Messages sent, and as expected, a flurry of private messages quickly followed.
"Boss, save me! I'm willing to trade flesh for blood!"
"I sign up, I sign up! I can donate blood for six Blood Grenades!"
"Are you really giving meat? I only want nine taels, please, boss, let me trade first!"
"I'm O-type blood!"
"I have熊猫血 (Xiong Mao Xue)! Rh-negative blood! My blood is good!"
Jiang Ye typed rapidly, communicating with these people.
The process was actually very simple: Jiang Ye provided the Blood Grenades, and the other party provided blood. Once confirmed, Jiang Ye would send a jin of wolf meat.
With over a hundred blood donors confirmed, Jiang Ye got busy.
First, he opened the Galaxy Mall and went on a spree buying Blood Grenades.
He bought three hundred at once, spending thirty thousand yuan. His personal assets dropped to 942,067 yuan, a mere drop in the bucket.
Three hundred grenades made for a rather spectacular sight, piled into a small mountain.
Jiang Ye quickly transferred these grenades, and the small mountain gradually disappeared.
With the grenade delivery complete, the next step was to butcher the wolf meat.
There were no scales in the base, so he had to rely on his judgment.
Jiang Ye was meticulous about his reputation and never shortchanged anyone. Thus, when cutting the meat with his small knife, he cut generously, making each piece of wolf meat over a jin.
It took over an hour to butcher the four wolf carcasses, the meat being incredibly tough, even dulling his small knife.
Meanwhile, the Blood Grenades that had been handed over were also being returned in batches.
The transaction pods flashed with light, and with each flash, many grenade boxes appeared.
Soon, the boxes were overflowing.
Jiang Ye carried the grenade boxes out and stacked them neatly in a corner. Seeing that there were about three hundred, he began opening the boxes to check their status.
Opening a box, he took out a grenade. It was blood-red, filled to 50%.
"Dad is awesome! It's really meat!"
"Your great kindness, I will never forget!"
Soon, all the wolf meat was distributed, three hundred portions, exactly as planned.
Jiang Ye was exhausted but still sat on the ground, counting the number of Blood Grenades.
As he counted, a problem arose.
He had sent out three hundred grenades but only received 297 back.
This meant three people had not returned the grenades, keeping them for themselves.
Jiang Ye chuckled and shook his head. Only three, it didn't matter.
A loss of three hundred yuan, was that even considered money?
However, when he stood up to check the base panel, his expression suddenly changed.
[Special Notice: Detected three opened Blood Grenades being transmitted to you. According to the "Galaxy Empire Colony Trading System Public Security Management Regulations," these three grenades have been automatically returned to their original sender.]
Three people had pulled the pins on the grenades before sending them back!
Unbelievable, this move was practically an act of terrorism!
Jiang Ye guessed that these three people, seeing him doing well, were overcome with jealousy and wanted to blow him up.
The outcome was ironic: the trading system automatically returned them.
From pulling the pin to detonation was only a few seconds. It would take less than two seconds for the returned grenades to explode!
If nothing unexpected happened, these three terrorists had already been blown up by their own grenades!
"Good heavens, Amitabha." Jiang Ye chuckled.
With 297 Blood Grenades, he could do many things.
For example, when encountering a herd of beasts, he wouldn't have to shoot them one by one; he could just throw grenades at them with all his might. It was like a tactic used against the Yamazaki Brigade.
The most crucial aspect was mining.
Jiang Ye felt that mining with a pickaxe and shovel was too slow.
Working hard all day only earned him tens of thousands of yuan.
Before long, he would develop occupational diseases like tenosynovitis, lumbar disc herniation, and ankylosing spondylitis.
Real miners should use explosives, just like in proper mining areas!
What used to take half an hour to excavate rock could now be solved with one Blood Grenade. Wasn't that fantastic?
As night fell, Jiang Ye didn't dare to be too reckless. He didn't know what might be out there at night.
He locked the base door, closed the windows tightly, and lay down to sleep.
The previous base was very cramped. After lying down, he could only see a small patch of the ceiling, like sleeping in a toilet.
Now that it had been expanded, he could see the night sky through the window.
There was no pollution, no dark clouds, so the pitch-black night sky was filled with stars.
Jiang Ye found the scene romantic. The only drawback was the lack of a girl. He wondered if upgrading the base to a higher level would offer girls for sale, though that seemed unlikely.
He closed his eyes and slept, hoping for a pleasant dream!
As dawn broke, on the vast plains, Jiang Ye's base vehicle hummed to life and advanced at forty miles per hour.
The window of the driver's cabin was open, and the morning breeze rushed in.
Jiang Ye's hair was short, but he hadn't had a haircut in a long time, and it had grown quite long. His beard was also growing thicker, but fortunately, it wasn't a full beard.
The wind blew his hair and beard, making them messy and disheveled, like a bird's nest.
There seemed to be no minerals in this area, and the air carried no particular scent.
However, a lake suddenly appeared ahead!
"Whoa! Amazing!" Jiang Ye was excited.
The lake wasn't very large; he could see the entire expanse at a glance, covering an area of about three plastic sports fields.
But this was the only surface water Jiang Ye had seen since arriving on this planet!
Without hesitation, he drove the vehicle over and stopped.
Carrying his shotgun, he got out of the car.
On Earth, large lakes were usually surrounded by abundant flora and fauna. Herbivores came to drink, and carnivores came to hunt herbivores.
But perhaps because there was so little life on this planet, there wasn't a soul by the lake.
No plants, no animals, and no crocodiles floating on the surface, nor long-legged mosquitoes.
Everything was peaceful, a stagnant pool.
Jiang Ye cautiously approached with his gun, fearing that some predator might be hiding in the water.
But as he got closer, he realized he had been overly cautious.
There wouldn't be any large animals in the water because this lake was actually very shallow, about the depth of a swimming pool.
At Jiang Ye's height, as he walked into the lake towards the center, the water only reached his thighs.
The water was crystal clear, reflecting the sunlight. The white fine sand at the bottom was as beautiful as a tourist advertisement poster for the Maldives.
Jiang Ye crouched by the water and took a sniff.
The water had no peculiar odor; it wasn't foul water.
He returned to the base to get an empty water bottle, filled it with lake water, and scanned it in the transaction pod.
[Item: A bottle of water]
[Item Description: Drinkable water rich in minerals and extremely low in pollutants]
[Estimated Value: 2 yuan]
"Good! This lake water is drinkable!"
Jiang Ye was invigorated. He had found a large lake where he could drink his fill! This not only meant he would never run out of water but also that he could cultivate a large amount of crops!
Most importantly, he could finally take a bath!