âI still have to choose this first!â
Li Ye didnât hesitate and grabbed the instant cup noodles blueprint outright.
Seeing him smile and tuck the blueprint into his chest, Li Jin and Lei Jian couldnât help but sigh simultaneously in their hearts.
âThis kidâs taste is really sharp!â
Next, the three looked at that Tierâ2 item.
ăItem Name â Goblin AllâStar Baseball Bată
ăItem Level: Tierâ2ă
ăBonus Effect: Stuns the target for 3 seconds on hit.ă
All three looked at this Tierâ2 item with complex expressions.
For lone wolves and bounty hunters, this was a powerful singleâsoldier weapon in the wilderness. But for an entity the size of a Mobile City, its effect was negligible.
This Tierâ2 item dropped by the Wasteland BOSS clearly had pros and cons, and today everyoneâs luck wasnât great.
After a round of bidding, Lei Jian eventually won the Tierâ2 item for 2000 Crystal Coins.
He was willing to bid because he wanted to fulfill his dream of owning a Tierâ2 item.
The remaining three items were also auctioned off by the three.
Li Ye won the Foremanâs Universal Wrench, while Lei Jian got the Foremanâs Vest and Goblin Water Bottle.
The auction funds and the BOSS drop lootâCrystal Coins, coal, etc.âwere divided equally among the three.
All three parties were quite satisfied with the outcome.
As the city lord, Lei Jian enjoyed collecting a series of Tierâ1 items with magical functions, especially combat types. In his words, equipping a full set of Tierâ1 items while hunting monsters in the wild felt amazing. This Tierâ2 weapon was pretty good for him.
As for the travel water bottle, he was so fond of this magicallyâfunctional item that he absolutely refused to sell it.
And there was no need to say more about Li Yeâon the surface it seemed like he lost out, but he was actually making a fortune in silence.
As long as he could collect enough resources, he could upgrade to a Tierâ2 city.
That universal wrench from the Foreman naturally went to Lin Wu.
After dividing the loot, the three parties exchanged back their hostages.
âI hope next time we cooperate, we wonât have to exchange hostages again,â Lei Jian said sincerely.
Li Ye nodded.
âMm.â
Having gone through these two cooperations, the three parties had gradually built trust among themselves.
That was a rare thing in a lawless wasteland where hearts were unpredictable.
Li Jin gave them both a strong hug.
After that defeat, the Azure was in a bit of a difficult situation. But after these two cooperations, its fortunes had slowly begun to improve.
It wasnât just the lootâthere were still leftover mineral resources in this Glos Mine.
After cleaning out the remaining goblins, the three factions divided up their respective mining areas.
Li Ye briefly took stock of the personnel currently available.
This time, no one died on the Tomorrow, but 15 people were injured; counting those still recovering from before, casualties had reached as many as 22.
That accounted for half of the Tomorrowâs current manpower.
Mainly because the monsters in the wasteland were all too hardcore, even goblins were no exception.
If it were just the Tomorrow, they wouldnât have been able to take Glos Mine at all.
By contrast, the Conqueror had a staggering 79 people thanks to slaves, while the Azure, though lacking slaves, had 62 personnel.
While chatting with Lei Jian, Li Ye inadvertently learned that newcomers to the Conqueror became slaves, but after completing a set amount of work, they could become ordinary residents.
Although being a slave was harsh, at least there was a promotion path, giving people a bit of hope.
In the following period, Li Ye came to the storage room of Glos Mine.
What he hadnât expected was that in the storage room, besides that cityâupgrade drawing, there were precious ores stored by the goblins.
320 units of copper ore, 164 units of silver ore, and 75 units of gold ore.
This already amounted to more than 10,000 Crystal Coins.
He quickly called for people to transport the minerals back to the Tomorrow and deployed manpower for mining.
Except for Tang Fang, who stayed on standby in the cockpit, and the lookout stationed in the Watchtower, everyone else entered the mine to extract ores.
As for him, he returned to his room and slowly opened the Mobile City Promotion Blueprint.
ăPromotion to Level 1 Mobile City requires the following Level 1 resourcesă
ăIron Ore: 2000 unitsă
ăWood: 2000 unitsă
ăFuel: 2000 unitsă
ăSaltpeter: 2000 unitsă
ăCity Alloy: 1000 unitsă
ăCity Structural Blueprint: 1 copyă
ăCity Crystal: 1 pieceă
âThese conditions are too harsh!â
Li Ye couldn't help but be dumbfounded.
Iron ore, wood, fuel, and saltpeterâthese Level 1 resources were still manageable, and with a few weeks of thrift, they could be gathered.
As for City Alloy, crafting 1 unit required 1 unit of iron ore, 1 unit of copper ore, and 1 unit of any rare ore vein.
Shadow, Thunder, Light, Frost, WindâErosion... any rare ore would suffice.
But 1000 units? That was simply outrageousâenough to build three Frost Cannons.
As for the City Structural Blueprint, it was a resource only obtainable from elite-grade or higher monsters, and even then, it had an extremely low drop rate.
Back at Roland Fortress, Li Ye once heard a bounty hunter mention that a fortress had auctioned off such a blueprint for 57,000 Crystal Coins.
As for the City Crystal... it was even more precious, practically unobtainable in the market.
The number of such crystals in the entire region could be counted on one hand.
âBetter take it slow,â he wiped the sweat from his forehead. âAlthough it's tough, at least there's some hope.â
Then, he began a new task.
That was to search the corpses of the Goblins.
At this moment, the Glos Mine was strewn with Goblin corpses.
The three Lords had divided the area and began searching the corpses within their respective zones.
For a Mobile City, monster corpses also counted as a type of resource.
They could drop Crystal Coins, cloth, iron ore, and sometimes even finished weapons and blueprints.
Li Ye began rummaging through the Goblin corpses.
This time, he unexpectedly had patienceâafter all, every search was like drawing a lottery.
However, Goblins seemed just as poor as zombies; their corpses usually dropped cloth and Crystal Coins, and with luck, maybe 1â2 units of iron ore.
Elite Goblins dropped slightly better lootâsome bladed weapons, firearms, and ordinary furniture.
Just as Li Ye was sighing repeatedly, he unintentionally found something on an elite Goblin.
ăGreen Source Poultry Feed - Blueprintă
ăItem Name: Green Source Poultry Feedă
ăItem Level: Level 1ă
ăEffects: 1. Increases growth rate of fed poultry and livestock by 10% 2. Reduces disease incidence in poultry by 20%ă
ăCrafting Requirement: 1 unit of graină
ăNote: The higher the grade of grain used, the better the result.ă
âLevel 1 poultry feed?â Li Ye's eyes instantly lit up.
This was a very nice findâon the Tomorrow, they already raised a few pairs of chickens and ducks and had planted Morning Wheat.
Once the Morning Wheat matured, a batch could be used to make feed for the poultry.
Li Jin and Lei Jian had only found ordinary blueprints from the Goblin corpses, mostly for furniture and daily items.
Upon learning that Li Ye had stumbled upon something so valuable, both of them immediately became envious.
The Azure and the Conqueror also cultivated Morning Wheat and had just harvested a batch.
So they asked Li Ye to help process a batch of Green Source Poultry Feed.
Li Ye took the opportunity to âshear some woolâ off themâtaking a portion of the feed in return.
He casually grabbed a handful of feed to examine.
This Level 1 feed was smooth in texture, uniform in color, moderately hard, and even gave off a faint fragrance.
Li Ye nodded sincerely as he looked at it.
With this Level 1 feed, the poultry raised on the Tomorrow would grow much faster, and soon, they'd have a steady supply of meat and eggs.
......
âThis time's harvest wasn't bad at all.â Looking at the inventory list, Li Ye felt genuinely gratified.
This time, he had mined a total of 1021 units of iron ore, 103 units of copper ore, 33 units of silver ore, and 15 units of gold ore from the Glos Mine.
As for the Frost Ore he had been yearning forânone was produced.
Adding the over 500 units of iron ore from the Wild BOSS, and over 100 units from Goblin corpse drops, he had collected over 1700 units of iron ore in total.
The Goblin corpse drops mainly consisted of Crystal Coins and cloth, with occasional ordinary-grade weapons and furniture.
The most valuable loot, without question, was that Level 1 Feed Blueprint.
At this point, both the Azure and the Conqueror had finished mining, and the three Mobile Cities set off together to return to Roland Fortress for routine rest and to process the spoils.
On the deck, Li Ye opened the Intelligence System.
During the days spent attacking the Glos Mine, that Epic Intelligence had already refreshedâand even the cooldown had reset.
ăTime until next Intelligence Refresh: 1 day 19 hours 59 minutes 59 secondsă
ăNumber of Intelligence Entries: 5ă
âThis refresh took a full two days; the value should be decent...â Li Ye mused. âNever mind that for nowâletâs see what the Epic Intelligence is.â
To his surprise, this timeâs Epic Intelligence was quite special.
ă5. Wasteland Zone map has been fully drawn. (Intelligence Value: Epic)ă
ăClick here to viewă
âIntelligence can even be displayed in map form?â Li Ye was astonished.
As he clicked it with a mix of skepticism and curiosity, a map appeared before him.
From the map, the southern part of the Wasteland Zone contained Firefeather Forest, Thunder Canyon, and the Rotting Landsâwhere Li Ye and his group currently were.
The central area was a vast city ruin combined with a giant forest.
The eastern region was a massive mobile labyrinth.
The western region was a stretch of continuous mountain ranges.
As for the northern region, it was a large freshwater lake called âSerene Lake.â