Transmigrated To Ancient Time: Thrive With An Auction System!-Chapter 118: Northern Drought, Southern Flood ( 2 )

This system was truly ruthless. The moment it opened its mouth, it demanded 1,500,000 points.

After taking a deep breath to calm down, Yao Zhi asked, "System, if I pay, will I get anything besides the package?"

"Besides receiving 2 husbandries, the Host will also receive a manager to activate automatic management and gain the ability to open a blind reward box."

"So I only get an additional manager?" Yao Zhi asked with a frown.

The system went silent for a moment before replying, "Due to the Host’s luck points, the blind reward box will be upgraded from medium-grade to premium-grade."

Although she still felt the price was steep, Yao Zhi knew when to stop bargaining. Being able to upgrade the reward box was already good enough.

With that thought, she clicked on the receive button. As the sound of points being deducted rang out, the box shook briefly before the screen changed.

Perhaps because the premium-grade reward list was different, she actually received many rewards this time. Since it was not yet dawn, Yao Zhi checked them one by one.

The first item was 1,000 drops of spiritual spring water, which she happily stored in her spiritual spring jade bottle.

The second item was livestock, which consisted of cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, and donkeys, 1,000 of each type. The third item was 500 stallions and 2,000 mares.

The horses resembled the ancient Arabian breed, known as war horses with incredible endurance, speed, high intelligence, and the ability to survive with minimal food and water in harsh desert climates.

Although she knew almost nothing about horses, Yao Zhi trusted that the system wouldn’t give her inferior goods. After all, this was a reward from a premium-grade box.

The fourth item was a lake containing 2,000 fish. The fifth item was a vast grassland and a complete feeding production line.

Seeing the final reward, Yao Zhi clicked on its information and read it carefully. The complete feeding production line was an integrated system that included milling, mixing, pelleting, and cooling to produce large quantities of finished feed.

The moment she finished reading, she let out a sigh of relief. She had been worried about where to get feed for so many animals. Fortunately, this reward solved that problem entirely.

After accepting all the rewards, Yao Zhi checked the system’s husbandry. Each husbandry covered an area of 10 hectares, and time inside the husbandry, lake, and grassland flowed 30 times faster than outside the system.

After finishing the setup for automatic management, Yao Zhi opened the auction tab and selected fabrics for auction. Due to the high prices from the last auction, the starting prices had already been raised.

She didn’t adjust the price further and placed 13 bolts of bright-colored embroidered silk up for auction, with a starting price of 65,000 points per bolt. Then she placed 10 bolts of dark-colored embroidered silk, starting at 60,000 points per bolt.

Next, she placed 4 bolts of gauze silk with a starting price of 125,000 points per bolt. The price for tabby silk was the same, 125,000 points per bolt, and she placed 4 bolts up for auction.

Besides the rare silks, she also auctioned plain silk.

Yao Zhi had a large quantity of one-colored silk and placed 10 bolts of bright-colored and 27 bolts of dark-colored silk. The starting price was 25,000 points for bright-colored silk and 20,000 points for dark-colored silk.

As for multicolored silk, Yao Zhi placed 5 bolts up for auction with a starting price of 80,000 points each.

When she finished, she calculated briefly. Even if everything was sold at the starting price, she would still earn a total of 3,635,000 points.

Satisfied with the price, Yao Zhi finally closed the system. The auction would conclude in 24 hours.

After tidying her clothes and opening the window, the sky had begun to change color, though the sun was still nowhere to be seen. As usual, she went to boil a pot of water for washing up.

While Yao Zhi started her day in a good mood, the situation in the southern area of the Great Yan Kingdom was in chaos.

Due to continuous rainfall for several months, the riverbanks collapsed, and more than 12 villages disappeared overnight. Everything was swept away by the floodwaters.

Countless people were either washed away, drowned, or crushed to death, while houses and farmland were destroyed. The crops had long been ruined by the rain, and people had gone without food for months.

As thunder roared and lightning tore through the dark sky, the river raged, its water level rising at an alarming speed.

"Help! Someone, please save my child!" a woman screamed at the top of her lungs as she held her baby above her head.

At this moment, the large tree she clung to was already on the verge of collapse. She had climbed to its highest branch when the floodwaters reached her rooftop. In less than half an hour, the water had already risen to her neck.

She feared death, but she feared her 2-year-old child dying with her even more. As the water continued to rise, she lifted her baby higher. When the water reached her mouth and nose, she couldn’t help but choke.

She was no longer able to cry for help. Her bloodshot eyes held nothing but despair, disappointment, and regret. If only she had listened to the county magistrate and evacuated earlier, her son wouldn’t have had to die with her.

Knowing she was about to drown, the woman used her last strength to climb to the very top of the tree, buying her child a little more time. Coughing violently, she scanned her surroundings desperately.

"H-help... cough! Someone, please... cough! cough! save my child..." she begged hoarsely.

Her baby had long since fainted from cold and hunger. His face was pale, and his lips had turned blue. Just as the woman thought both of them would die, she heard a faint voice in the distance.

"Someone is there!"