Chapter 58: New Rule
“I will definitely work hard to upgrade the vehicle!” Strawberry Candy nodded heavily.
“By the way, do you know why there were so many people on the vehicle just now?” Yu Jiang asked the key point.
Strawberry Candy shook her head, “But I noticed that his vehicle had marks from license plates that had been hanging there for a long time. It might be that he brought his own car into the game, and the family on the vehicle might have corresponding parallel rules.”
There was that possibility. When she entered the game, hadn’t she just checked out at the supermarket with a bag of food.
Yu Jiang nodded, “You observed quite carefully.”
Strawberry Candy pursed her lips and smiled. The big shot praised her. “They were dressed thinly, and women’s clothing collars were exposed inside. The headrest in the vehicle was a bit dirty, and that style is generally used more by women.”
There might have been one more person on the vehicle originally, or possibly, these things were all picked up.
“Let’s go. This isn’t a place to stay long. Shall we team up first on the parallel road?” Yu Jiang suggested.
That was fine too, for mutual support. Once they left the parallel road, the team would automatically disband.
“Okay!” Strawberry Candy happily and excitedly clicked to accept the team-up invitation.
Great! She had teamed up with Little Drill Wind big shot too!
They encountered other players on the road ahead, but it was smooth sailing all the way with no further conflicts.
No one wanted to get close to the off-road pickup truck and the harvester at all. The two vehicles went one in front and one behind, looking very oppressive.
No joke, if they blocked the road for robbery, not many could withstand two hits.
Not hurrying to stay away was one thing, who would want to go stir up trouble.
Leaving the parallel road, Strawberry Candy looked at the empty and desolate road, and the disappeared team-up marker, feeling somewhat empty.
This feeling was adjusted when she saw the friend group channel.
Today Sad Pig Intestine made the team’s standard meal. The remaining ingredients were stewed in a big pot, then flatbread was added, along with a few instant noodle cakes, and it would be ready soon.
After Yu Jiang parked, she started manufacturing.
Washing machine, fog light, water purifier—she made them all.
The washing machine was placed in the bathroom, the water purifier was installed on the cabinet, but she didn’t dare to turn on the cooling and heating functions.
The fog light wasn’t needed for now, so she put it away first to avoid damage from acid rain.
These things weren’t easy to produce now, mainly because few people could afford them.
But Yu Jiang had her own customers.
“Washing machine, fog light, water purifier, want any?”
One sentence, sent to Shi Xu, Han Jiang Gu Ying, Hand Holding Cleaver Chopping Wire, Purple Butt Can Do It.
Their replies were also uniform, just one word: Buy!
The previous customers all had gasoline vehicles. She wanted batteries and component cards for electric cars, repair cards. Purple Butt Can Do It had constantly opened boxes and resold things, so he had some stock of all supplies.
Even in such tense energy times, he could still produce over a dozen batteries.
European Emperor was European Emperor. Yu Jiang had dismal revenue from opening boxes for two consecutive days, but his probability hadn’t changed; he hadn’t even opened a single monster.
Everyone in the friend group was saying they were envious. Luck was also a kind of strength.
This night, Yu Jiang chatted with everyone in the friend channel, without looking at the bloody storm on the public screen.
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Acid Rain Day 6, Survival Time: Day 18.
Some people who were asking for help on the public screen yesterday had their nicknames turned black today.
Many of the initially active batch hadn’t appeared or spoken for a long time.
The current acid rain had exaggerated corrosiveness. Some used waterproof cloth to cover the vehicle roof, but severely corroded areas had holes.
If people didn’t take protective measures when getting out, skin touched by rainwater would turn red, and health value would drop quickly.
Many risked adventure to open boxes, but only got monsters. When they returned to the vehicle, they had only half life left.
This was still good; some worse ones went down and never came back.
Lone Wolf 2009: [List of over a dozen people, now only me and another left. I don’t even know how much longer I can hold on.]
Luò Tuó Xiángzi: [Think positively. Can I be more miserable? I just lent things to a friend, and the next day, damn, he was gone, and I couldn’t get my things back.]
Ling Ziyun: [Can’t they just get along well and watch out for each other? It’s only half a month, and someone is already robbing and killing fellow countrymen!]
Yu Jiang sighed. Screening companions for mutual support could still be achieved, but requiring everyone to be moral was truly underestimating human nature.
Conflict, plunder—even in civilized worlds, it happened all the time, let alone here.
There were more abandoned vehicles on the road today. Yu Jiang wrapped herself layer upon layer before going down.
Unexpectedly, she got an achievement.
[You’re truly so touching. Even in acid rain, you go out to recycle abandoned vehicles and maintain the road. Gained achievement ‘Road Clearing Master’
Reward: Gift from all road staff
(Vehicle permanent shield 10%, slowly auto-recovers after consumption!)]
Just back in the vehicle, Yu Jiang, carefully taking off her raincoat to avoid rainwater, paused, her eyes much clearer.
Should have said so earlier!
If she knew there was free stuff, she definitely wouldn’t have forgotten her roots when seeing severely corroded primary vehicles on the road these past few days!
Yu Jiang opened her vehicle info. Permanent shield was different from car paint; the paint’s shield defense had a fixed value.
Permanent shield followed the vehicle’s defense, meaning the higher the vehicle defense, the harder it was to deplete this 10% shield.
It was simply the best thing she had gained these past few days!
The better Yu Jiang’s mood on the public screen, the more she liked to organize supplies when in a good mood.
Just right, take out the remaining medicinal herbs to prepare for the instance mission.
She not only needed to prepare healing potions for herself, but also consider companions.
Of course, she always prioritized herself; no one was more important than her.
Only when reserves were sufficient would Yu Jiang take some out to exchange.
No medicinal herbs could be gathered in acid rain. Now, both healing potions and medicinal herbs had new record-high prices.
After finishing this batch, she had: Primary Healing Potion*46, Intermediate Healing Potion*20, Wind-Cold Powder*16, Detox Pill*15
Qi Replenishing Drink*15, Popeye’s Spinach*10
She could stock so many Intermediate Healing Potions thanks to Purple Butt Can Do It mobilizing his gathering supplies supply team.
This had a high failure rate; Yu Jiang took half medicinal herbs for half finished medicine.
Popeye’s Spinach was also hard to make; raw materials were hard to get, needing ginseng.
Although one ginseng could make many portions, it was really hard to find. Yu Jiang dug one in the Lost Wilderness and hadn’t received a second one yet.
These two days, many people were looking for her, requesting or morally kidnapping with sob stories, all wanting healing potions from her.
Yu Jiang only exchanged two Primary Healing Potions for supplies. Giving away for free or letting herself lose out—she wouldn’t do it at all.
Unless the other party had high investment value, but she hadn’t met one yet.
At 7 PM, Yu Jiang took out two golden roasted noodle cakes from the refrigerator, filled with roasted pork belly and Sad Pig Intestine shredded cabbage, plus spicy sauce, and ate them rolled up.
Planning to arrange medicine exchanges after the instance mission came out.
At 8 PM sharp, info popped up on all players’ light screens.
[Dear survivors, glad you’ve lived to now. As of 8 PM today, 2879 players in this game area have lost survivor qualification.
This is the last time. You can directly get low-difficulty instance missions. After tomorrow, the parallel road will extend, and higher difficulty instance missions will appear!]
[Please check and confirm whether to accept instance mission.
(Miss this instance, you might regret it~)]
Estimated Wednesday for retest PK start. Please help with read-throughs, don’t stockpile for now. Thank you very much~
