Chapter 253: She’s Practically The Scavenging God Of War
Vehicles were overturned in the camp, with blackened bloodstains everywhere, and several cars torn apart by something, shattered into several pieces.
According to the survivor who sent the message, the camping lamp suddenly went out, and the moment the warning device sounded, the slaughter began. There was no time to run, and they didn’t even see what that thing looked like.
Someone was just about to grab a weapon to fight back when their head was twisted off.
It was a red Doomsday Wraith. The last message from the survivor was incoherent, clearly terrified.
Shan He: 【How long is this damn parallel road? I teamed up with people outside and still can’t get out! Opening a box, and I get a ghost *&%……】
Cursing to alleviate fear is the real situation on the public screen. Many players are shouting regrets; entering the urban parallel road is no different from driving straight into a ditch.
Extreme History Spirit Root: 【I’m done with this. Who knows how to get out? The elite monsters on this road are too terrifying. Zombies during the day, ghosts at night—who can handle that? Even if I eat shit, I don’t want to enter houses to pick up supply boxes!】
Tumbler Garden Building 2 Room 1001: 【For this mileage, choose one: either keep going on the parallel road or stay on the personal road. Don’t think about leaving until you’ve completed the mileage. On the bright side, at least you can still pick up supplies here.】
Quanda Zhen Guanxi: 【The chance of encountering a vengeful spirit on the personal road is very small, and supplies are scarce. I asked around, and some people only picked up 3 iron blocks in a day, barely enough to trade for one compressed biscuit.】
Lone Wolf 2009: 【No supplies means starving to death anyway. Might as well take a chance—I’ve got nothing to lose anyway.】
Protein Block Immortal: 【Who has it worse than me? I wanted to get some gasoline on the parallel road, but all I got from the boxes were protein blocks! Trading protein blocks for gasoline, 1L or 2L is fine, exchange ratio negotiable.】
There wasn’t much info on elite monsters. Yu Jiang flipped through it several times and felt this thing was pretty strong. A team of over a dozen with decent overall combat power had no room to resist at all.
Everyone in the team channel sent messages saying they were ready, and Yu Jiang replied with a ‘1’.
The team set off, continuing to pick up supplies.
There were plenty of battles last night that didn’t report messages; you can tell from the medicine trades.
Advanced healing potion is at 400 crystal coins per share, and even higher on Sicily’s side where costs can’t be kept down.
The merchant caravan’s medicine is also limited sale; their people need time to grow medicinal herbs.
Today is still sunny, 33 degrees. It’s okay with wind blowing in while the car is moving, but it feels stuffy when stopped.
Yu Jiang’s upgraded solar panel is running at high speed, storing some daily electricity each day.
The team’s forward speed isn’t fast; they need to search houses on both sides for supplies.
The merchant caravan’s bosses saw Yu Jiang’s deft movements and twitched their mouths.
Others hadn’t finished searching a two-story building, but she was already carrying a sack out, having even recycled the steel bars exposed in the stairs. Plus her grandma-style soft silk top and the newly picked palm leaf fan in her hand—is this the relaxed vibe of a big shot?
She’s practically the Scavenging God of War.
She saw a vengeful spirit in the house and then knocked off the sheet metal roof. Sunlight shone in, leaving the vengeful spirit no teleportation space, and she caught it and slashed once.
Others came out covered in dust from picking supplies, while Yu Jiang strode out unapologetically, dropped the sack on the ground, clapped her hands, and called it a day.
Her tools are especially complete: worn-out clothes, pants, shoes—she has iron tongs for making fire, making scavenging very convenient.
Purple Butt Can Do It squats by the roadside counting, using light screen scan to classify and price.
Usable ones at 5 crystal coins or 15 crystal coins, two pieces listed on the trading platform—a day’s work earns about three hundred crystal coins.
The merchants cast envious glances at Purple Butt Can Do It. This is what it’s like working for a big shot; they could do the counting and classifying too!
Don’t underestimate these clothes. Outdoor gear from supply boxes is what everyone wants, but it’s expensive—one short sleeve shirt can trade for three to five days of food and water.
These are still consumables; they tear easily in fights, and too many people have shoes or pant legs bitten off by zombies.
People who can wear brand-new outdoor gear are doing very well. With several tens of thousands in District 002, demand for old clothes is still considerable.
Yu Jiang has principles when making money; the equipment she picks is all scanned by light screen and confirmed virus-free.
Just now, someone was still cursing on the public screen.
Flowery Butterfly: 【Fuck your grandpa, you scumbag! I just spent 20 crystal coins on quick-drying clothes carrying infectious disease. Wearing it gives 50% chance of health value -20. Refund! Compensate medicine! I thought he was reliable because of his high ranking.】
Da Hai: 【You dare buy without system trade? Greed gets you this. A 20-crystal-coin quick-drying shirt—think about it, it’d be a miracle if it had no issues. I spent 80 crystal coins yesterday.】
Taro Boba: 【I guess you’re from another district. Was it Sicily or Little Orange Cat who sold it to you? Anything not through system trade is definitely problematic.】
Flowery Butterfly: 【Right after I bought it, I saw old clothes on the trading platform at 15 crystal coins pick two! We in 003 don’t earn crystal coins easily, and you’re scamming us—damn it!】
Purple Butt Can Do It cleared and listed the old clothes, and they sold out in less than half an hour.
There are more than one or two players selling scavenged equipment. These things aren’t that easy to sell, and most sell ordinary clothes. Yu Jiang picks carefully, mainly sturdy and dirt-resistant ones that look a bit better, at cheap prices.
Slightly worse ones she directly recycles into materials to sell to the merchant caravan’s manufacturing players.
Afternoon is the hottest time of the day; standing in the sun for a bit leaves you drenched in sweat.
Yu Jiang directly sat in a house with a vengeful spirit waiting for teammates searching the opposite side, bayonet in hand. The vengeful spirit didn’t dare come out. It’s cool here, natural air conditioning with no energy consumption.
A comfortable environment quickly reduces fatigue value.
After resting enough, back to the road—the team has to keep moving. Time so far spent searching supplies; mileage task still has 16 km, to be completed before dark.
4:30 PM, clear skies, golden sunlight spilling on the flat road, contrasting with the nearby almost plant-overrun original city roads, as if not on the same layer.
Yu Jiang somewhat understood what the rules meant: leaving the road on both sides by 2km would lose survivor qualification.
Didn’t know what the outside world was like, but definitely no supply boxes or service areas out there.
A service area sign appeared ahead, and everyone got excited.
Lightning Mage King: “It’s a service area! Great!”
Strawberry Candy: “Can we stay overnight in the service area tonight? Wandering vengeful spirits probably won’t enter the service area.”
Yu Jiang also hoped to rest in the service area for a night. Just now Shi Xu messaged her; he got a profession commission mission, no time limit but requiring killing a lot of monsters, including red vengeful spirits.
Completing the mission gives skill upgrade; failure has big costs—one failure means some achievements and upgrade paths he can never get again, even as combat power top 1.
That’s how this profession is. High output with cross-combat-power chance to one-shot, but all have costs; upgrade difficulty too high, few assassins develop successfully.
