Chapter 306: Achievement Shovel Warrior
[You are the first survivor to kill 10 Death Worms with a Shovel.
Discarded farm tools that others don’t want have actually become a great weapon in your hands!
Player obtained achievement ‘Shovel Warrior’
Reward: Shovel Crafting Scroll*1 (2% chance to craft a Shovel with attributes)
When searching for supplies on the Wasteland Road, how can you do without tools?]
Yu Jiang’s mouth twitched. With such a low probability, where was she supposed to use up the attribute-less Shovels produced during crafting? How many players would spend money to buy them?
Crafting was simple, only requiring a Wooden Stick and an Iron Block.
The good news was she didn’t have to worry about running out of tools later; she could dig as she went along the road.
After packing up, everyone quickly returned to the road. It was already 5:45 PM.
In a little while, it would be dark, and staying outside the road would be very dangerous.
“This is the worm monster you reminded me about before.” Wholesale Wang Defa was seeing it for the first time too—a Sneaky Player monster that could suddenly pop its head out from underground to attack players.
Yu Jiang nodded and looked at Shi Xu flipping over the monster corpse with a Wooden Stick.
“Looking at the structure of this thing’s mouth, once bitten, you have to cut out the flesh along with it right away,” Shi Xu said calmly.
If your hand wasn’t fast enough, it would crawl onto the player’s body.
Purple Butt Can Do It took a deep breath in lingering fear and looked at Strawberry Candy: “Thanks, Candy Sis, for saving me.”
Although he was also swung back half a meter by the Baseball Bat, nearly tripping over his own feet, it was much luckier than having flesh cut out.
“No problem.” Strawberry Candy waved her hand.
The team needed to start preparing to set up camp for the night. The middle of the road was relatively safe; the monsters encountered today had all appeared only on the wasteland on both sides.
But nighttime was too short. If a vehicle came rushing over from behind, the middle lane felt more likely to get hit.
So the vehicle with higher defense would stop in the middle lane, with Yu Jiang in front and Shi Xu in the rear.
The Merchant Caravan would pay 2 Level Six Repair Cards and 2 Level Five Repair Cards. As for how many Level Four ones were needed, that wasn’t an issue.
Resources were scarcer and more dangerous on the Wasteland Road, so of course they had to add a bit to the previous prices.
The team agreed that these were team shared resources to be used together, not divided per kill.
If divided, they couldn’t evenly share the damage and pressure on each vehicle during crises and battles.
They’d divide any leftovers after the journey ended.
For the simple camp setup, everyone was familiar with it. They still placed the warning sign item 150 meters behind the vehicle.
Nothing else; the Merchant Caravan didn’t plan to set up Tents either.
Use the Sky Curtain before dark, return to the vehicle after dark. Yu Zhou even had a Solar Camping Fan.
Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy looked on enviously and asked Purple Butt Can Do It, “Can this thing still be acquired?”
“She got it during the cold weather, 35 Crystal Coins. Now it’s pretty hard—350 Crystal Coins unless you saved their life.”
Strawberry Candy took out a handheld rechargeable fan and blew it at Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy, letting her cool off too.
“Thanks!” Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy felt the breeze coming at her. Although the wind was hot too, it was still cooler than nothing.
“How did you get this fan?”
Strawberry Candy: “Didn’t we enter the City Challenge Instance before and drop it from Zombies? This USB port can charge on the vehicle, but the airflow is pretty weak.”
Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy took a deep breath. “It’s all on you, A Ding. I also want a Solar Camping Fan, preferably no more than 500 Crystal Coins.”
Purple Butt Can Do It nodded. “I’ll try.”
During the rest, Yu Jiang sat inside the vehicle continuing to scroll the Public Screen. This wasn’t out of boredom but a channel for gathering information.
The Merchant Caravan could integrate resources and exploit information gaps precisely because someone specifically monitored news from the 002 Game Area. They’d check it during night watch too.
That way they could snap up good-priced supplies and relist them at a markup a few days later.
At the start, they had no resources in hand, so making money on the spread wasn’t that easy. It was all through effort that they got to today.
The sun was gradually setting, and the Public Screen was full of various help requests, resource trades, and players selling info.
Heavenly King Covers the Earth Tiger: [Holy crap, too terrifying. Be careful when scavenging supplies. Just encountered a new monster. Want details to prepare in advance. VM me 50.]
People Don’t Offend Heaven and Earth Will Destroy Them: [50 is too expensive. If you’re a Big Shot, just give a monster kill walkthrough. Just info scraped from the Light Screen, and you’re charging 50?]
Kiss of Death: [It’s just Death Worm, easy to kill. I’ll post it directly, no need for money.]
Heavenly King Covers the Earth Tiger: [? Not affecting others’ earnings is also a virtue!]
Kiss of Death still posted the monster info. He grinned at the Public Screen—he did it on purpose, to see trash Regular Players panic and get mad, and earn some Reputation points too.
Before the Server Merge, he wasn’t short on Reputation in 005 area. Those robbers the caravan hired people to kill earlier had to tuck tail in front of him and obediently pay tribute.
Otherwise, as neither a Merchant, nor an Alchemist, nor an advanced Artisan, how did he rush onto the Wealth Ranking? Even one spot higher than Blue Umbrella.
Knowing players from other areas were stronger, he could only develop first and accumulate strength.
Green Mountains Never Change and Green Waters Flow Forever: [Help! Need meds 『Picture』 What to do in my situation? Got wrapped by a worm, and when I swung my knife to chop, my arm got corroded too.]
The picture this guy posted of his own arm looked miserable—one layer of skin was gone.
Sicily: [Try Detox Pill? Cheap for you, just 300 Crystal Coins.]
Great Luck Great Profit: [Be super careful with this thing. We encountered it. A player in the caravan was squatting searching for useful supplies and suddenly got wrapped around the neck. Teammates went to rescue, but no one knew it had corrosive liquid inside. One slash, the monster’s lower half still moved. The unlucky player had eyes and neck corroded—neck has trachea and major artery, gone before rescue could start.]
Jue Wei Armpit: [Damn! Damn! This is too terrifying. Good thing everyone knows about this thing now.]
Green Mountains Never Change and Green Waters Flow Forever: [@Sicily, sis, I only have 260 Crystal Coins left 『begging』]
Sicily: [Fine, I don’t even know if Primary Detox Pill can help you, but no other way.]
Taro Boba: [Others are this miserable and you’re still scamming? You’re an Alchemist who can refine Advanced Healing Potion, don’t you know if Primary Detox Pill works?
@Green Mountains Never Change and Green Waters Flow Forever, he’s male, used big sis voice to scam before. No one fell for it, but post-Server Merge players didn’t know and got tricked again.]
Tiangong Kaiwu: [Damn it, yesterday he told me, he does Alchemy, I do Manufacturing, together we’d make a career. Bought my stuff at nearly 50% off. Small Power Storage Device, sold to caravan could trade for a set of Protective Clothing besides meds.]
Level Five Alchemist, highest Purification Skill Level Healer in 002 area, pleasant voice—unaware people really fall for it.
Pretty normal. If there was someone with decent strength, good looks, obedient, providing emotional value, even Yu Jiang wouldn’t stay unmoved.
But whoever targets Yu Jiang’s resources for a 50% discount, she’d immediately block.
Taro Boba: [Hurry and buy Repair Paste. If that doesn’t work, debride dead flesh, heal, then repair. Only Big Shots can make Repair Paste now.
Caravan sells for 400 Crystal Coins. If no Crystal Coins, mortgage supplies—they’ll give meds first if you have good reputation with the caravan,]
Green Mountains Never Change and Green Waters Flow Forever: [Thanks, so thankful.]
Interrupted in business, Sicily got mad: [Taro Boba you damn *%#]
Taro Boba was also an Alchemist, not low level, had a team too, not afraid of Sicily.
Yu Jiang watched the messages scrolling fast, took out dinner—Cold Noodles, sour and spicy ice-cold perfect for this weather.
She’d just eaten two bites when an exclamation rose in the team.
“Sister Jiang, something behind, looks like a figure, and both sides of the road feel off too.” Strawberry Candy, on shift guarding the camp, sent a message.
The sun had set, sky darkening, but safe time hadn’t started yet.
Yu Jiang stood up, went to the Driver’s Seat rearview mirror—indeed something there.
She immediately stowed the food, opened the door, and climbed onto the vehicle roof via the Vertical Ladder on one side, raising the Night Vision Telescope.
