Chapter 580 - 424: The Awareness of Being an Ally (Additional - for Alliance Leader Bai Shiyu!)

The tactical ATV sped southward on the flat road.

An experienced driver like Lin Yue couldn’t help but yawn again at this moment.

If it weren’t for the high-tech Space Sleep Pod he used last night, he might be even more tired now.

After all, from morning till night, it felt like he hadn’t stopped to rest.

Fighting, driving, building, planting.

Another incredibly fulfilling day.

Lin Yue gripped the steering wheel, feeling so tired he almost fell asleep.

However, he couldn’t afford to sleep.

Even though there were no other cars on the road, nor any traffic lights, a brief lapse in attention could really lead him into the bushes.

Lin Yue looked at the roadside, where the wildly growing grass had already reached over a meter high.

As disaster struck, how much farther could they grow?

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The car tires constantly made crunching sounds as they crushed insects, the noise seemed to grow more frequent.

Lin Yue felt nothing.

While driving, even if he hit and killed a Mutant Sheep, he wouldn’t get any treasure chests.

The system determined it that way.

As long as he didn’t attack those mutant creatures with a weapon in hand, no treasure chests would drop.

Specifically, this is determined by...

Holding a weapon, whether it’s a cold weapon or a sniper shotgun, directly killing mutant creatures would result in a treasure chest dropping.

But if there was an intermediary, there wouldn’t be any.

Like the Medium Electric Guard Machine Gun Platform, there is an electric drive in between, and its self-aiming shooting to kill mutant creatures doesn’t produce treasure chests.

Similarly, machine dogs have the same limitation.

They too cannot convert kills into treasure chests.

But like when he used the system to control the Katyusha to bombard the enemy, the system judged it as him "actively" using a weapon to eliminate enemies.

Therefore, the treasure chest drop was still considered valid.

The car... doesn’t count as a weapon.

Accidentally running over beetles or bugs on the gravel road was thus not judged to produce treasure chests.

"The number of insects is increasing. The system isn’t just about disasters; it also provides opportunities, doesn’t it?"

He muttered to himself and yawned again.

These insects could drop treasure chests.

Wooden treasure chests, their contents definitely being water and food, nothing else.

Even if the drop rate is low, with a thousand or ten thousand insects, a few hundred wooden treasure chests should still be easy to collect.

And the difficulty of killing insects is quite low.

Lin Yue also noticed that things seemed different now compared to the past.

When he first entered the Otherworld, the body fluids of these insects seemed corrosive when killed, quite dangerous.

But now, not only do they look a bit different, but that deadly corrosiveness is also gone.

One more thing...

That terrifying giant grasshopper hasn’t been seen for a while?

Lin Yue looked up ahead; the road seemed to be reaching its end.

Opening the regional map and confirming the location of the Petroleum River Base, he made another ten-kilometer stretch of highway!

"The stone material is running out again."

Unexpectedly, even such a fundamental material like stone has become more scarce.

It was indeed a bit unexpected.

However, he did have a plan.

After parking, he operated the System Tablet, and a large amount of stones entered the Storage Space while the saltpeter and vegetables originally in the Storage Space were exchanged out.

As for the exchange partner...

Naturally, it was Fei Yue.

This time, Fei Yue definitely wouldn’t make a loss.

Moreover, Fei Yue made it clear that he needed saltpeter.

Lin Yue wasn’t one to beat around the bush; he directly asked what the saltpeter was for, and the response was straightforward: for making gunpowder to arm the Refugee Village.

Lin Yue supported this.

Right now, he could also sense that in this world, it’s not just Du Ping and Sun Shuyi who are threats.

The Lizardmen or the beggars, even if ninety thousand of them are eliminated, it doesn’t seem like much of a reduction.

They might at any moment follow another person with malice towards him, come near his Shelter, and launch a massive attack again.

The next wave might be ten giant creatures, or a hundred thousand or two hundred thousand Lizardmen and beggars?

It’s hard to say.

As long as he exists, as long as he holds those gems, as long as he’s continually the top presence on the world leaderboard, situations like these will persist.

Lin Yue wasn’t entirely sure if, aside from Du Ping, anyone else knew his secret.

Did Du Ping spread it before his death?

But looking at the world channel, it seems Du Ping hadn’t gone mad.

Would he spread it elsewhere?

Lin Yue wasn’t certain at the moment.

Moreover, he always felt that Du Ping and Old Sun being able to assemble so many Lizardmen and beggars wasn’t a simple matter.

Even though Old Sun kept putting everything on Du Ping, who’s already dead, Lin Yue believed Du Ping couldn’t possibly summon that many Lizardmen and beggars.

Just the mere suspicion that he had those gems couldn’t rally those Lizardmen, Lin Yue didn’t buy it.

Besides, the same logic applied to those beggars.

Somehow, Lin Yue felt that the relationship between the Lizardmen and beggars might not be what he initially imagined.

Instead of the Lizardmen ruling over the beggars, it seemed their relationship was genuinely one of "co-existence" rather than complete domination by the Lizardmen.

If the Lizardmen could compel the beggars to charge into bullet fire, they surely would?

Speaking of... as an ally, shouldn’t Fei Yue’s Refugee Village also be strengthened a bit?

He felt they might become a target otherwise.

Lin Yue opened the system interface and looked at a design plan in his hand.

Giving it to them seemed better.

Those crossbows, no matter how strong, were still cold weapons.

Plus, their attack range and lethality were lacking.

Imagine if Lizardmen besieged the city; even if Fei Yue’s side equipped everyone with a Tactical Crossbow, how many enemies could they take down?

Now that Fei Yue had seen another significant use of saltpeter besides heatproofing, it proved that he too started contemplating potential threats.

As Lin Yue’s ally, their safety had always been a concern.

Even if black gunpowder was manufactured, its power and other capabilities were still uncertain.

Reflecting on the past night’s march, where his allies mobilized all their strength just to help him through the tough battle, Lin Yue felt quite moved.

If he encountered another fight next time, those people would probably support him, fulfilling their duties as allies just like they did this time.

"Fei Yue, I have a question."

Lin Yue typed out these words in the chat box to his ally.

"Haha, just ask, I’ll answer whatever I can!" Fei Yue replied almost instantly.

Was this guy always watching the chat panel...

"If I face another siege like today from the Lizardmen and beggars, with possibly a hundred thousand or two hundred thousand strong invading, would you come to aid me like today?"

"No, that wouldn’t be possible."

Fei Yue suddenly replied with this.

But soon, his next message arrived.

"Running overnight to get there, the food would have gone cold. Next time, I’ll drive over, bringing all our combat forces, and this time really back you up from the rear, catching those filthy lizards off guard! No more embarrassing situations like this time, hahaha, did I scare you?"

Lin Yue smiled.

Allies.

In this Otherworld, they are incredibly precious.

The other party is genuine, and on his side, he should also make some gestures.

"Fei Yue, have you heard of the M19 modular pistol and Crossbow Carriage Burst Arrow?"

He typed these words into the chat box.