soundly.

Does anyone know how many times the little black box can travel through time once fully charged? Would bringing in more power banks solve the immediate problem?

If the power bank doesn't have enough power, and he runs out of power here, he'll just have to sit and wait to die. But to just give up the golden finger that he's worked so hard to get for over twenty years, Chen Luoqi felt a million times unwilling.

Why is it that the protagonists in novels can have such a smooth life, while I can't travel to ancient times to become an emperor or a prince, and instead I have to be schemed against in some godforsaken wasteland?

Their plan to kill the safe house owner and take over the place has temporarily failed; they can't even leave the house, let alone find the gold bars...

Chen Luoqi lay sprawled on the ground, looking as wilted as a frostbitten eggplant.

After a long pause, he suddenly had a brilliant idea—since he was temporarily at a disadvantage, he still had a cheat code! No matter how powerful the owner of the safe house was, he couldn't possibly travel to the peaceful modern world just by pressing a button like he could.

Abundant resources are one's own capital!

Perhaps we could talk to him and temporarily cooperate in reselling supplies. He would provide me with resources to exchange for large sums of money in the real world, while I would buy cheap, low-quality, unregulated products to trade with him, temporarily settling for the role of a middleman.

Once a friendly cooperative relationship is established, I believe that under the lure of abundant resources, threatening the other party will surely get them to open this closed space. By then, the dangerous cooperative relationship outside will have already been eroded.

If it's a pretty girl who's willing to fawn over you, keep her and add her to your harem. If it's a man, find an opportunity to kill him and monopolize the safe house and resource trading!

Heh... People from the wasteland who have never seen the world can probably gain the upper hand by holding two apples.

Want more? If so, open it up again, just like you sealed it. From now on, this room is mine. Otherwise, I'll never come back to give you fresh fruits and vegetables again!

Chen Luoqi felt smug at the thought of how the other person would want to lick the food after tasting it.

Behind me lies a world teeming with resources, a wasteland where humans have never even seen a tomato before. Get ready to kneel and tremble at my feet!

Chapter 8 The Second Clash

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Chapter 8 The Second Clash

Having figured this out, Chen Luoqi suddenly felt more confident.

He found the door that led to the outer hall in his memory and began to knock and bang on it with all his might.

"Is anyone home? Open the door! Open the door now! You can see me, right?"

Jiang Chen, who was sitting in the warehouse next door that had been converted into a bedroom and was engrossed in designing city planning maps, heard a faint thumping sound and knew that it must be the protagonist Chen Luoqi who had transmigrated!

He came and looked around yesterday, but got nothing except two vials of nutritional injections.

And things that are only briefly mentioned in the original storyline are definitely not technically sophisticated.

After all, if the guy in the scriptwriting team who wrote this story had any knowledge or common sense, he wouldn't have written something so idiotic, and he certainly wouldn't have made gold in the wasteland world a useless thing, something that in the modern world could only be sold as gold bars and used to make money by releasing games without any censorship to show off and slap people in the face.

Therefore, the nutritional injections described in the script must be based on the nutritional solutions found in the modern world.

Even if he takes it, he won't make a fuss.

Not to mention high-tech products like lithography machines and laser weapons that could shock the world as soon as they are unveiled, which only exist in the fantasy of novels. The weapons of fully powered armored vehicles are only in the category of ordinary physical attacks. Jiang Chen did not believe that the script team members who wrote this kind of mindless and exciting story knew anything about high technology and had forced him to write an advanced thing that could withstand careful research and scrutiny.

Therefore, the protagonist's main purpose in this time-traveling journey will definitely still be to acquire gold bars.

"The weather is so nice, yet you're so irritable. This isn't good..." Jiang Chen leisurely sipped his tea and continued studying his city planning map.

Chen Luoqi was still jumping around in the next room, holding up his phone and shouting, "See what I'm holding? This is a cell phone, have you ever seen one before?! Since you've sealed this place off, I'm sure you can tell I can come and go silently. Let me tell you frankly, I come from another world, a world full of delicious things you've never seen or tasted before!"

Seeing how pitiful you are living in this wasteland, I can take pity on you and make a deal.

If you don't trust me and are afraid of being scammed, I don't need your high-tech and advanced materials. Go get some gold bars that nobody in the wasteland wants and trade them with me. That way, you won't lose out.

I won't break my promise; I'll definitely bring you lots of novel foods you've never even heard of before..."

He firmly believed that the safe house owner with superpowers would eventually be able to hear him. As for whether they could communicate in the same language... Chen Luoqi figured that since the text on the nutrient solution continued to use Chinese, the other party probably had a translator or could understand it.

After jumping around for a few minutes, Chen Luoqi felt a bit suffocated, whether it was psychological or the oxygen content in the air had really decreased.

Just as he was about to press the button on the small box to travel back, a small window suddenly opened with a "bang" on the welded iron door.

The sudden bright light made Chen Luoqi squint and cleverly dodge to hide under the door, trying his best not to give the other party a chance to use a weapon to hurt him.

However, they also missed a great opportunity to see the other party's true colors.

"As expected, you have a shuttle."

Jiang Chen's cold voice rang out from outside the door, immediately stunning him, "Things that have been abandoned long ago have a very high failure rate. Be careful when you use them. Too many uses can easily cause problems. When you're teleporting, your upper body might be transported over while your lower body is left behind. After all, it's only a half-finished product, so you can't expect it to go smoothly every time."

Chen Luoqi: Σ(?д?lll)

Holy crap! It's a guy! My fantasy of groveling to girls has been shattered once again...

W-what? What did he just say?

Is this a semi-finished product?

Or are they experiments in the wasteland world?

How did it end up under the bed in your rented room?

His mind went blank for a moment, and he couldn't help but look down at the small black box in his hand. He thought about the miserable state he was in when he was stuck and only half of his body came through during the passage, and he couldn't help but shudder.

"You...you...know about the shuttle?" he asked, somewhat unsure of himself.

Jiang Chen had already read the description of the time-traveling artifact in the original plot countless times, and slowly and deliberately deceived him: "Of course I know. I even participated in the experiment to pinpoint the location of my safe house to the time-traveling device, which is why you are here."

However, that was a long time ago. After discovering many safety hazards, the project was abruptly stopped, and some of the shuttles that were randomly teleported away were not successfully retrieved.

Your shuttle is just a small black box about five centimeters square, with only one button, a built-in charging port, and a charging indicator light. It's so rudimentary that it doesn't even show how much battery is left.

As long as the battery is fully charged, pressing the button will teleport you from any location in the world to a fixed location in the wasteland.

Each shuttle has a different designated location. You're lucky to have the location I input. Most of the other experimental locations have become desolate wastelands. Even if you safely shuttle there, you'd probably be exposed to intense radiation and quickly turn into a monster.

So in a way, you should thank me for giving you the prerequisite for survival. Without this safe house, you would have been doomed the moment you successfully traversed it.

Chen Luoqi glanced down at the small box in his hand, his heart pounding.

He's absolutely right!

However, it's also possible that he somehow managed to peek at the appearance of the teleportation artifact when I came here last time, which is why he was able to describe it so accurately.