Chapter 212: New Announcement
Two minutes before the countdown at the Parking Plaza ended, Yu Jiang successfully recovered all 5 Vehicles.
She also recovered the metal bases under a row of Plastic Stools at the door of the nearby Rest Stop. It was a handy hammer job, 2 Iron Blocks that shouldn’t go to waste.
The Stools, now without base support, were left with just a few faded Plastic panels, clanging to the ground, matching the rundown Rest Stop even better.
The system countdown paused for a beat.
Teammate: .Good! She always manages to scrape some Supplies from unexpected places.
When the countdown ended, everyone returned to the Road, exchanged greetings, and hurriedly went back to their Personal Roads.
They had finished the Mission early and exited, with Instance Settlement still hours away.
After parking, Yu Jiang first sorted the Supplies and divided them with everyone.
For Vehicle Upgrade Materials, she only took the parts needed for her Level 6 Vehicle, the bulk was divided among other Teammates, and the three Beast Tamers took one tenth.
There were other Supplies too; the good ones were divided directly, and the rest were listed on the Trading Platform at Cabbage prices.
Old Clothes are valuable even in the Doomsday; fighting monsters on the road or entering Instances causes significant Clothing loss.
The ‘Doomsday Tailor’ Profession that specializes in mending and collecting Fabric to make Clothing has pretty good Revenue.
After dividing a pile of Supplies, it was already dark Outside the Car Window.
Among them, the most valuable items were the attributed Supplies:
Sunglasses (usable in certain Instances to see many Things~ helps you Clear Instance!)
Butterfly Knife (Attack+10, refinable)
Hard Helmet (effectively resists various head Physical Damage, wearing increases Body Load+5)
Level 3 Helmet, specialized against gun-using Players, not suitable for Rainforest environment, wearing accelerates Stamina consumption and easily drags down the team.
With Combat Power up, everyone wants to maximize Battle Status rather than increase Load to boost Defense, which is not cost-effective.
Non-Combat Power Players need this kind of Armor more, so Great Luck Chariot God and the others didn’t bring the Level 3 Helmet into the Instance.
The Butterfly Knife is similar; for those with Long-range Attack Skill Weapons, that 10 Attack is meaningless.
Strawberry Candy is the most suitable to hold this Weapon.
Yu Jiang herself, Shi Xu, Kuang Kuang Kuang can’t use it, Han Jiang Gu Ying has an Attack Bonus Weapon; Yu Jiang discussed with everyone and gave the Butterfly Knife to Strawberry Candy, taking less of the other Supplies.
Strawberry Candy is Melee to begin with, so getting a Weapon with initial Attack+10 naturally made her happy. To know, Yu Jiang’s debuff Bayonet only had 10 Attack at the start, just
“I’m not very good at using this.” Strawberry Candy said awkwardly in the Team Channel.
The Butterfly Knife is quite different from an ordinary Dagger; if you don’t know how to use it, you’re likely to cut your own hand, and then get laughed to death by the enemy.
Han Jiang Gu Ying: “No big problem, I can teach you, don’t worry.”
“That’s great!” Strawberry Candy happily looked at the Butterfly Knife that had just arrived in her hand; she finally had a second Weapon!
The remaining two items, no one could use for now, so they were kept as Team shared Supplies with Yu Jiang, to be taken when needed.
Time reached nighttime; with Night Protection Mode on, Yu Jiang took out the Four-leaf Clover and set it up, then rushed into the Bathroom to wash inside and out, throwing all dirty Clothes into the Washing Machine.
She changed into comfortable Pajamas and Slippers, lay on the Sofa, and felt great.
Next, eat something and wait for the Rewards to be distributed.
If only there was an automatic Shoe Washing Machine, Yu Jiang sighed while drinking iced peach-flavored cocktail Beverage.
With life improved, she didn’t want to do it herself to save those few Crystal Coins.
Must get one if there’s a chance!
For Dinner, she ate from the Refrigerator stock: Mixed Grain Rice, cold beef, wild vegetable soup, and a few pieces of honey roast Chicken.
Full and satisfied, in a great mood.
Yu Jiang opened the Friend List and saw everyone still in the Instance, inevitably a bit worried.
Around eight in the evening, Cleaver Brother’s Team came out, then Sad Pig Intestine and the others also left the Instance, and the Public Screen gradually livened up.
[Players ‘Life is Like a Play’ ‘God Slaying Saber’ ’95 Full Oil’ ‘Play Shadow’ ‘Road Where’ killed Instance ‘Endless Swamp’ BOSS, achieving Regional First Kill.]
[Players ‘Hand Holding Cleaver Chopping Wire’ ‘Aladdin Nerve’ obtained Achievement ‘One Step Short’]
Hand Holding Cleaver Chopping Wire and Aladdin Nerve also went to Endless Swamp, just falling short by a tiny bit.
Shadow Master: [Life is Like a Play Big Shot is awesome!]
Lu Lu Tong: [Finally survived, but got dizzy from a string of announcements right after exiting the Instance. How big is the gap between regular Players and Big Shots? Too strong.]
Player62354: [Feels like the Competition is super intense. Good thing ordinary people like me don’t share Instances with Big Shots; picking lower Difficulty each time lets me muddle through safely.]
Walnut Pliers: [This Three-star Difficulty Instance seems to have only two First Kills: one Server First Kill, one Entire Zone First Kill. Impressive!]
Player36540: [The Server First Kill announcement was a day ago, Little Drill Wind and X Big Shot’s Team. I was in an Instance being chased by monsters everywhere, thought I was seeing things.
This Speed is insane, wonder what people in other Game Areas think. Anyway, I feel honored to be in the same zone as Big Shots.]
Open Skylight and Speak Dirty Words: [Does anyone else remember that Strawberry Candy from a Big Shot Team before was said to have Combat Power ranked over a hundred, yet now she’s got Server First Kill.]
Rock Sugar Sydney: [Huh, didn’t the ones mocking others for low Combat Power get First Kill? A Thousand Lamps Exhaust Snow, right? Wasn’t it you who, relying on higher Level and High Combat Power Team help, robbed my Supplies back then.]
She had finally lured a few Beetles, planning to fight while running, slowly gathering the Supplies needed for the Level Up Mission.
But then this group came and killed the monsters she had pulled for half a day. They said if they could snatch it, it was their skill, that’s the way of Apocalypse Survival.
Due to their Strength, she didn’t dare say anything and could only accept it; now she finally got some satisfaction.
Little Orange Cat: [Big Shots, can you share the Server First Kill Rewards? First time seeing this announcement, let us regular people see too.]
Frost Bridge: [Yeah, Server First Kill Big Shot shouldn’t be that stingy.]
Frost Bridge is a teammate of Heartless Water, previously blocked by Yu Jiang on the Trading Platform.
For people muddling through and fanning the flames, she said:
[Sure, each give me 5 Level 6 Component Cards, info can be sold, can’t expect me to do charity and give you info for free, right?]
Sell the info multiple times to help her Teammates upgrade Vehicles, perfect.
But these two weren’t willing.
Little Orange Cat: [5 Level 6 Component Cards? Big Shots are Wealth Ranking Number One, still so black-hearted?]
No need for Yu Jiang to respond, someone retorted.
Wang Zi Nougat: [You call Big Shots black-hearted? Then sell us your Supplies and Medicine cheaper. Can’t? Shut up.
Don’t talk hypotheticals; no Advanced Healing Potion? Don’t you have other Supplies? Old Quick-drying Clothes for 10 Crystal Coins, you’d sell to me?]
Of course those two weren’t willing to sell Supplies at low prices, so they shut up.
Yu Jiang looked at the new Message on the Light Screen and ignored the Public Screen discussion.
[Instance Rewards settled, please claim promptly.]
Yu Jiang excitedly clicked the gift box icon.
