Chapter 194: Returning To Personal Road
For two consecutive days, they stayed overnight on the parallel road and even fought, so teammates’ consumption was very high. After nightfall, except for those on night watch, everyone packed up and went to sleep early.
Yu Jiang finished crafting several advanced healing potions, completed the trade with Aladdin Nerve, lay down on the sofa, and fell asleep instantly.
But on the parallel road, it’s inevitable to sleep uneasily; in the middle of the night, they would suddenly wake up and only feel secure to sleep again after checking that there were no abnormalities around.
Survival Time: 52 days
There should be another 2 days before the instance mission is released.
Such a good opportunity yesterday, Yu Jiang didn’t believe Heartless Water didn’t send someone to use a tracking card to scout the situation.
In their team, it was said there’s someone extremely skilled at disguise and eavesdropping, but it’s still unknown who it is.
Last night was a good chance for a counterattack, yet they didn’t come; they’re quite patient.
Purple Butt Can Do It sent a message early in the morning, saying he hasn’t received the instance-specific tracking card yet, and he can’t make too big a fuss since the merchant caravan had already agreed internally,
to trade tracking cards and such things with several combat power teams; private deals are fine, but letting others know would bring trouble to the merchant caravan.
Yu Jiang expressed understanding, not to worry; the scarcer the items, the more closed off the intelligence.
Area 002 has overall shifted to team survival mode; teammates randomly assigned by the team-up instance system can only be said to depend on luck.
Intelligence is even more so; many things only circulate within respective teams.
Even lone wolves with strength would nominally join others’ teams; Wholesale Wang Defa has recently been recruiting such people.
Yu Jiang has no plans to expand the team at this stage; without instances requiring teams of dozens, there’s no need.
With more people, more energy is needed for management; weighing the profits, it would definitely slow down one’s own upgrade pace.
Besides, in a large combat power guild, it’s also small teams clustering for survival internally; no difference.
The merchant caravan gave up on combat power; that Sister Life is Like a Play relies purely on overwhelming combat power to grab supplies, and following her really allows living well off plunder; she’s the true boss, the type who says the word and it’s done.
Among the remaining combat power teams, only Heartless Water’s has the most members, giving a guild-like feel.
From this, it can be seen how ambitious Heartless Water is; he wants to be the uncrowned king of doomsday.
Yu Jiang washed her face, sat in the driver’s compartment to have breakfast: salty wild vegetable pancakes with canned eight-treasure congee.
At 8 o’clock, the team set off; she had already told Don’t Abandon that they’d go their separate ways after dawn, and Yu Jiang flashed the fog light as a greeting.
Today they drove to the 50km mark, where a prompt appeared to leave the parallel road.
The team split up here, each returning to their own road; Yu Jiang didn’t stop and drove another 30km to complete the day’s mileage task.
Taking advantage of being dirty on her body and clothes being dirty too, she first went to the forest to gather supplies before coming back to shower.
Yu Jiang took the long stick for probing grass, picking as she went; all medicinal herbs and wild vegetables within her line of sight were taken.
She also discovered a type of fern; light screen scan showed good taste, edible, mildly toxic, and eating too much affects health.
What Yu Jiang saw: Tasty, edible
She has poison resistance, not afraid of poison; Yu Jiang picked a small handful and sent it to Sad Pig Intestine, telling him it’s toxic and he can’t eat it; this time paid with crystal coins for processing fee.
“Sister Jiang, didn’t we plant some vegetables at the farm service area last time? This is toxic and you still eat it?” Sad Pig Intestine was puzzled and greatly shocked.
Still remembering a couple days ago someone ate an unrecognized wild fruit that the light screen couldn’t scan, resulting in lips and fingernails all black, fingers making a ‘6’, mouth crooked and eyes slanted, convulsing on the ground.
On-site companions were scared half to death, thinking he was mutating, running away unable to keep up; afterward posted on public screen to remind everyone.
Since entering the rainforest, people often mistakenly eat toxic fruits or poisonous mushrooms; diarrhea to exhaustion counts as mild symptoms.
“It’s toxic to you guys.” Yu Jiang corrected.
She was already immune to this mild toxin; even golden skin tree had no effect on her.
“This is too awesome! Invulnerable to all poisons!” Sad Pig Intestine said enviously.
Yu Jiang: “Not to that extent yet; I also sent the pot over to avoid affecting your kitchenware there.”
“Got it, don’t worry; I’ll make you sour and spicy stir-fried fern wraps, super tasty!”
Sad Pig Intestine received the ferns Yu Jiang had already washed, along with other ingredients, and immediately prepared to start cooking.
Yu Jiang knew Pig Intestine gave friendly prices to people in the team; the ingredients she sent were either pre-washed by her or with extra side dish rewards added, never taking advantage of him as a matter of course.
Around 5 PM, the road was already very dark, light screen hadn’t switched to nighttime yet; Yu Jiang endured the stickiness all over and didn’t shower.
Until 7 PM, when nighttime protection activated, she closed the windows, pulled the blackout curtain, turned on the air conditioning, left a warm yellow-toned lamp, took clean clothes, and eagerly rushed into the bathroom.
These two days, clothes on her body were surrounded by sweat smell and the fishy odors from various insects in the rainforest, plus the muggy environment; really uncomfortable.
Fortunately, Yu Jiang used toiletries from Raccoon Supermarket, very effective; even after two days of high-intensity activity without washing hair, it wouldn’t get oily and clumped, nor itchy scalp.
Turned on the shower head, water temperature just right, skin felt a little hot,
Yu Jiang let out a long sigh of relief; body clean and refreshed, fatigue value even dropped a few points.
After showering and drying hair, went to driver’s seat, pressed the rabbit figurine for automatic cleaning of the RV interior space; dust and moisture inside the RV instantly disappeared, feeling several degrees brighter, even the air fresh.
Set up today’s dinner, sat at the small dining table; body and mind relaxed.
Today’s dinner: wild mountain pepper beef mixed rice, small stir-fried fern, plus a runny yolk fried egg, and a can of orange-flavored soda.
Beef and eggs were from farm service area supplies; pickled peppers from canned food, could come from supply boxes, cheaper than fresh vegetables.
Yu Jiang was really hungry, eating speed faster than usual; mixed rice eaten clean, half the stir-fried fern left put into refrigerator time stasis grid, could pair with steamed buns for another meal.
In doomsday, can’t waste a bit of food, let alone these precious fresh meals; every bite not easy to come by.
Washing machine under the sink still running; Yu Jiang half-lay on the sofa to rest a bit, meanwhile taking stock of supplies on hand.
Comfortable environment makes fatigue value drop faster; once fatigue value drops, she’ll start crafting advanced healing potions.
Instance mission release imminent; best time for advanced healing potions and miasma dispelling pills to sell well.
Now, only first echelon players and merchant caravans can afford advanced healing potions.
Yu Jiang only needs level 6 upgrade component cards, rare upgrade materials, and advanced medicinal herbs.
Low-level component cards some players can craft; Han Jiang Gu Ying can make level 4 and below, higher can’t, only from boxes or instances.
Yu Jiang, relying on advanced healing potions, collected quite a few things in one night; trade records all from combat power ranking top three hundred.
Those with fast progress might be rushing to upgrade their vehicles themselves, willing to spend more crystal coins on advanced medicinal herbs rather than trade level 6 component cards.
While players who just upgraded vehicle to level 5 or are stockpiling level 5 materials currently need crystal coins more, willing to trade level 6 component cards and materials.
