Chapter 249: Choice On The Road
Driving a vehicle requires concentration. If you don’t eat well or rest well, where does the spirit come from?
People without vehicle energy are even worse off, not to mention there are more and more monsters on the road.
The environment on both sides of the road is also changing. Air humidity has dropped, leaving only 70%. Large swamp areas are starting to recede, revealing black soil.
Yu Jiang wore a scavenged cotton silk short sleeve shirt, the mid-to-old-age style kind, with quick-dry work pants on the lower body. Nearby was a shirt with +5 defense, and old man cloth shoes on her feet.
It doesn’t matter if the clothes are mismatched; the main thing is comfort and practicality. Cotton silk clothing is really cool.
The sturdy old man cloth shoes are also comfortable, with speed and stamina-saving bonuses. Except for the shallow opening not being very safe, there are no other flaws.
As soon as she came out of the instance, Yu Jiang put the shoes into the shoe washing machine. The cloth shoes covered in bloodstains were like new again after a few hours.
Using them in suitable scenarios and weather is pretty good, especially when sitting in the driver’s compartment.
Yu Jiang also fastened the defense shirt in advance, leaving two buttons at the collar. When needing to get out to deal with monsters, she could just slip it on directly.
However, after more than two hours of departure, aside from picking up one supply box, she hadn’t encountered a situation requiring her to get out of the vehicle.
Both sides of the road were also barren. Even if she wanted to get out to gather, there were no supplies to gather.
Small plant zombie hordes and black death rats baring their teeth were no match for the doomsday heavy truck vehicle, unable to withstand a few hits.
Kill one if one comes, kill a group if a group comes. When encountering a zombie horde, Yu Jiang just floored the accelerator, treating it like suppressing a speed bump.
Except for the wheels and bumper being a bit dirty, there were no big issues. The outside being dirty had nothing to do with her inside.
Vehicle shield still has 3%.
Yesterday’s clearance reward, Yu Jiang chose the repair card gift package, obtaining repair cards corresponding to vehicle level *5.
Shield consumption refreshes and recovers after 24 hours, so no need to waste it. Now Yu Jiang feels herself to be terrifyingly strong.
Yu Jiang once again smashed a plant zombie flying, time reaching 11 AM. She saw houses!
In the binoculars, it wasn’t the desolate and dilapidated houses from a distance, but seven or eight stories high buildings constructed with steel bars and cement.
However, the distance was quite far, and the destruction level of those houses was also very high, giving a sense of the world doomsday ten or twenty years later. Not necessarily able to scavenge supplies still.
Yu Jiang climbed down from the vehicle roof, put away the binoculars, and prepared to rest first, check some info. Ahead was the parallel road.
She had picked up one supply box that morning, opening a box of instant hot and sour noodles, a functional beverage that reduces fatigue value, and two rolls of toilet paper. That’s it.
Having experienced the resource-rich rainforest, the rainforest that made her rich, she really wasn’t used to it all of a sudden.
At noon, she soaked the hot and sour noodles and also cooked some noodles to add in.
That amount was just two chopsticks’ worth, how could it be enough? Yu Jiang also added a ham sausage, paired with some dried meat.
At noon, air humidity 60%, temperature 32.
On the public screen, there were still many help requests.
Jia Jia: [I’ve already gone three days, three days! Without completing the mileage task. The car really has no fuel, food and water in hand are almost gone. If I don’t go further, I’m done for. Is there any kind person who can sell me 10L gasoline for 50 crystal coins to let me complete today’s task first? Please.]
Steel Plate Pineapple Fort: [50 crystal coins for 10L gasoline? Such a good deal? How much do you have, I’ll take it all. My manual transmission vehicle can coast in neutral, did that the past two days. Too hard.]
Eat Sh*t Don’t Forget to Sh*t Person: [Being able to push and coast is already good. I really regret it. Can vehicles downgrade? Give me back half the materials! Shouldn’t have emptied my home to upgrade.]
Luò Tuó Xiángzi: [Listen to me, directly buy protein blocks with 50 crystal coins, sell all other food. Still a chance there are boxes on the road ahead. More realistic.]
Protein Block Immortal: [I know this, that’s exactly what I did. All food swapped for protein blocks, even robbers tell me to get lost when they see me.]
Lightning Shrimp: [??? Good grief, I’m eating eight-treasure congee, you two nicknames.]
Jia Jia: [Asked several list friends I’ve traded with before, and merchants. They used to buy supplies cheaply from me, but when I need help, they flip faces and don’t recognize me!]
Taro Boba: [You just private chatted me, bro normal price 100-120 crystal coins, you come up shouting 50, I’m not rich either.]
Purple Butt Can Do It: [When collecting supplies, you were anxious so sold cheap, don’t act like it was given for free.]
Bitter Melon is Not as Bitter as Me: [There are plant zombies on the road, regular monsters 6-10 crystal coins each, but best to hurry. Roads with lots of monsters, king of competition will crazily farm crystal coins, essential supplies might rise in price.]
Based on my experience, many combat power players use gasoline vehicles. After server merge, gasoline demand is even greater. Except for 002’s merchant caravan, supplies from original areas are controlled by various teams.
Jia Jia: [Not enough potions for fighting monsters either. Bros, don’t compete anymore. If gasoline rises more, no way to live!]
AAA Building Materials Yong Bro: [At the beginning, selling misery for help might work, now save it.]
The public screen still had a few good people who seriously gave advice, but seeing the other party didn’t want to sell their supplies or fight monsters.
Everyone understood, so ignored him, leaving only a few slyly kicking when down.
Earlier, not yet realizing the cruelty of the survival game, some people on the public screen liked posting pictures, showing off their vehicles and good luck opening boxes, and some flaunting wealth value to run pig butchering scams.
Later, these people all disappeared. Most were killed, a few lucky ones didn’t dare show off supplies anymore.
Yu Jiang glanced at the trading platform, prices for gasoline, batteries, diesel.
Diesel still cheapest. 10L gasoline around 100 consumption-wise, 40% more expensive than equivalent mileage batteries.
But solar panels are expensive now. At the beginning they were cheap, when everyone’s vehicle levels weren’t high, weather cold, couldn’t use them much, just the conversion device was a bit expensive.
Now, a full set, regular players can’t afford it.
In Yu Jiang’s team, everyone had already formed a team, preparing to meet up on the parallel road later, first check the new map situation, and by the way pick up the merchant caravan boss to earn some vehicle energy.
Yu Jiang set off around 1 PM, and upon entering the parallel road, the light screen prompted:
[Town Area only exists on parallel roads. Current town area mileage is relatively long. Players may choose whether to enter.]
No wonder the houses in the binoculars were so far away, so that’s what it meant.
Left lane continues on personal road, supplies relatively few, won’t enter town area, only desolate roads.
Right lane goes to parallel road, enters town to explore.
Scavenging definitely better in town.
Gathering plants about the same, town side many houses covered by lush vegetation. Outside system-built roads, original city appearance probably long occupied by wild plants.
Personal road supplies need to be taken, but when encountering choices, per the truth that higher risk means higher revenue, meaning the next stretch of road on personal road won’t have many supplies.
Yu Jiang didn’t need to think, directly rushed to town exploration!
Stocked a thousand characters past midnight yesterday, should be able to add a chapter later~ But it’ll be late~
