The whole nation is trying to survive on the cable car; I'm choosing one of three options at ea

Information Category: Information Scanning. This function scans items within a 100-meter radius, including hidden or undiscovered supplies, traps, and hazards, marking them on the minimap. The scan lasts for three minutes and can be used three times per day, with a maximum of nine uses per day.

Individuals... All attributes increased by 5%.

Building-related... Building Shield: When a single instance of damage received does not exceed 20%, an immunity shield is gained when the damage received exceeds 20%, which can be stacked up to six times within five minutes.

Rule-based capabilities.

Information-related content is good, but there's a limit.

Individual growth is also acceptable, but the values ​​are relatively low.

As for building-type shields, they are very strong. They have no way to counter them when they are in the air, and the damage they are forced to take is no more than 20%.

If faced with an attack of the level of a chimera, this talent could prevent the cable car from being destroyed in one hit. Facing multi-hit attacks might be troublesome, but it's better than nothing. Su Mu reached out and pointed to option three.

The choice was successful. The gilded card transformed into specks of light and merged into his body. He closed his eyes and sensed it, but felt nothing special... Rule-based abilities are usually imperceptible.

After selecting one of the three options.

Su Mu then began organizing the contents of his backpack. The supplies were taken out one by one and sorted...weapons, armor, skill books, scrolls, rare items, consumables, and materials. A small pile of these items covered the metal floor, resembling a folded armory.

AWM Sniper Rifle, Purple, Base Firepower 103, 10-round Magnum Capacity, Doubles Firepower in Close-Range Combat, Accurate Charge Increases Damage by 1% on Each Hit, Resets Damage to Zero on Misses. Silent Pistol, Green, Firepower 45, Integrated Suppressor, Special Coating Can Block Some Detection Capabilities.

Shadow Dagger, green, sharpness 35, deals 300% damage on the first attack while in stealth.

The Ice Staff and the Fire Staff, two purple Lv12 staffs... The Ice Staff increases magic attack by 280, reduces spell cooldown by 20%, and increases spell speed by 20%. It can be installed on a cable car to release a freezing area with a radius of 100 to 1000 meters, stunning the target for three to five seconds.

The Fire Staff grants +300 magic attack and +25% fire damage, and can unleash a sea of ​​fire on the cable car for 30 seconds. The Disguise Pendant, green, can block detection from targets three levels or lower than the user's level or of purple quality or lower.

Two job books... Junior Repairman and Frost Mage, both white and green quality. A level 2 cable car upgrade blueprint, white.

Two Level 5 cable car upgrade reels, purple. High-voltage power grid reel, blue. Sturdy wooden floor blueprint, green. Magnum armor-piercing projectile blueprint, blue.

Oddity: The stem of a scarlet vine, yellow in color, generates a vine field with a radius of one kilometer that automatically attacks hostile creatures for thirty minutes.

Wind and Rain Banner: Blue, controls the weather within a radius of 500 meters.

Substitute Puppet: Blue, blocks one fatal attack.

Contract Box: Purple, can hold one living creature and establish a master-servant contract. A portal to another dimension, marked with three question marks, spawns one level 1 creature per second; recommended for use on the cable car.

Another pile of consumables and materials... the tusks and meat essence of the giant boar, supernatural crystals, a level four power-type breakthrough talisman, and eighteen ancient coins.

The black metal heart-shaped item dropped by the Zombie King: a special material used for crafting equipment, buildings, advanced elixirs, and bloodline materials.

The flame glands of the Flame Stinger Bee, the scales, tongue, venom glands, and chunks of flesh of the Wall-Breaking Crawler, the detector seized from the Salvation Guild, and the large bird's egg and remaining egg liquid.

Looking at the pile of supplies, Su Mu realized that this harvest was quite substantial.

After tidying up a bit, he took out the Level 5 cable car upgrade scroll and opened the cable car upgrade interface.

"Level 5 Cable Car Upgrade Reel (Purple)" detected. Use? Current materials: 47 Steel Ingots, 22 Bulletproof Glass, 22 Mysterious Crystals. Required materials: 120 Steel Ingots, 40 Bulletproof Glass, 200 Mysterious Crystals.

There aren't enough materials.

He glanced at the amount of strange crystals in his backpack; there were only twenty-two.

The scroll offers upgrade options, but it lacks the Ghost Crystal.

He opened the public channel, and the message had already exploded. The top right corner showed that the number of cables had reached exactly one hundred.

The rapid increase from dozens to a hundred routes doesn't seem like a coincidence; the routes probably converged in Ash City and then dispersed again.

He scrolled down and found a complex mix of emotions in the messages: fear, despair, a sense of relief, gratitude, and longing.

Some people are talking about the horrors of the Chimera, some are talking about the more than two thousand military personnel who sacrificed their lives, and some are talking about the organization called "Great Wind".

"We simply can't defeat monsters like the Chimera."

"What will we do then? If we encounter monsters of that level again, who will help us?"

"The army...all those people are gone. An army of over two thousand men, gone just like that."

"The wind was strong... those people really wanted to protect us. If only they were still here."

"I heard there's a safe zone, walls, and supplies in Dafeng; they genuinely want to take in survivors."

"I wish I could go out into the wind..."

Su Mu closed the public chat channel, opened the trade channel, and sent a message: "Buying Ghost Crystals, large quantities. Physical transaction acceptable, price negotiable."

I received quite a few private messages, but they were all trying to make friends... Some wanted to know about his weapons, some wanted to invite him to join the guild, and some wanted to ask him about the skills he used in previous battles.

No one offered any of the Mysterious Crystals for trade.

Su Mu turned off the trading channel, leaned against the wall, and pondered in his mind.

Most of the people who messaged him privately wanted to make friends, but very few could actually produce the Mysterious Crystal.

He had already learned from the channel about the scarcity of the Mysterious Crystal... This thing is a product of night monsters, extremely difficult to obtain, and very few people are willing to trade it.

For the major guilds, the Mysterious Crystal is a strategic resource, and they are unwilling to sell it easily. The guilds that are willing to sell it, however, offer prices that don't satisfy him... either they offer low-value equipment in exchange, or they demand he clear out an area—euphemistically called cooperation, but in reality, they're using him as a henchman.

"It seems the only option is to exchange it for something of value."

Su Mu muttered to himself.

He had two Level 5 cable car upgrade scrolls; one was enough for himself, and the other could be used for trading. The other materials were either urgently needed by him or not valuable enough to tempt those people.