Chapter 314: Air Pollution Gets Even Worse
Sicily sat in her newly decorated B-grade RV, enjoying the air conditioning, holding a chilled fruit canned food worth 100 crystal coins in her hand, and disdainfully looking at those players complaining on the public screen.
A bunch of trash.
And The King Called Me to Patrol the Mountain, doesn’t she like selling limited discount medicine and driving down medicine prices?
In this godforsaken place with no grass, why doesn’t she keep selling? He wanted to see how many resources she had left to squander.
Originally, he wanted to build a good relationship with her at the start, but that woman was impervious to reason.
She was clearly a Poison Master, but pretended not to know back then, just afraid that he would also unlock the Poison Master Path.
Guessing that she took the hidden route, he focused his skills on Purification.
He couldn’t beat her at Alchemy, but he could counter the Poison Master. Thinking of this, Sicily smugly curled her lips.
Yu Jiang also laughed: 【Can’t you refine it? You seem so enthusiastic, you should be happy to send out a few portions of medicine.】
Sarcastic flattery, who can’t do that? Before Sicily could speak, Yu Jiang sent another message,
【I said this morning that scavenging scrap has risks. It’s the apocalypse now, haven’t you learned to take responsibility for your decisions? You believed me, so I have to cover for you? Do you share half the exchanged supplies with me?
@Sicily You’ve been making noise all day, if it’s really not working out, let’s just fight.】
Sicily instantly fell silent. He knew that on this crappy map, even normal breathing was uncomfortable.
The other side wouldn’t really fight to the death over a couple of words on the public screen. Impulsive people can’t lead a team. Aren’t teammates’ combat power resources and lives valuable?
As soon as they arrived, he could send out his location right after. Those teams might not help him, but they definitely wanted to wait for The King Called Me to Patrol the Mountain to wear down her status before picking up a bargain.
But Sicily wasn’t sure either if Yu Jiang would really come find him. She wasn’t above doing such things.
She could even go head-to-head with another combat power team for an ordinary teammate.
So Sicily directly didn’t respond. Heartless Water cared about face, but to him, face was worth shit.
His starting stats were abysmally low, no so-called good luck either. He couldn’t beat zombies or the monsters in supply boxes, survived purely by running fast.
No crystal coins in hand, no supplies, vehicle was a bicycle, stamina was poor, the novice period mileage tasks were already tough.
No food meant no strength to ride, in a few days he’d be done for.
At times like this, what bottom lines or face? Only the things you actually hold in your hands are real.
He pretended to be a woman to men, switched to a bubbly voice for women, but when he approached the Wholesale King Wang Defa, that woman was sharp as hell too.
For the Alchemist profession, he could only target strong women, none of them were easy to fool. He didn’t even dare private chat Life is Like a Play.
The method to achieve the goal didn’t matter. What could those suckers he scammed do even if they hated him.
With his starting conditions, managing to survive to now, after server merge still in the top twenty of the Wealth Ranking, one of the rare level 5 Alchemists.
And those people? How many nicknames had turned black, their graves overgrown with three-meter grass.
As long as he had enough strength, stood high enough in the apocalypse, who cared about the process and methods.
Look, those honest survival players, right now could only brave the scorching sun and dangers to pick scrap.
Sledgehammer 80: 【Didn’t pick up 50 pounds in a day, either your luck sucks or you suck. I’ve got over 100 pounds anyway, expected to get the service area notification the big shot mentioned tomorrow.】
Fried Potato with Oxalis: 【Exactly, can’t you see how many degrees it is outside? Or do you not know that getting out to work consumes supplies?】
She drove an excavator, scooping scrap was much easier than others, she’d already picked over 100 pounds. Not good to comment on those who said everything they found in a day was rusted-through iron sheets.
But blaming the big shot just because you can’t pick scrap? That’s sick.
Han Jiang Gu Ying: 【『Picture』 Who said we’re just here to sell tools, we’re picking too.】
Kuang Kuang Kuang: 【『Picture』】
Hand Holding Cleaver Chopping Wire: 【『Picture』】
X: 【『Picture』】
Following were Wholesale Wang Defa, Yu Zhou, all posting their own picked scrap steel and iron.
The public screen seemed paused, a few seconds later a wave of holy shit scrolled by.
Lone Wolf 2009: 【Good grief, merchant caravan big shots, combat power big shots are even this intense at picking trash?】
Eat Shit Don’t Forget to Poop Person: 【???! I thought my luck was good, but seeing the trash you picked, sorry, I spoke too loudly.】
Purple Butt Can Do It: 【Collecting scrap steel and iron, if you’ve picked dozens of pounds but don’t want to keep going or throw it away, contact me.】
He couldn’t pick more than his teammates, but he could collect directly!
Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy gave Purple Butt Can Do It a thumbs up, “A Ding, you little rascal, not bad.”
“Integrating resources, so many naysayers, someone will be convinced. No one knows the exchange ratio, I think I can make a profit.” Purple Butt Can Do It smiled, then turned to haggle in private chat.
After him, quite a few players said they could collect too. Now even if they couldn’t pick 200 pounds, they could exchange for some supplies.
Merchants collecting directly meant no more leaving the road for adventures at night. Yu Jiang’s Team split into two groups.
Strawberry Candy, Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy, Lightning Mage King, plus Purple Butt Can Do It who also wanted to improve his strength, and Wholesale Wang Defa, Yu Zhou.
From sunset to full dark, they went scavenging. After dark, Yu Jiang and Shi Xu grouped together.
Safe time had to be near the vehicle, only useful if not leaving the road. Too risky for others.
A few hours later, several people returned exhausted, each with a pile of scrap.
8 PM, safe time activated. First team went to the left side of the road, Yu Jiang and Shi Xu now heading to the right side.
Yu Jiang had night vision sunglasses, Shi Xu had profession talent. The two went all out, efficiency was top-notch.
Shi Xu handled grinding monsters, Yu Jiang scavenging, conveniently picking up two black thorns dropped by monsters.
Once Shi Xu finished his task, switch to Yu Jiang collecting monster heads, scavenging task two birds with one stone.
Nighttime monsters on both sides of the road were plentiful, no blazing sun, felt really good.
After three hours, when they returned, Yu Jiang had picked 500 pounds of scrap, gave Shi Xu 200 pounds, she still had 300 pounds. Total scrap in her hands for the day: 456 pounds.
Mainly luck was good at night too, stepped on a broken section of industrial steel pipe on the road, looked down, struck gold.
The next day, the team arranged the same way, everyone’s scavenging speed clearly more proficient.
Yu Jiang’s Poison Rain task (69/99)
One more day and it’d be done.
Yu Jiang had 1000 pounds of scrap metal, 450 pounds of scrap steel in hand, exhausted her plenty.
Thanks to plenty of storage compartments on the RV, otherwise nowhere to put it. Storing scrap, same type per grid only 50 pounds.
All teammates had received the Scrap Yard notifications, they planned to gather more scrap before entering the Scrap Yard tomorrow.
On the public screen, those who initially doubted Yu Jiang sharing the message as a scam fell silent after seeing feedback from a bunch of players about real service area system notifications. Only a few stubborn ones still voiced worries about the exchange ratio.
At this point, a new problem arose.
Temperature peaked at 42 degrees, not yet at the can’t-get-out level, but air pollutant concentration rose, many started losing health value.
Hard to go to both sides of the road for scavenging during the day.
By 8 AM, temperature hit 36.
Fried Potato with Oxalis: 【Good thing I stocked 200 pounds of scrap yesterday, heading straight to the Scrap Yard today, will share the exchange ratio then. Believe it or not, up to you.】
She had 800 pounds of scrap in hand. Whether she could get rich depended on this wave.
