Chapter 72: Functions Of The Rocker Vehicle
The cold wind howled past, and the tent cloth rustled.
The light from the camping lamp on the folding table also seemed to be blown swaying slowly.
Yu Jiang opened the windproof tent cloth slightly in front, to let out the smell, and suddenly stuck out a head.
It was a passing zombie. It couldn’t enter the vehicle-mounted nighttime protection area, so it just looked inside, seemingly smelled the snail noodles, pupils trembling as it left.
That expression seemed to say, huh, you people eat this stuff at night? Such a rotten smell.
Yu Jiang saw it leave and didn’t bother, she was eating. At most a dozen crystal coins for an ordinary monster, too lazy to fight it.
She was watching the trading platform, grabbing any cost-effective supplies first.
Some people started selling cotton clothes and cotton quilts, but most were old clothes, some even carrying a rotten smell, snatched from zombies.
Clean warm clothing and quilts weren’t cheap, and there were only a few, they sold out as soon as listed.
Cotton was the same, not easy to grab. Yu Jiang just saw it listed and was about to trade when it showed out of stock.
She opened the friend list and private chatted Purple Butt Can Do It, “How much cotton can you get over there?”
Purple Butt Can Do It: “The merchant team here has three or four hundred, 30% materials as reward, they want finished clothes.”
At the trading platform’s current prices, that meant Yu Jiang spending fatigue value to craft, earning 30%. Fatigue value capped at one day could only make seven or eight sets of cold-proof clothing. Using stamina beverages wouldn’t be worth it.
Merchants providing materials earned 20%-25%, and as intermediary, Purple Butt Can Do It took a bit more reward from both sides, plus achievement rewards.
That was still reasonable. Now fabric, cotton, duck down were all hard to collect, some people even used grass to fill clothes.
Yu Jiang replied: “Okay, deliver the finished products to them at this time tomorrow, can start with ten sets.”
Purple Butt Can Do It: “Materials coming to you soon. By the way, for the level 5 component cards you want, found two. The owners won’t let go, want graded weapons, or 50 forged steel, two down jackets plus quilts.
There’s one more, Sicily’s. She wants monster drop toxins and spider silk. Wait a bit, I’ll negotiate again in a couple days.”
Yu Jiang: “Good, thanks.”
She was collecting level 5 component cards, carbon fiber, aluminum alloy, high-defense special glass.
Glass like that hadn’t been seen in the entire zone yet. Car bulletproof glass wasn’t tempered glass, but a composite material, might need a manufacturing scroll.
Yu Jiang didn’t hold much hope either, just gave the order to Purple Butt Can Do It to help keep an eye out.
Many players feared scams and hassle, so directly traded with a few reputable merchants.
If she collected herself, others could figure out some of her info with a little thought.
Less than 10 days left until the entire zone leaderboard is announced, plenty of people watching, all secretly grinding to outcompete others.
Shi Xu was one; he gave up manufacturing, knowing he couldn’t compete with merchants and dedicated crafters in reselling supplies.
He simply switched to a track others couldn’t beat him on, crazily grinding monsters, farming crystal coins. His wealth value was probably not to be underestimated.
The friend channel was full of talents, all eloquent, and ruthless when grinding.
Yu Jiang couldn’t lose either!
Whether she could make the wealth ranking depended on this temperature drop period.
After receiving the cotton clothes and warm clothing materials, Yu Jiang first spent her fatigue value to craft a batch, then went to wash up.
In this weather, washing hair without drying it promptly could easily lead to a cold.
Yu Jiang sat in the tarp tent by the kerosene stove, using a towel to wipe her hair until it dried quickly.
Then, she packed up the camping items, returned to the car, closed the door, stowed the tarp, and prepared to rest.
Tonight ordinary cotton quilts might not hold up, so she added another one on top.
The soft quilt still carried the vehicle-mounted incense scent, freshly washed clean. The moment she lay down, Yu Jiang let out a long sigh of relief.
Outside the north wind was biting, inside was a cozy clean setup that felt warm just looking at it. Lying in the quilt, tucking both sides in, her feet were a bit cold at first, but warmed up soon.
Sleeping in cold weather was exceptionally sweet. The next morning past 7, Yu Jiang woke up but didn’t want to get up.
Feeling like even stretching her hand out would be numbingly cold, still comfy in the quilt.
Bladder urgent, she held it for a while before reluctantly reaching for the cotton clothes, slipping one arm in first, then quickly sitting up while cold air wasn’t paying attention, pulling on the other half, and hurrying to the bathroom.
Back, her body couldn’t stop shivering, though it wasn’t that cold, just conditioned reflex.
Opening the light screen, basic info showed: temperature 5-2 degrees, light rain turning to sleet, north wind level 3.
Inside the car without turning on warm air incense or air conditioning, temperature was about the same as outside, just no wind blowing made it slightly better.
Currently Yu Jiang felt okay, no need to turn it on. Southern winters without heating were like this too.
Once it got cold, any car would consume more energy.
Didn’t know how low the temperature would drop or how long it would last.
If it got extremely cold later without enough energy, sleeping at night could be deadly.
She had stocked 32 batteries ahead, couldn’t waste them. Unless absolutely necessary, Yu Jiang didn’t plan to use warm air incense or air conditioning.
The public screen was full of wails, everywhere collecting quilts and sleeping bags.
With the Wind 220: [Weather too cold, who stocked wood before? Can you help everyone, wood is just picked roadside, trading platform sells so expensive, too black-hearted.]
Murong Tiedan: [Though I want cheap fuel too, I see you’re dreaming of eating shit.]
East Factory Just Needs Talents Like You: [Like I said, still gotta pick gasoline vehicle, start it up, turn on warm air and it’s not cold.]
Oligei: [As if you can drive forever, and driving doesn’t consume fuel. Friendly reminder: gasoline on trading platform all instantly killed.]
Cold weather air conditioning on electric cars consumes electricity, gasoline vehicles indeed don’t extra increase fuel consumption, warm air heat from engine waste heat.
Premise is driving state, stopping still consumes fuel.
Plenty of people @-ing Yu Jiang, asking if she had warm clothing for sale.
[Making them, indeed no materials left, so finished products will be pricier. Those with materials still old rules add 50%.]
Yu Jiang sent a message, opened the constantly notifying friend channel.
28-bar Bicycle: “Woke up cold in the middle of the night, good thing I listened to the big shot and stocked cold-proof supplies before, prices now are terrifying.”
Kuang Kuang Kuang: “So cold lying in quilt don’t wanna move at all, if only there was autopilot function.”
The King Called Me to Patrol the Mountain: “Some friends have it, just consumes twice the energy.”
Kuang Kuang Kuang: “Sorry to bother, I’ll get up and drive myself now!”
Before it was drinking water expensive, now drinking water cheap, energy expensive to heart-pounding levels. Good thing after her rocker vehicle upgraded to proper car size, it gained a very important function.
Rocker vehicle originally used battery too, now if really no battery, could use crystal coins to move forward.
As long as monsters on the road, worst case she could complete 1000km weekly mileage.
