[Congratulations! Your base level has been upgraded to level 8]
[This upgrade adds the following:]
[The Galactic Mall has added 3 new items]
Jiang Ye smiled, looking at the control panel, waiting for more information to be displayed.
As a result, after waiting for a long time, his smile froze on his face.
That's it?
Jiang Ye reached out and patted the panel, asking it to continue.
The screen automatically returned to the initial page.
There was really no other content; this upgrade simply added three new items.
As expected, you get what you pay for. Free upgrades are just as disappointing!
Jiang Ye, full of resentment, opened the Galactic Mall.
The moment he saw the three new items, he was stunned.
The three newly added items were truly terrifying!
[Item: Military First Aid Kit]
[Item Description: This medical kit is pressure-resistant and waterproof, convenient to carry. It includes a triangular bandage, self-adhering elastic bandage, chest seal, portable splint, gauze pads, scalpel blade, hemostatic forceps, scissors, safety pins, medical gloves, tracheal decompression needle, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation mask, disinfectant, tourniquet, and adhesive bandages. It also includes a pack of Blood Shield rapid hemostatic powder, which can stop severe arterial bleeding in an average of 30 seconds.]
[Price: 100,000 yuan]
Jiang Ye's mouth formed an 'o' shape as he read the item description.
He hadn't studied medicine and had never heard of these miscellaneous items.
The only two things he knew how to use were scissors and adhesive bandages.
However, the Blood Shield hemostatic powder mentioned sounded incredibly powerful; it could stop arterial bleeding, even Hua Tuo would praise it!
Without hesitation, he placed an order!
For something that could save his life, 100,000 yuan was not expensive at all.
His personal account dropped to 517,980 yuan.
A white medical kit, with a red cross printed on it, appeared in the trading bay.
Jiang Ye picked it up to examine it. The medical kit was quite heavy. He unzipped it, revealing a jumble of various items inside, along with a thick instruction manual.
He set it aside for now, planning to study it when he had time.
Looking at the other new items, he realized this was just an appetizer.
[Item: Aerial Gyrocopter]
[Item Description: A small gyrocopter that can carry three people, nicknamed the "Low-Altitude Tri-Wheeler." Its structure is simple, but it can truly fly. It looks ugly, but its maximum flight speed can reach 500 kilometers per hour. It is easy to operate, similar to driving a three-wheeled vehicle. Quick to learn, with continuously variable transmission.]
[Price: 1.2 million yuan]
Jiang Ye's eyes widened.
A small airplane!
Good heavens, they had directly fast-forwarded to the air force!
He had heard of these "aerial tri-wheelers" before. When he was a child, he had seen news reports about the army seemingly equipping many such vehicles. They were incredibly basic, lacking even an exterior shell, and one could reach out and grab passing birds. They looked hilarious when flying, but they were indeed cheap and practical. He wondered if this was a similar product.
Jiang Ye immediately decided to save money and buy one. With such an "aerial tri-wheeler," he wouldn't have to walk everywhere or drive the base vehicle over mountains and rivers; he could just fly!
Who wouldn't want to fly?
Most importantly, the speed was fast enough, meaning he could keep the base stationary and mine in a much larger area.
[Item: Aviation Fuel]
[Item Description: Certified product from the Air Force Logistics Department. 5L per barrel, excellent quality. Reports of counterfeiting are welcome, with a tenfold compensation and a personal apology for any false claims.]
[Price: 2,000 yuan]
Jiang Ye also liked this aviation fuel. While it seemed to be a companion item for the aerial tri-wheeler, it had many other uses, such as for heating or for making fuel bombs.
Finally, Jiang Ye glanced at the conditions required for the upgrade.
To upgrade the base to level 9, the conditions were quite demanding:
[Upgrade requires meeting both of the following conditions simultaneously:]
[First: 3.6 million yuan]
[Second: Place a live animal into the trading bay]
Jiang Ye thought the second condition was not a big deal. He could simply use the sonic cannon to attract the foolish Blood Kangaroos, injure them without killing them, and drag them back.
However, the first condition was a headache. 3.6 million yuan was a huge sum, and it would be very difficult to gather so much money.
Jiang Ye discovered that the higher the level, the more difficult the upgrade conditions became, much like leveling up in a game.
When Jiang Ye was younger, he had played many leveling games in internet cafes, and the patterns were similar: leveling from one to two only required ten experience points, while leveling from ninety-nine to one hundred often required millions of experience points. Grinding monsters until he was sick made his liver ache just thinking about it!
Checking the time, it was two in the afternoon.
Jiang Ye grabbed his shovel and pickaxe, along with two sacks. The sacks were for coal, and after the coal was used up, the sacks remained.
He pushed open the base door and headed towards the direction of the red copper ore.
Walking slowly would take an hour to reach the red copper mine.
A round trip of two hours was too time-consuming.
Jiang Ye had no choice but to break into a run.
Half an hour later, covered in sweat, he finally reached the mine.
The pit was scattered with many fragments of red copper ore. He first carried a sack down to pick them up.
Red copper ore was quite valuable, with even a small piece fetching over a hundred yuan.
Jiang Ye picked them up with great enthusiasm, quickly filling one sack.
Climbing out of the deep mine pit, Jiang Ye stepped back, took out a blood grenade, and threw it in.
Boom!
A deafening explosion, followed by a plume of dust and blood mist.
Countless shattered ore fragments flew up and then fell back down.
Jiang Ye grabbed an empty sack, descended into the mine pit, and continued picking up ore.
Since he had a large supply of blood grenades, mining had become incredibly simple.
He no longer had to swing his pickaxe and shovel until he was drenched in sweat. One grenade would scatter ore everywhere, and he just had to bend down and pick it up.
Before long, he had filled another sack.
Two sacks were about his limit for carrying while walking.
Jiang Ye slung one sack over his shoulder and carried the other in his hand, hurrying back to the base.
On his back, he carried the Kai Xi assault rifle and a five-shot shotgun, with grenades stuffed into his pockets.
The total weight he was carrying was over a hundred pounds, and he still had to run.
This was hard physical labor, but Jiang Ye didn't feel particularly tired.
The ore in the sacks could be quickly sold for a large sum of money.
If you were paid the equivalent of two sacks of ore to carry them home, would you feel tired?
The more tired he was, the happier he felt!
Half an hour later, Jiang Ye returned to the base, panting.
He dumped all the red copper ore from the sacks into the trading bay.
The first sack sold for fifty-eight thousand yuan!
The second sack was slightly more, fetching sixty-two thousand five hundred yuan!
In just one trip, he had earned a total of one hundred and twenty thousand and five hundred yuan.
A valuable mine was indeed quite profitable!
The only drawback was the long distance, which consumed a lot of time on the road.
To save time on the road, he would have to have the base vehicle smash through the wall and drive to the copper mine.
However, after returning at night, he would have to spend three hours rebuilding the wall to ensure safety during the night. Then, the next morning, he would have to smash through the wall again, and rebuild it again at night. Just thinking about it was exhausting.
Jiang Ye fell into thought, wondering if there was a way for the base vehicle to enter and exit freely without damaging the wall.
His first thought was to take a thick piece of ice from the ice surface and use it as a ramp over the wall for the vehicle to pass.
He had seen news reports before about Russia building ice bridges out of large ice slabs, strong enough for horses to cross.
However, looking at the size of the base vehicle, Jiang Ye abandoned this idea. To create a proper ice ramp, he would need a very large and thick ice slab, which he couldn't move by himself. Moreover, the ice surface was slippery, and there was a risk of overturning.
What should he do?
Was there really no solution?
Suddenly, Jiang Ye's eyes lit up, and his worried expression instantly vanished.
He slapped his forehead, realizing a simple and crude solution! He should have thought of it earlier!
(I was busy today and didn't have time to write. I'll try to update tonight, but it might not be much.)