Chapter 2

[Congratulations to player Qiao Ning for obtaining the golden talent "Wish Box Collector".]

[Congratulations to player Qiao Ning for automatically triggering and binding the golden talent "Lucky Star".]

[Congratulations to player Qiao Ning for triggering the daily passive effect "Lucky Star Descends," and for drawing the gold talent "Card Crafting Expert."]

Talent levels, from lowest to highest, are white, blue, purple, red, and gold.

All three of them possess the highest-level gold talent.

Qiao Ning habitually pinched her right little finger with her left hand, thinking that it seemed her luck in the game should remain unchanged, as good as ever.

The descriptions of the three gold talents are very short.

Collecting wish boxes is a talent that can grow.

She gains 1 Blind Box Coin for each supply box she opens. Accumulating 10 coins allows her to draw a blind box once.

You will gain 1 point of talent experience for each blind box you open.

When your talent level is low, the items you get from blind boxes are likely to be ordinary, or even bad.

But it becomes terrifying when the talent level is high in the later stages.

This is equivalent to having an additional source of top-quality resources.

The Lucky Star talent has almost no introduction. Apart from the fact that it can trigger the "Lucky Star Descends" passive effect once a day, there is only one other sentence:

[To have acquired this talent proves you're incredibly lucky. With such good fortune, what's there to fear? Explore the game bravely!]

The last talent, Card Crafting Expert, is also a growth-type talent.

As the name suggests, it refers to the talent for creating cards.

It can copy almost all card-type items—note, almost. There are a very few cards with special functions that cannot be copied; this isn't mentioned in the description, and Qiao Ning will only find out later when she encounters them.

Each time a card is copied, talent experience is increased, but copying a card requires crafting time, and there is also a cooldown time for copying again.

The higher the card's rank, the longer the cooldown time after it's overwritten.

As your talent level increases, both card creation and cooldown times will decrease.

After learning about her three talents, Qiao Ning then looked at the remaining supply boxes beside her.

There were two supply boxes left, and Qiao Ning opened them both.

It seems that a 1-star supply box can only yield a maximum of two items. This time, it contained: 1 lighter and 1 bag of 5 packs of Golden Broth Beef Instant Noodles.

Qiao Ning often eats instant noodles because of her work, and what's amazing is that she likes all flavors and almost never gets tired of them.

It's a pity there's no pot here to boil water, otherwise she could just soak some instant noodles in the packet and have a delicious meal. She used to like eating like that when she was in school.

Just as Qiao Ning was lamenting that she wanted to eat instant noodles but didn't have a pot, a small multi-functional electric cooker appeared directly in her 2-star supply box.

In addition to the electric cooker, there are also: 3 bags of ham sausages (8 sausages per bag, 60g each) and 2 boxes of self-heating hot pot (550g per box, spicy butter flavor).

Two butter croissants, two bags of fruitwood-smoked duck breast (250g each), and four eggs.

One can of gasoline (20 units), three bottles of mineral water (1 liter each).

It has to be said that the 2-star supply boxes for beginners are really packed with stuff.

Cars have built-in power outlets and generator systems, since headlights and air conditioning require electricity.

It just requires gasoline.

The bottom of the electric cooker has a line of text indicating that it consumes 0.1 units of gasoline per hour during use.

This level of energy consumption is currently manageable. After all, cooking instant noodles only takes a few minutes.

Qiao Ning wasn't hungry yet, so she continued driving at her maximum speed of 70 km/h. She needed to gather as many supplies as possible as quickly as possible to get ahead of the others.

This road is flat and without potholes, with very few curves along the way, and there are no other vehicles or pedestrians, so driving fast is no problem at all.

If she moves quickly, she can collect more supply crates before dark.

After running another 50 kilometers, Qiao Ning encountered the supply box again.

This time there are still 3 supply boxes, 1 one-star and 2 two-star.

1-Star Supply Box: Wood*2, Iron Block*2

2-star supply box

#1: Treatment spray * 1 bottle

(A miraculous external injury medicine, including but not limited to treating skin and flesh wounds, and bone and tendon injuries. One bottle contains 100ml, and each press dispenses 10ml. One spray is sufficient to effectively treat the player's injury; the specific consumption depends on the severity of the injury.)

Treatment potion*1 bottle

(A miraculous internal injury medicine, including but not limited to treating damage to internal organs and the brain. One bottle contains 100ml; squeeze out 10ml each time. One sip is enough to effectively heal the player's injuries; the exact amount consumed depends on the severity of the injury.)

3 plastic blocks, 5 copper blocks, 2 rubber blocks

Moisturizing shampoo (200ml), 2 packs of sanitary pads (10 pads per pack), 10 rolls of toilet paper

Item 2: 3 barrels of gasoline (20 units per barrel), 2 barrels of alkaline drinking water (1 liter per barrel)

2 jin of rice, 500 grams of beef, and a kitchen seasoning set.

Moisturizing hand cream (100ml)

Chopping knife *1

Fine Dagger *1

Qiao Ning's eyes lit up when she saw what was behind her; the weapon had arrived.

Although we haven't encountered any treasure-guarding monsters along the way, who knows if there will be any later? There will always be times when we encounter danger, and it's really not good to be without some weapons to protect ourselves.

Qiao Ning examined the cleaver and the dagger. Both blades were sharp. The dagger was relatively short and thin, while the cleaver was long and heavy, more like a large cleaver.

All the items she acquires will display icons in her inventory on the main system interface. Clicking on them will bring up four options: Category, Trade, Destroy, and Details.

This backpack cannot actually store items; it is only for players to conveniently count and manage their supplies.

The used supplies will gradually darken in the backpack. When the supplies are used up, the quantity displayed will return to zero, and the item icon will disappear.

After opening a total of 6 supply boxes, Qiao Ning noticed two things: 1-star supply boxes always contained two items, while 2-star supply boxes always contained 8 items.

Based on her good fortune, she reasonably suspected that this was the limit of the number of items that could be obtained from 1- or 2-star supply boxes, and that this was the highest possible quantity.

Another point is that some of these supplies, including daily necessities, were labeled with the word "moisturizing".

Qiao Ning would not overlook the type of natural disaster that occurs during the beginner phase—drought.

She always felt that these "moisturizing" supplies were related to natural disasters.

However, the item details in the system backpack don't explain much, only stating that they all have moisturizing effects, and the moisturizing effect depends on environmental conditions.

Qiao Ning has played countless games, including many simulation management and survival games. This has given her a kind of "experience-based intuition"—an intuition cultivated and trained through extensive gaming experience.

Her intuition told her that it was best to collect as many of these supplies as possible.

Qiao Ning had been driving for over an hour, but perhaps because she was both mentally and physically excited, she didn't feel tired or hungry at all.

She continued driving for another two hours or so, encountering three supply crates along the way, three crates each time, for a total of nine.

Five of them are 1-star and four are 2-star.

Five 1-star supply boxes yielded five sets of supplies: 2 pieces of wood, 2 pieces of iron, 1 bucket of braised beef noodles, 1 bag of potato chips (70g), and 1 bag of dried sweet potatoes (250g).

32 supplies were obtained from opening 4 2-star supply crates:

The copper blocks were drawn 4 times, 5 blocks each time, for a total of 20 blocks.

Apply plastic 3 times, 3 each time, for a total of 9.

Rubber was applied twice, two rubbers each time, for a total of four.

Glass once, 2 pieces.

These materials together make up 10 portions.

Next are clothing and daily necessities.

Two sets of women's underwear (2 sets), one set of women's casual sportswear, one pair of sneakers, and two pairs of sports socks (2 sets).

Rapid moisturizing wipes * 5 packs (100 wipes * 5 packs), cleansing soap * 2 bars, moisturizing facial cleanser 1 bottle (500ml), moisturizing body lotion (250ml)

These together make up 10 portions.

Of the remaining 12 portions, gasoline accounted for 3 portions, totaling 60 units.

Drinking water accounted for 4 portions, totaling 10 buckets (10 liters).

The remaining 5 portions are: 500g knife-cut noodles, 500g tomatoes, 500g pears, 5 cream breads, and 3 deluxe sandwiches.

Qiao Ning felt that the drop rate of weapons was probably much rarer than that of water and food, since she hadn't gotten any weapons from the supply crates in the three times she opened them.

Of course, it's also possible that this is the case on her end; perhaps the drop rate of different items is different for each person?

In that case, I'm afraid...

Qiao Ning shifted her gaze to the transaction chat icon on the system interface.

She was a little tired after driving for so long and decided to take a break and check out the trading chat function.

There is a line of small gray text in the input field indicating that you must accumulate 20 experience points before you can unlock the transaction chat function.

One 1-star supply box gives 1 experience point, and a 2-star supply box gives 5 experience points.

Qiao Ning unlocked the message sending function when she encountered the supply box for the third time.

However, the chat channel remains empty as of now, with no player sending any messages.