Chapter 305: Dug Up A Monster While Treasure Hunting
Shi Xu watched her series of smooth looting actions, his gaze pausing slightly,
“I’m not robbing you, Captain, no need to be so formal.”
She looked like she would grab the stuff and floor it the next second.
These spikes could only be used by her, who had the tempering toxin skill.
Yu Jiang looked up, smiling as she explained, “It’s a habit, I can’t slow down when picking up things.”
Not all spikes could be used; they needed the right length, too short a break wouldn’t work.
Yu Jiang had just sent the spikes and monster info to the team when Kuang Kuang Kuang immediately let out a sharp burst,
“Ahhh! This is the thing I need for my mission. With this, I can upgrade my arrowhead skill. Can you transfer two to me? I’ll trade supplies.”
Yu Jiang sent them directly to her without asking for supplies; she had picked up four spikes and was just giving away two.
In the past, when everyone encountered things each other needed on the road, if they weren’t particularly precious and the quantity needed was small, they would just give them directly.
She had also received toxic monster drop resources from teammates.
In one day, the only supply box they found, and during pickup, a teammate got hit by a monster.
There was just one bottle of mineral water in the box. Purple Butt Can Do It stood there with his mouth open for a long time, “This is my first time opening such a dismal supply box, and it’s actually an iron box.”
Before, opening just one bottle of water from a wooden box was bad luck; at least there should be some upgrade materials, bread, and such.
“Because survival difficulty has increased, supply boxes don’t have as many supplies anymore. One bottle of mineral water is normal for an iron box.” Yu Jiang spoke up.
Wholesale Wang Defa, who had been squatting by the side of the car staring at the public screen for a good while, nodded in agreement.
“Based on the info I’ve collected, wooden boxes used to easily drop water, food, upgrade materials. Now the probability of dropping water and self-heating rice is very low, and the quantity of supplies in boxes has decreased, including upgrade materials.”
Monsters are high level, drop more crystal coins, but fewer supplies. The situation won’t get better; it will only get more severe.
“If it weren’t for the server merge, those places with few people and no life players, no matter how strong they are in battle, they’d eventually run out of steam after a while.”
“If they cared about this issue, they wouldn’t be killing people based on the trading platform list.” Yu Jiang sighed.
Without enough supplies, people used to getting rich by grabbing wouldn’t tolerate slowly farming monsters for crystal coins.
Life is Like a Play had already gotten rich; she looked down on things in regular players’ hands and wouldn’t get professional achievements anymore. To level up, she had to swing at high combat power.
The remaining robbers had kept their heads down for a while recently; they were probably full of resentment by now.
Plus, recently in the urban area road, there were plenty of supplies. It wasn’t worth the time to rob small fries; better to go into challenge instances.
It was different on the wasteland road.
Yu Jiang looked at the desolate, lifeless world and knocked off a rusty metal piece stuck in the black soil with two bangs.
Scavengers are exciting everywhere!
The wasteland definitely has lots of trash; anything recyclable is good stuff! Even a little revenue is better than none.
Maybe even the rare materials needed for level 7 vehicles could be picked up; couldn’t count on supply boxes.
“It’s rusted like this, and there’s still materials?” Wholesale Wang Defa watched Yu Jiang take out a shovel and start digging up the underground metal part.
On both sides of the road, besides black soil, there were piles of trash and wastewater, colorful polluted liquids. Digging a few more shovelfuls would release a stench.
“There are, sis, the bag has some.” Yu Jiang, who had added another mask layer, nodded seriously, “Just fewer recycling materials.”
Metal rust causes serious discount on recycling materials. Normal iron blocks yield 5 iron blocks; rusted ones 1-3 depending.
If rusted through, they can’t be used.
Iron is like this, prone to rust. One reason for low-level vehicle wear and tear is the harsh environment causing corrosion.
Planting food on the road saves time; natural vehicle wear and tear is the same.
High-level vehicles need lots of aluminum alloy; carbon fiber has no such issue, and titanium alloy, that aerospace high-end material, even less so.
Yu Jiang dug down a few more shovelfuls, her expression suddenly changing. Strawberry Candy asked nervously, “What happened? Did you dig up something good?”
“.Dug up a monster.”
Yu Jiang quickly threw away the shovel in her hand. The next second, a ferocious worm used the shovel to climb up and flew toward Yu Jiang’s face.
[Death Worm: You’re the one trying to raid my home? Charge! Go!]
It wasn’t just one dug up; it was a group. They had dug into their nest.
Yu Jiang retreated first, not daring to fight. So close, if the corrosive liquid splashed into her eyes, it would be over.
Shi Xu had originally resignedly held a hoe to help Yu Jiang dig abandoned items. Seeing her throw the shovel, he immediately swung the hoe at the snarling monster.
With a muffled thud, the high attack power worm was knocked flying. This thing had a smooth body without scale armor protection, but its texture was like thick rubber tires, tough skin and thick flesh with decent defense.
Normal weapons needed several chops to kill it. Yu Jiang’s bayonet plus her own attack power would take three strikes without a critical hit to empty the health bar.
Lightning Mage King raised his upgraded, very impressive-looking pig herder. In a flash of electricity, several teammates retracted their attacks and hurried back, nearly hit by the crackling current instead of the monster.
The death worm was still very active after being electrocuted and could even bounce attack them with blue electric current.
After Shi Xu smashed a worm in half with one hoe strike, he switched to his own weapon.
His knife had a terrifyingly high critical hit rate. With a flash of white light, one strike cut three in half.
In this situation, you had to watch the health bar carefully to see if it was empty. Some with a sliver of health left could still counterattack and bite with half their body.
Being chased by monsters wasn’t scary; being chased by half a monster that was still unusually active and fierce was.
Purple Butt Can Do It was jumping around on the ground doing the lightning dance to dodge when half a death worm lunged out,
“Holy crap ahh!”
Wholesale Wang Defa aimed for a long time, but the monsters were too agile. She wasn’t a shooter; her gun couldn’t be upgraded or bound, and she had no matching skills. It was hard to hit in this situation.
Strawberry Candy chased after it, and just as it was about to bite his lower back, a baseball bat came down, flattening the monster’s head. Corrosive liquid fell on the road edge.
White smoke rose; the asphalt road was fine, but the metal paint on the nearby vehicle car door was corroded a bit.
At the same time, Yu Jiang stabbed her knife into the last worm monster’s body. Its head twisted around, mouth opening to bite her hand. Yu Jiang quickly pulled out the knife; a farming shovel was more handy.
She lifted it with both hands and smashed it into the ground twice, pounding the monster’s body to pieces.
It was dead for sure. The shovel, already rusty, was now more severely corroded with high wear and tear.
But it was iron after all, not plastic; it could still be used for another day or two.
Weapons to drain health bar, shovel for finishing blow—relatively safe. Yu Jiang used this method to advance her poison rain upgrade mission a big step.
(12/99)
Don’t think just a dozen killed; this thing is the king of durability, very hard to kill, and not easy to find.
A system message appeared at this time.
Next chapter will be late~
