Chapter 19 Collection
Mercenaries receive 100 coins on their first day. Starting from the second day, the mercenary fee will be paid based on the mercenary's combat performance throughout the day, with a cap of 500 coins per day for novice mercenaries.
Considering the large expense, Jiang Baiyue deliberately sought out places with corpse sacs or zombies along the way.
The two mercenaries were taciturn and only followed orders. Unless ordered, they would stand guard on either side of Jiang Baiyue and only raise their rifles to kill zombies when they were within 2 meters of her.
Mercenaries in the game have limited options and are not as flexible as real people, so Jiang Baiyue tried to give the two clear instructions.
To her surprise, both of them performed the task very well, and she felt that the hiring fee had not been wasted.
Meow~
"Number 1, shoot that sheep!"
A sheep suddenly darted out of the nearby woods, and Jiang Baiyue immediately ordered the first mercenary she hired, number 1, to shoot the sheep.
Mercenary Number 1 quickly changed targets, took his rifle off his back, aimed, and fired.
Bang--!
The sheep bleated in agony, shot in the head, leaving behind a pile of wool and chunks of flesh on the road.
Jiang Baiyue ran over and picked up 10 balls of wool, 3 large pieces of mutton, and 2 lamb legs.
Slurp, she realized she hadn't eaten meat for three days. She thought of the grilled eggplant from yesterday and decided she could take it to the barbecue stall owner to be cooked that night.
Mercenary No. 2 then used a wooden axe to finish off the last zombie, and Jiang Baiyue picked up the items on the ground and opened the box.
The final boss didn't jump out of this corpse sac, so it's relatively easy to deal with.
[Congratulations to player "Lying Down and Doing Nothing" for receiving 163 coins, 1 night vision goggles, and 1 double-arrow crossbow.]
Jiang Baiyue put the coins and night vision goggles into her backpack, picked up the crossbow and tested it; it wasn't heavy, not bad.
Double Arrow Crossbow
Description: An arrow fired from a crossbow, which comes with 6 bolts.
Damage: 32
Damage level: 0%
Stamina consumption: 2
It can only be fired 3 times, and you need to obtain the blueprint for making the crossbow to use it.
Unfortunately, no energy crystals or alien energy cores were found.
The drop rate is too low; she can't even bear to use her only energy crystal.
Hehehe!
It's also possible that the gunshots were too loud, and another zombie ran out of the woods.
There was only one zombie. Considering that only the zombies she killed counted as evolution points, Jiang Baiyue would take matters into her own hands when there were few zombies.
After dealing with the zombie, Jiang Baiyue ate a steamed bun to replenish her strength and then continued exploring with two mercenaries.
She continued along the road, and when she saw the shadows of radishes or herbs on the grass, she ran over and picked them.
The data collection technology has been upgraded to Level 2.
The sudden mechanical voice startled her. After hearing the content clearly, Jiang Baiyue thought that it probably wasn't a case of pulling out only half of the radish.
The higher the level of the gathering technology, the more complete the gathered items are; the more complete the gathered items are, the better their attributes.
For example, the carrot she just pulled out had the attribute of reducing hunger by 5 points.
After her gathering technique was upgraded, the carrot's attributes changed to reduce hunger by 8 points and replenish stamina by 3 points.
...
A hunter's camp.
Chen Sijia unzipped the tent, stretched out one hand, and felt that it was no longer raining. She then turned around and spoke to the person inside the tent.
"Quick, let's get out of here, it's stopped raining."
Chen Sijia's younger sister, Chen Sijie, wearing shorts and a short-sleeved shirt, stepped out of the tent and couldn't help but rub her arms because of the cold: "It's already raining now, so I'm afraid I can only wander around nearby. If I go too far, I might not be able to make it back in time tonight."
Chen Sijia packed the tent into her game backpack and said, "We'll go a little deeper today. We've already looted the outer areas, so it shouldn't respawn anytime soon..."
Neither of them had high-damage weapons or strong fighting skills, so they didn't dare to scavenge for supplies in the city at the beginning. For the past three days, they have survived entirely on berries and carrots from the forest.
The two left the hunter's camp and headed towards the woods behind it.
Chen Sijie yawned. The zombie attack last night didn't end until 3 a.m., so she was a little sleepy.
"We still need to find a safe base. How about we go to that Green Mountain base? We didn't hear them say yesterday that the safe base was attacked by zombies."
"I forwarded the picture to you. Take a look so it looks familiar. You can also take a look while you're searching for supplies, since we might not be in the same quarantine area."
Chen Sijia was not optimistic about this. Yesterday, a quarantine zone appeared. Some people said that there wouldn't be two camps or bases in one area, so if you wanted to get to the Qingshan base, you would have to clear out the boss monsters blocking your way.
With two people each wielding a wooden axe, their combined damage is only 26, making it unrealistic to expect them to clear the boss.
"So... we can only wait for someone else to clear out the monsters?"
Chen Sijia didn't reply to her sister; she saw a bright red carrot sticking out a few centimeters from the grass.
She ran over, grabbed the top of the radish, and pulled hard. With a pop, only half of the radish was pulled out.
"Use an axe to pry it open, this stupid game is too difficult."
Chen Sijia frowned and waved her hand seriously, telling her sister to go and see if there were any other things to collect nearby.
Chen Sijia walked to a rock, squatted down, and pulled out a herb. This time, she pulled out the whole plant.
The data collection technology has been upgraded to Level 2.
Chen Sijia felt a little better after hearing the announcement. Even if there was no reward for leveling up, there would definitely be benefits.
"Okay, before the others realize they need to search the woods, let's quickly gather everything we can around here."
The emergence of quarantine zones has shrunk the areas available for looting, but the number of people within those areas has not decreased, leading to increasingly fierce competition.
Some people can only explore areas that seem to have few resources, such as forests, swamps, lakes, mountains, wilderness, or deserts.
At this moment, Jiang Baiyue also discovered a lake along the highway.
However, to get through, you need to clear out the zombie bear sleeping at the intersection.
She looked at both sides of the intersection. On the 2-meter-high wall was a 2-meter-high electric fence, and on both sides of the high wall extended into the distance a red light curtain.
It seems the only way to get across is through this intersection.
There was a body sac in the courtyard of a nearby house, and Jiang Baiyue had already attracted the zombies from the vicinity.
She turned around alertly and noticed another body sac in front of a coffee shop not far away.
"Number 1, Number 2, use wooden axes to clean the sacs from the houses first."
The two mercenaries nodded and rushed forward, raising their wooden axes to hack at the zombies.
Taking advantage of the mercenaries drawing the zombies' attention, Jiang Baiyue went around to attack the corpse sac.
[Corpse Bag (Lv1: 771/800)]
This is already a level 1 corpse sac. If I do the math, she'll need to hit it 28 times to empty its health bar.
The sac was attacked, and the zombie closest to it seemed to be summoned, turning to attack Jiang Baiyue.
Jiang Baiyue immediately abandoned her attack on the corpse sac, ran away from it to lure the zombies away, and avoided being attacked from behind by new zombies that emerged from the sac.
Hehehe—!
The zombies roared even louder, in order to better attract their own kind to devour Jiang Baiyue's flesh and blood.
The zombies spawned from level 1 corpse sacs are essentially level 1 zombies, possessing the ability to charge quickly.
Jiang Baiyue saw the zombie bend over and lower its head, and immediately stopped attacking. This was a sign that the zombie was about to unleash its skill.
Sure enough, as soon as she started running, the zombie suddenly accelerated and charged towards the direction where Jiang Baiyue had been standing.
In the game, if she gets hit by this, she will lose one-fifth of her health, which is 20, and be stunned for 3 seconds.
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