"I'm taking this one first!"
Without a word, Li Ye took the Instant Cup Noodles Blueprint.
Seeing him smile as he tucked the blueprint into his robes, Li Jin and Lei Jian couldn't help letting out simultaneous sighs of lament.
"This kid's eye for things is really sharp!"
The three of them then turned their attention to the Level 2 Item.
Item Name—Goblin Gold Medalist's Baseball Bat Item Level: Level 2 Additional Effect: Stuns the target for 3 seconds upon hitting them.
The three of them looked at the Level 2 Item with complicated expressions.
For lone wolves and bounty hunters, this was a powerful field combat weapon. But for an entity as massive as a Mobile City, its effect was negligible.
The Level 2 Item dropped by the Wild BOSS clearly had both good and bad points. Unfortunately, their luck wasn't very good this time.
After a round of bidding, Lei Jian ultimately won the Level 2 Item for 2,000 Crystal Coins.
He was willing to bid because he wanted to fulfill his dream of owning a Level 2 Item.
The three remaining items were also put up for auction.
Li Ye bought the Foreman's Universal Wrench, while Lei Jian bought the Foreman's Vest and Goblin Water Canteen.
The auction proceeds, along with the Crystal Coins, coal, and other spoils dropped by the BOSS, were divided equally among the three.
All three parties were fairly satisfied with this result.
As a lord, Lei Jian liked collecting Level 1 Items with all kinds of miraculous functions, especially combat-type items. In his words, going out into the wilderness to fight monsters while fully equipped with Level 1 Items was an incredibly satisfying feeling. This Level 2 weapon was quite good for him.
As for the travel canteen, he couldn't bear to part with the miraculous item and declared that he absolutely wouldn't sell it.
As for Li Ye, there was even less need to explain. On the surface, he seemed to have gotten the short end of the deal, but in reality, he was quietly making a fortune. As long as he collected enough resources, he would be able to advance to a Level 2 City.
The Foreman's Wrench was naturally left for Lin Wu.
After dividing up the spoils, the three parties returned their hostages to one another.
"I don't think we'll need to exchange hostages next time we work together," Lei Jian said sincerely.
Li Ye nodded.
"Yeah."
After these two collaborations, the three parties had gradually built up trust in one another. On this wasteland, where order had collapsed and human hearts were impossible to fathom, that was something exceedingly precious.
Li Jin then gave the other two a hearty hug.
After suffering that defeat, Azure had been in a somewhat difficult position. But after these two collaborations, it had gradually begun to recover.
The spoils weren't the only gains. This Gross Mine still contained quite a lot of remaining mineral resources. After clearing out the remaining Goblins, the three parties divided the mining areas among themselves.
Li Ye briefly counted the manpower currently available to him.
This time, no one from Tomorrow had died, but fifteen people had been injured. Including those who had yet to recover from their previous injuries, the total number of casualties had reached twenty-two.
That was equivalent to half of Tomorrow's current manpower.
The monsters on the wasteland were simply too tough. Even the Goblins were no exception.
If Tomorrow had been alone, it would have had no chance of taking the Gross Mine.
By comparison, Conqueror had slaves, so it had an astonishing seventy-nine people. Although Azure had no slaves, it still had sixty-two people.
While chatting with Lei Jian, Li Ye learned by chance that newcomers who boarded Conqueror became slaves, but after working for a certain period, they could become ordinary residents.
Although being a slave was hard, at least there was a path to advancement, giving people a sliver of hope.
In the time that followed, Li Ye arrived at the storage room of the Gross Mine.
What he hadn't expected was that besides the City Advancement Blueprint, the storage room also contained precious ores stored by the Goblins.
320 units of Copper Ore, 164 units of Silver Ore, and 75 units of Gold Ore.
That was already equivalent to more than 10,000 Crystal Coins.
He hurriedly called people over to transport the minerals back to Tomorrow and arranged the mining personnel.
Apart from Tang Fang, who remained on standby in the cockpit, and the lookouts stationed at the Watchtower, everyone else entered the mine to work.
Li Ye, meanwhile, returned to his room and slowly opened the City Advancement Blueprint.
Advancing a Level 1 Mobile City requires the following Level 1 resources: Iron Ore: 2,000 units Timber: 2,000 units Fuel: 2,000 units Saltpeter: 2,000 units City Alloy: 1,000 units City Structure Blueprint: 1 City Crystal: 1
"These requirements are way too harsh!"
Li Ye couldn't help staring in astonishment.
Iron Ore, timber, fuel, and Saltpeter were all Level 1 resources, so they could still be obtained by living frugally for a few weeks.
As for City Alloy, producing one unit required one unit of Iron Ore, one unit of Copper Ore, and one unit of any Rare Ore Vein.
Shadow, Thunder, Radiant, Frost, and Wind-Eroded ores could all be used as substitutes.
But the quantity of 1,000 units was simply absurd. That was already enough to forge three Frost Cannons.
As for the City Structure Blueprint, it was a resource that only monsters of Elite rank or above had a chance of dropping, and even then, the drop rate was extremely low.
When Li Ye had been at Roland Fortress, he had once heard a bounty hunter say that a fortress had auctioned off a City Structure Blueprint. It had sold for 57,000 Crystal Coins.
City Crystals, meanwhile, were even more valuable and impossible to buy.
The amount that could be produced in the entire region could be counted on one hand.
"Let's take it slowly." He wiped the sweat from his forehead. "Although it's difficult, at least there's something to look forward to."
In the time that followed, he began doing one thing.
Searching the Goblins' corpses.
At that moment, Goblin corpses were scattered all over the Gross Mine.
The three lords divided up the area and searched the Goblin corpses in their respective territories.
To Mobile Cities, monster corpses counted as a kind of resource as well.
They could drop Crystal Coins, Cloth, Iron Ore, and other resources. Occasionally, they would drop finished weapons, equipment, and blueprints.
Li Ye began searching the Goblins' corpses.
This time, he was unexpectedly patient. After all, every search was like drawing a lottery.
However, the Goblins seemed to be as poor as the Zombies. What usually dropped from their corpses was Cloth and Crystal Coins. If he was lucky, he might get one or two units of Iron Ore. The Elite Goblins dropped slightly better loot, such as ordinary finished knives, firearms, furniture, and the like.
Just as Li Ye was sighing repeatedly, he accidentally found something on an Elite Goblin.
Green Source Poultry Feed—Blueprint Item Name: Green Source Poultry Feed Item Level: Level 1 Additional Effects: 1. Increases the growth rate of fed poultry and livestock by 10%. 2. Reduces the chance of poultry becoming ill by 20%. Required to Craft: 1 unit of grain Note: The higher the level of the grain used, the better the effect.
"Level 1 poultry feed?" Li Ye's eyes immediately lit up.
This was indeed an excellent haul. Tomorrow already raised several pairs of chickens and ducks, and it had planted Morning Light Wheat as well.
Once the Morning Light Wheat matured, he could set aside a portion of it to make feed for the chickens and ducks.
Li Jin and Lei Jian had average harvests from the Goblin corpses. At most, they had picked up several ordinary item blueprints, all of them for furniture and daily necessities.
When they learned that Li Ye had found such a good item, the two of them immediately grew envious.
Azure and Conqueror also cultivated Morning Light Wheat, and they had just harvested a batch recently. Thus, the two of them asked Li Ye to process some of it into Green Source Poultry Feed.
Li Ye took the opportunity to fleece them a little, taking some of the feed for himself.
He casually grabbed a handful of feed and examined it closely.
The Level 1 feed had a smooth, uniform surface and moderate hardness. It even gave off a faint fragrance.
The more Li Ye looked at it, the more sincerely he nodded.
With this Level 1 feed, the poultry raised aboard Tomorrow would grow much faster. Before long, they would have a steady supply of meat and eggs.
"This harvest wasn't bad." Looking at the list in his hands, Li Ye sighed sincerely.
This time, he had mined a total of 1,021 units of Iron Ore, 103 units of Copper Ore, 33 units of Silver Ore, and 15 units of Gold Ore from the Gross Mine.
As for the Frost Ore he had been longing for, none had been produced.
Including the more than 500 units of Iron Ore he had received from the Wild BOSS distribution and the more than 100 units dropped by the Goblin corpses, he had gained more than 1,700 units of Iron Ore in total this time.
The drops from the Goblin corpses had also been tallied. Overall, most of the drops had been Crystal Coins and Cloth, with occasional ordinary weapons, furniture, and daily necessities.
The greatest gain was undoubtedly the Level 1 feed blueprint.
At this point, Azure and Conqueror had nearly finished mining as well. The three Mobile Cities set out together to return to Roland Fortress, preparing for their routine rest and the processing of their spoils.
On the deck, Li Ye opened the Intelligence System.
During the days they had spent attacking the Gross Mine, the Epic Intelligence Report had refreshed, and even its cooldown had finished.
Time until the next intelligence refresh: 1 day 19 hours 59 minutes 59 seconds Number of intelligence reports: 5
"This intelligence refresh lasted a full two days, so its value probably won't be low either." Li Ye pondered. "Forget that for now. Let's see what the Epic Intelligence Report says first."
What surprised him was that this Epic Intelligence was exceptionally unusual.
5. The Wasteland Zone map has been fully drawn. (Intelligence Value: Epic) Click here to view
"Intelligence can actually be displayed in the form of a map?" Li Ye exclaimed.
With a dubious look, he clicked it, and a map immediately appeared before him.
According to the map, the southern part of the Wasteland Zone contained regions such as Fire Feather Forest, Thunder Canyon, and the Rotting Lands. This was where Li Ye and the others were currently located.
The central region was occupied by a vast expanse of City Ruins, along with a Giant Forest.
The eastern region contained a Mobile Maze of astonishing scale.
The western region consisted of continuous mountain ranges.
As for the northern region, it contained a large Freshwater Lake called "Serene Lake."
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