51 Coastal Floating Bridge - Day 5
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The next day, there was a heavy rain, and the second floor of the RV was indeed flooded.
Many players failed to grab the raft, but what made Yan Lan feel relieved was that these people did not sit and wait to die, but came up with various coping strategies.
Some carried bed planks to make improvised floats, others brought in their own mattresses, and still others simply huddled in a plastic tub. Without exception, they all held large black umbrellas, covering themselves tightly. There were few rafts, but there were enough umbrellas.
It was pouring rain outside. Yan Lan opened the wooden door and looked out. It was only 6 o'clock in the morning. The sky was covered with a thick layer of dark clouds. Even in the daytime, the sky was very dark.
After leaving the RV, the small room on the raft was dark, so she lit up her flashlight again. She had gotten this flashlight early in the game, and after using it intermittently for so long, it was running low.
Yan Lan looked at the dim flickering light and frowned slightly. It seemed that she had to prepare the lighting tools in advance.
Snowball was still asleep, so she took a flashlight and moved a chair to sit outside the door. There was a tin eaves extending from the roof of the house, which was just enough for her to sit down and avoid being wet by the heavy rain.
Since it was impossible to make hot food on the raft, she took out the bread she had saved over the past few days and added some fruit to make a hearty breakfast.
She munched on the bread in one hand and looked around on the water with a flashlight in the other.
Unlike other players, she didn't tie the raft and RV with ropes, but let them drift. Firstly, the ropes wouldn't be long enough as the water level rose, and secondly, they would be fixed in place, affecting her progress in exploring for supplies.
Suddenly, the flashlight beam stopped somewhere, and she quickly puffed up her cheeks to swallow the food in her mouth, held up an umbrella and walked to the edge of the raft. She shone the flashlight carefully and found that it was indeed a treasure chest, and it looked gold-level!
The treasure chest was still a little far from the raft. Yan Lan looked around, came to the only oar on the raft, paddled and rowed towards the treasure chest.
Her strength had risen to 98 points, and this seemingly heavy oar was a piece of cake for her. She reached the edge of the treasure chest in no time.
There was a wooden railing separating the raft from the sea. She squatted down, reached out her hand through the gap in the railing, picked up the treasure chest, and returned it to the eaves at the door.
[Metal x 5, Glass x 5, Fishing Net x 1.]
Fishing net?
There are fishing nets, does that mean there are fish in the water?
Yan Lan looked around and found a suitable place to hang the fishing net. Whether there were fish or not, it would not take much effort to hang it there.
Just as I hung up the fishing net, a message reminder came from the system.
She opened it and saw that it was Yang Xiaoyang. She had added him as a friend last time when she traded raft blueprints with him and had never deleted him. They were not in the same area and she didn't know why he was looking for her.
Yang Xiaoyang: "Are you there?"
"Yes, what's up?"
Yang Xiaoyang: "Haha, nothing, just a casual greeting."
Yan Lan was very confused. She had a feeling that the other party was saying more than just a greeting, but everyone had their own privacy, so she didn't ask too many questions. After closing the chat panel, she started practicing martial arts under the eaves.
The raft is small. Excluding the small cabin in the middle, the corridor outside is only 1.5 meters wide. It is very inconvenient and restricts your movements. If you exert a little force, the raft will sway on the water. It is better to stay on the road so that you can jump around freely after getting off the car.
After practicing for a short while, the message alert rang again. She didn't have many friends, and the local channel was on Do Not Disturb, so every time there was a message, she would open it and see, it was Yang Xiaoyang again.
"I still have something to talk to you about."
Yan Lan looked as if she had expected this, but the message she sent didn't reveal any of that: "Ah, have you encountered any difficulties?"
"I accidentally found a blueprint and want to exchange it with you."
She asked out of habit: "What drawings?"
Yang Xiaoyang: "Well, this time I don't want to exchange for food, I want to exchange for the blueprints and finished products."
You don't change the food?
She was curious, so she quickly clicked on the picture Yang Xiaoyang sent her.
No wonder!
This is a rare blueprint that is more valuable than a raft, and he actually got another one!
accidental?
She figured it wasn't a coincidence. After all, the chances of the same person getting two rare blueprints in a row were incredibly rare. Even among the 10,000 players in her H-38 zone, no one had ever gotten a raft blueprint, but he had, and now he had another rare blueprint.
Seeing that the other party hadn't replied for a long time, Yang Xiaoyang sent another message: "How is it?"
Yan Lan suppressed her inner excitement and said, "No problem, I can make the finished product for you today."
"Okay, I believe you. I really got this blueprint by chance. Please don't say anything nonsense~"
Yan Lan suppressed her laughter and said seriously, "Yeah, I swear I won't tell anyone. This is a secret between us."
Yang Xiaoyang did not understand the deeper meaning behind "This is a secret between us". It was she who discovered his secret. He was young and only saw Yan Lan's assurance on the surface.
Yan Lan didn't ask too many questions, which made Yang Xiaoyang feel relieved.
He had traded blueprints several times in his own area before, but those players were too cunning and kept chasing him to ask where the blueprints came from, why there were so many of them, and whether there were any tricks.
Although he was young, he could still sense the evil intentions of these people. They tried to persuade him, coerce him, or bribe him, and some even wanted to visit him in person.
Please, he was just a 10-year-old kid. His IQ couldn't compete with those cunning adults, and even his strength was very weak. He was so scared that he stayed in the RV and didn't dare to go out. It took more than ten days without trading drawings to lower their vigilance.
He ran out of food and had to go out to trade again, but he no longer dared to trade in his own area because the probability of being discovered was too high.
After browsing the world channel for several days, I finally locked onto Yan Lan, a seemingly kind buyer.
The first transaction with her was very pleasant. The money was delivered on time and she did not ask too much about the seller's privacy. She is a long-term partner worth considering.
He originally wanted to wait a few days for this transaction, but he just encountered a shark monster. He has no physical output and can only rely on the 1,000 points of defense value of the raft to survive.
Although his life was not in danger, this was enough to make him feel a sense of crisis. He lacked strength, but he made up for it with hardware, which led to the scene at the beginning.
Yan Lan loved the blueprint so much after receiving it that she couldn't let it go. She guessed that the other party must have a special encounter, just like her check-in system. But for some reason, Yang Xiaoyang didn't seem to want others to know, so she pretended to be ignorant and just a tool for the transaction.
[Ammunition Blueprint: Materials Metal x 1, Ore x 1.]
Combined with the gun blueprints I exchanged before, it can just complete a set.
The gun blueprints require metal and rubber, and there are enough materials, but there is no ore needed to make ammunition.
She sent a message in the group.
"Anyone got any ore?"
It's almost 7 o'clock in the morning and most of the players are awake.
"No, but I remember a player found ore in the last dungeon."
"I remember there was one, but I forgot what it was called."
"What are you looking for ore for, Mr. District Chief?"
Yan Lan didn't say it explicitly: "You'll know when the time comes."
"Tell us in advance, so we can be curious."
After waiting for a while, the player with the ore did not show up, so Yan Lan withdrew.
"I have ore."
Just as I was about to close the panel, a dialog box popped up, which was a message from Ji Zhou.
When she saw the message, her eyes lit up and she felt uncontrollably excited.
"Really? How much do you sell it for?"
"No need to sell it, just give it to you directly."
"That's... not good."
"You just gave me the raft, didn't you? It's a gift in return. A little ore is nothing."
Yan Lan thought about it, and then accepted it with peace of mind. There were 1,000 more ores in her backpack, enough to make 1,000 rounds of ammunition.
"By the way, I saw some ores for sale in the system mall. If you don't have enough, you can go there and have a look."
Before leaving, Ji Zhou added another sentence.
1,000 rounds of ammunition are enough for one person, but it is far from enough to sell to players. Yan Lan is also worried about what to do after these 1,000 ores are used up. Now she finally has a solution.
So I excitedly ran to the game's built-in system store, and after browsing for a while, I did see the ore that Ji Zhou mentioned, but the price was...
It was more unbearable than she had imagined.
Her personal balance was 60,000 yuan, which she had painstakingly saved by mining for most of the day and beating hail monsters for several hours.
Nowadays, one mine costs 10 balances. Back in the Iceberg Snowfield dungeon, some players rented snowplows, and they only earned 10 balances per hour.
This bullet is a disposable item, and it hurt her so much. Yan Lan quietly closed the system mall. She would not open it unless it was absolutely necessary.
Snowball had already gotten up. He was half asleep, thinking he was still in the RV. As soon as he got up, he went to the kitchen to turn over the pot lid. He turned his head and stared blankly for a long time before he slowly came to his senses and realized that he was sleeping on the raft.
Yan Lan handed it a piece of purple rice bread and an apple. Snowball was very considerate at this time. He took the dry bread and started to eat it without any complaints.
After taking care of Snowball, Yan Lan took a comic book and sat at the manufacturing table, killing time while producing ammunition.
It’s interesting to say that the comic book dropped by librarian Xie Yuan is a serialized one. The last time it dropped was the first volume, and today it dropped the second volume. She is still looking forward to the third volume.
The rate of ammunition production was still 2.5 seconds per round, and all the ammunition was produced on the manufacturing platform after more than 40 minutes.
With the ammunition, she had to make guns. The first one was prepared for Yang Xiaoyang. She put the materials on the manufacturing table and paused for a moment, then clicked the [Add Attributes] function without hesitation. Since she wanted to have a good relationship with him, a reasonable bribe was essential.
It takes a little longer to make a gun, about 5 seconds each.
She took the gun and looked at it carefully. The gun was exquisite and small, emitting a silvery-white light. It looked like a top-notch product.
The key is that it has a special skill [Aiming], which allows even a novice with poor shooting skills to hit the target every time. The performance cooldown time is 1 hour.
Yan Lan gave this special-property gun along with 100 rounds of bullets to Yang Xiaoyang.
Yang Xiaoyang was afraid of encountering the shark monster again, so he was hiding in the wooden house at the moment. When he saw Yan Lan sending supplies over, he immediately took them and checked them.
As soon as his hand touched the gun, a special skills introduction popped up.
"Aiming, it actually has built-in aiming!"
Yang Xiaoyang couldn't help wanting to scream, but suppressed it in order to act like an adult.
His original request was just a gun and some bullets, but he didn't expect Yan Lan to not only generously meet his requirements, but also give the gun its own attributes!
With this gun and diligent practice of skills, even a child will be able to protect himself.
【Author’s words】
Thank you to the little angels who voted for me or provided me with nutrient solution between 2024-07-24 22:31:03 and 2024-07-25 22:31:12~
Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution: sleep well 1 bottle;
Thank you very much for your support. I will continue to work hard!
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