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Su Xiao originally wanted to say “all combined,” but then remembered the earlier hint that Xiao Mo would find it somewhat exhausting.
After a moment of thought, she asked, “Xiao Mo, does synthesizing the treasure chests consume your energy? How many treasure chests can you synthesize at most with your energy?”
Xiao Mo replied, “I am the caretaker of the safehouse. My energy restores at midnight, with a base energy value of 100 each day. Each time I synthesize a treasure chest, it consumes 30 energy points. However, I cannot synthesize weapons, blueprints, items, or life-related or special treasure chests.”
Weapons are red treasure chests, blueprints are purple treasure chests, items are blue treasure chests, and life-related items are green treasure chests.
These are all considered special limited treasure chests.
The remaining white, yellow, and black treasure chests are basic treasure chests and can be synthesized by me.
“How can I replenish your energy?” Su Xiao asked after some thought.
Xiao Mo responded, “If you feed me any post-apocalyptic supplies that the host doesn’t need, I will recover energy. The recovery level depends on the materials you feed me. The higher the level of the supplies, the more complex the product and the higher the energy recovered.”
Su Xiao was surprised.
But after some consideration, she found nothing wrong with it.
This method of energy recovery is brilliant—it’s like recycling waste materials!
“Then, Xiao Mo, do you know what’s inside a level 2 yellow treasure chest?” Su Xiao asked again.
Xiao Mo answered, “I don’t know.”
“How many levels can the basic treasure chests be synthesized into?”
“Level 5.”
Su Xiao let out a sigh of relief.
To upgrade to a level 2 treasure chest requires 3 level 1 treasure chests, 9 level 1 treasure chests for a level 3, and so on. For a level 5 chest, it requires 81 level 1 chests.
It doesn’t seem like much.
If she finds enough treasure chests each day, with the chest cap at 99, she can definitely synthesize a level 5 treasure chest.
She thought upgrading would mostly require whole numbers, and if she wanted to reach level 10, she’d need close to 20,000 treasure chests, which would be terrifying.
What’s more important is Xiao Mo’s daily synthesis limit.
Su Xiao took out a piece of paper and a pen to calculate. Who would’ve thought that even in the apocalypse, she’d still have to do math!
Synthesis of a level 2 treasure chest only consumes 1 synthesis attempt, while synthesizing a level 3 requires 4 attempts, a level 4 requires 13 attempts, and a level 5 requires exactly 40 attempts, which means 1,200 energy points and 81 level 1 treasure chests.
But that’s all far off.
For now, it looks like basic treasure chests won’t go extinct, so Su Xiao was relieved.
“Xiao Mo, please help me synthesize one level 2 treasure chest for each color,” Su Xiao instructed.
Fortunately, Su Xiao had already planned ahead and preferred to stockpile treasure chests rather than waste space on supplies. Currently, the food chests, medical chests, and material chests she had on hand were enough to synthesize one level 2 chest.
“Okay,” Xiao Mo responded, and three level 2 treasure chests appeared in front of Su Xiao.
After synthesizing, Xiao Mo said, “Xiao Mo has consumed 90 energy points, leaving 10 points.”
“Thanks, Xiao Mo.”
“You’re welcome~” Xiao Mo’s voice rose slightly, as if feeling some accomplishment.
【Xiao Mo’s Favorability Increased to 4%】
Su Xiao opened them one by one.
Level 2 black treasure chest—after touching it, a prompt popped up:
【Basic Materials 99%, Intermediate Materials 1%, Advanced Materials 0.1%】
After opening it, she found 2 planks, 2 pieces of cloth, and 1 meteorite ingot.
The quantity of the treasure chest’s surprise doubled.
The meteorite ingot is an important material for synthesizing the propeller thruster, so that’s already enough.
Now, she only needed a drive shaft support and a wire panel that could be used to make batteries.
Level 2 white treasure chest—
【Snacks and Drinks 99%, Fresh Meat and Vegetables 1%, Apocalypse Seasonings 0.1%】
Oat milk x3, cola x2, caramel pudding x2, strawberry egg tart x2, beef x1.
Beef!
Su Xiao held a piece of fresh beef and looked at it carefully.
It was fresh, and there was still blood seeping out of the fibers, almost like it had just been sliced off a cow!
【Beef】
Description: Made by the Apocalypse Game, always stays fresh
Oh, fresh meat!
Su Xiao almost wanted to hug the beef and rub it against her face, but it was too fresh, with blood still leaking out—she couldn’t do that.
Quickly, she found a plate to put it on.
Finally, she opened the level 2 yellow medical chest.
【Basic Medicine 99%, Intermediate Medicine 1%, Advanced Medicine 0.1%】
Epidemic Prevention Medicine x2, Detoxification Medicine x1, Hemostatic Medicine x1, Healing Medicine x1.
Su Xiao was surprised. So many medicines came from a yellow treasure chest?
The Epidemic Prevention Medicine reduces infection, Detoxification Medicine clears toxic effects, and Hemostatic Medicine treats bleeding wounds.
But the Healing Medicine was impressive.
【Healing Medicine】
Description: Can heal all non-fatal injuries and diseases
This is at least an intermediate-level medicine, but intermediate medicines are already this powerful. She couldn’t even imagine what advanced medicines would be like.
Su Xiao slapped her face, trying to calm down.
She was the true god of the apocalypse, holding the three great treasure chest resources. Now, discovering this amazing mechanism, if she didn’t survive to live thousands of years in the apocalypse, survivors would have to raise their flags in mourning.
And Su Xiao also calculated it out.
The items she opened from the level 2 treasure chests—synthesized from 3 treasure chests—had not only a chance of yielding advanced materials but also had an increased base amount, with each of the basic materials averaging around 5 units. This meant that the base quantity had already increased.
Synthesizing high-level treasure chests only earns profit, the only trouble being that Xiao Mo has to spend energy.
After thinking for a moment, Su Xiao checked her stored supplies. Right now, she mostly had basic materials, and the medical treasure chests were the most abundant. The antiviral medicine couldn’t be used yet, and even if she needed it later, she could just open more—it would always be profitable. Now, she just wanted to see how much energy she could increase by feeding supplies to Xiao Mo.
“Xiao Mo, I want to feed you.”
After Su Xiao spoke, a blue plate appeared in front of her.
???
If she wasn’t mistaken, this plate—
Hmm, it looked very much like the one she used at home to feed the cats and dogs.
She placed a Detoxification Medicine on it.
【Xiao Mo’s energy recovered by 1 point. Xiao Mo says it won’t get sick and doesn’t need medicine.】
The basic supply only recovered 1 point of energy!
Su Xiao looked at it and then placed a caramel pudding on the plate.
【Xiao Mo’s energy recovered by 1 point. Xiao Mo says it won’t get hungry and doesn’t need to eat human food.】
【Xiao Mo’s Favorability Increased to 5%】
Tsk, it says it doesn’t need to eat, but its favorability still increases?
After some thought, she placed a plank on the plate.
【Xiao Mo’s energy recovered by 1 point. Xiao Mo says it doesn’t build infrastructure and won’t use it to build a new safehouse.】
No increase in favorability, but the basic materials only added 1 point of energy.
Without realizing it, Su Xiao had spent almost an hour just experimenting with Xiao Mo and the treasure chests.
Turtle Hermit cautiously sent a message: “Bro, are you still there? Where are you!”
He even suspected that as soon as he sent the treasure chests, the person went out and keeled over!
He had never waited so agonizingly before.
Su Xiao came back to her senses. “Sorry, I’ll send it to you right away.”
78 treasure chests. Based on the same extraction rate as the material chests, for every 2 treasure chests, she’d extract 1 unit of medicine.
So, she evenly sent over 117 units of medicine, leaving herself 20 level 1 yellow treasure chests.