Chapter 85: Obtaining The Achievement “stop Knocking”
Everyone was still chatting about the situation when they entered the game, trying to gather more intelligence on fellow travelers’ cards.
Yu Jiang looked at the couple’s vehicle and fell into thought.
So far, all the players they’ve met who could travel together had something in common: they were driving real-world vehicles exactly when they entered the game, coming in with both people and vehicle.
This couple said they had an accident and crashed, but their vehicle showed no signs of impact; it was modified by the game the instant they entered, starting at Level 2.
Her situation—buying something and getting pulled into the game right as she went out—seemed even more random.
Lightning Mage King was dancing in a mental hospital, Pure Love Cockroach Spicy Spicy went out looking for work, Purple Butt Can Do It had just returned to the airport and hadn’t even left, said he was going to the toilet, and halfway through, people came in; according to him, he felt helpless and broken at the time.
Just like that, butt naked appearing on the road, and looking up to see high-kicking zombies.
“That’s nice, you had company on the road.” The player driving the four-wheeled old man’s joy vehicle looked enviously at the couple.
“Yeah, two people can take turns driving; I was really scared to death that first night when I entered the game.” The player in the pig liver red cotton jacket, who looked very honest, sighed,
“Let’s not talk about that; the top priority is to clear the instance first.”
Everyone nodded one after another, their thoughts turning to the instance; there were still half an hour before the instance opened.
“As long as we hold out in the farm for 48 hours, that counts as clearing it, right?” Leather Jacket said,
“My idea is simple: everyone cooperates, survives together. If we can’t beat the monsters in the farm, we hide. Farms usually have places like cellars and warehouses.”
“Right! As long as we clear it, on top of finding supplies, there’s extra rewards, which will make the rest of the journey much easier for everyone.”
“Agree!”
Several people expressed their stance, and Yu Jiang also nodded in agreement.
Instance matters can be discussed after entering; showing unity first is the right move.
10 players, six men and four women; Big Sister wearing grandma-style dark floral print cotton clothes, and the man in deep blue cotton clothes were a bit older, looking around 40; the rest were all under 35.
Overall physical fitness and stamina were pretty good.
“So who should we listen to then?” Number 2 Big Sister asked uneasily,
“I really have no supplies left to hold out, so I signed up for the farm; I don’t know what specifically to do.”
Her nickname wasn’t hidden; it was just Peace and Joy.
Others who didn’t hide their nicknames were the Number 4 and 5 couple: one called Aftershock, the other Lingering Fear.
At this moment, everyone was discussing while eating lunch; the food they took out was very simple.
Compressed biscuits, bread, homemade flatbread; only the couple took out a can of canned food.
Seeing Yu Jiang with just cold water and compressed biscuits, several people nearby showed a bit of disappointment in their eyes; they thought they’d met some powerful Big Shot, but it was just this.
Number 3 Leather Jacket spoke again, “Little sister, your car level isn’t low; are you some powerful player?”
“Not powerful.” Yu Jiang shook her head honestly, “I do gathering and crafting, plus a bit of good luck, picking up some things on the road, that’s how I leveled up the vehicle.
I also saw the name Happy Farm, so I chose this instance.”
What she said was all true, so her eyes were especially sincere.
“Relying on picking up things on the road to get a vehicle like this, and calling it just a bit of good luck?” Number 4 couple man Lingering Fear twitched the corner of his mouth.
How come he hadn’t even picked up a fart in these two days!
But thinking about it, it was still reasonable; her car just looked like a Tyrannosaurus Rex on the outside, but actually, the electric car interior performance was far inferior.
Seeing Yu Jiang didn’t look like she was lying, everyone stopped pursuing the question; as for whether they believed it, only they themselves knew.
Yu Jiang didn’t believe what they said either; totally normal.
Anyway, everyone got a preliminary introduction; two showed sincerity by revealing their nicknames, and those who didn’t want to show theirs were just called by their instance entry numbers.
Yu Jiang was Number 1; she said people who do manufacturing and gathering are afraid of being targeted.
Someone took the chance to ask if she had any extra medicinal herbs, cotton, wild vegetables; they’d buy at normal price.
Yu Jiang sighed, “None left; lately couldn’t gather anything on the road, so I came to the farm to try my luck.”
Everyone nodded in agreement; indeed, outside it’s freezing snow, these supplies get snapped up the moment they’re listed.
Several familiar merchants had hardly any things for sale on the Trading Platform Homepage.
At this time, it was already 11:55; the light screen prompted: Instance about to start, please players prepare.
Everyone stopped chatting and checked their equipment again, confirming no issues; next was waiting for the countdown to end.
Final 30 seconds.
Yu Jiang quickly scanned her vehicle and space grids; everything to bring was brought.
The bag on her back was empty, still used as padding; when needed, it could hold small tools like gardening shovels for digging medicinal herbs.
As the countdown hit zero, players’ vision went white; when they looked up again, the surroundings had changed.
Vast and desolate grassland, single-lane asphalt road; in the distance, several mountains with dense evergreen vegetation.
A message popped up on the light screen in front of Yu Jiang:
[You are a doomsday lost refugee; the minibus you were riding was damaged after hitting a fallen tree trunk. To seek help and a place to stay overnight, you found the farm.]
Such a familiar trope—this was the standard opening of certain movies.
Either hitting a tree or an animal, then stubbornly heading down the path of no return.
But at this moment, she wasn’t scared at all; her mind was full of supplies and doing a big score.
Yu Jiang first eyed the nearby minibus that looked like a model from ten or twenty years ago; taking advantage of no one noticing, she hit it twice with the crowbar and pried off two iron blocks.
Game’s wool, if you don’t shear it, it’s wasted!
[You really like scavenging, but please don’t hit instance items; gained achievement ‘Stop Hitting!’]
Reward: Lightweight silk clothes (made from mutant silkworm silk, simple style, comfortable to wear, not warm but defense +5)
Got the reward, now no hitting instance items oh!!!
Yu Jiang smiled and put away the crowbar, saying in her heart, okay.
Gave good stuff, why hit the old minibus anymore; those three melons and two dates.
“What was that sound just now?”
Number 6 player looked over; Yu Jiang had already put away the crowbar, shrugging naturally.
“I saw this sheet metal was rotten, edges too sharp and easy to cut, so I wanted to knock it back.”
The player suspiciously scanned around but found no other issues, so withdrew his gaze.
Yu Jiang thought about finding a chance to wear the clothes underneath; with players around now, others weren’t fools—it clearly wasn’t a good time.
“The instance map doesn’t mark the farm’s location; how do we find it?” Number 5 couple woman Aftershock spoke up.
“There’s just this one road; following it should be fine.” Number 3 Leather Jacket said.
Number 9 square-faced man had a sudden idea:
“Since holding out 48 hours is enough, we guard this vehicle here, take turns on night watch at night, and head to the farm only in the last few hours—isn’t that fine?”
“At least we have this sheet metal vehicle for protection; normal monsters won’t get in easily.”
Number 8 short-haired woman and Number 7 pig liver red cotton jacket man both thought this idea was good.
Even for a fairly large farm, leaving a few hours is enough to grab supplies; getting less is no big deal.
Save lives first, then worry about supplies gained or lost.
As long as time is controlled well, grab and finish right as instance ends; monsters can’t chase out— isn’t this safer?
Yu Jiang didn’t think so.
The plan sounded feasible but felt a bit idealized; Number 9 said normal monsters, but the instance description said ‘they’.
Game System: Sometimes really hate boundary-less scavengers
Purple Butt Can Do It: No one can understand my breakdown, right? All traded with the pose I entered the game with
