Chapter 250 Caravan Jade Token
Upon seeing them emerge, Wu Zilong and his men swarmed to the doorway, brandishing their weapons—some carrying long knives, others long sticks.
Judging from their posture, they intend to use their numerical advantage and the terrain to surround Meng Qingyin and the others.
The iron gate at the entrance can only allow three people to pass side by side at most, while there are more than a dozen people surrounding them on the other side, and another circle of more than a dozen people behind them. As soon as Meng Qingyin and the others step out of the gate, they will be captured alive.
Wu Zilong said smugly, "If you kneel down and beg for mercy now, I can make your death a little easier later."
None of the six of them even glanced at him.
Wu Zilong was completely ignored and said angrily, "Brothers, don't hold back. If they get hurt or crippled, it's their own fault. Just leave them alive!"
A giant wasp flew forward and opened the iron gate. The instant the gate opened, the heavy snow turned the itching water into countless tiny droplets. The colorless and odorless droplets gathered on the heads of Wu Zilong and his ilk and then rained down on them.
They felt a chill on their heads, and someone looked up at the sky in surprise, "Is it raining?"
The next moment, a sharp itch came from their heads, as if they were being bitten by tens of thousands of mosquitoes at the same time. They reached out to scratch, but they couldn't stop the itch no matter what they did.
Some people even scratched their scalps until they bled, and the crowd immediately descended into chaos.
The cub rushed towards the crowd. It was now as big as an adult tiger. With all its might, the person it hit would suffer a fracture or even die on the spot.
The crowd blocking the entrance was pushed aside, and Meng Qingyin and Qin Jiu cleared a path with heavy knives. The old man and Chen Leying each took out the others with their weapons, while Lu Cheng dealt with the remaining survivors at the back.
As for Fei Qiu, he gave everyone a power boost, making them deal more damage.
In just a moment, the people on the other side were all lying on the ground, some dead and some wounded.
Wu Zilong was struck in the chest by Meng Qingyin's heavy blade, exposing his white bone. He lay on the ground, his face ashen with pain, and his head itched unbearably. Tormented by this double torment, he desperately wanted to die: "Kill me, kill me..."
Meng Qingyin turned to look at Fei Qiu, "Can you treat him? Don't let him die so easily, I have some questions for him."
Fei Qiu chuckled: "It's wrapped!"
A green light flew from his fingertip to Wu Zilong's body, and Wu Zilong's complexion visibly improved, but his injuries were still there, and the intense pain and itching had not disappeared.
Wu Zilong was driven mad by the torture and cried out, "Please, just give me a quick death!"
Meng Qingyin: "Answer me a few questions honestly, and I'll give you a quick death."
Wu Zilong nodded repeatedly: "Ask me, and I will tell you the truth!"
Meng Qingyin: "How did you manage to gather so many people together?"
This convoy has a total of 28 people. How did they get together?
The probability of players meeting each other is very low, so these 28 people probably didn't just happen to meet and then gather together.
As for teleportation items, these items have a time limit; once the time limit is up, you will be teleported back to your original location. They obviously didn't use a teleportation card.
How did they do it?
Wu Zilong reached out and took out a jade token from his waist. "This is a caravan jade token. It can be used to form a caravan. Members of the caravan can teleport to each other without time limit."
Meng Qingyin took the jade pendant from his hand.
[Team Jade Token: You can use this to form a team, where members can teleport to each other. Team size: 13/30. This Team Jade Token is bound to Wu Zilong (the token will automatically unbind upon player death).]
Wu Zilong was in so much pain that his face was covered in sweat. "I've given you the jade token. Just give me a quick death!"
Meng Qingyin put away the jade pendant and glanced at the people lying haphazardly on the ground. Several of them were seriously injured, barely breathing, and about to die.
"Is everything resolved?" she said slowly.
Even though these people no longer posed a threat to them, she still understood the principle of eliminating them completely.
Without any hesitation, the group swiftly dealt with the remaining survivors, including Wu Zilong.
Lu Cheng looked around, somewhat regretfully, "That peach and strawberry tea got away."
Qin Jiu: "We didn't see her when we came out. She must have run away as soon as she sensed something was wrong."
Lu Cheng: "She was lucky she ran fast."
Meng Qingyin tossed the jade token for the convoy to Lu Cheng, saying, "You can keep this."
Lu Cheng quickly caught it with both hands, "Huh? Why are you giving it to me?"
Meng Qingyin: "You are the most suitable."
Qin Jiu patted his shoulder, "Take it if I give it to you. Hurry up and bind it and form a car team. Bring us all in, so I won't need a teleportation card to contact you in the future."
Lu Cheng readily agreed, "Okay then."
With a few maneuvers, he quickly assembled a car team and recruited the other five people into the team.
Meng Qingyin: "Give me all the clay you dug up. I'll have Shi Ye smelt it and make a note of how many kilograms each of you dug up, so it'll be easier to settle accounts later."
The group gave her all the clay ore, and together they collected five vehicle repair cards to repair the car before dispersing.
Meng Qingyin tallied it up; the six of them had mined about 300 jin of clay, but she didn't know how many jin of clay they could eventually smelt.
She went to the trading hall again and found that planting tools were still very scarce and hard to come by.
If we can find psionic stones as soon as possible, we can mass-produce miniature planting pots, and the market for that is vast.
But now it seems that psionic stones aren't so easy to mine.
Meng Qingyin first sent a message to Shi Ye: "Sister Shi, I have about 300 jin of clay ore here. Could you please process it for me?"
Blacksmith Ishino: "Okay, how long do you need it?"
Mengmeng: "If possible, the sooner the better."
Blacksmith Shi Ye: "This stuff is easy to process. The amount you need to process isn't much, so it can be done in an hour at most. I won't charge you much for processing; just give me 2 copper coins per pound. How will you give me the clay ore? Are you hiring a bodyguard?"
Meng Qingyin paused for a moment, then asked, "Could you go to Uncle Li's house?"
Smelter Shi Ye: "Okay, I don't live far from his house. You can just leave the clay at Brother Li's house, and I'll go get it in a bit."
Mengmeng: "Thank you for your help, Sister Shi."
Metallurgist Shi Ye: "What's the trouble? As long as it makes money, it's not troublesome."
Meng Qingyin quickly sent a message to Li the blacksmith's house and told him the whole story. Li the blacksmith reassured her that he would personally deliver the clay ore to Shi Ye.
Meng Qingyin was in a hurry to find the spirit stone, so she left after saying a few words to him.
However, she still hadn't found the psionic stone by nightfall, and she only got one planting pot.
After asking Chen Leying and the others, Fei Qiu, who was usually quite lucky, only managed to get two planting pots.
This suggests that other players' progress is likely also slow.
The only consolation is that no one encountered the large number of insects mentioned in the announcement, and the map currently appears to indicate a mild climate and no danger.
But in the middle of the night, danger quietly arrived.
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