Chapter 247: Tallying The Supplies
Joy restrained the emotion in his eyes. In his team, a five-person squad with decent combat power had only one person left, barely alive after exiting the instance.
It was still due to good luck; the candlestick that the team pooled money to buy was in his hands, and all the prop cards hoarded along the road were consumed.
None of that mattered. They hadn’t even figured out the opponent’s true combat power. The information they brought out was no longer a secret, already known since the Black Wind wipeout in 005 area a few days ago.
Only the White Crystal Stone prop from the service area had slight value. It wasn’t very useful either; the bound weapon couldn’t be snatched.
Area 006 originally had few developed healers, and they lost one more in the instance.
Their 002 area truly had outstanding people and land.
That Sicily had good alchemy skills. Even if switched to another game area, she could become the top alchemist there. But she was in the same area as Little Drill Wind, always suppressed.
Recently, she was looking for high combat power teams from other areas to team up. She wanted to control the trading market, kill the first one, and become first.
Joy wasn’t interested in small fights. He wouldn’t join personally; he would only fan the flames.
Sicily looked at the reply from the other side, so angry that she ate two less bites of dinner.
“Fuck! All sand coins.” He vented by cursing several times.
Even after server merge, his purification skill level was the highest in 002 area, able to remove the Poison Master’s debuff.
Besides him, it would be hard to find another person who could counter The King Called Me to Patrol the Mountain.
He thought revealing his trump card would make the other side eager to cooperate with him, but the result was also full of anger.
Sicily was indeed anxious. Before, he felt he wasn’t much worse off, just a bit slower in progress than Little Drill Wind.
Now, seeing one first kill clearance notice after another, he feared he could no longer catch up to the opponent.
Poison Master Path was the route he wanted to choose at the start, to slay all sides. Who would want to stand in the back assisting? But he had never found the way to unlock the Poison Master Path.
Later, he knew it was impossible, so he focused on leveling up skills.
But watching the opponent get first kills hurt more than two knife strikes! She was the only alchemist on the combat power ranking.
And he, having failed to get the Poison Master Path information from her back then, could no longer reach the top ten on the combat power ranking.
Even the Ice Cream Assassin, using the healer as an iron-blooded warrior fighting style, was only ranked 16th.
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Yu Jiang browsed the trading platform for a bit, glancing at the public screen occasionally.
Some were analyzing their team’s four-person setup; others expressed disbelief, and there were conspiracy theories that they might have brought in cannon fodder to use and discard.
Yu Jiang just looked without speaking. No need; whether these people praised or doubted, it had no substantial impact on her. She didn’t lack that bit of reputation.
She was still busy filtering the water collected in the instance, boiling it, and storing it.
Such large barrels were quite time-consuming.
Three water cards: Yu Jiang planned to use one to store drinking water produced by the water collector, one for river water.
Luckily, her RV had plenty of storage grids—not counting the medicine cabinet, there were 160 grids. The time stasis grids were a bit tight, but squeezing would barely suffice.
There was still enough space inside the vehicle; full grids of supplies could be moved outside.
Yu Jiang borrowed a stainless steel round bucket from Sad Pig Intestine, lit a fire to boil water, then started soothing in-car music and began inventorying her personal grid.
She took out several carts and shopping baskets, plus a whole bunch of miscellaneous supplies.
Various breads, 65 pieces; two large bottles each of blueberry and cranberry jam.
Jam had high sugar content, could replenish the body’s needed energy, and the sweetness could also alleviate emotions.
Half a bag of potatoes, 2 bags of flour, a large bag of white sugar, a bag of powdered sugar for crafting sweets, and several pieces of cheese and salt.
Two plates of cherries, one ham—this was valuable both before and after the apocalypse.
Various wines, 16 bottles total.
Dozens of small cake pieces; she took the entire birdcage-style multi-layer plates holding the cakes, 5 birdcage plates in total.
No kidding, the plates’ design was really beautiful. Putting desserts on them, with a cup of coffee, sitting in the luxurious RV in the apocalypse—thinking about it improved her mood.
Important supplies were these; the rest were edible spices, curtains, carpet, pajamas, etc.
So luxurious, Yu Jiang sighed while sorting.
A bit dusty, some baguettes hard as stone, and a few nut breads—taken out and put together with a bucket of river water.
Also some clothing and quilts picked up from the manor, the lesser ones taken out too; all these were prepared for sale.
Good stuff was of course kept for personal use.
After sorting, Yu Jiang sent the supplies allocated to the other three teammates.
Half the flour directly given to Sad Pig Intestine, deposited into the team ingredients warehouse.
The rest counted as them asking Sad Pig Intestine for processing: buns, steamed buns, flatbread, noodle lumps, all fine.
When conditions didn’t allow cooking, flour could be stir-fried, sealed, and rushed with hot water into paste to fill the stomach, so Yu Jiang kept some flour stockpiled for herself too.
Ham and cheese also sent to Sad Pig Intestine, asking him to process; Yu Jiang kept a bit of spices for herself, sent the rest.
Supplies finally inventoried; her personal grid was empty again.
Yu Jiang sent a small piece of cake to each team member; while sorting earlier, she had eaten three or four pieces from her share.
Really delicious.
Misty Mountain Villa had such conditions: all-inclusive food and lodging, staying in a castle, eating luxuriously—who wouldn’t be tempted? In the instance, she only dared to stockpile without eating much, afraid she couldn’t resist the temptation.
Yu Jiang sent a message in the team channel: “The cakes are a gift from our Misty Mountain Villa squad to everyone, one small piece per person—not a lot.”
Strawberry Candy: “Thanks Sister Jiang, thanks everyone! One piece is already so happy!”
Yao Yao Qie Ke Nao: “Mm-hmm! So touching, we just joined not long ago and we get some too, woo woo woo.”
Qian Lai Qian Lai: “Apocalypse, huh—a small piece of cake is too precious. Been in Road Survival so long, this is my first time eating cake.”
188 Male College Student: “Me too, first time eating such delicious cake.”
Sixth Brother Blacksmith: “Didn’t like sweets before the apocalypse; now eating such exquisite sweets, I’m so excited I’m tearing up.”
Sad Pig Intestine: “I have an oven too. Sister Jiang just sent me some ingredients; I can make some simple cake bases.”
Kuang Kuang Kuang: “Won’t it be too much trouble?”
Sad Pig Intestine: “No no, the more ingredient processing orders I get, the faster I level up. I can already use the system’s light screen cyber kitchen to craft some food.”
Hand Holding Cleaver Chopping Wire: “Holy shit! Intestine, that’s too strong!”
Yu Jiang: “Everyone’s companions, no distinction by join time. I have some river water, clothing, bread here—better than from supply boxes. If anyone wants to trade, use upgrade materials.”
Clothing from the manor wasn’t very suitable for wearing outside, but some shirts were fine, good as pajamas too.
After speaking, Yu Jiang opened the friend channel and sent out the purchasable supplies list.
“River water needs you to settle or filter, then boil yourselves. Limited quantity, first come first served per person—pay first, then send container.”
Don’t Abandon: “Got it, Big Shot! I prepared containers long ago!”
Clearance failure has ‘Nothing Gained’ buff; water limited to 2L per person, others need 500ml.
In the friend channel, all were people Yu Jiang felt were okay before adding as friends. Those not lacking food and water were very self-aware and didn’t snap up.
Yu Jiang was thinking ahead: if expanding team size later, or for team instances with dozens of people, developing the friend channel was necessary. Friendly prices made sense; she wouldn’t lose out anyway.
Seeing many darlings wanting more updates, thanking everyone here for supporting this book~
Lately I’ve been writing fresh daily with no stockpile, so can’t add updates yet~ Sometimes update times are tight too; when I have time, I’ll try to stockpile drafts.
