Chapter 11: First Meeting
At 11 a.m., Yu Jiang saw the sign prompting Parallel Road and Silent Town.
To reach the entrance of the Silent Town instance, she had to pass through this Parallel Road first.
As for the final grouping when entering the instance, it was completely random, and this instance did not support teaming up.
After entering the Parallel Road, Yu Jiang no longer stopped the vehicle.
Without the protection of a service area, she still had to be cautious; places with legal order had villains, let alone here.
After driving forward about 2 kilometers, figures of other vehicles appeared ahead.
It was a pink four-wheeled small electric mobility vehicle, about 1.2 meters long, with only one seat, topped with a fluorescent green rain canopy, and very eye-catching colors.
This kind of vehicle seemed to have a maximum range of 50 or 60 kilometers, but she didn’t know how much it was in the survival game.
Soon, several more vehicles appeared on the road one after another, everyone was rushing on their way, at most glancing curiously, but none stopped.
But Yu Jiang noticed that two vehicles behind her were acting suspiciously.
One was a treasure-blue 1990s-style old pickup truck, with the bumper broken off.
The other was a white Ghost Fire Motorcycle, with an extremely explosive sound.
They were driving fine at first, but these two vehicles suddenly accelerated one from the left and one from the right; once might be unintentional, but twice or thrice was deliberate lane-cutting.
The pickup truck kept pace parallel to her, the car window suddenly rolled down, and he whistled a few times.
Yu Jiang’s car window was the most ordinary kind, without privacy protection or good sound insulation; with one side glance, her eyes met the four eyes on the vehicle next to her.
The driver on the pickup truck was a man in his thirties or forties, with a black ring around his collar, greasy and lecherous eyes and smile, yet he had a self-satisfied expression,
one hand resting outside the car window, holding a cigarette, steering with one hand,
“Yo, this old man’s joy looks pretty good, beauty driving so slow, not good at driving, huh? Want me to teach you a couple tricks?”
Yu Jiang frowned and sped up; this kind of person was an idiot, the more you paid attention to him, the more he acted up.
There were probably still about 3 kilometers ahead to Silent Town.
On the other side, the younger man riding the Ghost Fire sped up to catch up, letting out a piercing laugh, “The little sister is too shy.”
The person on the pickup truck smirked crookedly and overtook to block and stop in the middle of the road.
The tricycle’s defense was not as high as a gasoline vehicle, especially since Yu Jiang’s vehicle had just leveled up; crashing into them would put her at a disadvantage.
This was also why they dared to block the road and force a stop; if it were an off-road vehicle or a truck, he absolutely wouldn’t dare do this.
Today, it was impossible to resolve peacefully.
Yu Jiang took a deep breath, mentally preparing herself, and gripped the dagger in her pocket.
The two men had already gotten out of the vehicle; either one’s attack and overall fitness was not inferior to hers.
She had to seize the right moment, just like how she dealt with the zombies before.
Yu Jiang also got out of the vehicle, pretending to be uneasy as she asked, “What do you want?”
These two were very arrogant, not hiding their information; one was called AK Boss, the other Road’s Number One Handsome.
AK Boss took a drag of his cigarette, his eyes scanning her up and down,
“That Blueberry Tree on your vehicle is nice, pretty stylish, even planting trees.”
“We don’t mean anything else, just saw you’re alone and it’s unsafe, kindly want to team up with you, but we can’t protect you for nothing, right? You gotta show some sincerity.”
Yu Jiang’s hand on the car door tightened.
Seeing her like this, the two exchanged a glance and approached her a bit more, laughing even more frivolously,
“Don’t be scared, brother I—” AK Boss said as he reached out toward Yu Jiang, wanting to touch her face.
The next second, Yu Jiang threw hallucinogenic powder at them, and while they felt dizzy, she quickly took out the dagger and stabbed AK Boss’s neck.
By the time he reacted, blood was already spurting out; AK Boss yelled and was about to fight back, but Yu Jiang was faster, pulling out the dagger and stabbing two more times.
Until he clutched his neck and convulsed on the ground.
After a brief panic, Yu Jiang smashed a stone on the second person’s head.
The dizziness time was over.
Road’s Number One Handsome touched the blood on his head, eyes wide staring at his companion whom he had just met yesterday on the ground, retreating repeatedly.
He wanted to run, but Yu Jiang decisively chased after him with the bloody knife.
She didn’t have time to think of anything else, her mind full of: if she didn’t act, she would be the one to die.
Road’s Number One Handsome had just pulled out a steel bar when suddenly, ‘bang bang bang’ several sounds accompanied by screams, unripe blueberries like little firecrackers smashed onto him.
[Furious Blueberry: Encountering hateful people, the air becomes disgusting, of course hit first and talk later!]
Yu Jiang seized the opportunity to rush forward and stabbed at his neck repeatedly.
Looking at the two motionless people and the blood on the ground, she took several deep breaths, her rationality returning, her hand holding the knife still trembling.
After all, she had never fought with people before, not even killed chicken, duck, or fish, let alone a living person.
Before acting, Yu Jiang had struggled internally; actually, after drugging these two, she could have completely crashed past from the Ghost Fire Motorcycle side to leave.
But dizziness lasted at most 5 seconds; after they came to, endless trouble would follow.
The grudge was formed; what if they met in the instance and rallied others to deal with her?
Better to just kill them cleanly; the moment she decided, Yu Jiang acted.
She understood that hesitation was the most taboo at such times, so.
Having killed one, she couldn’t let the second escape.
Player survival means vehicle cannot be recycled; player death turns vehicle into scrapped state automatically.
Yu Jiang had the scavenger identity; when holding the crowbar, she could see if a vehicle could be recycled.
Therefore, she also discovered AK Boss was still breathing and pretending to be dead; she pretended not to know, squatted down to check pretentiously, then suddenly stabbed two more times.
Only after confirming both were completely dead did she relax.
After her emotions calmed a bit, Yu Jiang exerted great effort to drag the two corpses into the dense wild grass beside the road.
The supplies on their vehicles naturally belonged to her.
Scavenging supplies took some time; leaving two people lying on the road like that would be bad if passing survivors saw, and the bloody smell might attract other things.
Yu Jiang took out the domestic water she packed at the service area, washed the blood off her hands and the dagger, and casually wiped the water stains on her outerwear.
She picked up the scavenger crowbar and first walked toward the pickup truck.
Yu Jiang expressionless, smashed the car window with one hammer.
Crash—
Glass shattered, and she opened the car door from inside.
At this stage, everyone’s grid space was limited, so there were some supplies on the vehicle.
Lighter, two slightly damp cigarettes, compressed biscuits*10, whole wheat bread*6, cool potatoes*3 just dug out with soil, mineral water 550ml*6, gasoline*6L, steel plate*1, iron blocks*5, vehicle repair card (primary)
The Ghost Fire Motorcycle had an old waterproof travel bag fixed at the rear, containing 10 jin of flour, plastic cloth 140cm*140cm, edible vegetable seed oil 500ml*1, two dirty clothes, discard these.
Light screen scan showed no problem; she collected into the backpack everything that could fit, packed the small-volume lightweight food into the waterproof travel bag to take away.
Yu Jiang raised the crowbar again and began smashing the vehicle’s health bar to recycle materials.
Just as she was clanging away for a good while, smashing the old pickup truck into a half-scrap car state, vehicle driving sounds appeared from behind again.
Yu Jiang glanced sideways, while walking to the rear of the pickup truck, to the side near the grassland.
The corpses were not far in the grassland, and there was a large stone.
If the other party wanted to crash her, sorry, with sight obscured by weeds, crashing into it would make it hard to stabilize the vehicle’s center of gravity.
What came was a motorcycle, with sharp metal lines refracting cold light in the rainy weather.
Blueberry: Just say if it’s not furious!
