Chapter 265: Supplies Point Warehouse
Yu Jiang swept the entire service desk clean with lightning speed.
Good Luck Lotus Lotus next to her was still fiddling with the water bucket on the vending machine. She had circled behind the helmet zombie, pulled out the crowbar and smashed it twice to recycle the helmet, then followed up with a knife strike.
When the zombie turned around, its enlarged pupils seemed to show shock. A sneak attack was one thing, but it had even stripped its backpack!
“This place is wide open on all sides; they reinforce too quickly!” Purple Butt Can Do It frowned.
Zombie skulls are quite hard. Of course, the weapons they’re using now all have attack bonuses, and their combat power has improved. Unlike at the start, when even taking down one or two was a struggle.
Full output can quickly clear a swath of normal zombies, but they can’t withstand the sheer numbers, plus the sneaky elite monsters.
Yu Jiang had already spotted an explosion zombie stealthily approaching them, holding a stone in its hand. It looked like it was trying to copy her and smash the skull from behind.
Yu Jiang directly signaled Shi Xu to lure it into the zombie pile for an explosion burst of damage, then the team would head upstairs.
“2 o’clock direction, the one in the suit with no hair.”
The explosion zombie was still tracking its prey by sound and smell when it was suddenly kicked from the side and smashed straight into the dense, impenetrable zombie wall piled up several layers deep ahead.
As it flew out, its eyes and expression were cursing profusely.
The next moment, it exploded. Black, rotten liquid splattered everywhere. A group of normal zombies nearby had most of their health bars blasted away, and a few with thin health bars—missing arms or legs—dropped dead on the spot.
The group had just rushed toward the second floor on the escalator. The sportswear area was on the 5th floor, but given this mall’s layout, once they went up, it would be hard to come back down to search. The escalators were all blocked.
Wholesale King Wang Defa activated her skill, which could only control normal zombies. Those two unlucky worker zombies had just stepped forward to block when they were crushed flat by the zombie wall.
With this many, even if Hundred-Ton King showed up, it’d get overturned.
The escalator could be recycled too, but the gray shield bars were too thick. After just two smashes, they’d rush up. It was impossible to smash the escalator to block them from coming upstairs.
Yu Jiang pushed over a few mannequins, and a sofa blocked the escalator entrance. It could hold them off for a bit.
Still, they split into two groups: one to block zombies and one to pick up supplies. The problem was, the mall had two escalators, and there were zombies running down from upstairs too.
With their teammates’ current combat power, she wasn’t worried about losing fights, but stamina consumption was too high.
Purple Butt Can Do It and Shi Xu guarded one escalator entrance, Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy and Lightning Mage King, Strawberry Candy guarded the other.
Wholesale King Wang Defa supplemented damage. Bullets and bombs together—the building structure was very sturdy, so this level of explosion was no problem.
“Follow up.” After Yu Jiang spoke, the others headed straight for the bedding area. A few fast-running zombies charged up on the way; she raised her hand and took them out with a knife strike.
Helmet zombies were trickier; you had to smash their helmets first.
They rushed into the bedding area. The display furniture and bedding showed signs of being moved and used. In the early stages of the doomsday crisis, someone must have been trapped in the mall.
The supplies here could ensure survival for quite a long time, but the glass doors on the mall’s first floor clearly had little defensive capability and fell not long after.
After killing a zombie, Yu Jiang spotted a fallen employee name tag on the ground. At the same time, the light screen popped up new content.
[Doomsday has arrived, everyone’s fleeing for their lives. We’re trapped in the mall. I want to go home and see my family. I don’t want to turn into a people-eating monster.
Mission: Find the sales clerk’s lost family photo and burn it along with the photo.
Reward: Home goods warehouse key]
Yu Jiang looked toward the innermost part of the shop, at the tightly shut wooden room door. It didn’t look sturdy, but system-set reward points couldn’t be blasted open even with an Italian cannon.
“Such a big place, how do we find the photo?” The pancake master anxiously watched as zombies lunged out from somewhere after smelling humans.
Yu Jiang pointed to the mission’s location marker. It was on this floor, but also the direction the zombies were coming from.
“Purple Butt Can Do It, come collect supplies. I’ll go get the key.”
The two escalator entrances still had 4 teammates holding them, no problem for a short time. Whoever picked up the scattered supplies outside got them, but the warehouse ones would go to whoever got the key.
The merchant caravan had no objections. They followed others into the instance without paying crystal coins. Coming in on their own, let alone supply points, even picking up outside supplies was tough.
Any combat power team carrying others always takes the best supplies for themselves.
Teams that switched to Heartless Water wouldn’t even get a share of the outside supplies.
Yu Jiang hadn’t equipped damage reduction gear for this small instance; she had potions and healing skills. Handling a dozen or twenty zombies alone was fine even without skills.
Yu Jiang now struck fast and ruthlessly. While dealing with two zombies beside her, she also shoved the one by the fence down, smashing into the zombie horde on the first floor.
It didn’t even hit the ground. It struggled atop the horde while the horde squeezed toward the stairs. A few that fell were trampled headless by their own kind—a scene of chaos.
Yu Jiang also spotted that dust-covered photo in the corner. She returned to the bedding shop, used a dirty bed sheet to drag the corpse to a more open spot outside, and lit it.
Normal flame temperatures couldn’t burn a corpse, but this was a time-distorted instance—nothing unscientific happening was strange.
Once the bed sheet caught fire, the photo and corpse both turned to a pile of black ash.
[Player obtained item ‘Home goods warehouse key’]
Yu Jiang excitedly ran to the warehouse door, opened it, and took out her flashlight.
It was full of all kinds of new pillows, quilts, four-piece bedding sets.
Same items could be stored in the same grid, though with quantity limits.
Home goods might seem dispensable, but at worst, players crafting clothing could use them as materials. The better the fabric, the higher the chance of crafting attribute armor—and good fabric isn’t cheap.
Plus, with the server merge, there were more masters. Survival needs aside, people wanted to survive more comfortably.
Brand new furniture and goods were valuable.
Yu Jiang quickly collected the supplies. Luckily, before entering, she had cleared out everything that could stay in the RV to free up grids.
Mattresses were trickier—one grid per mattress, no stacking quantities. They were heavy and bulky, impossible to carry otherwise.
Looking at the few uncarryable mattresses left, Yu Jiang sighed painfully and gave them to the merchant caravan.
If there was Warehouse 1, there was Warehouse 2. She couldn’t waste precious grids on mattresses.
Wholesale King Wang Defa was busy fighting monsters and couldn’t divide attention. Yu Zhou spoke for her in the team channel, “How about we take them at a friendly price? We’ll settle up after we get out.”
The merchant caravan said this not because they had money to burn, but because they figured her team had the strength to find more supplies. What they couldn’t carry wouldn’t be just this much.
Bluntly put, even if Yu Jiang didn’t let them take it and left the stuff here to gather dust, they had no recourse.
The merchant caravan showed sincerity, and they’d get plenty of supplies later. Yu Jiang’s team was happy too.
“Sure.” Yu Jiang gladly agreed.
