Chapter 159: Huh, Poison Can’t Take You Down
Electrolyte beverages, soda water, and functional beverages are now very expensive.
Most players have no stock on hand, relying entirely on opening boxes. The rainforest doesn’t seem to have supply service areas either.
Slightly cheaper ones on the trading platform have all been bought, and the rest have almost doubled in price.
Thinking of this, Yu Jiang took stock of the beverages in her hand.
Raccoon Supermarket restocked + previous instance vending machine: electrolyte drinks *22 bottles, cola *20, various juices, soda water, functional beverages totaling 40 bottles.
There are also fruits and vegetables obtained from the farm, which can supplement vitamins and trace elements.
Yu Jiang won’t easily sell these supplies; she has enough for one or two months of her own use.
After finishing breakfast, Yu Jiang sent messages in the team and friend channels respectively,
“I’m collecting scorpion stingers. Can trade for medicine and mosquito nets, crystal coins also work.”
X: “I’ll keep an eye out.”
Kuang Kuang Kuang: “I have one here, got it from opening a box yesterday. Sending it to you, trade for medicine is fine.”
Hand Holding Cleaver Chopping Wire: “I’ll head out soon. Will send you any I get first, and we can settle up together in the evening.”
Everyone meant the same thing, and Yu Jiang replied: “ok, thanks.”
At the same time, she also sent out the information she knew,
“The mutated scorpion’s weakness is its head. Its tail stinger attack speed is extremely fast. Getting hit causes temporary limb paralysis, worse than the previous beetle poison.”
Meaning that teammates who can’t beat it should just run. Even if they don’t get the stinger, she’ll sell them medicine at a friendly price; preserving themselves is most important.
At 7:20 AM, Yu Jiang changed clothes and set off forward.
Today she plans to cover more mileage to see if she can complete the poison fog skill mission.
Attack -5%, health value -10, defense -5%, also with stinging eyes effect.
Whether running or fighting head-on, this is too useful!
Complete the mission early for peace of mind.
Just over an hour after setting off, after getting out to gather some medicinal herbs and wild berries, fatigue value reached 50, and stamina consumption was also fast.
The insect chirping by her ear was omnipresent and annoying to hear. Yu Jiang stabbed her knife into a tree trunk, into the body of a not-yet-mature scorpion.
Juvenile doesn’t drop stinger, only gives 1 crystal coin, just that stingy.
After 20 kilometers, Yu Jiang saw the prompt ahead for entering the parallel road.
Weather changed from clear to shower, duration about 30 minutes.
In less than two minutes, sunlight was completely obscured by dark clouds.
This place often has showers that come fast and go fast. Yu Jiang prepared to stop and rest, continuing after the rain.
She had just closed all the car windows when a torrential downpour started outside, accompanied by thunder.
Rainforest road in the rain carries a lonely and desolate atmosphere,
Visually it’s like that, but in reality, heavy rain isn’t refreshing either; the air is still muggy, with even higher humidity.
Public screen has been complaining for two days, especially gasoline vehicles that turned on air conditioning to dehumidify right after arriving at the rainforest map—they really can’t handle the energy consumption and can only endure it themselves today.
Even without rain it’s uncomfortable; it’ll be more painful soon. After the rain, those mountain leeches will come out again.
Rainwater blurred the front windshield. Yu Jiang sat in the driver’s seat, ate a dozen blueberries to drop fatigue value below 50, and took a sip of chilled functional beverage.
Inside the vehicle was very stuffy. She was now wearing sport quick-dry underwear, silk shirt with defense +5, quick-dry hiking pants, hair fully tied up—light clothing made her body more comfortable.
Half an hour passed, rain stopped, sky cleared up quickly.
Yu Jiang turned on the wiper, wiped the rearview mirror again. Without looking outside, she knew roadside mountain leeches were now swarming out to forage.
That scene can’t be thought of; thinking about it makes her feel itchy all over.
She did a final check of her equipment, shifted gears, stepped on the accelerator, and slowly drove into the parallel road.
After driving forward 5 kilometers, Yu Jiang got out, put on raincoat, held a piece of insect repellent incense, and went to gather.
Pyrethrum once used has a 24-hour effective period that can’t be stopped, feels a bit of a loss.
She still had one and a half mosquito coils on hand; using sparingly, three or four days is no problem.
The scene outside was really terrifying: one tree full of stinger-bearing caterpillars. Without insect repellent supplies, passing by, one slip-up and they’d smash into your head. If unnoticed, very likely to bring them inside the vehicle.
Yu Jiang holding mosquito coil also tightened her hat drawstring. If not for gathering poisonous medicinal herbs inside to complete the mission, she really wouldn’t want to come in.
No boxes, mosquito coil used too—if no more medicinal herbs found, it’d be a big loss.
The scent from the mosquito coil quickly spread outward; insects crawling toward her all turned around and retreated.
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Found another one!
Just 6 more to go, victory is ahead, charge! Yu Jiang psyched herself up.
Suddenly, she stopped, backed up two steps, and looked at the glowing thing among the intertwined plants.
What is that? A colorful pitcher plant?
Nearby were a few rotten tree roots with things growing on them like tremella, but particularly large.
Seeing anything strange here felt normal to her, but something this strange definitely needed checking out.
Light screen couldn’t scan it, whether the tremella-like thing or the colorful pitcher plant.
Gotta say, the tremella looks pretty tasty.
Yu Jiang first poked the pitcher plant’s pitcher with a stick—no reaction. Then poked with her hand—still no reaction.
[Pitcher Plant: Huh, poison doesn’t take you down, but your hand will turn green for 30 minutes, hehehe~
I’ll tell you a little secret: the prettier the plant, the more dangerous. Good thing you met me; some plants really eat people, and they disguise themselves.]
Yu Jiang looked at her hand’s now dark green skin, a bit scary, but otherwise fine—no negative status on her body.
Got it, this thing gives information but also poisons players, applying debuff.
She has plant poison resistance, so she’s fine, just skin color change on her hand.
Plants eat people and are good at disguise.
Yu Jiang looked at the snow-white, seemingly ethereal mushroom nearby, and pulled out a picked-up glass jar.
Turned back to the pitcher plant with a smile, “You’re so special, definitely not harmless. Anyway, your poison can’t take me down. Lend some digestive fluid from your pitcher.”
Saying “lend,” her hands weren’t polite at all; she filled two jars and ran.
The pitcher plant’s silent look seemed to say: Don’t run if you dare! Come back!
Yu Jiang got in the vehicle without looking back and continued forward.
Even pitcher plant is poisonous; its digestive fluid is most likely poisonous too and can be used as a hidden weapon.
Approaching noon, traveling with stops for gathering and opening boxes, today’s mileage only 60km.
Yu Jiang saw four vehicles stopped roadside, several players discussing something. Their equipment didn’t look like first echelon—not very well protected.
Strong teams, even if pretending to be down-and-out, would definitely protect themselves thoroughly.
Seeing Yu Jiang’s car approach, a player wearing old sportswear waved.
“We found a super huge honeycomb in the forest, might have honey or bee pupae. Interested in taking it down together? Supplies split evenly.”
Yu Jiang: Used to fleece service areas, now fleecing NPC plants, picking up along the way
Pitcher Plant and Golden Skin Tree: Flower for me! Scavengers are insane, fleece anything
