pjbooks Chapter 5: Obtaining Resource Blind Boxes!
Chapter 5: Obtaining Resource Blind Boxes!
Those who can reach this position at this stage are either cheaters like Cao Shuang with "unlimited fuel", or lucky ones with excellent vehicle performance and relatively abundant fuel.
Even they, upon seeing the Wuling Hongguang speeding along without showing any signs of slowing down, all turned their heads in surprise and uncertainty.
"That guy driving the Wuling... he's a monster! Driving like that, does he think gas is free?"
"He's probably gone mad, or he has some kind of backing."
"What kind of reliance does it have? It's just a beat-up F-class car. What kind of reliance can it have? I think it knows it won't live much longer and is just going crazy one last time."
"Stay away from him, he's a lunatic, don't let him hit you."
Cao Shuang ignored these discussions.
He drove with complete concentration, feeling every tremor and unusual noise from his old buddy under its limits, silently assessing its condition.
The vehicle's defenses are too poor, its structure is aging, and prolonged extreme driving causes significant wear and tear. We must find a way to strengthen the vehicle or develop a safer vehicle as soon as possible.
Time passed amidst the roar of the engine and the howling of the wind. After the initial tension and fear subsided slightly, Chu Yao gradually adapted to the feeling of high-speed travel.
She stole a glance at Cao Shuang, who was focused on driving. The man had a well-defined profile and sharp eyes. Although he was driving a beat-up car, his calmness and decisiveness gave people a strange sense of security.
More than two hours passed in silence and at high speed. Cao Shuang glanced at the car's odometer; they had probably driven close to 300 kilometers.
According to the announcement, the distribution of resource blind boxes should be around this area.
Sure enough, after driving for a few more minutes, a sudden white spot came into view on the right side of the seemingly empty road ahead.
It was a square, white box, about the size of a microwave oven, standing quietly in the gray area at the edge of the road. There were no markings on it, only a simple, slightly metallic white.
Resource blind boxes!
Cao Shuang perked up, immediately slowed down, and brought the Wuling Hongguang to a steady stop next to the white box.
"Stay in the car and lock the doors."
Cao Shuang gave Chu Yao some instructions, then got out of the car and quickly walked towards the white box.
He tried to touch the box, but it didn't budge or give any indication.
He tried to move it again, but the box seemed to be rooted to the spot, incredibly heavy, and he couldn't budge it an inch with his strength.
What's going on? I can't pick it up?
Cao Shuang frowned, suddenly remembering the game rules—"Women will start with random resources." Could it be…?
He turned back to the car and knocked on the window. Chu Yao lowered the window, puzzled.
"Come down and try to touch that box." Cao Shuang pointed to the white blind box.
Although Chu Yao was puzzled, she still obediently got out of the car and carefully reached out to the white box. Just as her fingertips touched the cold surface of the box...
"Whoosh!"
The white box instantly transformed into a streak of light and disappeared into Chu Yao's body... no, to be precise, it disappeared into a very faint, almost invisible silver bracelet that had appeared on her wrist at some unknown time.
At the same time, a notification sounded in Cao Shuang's and Chu Yao's minds:
[Received: Common Resource Blind Box (White) x1. The item has been stored in the vehicle's temporary storage space and can be retrieved at will... (The item cannot be put back into the storage space after being retrieved)]
"I see!" Cao Shuang instantly understood; only female players could collect these spawned resources!
This makes sense; otherwise, if women who initially possess resources were abandoned or their value exploited, they would almost certainly face certain death, especially if only men owned the vehicles.
This rule forcibly binds the interests of male and female players together to some extent. To obtain resources that spawn along the way, players must bring women along, or at least cooperate with female players.
This also, to some extent, curbed the extreme and malicious behavior that male players might have engaged in towards female players in the early stages (of course, the effect was limited).
The supplies were placed in the vehicle's temporary storage space!
"I...I think I can sense a very small space, and this box is inside."
Chu Yao looked at her wrist in surprise, then at Cao Shuang, her eyes brightening.
Cao Shuang nodded, deciding to let Chu Yao pick it up.
Next comes the frantic rush to grab boxes, where speed and efficiency are paramount.
Cao Shuang discovered that the boxes were also different...
He then discovered three types of boxes.
The most common boxes are white, followed by excellent green boxes, and then rare blue boxes.
After driving and stopping, picking up and driving again, when the vehicle's odometer showed that it had traveled nearly 300 kilometers from the starting point, Cao Shuang felt that the vehicle was nearing its limit and urgently needed rest and possible reinforcement. So he decided to temporarily stop this sweeping picking.
After parking the car in a relatively open area with a good view, Cao Shuang looked at Chu Yao and said, "Let's see how many boxes we picked up."
Chu Yao nodded, closed her eyes to sense the numbers, and then reported a number that made Cao Shuang gasp slightly:
"There are about 175 white ones, 20 green ones, and 5 blue ones. That's a total of 200."
200 resource blind boxes! Among them are 5 rare blue-quality items!
This is an absolutely astonishing initial fortune! And this is entirely due to his unlimited energy, which grants him unbridled high mobility and sweeping capabilities!
Those cautious and resource-saving players simply couldn't have found so many boxes in such a short time and over such a large area, especially the sparsely distributed white and green boxes.
Cao Shuang finally revealed the first truly joyful and ambitious smile of the day on his face.
He glanced in the rearview mirror; in the distance, on the horizon, that ominous gray fog seemed to be slowly creeping away beyond the distant horizon.
On his Wuling Hongguang watch, the energy indicator remained steadily at full, emitting a faint blue light.
"Unboxing!"
With Cao Shuang's command.
Swish!Swish!Swish!
Beams of white light flashed in the narrow carriage, and with each flash, an item appeared in the passenger seat and the back of the carriage.
Almost all of them are the most standard configurations:
Three servings of self-heating rice in simple vacuum packaging (flavors are random), plus three 500ml bottles of purified water, and occasionally a packet of compressed biscuits or a can of meat as a variation.
The white box can provide enough food for one person for about three days, provided they eat sparingly.
In the apocalypse, it's impossible to guarantee three meals a day!
The 175 white boxes meant more than 500 days' worth of food and water. Cao Shuang naturally couldn't open them all, given the limited space, so he only opened a portion.
However, the rear of the carriage, which was originally only 8 cubic meters and empty, was immediately occupied by a small portion of it.
"Continue, keep it green."
Cao Shuang's voice remained calm, but his eyes gleamed slightly. These white supplies were the foundation of survival, plentiful and filling, but of limited value.