novelraw Chapter 79: Bronze Luxury Card, Sniper Training Notes
Chapter 79: Bronze Luxury Card, Sniper Training Notes
"This is the magazine display stand!"
Yu Yuan looked at the walnut-colored magazine rack before him, unable to suppress the smile on his face.
"Intelligence, yes, intelligence!" He immediately checked the time—still 10 minutes until six o'clock—but he was already growing impatient.
"I wonder what intelligence it will bring me today!"
Forcing down his excitement, he turned his gaze to the Virtual Light Screen. He hadn't even had time to check the Fate Card he drew this time.
But when he opened the Fate Cards page again, a green color already caught his eye.
[Current Fate Card—Luxury]
[Luxury Card, 'Bronze' quality. Player must complete one luxury action unrelated to survival within 7 days, consuming resources ≥150,000, otherwise the player dies.]
(Friendly reminder: Maybe you should just expand your shelter area! It only costs 450,000 survival points)
"The Bronze Luxury Card is here!"Looking at the Fate Card's description, Yu Yuan felt extremely grateful that he possessed the third method to eliminate Luxury Cards.
"So this is what a Bronze-level Fate Card is like. This difficulty is really... trying to kill me!"
"If even the Bronze Luxury Card's mission difficulty is this high, wouldn't the difficulty of other cards be through the roof?"
He grumbled inwardly a few times.
Fortunately, he had previously obtained the Rare Treasure: Starry Sky Mirror. He only needed to collect fifty thousand survival points to build the Starry Sky Observatory, and this Bronze Luxury Card could be eliminated perfectly.
"This mission has a one-week time limit. If that's the case, I still need to find Fries' Safe House, but I can also walk on two legs. With such a long time, even scavenging everywhere could gather fifty thousand survival points."
"However, I'll need to carefully consider my resource choices!"
While he was thinking, the time had already reached six in the morning.
By the time Yu Yuan snapped back to attention, two newspapers and a notebook had already appeared on the magazine display stand.
"New items have appeared!"
He stood up and went to the magazine display stand, first picking up the notebook. The Virtual Light Screen popped up with a message.
[Consume 1000 survival points to purchase this intelligence item?]
Hiss...
Even though Yu Yuan was prepared, he couldn't help but suck in a sharp breath.
So expensive!
But immediately after, he revealed a smile.
Expensive is good!
Good and expensive—because it's good, it's expensive!
After previous purchases, Yu Yuan had considerable trust in items produced by Fate's Gift.
Whether it was the initial [Green Forest City East District Map], or the later Inside Information Card and Thought Tide Card, they had all benefited him greatly, with returns far exceeding the cost by several times or even dozens of times.
He could buy this notebook without thinking!
He immediately chose to pay.
As 1000 survival points were deducted, a line of text appeared on the notebook in his hand—Sniper Training Notes.
Sniper Training Notes
Quality: Bronze
Author: Morey
Introduction: This is a sniper textbook published by legendary sniper Morey after compiling and binding his past training notes. Readers of this book can acquire sniper shooting knowledge, with a small probability of comprehending the skill—[Precision Shooting] (Ordinary); extremely small probability of comprehending the skill—[Lethal Snipe] (Excellent).
"Holy crap! A skill book?"
It can be like this?
Yu Yuan quickly flipped through the notebook in his hand, wanting to see if he was the legendary protagonist who could comprehend an Excellent-level skill in one go.
Unfortunately, he flipped through the book twice without any reaction, clearly wishful thinking.
But even so, Yu Yuan was quite satisfied.
1000 survival points—even if he only learned some sniper techniques and methods by reading this notebook, it would be worth the price.
"I knew items from Fate's Gift would definitely be full of value."
Closing the notebook, he looked at the two newspapers.
One newspaper was still the "Greenwood City Daily," while the other was a newspaper called "Agricultural Knowledge News."
Yu Yuan picked up the "Agricultural Knowledge News."
There was only one news article titled:
—"Protein Farm" New Star: Mealworm Farming is Quietly Sparking an Agricultural Green Revolution
Quality: Rock
In people's traditional impressions, farms raise pigs, cows, and chickens. But in many modern agricultural bases today, rows of neat plastic trays contain thousands of golden larvae wriggling in wheat bran—these are mealworms.
As a highly potential super sustainable protein source, their nutrition exceeds everyone's imagination.
[Small Bugs, Big Nutrition]: Mealworms, scientific name Tenebrio molitor. Tests show that their dry matter protein content is as high as over 50%, rich in... At the same time, they also contain abundant healthy fats (mainly unsaturated fatty acids), dry matter fat content of 25%~35%, various vitamins (such as B vitamins), and minerals like iron, zinc... The nutritional structure is comprehensive and balanced, comparable to a 'nutrition concentrate pack.'
['Low-Carbon Champion' of Aquaculture]: Mealworms almost never produce greenhouse gases like methane during the farming process. Moreover, they only need agricultural waste like wheat bran, vegetable and fruit peels, and dried leaves as food to produce large amounts of high-quality protein.
The required farming area is very small, and three-dimensional shelf farming can be adopted. Almost no drinking water consumption is needed, with extremely high cost-effectiveness.
The mealworm growth cycle is relatively fast too, generally only taking 1~4 weeks to grow into larvae and reach the edible stage, with enormous economic benefits.
[Emerging Human Food]: Mealworms become crispy in texture after baking or frying. Or they can be ground into powder (insect powder) and added to various food productions... greatly enhancing the product's nutritional value.
Famous agricultural scholar Professor Dale stated: The mealworm revolution has already depicted a greener, more efficient, and more nutritious future for us.
"Mealworms?" Yu Yuan looked at the newspaper thoughtfully.
For the shelter to develop, planting and farming are necessary stages. Like his current situation, although he's temporarily well-off in food and clothing by plundering resources from Thugs and scavengers, he always has a sense of crisis.
He can manage like this for one or two months, but what about one or two years?
Resources will eventually be consumed; only true self-sufficiency is the correct survival solution.
His previous plan to try growing vegetables was also considering this aspect.
As for animal husbandry, he originally intended to find time to bring back that group of Cree Mountain sheep. As long as he partitioned a space in the civil defense shelter level, raising them shouldn't be a problem.
But now, with the appearance of this mealworm news, he has a new idea.
Comparing mealworms to sheep, without a doubt, mealworms are undoubtedly easier to raise—they eat less, grow faster, occupy less space, and make almost no noise.
Moreover, their nutritional value surpasses mutton by several streets.
They're practically the ideal farming creature.
But the disadvantages are also obvious. Compared to mutton, the taste and psychological barrier of mealworms aren't just slightly different.
After some thought, Yu Yuan put away the newspaper.
"Quite interesting. Maybe I can give it a try, or pursuing both approaches simultaneously wouldn't be bad either."