Surviving on the highway, I have a best friend who was reborn.

Chapter 75 The Black Box Contains No Supplies
It took the system quite a while to respond to Yuanqiao.

A black box instruction manual.

Yuanqiao browsed and read without understanding what was going on, becoming more and more confused the more he read.

Black chests will also appear along the way, with quality corresponding to resource chests: wooden black chests, bronze black chests, silver black chests, black gold chests, etc.

The black box guarantees a corrupted monster, but has a chance to contain cultivation materials.

There are no gold coin rewards for killing these monsters, but you will get points. The points are not calculated based on the number of monsters; a wooden black box only gives you 50 points.

"What's the use of these points? I can't see the redemption page."

Yuanqiao examined it carefully.

Not knowing if everyone had this black box or if it was just me, I frowned and opened the chat page.

Anmuya hasn't left the instance yet; her avatar is grayed out. The only friends she has who she can chat with are Gao Leyu and Xingguang online.

[Yuanqiao: A black box just appeared on the highway, and a large number of contamination rats came out. I haven't seen anyone mention it in the public chat. Do you know what's going on?]

[Gao Leyu: I haven't encountered it yet, but our squad leader did after upgrading to a Tier 4 vehicle.]

[Yuanqiao: There are quite a few players in our region who have reached level 4, but how come no one has talked about this? This is the first time I've encountered this. [Image]]

I felt incredibly cool wearing sunglasses back then, so I had the system take several photos of me.

[Gao Leyu: Wow, Yuanqiao is so cool! What a coincidence, I asked the captain about this before, and he said that information about the black box would be automatically blocked in the chat lobby.]

[Yuanqiao: Oh, I see. Okay, then, would it be convenient for you to add me as a friend? I have some questions I'd like to ask.]

[Gao Leyu: Okay, I'll talk to him. We happen to have a dungeon that needs about ten people, and I recommended you to the team leader. How about it, are you interested in running the dungeon together?]

[Yuanqiao: Around when? Do you have any information about the dungeon? I'll look into it before deciding whether to go or not. I just got back from a dungeon, and I lost a ton of money.]

[Gao Leyu: The team leader will add you later. Ask him. Senior An is going too.]

[Yuanqiao: Okay, sure]

She really wanted to ask others about the purpose of points and the probability of this black box appearing.

A short while later, the captain of Gao Leyu's team sent a friend request.

Yuan Qiao then remembered that adding her would cost 2 gold coins, so he canceled the fee for Huo Zhixing.

[Yuan Qiao: Hello, Captain Huo, I'm Yuan Qiao, a friend of Gao Leyu. I'd like to inquire about the black box and also learn about the multiplayer dungeon.]

Gao Leyu had previously stated that he was the leader of the Blue Star China Special Operations Bureau, and after entering the game, he also began to lead the members of the Bureau from the same region.

Although it is an official organization, they cannot contact the outside world, so these people are just a group sticking together for warmth in a survival game.

[Huo Zhixing: Hello]

[Huo Zhixing: Currently, the only known information about black boxes is that they will be encountered by players with Tier 4 vehicles or higher. The more valuable the box, the more difficult it is to clear the corrupted monsters.]

In particular, the resources and equipment consumed during the cleanup are disproportionate to the returns, and the risk of injury makes it even more difficult.

Huo Zhixing sighed as he chatted. He was completely unprepared when he first encountered the black box and it took him a lot of resources to deal with it.

[Yuanqiao: Captain Huo, what's the use of those points? The system manual doesn't explain it, do you know?]

[Huo Zhixing: Once you reach 200 points, a spinning wheel will automatically appear, and then you can participate in a lottery...]

The items on the spinning wheel were all good, except for the two "thank you for your patronage" ones. They chatted for about half an hour, and Yuanqiao roughly understood what the black box was all about, but it was strange that the black box only appeared after she had been at level 4 for some time.

I also learned about their ten-player dungeon, which is a quest dungeon for clearing out corrupted monsters, and Yuanqiao wants to go there.

Because they are gathering resources to exchange for an item, which will take some time, Captain Huo will come to call her in three days. In the next few days, Yuanqiao should prepare the resources to enter the dungeon.

She has a lot of good stuff, but this time she's only going into the dungeon as an extra to make up the numbers for the quest, not to join the team, so Yuanqiao doesn't need to worry about her.

The appearance probability of black boxes is random, just like that of resource chests. However, Yuanqiao wondered if he wanted to farm points, would wearing the "misfortune aura" make all the chests appear black that day?

However, the bad luck aura is definitely very unlucky; you might not even get any points before you die.

Yuanqiao shook his head, dismissing the unreliable idea.

Seeing that it looked like acid rain was about to start again, Yuanqiao quickly summoned a vehicle and got in.

I was so busy chatting that I was floating in the air with Tuanzai in the cloud flying machine.

She changed out of her protective suit and into a new one; she had accumulated several protective suits that she had worn without them getting damaged.

After thinking about it, instead of listing it on a shop, he traded anonymously with other ordinary players.

[Hua Peier: Are these four Class A protective suits really only traded for these plush toys?!]

She was very surprised to learn that she had made these dolls herself from yarn made of fibers.

After it was listed, almost no one came to trade it. She didn't have any other skills, and her luck was just average, except that she was good at handicrafts.

Unexpectedly, someone just offered to trade 4 second-hand Class A protective suits for 15 yarn dolls on the shelf.

[Anonymous (Yuanqiao): Yes, the protective suit hasn't been damaged in the past few days, it's just been exposed to acid rain. You can wash it with water before using it again.]

[Hua Peier: Thank you, thank you so much! I can make custom-made dolls by hand. If you need one, I can make one for you for free.]

She was incredibly grateful. This acid rain disaster was extremely destructive and depleted very quickly. The supplies she collected were barely enough to survive on and exchange for protective materials. She also needed to save up upgrade materials. These few protective suits would allow her to get out of the vehicle and collect treasure chests without worrying about encountering monsters that would be difficult to kill.

When I first saw these doll pictures, they all seemed to be of the same style, so I guessed they were handmade. And it turns out they really were.

[Yuanqiao: I won't take your money for nothing. Could you make a proportional and chibi version based on these photos? [Images] [Images] [Images]]

After thinking for a while, he described his and Nanxi's characteristics and asked the other party to make a few keychain-like pendant dolls, paying 10 yuan as a deposit.

Looking at the player trading market, it's clear that social stratification has already begun to emerge.

If you're lucky, acquiring resources isn't difficult; trading requires you to grow stronger; and when you encounter monsters, the only joy is killing them and collecting gold coins.

Those who struggle to survive may not have a problem with food and water, but each encounter with a polluted monster is a huge loss. Without powerful weapons, they are easily injured, and when injured, they need resources to exchange for medicine and buy purification potions.

The strong get stronger, while the unlucky and weak are gradually eliminated from the game.

[32436/100000 online users]

Yuanqiao occasionally laments the hardships others face, but he doesn't feel any sympathy or pity for them.

But he's not stingy when it comes to spending money; it all depends on his mood.

For example, the person just now, Yuanqiao managed to get a very low price.

Shu Yiwan said this player was difficult to deal with, but the items he provided were quite unique.

(End of this chapter)