Chapter 28: New Instance Mission
The woman met on the road sent a thank-you message, saying she had contacted Purple Butt Can Do It, and now had a fixed sales channel, which could also guarantee survival.
There was also a private chat from Sicily: “I only have one Primary Healing Potion crafting scroll, but Big Shot has already made Level 3 medicine, so impressive!”
Seeing Yu Jiang didn’t reply, he finally stated his intention directly.
“I can craft Primary Healing Potions for you here, to help Big Shot alleviate the fatigue value crisis. How about we work together to raise the price? I really want to upgrade my vehicle ‘Cute’.”
“No interest.” Yu Jiang refused.
Medicine is essential supplies, and the price is already high. If raised too much, it’s hard to say this person won’t turn against her and shift the blame for price hiking onto her.
She already had the first-mover advantage, didn’t lack supplies, and the focus was on improving strength, maxing skill levels, rather than wasting energy on this.
Sicily: “Okay, Big Shot, I received a hidden quest to kill 10 mutated vipers, which gives a chance to choose a career path. Have you completed this quest already?”
“I heard this path is very difficult, can’t choose it without 40 attack.”
Seeing this, Yu Jiang guessed the other was probing her background.
“I haven’t received this quest. If the stats meet the requirement, can I just kill directly to get it?”
Yu Jiang acted very interested. Now, Sicily didn’t want to answer, but he was unwilling to miss the chance to cozy up.
Different players get different scrolls and future crafting directions, and hidden quests and achievements vary too.
Like the very popular liniment for bruises and sprains, The King Called Me to Patrol the Mountain never sold it.
But in the entire 002 game area, there wouldn’t be an alchemist higher level than him.
Sicily: “I suddenly received it, but couldn’t beat the vipers. With the 24-hour time limit, the quest disappeared. Wuwuwu.”
This info was pried from someone else, and the quest that disappeared was also someone else’s.
He hadn’t received this quest, so he wanted to know if there were other ways to get the achievement.
Unexpectedly, The King Called Me to Patrol the Mountain was so hard to deal with!
Even with the fake voice, she remained unmoved, replied “I see,” and that was it.
Not only didn’t pry useful info, but got no benefits either. His own info was like throwing buns to a dog, nothing gained.
Yu Jiang originally wanted to block this person, but later felt he wasn’t as simple as he seemed, so worth observing.
Unexpectedly, she really pried out some info.
The quest was probably real, but the content might not be.
Hiss, there are still many good people on the road. First there was the critical hit weapon gifted, now message shared.
Yu Jiang opened two finished tire anti-skid chains today, plus one intermediate healing potion, some useless materials, one food exchange card, one rolling pin, and traded with Sad Pig Intestine for a batch of food.
He had grilled rabbit ribs with Sichuan pepper!
The price listed on the trading platform wasn’t low: double ingredients or currently scarce cotton, medicine, and other supplies.
What he gave Yu Jiang was a discount: food exchange card for cooked food, Sad Pig Intestine only took half ingredients.
Yu Jiang felt it was a great deal and sent 50 pieces of wood too.
She could grill it herself, but it took time and energy. Better to let others do it, and use the saved effort to craft two more warm clothing pieces to sell for more profit.
“Big Shot, rest assured! I’ll grill them well for you!”
“The rolling pin you sent has five times efficiency and doesn’t add fatigue value, great stuff. Do you have flour? Later I’ll process it into hand-pulled noodles for free.”
Yu Jiang sent over a bag of 10 jin flour.
Soon, as night fell, Yu Jiang received two grilled rabbits. She didn’t want the rabbit heads, all bones and not tasty.
Plus two grilled ribs, half portion of grilled butter.
And two large portions of dried mushroom beef fried rice, very filling, enough for her four meals.
Fragrant, so fragrant. The rabbit meat was grilled very tender, and in-game wild rabbits were twice the size of ordinary ones.
The butter wasn’t greasy, had a milky aroma, and this fried rice was so satisfying. No wonder it sold for so much in reality.
Exchanging food cards for cooked food is a loss; better to exchange for ingredients if you have cooking conditions.
Sad Pig Intestine truly lived up to being an outdoor camping food blogger, all handmade craftsmanship, no slacking.
Yu Jiang also boiled plain water in the health pot, blanched some wild vegetables, and paired them to cut the grease.
Purslane is quite tasty, with a slight sourness. Though in the past, it was used to feed pigs in the countryside.
On a rainy day inside the RV, having such a luxurious dinner felt very happy.
With the food buffs, Yu Jiang’s 80 fatigue value dropped 20 points. Then eating a dozen blueberries dropped it another 30 points.
Directly recovered energy on the spot, ready to grind manufacturing again!
On rainy days, can’t get out to exercise, so leave some fatigue value to do crunches lying in the vehicle, train waist and abs strength. Moving is better than not.
Not long after eating, Yu Jiang received a bag of hand-pulled noodles from Sad Pig Intestine.
Also, defense +5 Martin boots from Purple Butt Can Do It, custom-sized soft cushion, some medicine making materials she needed.
She also sent over intermediate healing potion, wind-cold powder, primary healing potion, warm clothing, and other things Purple Butt Can Do It needed.
With his professional gathering and crafting manpower, Yu Jiang wouldn’t lack materials short-term, and medicine manufacturing efficiency was much faster.
8 PM at night.
Bold system notification popped up on the public screen.
[In this stormy night, hello survivors. Surely everyone has adapted to life on the road.
New instance mission is here! Survivors who accept will get an updated mission map from the system. Head to the instance entrance within three days. Overtime counts as refusal and you’ll get ‘nothing gained’ punishment.
Instance intro: Lost Wilderness
Difficulty: One star slightly above
Number: 20
Entering Lost Wilderness, you need to explore, light up the map, find 5 watchtowers.
Instance time limit 12 hours. Can’t exit without completing the mission. This time, death in the instance is real death!!!
But mission completion rewards are very generous!
After instance ends, ranking by clear speed. Survivors with captain qualification can form 2-person teams. Captain participates in ranking, allocates supplies acquired in instance and ranking rewards.
Team needs all members to reach the same watchtower together to light up the map (dead teammates don’t count)]
[You have one hour to decide whether to participate in the instance!]
Yu Jiang accepted without thinking.
Three days of ‘nothing gained’ was no big deal for her with supplies and medicine making as backup.
But without participating in instances, how to get stronger?!
Fall behind in progress and you’ll get beaten, or find a backer to please others. Better to fight in the instance.
At this moment, the public screen was all discussing this.
Hefeng: [Oh lord! Just survived three days of ‘nothing gained’ and it’s back? I’m done, just say you want our lives.]
Marco Radish Prince: [Is everyone joining? Saw that dying in the instance this time means really dead, a bit scared to join.]
