Chapter 297: Armor That Only High Level Artisans Can Craft
Private chat messages keep popping up, either wanting to buy potions cheaply or trying to scam her.
They didn’t even send the scroll, just asking if they can skip the system trading, treating her like an idiot. Yu Jiang directly blocked them.
The discussion on the public screen continues, with everyone collecting armor. Things that no one cared about before have doubled in price in just a few minutes.
Drinking water, which was already expensive, has risen another 20%.
Great Luck Great Profit: [It’s already hot, and now with volcanic ash and wildfire, life is unbearable. Can I use a leave pass to stop on the road for the next few days and skip mileage tasks?]
Walnut Pliers: [Genius! Discharge from hospital!]
Luò Tuó Xiángzi: [Check the usage conditions for the leave pass again? You can use at most 3 per week. If you don’t move for three days, on the fourth day you might directly enter the super long parallel road. If energy is enough, to hunker down and get through this map, it should work.
But there’s another problem: no one knows how long the extreme environment warning will last. It might be a week, or two weeks. With lots of supplies, you can endure the ‘nothing gained’ punishment, but then what? Entering an instance, then a new map—things might not get better.]
Drunken Flapping Moth: [Exactly, leave passes are okay for emergencies, but to stop for a long time, you’re doomed eventually. Supplies will slowly deplete, and the longer you stop, the less motivation you’ll have.]
Abstract Master: [Heh heh heh, I picked up a bargain on old armor before, and you all laughed at me for buying scrap. Now it’s useful.]
Taro Boba: [Merchant caravan and big shots, when you receive the scrolls, can you sell me a set? ‘Pitiful’]
Wholesale Wang Defa: [If we receive scrolls, the merchant caravan will price them as materials + crafting fee. Currently can craft gloves and clothing, shoe covers. Priority for self-provided materials. Those who need can go to the trading platform.]
Taro Boba: [Great! Gloves and clothing aren’t cheap, but no price gouging. If not for Sister Fugui and Sister Little Drill Wind, the trading market wouldn’t be this stable.]
Man and Woman Killer: [Stable trading market prices benefit everyone. I heard in old 003 area, there weren’t many people, and the trading market had no items.]
Shishi Ruyi: [Heartbreaking, friends. After server merge, we realized what good days you had.]
Not just 003 area, but 005 area too—merchants and manufacturing players were wiped out. Even with crystal coins, there’s nowhere to exchange for supplies.
Monster merchant and artisan high-level equipment aren’t something you can get just by wanting to encounter them.
Yu Jiang took out the anti-radiation face mask she got from a supply box before from her armor storage grid, along with clothing, gloves, and shoe covers from the merchant caravan, and put them in an easily accessible place.
Anti-radiation equipment is very complex to craft, not like the cotton socks and warm clothing anyone could make before.
They don’t use ordinary fabric, but metal fibers, and the materials aren’t easy to obtain.
Even with materials, only players with artisan profession and armor manufacturing route can make them, and the professional level requirement isn’t low.
Even if she gets the scroll, she can’t make the special fabric. Materials all rely on collecting. Non-artisan professions have very high failure rates.
Many people used to look down on manufacturing players, calling them weaklings with no use. Now who doesn’t want to build good relations with high-level artisans.
There are only a few level 5 artisans in 002 area total, with the merchant caravan holding 70%. Conveniently, they’re all in Yu Jiang’s list.
Yu Jiang has provided them friendly price supplies. One artisan is Aftershock.
Back then, she picked up a player’s inheritance roadside and gave the items to these manufacturing players. Now when collecting armor, they prioritize her and even give discounts.
Yu Jiang posting on public screen about collecting scrolls is to cooperate with Wholesale Wang Defa and compete with Sicily.
If she really gets face mask scrolls, Yu Jiang will also trade with the merchant caravan for finished products, first equipping her own team.
There’s no wind at all outside the car window. The RV is okay, with large space and insulation materials, not too stuffy.
Level four and below vehicles are mostly compact spaces without upgraded materials. Sitting inside at 37 degrees noon, you can imagine the feeling.
Previously in the rainforest it was just humid heat, here it’s not only hot but sunny, and air quality is poor.
It’s that current players have all suffered doomsday beatings, with good physical fitness, otherwise couldn’t last days.
Wearing airtight armor at this temperature is even more uncomfortable. Luckily Yu Jiang just got professional exclusive armor, and the quality is good.
It’s just not a full set, so radiation defense is discounted.
The light screen shows green radiation concentration as safe, orange is water and soil pollution, healing potions can still keep up.
Red means strong radiation area, air dust and particles are polluted. Without fully sealed filtered protective mask, you’re dead in under two hours. Healers can last longer, won’t die before skill cooldown.
Radiation might appear together with volcanic eruption and wildfire.
General armor also has wear and tear. Low-level can’t be repaired, high-level drops level after repair.
Previously short of food and clothing could endure days with protein blocks. Now without protective clothing, bad luck and you’re dead in less than a morning.
In this situation, once on parallel road, burning, killing, and looting will definitely happen.
Yu Jiang finished eating and washed the little milk pot. The RV has a dishwasher item, and when lazy, she just throws it in.
Hot weather makes one sleepy at noon. Fatigue value at 65, looking at barren scenes on both sides. This morning just picked a box at start, got brand new sunglasses and two packs of potato flour.
After that, nothing picked up. Thinking ahead the road is short on supplies, no gathering materials, no motivation to move forward.
Severely polluted areas have high scavenging difficulty. All items polluted, bricks covered in polluted solid particles and dust. Few recyclable things.
Yu Jiang wearing clean old man cloth shoes, half-lying on the sofa.
In the RV, the biggest energy consumer is the refrigerator. Can’t turn off, or the time stasis grids inside will fail.
Her hundreds of pounds of vegetables, potatoes, meat, fruit, milk, eggs, and various cooked food processed by Sad Pig Intestine are all inside.
Luckily hot weather and strong sun mean high power generation efficiency, can store some electricity daily, basically no worry.
Two freezer grids have capacity like normal double-door fridge freezer layer. Some frozen seafood is there. Just now Yu Jiang remembered she has ice packs, quickly took them out to cool down.
Ice pack in front of four-leaf clover fan, blowing cool wind feels great, and once comfortable, even more want to lie flat.
She also used bottled pure tea beverage mixed with milk and matcha to make milk tea. Lying in the RV sipping it tons tons tons, very comfortable.
Today’s mileage task only 25 km left. Electric car slow saves energy. Morning speed not fast, to avoid missing supply boxes, also need to watch roadside.
Team members like Yu Jiang, all stopped at noon to rest, depart again in afternoon when not so hot.
Some team members have large parasols, put on ground, much more comfortable in the shaded area.
