Special buildings!

"Not quite."

The man in charge shook his head and explained, "The workbench is mainly used to craft weapons and equipment and combine certain materials. It can also make some medical items, but it can't produce things like potions and medicinal pills."

"Those are made in a special building called the Pharmacy. There are plenty of special buildings like that in the game. For example, resting in a Spirit-Nourishing Room speeds up mental recovery and can even increase your Mental Power."

"A Kitchen can cook food with special effects, a research institute can reverse-engineer blueprints to lower crafting requirements, and a Cultivation Room can grow rare natural treasures..."

"There are countless types of special buildings. Players can use some of them directly, while others require recruiting NPC specialists in the relevant fields before they can operate..."

Su Ye looked surprised as he listened.

He had originally thought the Road Survival Game was simply about driving, killing monsters, and leveling up. He hadn't expected it to have so many different ways to play.

"Then how do you get these special buildings?"

Su Ye asked curiously. If he could get his hands on these special buildings first, he could continue monopolizing resources.

"There are quite a few ways. The most straightforward is to get your vehicle to level ten. Once it reaches level ten, you can choose one of three randomly generated buildings."

"If you don't like any of the three, you can spend Survival Coins to refresh the selection, but the cost increases with each refresh."

"This is the only guaranteed opportunity every player has to obtain a special building. Further level increases won't give you another one."

"You can also visit special service areas and ask the game's NPCs to construct buildings for you, but the prices are extremely high. That's not worth considering at this stage."

"Aside from that, you can enter certain dungeons and secret realms. Clearing high-difficulty dungeons gives you a chance of obtaining a special building."

"..."

Su Ye nodded. It seemed he had no chance of obtaining a special building for now.

The game had only just entered its second day, and dungeons and secret realms weren't available during the beginner period.

As for asking NPCs at a service area to construct one, he didn't have a single Survival Coin. He was flat broke.

After weighing his options, leveling his vehicle up to ten was the simplest and most feasible approach.

"Comrade Su Ye, it's still a little early for you to worry about these things. There's no rush."

The man looked at Su Ye and said, "Let's talk about your situation first. Tell me what you need so I can report back and have the higher-ups make arrangements for you."

Su Ye nodded, then began explaining his situation.

There hadn't been any major changes. He had simply eaten some mutant meat and raised his stats a little more.

His biggest gain was another Simple Bandage blueprint. He could now mass-produce Simple Bandages and trade them for more resources.

"As for what I need, I could use some more Storage Rings. I'm going to be trading in bulk, so I can never have enough space."

"I also need vehicle function modules and equipment that directly increases stats."

"I can get everything else through trading myself," Su Ye said. "There's nothing else I urgently need for now."

"All right, I've recorded everything. I'll report to the higher-ups as soon as I get back."

"You'll meet another group of our people before the end of today. They'll bring you what you need. With that settled, we'll head back."

The man gave Su Ye a military salute, then exchanged a meaningful glance with the other two.

The next second, all three raised their weapons and began attacking one another.

Blood instantly stained the ground red, and their health bars soon bottomed out.

This wasn't Su Ye's first time experiencing this, and he no longer felt uncomfortable. With a flash of his blade, all three fell to the ground, dropping three items.

"Pretty decent luck."

Su Ye examined the loot.

Only the man in charge had dropped a ten-cubic-meter Storage Ring. The other Storage Ring hadn't dropped; instead, there were fifty units of fuel.

Fortunately, the Herbal Pill had dropped without a hitch.

[Herbal Pill]: Tier 1. Quickly stops bleeding when taken and also has some healing effect on internal injuries.

Su Ye immediately fused the newly acquired Storage Ring with his original one.

Light flashed, and after the fusion, the Storage Ring in Su Ye's hand had reached a capacity of forty cubic meters.

He then found a glass bottle for the Herbal Pill, which gave off a faint medicinal fragrance, and put it into his Storage Ring.

This was something that could save his life.

Once he finished, Su Ye returned to his vehicle and opened the trading interface for another look. All 190 Hand Crossbows he had listed earlier had sold.

All sorts of mutant beast meat were waiting for him to collect.

Su Ye looked through the Mutant Beast meat and found that he had already eaten most varieties and reached their limits.

These included the most common kinds: mutant wild boar meat, Mutant Beef, and Mutant Snake Meat.

Aside from filling his stomach and restoring stamina or Mental Power, these meats could no longer increase his stats.

Still, there were a few kinds of mutant meat he hadn't eaten before.

First was mutant rat meat. Each piece increased his Mental Attribute by only 0.2, and there were six pieces in total.

There were thirteen pieces of mutant goose meat, each of which increased physique by 0.5.

Next was one piece of mutant tiger meat, which increased physique by 0.5.

Finally, there were twenty-three pieces of mutant pheasant meat, each of which increased his Mental Attribute by 0.4.

Su Ye did the math. After eating and digesting all this meat, he could gain a total of 1.8 Mental Attribute and 2 points of physique.

"Not bad. My physique is currently 5.9, and my spirit is 6.6."

"I'm just 0.1 physique short of getting both stats past eight."

Without hesitation, Su Ye took out all the Mutated Meat Chunks that could increase his stats.

He started eating as he walked toward the driver's seat. Fortunately, all the mutant meat had already been roasted.

After he finished all the mutant meat, Su Ye's stats rose again.

[Player]: Su Ye

[Nickname]: Never Checks the Fuel Gauge

[Race]: humanity

[Status]: healthy

[Tier]: 0

[Physique]: 7.9 (base 6.9 + vest 1)

[Spirit]: 8.4 (base 6.4 + necklace 1 + headscarf 1)

[Talent]: unawakened

"My base stats are both past six now. I only need a little over three more points in each to get them both to ten. Then I can reach Tier 1."

Su Ye nodded in satisfaction. Once he reached Tier 1 and obtained a Talent Awakening Potion, he could grow stronger again.

"Time to get back on the road. More of my folks are still waiting to deliver things to me." Su Ye closed the interface, started the vehicle, and drove away.

Another hour later, Su Ye met the day's final group of delivery people. There were four of them in total, and their possible drops included three Storage Rings and a function module.

Unfortunately, the function module didn't drop, but Su Ye wasn't disappointed. Ten Universal Bullets had dropped instead, bringing his supply of ammunition for the Desert Eagle to seventeen rounds.

All three Storage Rings dropped. After Su Ye fused them, his Storage Ring's capacity reached seventy cubic meters.