Chapter 82: Punishment Has Been Upgraded
Lately, boxes are hard to find. Parallel roads not only depend on luck but also require sharp eyes and quick hands.
Some boxes are embedded in the snow, only half exposed. If you don’t pay attention, you can’t see them at all.
Yu Jiang wears snow goggles, and the sheen on the boxes is different. As long as she encounters them, she can pick them up.
Compared to opening boxes, she scavenges more materials. These past two days on the parallel road, there are many abandoned vehicles covered by snow.
Some are flipped on their side, some are upside down in the snowy ground, and some are steadily parked on the roadside like this one.
This is an old-model Mazda. The front windshield is covered by snow, the side windows are obviously smashed by someone, and there are signs of rummaging inside.
There’s a frozen stiff person in the driver’s seat, wearing only thin clothing, no shoes, and a bullet hole in the temple.
Someone has gotten a gun. It could be from mechanical manufacturing, hunter profession, or weapons obtained from boxes or service areas.
Yu Jiang thinks of yesterday on the road, the car windows were tightly closed, the person inside had their eyes peacefully closed—it was carbon monoxide poisoning.
Supplies were neatly placed in the front passenger seat, with a note on top: To those in need, hope you can survive and reach the end.
She gave that cold-resistant clothing, the few compressed biscuits, and mineral water to Purple Butt Can Do It, asking him to pass them to those older players in the merchant team who haven’t gathered anything lately and are struggling.
She also gave them the scavenged materials. She doesn’t lack those things and respects the deceased’s wishes.
Yu Jiang raises the hammer and smashes the Mazda’s gray health bar, then returns inside the vehicle after recovering the materials.
The snow on the road is also very thick. Yesterday it was below the ankles, but stepping in leaves a pit.
The tracks from the wheels are very muddy, easy to slip on.
Outside it’s freezing cold, hard to move an inch. Being in a damp and chilly environment for a long time will also affect your mood.
Yu Jiang changed the four-piece bedding set to a warm-toned pastoral style. The vehicle is filled with warm fragrance, and the warm, clean environment provides her with quite a bit of emotional value.
Another day passes, and Yu Jiang’s weekly mileage mission has long shown as completed.
Today’s temperature is -20 to -24 degrees, north wind level 6, heavy snow.
Survival time: 26 days. The next instance mission is about to be released.
Purple Butt Can Do It settled the revenue from that batch of cotton supplies with her: besides crystal coins and materials, there are also 20 sets of batteries.
Plus selling anti-skid chains and frostbite cream this time, Yu Jiang now has a total of 4910 crystal coins in her account.
Upgrading to a Level 5 Vehicle requires 30 corresponding component cards. She has all the other materials ready. Purple Butt Can Do It helped her collect 2, still short 8.
Yu Jiang isn’t in a hurry. Even if she gathers them, she won’t upgrade now. Level 5 Vehicles consume more energy.
Today, there aren’t many supplies to manufacture, just materials for 10 portions of frostbite cream. Can’t gather more.
Yu Jiang is also taking on the job of leading people across the parallel road. She’s doing it with Strawberry Candy.
Purple Butt Can Do It is the boss, plus Big Sister He Qi Sheng Cai, and the merchant team’s logistics Uncle Kong Gu You Lan.
Originally, Purple Butt Can Do It and Sad Pig Intestine were with Shi Xu’s team. Hearing Yu Jiang was leading, he specially switched over.
Thinking that they were in the same group for the first instance but never met, taking the opportunity to say hello.
Still departing at 8 a.m. after daybreak, meeting on the parallel road.
He Qi Sheng Cai and Kong Gu You Lan marvel at Strawberry Candy’s Level 3 Vehicle diesel harvester, praising how good this diesel thing is.
Purple Butt Can Do It sees Yu Jiang—no, he can’t see her at all. Yu Jiang is covered from head to toe.
Death Barbie Pink Wild Goose Down Jacket, wool scarf wrapping head and face, plus down jacket hood and snow goggles.
Crucially, she has a gray long raincoat over it outside, no different from wearing a ghille suit.
It gives a feeling of being both cool and sneaky.
“Sis, your equipment is awesome.” Purple Butt Can Do It sincerely praises.
He thinks his luck is pretty good and has stockpiled some reserves, but compared to Yu Jiang, it’s far inferior.
After collecting for a few days, he didn’t get snow goggles, just made plastic transparent goggles.
Yu Jiang faces away from the wind, takes off her goggles, pulls down the scarf a bit, counting as a greeting to him.
“Didn’t expect the European Emperor to be so young and upright.”
Purple Butt Can Do It is very good at integrating resources. He and Wholesale King Wang Defa have a lot of weight in the merchant team.
She thought it would be a veteran old hand from the workplace, but unexpectedly it’s a young guy, looking just over 20, with a handsome appearance.
“I’m nothing compared to Big Shot X. I didn’t expect Sister Jiang to be so good-looking, mainly because her strength is strong.”
Purple Butt Can Do It smiles, “My family does business. After entering the game, my combat power can’t fight, and I’m afraid of dying, so I can only do some manufacturing and reselling.”
Yu Jiang nods, “Once everyone’s here, let’s depart.”
Everyone returns to their driver’s seats. Yu Jiang leads the way in front, Purple Butt Can Do It’s Level 3 SUV on her right side.
He Qi Sheng Cai and Kong Gu You Lan in the middle, Strawberry Candy at the rear.
The team advances slowly and steadily like this. Anyone can tell the five vehicles are together.
1 Level 4 Vehicle, 2 Level 3 Vehicles—generally, no one would come looking for trouble.
Instead, Yu Jiang feels that the number 4910 crystal coins is not nice. To make it a round number, during rest time she messages in the team, telling the four teammates to lock their car doors. She’ll go kill a few zombies and come back.
Seeing the crystal coins jump to 5000 exactly, Yu Jiang feels satisfied.
Purple Butt Can Do It looks at her with full admiration. Besides reselling, he also spends a lot of time collecting information. Who says alchemists aren’t strong and need output protection?
Sister Jiang is so fierce! Those snow zombies were beaten into sieves by her. He watches and feels like his own skull hurts a bit.
Afterward, the road is very peaceful. Discovered boxes are split between Yu Jiang and Strawberry Candy. After entering the night, they leave the parallel road and disband the team.
Purple Butt Can Do It gives Yu Jiang 2 sets of batteries, Strawberry Candy 2 liters of diesel, as reward.
It gets dark quickly, and nights are colder. Yu Jiang covers the front windshield with the insulated car cover, then takes off the snow ghille suit raincoat she finally got from a box, shakes off the snow on it, and stores it in the grid.
The wild goose down jacket is too warm. Wearing a long sleeve inside is fine. Back in the vehicle, she has to take it off and put on pajamas, otherwise with the warm air on, it’s a bit hot.
After tidying up, while Yu Jiang is facing the refrigerator considering what to eat tonight, the system announcement comes out.
[On this cold night, does everyone miss the days of striving in instances a bit? Instance missions have been released, please check carefully.
This time there are three random instance missions. Difficulty is refreshed based on comprehensive values like road sections, player professions, combat power, etc. (Some road sections have no one-star missions oh)
Players can choose freely, of course they can also give up. But once a month, you must accept one instance mission, otherwise, not only face the ‘nothing gained’ punishment, but also randomly disable one weapon or skill, and lose night protection for a week.]
The punishment has also been upgraded when monster quantities increase and there are stronger snow zombies.
Even for high combat power players like Shi Xu and Hand Holding Cleaver Chopping Wire, if luck is bad and an important skill or weapon is disabled, they might not be able to hold on.
Three cards appear on Yu Jiang’s light screen, all single-player instances.
Except the first card is slightly above 1-star difficulty, the next two are both 2-star difficulty.
There’s also a line of small text: Instance missions relate to reward content, please consider carefully before choosing.
Yu Jiang is very interested in the name of the middle card.
Strawberry Candy now: Diesel Harvester
In the future: Armored Vehicle, tank also diesel engine
