Chapter 168: Real Or Fake Mushroom And Wild Fruit Sellers
Yu Jiang spoke bluntly, and the public screen quieted down instead.
She took out a few sweet flour pancakes and a portion of millet porridge for breakfast. Sweet flour pancakes are simple to make with flour, clean water, and sugar.
Sugar is also rare resources here. Yu Jiang had only opened one small bag from the box, and the rest of the stock came from Raccoon Supermarket and the farm.
The noodle cakes were fried golden brown, with just the right sweetness, paired with warming millet porridge—delicious and very filling.
In the apocalypse, living like this requires a team. If it were all up to her alone, breakfast would probably just be instant noodles and canned eight-treasure congee.
Rushing to gather and earn crystal coins, who would have the energy to manage daily life.
When Yu Jiang is lazy, she directly uses clean leaves as vegetable bowls. After use, no need to wash them—the rainforest has plenty of large-leafed plants.
A little poison doesn’t matter; it can’t poison her anyway.
Yu Jiang found the repairman Beat Lemon and asked him to repair the scavenged hair dryer.
The RV has sockets, and the solar panel’s power generation efficiency has improved a lot. Every afternoon, turn on the water heater to heat the bathwater—that’s it. A hair dryer uses very little electricity.
The repair fee is expensive: 100 crystal coins. That’s enough compressed biscuits and bagged bread to eat for several days. Mineral water is pricey now at 25 crystal coins per bottle. Regular players wouldn’t waste resources repairing non-essential survival appliances.
Yu Jiang has money right now, so it’s no problem at all.
In cold weather, she only washes her hair every few days, using a highly absorbent towel to quickly dry it. There’s warm air in the vehicle, so it’s not too uncomfortable.
The humid feeling in the rainforest is really unpleasant. Sweating all over every day, if she doesn’t wash clean before resting, it won’t be long before the bedding she finally obtained gets dirty. This map has no residential areas to search.
After agreeing on the repair time with Beat Lemon, Yu Jiang changed out of her pajamas, checked her equipment, and set off.
Still the 100km mission. The extreme cold is due to bad weather, poor visibility, hard-to-drive roads, and fatigue value rising quickly.
The rainforest is purely uncomfortable due to the environment, but after a few days, she seems a bit accustomed—much better than when she first arrived.
There’s a shower at noon today at 12 o’clock, lasting 1 hour.
The scent of vegetation mixed with the smell of humus in the soil lingers in the vast rainforest.
On the road, a bunch of plump, colorful insects crawled out. The wheels crushed them, bursting out yellow and green juice, turning them into paper-thin bugs.
Yu Jiang has pyrethrum on her vehicle, so the situation is okay. Other players aren’t so lucky.
Ajiu6789: 【Seeking all kinds of medicine. This morning I woke up and touched something cold and cool—felt pretty nice. Turns out it was spicy strips. I jumped out of the tent right then. Now my back still feels chilly. This seems like a little python. Scared me into packing up the tent and running, afraid there might be bigger ones nearby.】
Doomsday Department Store Second-Hand Merchant: 【If it didn’t bite you, count your lucky stars. My mosquito net is full of insects. There’s a hole in the bottom right corner—don’t know what bit it open. Haven’t found it yet. Directly lit mosquito coil to fumigate, nearly choked myself to death.】
Lone Wolf 2009: 【Why do you all have mosquito nets and mosquito coils? What was the point of me painstakingly nailing gauze on?】
Jianbing Guozi No Egg: 【Can anyone be worse off than me? My arms, legs, back—all covered in bites. So itchy and painful, couldn’t sleep all night. Tell me when we can leave the rainforest!】
Walnut Pliers: 【Just modified my RV—solid wood furniture hollowed out by insects. I’m not crazy, haha.】
Zhan Xian: 【Instance mission coming up soon. Selling labor—give supplies, I’ll work.】
Mushroom-Picking Little Girl: 【Selling mushrooms, all personally tested edible mushrooms.】
Great Luck Great Profit: 【Give me a break. I gathered some yesterday too. Guess what? I saw plants turn colorful and, damn it, start talking. Detox pill -1. Heartbreaking. And you’re selling mushrooms? Doesn’t your conscience hurt?】
Gold Always Shines: 【Someone on my friend list ate a wild fruit and turned into a spray warrior, lost half their life. Nickname went black last night. I’d rather eat cockroach protein blocks than forage in the rainforest.】
Mushroom-Picking Little Girl: 【You definitely didn’t cook them thoroughly. Trust me, I’m from Yun City. Fresh mushrooms are super tasty, but you have to know how to identify them, or you’ll end up flat on your back.】
The King Called Me to Patrol the Mountain: 【Give me some mushrooms.】
Yu Jiang thought of the dried mushroom fried rice she’d eaten before—it was so fragrant it made her dizzy.
Mushroom-Picking Little Girl: 【Sure thing, big shot. Initiating trade!】
The price isn’t cheap or expensive—a small basket for 40 crystal coins, only beef liver mushrooms and chicken fat mushrooms.
Beef liver mushrooms can be poisonous; they turn blue when cut and must be thoroughly cooked to eat.
Yu Jiang bought them not just because they taste good, but also to see if there were any medicinal herbs she hadn’t collected.
The other party is sincerely selling mushrooms—no mixing in deadly poisonous ones. After thinking it over, Yu Jiang accepted the friend request from Mushroom-Picking Little Girl.
Plants are abundant in the rainforest. These past two days, there have been sellers of mushrooms, wild vegetables, wild fruit—some sincere traders, others peddling fakes, claiming poisonous fruit is edible.
Truly edible supplies aren’t that easy to find, but poisonous ones are plentiful. Many things the light screen can’t scan; you have to explore and test them yourself to see the info. Some black-hearted players pass off poison as good,
Anyway, buyers are mostly regular players—nine out of ten can’t afford tracking cards to hunt them down. The timid starve, the bold overeat. Cowering like that, how can they survive here.
Sicily’s teammate Little Orange Cat once sold fruit that turned people into spray warriors—got cursed on public screen for half a day.
The key with that fruit is it’s not poison—detox pills don’t work. Causes diarrhea so bad your steps falter; electrolyte water is expensive. Whether you pull through depends entirely on your constitution.
If you survive, the system taunts you with an achievement titled “Spray Warrior.”
Who’d dare put that on their record—people would laugh them to death.
Little Orange Cat explained she didn’t know either, sold it cheap out of kindness to help everyone—not like she got the achievement.
Angry players weren’t having it. More radical ones said if they met him, they’d splash him with a face full of feces.
The rain is almost stopping. Tonight there should be an instance mission release. Lots of people @-ing Yu Jiang, asking when she’ll list medicine.
What Yu Jiang said is true—she’s gathering medicinal herbs. If urgent, they can collect herbs themselves and have her process them.
She doesn’t have much of anything right now except medicinal herbs, ingredients, and plenty of crystal coins—of course she can’t tell others that.
To manufacture drugs, she has to complete her own missions first, with spare fatigue value left for crafting.
She won’t disrupt her own pace for others.
The poisonous medicinal herbs mission has one last item. Just now, Yu Jiang found mutated gelsemium, aka broken intestine grass. Eating it alone kills instantly; medicinal dosage must be extremely precise.
Illustrated guide collection progresses fast at first, harder later. Finding new medicinal herbs in this densely layered, impenetrable forest isn’t easy.
Yu Jiang is always especially patient with gathering.
She’s more proficient at dealing with monsters in boxes now. As soon as the flat-headed mutated cobra poked its head out, she smashed it with a heavy stick.
Then, while it couldn’t react, she gave it a random attack beating, finally raising her improved wooden fork to impale it through.
Next chapter will be late~
