Chapter 30: Wasteland Zone Map?!

“I still have to choose this first!” Li Ye didn’t hesitate and grabbed the instant cup noodles blueprint outright. Seeing him smile and tuck the blueprint into his chest, Li Jin and Lei Jian couldn’t help but sigh simultaneously in their hearts. “This kid’s taste is really sharp!” Next, the three looked at that Tier‐2 item. 【Item Name – Goblin All‐Star Baseball Bat】 【Item Level: Tier‐2】 【Bonus Effect: Stuns the target for 3 seconds on hit.】 All three looked at this Tier‐2 item with complex expressions. For lone wolves and bounty hunters, this was a powerful single‐soldier weapon in the wilderness. But for an entity the size of a Mobile City, its effect was negligible. This Tier‐2 item dropped by the Wasteland BOSS clearly had pros and cons, and today everyone’s luck wasn’t great. After a round of bidding, Lei Jian eventually won the Tier‐2 item for 2000 Crystal Coins. He was willing to bid because he wanted to fulfill his dream of owning a Tier‐2 item. The remaining three items were also auctioned off by the three. Li Ye won the Foreman’s Universal Wrench, while Lei Jian got the Foreman’s Vest and Goblin Water Bottle. The auction funds and the BOSS drop loot—Crystal Coins, coal, etc.—were 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 Tier‐1 items with magical functions, especially combat types. In his words, equipping a full set of Tier‐1 items while hunting monsters in the wild felt amazing. This Tier‐2 weapon was pretty good for him. As for the travel water bottle, he was so fond of this magically‐functional item that he absolutely refused to sell it. And there was no need to say more about Li Ye—on 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 Tier‐2 city. That universal wrench from the Foreman naturally went to Lin Wu. After dividing the loot, the three parties exchanged back their hostages. “I hope next time we cooperate, we won’t have to exchange hostages again,” Lei Jian said sincerely. Li Ye nodded. “Mm.” 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 wasn’t just the loot—there 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 Tomorrow’s 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 wouldn’t 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 hadn’t expected was that in the storage room, besides that city‐upgrade 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. 【Promotion to Level 1 Mobile City requires the following Level 1 resources】 【Iron Ore: 2000 units】 【Wood: 2000 units】 【Fuel: 2000 units】 【Saltpeter: 2000 units】 【City Alloy: 1000 units】 【City Structural Blueprint: 1 copy】 【City Crystal: 1 piece】 “These conditions are too harsh!” Li Ye couldn't help but be dumbfounded. Iron ore, wood, fuel, and saltpeter—these 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, Wind‐Erosion... any rare ore would suffice. But 1000 units? That was simply outrageous—enough 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. “Better take it slow,” he wiped the sweat from his forehead. “Although it's tough, at least there's some hope.” 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 patience—after 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 1–2 units of iron ore. Elite Goblins dropped slightly better loot—some bladed weapons, firearms, and ordinary furniture. Just as Li Ye was sighing repeatedly, he unintentionally found something on an elite Goblin. 【Green Source Poultry Feed - Blueprint】 【Item Name: Green Source Poultry Feed】 【Item Level: Level 1】 【Effects: 1. Increases growth rate of fed poultry and livestock by 10% 2. Reduces disease incidence in poultry by 20%】 【Crafting Requirement: 1 unit of grain】 【Note: The higher the grade of grain used, the better the result.】 “Level 1 poultry feed?” Li Ye's eyes instantly lit up. This was a very nice find—on 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 “shear some wool” off them—taking 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. ...... “This time's harvest wasn't bad at all.” 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 for—none 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 refreshed—and even the cooldown had reset. 【Time until next Intelligence Refresh: 1 day 19 hours 59 minutes 59 seconds】 【Number of Intelligence Entries: 5】 “This refresh took a full two days; the value should be decent...” Li Ye mused. “Never mind that for now—let’s see what the Epic Intelligence is.” To his surprise, this time’s Epic Intelligence was quite special. 【5. Wasteland Zone map has been fully drawn. (Intelligence Value: Epic)】 【Click here to view】 “Intelligence can even be displayed in map form?” 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 Lands—where 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 “Serene Lake.”