Chapter 3
Qiao Ning was puzzled at first, then it dawned on her—
At the beginning of the game, players may not have collected many supply boxes and may not have accumulated 20 experience points yet.
After all, there are very few people with such incredible luck in the game as her, and there may not even be another like her.
Qiao Ning has been driving for more than three hours since the beginning, and has encountered supply boxes five times.
Three each time. Eight 1-star boxes and seven 2-star boxes, adding up to 43 experience points.
She noticed the experience bar at the bottom of her personal information panel. When it reached 100 points, there was a treasure chest icon, which meant she could claim a system reward.
This design really has an online game vibe.
Before opening the trading chat channel, Qiao Ning first opened a wish blind box.
This is her Blind Box Collector talent; she can earn 1 Blind Box Coin for each supply box she picks up.
She currently has 15 blind box coins, which can be used to make a single draw for 10 coins.
For Qiao Ning, even a single pull can produce a miracle, just like a ten-pull yields a mythical result.
Qiao Ning closed her eyes, counted to three, and opened the box.
Congratulations to player Qiao Ning for obtaining a storage box blueprint*1
After carefully reading the blueprints and descriptions, Qiao Ning couldn't help but think, "So the key to the name 'Wish Blind Box Collector' isn't blind boxes, but the word 'wish'?"
She brought out so many supplies, and the gasoline and drinking water were mostly in barrels, taking up a lot of space. The car only had so much space, and it was already completely crammed with supplies, even the trunk was full.
This is why she stopped to rest for the time being, because even if she encountered supplies again, she might not have anywhere to put them.
[Congratulations to Qiao Ning from server 1408 for being the first to obtain the blueprint, unlocking the system crafting function for all players in server 1408. Would you like to make a server-wide announcement?]
[Friendly Reminder: This server-wide announcement requires real-name registration and will not reveal player coordinates. Player personal information panels will be publicly displayed. Rewards include: 2 randomly selected blueprints and 100 basic material selection boxes.]
Qiao Ning glanced at her personal information panel. Apart from her name, gender, and age, everything else was currently blank, and her experience bar showed 43 points.
Compared to announcing the reward, she felt this level of information disclosure was acceptable.
Those are two blueprints and a box of 100 materials to choose from! Others might not realize the importance of these things, but Qiao Ning does.
She didn't want to miss out on a hundred million!
Qiao Ning didn't think for long before choosing "yes".
A white screen popped up on the system interface, with ten drawings floating on it. All of them only had the word "drawings" written on them, and the specific content could not be seen.
[Players are invited to draw 2 blueprints as a reward.]
Qiao Ning chose the two drawings, one in the middle and one on the right.
Congratulations to the player who won the "Intermediate Fuel Tank Stacking Blueprint" and "Car Modification Blueprint"! All rewards have been distributed; please collect them promptly.
[Server-wide Announcement: Congratulations to player Qiao Ning for being the first to obtain the blueprint! The server-wide reward unlocks the "Crafting" function in the system. Additional individual rewards are as follows: 2 randomly selected common blueprints and 100 basic material selection boxes.]
Players in region 1408, please keep up the good work!
The server-wide announcement was posted three times in a row, making Qiao Ning feel incredibly embarrassed. Her previous game characters were often featured in server-wide announcements, but those were game ID names. This was the first time she'd seen an announcement using her real name, and it felt very strange.
Qiao Ning took a bottle of mineral water and a deluxe sandwich. She had transmigrated at exactly 8 a.m., and now it was past 11 a.m., and she was a little hungry.
She ate and drank while studying the three blueprints in her hands.
Storage Box Blueprint: With this blueprint, you can manufacture a basic storage box. Once completed, it can be attached to any part of a car, with a capacity of 5 cubic meters.
Crafting requires 50 iron blocks, 50 copper blocks, 20 plastic, and 10 rubber.
The next upgrade will require three times the amount of materials for expansion.
Intermediate Fuel Tank Stacking Blueprint: With this blueprint, you can manufacture intermediate fuel tanks. Once manufactured, they can replace existing fuel tanks or be used to stack intermediate fuel tank capacity (100 units) onto existing fuel tanks.
Crafting requires 20 iron blocks, 20 copper blocks, and 5 rubber blocks.
Car Modification Blueprint: One of the component blueprints for car upgrades. Used alone, it grants one car modification opportunity.
As expected, basic materials are quite important in most games, and later on they may even need to be purchased at high prices. This road survival game is no exception, as basic materials are required everywhere.
Qiao Ning has a lot of supplies, but not much material. She is still far from being able to manufacture storage boxes and intermediate fuel tanks.
As for the car modification blueprints, they are definitely a good thing, but she doesn't need them yet. The initial car is too small and doesn't have much room for modification, so it's not worth spending a blueprint to modify it.
Moreover, the modifications might require materials. It doesn't seem worthwhile at all.
Once she has collected enough blueprints for car upgrade parts, she can upgrade the car and then modify it.
Some gamers are used to using any resources they acquire immediately. But Qiao Ning, when playing games, is used to accumulating resources by thinking three steps ahead.
After sitting and driving for a long time, Qiao Ning felt some discomfort in her lower back and hips.
She got out of the car and walked around the neighborhood for half an hour. After doing eye exercises a few more times, she returned to the car.
Perhaps the initial excitement of entering the game had worn off, Qiao Ning felt inexplicably sleepy and tired. With no one sending messages in the trading chat channel, Qiao Ning unknowingly slumped onto the steering wheel and fell asleep.
She slept very soundly for about two hours.
I woke up at around 3 p.m.
When Qiao Ning opened the system interface, she was surprised to find a red notification dot next to the trade chat icon – a player had unlocked chat sending!
Qiao Ning quickly opened the channel and found that there were quite a few people talking in it. Messages were being sent out very quickly, and there were more than 5,000 people online in the channel!
Moreover, the number of people is still increasing.
Aside from some comments criticizing the game, most of the chat consisted of players asking to buy or sell items.
[Does anyone have drinking water? I'll trade a piece of iron for a bottle of water!]
What's wrong with this game? I don't want to play anymore, can I quit?
[Does anyone want to lend me 5 units of gasoline? I'll return it as soon as I get the supplies!]
I'm dying of thirst! I've driven all this way and haven't found a single drinking water supply box. I'm willing to pay a high price for drinking water!
I have water, but I only want to exchange it for gasoline. A 330ml bottle of mineral water will get me 10 units of gasoline.
[Upstairs, why don't you just rob someone? Is your water gold? Selling it for such a high price. Everyone's only opened a few supply crates, and gasoline is hard to come by. Even a rich man's son wouldn't trade 10 units of gasoline for a bottle of your water.]
[Yeah, with gasoline, you'll never run out of water! I've played this game a million times, and gasoline is definitely the most valuable commodity. With gasoline, you have everything. Come on, let's sell gasoline cheap! One unit of gasoline only costs five iron blocks. Limited stock, so buy now while supplies last!]
[Help! I got injured while fighting the treasure-guarding monster, and now I think I've lost too much blood. I'm in pain and my head is spinning. What should I do? I feel like I'm going to die. Can anyone save me...?]
[Stop talking nonsense at a time like this! Hurry up and bring out your supplies to trade for medicine with the others. Since it's a game, there must be healing items!]
[Your comment upstairs is a wake-up call; I was such an idiot. I have food, water, and some supplies. I'm posting a request to buy some medicine; please, everyone, trade with me!]
[I just checked your buy request, and it's pretty generous—30 units of gasoline for one healing potion. Looks like I'm really unlucky. Out of the 12 supply crates I've encountered, only two 2-star crates contained gasoline, a total of only 20 units. I don't even have enough for myself, let alone enough to exchange. And I haven't seen a single healing potion; those are probably much scarcer than gasoline.]
Qiao Ning agreed that healing potions were scarce. Of all the boxes she had opened, she had only found two bottles of healing potions, one for external injuries and one for internal injuries.
We could exchange some for the injured person, but she doesn't lack gasoline; she already has too much gasoline and nowhere to put it. She only lacks basic materials.
[I don't understand why you guys encounter so many supply crates? I've only found eight, and although three of them were 2-star, the stuff I got was really rubbish. Just a pitiful three or four items, and they were materials that I couldn't eat, drink, or use. If it weren't for some kind person exchanging them for water and bread for me, I'd be starving right now.]
Me too, I'm so unlucky! This game is so unfair to people with bad luck!
[You should be grateful, upstairs. The truly unlucky ones haven't even unlocked the trading chat channel yet. They can only watch us chat and do business here.]
What you said makes a lot of sense and is irrefutable.
Next, the injured person started spamming the chat asking for medicine again, and some people got impatient and started cursing at him.
[Aren't you annoying? You keep spamming the chat, just die already. We haven't even gotten that many supplies yet, and you keep spamming to show off how much you have. If I find you, I'll kill you and loot you, then see how cocky you are!]
[What's the background of the person upstairs? Could they be a criminal in real life too? Who's a good person who keeps talking about murder and robbery?]
Let's try to understand each other. We're all already unlucky to have been dragged into this game for no reason, and it's understandable that the guy was injured and needed medicine. Everyone faces difficulties, and the more dangerous and challenging the situation, the more we should work together to overcome it. If you have any medicine, please help this guy.
[Where did this big shot come from upstairs? Get out of the way and sit down. So what if I'm a criminal? Let me tell you, I really just got out of prison!]
After sending the message, the person muttered a few more curses and then disappeared.
After discussing it for a while, seeing that he didn't come out, they resumed the lively scene of trading and chatting.
Qiao Ning opened the injured player's personal information panel—Li Yangxing, male, 18 years old.
Only 18 years old? Shouldn't someone that age still be in school?
This damn game doesn't even spare eighteen-year-old students?
Qiao Ning sent a private message: 【I have wound medicine, for both external and internal injuries. Which one do you need? 10ml per dose, just changing the basic materials. Iron, copper, plastic, rubber—I want them all.】
Li Yangxing immediately replied: 【!!! I saw your name in the district-wide announcement before! Big sister, I have all of these, but I only have 10 of each of the plastic and rubber items. Can I give you 20 of each of the other three?】
[I desperately need wound medicine right now, please help me!]
Qiao Ning ignored his overly enthusiastic address and tone, and directly put 10ml of external wound medicine on his plate.
The system's trading function is very intelligent; with this split-listing, it automatically deducts the medicine from the medicine bottle. As for Li Yangxing receiving the goods, he should have received the medicine bottle provided by the system.
To prevent others from snatching the medicine, Qiao Ning set up a "designated buyer" option, ensuring that only Li Yangxing could purchase it.
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