Chapter 190: Continuing To Recover Vehicles
Yu Jiang agreed with Aladdin Nerve to deliver the goods tomorrow night.
Today her Fatigue Value is too high, and Advanced Healing Potion takes too much energy to refine; it’s better to return to the Personal Road and refine it then.
Even if it’s stuffy on the Parallel Road, Yu Jiang won’t take a bath; she’ll just wipe down with a clean damp towel, change into fresh underwear, that’s enough; she won’t change her outerwear, as it will get dirty on the road tomorrow.
If she doesn’t take a bath, she won’t get on the bed; instead, she’ll unfold the sofa and sleep on the sofa bed.
She put a dustproof cloth on top, and since she’s afraid of the heat, Yu Jiang added a sleeping mat padding; it won’t dirty the sofa.
All the setups inside the RV are her hard-hoarded possessions, and she cherishes them extra when using them.
The next day, Survival Time: 51 days
Less than 2 months, in Game Area 002 with 50,000 people, surviving players are down to only 26,532.
The sharp drop in numbers is due to during the Blizzard period and after entering the Rainforest, many players who didn’t get Professional Achievement early on couldn’t beat the zombies, and as Difficulty increased, they couldn’t survive either.
In the morning, Shi Xu took back the warning sign, and at 8 o’clock the Team set off fully prepared.
Before 10 o’clock, Yu Jiang spotted several Abandoned Vehicles on the road.
Mostly Level 2 Vehicles, only one Level 3.
The Vehicle System sends NPCs to clean up Abandoned Vehicles on schedule, so she doesn’t encounter them every time.
Yu Jiang excitedly swung the crowbar and got out of the car; if she encountered a blocking monster, she’d kick it away for her Teammates to kill.
No one can delay her Scavenging!
There’s no Residential Area in the Rainforest, so if she scavenges less Things, she can only recycle Vehicles.
It’s not necessarily more profitable than killing monsters, but Scavenging is fun; if she doesn’t smash some Things in a day, she feels uncomfortable.
This is a Level 3 SUV; the Car Front crashed into a Tree Trunk and is dented, there’s blood and severed limbs inside the Vehicle, and some light green liquid like some creature’s Digestive Fluid.
Wriggling Insects appear in the blood, and Mushrooms have grown on the severed limbs.
Luckily it’s inedible kinds, otherwise, thinking of the edible Mushrooms she’s eaten, Yu Jiang feels a bit queasy.
She turned her head sideways, her gaze looking toward the depths of the forest, where the dotted patterns on the slowly swaying vibrant Flowers seem to be glowing.
The rich fragrance that’s dizzying, mixed with a bit of Rotten Smell, makes vision gradually distort.
In just one second, Yu Jiang sobered up; it’s this thing that caused the Level 3 Vehicle to lose control.
More than half of the shattered Corpse was dragged in and eaten, and the remains won’t last long before being devoured clean by smaller Insects and fungi.
Insect-catching Plants use smells and special shapes to attract prey; Man-eating Flower is the same, the smell it emits is poisonous.
The worse the health Status, the easier to fall victim.
“Don’t go this way, there’s a Man-eating Flower inside, it will poison you.” Yu Jiang spoke to remind her Teammates.
Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy, who was just about to step forward, immediately retreated.
Yu Jiang looked around inside the Vehicle; none of the Things can be taken, the Rotten Smell is too overpowering, using these Things easily causes illness.
Seeing the opened Facial Tissue box full of brown blood spots left by flies, Yu Jiang sighed regretfully and continued smashing the Vehicle Frame.
The bumper is deformed, no problem, just smash it off to recycle; she wants the Plastic and Rubber strips, and also smashed off the car-mounted Small Refrigerator.
This one is bound to the Vehicle, no way to take it separately, can only recycle some Materials.
If she could pick up this much stuff every day, Level 5 Vehicle is just around the corner!
Morning went smoothly, and the belief that the rest of the day will be lucky too is real; in half a day, Yu Jiang has already recycled nearly 100 Steel Blocks.
Level 5 Vehicle needs 2500, her Supplies and Crystal Coins have to be collected directly from players to get enough, but saving a bit is a bit.
The Passive Skill ‘Power of Wealth’ is very useful, she has to hold onto her position on the Wealth Ranking.
During the noon Rest, they encountered another group of players traveling together; both sides were wary of each other, kept their distance, no conflict arose.
The other side lit a campfire, boiled water with an old kettle, had simple Filtration Devices nearby, several Vehicles had luggage racks added, their setup was middling—not better than the best, but better than the worst.
From their interaction, they probably had to band together to survive in the Poisonous Miasma Zone, that’s why they gathered.
Seeing the Level 5 Vehicle, someone cautiously approached to get friendly, looking into the RV, “Hello, we”
“We’re not interested in chatting, best for everyone to keep their distance.” Yu Jiang’s indifferent gaze swept over.
The approaching man and woman received the warning, exchanged a glance, and retreated unhappily.
“These people with high Vehicle Levels don’t even acknowledge others. We just thought, finally seeing living people, we could Communicate some Survival Experience.”
The male player Feng Lin who spoke glanced at the Off-road RV behind, unable to hide the envy in his eyes.
All surviving on the Road, a female player who doesn’t look that strong has an Off-road RV, while he struggles to upgrade to Level 3 Vehicle, feeling a bit inferior and unconvinced, not sure if they’re from a Merchant Caravan.
That group has average Strength but makes a good living reselling, better off than many Regular Players.
“I told you earlier, no need to say hi.” Don’t Abandon, sitting furthest inside, shook his head, “Not running into robbers is already lucky.”
Information and Experience are valuable, why would others share.
But she couldn’t say that either; these people are just traveling together, jointly resisting dangers, sharing Supplies from opening Boxes, with small cliques internally, not a fixed Team.
Feng Lin didn’t speak, returned to his own car, opened the Friend List, “Bro, I think I just ran into Merchant Caravan people, they have an RV and an Off-road Vehicle, looks like hired Bodyguards.”
“Sure it’s the Merchant Caravan’s RV? Only one Bodyguard?” The other side asked.
“Probably, the other Vehicles don’t look that impressive.” Feng Lin felt a bit unsure, but also a hidden thrill rose.
He knew the other side weren’t good people; if they take down the RV, he could get some Supplies too.
After a while, a Message came from there: “Give me a Team Up spot.”
Feng Lin’s mouth curved up, “Bro, you coming over? I think they’re about to set off.”
He said it on purpose to make the other come faster, but unexpectedly Yu Jiang’s Team was rushing back to the Personal Road; once Fatigue Value dropped to the safe line, they continued onward, really started the Vehicles and left.
Now Feng Lin was dumbfounded, then comforted himself, no problem, Vehicles in Poisonous Miasma Zone can’t go fast anyway, can’t go far.
He waited with Anticipation, about forty minutes later, engine roars appeared behind.
Leading is a battered Land Cruiser decorated with Leaves and Vines, wearing a Ghille Suit layer, high speed, looks intimidating at first glance.
Don’t Abandon immediately stood up, “Get in the car quick, go!”
The incoming people clearly saw them but didn’t slow down, looking like they’re going to overtake and surround them.
“You said earlier, you quit the Team first to negotiate Supplies trade with the other Team?” Don’t Abandon suddenly realized, looking at Feng Lin.
The latter’s eyes dodged, several people in the Team panicked, hurriedly packed things and returned to their cars.
“Didn’t you see that RV? Definitely lots of Supplies inside, I just sold a tip.” Feng Lin tried to justify himself,
“They won’t Target us, I know the Leader, how about everyone joins in?”
“Can you stand this daily heart-pounding life, worrying about not finding Supplies ahead, or getting killed by monsters any day, barely surviving? If you can get a share of the Merchant Caravan’s Supplies”
