Chapter 234: Wait, Are They Insane?
Hand Holding Cleaver Chopping Wire: “!!! Even through the screen, it smells so fragrant, give me some too.”
Yao Yao Qie Ke Nao: “Whatever I have, I eat it ‘touched’ ever since coming here and meeting everyone, we’re living immortal days!”
Tiger is Also a Cat: “Wuwuwu, yes, even my cat’s mental state has improved.”
He became a Beast Tamer precisely because he picked up that Chinese Li Hua Cat; his cat can warn of danger and help him find supplies.
But due to doomsday conditions, he couldn’t raise the cat very well; even cooking rice or noodles once wasn’t easy, let alone fresh meat—people couldn’t even eat that.
Now he and his cat are living good days; he can save a bit from his own rations, and sometimes even buy his cat a few Button Quail egg mixed rice.
Not long after, Sad Pig Intestine sent dinner to everyone one by one; Yu Jiang bought a few extra portions and also had Sad Pig Intestine process some taro cakes.
She still had quite a few potatoes, corn, and red/purple sweet potatoes in hand; she simply steamed them in the RV Kitchen herself,
When using the charging card, RV electricity was included, so it wasn’t troublesome; just wash clean and put in the electric pot—corn didn’t even need washing.
Yu Jiang maximized wool-gathering; every time she activated the charging card, she had to use autopilot, then turn on the water heater, steam staple foods in the kitchen herself, and sometimes brew a pot of tea.
She stockpiled several pots of cooked rice; when needed, just put it in a can, and it became mixed rice—more convenient than self-heating rice.
She also picked up some nice-looking tea cups, but really had no kung fu to use them; a portable water cup with a lid, toss tea leaves in—more hassle-free.
Yu Jiang sat at the table, set out today’s dinner, and added a small bowl of mung bean soup and lettuce for herself.
To save washing one plate, she found a bamboo basket, lined it with oiled paper, then put the food on top; oiled paper was very cheap, 10 crystal coins for 60 sheets, since hardly anyone bought it.
Crispy Pork Belly dipped in sauce, wrapped in lettuce—delicious beyond words; the vegetables and fruit from the Farm Service Area were all high quality, and the slight sweetness of the lettuce perfectly balanced the greasiness of the pork belly.
She saved the sweet potato to pair with eight-treasure congee tomorrow morning; cured meat stir-fried with wild vegetables, Yu Jiang directly bought a box and saved it for later.
After comfortably finishing dinner, Yu Jiang sent the medicine Blue Umbrella wanted.
The instance mission was released at this time.
[Good evening, how does everyone feel after the server merge? Don’t you also like the feeling of so many people striving together for survival? If not satisfied, no problem anyway, can’t change it.
New instance mission delivered, please accept promptly oh. If not participating in the instance, you can use an instance leave card. No leave card? Then accept five days of ‘nothing gained’ punishment. Yes, punishment increased from three to five days.]
As soon as the message came out, players on the public screen became active.
Absolute Taste Crispy Armpit: [Sounds like without punishment, I’d pick up supplies!]
Stubborn Donkey Iron Hammer: [Don’t say it, really don’t— these past few days were no different from punishment. I’d already saved enough upgrade materials, but one look at fuel cost, couldn’t upgrade, directly sold the materials. Vehicle a bit more worn-out, at least it can still run.]
Curse Me Merit-10: [Makes sense, feels like accepting or not is about the same; not accepting lets you turtle a bit.]
Public screen all said that, but in reality everyone quickly opened the mission, pondering which to choose.
Yu Jiang had already discussed two rounds with the team.
She had a three-star high difficulty instance for teaming: Mist Manor.
Five-person team, but only 4 people in the team had this option.
In the past, for teaming instances short on numbers, the system would scatter people over to fill, making up the count.
But this instance showed: [Team instance, can open even if numbers incomplete, but be cautious!!!]
Key point: instance max 10 people, i.e., two teams; they were one short, so risk increased by that much.
Yu Jiang wanted this instance also because of the picture: architecture felt extremely luxurious, supplies wouldn’t be few.
Unlike the other two options, which looked desolate and scrap at a glance.
Yu Jiang and the other three teammates, Shi Xu, Lightning Mage King, Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy still decided to go.
Fortune favors the bold! Since it said team incomplete still okay to enter, means can clear with fewer people.
Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy: “Kill duck rush duck do duck!”
Lightning Mage King: “‘Refuel'”
Things settled just like that; other team members also assigned teams, successfully accepted their respective instance missions.
Everyone had fairly sufficient medicine on hand; if short, no problem, could buy from Yu Jiang.
After handling these matters, Yu Jiang cleared the table, washed up, went to the second floor to sleep.
Ever since owning this double-decker RV, her life and sleep quality had qualitatively improved; every day she most anticipated going up to rest.
She sometimes sat on the terrace, looking at scenery on the road, and her planted medicinal herbs, potatoes, cherry tomatoes, okra, enjoying a moment of tranquility and ease, feeling it could dispel a day’s fatigue.
Next morning.
Yu Jiang’s biological clock was long formed, waking promptly around 6; if status good, she’d take dumbbells to train arm and back strength, then go down to wash up.
Past few days always fighting, so she didn’t train; exercising was to enhance physical fitness—increasing burden to make body more fatigued was not worth it.
Yu Jiang lay in bed brushing public screen and trading platform for over forty minutes, sporadically buying some cost-effective supplies, before getting up.
This instance opened at 6 PM; parking plaza opened at 9 AM, could enter early.
Yu Jiang leisurely ate breakfast in the RV, waited till 8:30 when team assembled, then formally set off.
Before on personal road still had sunlight; after tracking mission entered parallel road, sky suddenly darkened, a gloomy desolate atmosphere.
Swamp had even fewer wild grass, wide visibility, yet still couldn’t see end of scenery beside the road.
This tracking mission distance a bit far; if not for never entered culvert, Yu Jiang would suspect they were already in the instance.
All the way till past 2 PM, they smoothly arrived at parking plaza.
Already couldn’t see swamp; surroundings were that very primitive stone slab roads, all tattered.
Beside were two medieval-style stone houses as rest stop, yard overgrown with wild grass, messy and unkempt.
Yu Jiang circled around, discovered two half dead medicinal herbs in the corner, gathered and took them; nothing else useful left, streetlight couldn’t be knocked.
Time ample, the four carefully observed surroundings; Yu Jiang didn’t forget old trade, picked up some firewood dropped on ground.
She had a kitchen, didn’t need to burn fire anymore, but most on the road still relied on wood for cooking, so still important supplies.
Around 5 PM, the other team arrived: 4 men 1 woman, all new faces, couldn’t tell from which district before.
Yu Jiang and Shi Xu’s vehicles both used camouflage car cover, looked less eye-catching.
Opponent’s gaze swept over vehicles, fell on them, saw only 4 people, gaze stunned for seconds.
Aren’t they crazy, daring to enter with just four people?
