Chapter 313: Everyone Gets More Intense Picking Up Scrap
Yu Ling Bell: [That’s right, the entire highway was filled with your shouts of ‘holy crap’ and screams.]
Ice Cream Assassin: [??? Fake, all fake, you must have misheard.]
Jue Wei Armpit: [Who has it worse than me? I dug for ages, used up so much energy, thought I was going to obtain a gold item, but it turned out to be a rusted-through door panel that crumbled with a little force.]
Ice Americano: [I picked up construction scrap steel right after setting out this morning, a full 60 pounds. The luck I lost opening boxes has all come back from scavenging scrap?]
Security Guard Security Guard Safeguarding Peace: [Then I’d still prefer the good luck for opening boxes; you can get rare resources from them.]
Bitter Melon is Not as Bitter as Me: [Are you all devils? On such a hot day, I just saw a team frantically digging through a scrap pile.]
Jing Zhe: [What you saw was probably us. We thought you were going to rob scrap, so we hurried to speed up progress and put it in the grid to be safe.]
Bitter Melon is Not as Bitter as Me: [.We’re not that unethical, really.]
Previously worried about people robbing boxes on the parallel road, now worried about people robbing scrap.
Boxes are rare, maybe two in a day, but scrap is really everywhere on the road.
Shishi Ruyi: [Who would be full and idle enough to fight on a hot day with no benefit, just to rob one or two pieces of scrap?]
Wang Zi Nougat: [There were people fighting over a few cents worth of cardboard before, not to mention scrap that can be exchanged for supplies. Some skills give an advantage in robbing things, no need to fight at all—grab and run, much better than exhausting yourself digging.]
Lone Wolf 2009: [You’ve reminded me; I need to be more careful scavenging scrap later.]
Sicily: [Has no one picked up 200 pounds yet? Curious what it can be exchanged for.]
No one responded to Sicily’s message. In one morning, unless you have heaven-defying luck, how could you pick up 200 pounds of scrap that fast.
The naysayers, onlookers, and fanning the flames ones pop up from time to time to say a few words.
Some kindly and sincerely analyze that the cost-effectiveness isn’t great and advise everyone not to overdo it, while secretly going to buy tools to scavenge scrap themselves.
Trash everywhere and deadly pollution—it’s not something you can scavenge with just your hands. Without protective gloves and scavenging tools, who dares to reach out.
Ice Cream Assassin lacks wits, but he has the capital to be reckless. For an ordinary person, they’d have lost half their life just posting messages on the public screen.
In the afternoon, Yu Jiang directly turned on autopilot, lay on the rear sofa bed blowing air conditioning, eating ice cream, and even slept for two hours.
This kind of life is truly comfortable; after a while, you don’t want to open the car door and go out at all.
Most of the morning the team was scavenging, so mileage didn’t advance much.
They planned to run 100km in the afternoon first, then find a convenient scavenging spot, and act again when the sun sets.
In the afternoon, Lightning Mage King and Wholesale Wang Defa took turns leading the way at the front.
The Pink Cat Car cuts through the chaotic air, steadily driving on the road, followed by several high-chassis, large-body vehicles. The Cat Car has normal van specs, but in comparison, it looks like a toy car visually.
A passing player was poking their head out to look when suddenly they spotted a pink vehicle coming from the left lane ahead. Big vehicles have many blind spots in the rear view; it was probably coming to scout the situation.
“They don’t even seem to be on the same level; it’s the first time seeing such a badass team. The one leading is such a vehicle.” The player twitched their mouth.
“The opposing team is sealed up like an iron bucket; you can’t see anything.” The teammate wiped sweat and sighed.
Green RV, solar panel, protective shield plus plant rack—on the scarred apocalyptic highway, it’s really eye-catching; anyone who sees it can’t help but look twice.
All the vehicle windows are closed, meaning these people have air conditioning on. Unlike them, drenched in sweat, arms and body sunburned two colors with a clear dividing line, faces with solidified grease also covered in a layer of black dust.
Life is tough, not much water for washing up; they wipe their whole body once every few days with a half-damp towel.
Not washing your face is also a protection for the skin. It’s hard to endure at first, but after surviving so long, you get used to being dirty.
“Better hurry off, don’t cause trouble; we’re still rushing to pick up trash.” Another person reminded, “These days, even scrap near the road requires fast hands and snatching.”
Envy the heavy truck RV all you want, but driving past it, he’s on edge, afraid of encountering a lunatic who suddenly rams him off.
There are way too many such people.
Just now on the public screen, someone said they were bending over to pick up trash when an off-road vehicle rushed over and sent their shoe flying.
The people on the vehicle were laughing and mocking them as noobs picking trash. The messenger hadn’t even described the ramming player’s features before disappearing.
Nine out of ten got wiped out; just thinking about it is scary.
Seeing the other team accelerate away, Yu Jiang also safely left the driver’s seat.
Her vehicle has all rear house windows with one layer of light-blocking panels and one layer of see-through but opaque screen curtains—impossible to see inside. The front driver’s seat uses anti-peep glass.
Just the front windshield and two windows cost a fortune.
Not the easily damaged anti-peep film; that stuff falls off with any vehicle damage.
Yu Jiang uses laminated tempered glass, which not only resists impacts but also has good heat insulation and UV resistance.
However, sun protection is just a bit better than regular vehicles; it doesn’t completely block UV and high temperature—you still get sunburned.
Lying on the rear sofa is comfortable; eat a few blueberries to supplement vitamins, chat with teammates occasionally, check the public screen.
Around 4 PM, the mileage task has 5km left.
Yu Jiang saw a message about herself on the public screen.
Lonely Sandbar: [You only know after scavenging scrap that the morning talk about high consumption and risk is the truth. Water was already scarce; reducing physical labor lets you survive on 500ml a day. But going to pick up that damn scrap, after a day I haven’t even gotten 50 pounds, drank 3 bottles of water, and my neck is sunburned peeling.]
Tomorrow might be even hotter; it’s not a money pit, I was too naive. If there really was a good way to get supplies, why say it out loud? When she sells supplies in bulk from her RV, she never told us the method.]
Small Fish: [So many people actually went scavenging scrap? Hilarious.]
Phonograph: [I regret it too; should have just done the mileage task properly. Now I’ve got heatstroke and haven’t completed the task @The King Called Me to Patrol the Mountain, big shot, you can do drug manufacturing; it’s a piece of cake for you, but life-saving for us.]
I only went scavenging scrap because I saw your message; if it was someone else, I wouldn’t dare believe it. For everyone’s trust in you, can you sell me some cheap summer cooling powder to save my life?]
Moral kidnapping, though late, arrives.
Is his trust some valuable thing?
Before Yu Jiang could speak, the muddle through guy arrived.
Sicily: [Don’t worry, big shot is such a good person, she definitely won’t ignore it. She’s sold several batches of discounted medicine before; this is nothing.]
