Chapter 168. Fresh and Tender Leeks

     Ye Mo first replied to the messages from a very small number of individual survivor clients, such as Ji Li, with whom she had just collaborated in the dungeon. The content he sent made her blink twice quickly.

     Ji Li: 【Maria, pleasant cooperation in Jurassic. I have a question. Do you need a fire elemental spirit jade right now? I just got one, but I don’t need it for the time being, so I’d like to make a trade with you. 】

     As an “African” (referring to someone with extremely bad luck) Zombie, Ji Li was surprised to see a fire elemental spirit jade as a dungeon reward. He was already overjoyed, as this spirit jade was even more valuable than a skill book.

     It is worth one million points, and he suddenly became rich.

     Even if this piece of fire jade is the only valuable one in the entire column, he really made a fortune.

     However, the most pressing issue now is that Ji Li has no use for the fire elemental spirit jade, and the system doesn’t recycle it either. There likely aren’t any other groups willing and able to offer a million points for it, making the expensive jade useless to him.

     Ji Li doesn’t have a storage space, and all the weapons he brought into the Jurassic dungeon turned into steam in the volcanic mountain. He needs a new set of weapons, but he can’t afford them despite possessing a “gold mine.”

     Not to mention equipment and weapons, he can’t even afford the spiritual stones and magic crystals his body needs. He’s forced to stay in his zombie state because zombies can withstand hunger for a while.

     Ye Mo: 【I need it, but I don’t have enough points. Can I pay for the weapons and equipment in installments?】

     Ji Li replied almost immediately: 【Yes, you can.】 

     Ye Mo received Ji Li’s custom order list for five pieces of weapons and equipment, including a 100 cubic meter space bracelet, three willow leaf swords, and a protective armor.

     The data for the three willow leaf swords were different, it was clear that two of the willow leaf swords were for the zombie Ji Li, and one was for the necromancer Ji Li.

     Ji Li’s plan is that he will not pay the deposit, wait until the five pieces of equipment are complete, and then send the fire spirit stones to Ye Mo, and trade the rest slowly.

     Ye Mo thought for a moment and suggested:【The space bracelet can be increased to over 500 cubic meters. The other weapons and equipment are fine. The more body data you can provide, the better the customization effect.】 

     Ji Li immediately sent back two sets of data: his necromancer version height, weight, and strength, and his zombie body height, weight, nail hardness, and analogized strength.

     Ye Mo:【Received.】

     After a two-second pause, Ji Li added:【Can I also exchange for some dark elemental spirit stones and dark elemental beast cores?】

     “…”

     Ye Mo sensed something and silently exchanged a high-grade dark elemental spirit stone and a high-level magic beast core for Ji Li. She needed to reserve some of her remaining points for other tasks; in reality, she wasn’t very wealthy.

   【Thank you.】

   【You’re welcome.】

     …

     Ye Mo and Ji Li established a long-term business partnership due to a fire elemental spirit jade. Other individual customers were just that – customers. They didn’t directly customize equipment, but rather provided some customer-related suggestions.

     It seemed that there were many survivors with damaged weapons and equipment in the Jurassic dungeon.

     The responses from various groups further confirmed this. Ye Mo saw a lot of points beckoning her, and opened a Word document to simply record the customers’ suggestions.

     In addition, there were a few very subtle hints, “America, Japan, Serbia, Puerto Rico, Luxembourg, Sri Lanka, etc. Welcome you.”

     For the nations of Earth, the chief survivor being in China could be a nightmare for many countries. The survivor app represented unprecedented power, and it was hard for them not to link this app with their national destinies.

     The only comfort now is that various pieces of evidence prove that although the chief survivor had cooperated with the Chinese official Supernatural Investigation Bureau in the dungeons and they had a good impression of each other, she didn’t actually join the Chinese Supernatural Investigation Bureau.

     Of course, their poaching wasn’t just targeted at Maria; it was aimed at strong individuals in general, more covertly, more cautiously, requiring more preliminary probing.

     Ye Mo directly ignored these kinds of probes.

     Although she could survive well in any country now, she was born in China, grew up in China, studied in China, her grandmother was in China, everyone has feelings, and she didn’t plan to move to another place to live permanently.

     Moreover, with her other identity exposed, she stopped racking her brains to hide and directly reached out to the Chinese NIB for a deposit, cough cough, no, to open the only green light for cooperation.

 

   【In addition to weapons and equipment, space bracelets can also be customized. A 100-square-meter space bracelet requires the following materials: 1 ton of siderite FeCO3, 5000 kg of gibbsite ore, 1000 kg of magnesium ore, 10 high-grade spatial spirit stones, 30 high-grade spatial magic beast cores, resin adhesive, industrial catalyst… Labor costs and equipment wear and tear are discounted by 30% after completion.】 

     The other party was a bit shocked by this information. After a long while, Peashooter Qiu Qianren replied: 【Happy cooperation, young lady. 】

     Ye Mo paused: 【Wang Qi, Send the list to Wang Xue or me, within 48 hours.】

     “!!!”

     In the Supernatural Investigation Bureau  core meeting room, Zhou Qi, who was known as Wang Qi in the dungeon, was so startled that he almost fell off his chair, and said to the group of senior officials: “Doesn’t the young lady have clairvoyance?”

     Zhang Qihua and Ma Guotao exchanged glances, not surprised that Mi Wenjing could figure out who Wang Qi was, after all, she was a local hegemon during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods.

     “Don’t panic, she’s referring to him as Wang Qi.”

     Ye Mo: …In fact, not only do I have clairvoyance, but I also know your name is Zhou Qi.

     …

     After the private message was resolved, Ye Mo glanced at the forum.

     The information in the forum jumped very fast, and the top hot posts were recruitment posts for large groups. King Cobra had already put up an advertisement for selling intelligence openly.

     Additionally, there are experience-sharing posts in the copy.

     The Jurassic copy not only deserts, forests, volcanic rocks, and oceans, but also glaciers, swamps, plateaus, and karst caves, with a wide variety of giant flora and fauna.

     Wood-attribute survivors have discovered and brought out many plants, and they are sharing cultivation experiences. Some of the plants’ names originate from the “Classic of Mountains and Seas.”

     For example, there’s the edible Zhuyu plant.

     Many herbivorous and even carnivorous survivors survived hunger by relying on a type of plant that grows on the plains, resembling chives but with blue flowers.

     They were fortunate enough to pass the public beta, but the spiritual energy of the Zhuyu grass was not that high, and they missed the window for growth. There are quite a few similar lucky ones gathered together, and it’s unclear whether this is a blessing or a curse.

     As expected, Ye Mo also found the name of the spirit-seeking plants in the Classic of Mountains and Seas – Migu. This name is indeed much better, and the fire-avoiding grass does not seem to be one of the several described in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

     In addition to experience-sharing posts, 60% of the hot posts are about several major contents in the real world. 

     The first content is death.

    There are millions of survivors who entered the Jurassic public test dungeon this time, which is more than the total number of closed beta. There must be more survivors who died, and there are more people who died suddenly around the world.

     Some people entered the survivor dungeon at the same time, but only one came out alive.

     Screams are echoing across many parts of the Earth.

     The second piece of content depicts the mutations in the real world. In South America, a survivor witnessed a plant mutating near their home. In Oceania, a certain island nation suddenly faces the danger of being swallowed by the sea and is undergoing urgent evacuation.

     Many magician survivors are happy with these changes because the increase in spiritual power helps them practice.

     Regarding the changes, Ye Mo drew back the room curtains, and the forsythia, roses, climbing roses, gardenias, orchids, jasmine, and other flowers in the small courtyard downstairs were all in bloom.

     A quick mental scan revealed that the plants in the yard were growing exceptionally well, but no mutations had occurred.

     However, Bandit, who hadn’t been actively knocking on the door today and was watching “Tom and Jerry” with Hawk eye on the sofa in the living room downstairs, seemed a bit off. His “woof woof woof” sounded like laughter.

     Who turned on the TV?

     Ye Mo raised an eyebrow, walked out of the room, and, at the stair railing, used her mental energy to unplug the TV. The TV screen instantly went black.

     “Woof woof woof!”

     The big black dog jumped up, scratched the sofa a few times with its paws, and the remote control under the sofa cushion appeared. It struggled to press the red power button several times with its paws.

     The TV screen remained black.

     “Woof woof woof!” The big black dog was anxiously pacing around, unaware of the TV’s power cord issue.

     Ye Mo: ….still a bit stupid.

     Hawkeye suddenly appeared within her mental scan, turning into a basketball-sized disdainful white eye, as if to say, ”Human, you really-‘

     “…”

     Ye Mo used her mental energy again to plug the TV cord back in and turned it on.

     In the forum posts, the changes in the real world weren’t limited to nature, they also involved various countries, organizations, survivors against survivors, ordinary people against survivors, and so on.

     Some countries were recruiting survivors, while others were imprisoning them. Some organizations advocated eliminating survivors… Some survivors on the forum reported that some survivors they knew had disappeared without a trace, and they didn’t know where they went.

     Ye Mo lived quite close to the Supernatural Investigation Bureau, and she was relatively satisfied with the current attitude and policies of China towards the Survivor app and the survivors.

     Although there were greedy and insane individuals, the Bureau was still under the control of those with noble aspirations.

     …

     The last hot post section is the newbie check-in thread. Basically, every newbie check-in thread has 999+ replies. Quite a few newbies survived the Jurassic Park instance, and they all have at least 100 points. They’re all fresh, tender leeks.

     Ye Mo, using the identity of Maria, posted a new thread, with the content permanently pinned: 【Maria’s Shop will sell its first batch of equipment within two weeks.】

     A group of organizations responded in unison with “looking forward” or “waiting patiently.”

     They had already made this an important task within their groups. With the title of Chief Survivor and the appearance of so many big-name groups, over 70% of the survivors flocked to this thread, and its popularity instantly exploded.

     Just as Ye Mo was about to close the app, Wang Xue’s private message finally arrived late: 【Sister Jing, let me be the shopkeeper for this store in the future. Your and Watson’s secondary jobs need more energy and time.】

   【Sure.】

      Wang Xue, with a lollipop in her mouth, arrogantly sent a reply: 【Everyone, please remember this account. The Maria’s Shop shopkeeper is online. Contact me for future transactions. If you bother the boss, you’ll be blacklisted!】

     Instantly, it was submerged in hundreds or thousands of messages.

     Ye Mo smiled slightly, pinned “Xia Li Ba Ren”‘s reply, and added below as Maria: 【What Xiao Xue said is all correct.】