Chapter 250: Picking Up Another Good Thing
After entering the parallel road, proceed forward for forty minutes.
Yu Jiang parked the vehicle on the road a few meters in front of two old houses with step ladders.
Looking at the cement flower windows on the old houses, the rusted security windows, the climbing plants covering the walls, and the illegal wooden board structures on the rooftop, a sense of familiarity and dreamcore vibe naturally arose.
Completely different from the foreign town style seen before.
How to put it, people always have more feelings about things they’re familiar with.
Seeing that her teammates hadn’t arrived yet, Yu Jiang put the poisonous fruit in her backpack and first took the crowbar to search around.
These houses should be family quarters, with factory buildings behind them, but they’ve mostly collapsed and are hard to enter.
Just as she reached the downstairs area, Yu Jiang spotted two pieces of cracked sheet metal that hadn’t fully rusted yet, which could be recycled into an iron block.
Continuing inward, the stair handrails were all broken; with a slight press, they crumbled into a handful of rust.
Fortunately, she used a wooden stick to touch them; the plants outside were too lush, and no light came in from inside, making it feel somewhat eerie.
Weeds grew from cracks in the cement ground, the window glass was long gone, and the furniture inside the house had peeling paint, revealing the glued wood chips underneath.
Yu Jiang put on her mask before continuing to explore inside; the town area could yield supplies, but it was equally dangerous.
All sorts of zombie monsters, or mutated animals, or man-eating plants could appear.
Yu Jiang searched very quickly; with the crowbar in hand, there was no door she couldn’t open.
However, there were very few valuable items for recycling in the house; even clothing and quilts were decayed and aged, tearing apart with a slight pull, completely unusable.
The pots and pans in the kitchen were also severely damaged, and there were mutilated corpses in the corners.
Regardless of whether it would jump up, strike it with a knife first.
After searching one three-story building, she only picked up a few stainless steel bowls, over a dozen iron blocks, and a few flower pots.
Yu Jiang took a deep breath and continued to the next house.
The first floor house didn’t even have a front door, with climbing vines extending in from the windows.
Sunlight pierced through the green leaves, along with a shiny silver gem box embedded nearby.
After more than a month, she finally found a gem box again!
Yu Jiang excitedly rushed over, picked up the box, and left; based on past experience, opening boxes needed to be done in a safe place.
Facts proved her caution was correct.
At the moment she turned around, Yu Jiang caught a glimpse in her peripheral vision of a face whiter than flour, with equally pale, rotting fingers nearly slapping her shoulder.
Yu Jiang immediately switched the crowbar to her left hand, drew the bayonet, and turned to perform a chopping motion.
That hand was slashed by the bayonet and instantly disappeared.
Yu Jiang scanned the surroundings; seeing nothing, it had fled—this thing feared Yu Jiang’s weapon.
It was also a monster with a health bar, detected by the light screen scan.
[Doomsday Wraith: Within its house area, it has teleportation and invisibility skills, extremely hard to deal with.
Outside the house area, ordinary monster abilities are reduced, but they generally won’t leave the house area, especially during the day.
As for their skill characteristics and area, survivors need to observe for themselves.
(Ordinary monster names are white, elite monsters are red; there aren’t many elite monsters in the town area, if you encounter one and can’t beat it, you’re unlucky~)]
The system still spoke so sharply; but honestly, getting used to it felt quite reassuring.
At least it had a health bar and could be fought; things without health bars were the scary ones.
Yu Jiang stowed the gem box and took the bayonet to search upstairs as well.
Since she was already here, how could she sleep tonight without checking for supplies.
After searching around, with nothing else valuable, Yu Jiang could finally leave with peace of mind.
She also picked up a green knitted bandit headgear with two braids on top; it looked in good condition, so she took it.
Upon scanning, this thing turned out to be an item, with +5% dodge and stealth buff.
Boxes refresh randomly and can appear deep in swamps or on the first floor of roadside houses that can be explored, so that’s not strange.
But having such an item inside the house is hard to rate.
Yu Jiang opened the gem box; other boxes might have monsters, but gem boxes definitely contained supplies!
Obtained Plague Dispelling Pill scroll *1, requires Alchemist Level Six to refine, can cure various infection ailments, such as the Black Death, dysentery.
She had asked the merchant caravan this morning if they had heard about this item.
There was news: one copy in Sicily’s hands, one in the Blue Umbrella team’s hands.
No need to think, they couldn’t get it; Yu Jiang directly said not to bother asking.
The scroll was not only a recipe but also an item that improved success rate.
Even if she only needed the recipe, she could try; Sicily absolutely wouldn’t give her the correct recipe.
Blue Umbrella’s side wouldn’t offer it at a low price.
Yu Jiang immediately used the scroll, lighting up the Plague Dispelling Pill in her crafting interface, then continued looking down.
Level 6 water collector upgrade parts A2, All-Purpose Vitality Pill *1
!!!
This was the All-Purpose Vitality Pill that Aftershock mentioned back then, which could enhance physique and improve combat power, but she let her boyfriend have it!
Yu Jiang scanned it with the light screen, confirmed no issues, and threw it into her mouth to eat.
A faint traditional Chinese medicine bitterness, not exactly bad but not good either.
But that didn’t matter!
[You consumed ‘All-Purpose Vitality Pill’, feeling full of strength throughout your body, overall fitness +3, attack +2, agility +2
(All-Purpose Vitality Pill is only effective the first time consumed oh)]
A full 7 points of stats! And no crystal coins spent.
Yu Jiang returned to the RV in a great mood to wait for her teammates, briefly telling them about what just happened on the way.
Specific plans for the town area would be discussed once they arrived.
While waiting, Yu Jiang tried on the newly acquired bandit knitted headgear; it felt good when she put it on her head—when others couldn’t see her face, she felt outgoing and confident.
Nearby, a player driving an SUV, seeing the RV parked on the side, stretched their neck to peek inside.
They happened to see Yu Jiang, wearing the bandit headgear, using the rearview mirror as a mirror; the player’s heart skipped a beat, they quickly rolled up the window, stepped on the accelerator, and in less than two seconds, the SUV sped away.
Had they encountered a robber?! Parked on the roadside, probably looking for a target to strike?
Driving such a big RV, most likely from burning, killing, and looting!
He hadn’t met up with his teammates yet; such an arrogant robber, wearing a green headgear and floral short sleeve shirt, clearly had overwhelming strength.
The player sighed in relief looking at the RV fading in the rearview mirror; good thing he drove fast.
Yu Jiang glanced once at the departing SUV and withdrew her gaze; Shi Xu’s vehicle from behind on the road arrived, parking next to the RV.
Shi Xu got out, looked up, and saw Yu Jiang adjusting her headgear, his expression slightly changing.
“Are you planning to change professions? Captain.”
Yu Jiang yanked off the headgear, “What change of profession, this is an item, try it if you don’t believe me.”
She said this while trying to lend him the headgear to wear.
“Your profession matches this item’s buff effects very well.”
Shi Xu’s mouth twitched slightly, “Thanks, you understand the Assassin Profession, but no need; my achievement reward gave me a face mask, it’s pretty good.”
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