Evolving Transportation Methods

Under normal circumstances, when Beast Hunters caught a massive prey out in the wild, there was no way to take it all back—they could only carry off what they could manage.

But with modern technology, that approach had long been obsolete.

If you caught a huge prey, as long as you were willing to pay a certain fee, there were plenty of ways to haul it all away.

Lin Li stirred his thoughts, retrieved his backpack from the Mysterious Small Island, pulled open the zipper, and took out his phone.

He unlocked the screen and tapped open an app called "You Speed Recycling."

"You Speed Recycling" was a logistics company that specialized in serving Beast Hunters, with operations spanning cities across the country.

When a Beast Hunter killed a beast out in the wild, they could use the company's app to summon an Unmanned Transport Aircraft to the scene.

At that point, all you had to do was place the beast you'd hunted onto the Unmanned Transport Aircraft.

After that, the Unmanned Transport Aircraft would safely deliver your hunted beast to the massive cold-storage warehouses within the city.

Then, "You Speed Recycling" would even help Beast Hunters sell the Exotic Beast Meat—a truly thoughtful one-stop service.

After opening the app, Lin Li pinpointed his location and placed an order for a small Unmanned Transport Aircraft.

Strange—Lin Li only had thirty bucks left on him. Where was he getting the money to summon an Unmanned Transport Aircraft?

After all, summoning a small Unmanned Transport Aircraft from "You Speed Recycling" cost three hundred bucks per unit. With the few dozen dollars Lin Li had on hand, he definitely couldn't afford it.

Well... actually, the reason Lin Li could afford the Unmanned Transport Aircraft service now was that "You Speed Recycling" Logistics supported a pay-after-service model.

They would wait until they'd collected the beast the customer had hunted, helped the customer sell it, and then automatically deduct the summoning fee for the Unmanned Transport Aircraft from the sale proceeds.

At around 1:20 in the afternoon, the sun was at its harshest. The temperature on the wilderness had climbed, breaking past thirty degrees.

"Cicada, cicada..."

The hotter it got, the fiercer the sun blazed, the more excited the cicadas became, chirping all the more cheerfully.

After placing his order, Lin Li saw a notification on the app's backend confirming that his order had been received and that an Unmanned Transport Aircraft was being dispatched to his location, estimated to arrive in about fifteen minutes.

Fifteen minutes until the Unmanned Transport Aircraft arrived—pretty fast, huh... Lin Li muttered to himself, then locked his phone and slipped it into his pocket.

"Tch..."

The movement tugged at Lin Li's injured spot, making him suck in a sharp breath of cold air.

He'd been locked in a fierce fight with that Boar Beast earlier, and it had rammed him with its rump, sending him crashing hard to the ground.

Though it hadn't caused a serious injury, his left palm had hit the ground first, and a small stone on the dirt had sliced a five-centimeter gash across it.

The tense battle had left no room to mind the pain in his hand, but now that the fight was over, a sharp, searing ache consumed all of Lin Li's attention.

In all his years, this was the first time he'd suffered such a "severe" wound. Fortunately, the cut wasn't deep—blood was seeping out, but it wasn't a nonstop gush.

He pulled out the medical supplies he'd prepared from his backpack: medical alcohol, medical gauze, medical cotton swabs, and that tube of Healing Ointment he'd spent three thousand bucks on—only thirty grams in it.

"Ah..."

He used the medical alcohol to clean the wound on his left hand. Under the sting of the alcohol, Lin Li, who had never experienced this kind of pain before, couldn't help letting out a low, pained cry.

"I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die—my god, why does this hurt so much..."

Even though Lin Li had been as gentle as possible while treating his wound with the medical alcohol, the pain didn't care about how lightly he applied it.

Gritting his teeth, he worked on tending to his wound, fine beads of sweat breaking out on his forehead.

After finally disinfecting his wound, Lin Li let out a relieved breath, his body relaxing a little for the moment.

"Phew... treating this wound is way harder than fighting that Boar Beast earlier!

Next up, I need to apply the ointment. I hope this stuff doesn't hit me with a shock like the medical alcohol did."

A bit afraid of pain, Lin Li picked up the ointment he'd spent three thousand bucks on, hesitation flickering across his face. The agony from cleaning the wound with alcohol still lingered in his memory.

After a few seconds of hesitation, he saw the long gash on his hand starting to ooze blood again. He bit his teeth, twisted off the cap.

First, he gave it a sniff. The ointment had a herbal fragrance—very fresh, not a harsh smell at all.

He squeezed out a little and dabbed it onto the wound on his palm.

As the white ointment touched the cut on his hand, a cool, soothing sensation made Lin Li let out an involuntary moan.

"Mmm~"

"It doesn't hurt at all—feels great!"

Knowing the ointment wouldn't bring him any piercing pain, Lin Li squeezed out more and spread it over his wound, then used a medical cotton swab to gently and evenly apply it.

In no time, the bleeding gash was coated evenly with white ointment.

"Just like that pretty shop assistant said, this ointment's hemostatic effect is really good. No wonder it's so popular among Cultivators—if only it were a bit cheaper."

Lin Li looked at the long wound on his left hand; after applying the white ointment, the bleeding stopped immediately. He figured the three thousand bucks he'd spent was worth it.

Then, Lin Li wrapped his left hand, now coated with ointment, in medical gauze and tied it off with a tight knot. His simple self-treatment was complete.

Now, all he had to do was wait for the Unmanned Transport Aircraft he'd called to arrive.

"You Speed Recycling"'s Unmanned Transport Aircraft didn't keep Lin Li waiting long—it arrived a little over two minutes earlier than the time shown on the app.

A circular eight-winged Unmanned Transport Aircraft, five meters in diameter, appeared on the horizon and flew swiftly toward Lin Li's coordinates.

This Blue Star's unmanned transport tech is way more advanced than Earth's, Lin Li muttered inwardly as he looked up at the small drone speeding toward his location.

"Whoosh..."

A downsized shipping container hung beneath the circular eight-winged Unmanned Transport Aircraft.

It flew directly above Lin Li, its camera scanning the ground below before slowly descending toward the Boar Beast's corpse.

"Thud."

The downsized container landed steadily on the grass. The hovering Unmanned Transport Aircraft, sensing the container had touched down, stopped its descent.

It remained suspended in midair, waiting for the client to load the prey into the container.