Su Ye sat cross-legged on his ice platform, holding an ice-breaking axe, gently tapping the thin layer of ice in front of him.
"Can I really get supplies from ice?"
"Supplies don't grow in ice—how am I supposed to dig them out?"
Even though he was full of doubts, Su Ye was too lazy to waste brainpower.
Better to focus on surviving first—gather supplies, find a girl, activate the system…
Other things could wait until he was better off.
Time slipped away with each crisp crack of the ice.
More than ten minutes passed in the blink of an eye.
Su Ye rested his chin in one hand, staring at the endless white ice plain, patiently waiting for something under the ice to respond.
——Suddenly.
The survival guide beside him trembled slightly, letting out a clear *ding*.
"What's going on?"
Su Ye picked up the guide with one hand and flipped it open.
[You have three unread private messages.]
"Huh?"
"Messages from Lin Wan?"
He muttered quietly and opened the private message interface.
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(Sent at 13:00)
[Lin Wan: You must be the Su Ye I know, right? Otherwise you wouldn't have added me out of nowhere.]
[Lin Wan: What? Now that everyone's transported to this hellhole and you don't need a car or house, you're back to daydreaming about reaching for the moon?]
(Sent at 13:09)
[Lin Wan: I thought about it! I'll give you a chance. If you send me food, water and fuel regularly, I might consider you.]
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Su Ye's eyebrows immediately knitted together after reading.
Before he could even complain, the system's voice blared in his head.
[Ding! Female detected. Analyzing whether beauty meets standards…]
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[Lin Wan]
Gender: Female
Age: 20
Looks: 88
Figure: 83
Virtue: Experienced, steady style, record of ten partners.
Overall Score: 85
[Ding! Barely meets the minimum cashback standard.]
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"What the hell?"
"You nasty woman, you're disgusting."
"Even with the benefits, I wouldn't give you a single bottle of water, trash."
As soon as he finished speaking.
The ice-breaking axe vibrated noticeably.
Seeing this, Su Ye immediately tossed the guide aside, gripped the handle with both hands, and pried hard.
An **iron supply crate** frozen in the ice was pried loose.
"Nice crate. Perfect for a stool."
Su Ye stared at the iron crate in front of him and opened it without hesitation.
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[Successfully opened iron supply crate]
Obtained: Compressed biscuits ×2
Purified water (500ml) ×1
Wood ×5
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"There are even materials?"
"Whatever, I'll store them for now and figure out decomposition later when I have more."
Su Ye stored the supplies in his system space, picked up the ice-breaking axe again, and continued chipping at the ice.
As he worked, his free hand picked up the survival guide once more and randomly typed names into the friend interface.
That's right.
Su Ye was trying a needle-in-a-haystack approach.
Type random girls' names and send private messages.
If they replied, the system would automatically analyze them.
If they met the standard, he would send supplies right away.
It was troublesome and time-consuming, but better than giving benefits to his gold-digging ex-girlfriend.
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[Please enter the other person's name____]
"Su Qingyue!"
[Su Ye: Sis, is that you?]
"Chu Mengyao!"
[Su Ye: Sis, is that you?]
...
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This time, Su Ye even attached a private message.
"Sis" was completely made up.
If he was asked, he would just say: "Sorry, wrong person! But what a coincidence, you share the same name as my sister…"
In reality, he didn't have a sister at all.
It was just a little trick to get girls to reply.
Clearly, Su Ye had gone to great lengths to find a qualified tool girl.
For a full forty minutes, he typed nearly two hundred girls' names.
Only about sixty showed up as being in this area.
Among them, several replied instantly.
Su Ye's eyes lit up. Full of expectation, he began checking them one by one.
[Wang Jiaxin: Brother, is that you? I'm so hungry and thirsty. Can you spare some water and biscuits?]
[Ding! The user is male, transgendered female from White Elephant Country. Does not meet the system's minimum standard.]
"Holy shit? Bad start!"
"This guy really thinks I'm looking for my sister, just trying to scam free food."
Su Ye felt nauseated, blocked the user immediately, and continued to the next one.
[Liu Jiajia: You got the wrong person! I don't have a brother!]
[Ding! The user does not meet the system's minimum standard.]
[Chu Mengyao: I don't have a brother, you got the wrong person. Do you know how to get back to Blue Star?]
[Ding! The user does not meet the system's minimum standard.]
...
"God!"
"I just want to find a good-looking girl and show some kindness by giving her supplies. Is it really that hard?!"
After reading more than twenty messages, Su Ye's head was spinning.
Shemales, gold-diggers, random normies… not one with a high enough beauty score.
"Did I really have to go back to that bitch?"
Just as Su Ye was about to give up.
The guide vibrated again, showing one new unread message.
He opened it without any hope.
[Liu Ruyan: Sorry, I'm an only child! Maybe your sister is in another channel! Go chip ice and collect supplies—only by staying alive can you see your family again! Stranger, keep going!]
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[Ding! Female detected. Analyzing whether beauty meets standards.]
[Liu Ruyan]
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Looks: 93
Figure: 94
Virtue: Inexperienced
Overall Score: 94
[Ding! Meets cashback standards!]
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"Whoa, not bad!"
"Looks 93? Eight points above the minimum. I'm about to take off!"
"Who would've thought? Just typing a random novel heroine name and I hit the jackpot."
"Truly, there are countless novels—Liu Ruyan has been trashy, scheming, wild, poor, scared, down and out… but never ugly. The internet didn't lie!"
Su Ye suppressed his excitement and quickly typed a reply:
[Thanks, beautiful! Your encouragement means so much to me. I'll definitely keep living! To thank you, can we add each other? I want to send you some supplies. If we meet on the ice plain later, we can have each other's backs.]
[Message sent successfully!]
"♫♫♫ For love or not, I write the preface waiting for your return~~"
Su Ye was in such a good mood that he started humming *Lanting Xu* right away, happily waiting for Liu Ruyan's reply.
All his earlier depression was gone.
At this moment, he was full of hope for the future.