Chapter 301: The Merchant Caravan’s Status Is Secured
Yu Jiang finished her bath, dried her hair, and came out. A series of trade success messages popped up.
All the supplies she had just listed were sold out, and the merchant caravan also sent over the crafted protective clothing.
This was the reward for that batch of armor materials and damaged armor. The rest goes to the merchant caravan.
Players all went over there waiting to snatch protective clothing, and the quantity isn’t much.
Yu Jiang kept two pieces for herself, gave the rest to teammates and friends without armor, and of course, took charging cards and batteries as reward.
With a full set of armor, she could move forward with peace of mind tomorrow.
She couldn’t gather medicinal herbs ahead, Yu Jiang had enough stock on hand, but this time she didn’t plan to list them at a good price.
The situation ahead was unclear, so she had to prioritize her own and the team’s survival.
Yu Jiang didn’t like the feeling of not having enough stock on hand; it lacked a sense of security and made her anxious.
She put away the medicine she had just refined one by one, casually glanced at a couple of messages. The public screen was talking about the harsh environment ahead, and the team channel was also discussing it.
Everyone was so familiar now, they directly sent voice messages, which was more convenient.
In this situation, they needed to team up. There weren’t many resources on the road anyway, so no need to worry about supply acquisition efficiency or wasting combat power.
The team arrangement remained the same overall, nothing much to discuss. Everyone was mostly chatting and trading supplies.
Kuang Kuang Kuang: “This road is really hard to travel. Good thing I met you all, otherwise I wouldn’t even know if I could hold on until now.”
Strawberry Candy: “I think the same. It’s great that we’re together.”
Sad Pig Intestine: “Why’d you steal my line? You all could definitely hold on until now. I would’ve been done for early without meeting you. Hey, I just made sweet and sour pork. We can eat it for lunch tomorrow!”
Hand Holding Cleaver Chopping Wire: “Pig Intestine! If I hadn’t met you, I wouldn’t even know what kind of days I’d be living now. Where could I get sweet and sour pork? I’d only have sweet and sour charred bits.”
Yu Jiang deeply agreed, “Any good ingredients turn into a mess in my hands.”
Shi Xu wiped his dripping hair and said softly, “I know a little about that.”
Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy: “Meeting everyone is my honor too.”
Han Jiang Gu Ying: “Next time at the service area, let’s get together and have some beer.”
Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy: “Sure!”
Yu Jiang yawned, “If there’s nothing else, I’ll go to sleep first. A bit sleepy.”
Kuang Kuang Kuang: “Okay okay, good night. I’m going to rest too.”
Everyone said good night to each other. Yu Jiang was just about to lie down when she suddenly saw a friend message.
Voice message from Shi Xu: “Rest early, see you tomorrow.”
Late at night, this guy’s voice was like the clink of fine porcelain, clean and pure, not the contrived bubbly tone.
It just sounded nice and made people smile.
Yu Jiang stayed calm for two seconds and sent a message, “You too.”
She sent text, afraid the other side would see her current expression.
The light screen went dark. On the second floor, only the faint small night light by the medicine cabinet remained. Nights in the thirties were a bit hot for sleeping, and there were quite a few mosquitoes and small flying insects.
Luckily, the RV’s mosquito net was tight enough, and the pyrethrum effect was also very good.
Some players thought that leaving the rainforest meant no need to repair the mosquito net, only to regret it when they got here.
Without opening the window, it’d be hot to death at night; with it open, mosquitoes would bite to death. The mosquitoes here weren’t poisonous, but buzzing around the ears was still uncomfortable.
Things that used to not sell for 5 crystal coins before, like roadside-picked old mosquito nets, could now be dismantled into pieces of cloth and sold at a price.
Yu Jiang didn’t use the four-leaf clover fan or turn on the air conditioning. As long as fatigue value was high enough, she wouldn’t have trouble sleeping at night.
It was just the beginning; the environment ahead was even harsher. She couldn’t guarantee she’d always be in a situation without lacking energy and supplies.
When she was young, living under someone else’s roof or in school dorms, where was there air conditioning? It wasn’t as good as the RV environment, all thanks to habit.
Yu Jiang rolled over twice on the bed. Sleepiness came, and she fell asleep.
On the other side, Heartless Water and A Thousand Lamps Exhaust Snow, who had been paying attention to the public screen, couldn’t sleep again.
They were both proud and ambitious at heart. It had been hard to calm down a bit, convincing themselves that one failure was nothing.
Seeing the battlefield supplies Yu Jiang took out made their anger flare up again.
Even their team was short on protective clothing right now and had to sweet-talk the merchant caravan to haggle over prices.
Whether the price could be negotiated was one thing, the quantity was another.
They wanted priority for armor, but the merchant caravan said they couldn’t arrange it. Even orders from level 5 artisans were backed up three days. If they could convince Life is Like a Play themselves, or masters from zone 005 or 006, that would work too.
They could convince shit. Without armor now, it was like driving without mandatory insurance—any accident and they’d be done for.
If those people were willing to yield to them, why would they even bother with the merchant caravan?
If they had taken out The King Called Me to Patrol the Mountain on the battlefield, the supplies she picked up would be theirs, and they wouldn’t be in this awkward spot now.
Thinking of this, a few people in the team inevitably had ideas and rifts in their minds.
“The merchant caravan has developed now, with high level artisans and healers on hand. We have no advantage in negotiating trades anymore.” Heartless Water said coldly.
The merchant caravan has long-term cooperation with Yu Jiang and is not short of high combat power teams.
Heartless Water originally planned to propose cooperation when the server merge happened, the merchant caravan was suppressed and suffered heavy losses, to take the opportunity to bring the merchant caravan under his control.
Who would have known that the merchant caravan, which previously survived in the crevice, could be so tough when it needed to be, surrounding and killing the robbers regardless of cost.
The current merchant caravan is no longer an existence that a single combat power team can shake.
The artisan profession, which was previously despised by others, lacks the ability to independently survive instances and requires a large amount of resources to level up to 5 so quickly.
Wholesale Wang Defa had long been making preparations, and even in the merchant caravan’s most difficult times, she never cut off resources for healers and artisans.
Even combat power teams with artisans couldn’t produce protective clothing in such a short time by now.
In this wave, if other teams want to reduce personnel losses, they have to support the merchant caravan.
With high quoted prices and unwillingness to give them convenience, Heartless Water can only accept it.
Even if he’s so angry he can’t sleep.
The number one guild in District 002 that he wanted to build has been turned by the merchant caravan into a team with disastrously low combat power, seen by everyone as a fat sheep.
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Yu Jiang slept until after 5 a.m.
Outside the window was the blue hour, the temperature hadn’t risen yet, and she lay on the comfortable soft bed for a while before getting up.
A gentle breeze blew through, lifting the translucent screen curtain in front of the wooden countertop in the kitchen, outside was quiet, only the desolate, endless road could be seen.
The information on the light screen had updated: air humidity 50%, today’s high temperature 38
There were also early-rising players posting messages on the public screen; it has to be said that many times, these messages give regular players the motivation to survive.
This morning Yu Jiang didn’t do dumbbell exercises, no need to burden her body in such hot weather, just kill a couple of monsters later.
Yu Jiang took out iced soy milk from Raccoon Supermarket, hand-grabbed pancakes made by Sad Pig Intestine, sat by the dining table, feeling the rare breeze, and ate heartily.
The hand-grabbed pancakes were filled with ham, bacon, pan-fried luncheon meat, and crisp sweet lettuce, a very luxurious setup in doomsday.
