Chapter 182: Paper Airplane 354 Logs Off
The fog in the forest had cleared a bit, but the light screen still showed a red warning for the Poisonous Miasma Zone.
Occasionally, there were rustling sounds from under the vehicle. Yu Jiang stood by the window looking outside, but saw nothing.
She quickly checked that all doors and windows were locked, leaving only one window open with a mosquito net hung up, opened one-third for ventilation, firmly refusing to get out.
She didn’t know how many things were moving or their quantity; she feared that the moment her foot touched the ground, she’d be dragged away.
The Poisonous Miasma Zone had moths as big as people; the other things were probably not pushovers either.
The situation was unclear, so it was better to stay inside the vehicle and wait until nightfall.
Yu Jiang finished a batch of Jungle Essential Medicine and Miasma Dispelling Pills, then focused on crafting Advanced Healing Potions.
The alchemy page on the light screen was essentially a Cyber Alchemy Furnace; each medicinal herb required different refining heat, and the input order and quantity couldn’t be wrong.
At first, Yu Jiang wasn’t sure about the quantities and order, failing several times in a row and getting a pile of charred medicinal herb residue, which hurt just to think about.
Advanced Healing Potions were indeed hard to make; this was the first time she felt frustrated with alchemy.
Crafting failures made her anxious; wasting medicinal herbs was one thing, but she had finally become the number one alchemist in 002 Game Area, and falling behind meant being overtaken, which was unacceptable!
Yu Jiang sat cross-legged on the sofa to rest for a bit and adjust her mood.
It was fine; not everything went smoothly. She was exceptionally talented, and she still had 5 portions of materials for Advanced Hemostatic Powder; worst case, all failed, and she’d gather more.
The residue could still be dried for burning to smoke mosquitoes; the jungle mosquitoes were truly too venomous, with players scratching their skin raw because they couldn’t stand it.
Yu Jiang pulled back her wandering thoughts and took out another portion of materials to continue.
Failure, refine again, failure again; she tinkered bit by bit, improving her overlooked details. Sometimes the refining order and quantity were right, but bad luck hit the 40% failure rate, making it all for nothing.
Yu Jiang just sighed and continued refining until the fourth portion of materials finally succeeded, crafting three portions of Advanced Hemostatic Powder.
Yu Jiang directly refined the last prepared portion of materials in her hand, getting two portions of Hemostatic Powder this time.
It was already dark outside. Yu Jiang first sent one portion to Shi Xu, and also to Lightning Mage King who had gathered materials for her.
She kept the remaining three portions for herself first; having succeeded once, refining more wouldn’t be a problem, and the success rate would increase with the number of crafts.
A friend message lit up; it was Purple Butt Can Do It: “Sister Jiang, the sales settlement for the last batch of mosquito nets and medicine is done.”
Yu Jiang thought for a moment. “Exchange all the crystal coins for vehicle upgrade materials and medicinal herbs. Take your reward yourself; other supplies are fine too.”
Purple Butt Can Do It: “Okay.”
Yu Jiang sent her needed medicinal herbs list, then negotiated a trade with the merchant caravan.
Supplies for defending against poisonous fog weren’t exclusive to her, but Advanced Hemostatic Powder could only be made by her now.
Though it seemed to just add 20 more healing than Intermediate Healing Potion, healing potions don’t share cooldowns; having one more Advanced Healing Potion meant half an extra life compared to others.
It was reasonable to exchange for rare composite upgrade materials, right?
The final agreed price: the merchant caravan gives one portion of medicinal herbs + 1 rare material for 2 portions of Advanced Healing Potion.
As for what price the merchant caravan sold them to other players at, that wasn’t for Yu Jiang to worry about.
After finishing, Yu Jiang stretched lazily and flopped onto the sofa in the same pose as Old Man Ge, eating red bean barley sugar water without even sitting up.
Shi Xu and Lightning Mage King also sent messages confirming receipt of the Advanced Healing Potion, while sending over upgrade materials and medicinal herbs.
“Before night protection, if you hear movement around, best not to get out of the vehicle easily.”
It was a voice message from Shi Xu; his voice was still calm, but the background sound seemed to have rustling leaves.
There was no wind in the rainforest at all.
Yu Jiang instinctively glanced outside her car window; inside her vehicle was very quiet, with only the four-leaf clover slowly rotating.
“What happened?” Yu Jiang sat up and looked at the team channel; everyone was reminding not to get out easily or set up tents.
“Check the public screen; someone posted a message earlier.” Shi Xu said, “I have them nearby too.”
Hearing this, Yu Jiang immediately opened the public screen and scrolled up, understanding the situation.
Paper Airplane 354: [Ah—help! It’s right outside my vehicle, my vehicle can’t hold much longer, anyone come save me, I’ll give you all my supplies!]
The voice in this person’s message was hysterical, accompanied by fierce impact sounds.
gogogo: [You don’t even say how many supplies you have; sounds so dangerous, don’t treat people like fools.]
Crazy Thursday V Me 50: [What happened? Don’t scare me; to save fuel, we’re still on the parallel road.]
Great Luck Chariot God: [Send half your supplies first, our team will come right away.]
Security Guard Security Guard Protect Peace: [Send to me, I’ll keep you safe, don’t hesitate, or you’ll be done soon.]
Except for a few urging to send supplies first, no one responded to him.
Paper Airplane 354 didn’t send supplies; after a while, his nickname went dark.
Many players were discussing; some analyzed that from the impact sounds on the vehicle and the screams, it was some large-bodied monster hitting the vehicle’s metal parts to make such a dull thud.
After this incident, players still on the road were extra vigilant, but no more news came, and some even joked on the public screen.
Another dozen minutes passed, and several messages popped up in succession.
Seven Flowers on One Vine: [Everyone be careful getting out to check vehicles; just now on the parallel road, I saw a small team get attacked, probably gone, fog too thick to see what, but it felt really big.]
Tao Zhi Yao Yao: [Real or fake? Something that big should move slowly on land.]
Security Guard Security Guard Protect Peace: [Did the poison moths in the instance move slowly?]
Lone Wolf 2009: [Saw with my own eyes someone go into the forest for convenience, giant centipede pounced from the tree, I ran all the way back to personal road, not safe! As soon as it got dark, glowing plants in the forest, didn’t dare look.
Monster quantity on the road increased, or rather, the giant creatures in the Poisonous Miasma Zone sensed prey and all crawled out.]
Nothing to Do With You: [What to do, I keep feeling uneasy, like surrounded, don’t know if psychological or real, looking for a team to join, we two people really don’t dare stop on the road alone, need crystal coins fine.]
Century Egg Solo Porridge: [Real or fake? Don’t scare me, I don’t even dare look back, afraid to see something the moment I do.]
Desert Eagle: [Stop looking and go quick! System message sent: at night on parallel road, once leaving vehicle, safety status may fail.]
Yu Jiang switched over and saw it was true; previously safety status worked near vehicle, so many players camped by the road with tents, but not in Poisonous Miasma Zone—had to stay inside the vehicle.
From the monster sizes they described, every monster here was Spider Queen level; one slap could squash a squishy.
They seemed not to actively attack players inside vehicles, except those who hid into vehicles after being spotted.
