The entire school embarks on a survival journey, starting from a primeval rainforest.

"Those things are supplies I got by exchanging keys on my first day after transmigrating." Jiang Fan coughed lightly, composed himself, and calmly explained, "The stockings were originally intended to be used as a filter layer when filtering water, and the sanitary napkins were used as insoles. Many people did that during military training."

Ding Rui listened attentively to Jiang Fan's explanation, and only asked after he stopped, "Is that all?"

"...Huh?" Jiang Fan asked in confusion, "What's gone?"

"I mean, don't you have anything else to explain?" Ding Rui asked with a smile. "I've already heard all of this from Sister Yue. Seeing how seriously you're explaining, I thought you had other uses for those things..."

However, I don't think you need stockings to filter water right now, and given your constitution, you probably don't need sanitary napkins either, which is why I was asking if you could give me those things as a reward.

Jiang Fan was speechless. He suddenly realized that the woman in front of him seemed to be deliberately flirting with him.

They're pushing their luck way too fast!

But he couldn't show his anger, so he simply nodded calmly: "Since you need it, then I'll give it to you."

"Great! Thank you, Brother Fan!" Ding Rui cheered happily, though it was hard to tell if she was really happy.

But Jiang Fan had to admit that it was easy to win favor with such a beautiful woman who expressed her gratitude in a delicate and sweet manner.

While it might not be of much use to him, it would be a different story if the target were some hardcore otaku.

Then Ding Rui asked, "According to Lin Feng, you also have an Ice Cellar Card?"

Jiang Fan nodded without saying anything more.

"Then you might need to work harder..." Ding Rui suddenly sighed.

"I know that an ice cellar is indeed a good thing. If we can put it there, the problem of food storage can be solved." Jiang Fan certainly knew the function of this thing, but compared with the coal mine, this thing can only be put aside for now.

"No, no, no!" Ding Rui suddenly raised a slender index finger and waved it in front of Jiang Fan's eyes, a mischievous grin on her face. "What I mean is, you should try to hunt more food, otherwise an empty ice cellar... that would be really ugly! As for the expansion card issue..."

At this point, she suddenly pulled a stack of cards out of her skirt pocket.

At a glance, there are at least a dozen.

"Three expansion cards should be enough, right? I heard you have one more," Ding Rui asked with a charming smile.

Jiang Fan was taken aback when he saw her suddenly produce so many cards, and a big question mark popped into his mind.

He really wanted to say, "You opened one too?"

"Hehe~" Ding Rui seemed to enjoy Jiang Fan's surprised expression, and chuckled as she explained, "These are what I earned with contribution points."

For many people, especially most girls, simply surviving peacefully is more important than anything else. They don't need great strength or a magnificent home, so...

I told them that as long as they handed over their cards to Xinghuo, I would record their contribution points and guarantee their future survival and safety.

In this way, we can pool everyone's resources and prioritize the rapid development and expansion of your home.

This would greatly increase efficiency in everything from weapon production to food preservation, thereby ensuring everyone's survival and safety.

At this point, Jiang Fan understood Ding Rui's actions.

She was "monetizing" the prestige that Jiang Fan had built up over the past few days.

Ding Rui couldn't have accomplished this without his immense prestige at the West Campus.

However, similarly, without Ding Rui, it would be difficult for anyone else to accomplish this.

He is not suitable for this task, and as for others, they either lack the right personality or the necessary abilities.

But Ding Rui alone possesses both the personality and the ability to be competent.

This is the same principle as when they exchanged food for cards a couple of days ago, except that Ding Rui used Jiang Fan and Xinghuo's reputation as a guarantee of trust to change spot trading into futures trading.

Exchanging something with an uncertain future for existing benefits.

"I'm curious, what does your family do..." After figuring everything out, Jiang Fan couldn't help but ask curiously, "You really don't seem like an ordinary freshman."

"Just an ordinary office worker..." Ding Rui twirled a strand of hair, smiling. "My dad's a vice president at an investment bank, and my mom's a general manager at a venture capital firm... I've picked up a few things from that environment..."

More than that, Xiaorui was curious about what Fan Ge's family did. You don't seem like a typical freshman at all!

"I come from a rural background and don't have any connections," Jiang Fan replied readily.

"Tch... If you don't want to talk about it, then don't. Why be so perfunctory?" Ding Rui pouted, revealing a wronged look on her face. "There are 6 expansion cards here. You can put 3 of them in the ice cellar. After you put the other 3 in, don't put them in any other buildings yet. I need to store some miscellaneous items in them."

Here are two gun-related mastery cards. I got them for you because you seem to be used to using guns.

Additionally, there's a card that grants Bow Mastery, which you should also need.

As for the rest, you can handle it yourself. I have other things to do.

After saying that, she simply stuffed the whole stack of cards into Jiang Fan's hand, turned around and left, leaving Jiang Fan with a graceful back view.

Li Chuxue, who had been silent all along, gave Jiang Fan an apologetic smile and immediately followed.

He looked every bit the part of a "general manager's assistant".

Jiang Fan was speechless. The male-to-female ratio in the West Campus was already a huge disadvantage in the post-apocalyptic survival scenario.

Even with a psionic system that can enhance the body, this remains true until a breakthrough is achieved.

However, through Ding Rui's actions, this imbalanced male-female ratio became a perfect condition for "concentrating resources to prioritize the development of individuals."

Furthermore, in the future, all you need to do is ensure the survival of these girls and help them earn points. This will not only allow you to collect a large amount of gratitude points, but also enable you to quickly gather a large number of card resources.

If they could go a step further and help them break through to the spiritual body, they could also obtain a group of energetic "nuclear-powered oxen and horses".

This strategy is clearly more reasonable and feasible than the "strengthening first to drive the strengthening later" strategy that Jiang Fan had previously planned to implement.

After all, people's pursuits are indeed different. Just like Ding Rui, her pursuit is a stable life and powerful influence.

Rather than an increase in personal strength.

However, Nangong Yue's pursuit was completely different; she voluntarily gave up power and instead pursued strong personal strength.

Clearly, what she longs for is the ability to survive independently without relying on others.

In Jiang Fan's view, this is likely related to what the tabby cat once mentioned, that she may have had a childhood in a single-parent family.

At the same time, Jiang Fan had to admit that he had misjudged Ding Rui's personality to some extent.

She is not simply a sophisticated and self-interested realist, but a shrewd woman who grew up in a capitalist family and possesses keen awareness of resource integration and risk management.

Placing such a role in the back as a managerial position can greatly reduce the amount of effort he needs to put in, while also allowing his personal strength and the overall strength of Spark to develop more rapidly.

With the support of the community, the top spot he achieved by stealing the tower in his home base will likely remain unchallenged in the future.

Ding Rui's choice this time was clearly not as simple as a typical "fence-sitter" assessing the situation.

It's an investment!

After conducting some "market research," she decisively went all in, betting everything on herself.

That's why she's so eager to show herself today.

Afterwards, Jiang Fan returned to his home and placed the 7 expansion cards and the [Green Building Card - Level 1 Ice Cellar] in order.

All three skill cards were crushed to quickly boost strength.

My gun weapon skill mastery has successfully reached level 6, while my bow weapon skill mastery has also reached level 3.

Although there were some other weapon proficiency skill cards among the remaining cards, Jiang Fan ultimately decided to leave some for Lin Feng and the others.

His only weapons for now are guns and bows. If he were to use them all himself, it would be too wasteful in the early stages when he needed to maximize cost-effectiveness.

He then directly gave one of the sword skill mastery cards to Chen Qingquan, who was standing next to him.

Afterwards, he told Chen Qingquan to go back and rest first.

He then left the dormitory area alone and headed in the direction Ding Rui had indicated, to find Nangong Yue and the others who had explored the area ahead of him.

Soon after, a fierce fight and shouts could be heard from ahead.

The voice sounded somewhat familiar, which made Jiang Fan's heart sink, and he quickly quickened his pace.

He had only taken two steps when a blood-soaked figure suddenly rushed out of the woods and crashed into his arms.