[Obtained: Mutant Wild Boar Meat x10.] [Description: Restores a large amount of stamina when eaten. Each of the first three pieces consumed also increases your physique stat by 0.5.] [Obtained: Gale Leather Boots (Tier 1).] [Description: Agility +1 when worn. Slightly increases movement speed.]
Su Ye's eyes lit up.
He hadn't expected the boar to actually drop equipment.
This must be one of the primitive monsters Brother Zhou mentioned, Su Ye thought.
Zhou Chang had told him earlier that the monsters in this Road Survival Game fell into two categories.
One was civilization monsters-civilizations like the humans of Blue Star that had been transformed into monsters after failing the previous round of survival.
The other was the Survival Game's native primitive monsters, such as the Mutant Wild Boar before him.
Civilization monsters had extremely low drop rates because those monsters, transformed from living beings, could manually adjust their own drop rates.
Primitive monsters were different. Their drop rates were set by the game's underlying rules.
Once killed, they would drop items according to those probabilities. With enough luck, they might even drop several good things.
Su Ye immediately put the Mutant Wild Boar meat into his storage ring, then changed straight into the Gale Leather Boots.
The moment he put them on, Su Ye felt a warm current flow into his legs. He tried running a lap and found that his body really did feel much lighter, with his speed increasing by nearly half.
Of course, this was also because Su Ye's current starting stats were so low, making that single point of agility especially noticeable.
Su Ye nodded in satisfaction, then turned an eager gaze toward the faintly glowing Supply Crate the boar had been guarding so fiercely.
He wondered what good things he would find inside.
Su Ye strode forward and flipped open the Supply Crate's lid.
[Congratulations on opening a Tier 1 Supply Chest.] [Obtained: Energy-Saving Module.] [Description: This module can be added when upgrading a vehicle, increasing its fuel efficiency by 20%.]
Su Ye's eyes lit up again as he looked at what he had received.
"I actually got a top-tier drop!"
In this Road Survival Game, where danger lurked everywhere, a player's vehicle was their lifeline.
And the energy that kept a vehicle running was fuel.
His pickup truck was still in its initial level-one state. If he wanted to upgrade it, collecting the basic materials wouldn't actually be difficult.
But the reason Su Ye had held off on upgrading all this time was that he had been waiting for a module.
Now, at last, he had one.
What did a 20% increase in fuel efficiency mean?
It meant that where one unit of fuel had previously taken him only ten kilometers, it could take him twelve kilometers once this module was integrated.
In this apocalyptic world, where fuel was more precious than water, those extra two kilometers were incredibly valuable.
"Nice, very nice. A fuel-saving module, too. This definitely counts as striking gold."
Su Ye stowed the Energy-Saving Module away. At last, he could get ready to upgrade his vehicle.
Before upgrading his vehicle, though, he had to sell the hand crossbows he had crafted.
After all, aside from the pork he had just obtained, he had very few basic resources on hand-not nearly enough to trade for the materials needed to upgrade his vehicle.
Su Ye immediately turned around, returned to his truck, and shut the door.
He opened the chat interface and first found Mo Yu on his list.
As previously agreed, Su Ye sent a Simple Double-Shot Hand Crossbow and fifty crossbow bolts directly to Mo Yu through a private trade.
Mo Yu's messages soon came pouring in like machine-gun fire.
"Holy shit, thanks, Cousin!"
"Cousin, you're awesome! Long live Cousin!"
"This feel, this craftsmanship-with this thing, I'm definitely killing a couple of lone monsters today."
"Don't worry, Cousin. From now on, whenever I find anything good in a chest or get my hands on a rare blueprint, you'll be the first to know."
Su Ye smiled at the screen without saying much.
Then he opened the regional trading interface and listed one hand crossbow and ten bolts as display items, setting an extremely high display price of 9,999 units of fuel to prevent anyone from instantly buying them.
Next, Su Ye opened the chat channel, typed a message, and sent it.
[Never Checks the Fuel Gauge]: The server's first deadly ranged weapon, the "Simple Double-Shot Hand Crossbow," is now on display. Get one before they're gone. Bulk orders available. If you're interested, come with a serious offer and supplies, and message me privately for a price. No beggars.
After he sent that message, the chat channel, which had been as noisy as a marketplace, fell eerily silent for ten seconds.
Ten seconds later, the entire chat channel exploded!
"Am I seeing things? It's the Fuel Gauge boss!"
"You're incredible, boss! Everyone else is beating monsters with sticks and stones, and you've already made a hand crossbow?"
"Holy crap, I just checked the trading channel. That Hand Crossbow can fire two shots in succession and has an effective range of thirty meters. It's practically a god-tier weapon at this stage!"
"Fuel Gauge boss, please carry me! Give me a hand crossbow and I'll do anything. I can warm your bed and call you Daddy."
"Boss, we're all survivors. Since you're so capable, shouldn't you help everyone stay alive together? Plenty of people can't even get enough to eat right now. Why don't you give us the Hand Crossbows for free?"
"Get lost, you self-righteous prick above me. Boss, ignore him. Can I trade three pieces of moldy bread for one Hand Crossbow?"
"You might as well ask for it for free. Three pieces of bread, and they're moldy? Isn't that an insult to the boss?"
Messages flooded the screen as every kind of clown crawled out of the woodwork.
Su Ye simply closed the chat channel, not bothering with those players who were trying to guilt-trip him or dreaming of handouts.
By now, his private-message interface was flashing so furiously it seemed about to crash, and the unread message count in the upper-right corner simply read "999+."
Su Ye patiently browsed through some of the private messages.
Most people wanted something for nothing, or were trying to snag a bargain with worthless garbage, such as torn socks or half a bottle of urine.
Among the mountain of junk messages, however, there were also people genuinely asking about the price.
Without exception, though, they all haggled relentlessly, trying to obtain this life-saving weapon with as few resources as possible.
Just as Su Ye was about to send everyone the same minimum price, a message from a player named [Ling Yue] caught his attention.
[Ling Yue]: "How many hand crossbows do you have? I'll take them all. I can trade whenever you're ready."
Su Ye raised an eyebrow.
That confident?
Here was someone who didn't haggle at all-and who was so extravagant that he wanted to buy every hand crossbow Su Ye had.
At this stage, everyone was fighting desperately for a sip of water. Where had a single player gotten such an enormous stockpile of resources?
Su Ye didn't rush to reply. Instead, he switched back to his chat with Mo Yu.
"Do you know a player named Ling Yue?" Su Ye asked in a message.
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