46: Chapter 46 Encouragement

Ivy Felicia suddenly realized that compared to the help Xiao Qi provided to Master Vehicle Owner, her own help was insignificant.

Thus, she stood up from the bench and said without hesitation: "Master Vehicle Owner, Filia is full. Please bring out the corpses of the Gold-eating Ants and let Filia process them!"

The abdomens of the Gold-eating Ants contained various ordinary metals that had to be manually extracted!

Additionally, the shells of the Gold-eating Ants were a special material that could be used to craft ordinary-grade weapons and equipment!

Manually extracting ordinary metal from the abdomens and peeling off the shells—and they had killed over 3,700 Gold-eating Ants today!

If there were no surprises, tomorrow the number would definitely exceed 4,000, perhaps even more!

Clearly, this was not a task that could be completed in a short time.

Therefore, Qin Yun did not refuse: "There are quite a lot of Gold-eating Ants. There is no rush to use the ordinary metal and the shells; just process them slowly."

"Mm-hmm, Filia will listen to Master Vehicle Owner."

"Meow meow ao!"

Cat Xiaoxiao hurriedly indicated that she could dig out the ordinary metal from the stomachs of the Gold-eating Ants.

Qin Yun took out several rabbit fur sweaters to lay them out, then took out a portion of the Gold-eating Ant corpses and placed them on the rabbit fur sweaters, "You all start processing first, I will join later."

After speaking, he sat back on the bench and continued to eat the meat and rice on the long table, while opening the survivor panel to check the newly added task function.

Just like the previous summoning, a task category had been added to the panel.

He focused his mind to trigger the Eye of Insight entry and clicked on the task category.

Tasks were not mandatory to accept!

Survivors could freely choose whether or not to accept tasks!

At the very beginning, there would only be one fixed task on the task list!

Only by successfully completing this task, or by using 100 copper coins to refresh, could the tasks on the list be changed!

Of course, if enough tasks were successfully completed and one's performance during the tasks was good enough, the number of tasks on the task list would also increase accordingly!

During the task, the drop rate would increase, and the countdown would stop decreasing!

After successfully completing a task, task points would be awarded based on performance during the task!

The key was that every 1 task point could be converted into 1 unit of energy, and task points could also be used for lucky draws!

Qin Yun looked at the only task on the task list.

[Survival Type Task]

[Task Requirement 1: Survive on the Highway for 23 hours, and the vehicle must not be damaged!]

[Difficulty: ★☆] (One and a half stars, nine stars maximum)

[Click to Accept]

Qin Yun did not click to accept.

He fell into deep thought.

The novice adaptation period had not yet ended, and the Highway was absolutely safe, so what did this task mean?

Was it handing out benefits?

That was definitely impossible; Qin Yun did not believe at all that such benefits existed!

That voice had stated the end time of the novice adaptation period, and then spoke of striving to adapt and moving forward courageously...

If his guess was correct, this task was likely a preview of some changes that might occur after the novice adaptation period ended!

Unlocking the function of coins, giving Survivors an extra channel to obtain energy; accepting and successfully completing the task would yield huge gains!

Then, the mysterious red fog that constantly corroded the Highway was not trying to force Survivors to their deaths, but rather...

From the moment they descended onto Blue Star, emitting golden light to turn everyone except bad people into healthy, normal people, all the arrangements up to now were not meant to make Survivors lose their lives!

It had always been encouraging Survivors to move forward courageously!

...

Qin Yun continued to look at the other categories and, finding no changes, closed the survivor panel and told Cat Xiaoxiao, Qin Xiaoqi, and Filia about the information regarding the task function and some of his own speculations.

"Master, since it encourages Survivors to move forward courageously, the difficulty of the early tasks will certainly not be high. We might be able to take this opportunity to harvest a large amount of resources while obtaining more task points!"

Qin Xiaoqi's voice was very excited; she believed this was an excellent opportunity.

Cat Xiaoxiao tilted her cat head to think, her sharp claws on her right forelimb subconsciously stirring around inside the stomach of a Gold-eating Ant.

Ivy Felicia also slowed down her shell-peeling movements.

Qin Yun pondered for a while and shook his head: "Xiao Qi, your suggestion is very good, but sharpening the axe will not delay the work of cutting wood. My opinion is that we should accept the task by the night after tomorrow at the latest. Two full days of time are enough for us to do many things!"

He had made this decision after careful consideration!

Firstly, the mysterious red fog was constantly corroding the Highway, and the distance between the Gold-eating Ant nest and them would become further and further. Cleaning up the Gold-eating Ants could farm copper coins and ordinary metal, and at the same time, allow them to see if there was a chance to obtain a golden treasure chest!

Secondly, even if they couldn't obtain a golden treasure chest, the drone could search for other treasure chests. If they managed to open more ordinary energy-gathering guns, device upgrade stones, or blessing gems, their overall strength would definitely improve significantly!

With higher overall strength, their performance during the task would be better and safer, and thus they could also obtain more task points!

"Master is right, it was Xiao Qi who was shortsighted."

Qin Yun gently patted the metal wall of the carriage and looked at the screen: "It's not shortsighted; you just thought that we aren't lacking copper coins for the time being, which is why you made that judgment. If it weren't for the Gold-eating Ant nest, I would also have accepted the task as soon as possible!"

"Thank you for your understanding, Master. Xiao Qi will definitely continue to study and improve!"

Discovering that Cat Xiaoxiao was still tilting her cat head in thought, Qin Yun also shared the thoughts he had just had after pondering.

Then he received various praises.

After finishing dinner, Qin Yun joined the ranks of processing the Gold-eating Ants.

The processing location was also moved to the long table.

Digging out the ordinary metal and peeling off the shell—it took Qin Yun more than ten seconds to process one Gold-eating Ant!

Calculated, one person, one cat, and one elf could only process about six hundred per hour.

If they didn't rest, it would take at least six hours to process more than three thousand seven hundred of them!

In order to process the Gold-eating Ants faster and be able to clean up the Gold-eating Ants faster tomorrow, Qin Yun decided to summon living beings before the late-night snack time!

Being able to eat a late-night snack with special effects right after being summoned, plus having a magical full set of ordinary rabbit fur gear, the loyalty would be...

Immediately, Qin Yun diverted a portion of his attention to open the communication section on the survivor panel.

"Xiao Qi, the number on the communication section has become 9436!"

"Master, Xiao Qi has recorded it!"

"Good."

Qin Yun clicked on the friends interface.

There were a few more friends needing appraisal services than yesterday.

He first clicked on Great Sage Sun's chat box.

[Great Sage Sun: Boss Qin, I killed three Red-eyed Rabbits and found this in their nest, [Image], Boss, take a look and see if it has any special effects.]

[Great Sage Sun: Boss Qin, can this black-looking thing be eaten? [Image]]

Two messages, one from after ten in the morning and one from after three in the afternoon.

Ordinary Moon-viewing Sand and Black Phosphorus Earthworm.

So, Great Sage Sun must have obtained a treasure chest!

[Qin: Great Sage has good luck. Appraisal requires one-fifteenth of the scales. The contract has already been generated.]

Sent, moved aside, and clicked on the chat box of Stewed Goose in Iron Pot.

[Stewed Goose in Iron Pot: [Image] [Image], Brother Qin, help me appraise these two items.]

Bloodthirsty Spiked Boar and ordinary blood essence.

[Qin: Brother Stewed Goose's harvest is good. Appraisal requires 57 jin of beast meat. The contract has already been generated.]

Great Sage Sun also replied at this time.

[Great Sage Sun: Hahaha, it seems Boss Qin's luck is also very good. I have confirmed the contract on my end.]

[Qin: Ordinary Moon-viewing Sand, has the effect of brightening the eyes... Black Phosphorus Earthworm, contains highly toxic...]

...

Qin Yun quickly processed the messages needing appraisal services.

After processing the friends' messages, he clicked on private messages to appraise for other Survivors.

Being able to send private messages meant they hadn't blocked him.

Even so, Qin Yun still triggered the Eye of Insight entry every time to see whether the person asking him for appraisal was a good person or a bad person.

If their virtue was negative, he would ruthlessly harvest them!