Chapter 126: Extreme Cold Weather Continues
Yu Jiang thought for a moment and sent another message,
“I have another idea: every other day, return to our own road to rest. The team can split into A/B groups and diverge. If something happens, there will be someone to provide support.”
Purple Butt Can Do It: “This is good!”
Everyone expressed agreement in the channel one after another, and they decided to do it this way.
Friend List can set special message reminders. The light screen will pop up with a ringtone, so even if you’re asleep at night, you don’t have to worry.
Moreover, it’s just a backup plan. Situations truly needing support probably aren’t that common right now.
The hundreds of players in the First Echelon are all striving hard to develop. They won’t easily make enemies for themselves unless they absolutely have to fight.
As for the players behind, who without some confidence would be full enough to risk their lives looking for trouble.
The plan was settled, and next was how to divide the teams. Everyone discussed it for two hours.
After 10 PM, Yu Jiang blinked her somewhat sleepy eyes, leaned against the headboard, and finally figured everything out.
Team allocation needs to consider combat power and skills.
Yu Jiang, Shi Xu, Lightning Mage King, Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy, Purple Butt Can Do It—five people.
Hand Holding Cleaver Chopping Wire, Kuang Kuang Kuang, Strawberry Candy, But a Little Frost, Sixth Brother Blacksmith
Han Jiang Gu Ying, Desert Eagle, Good Times, 28-bar Bicycle, 188 Male College Student, Sad Pig Intestine
These are their own combat power teams.
Yu Jiang has area attack and healing skills, Shi Xu does full attacks and can one-shot targets without special items, Lightning Mage King charges quickly and has control support—it’s enough. Purple Butt Can Do It is a luck buff support.
The other two teams each have one in the Top Ten on Combat Power Leaderboard. Hand Holding Cleaver Chopping Wire’s team has four pure combat players, Kuang Kuang Kuang is squishy but she’s an archer, so she doesn’t do melee combat.
Han Jiang Gu Ying’s team has three main players, 28-bar Bicycle has high defense and low attack, two supports, Sad Pig Intestine’s buff skills, plus Desert Eagle Uncle’s attacks—quite formidable.
Since Desert Eagle Uncle joined the team, bullets are no longer a big issue. Sixth Brother Blacksmith can make them, and Purple Butt Can Do It can help him collect materials and negotiate prices.
It moved Uncle so much that he swore on the spot never to leave the team.
After eating Sad Pig Intestine’s team meal, experiencing the friendly prices from Sixth Brother Blacksmith and Yu Jiang, and having a reliable merchant team to help find whatever is missing, he doesn’t want to go back to those hard days!
Leaving the team, where else would there be such awesome blacksmiths and merchants, plus a cook and an alchemist!
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Yu Jiang slept soundly until dawn, leisurely washed up, sat down, and continued discussing parallel road protection business with everyone.
Today it’s Yu Jiang and Han Jiang Gu Ying’s teams working. Friend Channel, people introduced by Wholesale King Wang Defa get priority, pay rewards via trading platform.
Yu Jiang is also in the friend channel and trading platform, clarifying some things in advance.
The King Called Me to Patrol the Mountain: [Follow the team’s arrangements. We’re not responsible if you act on your own and something happens.
We only protect safety; handle your own supplies needed on the road. If there’s behavior harmful to the team, cooperation ends immediately.]
Players introduced by Wholesale King Wang Defa and Purple Butt Can Do It all said they could accept these conditions. As soon as Yu Jiang finished speaking, they placed orders on the trading platform.
They didn’t advertise on the public screen. Too many unfamiliar players mixing into the team would increase risk—who knows if there are disguised people scouting for information.
But some players browsing the trading platform saw it: Yu Jiang’s homepage lists 200 crystal coins for team spots, with note (discount possible depending on skills).
Many people left messages inquiring, and some posted it on the public screen.
Palace Fine Wine: [Big Shot team is selling companion spots! But can’t buy directly, need approval from the big shot side. Big shot, look at me!]
Player 36280: [My skills should qualify for a discount, right? What are the exact conditions?]
Taro Boba: [What! Big Shot team only 200 crystal coins? Yesterday teams in top 200 combat power were also this price!]
Shadow Master: [Isn’t she an alchemist? In a real fight, she’s at most top 200 level.]
He’s in a top 200 combat power team, and he doesn’t know what these people are so excited about.
The King Called Me to Patrol the Mountain is already first on the wealth ranking, and now coming to earn this money and compete with them—it’s intentional!
Too many messages, Yu Jiang didn’t reply to any and just sent one uniformly:
[We’re currently just bringing friends and not teaming up with outsiders for now.]
Windy Rapeseed Oil: [How can I add the big shot as a friend? Do you still need people?]
Great Luck Chariot God: [Save it, brother. They look down on us players outside the top hundred. Even if you go, you’d just be doing odd jobs for the team. Better for us to group up ourselves.]
Nicholas: [I think so too. Forget alchemists on the leaderboard—even those without spots only want to team with combat power leaderboard players. For regular players, even high prices might not get them to heal. If a combat power leaderboard big shot asks, they’d come without supplies or crystal coins.]
Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy: [You two should pair it with a defense-broken emoji!
Let me translate: Want a healer to give me free healing skills and alchemy, why won’t anyone do it! Add a gritted-teeth “don’t bully the poor youth” and it’s perfect.]
Lu Zhishen Buries Flowers: [Spicy Spicy is right. This Nicholas yesterday wanted me to discount healing potions 50%, saying alchemists can make them easily and he’s helping me consume inventory to level up alchemy. I was so pissed I laughed.]
Taro Boba: [I’m not an idiot. Healing skills have such long cooldowns, combat power leaderboard players give me resources to upgrade skills, but you won’t even provide supplies for healing. Not on the combat power leaderboard and about to bite your teeth to pieces, huh? Blocked.]
Nicholas still doesn’t have enough brains. The previous Great Luck Chariot God just sourly jabbed at Yu Jiang’s team a couple times, but he comes in and offends all alchemists—not getting scolded would be weird.
Later some started moral attacks, the same old lines: everyone should help each other, shouldn’t charge crystal coins, bringing people along is just convenient anyway, and more people means not fearing strong robbers.
Some were actually persuaded, but the teams openly charging for services ignored them.
Willing to step up and contribute for free is a true saint, and Yu Jiang admires that, but demanding she give without return? One word: scram.
While the public screen was noisily arguing, their team had already set off.
Today just 100km, electric car is slow but saves power, so Yu Jiang didn’t use the charging card. Vehicle heater incense was enough for warmth.
Hot water equipment at night, RV’s reserve water and infrastructure can all be checked on the vehicle panel—very convenient to use.
Top Ten on Combat Power Leaderboard can run 10-person small team mode, as long as there are two captains on the same parallel road, distance not exceeding 5km.
Shi Xu leading Lightning Mage King in front, then several merchant bosses, then Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy,
Yu Jiang alone at the rear swinging the crowbar. There are more abandoned vehicles on the road—don’t waste them.
