After picking up the sleeve arrows, Jiang Li leaned in for a closer look. Hey, what a coincidence.
Inside the crate lay a weapon upgrade card, Battery ×6, glass ×10, rubber ×10, roast duck, and small bread ×10.
Jiang Li looked delightedly at the supplies in the crate and took out the weapon upgrade blueprint to place it on the crossbow.
『Basic crossbow: Upgradable to a Level 1 crossbow. Upgrade requires refined iron ×10, a launcher, and energy stone ×1.』
These were all top-tier materials. Luck had its drawbacks too; during the newbie period, the things everyone drew were never all that advanced.
Jiang Li wilted. Being able to see them but not use them was a little hard to bear.
Right, she suddenly remembered she still had a top-grade crafting table.
『Top-grade crafting table from God Jin: The crafting table comes with synthesis and disassembly functions. Nothing can stump it! Would you like to place it?』
“Yes.”
“Insufficient compartment space! Unable to place it!”
“???”
The crafting table actually required 10 square meters, while her compartment was only 6.25 square meters.
Jiang Li laughed in exasperation. As expected of a god-tier item… a poor person simply couldn’t afford it.
She put everything away and decided that her next goal was to upgrade her vehicle. Without a vehicle, everything else was useless.
“Lucky me, lucky you…”
Jiang Li rubbed her eyes, then rubbed them again. She actually saw a huge tree in the roadside forest, with piles of crates stacked densely beneath it.
There were gold ones, silver ones, iron ones, wooden ones… and even some flashing with white light.
Who would fall for such an obvious trap? Jiang Li decided to pass by quickly.
Five minutes later.
An electric tricycle was still parked in place. The girl crouched by the roadside, tiptoeing and craning her neck forward.
Jiang Li was at war with herself. She had seen the information in the chat channel.
There really were a lot of crates, and it really was dangerous too. The guardian monster was a red poison snake and all her snake children and grandchildren.
Jiang Li looked at the tasks on the Potential System. Complete 3 iron crate tasks and provoke others in the group chat, and she would get 2 packages.
Right now, aside from the crossbow, she had no other weapons… and the crossbow wasn’t suited to snakes either.
She wanted a long saber, one that could attack and defend.
Jiang Li opened her friends list and looked at Little Fugui.
Li Taibai: “A roast duck for one of your iron crates.”
Little Fugui: “I’ll trade. Big shot, it’s kind of you, big brother, to still remember me.”
Trade successful.
Li Taibai: “No need to be polite. We each take what we need.”
Jiang Li didn’t want too much entanglement with others, but the situation also made her realize that a lone wolf was useless. Besides, she was just a soft little white rabbit anyway.
“Congratulations! You obtained Mapo tofu ×3, pineapple sweet-and-sour pork ×3, roast suckling pig ×1, and tissue paper ×1.”
As expected of Little Fugui’s iron crate.
There was no turning back in life. Jiang Li posted the exquisite lotus-root osmanthus cake and pine-nut crisp roll pictures in the channel.
Li Taibai: “The game loves me too much. I eat this every day until I’m sick of it! Ugh, what a pain.”
Blind Needle, Steady Hand: “The big shot is already eating the fine fare, while the rest of us are still below the average line.”
Library Room Administrator: “That looks so tasty. Trade? Bro.”
Rich Lady Harvester: “Big shot, do you like desserts?”
Blind Needle, Steady Hand: “I really like desserts.”
Middle-Aged Life: “Kind people, could you give me some supplies? My child has a fever. Even after taking medicine, it still won’t go down.”
User 4443257777: “@Li Taibai, big shot, put some food on the trading channel. One basic material in exchange. We’re about to starve to death.”
User 7778965865: “Yeah, you’re so rich, you should share with everyone. Otherwise, I curse you with bad luck from now on.”
Little Dove: “Yes, what the person above said makes sense.”
Little Fugui: “You can open the crate yourselves. We’re not related or anything… why should I help you? Because you’re that thick-skinned?”
Auntie Chen Qianqian: “Young people should respect the old and care for the young. Didn’t your parents teach you social virtues? Each generation is worse than the last. When we were your age, we weren’t nearly as stingy as you.”
Little Fugui: “Old as you are, why don’t you think about why you’re doing so badly? Serves you right.”
Blind Needle, Steady Hand: “People like that have that kind of thinking. We can’t control them, big shot. Don’t bother with them.”
Auntie Chen Qianqian: “I have millions in assets and a house full of children and grandchildren. Can’t I even say a few things to you? If you won’t listen to your elders, you’ll suffer for it soon enough.”
Rich Lady Harvester: “So disgusting. It’s already a Survival Game, and there are still people like this… nagging idiots with water in their brains.”
…
As the provocation value kept rising, Jiang Li watched the chat channel’s tone drift further and further off course.
Great. The more fiercely they fought, the better. Sure enough, the provocation value shot up to 1,000, and the task was complete.
As for the few people who spoke up for her, Jiang Li sent each of them a small bread in a private message. Food was still a rare commodity right now.
Little Fugui: “Bro, you’re too polite. It was only a few words.”
Rich Lady Harvester: “Ahhh, the big shot sent me a small bread all by myself. I’m so touched. Thank you, big shot.”
Blind Needle, Steady Hand: “Big shot, I just can’t stand them.”
Jiang Li replied to all of them in one sentence: “In any case, thank you all.”
Next, she found Middle-Aged Life’s avatar separately. The messages were scrolling too fast, and it had been buried in an instant.
Nickname: Middle-Aged Life
Personal attributes: hidden.
Jiang Li pressed her lips together and sent a friend request. The other side accepted instantly.
“Would you like to gift mineral water 500 ml/bottle ×3 and rice 1 jin ×2?”
“Yes.”
Middle-Aged Life: “Thank you, big shot. These are so important to me. I’ve traded all the supplies I opened for medicine for the child. Good people are rewarded.”
Li Taibai: “It isn’t much. I hope you get through this rough patch.”
Jiang Li didn’t know whether good people were rewarded. In reality, bad people lived even more comfortably. She simply envied that child.
A parent’s love for a child plans far into the future.
But she had never had that. All she had ever gotten was disgust and abandonment.
The reward screen disappeared, and she tapped open the Potential System.
“3. Open 3 iron crates… completed! Reward claimable.”
“4. Speak in the group chat, and reach 1,000 provocation value… completed! Reward claimable.”
Two silver packages appeared before her eyes.
Jiang Li steadied her emotions and prayed devoutly.
“Congratulations, host, you obtained a Level 3 vehicle upgrade card, a World-Destroying Long Saber, glass ×20, Iron ×20, and rubber ×20.”
“Equip the 666 Lucky Title. Randomly upgrades one item every day. You obtain the World-Destroying Summon Long Saber, which has a 20% chance to summon residual shadows from other worlds to attack enemies.”
“Xiao Bei, I really love you.”
Jiang Li jumped up excitedly. The Potential System was so thoughtful.
Inside the grayish-brown scabbard was a silver-white blade, with a ruby set into the hilt, constantly flashing red light.
Luxurious. Beautiful.
Jiang Li picked up the long saber and waved it up and down, left and right. The blade was a little heavier, but still within her limits.
She put away the items and cleared the system backpack slots.
Jiang Li tucked the antidote pill under her tongue, took up the long saber, and stepped into the roadside forest, heading toward the supply crate.