Chapter 48 High Temperature Warning
Yu Qi ultimately chose to upgrade the Unboxing Maniac Badge.
The "Can Opening Expert" badge is good, but it's not used very often; she can't possibly encounter the Turtle Merchant every day.
Those eccentric merchants are elusive; who knows when we'll run into them again?
Why not upgrade to "Unboxing Maniac"? She uses this badge every day; it's super useful!
If we can extend the time and trigger more critical hits, we can gain more resources every day, which would be a huge win!
The silver card emitted a faint glow, and soon enveloped the bronze badge.
Three minutes later, the bronze badge turned into a beautiful silver badge, shimmering in the sunlight.
[Unboxing Maniac: Silver Badge. When equipped, it has a chance to trigger a 4x critical hit. Can be used once per day for one and a half hours.]
After the upgrade, the "Unboxing Maniac" badge will last for an additional half an hour.
At the same time, even the probability of critical hits and the critical hit multiplier have increased, just as she expected!
Perfect timing! She'd like to open the box now and test the power of the Silver Badge!
Yu Qi counted her boxes. She hadn't gotten many treasure chests today; she had used up all her luck on opening mystery cans.
However, after completing the butcher shop quest last night, there are still some treasure chests that haven't been opened.
Put all these treasure chests together: one gold chest, eleven silver chests, three bronze resource chests, and two log resource chests.
Most treasure chests don't have a health bar, so you can take them out in just a few minutes!
In order not to waste her "Unboxing Maniac" badge, she returned to the chat lobby and posted an advertisement for opening resource boxes on behalf of others.
Hunting Moment: "The resource box opening service has started today! We're buying 60 resource boxes, still the same price! After opening the resource boxes, we'll provide links to tomatoes and various chili sauces. We also have steamed buns and physalis today!"
"I won't sleep if the moon doesn't sleep: Holy crap, the big boss finally came out, and he unleashed a bombshell! To be able to open so many resource boxes in one go, I really admire the big boss's strength!"
Scammed out of 500 yuan in online dating: "Does this even need to be said? This guy is a fierce warrior who took down a martial arts master first thing in the morning. I estimate that the boss's fighting power has doubled again!"
Meow Alien: "This is wonderful! I can finally relax today! Long live the boss!"
A Slanting Rain: "Finally, the lantern fruit is here! A friend of mine bought some before, and it's incredibly useful. Its range is wider than car headlights, and it even has a certain monster-repelling effect. Now my friend sleeps more peacefully every night than before!"
"The person upstairs looks like a shill! But what I want to say is, I also have a Lantern Fruit. The fruit is incredibly useful. It's a pity that the sales volume on the Hunter's platform is limited, otherwise I would definitely buy a few more!"
The people in the chat room were immediately amused and started making fun of each other.
However, soon everyone's hearts sank again, because they started talking about the recent weather.
Star River in Dreams: "The weather has been getting hotter these past two days, so everyone should prepare some heatstroke prevention items in case of need."
Feeling anxious: "Star River, I also think the weather lately is really weird. Do you think it will get hotter and hotter and scorch our wheels?"
Half a Cup of Fleeting Years: "I don't think this game would be that cruel. If the wheels of our vehicles get scorched, the people inside would probably die from the heat and wouldn't be able to move forward. Did this survival game bring us in just to send everyone to their deaths? There must be a glimmer of hope!"
Xinghe Rumeng: "It's hard to say about this. If you have the means, it's always good to prepare in advance."
Meanwhile, in the AAA grocery shopping group, Xinghe Rumeng was also asking Yu Qi what she thought about the recent weather and what her guesses were.
Yu Qi thought for a moment and decided to just post it directly in the chat lobby.
Hunting Moment: "I've seen everyone discussing the recent weather and wanting to know the situation. Although I can't be sure, I've made some general deductions through various channels, which I'll share with you for reference."
"Besides resource boxes, monsters encountered day and night, and various unexpected dungeons, survival road games also feature various natural disasters, such as extreme heat disasters, extreme cold disasters, dense fog disasters, and acid rain disasters..."
Yu Qi learned all of this from her assistant, Lao Liu, who was even more of a chatterbox than 2333, having basically asked about every possible disaster.
The other things not mentioned are either unknown to the assistant or not recorded.
As soon as Yu Qi posted these messages, the players in the chat hall were filled with panic. They wondered if there were really so many disasters. Was this road survival game really going to kill them all?
Hunting Moment: "But what Half a Cup of Time said is also true. Although there will be a lot of deaths and injuries in this game, it will also leave us a glimmer of hope. The most important thing right now is to upgrade the vehicle level."
"The upgraded vehicle has reinforced tires and glass, so it can definitely withstand various high and low temperatures. In addition, there is a device called a temperature-controlled core, which can be installed inside the vehicle to maintain a constant temperature..."
"I haven't opened it yet, but it's definitely not far off. Perhaps soon you'll need the Mysterious Merchant and Mysterious Shop, and you can buy them there..."
After this explanation, the players all breathed a sigh of relief.
Looks like I need to upgrade my vehicle level quickly!
Many people expressed their gratitude in the chat group.
"Thanks for the reminder, Hunter Master. Otherwise, I wouldn't know what I was about to face."
"My heart has finally died of worry. There really was an extreme heat disaster, monsters, natural disasters, and all sorts of strange dungeons. It was really deadly! But I still want to say thank you for the reminder, Hunter Master!"
"I have air conditioner blueprints here. Players with a crafting table can cooperate with me so we can produce as many air conditioners as possible and sell them!"
Not long after, the player who had the air conditioner blueprints came to find them.
Flash-in-the-Hand: "Hey boss, I saw you were buying up workbenches before, but then you stopped. Did you get the workbenches? Perfect timing, we can team up and sell those air conditioners!"
Soon after, Flash sent a detailed description of an air conditioner manufacturing blueprint.
This air conditioner manufacturing blueprint can produce up to one hundred air conditioners, which are small vehicle air conditioners.
The required basic materials include 10 x universal metal, 10 x electronic components, 5 x refrigerant, and 5 x batteries...
There aren't many materials; the electrical components and refrigerants are not very common, and there aren't that many batteries that people have developed so far.
Hunting Moment: "How would you like to cooperate?"
Flash-into-the-enemy-kills: "Boss, you hand over the workbench to me, let's prepare the materials together. You're super busy every day, you definitely don't have time for all the operations, I'll manage it, how about we split it 70/30?"
Yu Qi tapped her fingers, looked at the private chat, and smiled.
This person who flashed to give away a kill seemed to be thinking of others in every way, but in reality, they immediately asked her to teleport the workbench over, and didn't mention how to prepare the materials or how many materials each person would get!
What a joke! Her "Hunting Moment" sign is right here; does she need to manage it? Just put her items up for sale in the trading shop, and plenty of people will buy them!
However, this guy suddenly appeared and asked for her workbench, offering 70% of it! He's trying to fool an idiot!
Hunting Moment: "I'm not going to make this deal. You should find someone else."
Yu Qi currently has a built-in constant temperature system in its advanced central control core, so there's no need to rush about air conditioning.
Even if she has the blueprints, she plans to prepare them herself and will not collaborate with others.
Even if they are really too busy to handle it all, they would find someone to do the manufacturing for them, not someone who does business with them regularly.
Yu Qi immediately closed the private chat and ignored the person.
She has collected enough resource boxes and is ready to open them!
Hopefully, her warning will help everyone quickly raise their reputation to 5,000 and get a silver resource box, allowing them to catch up with the time when the box-opening maniac is at his peak!