The raincoat blueprint was traded for 2 bottles of mineral water; after some bargaining, it was secured for 1 bottle.
The wheel anti-skid chains were traded for 2 bottles of mineral water. Deal.
Jiang Li kept scrolling and scrolling…
She didn’t find a crafting table blueprint, but she did come across an arrow blueprint. The other party wanted 10 jin of grain, and the seller was a player called Little Fugui.
Thinking of her crossbow, Jiang Li privately messaged Little Fugui: “What kind of arrow blueprint is it?”
The other party sent over the blueprint description directly.
“Arrow blueprint: crossbow arrows, crafted from Iron ×1 and Copper Block ×1.”
Li Taibai: “10 jin is too much. Food is already in short supply for everyone. I’ll trade 5 jin of rice for the blueprint.”
Little Fugui: “Big shot, this is a weapon. With a blueprint, it’s a long-term benefit. I just want some meat.”
Li Taibai: “5 jin of rice, plus 2 pork buns. If that’s okay, we’ll trade.”
“Deal, big shot. If you get meat later, remember to ping me.”
Little Fugui initiated the trade request. An arrow blueprint was nothing special… he had a stack of them. They were basically scrap paper. Food was still more practical.
Besides, he didn’t have a crossbow, and he didn’t even like them. He preferred pistols more: fast, accurate, and ruthless. One shot, and boom!
“Okay.”
“Can we add each other as friends, bro?”
Jiang Li hesitated for a moment, then agreed. In her previous life, she had died without anyone even knowing.
The other party has sent you a gift. Would you like to accept it?
“Yes.”
Jiang Li looked at the transparent card in her hand. Under the shifting light, the words Special Station Direct Pass Card flickered faintly.
Little Fugui: “Bro, a welcome gift. Please take good care of me from now on.”
Li Taibai: “This card is actually quite useful.”
Little Fugui: “I won’t brag about anything else, but I have plenty of these.”
Feeling the other party’s sincerity, Jiang Li sent back a hotpot set meal.
“Oh my god! Oh my god! It’s my favorite hotpot! Bro, you’re incredible!”
“Bro, this is way, way too precious.”
“One thing for one thing. You deserve it!”
Little Fugui looked at the steaming spicy hotpot in front of him, and saliva practically came pouring out.
He picked up a slice of fatty beef. Damn, it was delicious. There was also plenty of beef tripe and fatty lamb.
His judgment really was good. He had found a big shot right away.
Jiang Li took out the crossbow and strapped it to her left arm.
The entire crossbow was silver-white, compact, and exquisitely made, the arm guard fitting the curve of her forearm.
Vine patterns were carved into the body of the crossbow. On the side was a three-inch hidden compartment in the arm cuff, which could hold ten sleeve arrows in a single load.
The bowstring extended into a trigger ring toward the shoulder.
The elbow joint was lined with mermaid silk for shock absorption, with a ring of silver chains along the edge.
Defense runes covered it, allowing it to block one attack per day.
Jiang Li looked at this weapon with delight. Aside from being a little heavy, it had no other flaws.
A must-have for ambushes… both offensive and defensive.
Jiang Li clicked Iron-Blooded Vanguard’s avatar and sent a friend request. At a glance, this player clearly had a lot of good stuff.
『Wheel Anti-Skid Chains: Essential for driving in snowy weather. With these, finishing tasks is no problem.』
『Black Card: High-risk dungeon teleport card. Within 5 seconds of activation, you can choose a dungeon. Look how considerate I am, yo yo. The card’s temperature rises with the danger level, and at S-rank it burns scorch marks into the surface.』
Jiang Li looked at the black card. The reason she had chosen to trade for it was that she remembered a special station: the Ghost Toll Station.
By paying gold coins, you could prepay the danger of the next 3 hours. Fortune and misfortune are intertwined; the more dangerous it is, the better the things that come with it.
Lost in thought, Jiang Li fell asleep…
A night of sweet dreams.
When she woke up, Jiang Li habitually looked at the game population: 9800/10000. Huh? 200 avatars had gone offline overnight.
She opened the chat channel. It turned out that many people who had not completed the driving task, refusing to believe it, had tried driving at night.
Jiang Li sighed and decided to wash the bowls first to claim the reward. She didn’t have the habit of eating breakfast.
The bowls and basins already stank. Jiang Li held her breath and washed them quickly.
Looking at the dirty, foul dishwater, Jiang Li thought for a moment, then stored it in a backpack slot. One bottle of dishwashing liquid remained.
Completed tasks:
1. Wash the dirty bowls and chopsticks… completed! Reward available.
Pending tasks:
1. Travel 20 kilometers.
Jiang Li put the silver package into the compartment, started the vehicle, and kept it moving at a steady speed.
Dream Lord, Where Are You: “It was way too cold last night. My vehicle is a bicycle; besides the road, there was nowhere else to sleep.”
Noodle-Eating Demon King: “Haha, mine is a tractor. It has a huge cargo bed in the back.”
Iron-Blooded Vanguard: “Be careful not to leave the road. Outside the road, the 5-meter safe zone around the vehicle will fail. During the Novice Protection Period, monsters’ combat ability is correspondingly reduced. It’s a good time to improve your own attributes.”
Jiang Li looked at the messages on the interface, deep in thought. This Iron-Blooded Vanguard seemed strong. They were already friends.
Mm. This time, she hoped everyone on her friend list would stay online, and that she would be fortunate enough to witness the day the truth of the Highway Survival Game came out.
Jiang Li had already picked up 2 wooden crates this morning. She always felt like she had forgotten something important.
Right. In her previous life, a lucky one had said in the public chat that he had entered the casino, made a fortune, and shared his strategy for beating it. He just hadn’t expected the betting to be different every single time.
Jiang Li glanced at today’s driving distance; it was already complete.
She took out the Special Station Direct Pass Card and silently recited: Wheel of Fate Casino.
This was an especially dangerous place, with a certain chance of spatial overlap every day.
When the casino overlapped with three or more other stations, a chaos zone with a radius of 600 meters would form.
Every half hour, the chaos zone swapped functional areas with other stations, and the slot machines began devouring the resources of those stations. This was also the fundamental reason the casino was despised by all stations yet remained enduringly prosperous.
Jiang Li looked at the gleaming high-rise with hardly any visitors and walked in carefully.
A black fox greeted her warmly.
“Beautiful and honorable young lady, on behalf of all our staff, I welcome your arrival. May I ask how I should address you?”
Seeing that she was a pretty, delicate girl, the black fox smiled even more sincerely.
Good heavens, his place really was a legitimate casino. Thinking about how he had been ostracized by the other stations, the black fox almost burst into tears on the spot.
He decided that later, he could bend the rules a little and let this cute girl go out and help him advertise more.
Jiang Li had barely stepped through the door when she was startled by a pitch-black big fox.
“Casino Manager Qi Qi’s favorability toward you +5. Current favorability value: 5.”
Jiang Li looked at the black fox baring his teeth at her, not understanding why, and took out 10 gold coins.
“Handsome fox brother, I heard this place cheats neither the young nor the old, and is as fair and just as can be. I’d like to try the claw machine.”
The black fox froze for a moment, then took the gold coins.
No one had ever treated him so gently. Everyone else had called him a black-hearted fox.
“No problem, honored guest. This way, please.”
“Casino Manager Qi Qi’s favorability toward you +5. Current favorability value: 10.”
Hearing the favorability notifications by her ear, Jiang Li thought that this black fox actually liked hearing nice words.
“Claw machine game rules: Within 30 minutes, catch 1 doll and you’ll be paid 10 times the entrance gold coins; catch 2 dolls and you’ll be paid 20 times the gold coins currently obtained… and so on. Otherwise, if you don’t catch any, the event automatically ends, and the player only needs to pay double compensation to the casino.”