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

Chapter 76 Murder by Black Mist

[Li Yongqiang: Boss Yuanqiao, your profit sharing is way too low. If you don't want to cooperate sincerely, I'll find someone else.]

Yuanqiao was a little impatient, but she was quite interested in his blueprint.

[Kitchen Robot Blueprints: After inputting them into the crafting station, as long as you have the materials, you can have countless robots that can cook and extract basic nutrients.]

This player named Li Yongqiang took out this blueprint and asked to join Yuanqiao's general store.

If he only wanted to be a grocery store employee, that would be one thing, but he actually wanted to give the blueprints to Yuanqiao, Yuanqiao to provide the raw materials, and he wanted half of the goods sold by the robots he made.

Furthermore, he didn't genuinely want to be an employee; he just thought that if he were an employee, Yuanqiao could give him gold coins as a salary. Currently, players in the game can only send resources to each other, not currency.

Yuanqiao disliked this shameless yet shrewd idea very much.

Shu Yiwan suggested that he provide the materials to make the finished products and cooperate with the general store to sell them at a 30/70 split, with priority given to providing him with the necessary supplies.

He was unwilling to do that; he only wanted to exchange a blueprint for the gold coins and 5% of the profits.

[Yuanqiao: Since you can't reach an agreement, just find someone else. It's just a robot blueprint. Even if there's market demand, where else can you find a partnership like yours?]

[Li Yongqiang: Oh dear, you women just don't know how to do business. There are so many players in the game, and so many who can't cook. Especially my robot, which can extract basic nutrients. It can extract two vials of nutrients from one meal, which is equivalent to two meals. It sells for a dozen silver coins a vial in the system shop, saving a lot of resources.]

[Li Yongqiang: It's sure to sell like hotcakes. How about this, I only need 4% of the price, is that alright?]

[Yuanqiao: Either you sell me the blueprints, or you make them yourself and sell them at the general store, splitting the profits 30/70.]

Although Yuanqiao was collecting items to stabilize the shop's popularity, the other party was clearly there to scam him, so he didn't want to talk to this person anymore.

[Li Yongqiang: Damn it, how can you be so ungrateful? We're doing you a favor by coming to cooperate with your store. Don't think that just because it's the number one store now, it still will be.]

Enraged, he sent a few swear words, and after Yuanqiao blocked him, he also sent a bunch of profanities to Shu Yiwan in a fit of rage.

That's incredibly ungrateful. I'm planning to talk to the second-ranked shop.

Before he could even add Shiliu as a friend, he was suddenly struck by something and froze in the driver's seat.

His eyes widened in disbelief, and he slowly stopped breathing.

……

Yuanqiao continued driving. He had wasted a lot of time today and hadn't reached his mileage goal yet.

They got off the bus one after another and picked up several supply chests.

She didn't want to wait until tomorrow when she had a lucky aura to open it, since her luck was usually pretty good, not particularly bad.

Two bronze treasure chests and three wooden treasure chests.

It's a bit strange; the probability of encountering silver treasure chests has been decreasing lately, especially gold treasure chests, which I only encounter once every few days.

Wood x 32
1 thermometer
Insect repellent spray x2
Cloud Dream Grass x1
Cloth x 13
Iron blocks x11
Two cases of Qiuqiu Mountain specialty apple cider vinegar
Summer Cool Four-Piece Set ×1
Men's sun hat ×1
Snack gift pack for missing teeth ×2
"There are medicinal herbs."

Yuanqiao held the Yunmeng Grass in his hand and examined it. This medicinal raw material had never appeared before.

Of course, this doesn't include other people; some people tend to put medicine in the supply crates on the highway, while others prefer weapons.

[Yunmeng Grass: A specialty herb of Yunmeng Marsh. Many basic medicines contain Yunmeng Grass, which acts as a neutralizing agent in drug formulations.]
This is suitable for storing in the system's inventory slot to keep it fresh.

After disassembling the boxes, Yuanqiao returned to the living room and opened a bottle of apple cider vinegar to drink.

Yuanqiao said he loves the fruit by-products from Chiu Chiu Mountain so much that there's no one he doesn't love drinking them.

There seems to be some discussion in the chat lobby.

Yuan Qiao leisurely scrolled through the records, his expression growing increasingly serious with each page. [Chi Chengxuan: [Image] Help me!]

The incident started when this player posted a picture, a selfie, in which a man's terrified expression occupied two-thirds of the photo, and there seemed to be a dark shadow in the corner.

Then his profile picture went black, representing death.

Hu Xiatian, who had a good relationship with Chi Chengxuan, sought help in the lobby to ask what was going on.

It wasn't a monster or an acid rain disaster; the person who was just calling for help died instantly, causing some panic among the crowd.

[Hu Xiatian: Is there any special item we can use to check on Chi Chengxuan's situation? I'm willing to trade supplies for it, please everyone.]

[Qian Yue: Holy crap, was it attacked by something? What's that black blob in the corner of the picture? Does anyone recognize it?]

[Cheng Yuting: I remember now, didn't that female player who could predict the future say something about danger? Could it be this!]

[Meng Xiujie: Hua Xinyan seems to have mentioned something about black mist invading and killing players.]

[Fan Yanghui: I guess this is the highway disaster that Xinyan predicted. You didn't believe it before, but now that something happened, you've remembered?]

[Chen Yi-hsun: Don't spread rumors. What if it's not true? Does anyone have a special way to find out what's going on?]

As more and more people chatted in the lobby, this incident made everyone tense.

Is this a new disaster for the game? Or an accident?

Yuanqiao saved the picture and stared thoughtfully at the tiny bit of black mist in the corner.

Could it be related to "He"?

But it's unlikely that someone would so blatantly provoke the system in the game.

Yuanqiao shook his head. It shouldn't be.

However, it's uncertain whether the black mist that appeared in the game meant Fan Chengxuan was the only player who died, or whether other players were also killed.

All I see in the discussions is people talking about creating anxiety and using this atmosphere to buy and sell items and weapons.

Yuanqiao turned off the system panel, carried Tuanzai to the driver's seat, and lay down on the tatami.

I wonder if this black mist will come to me. I should make more preparations and check which items can be used in the next dungeon.

There are 11 disposable shield items, with varying degrees of defensive capabilities.

Two permanent defensive items with a cooldown period, but the shield can only block one instance of normal damage.

There are 7 one-time use offensive items and 2 area-of-effect items, with the multi-functional flamethrower having the highest damage value.

There are more than twenty special items for daily life, which are not suitable for use in combat scenarios.

They should be placed in the system inventory and the space key respectively, not in a single place.

I traded some popping fruits and disposable darts at Pomegranate's shop. The note said the darts were coated with poison made with Pomegranate's unique formula, so use them with caution.

[Shu Yiwan: Boss, just finished. I was going to try and persuade Li Yongqiang to trade the blueprints, since they're really good. But when I opened his chat window, it said he was dead and there was a picture attached!]

[Yuanqiao: What? So sudden? Didn't he say he was going to collaborate with another company?]

[Shu Yiwan: [Image] This is what he sent me. It's strange. Maybe it was the last time I contacted him, and he sent it to me. What should I do, boss?]

She also looked at the chat logs.

　Thank you everyone for your support and encouragement, I will keep working hard!
　　(End of this chapter)