『Top-grade crafting table from God Jin: The crafting table includes synthesis and decomposition functions. No belongings can stump it! Would you like to place it?』
“Yes.”
“Placement successful.”
Jiang Li looked at the crafting table beside the desk in pleasant surprise. The entire crafting table was pure black.
In the upper left corner was an operation panel, and the main menu included two modules: synthesis and decomposition.
Below it was a pull-out drawer with a capacity of 1,000.
Each module was further divided into two slots… one for a blueprint and the other for materials. After clicking, you simply placed the required items to craft.
Jiang Li placed the Raincoat Blueprint on it, and the materials slot immediately displayed Plastic ×2. Jiang Li placed the Plastic inside.
The crafting table lit up with white light, and in the next second, a transparent raincoat appeared in the drawer below.
So fast! Truly worthy of being top-grade. Jiang Li kept stroking the crafting table with her fingertips.
This wonderful thing was hers now.
Jiang Li alternated between laughing and sighing with her face in her hands. The leaderboard champion must still have plenty of good things hidden away somewhere.
If she found them, she’d strike it rich.
She placed the Arrow Blueprint again, and the materials slot lit up, showing the crafting materials: Iron ×1 and copper block ×1.
Jiang Li directly placed Iron ×100 and copper block ×100, crafting 100 arrows.
The display showed it would take 1 hour.
Taking advantage of the crafting time, Jiang Li fastened her seatbelt and stomped on the accelerator.
The van shot forward with a whoosh, reaching 200 km/h. The push-back sensation made Jiang Li’s body jerk backward violently.
Jiang Li gripped the steering wheel and continued accelerating, her heart pounding along with the speed.
Wind poured in through the car window, and roadside plants streaked past at high speed.
The intense thrill gave her an inexplicable rush of excitement. Jiang Li couldn’t help shouting: “This is so exhilarating! This is what it feels like to be alive! Ah! Ah! Ah! My life, my rules.”
Suddenly, a huge mouth flashed against the window, startling Jiang Li into slamming the brakes.
The rear of the van swung out in an enormous arc, and inertia slammed her hard against the seat, sending a dull ache through her chest.
Damn, she was speeding!
In a certain space, Jin Yanbai saw this and gave a soft chuckle.
Two enforcers appeared beside the vehicle door. One frog knocked on the car window, while the other, a hippo, carried a recorder and filmed her.
“Buddy, you’ve got some nerve. Having fun?”
As soon as he finished speaking, the frog big brother covered his mouth and looked at the colleague behind him who was carrying the recorder. “Retake, retake.”
“No problem, bro.” The hippo nodded foolishly.
The frog coughed, produced his credentials, and said with force and dignity, “Road Bureau 769 traffic enforcement officer, carrying out official duties in accordance with the law. Please cooperate.”
Jiang Li got out.
The frog nodded in satisfaction and continued.
“The party concerned, at 10:48 a.m. on Road 769 Avenue, drove a motor vehicle on a road other than an expressway or urban expressway and exceeded the prescribed speed limit by more than 100 percent. Standard value: 80. Measured value: 210. Pursuant to the Road Game Road Traffic Safety Rules, 6 points are deducted and a fine of 500 gold coins.”
Jiang Li nodded and looked at the recorder.
“I sincerely apologize to the game’s administration. Because of my actions, you all had to work hard. I realize that I have made a huge mistake, and I feel deeply ashamed. I deeply understand that I still have many areas in which I need to improve. Finally, I hope the administration can give me a chance to rebuild trust and a chance to correct my mistake. I am willing to change.”
“This player has great depth and a firm stance. We hope that after this incident, you will keep it in mind and continue participating in the challenge with a brand-new attitude.”
The frog waved a hand. The hippo pressed a button, then lowered the recorder.
Jiang Li immediately put on a smile and handed over a traffic ticket void card, along with 60 gold coins.
“Two big brothers, thanks for your hard work coming all the way out here.”
The frog tucked the gold coins away with a brilliant smile. He just liked people who were so generous.
“You’re welcome. Once you’ve paid it, there won’t be any further problems. If you need your annual vehicle inspection in the future, you can contact us.” The frog handed Jiang Li a business card, then took the hippo by the hand and disappeared from where they stood.
『Favorability with Traffic Enforcement Officer Mister Frog and Mister Hippo +10.』
Jiang Li accepted the business card and looked at it curiously. The gold coins had been well spent.
『Business card from Mister Frog: Click to use to contact Traffic Officer Frog. Uses: 3.』
Finally having sent the two enforcers away, Jiang Li checked today’s driving task. The 20 km was already complete. After that incident, she was in no mood to keep going, so she decided to eat something good.
She’d make red wine braised beef.
She took out the rice cooker, connected it to the solar panel, and used the long saber to cut 2 jin of Stone Axe purebred Wagyu beef into neat, square chunks.
Without ginger water, she soaked the beef in clean water for 30 minutes, then dry-seared it in the rice cooker until it was slightly charred, and poured in a bottle of red wine.
It just covered the beef. Jiang Li pressed the power button and started braising.
Back inside the vehicle, the arrows were already crafted. The blueprint was directly recorded in the crafting table, so next time she made the same items, she wouldn’t need the blueprint anymore.
Jiang Li finished a pine-nut crisp roll and then took a bite of lotus-root osmanthus cake, gaining constitution +2. She lay on the soft bed and tapped open the screen.
『Player: Jiang Li, 26 years old (Title 666 (equipped), God of Gamblers)
ID: 4443246444
Nickname: Li Taibai
Vehicle: Road-brand van (Level 4 vehicle upgrade card ×1, energy stone ×10, space stone ×1, silicon crystal ×1000, refined aluminum ×1000, refined iron ×1000, rubber ×1000, Lumber ×1000, engine ×5, silver ingot ×100.)
Gold coins: 63,720,000 (Truly the woman who obtained the God of Gamblers title.)
Constitution: 76.6 (Healthy, but could be even better.)
Intelligence: 80.6 (Clear-headed, you belong to the high-IQ crowd.)
Strength: 52.8 (Can carry and lift, but that’s about it.)
Agility: 45.6 (Reactions are a bit slow, the kind that gets you taken out in thirty seconds.)
Luck: 6
Skills: Pressure Domain (intimidation aura from the Level 3 vehicle), Death Replay (can view any player’s final moments, once per month), Conversation with God Jin (can converse on an auspicious day; as for when that is, no comment.)
Monster favorability: squirrel 8, Black Fox -30, Traffic enforcement officers Mister Frog and Mister Hippo favorability 10』
She was still a long way from a Level 4 vehicle upgrade. Jiang Li tallied the supplies she could currently use… yes, the empty crates from before were still there.
She came to the top-grade crafting table, selected the decomposition module, placed a wooden crate on it, and the decomposition slot on the right displayed wooden planks ×3.
Jiang Li clicked confirm and obtained 3 wooden planks.
So far, there were a total of 47 crates: 7 wooden crates decomposed to yield wooden planks ×21, 16 iron crates yielded Iron ×48, and 9 silver crate decompositions yielded silver ingot ×27.