Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
As far as all surviving humans could see, the Almighty Su had fallen silent once again after a wave of high-profile exploits to save the human race.
On the night of the live broadcast, Su Mo had appeared, and the system had given a bonus of 100 Disaster Points to the audience watching the stream, triggering a small high point during the night.
This was despite the possibility that Su Mo’s strong rise to the top—anticipated eagerly by many—might not happen.
Those who were lucky enough to be in the rankings also understood the situation well themselves.
Some of them used his popularity to jump onto the bandwagon. However, those who ridiculed him…
Were nowhere to be seen!
Some people speculated that Su Mo was holding back a big revelation during this disaster, just like last time, where he waited until the most critical moment to suddenly turn on the live broadcast and shock the entire wasteland.
Some speculated that Su Mo, as a wasteland “senior”, was trying to give more opportunities to the younger generation—so that there would be more of them doing live broadcasts and gaining airdrop rewards.
There was even a chubby gentleman with butter for brains who boldly speculated that Su Mo was currently sitting in his ship with a harem of thousands of beauties, enjoying a life that ordinary refugees could never imagine.
The outrageous thing was that not everyone spurned this theory. Instead, it had even become a goal to be sought after by some.
What they certainly did not expect was that Su Mo, who was onboard Hope One at the moment, was experiencing…
Both pain and pleasure!
“Iron treasure chest, oh, iron treasure chest! Open up for me!”
Once again, he undid the lock on the treasure chest and watched the chest slowly disappear. A lithium battery appeared on the ground.
Su Mo rubbed his sore back and stood up with a great deal of effort.
Behind him, currently, over 120 of the 136 iron treasure chests had been opened, and the previously empty warehouse floor was piled with various miscellaneous items.
In these days of dramatically declining drop rates, the contents of treasure chests were no longer like what they were back in the day. Last time, there would still be the occasional hard goods like workbench or blueprints.
Parts, food, tools, and completed small items…
The contents of iron treasure chests were not great compared to gold and silver treasure chests, but at least they were not useless items like the ones found in wooden treasure chests.
Occasionally, Su Mo would get one or two items that had a slight sparkle to them, but on the whole, they were not good enough for him at this stage!
Pulling out his Mountain and Sea Painting Scroll card to get rid of the soreness in his back, Su Mo patiently crouched down once again and continued his tedious task of unboxing.
Very quickly, all 136 of the iron treasure chests were opened. Su Mo did not stop but turned his attention to the 87 bronze treasure chests!
Su Mo’s mood was finally better this time, compared to when he was opening the iron treasure chests, and he harbored some hopes of finding some good items.
Unfortunately, after opening 10 bronze treasure chests in a row, his bad luck—which did not manifest often but was awful when it did—reared its head again.
He thought to himself, ‘You’re a bronze treasure chest! At least give me ten bags of rice!’
However, he got two bottles of mineral water! How outrageous!
In today’s world of plummeting drop rates, only the elite among the foreign races could afford a single bronze treasure chest.
If they found out that he used so much money only to get two bottles of mineral water, he was not sure how they would react.
“This is fine. I suppose all the bad luck I’m getting will only accumulate toward my good luck later on. I still have the silver and gold chests!
“It’s fine if the bronze treasure chests are all trash, as long as there’s a high-value item in the gold treasure chests! Then sacrificing all these bronze chests will be worth it!”
In the eyes of the ordinary refugees of the wasteland, the bronze treasure chests were precious. However, for Su Mo, they were expendable.
Moreover, Su Mo knew deep down that the kind of luck he used to have was excessive. It was like he drew miracles every single time he opened up a treasure chest.
If that were true for everyone, every human in the wasteland would now be so rich that they could start chasing down the foreign races for a fight.
The normal resources and normal blueprints he was getting now were most likely the default for bronze and iron treasure chests.
When he became fatigued from opening chests, he took a break for a while and continued when he was done resting.
While doing so, Su Mo even connected to Connie’s core and went looking around the foreign races’ chat channel with great interest.
Unsurprisingly, it was still very quiet.
The death of over twenty thousand foreign races was like dropping a stone in the ocean—it did not cause so much as a ripple.
In the foreign races’ discussion topics, there was one thing that was being talked about the most.
The Golden Lion King had stopped their live broadcast stream!
However, what was certain was that not a single one of the foreign races who knew the inside story went on the World Channel to answer these individuals.
Unusually, on this extraordinarily significant day, even the Five Royal Clans did not turn on their live broadcast to continue consolidating their prestige.
It was as if they had vanished, disappearing overnight without a trace.
Even the staunch Royalists did not dare to come out and mock the Oreo clan or the Golden Lion King. Every single one of them kept mum and were as quiet as mutes, which was a rare scene.
Su Mo was unmoved by this for no other reason than he had expected it!
The foreign race teams that went hunting for Old Devil Su had fallen onto the hands of the Golden Lion King. If anyone were to find out, there would be no need to even talk about whether the plans for the marine hunt would still be able to come to fruition.
The Five Royal Clans’ name and credibility would instantly drop to the lowest it had ever been in the entire history of the foreign races!
They would be making history and writing the future, setting an unprecedented record.
Until they managed to completely get rid of Old Devil Su and the Golden Lion King, they would be nailed to the royal column of shame, forced to endure being ridiculed by everyone.
In fact, it was highly likely that the real “giants” behind the Royal Family might even stop investing in them if they were to find out about this failed operation.
Naturally, they did not dare to speak out and could only swallow these disastrous consequences in silence.
“I’m guessing that even up until now, the Royal Clans still don’t know my true identity. This… is so much fun!
“In the future, I might be able to use the Golden Lion King and the Oreo clan identities once more. It might even be possible for us to completely create internal chaos within the foreign races!”
Su Mo smiled as he switched off the game panel and continued to open his treasure chests.
The Five Royal Clans did not want the ordinary foreign races to find out about this imbecile thing that they had done. They just wanted the marine hunt to go ahead as planned so that they could redeem themselves.
Likewise, Su Mo was thinking the same thing.
At the moment, all the humans could not even get used to the swaying of the sea. If the marine hunt plans went haywire, the ordinary foreign races might feel they had no future with no option but to frenziedly attack the human race once they got to the New World.
If that were to happen, it would not be even ten days before more than one-third of the human population would go down drastically—most likely within two or three days.
Instead, if the truth about the battle were to be revealed at the most critical moment of the upcoming war after the entire human race had gained a certain amount of strength, it might actually serve as a disruptive attack.
Su Mo was very clear about the pros and cons of the entire matter and was able to look at things long-term.
While he was in deep thought, he had also finished opening all the bronze treasure chests.
He was not in a hurry to open the gold and silver treasure chests, so after that, he transported all the supplies he had obtained into the warehouse, sorted into their proper place according to their properties.
After this, Su Mo strode to the bathroom on the ground floor, turned on the water heater, and took a hot shower.
Unlike bronze and iron treasure chests, the silver treasure chests were real treasures—what more the gold ones!
No one else knew this, but every night before Su Mo went to bed, he would rejoice in the bold decision he made on his second day in the wasteland!
During the first few times that he opened up his silver treasure chests, not only did he obtain psychic energy crystals and Oreo, he even managed to get the key blueprints for the Civil Type II—Matter Conversion Engine.
It was truly those exact silver treasure chests that allowed Su Mo to progress countless times faster than anyone else, right from the start.
Right now, after a good shower and changing into a new set of clothes, Su Mo looked at the 48 silver treasure chests laid out in front of him. His heart skipped a beat, and he slowly laid his hand on one of them.
Like an experienced thief, Su Mo unlocked it with unparalleled skill, taking just six seconds to open the silver treasure chest.
“Good, it’s not an item! It’s a blueprint!”
As expected, there was nothing fantastic yet. At the same time, Su Mo was full of anticipation as he continued to accumulate his luck for the gold treasure chests.
Once he had opened the chest and picked up the design blueprint that appeared on the ground, Su Mo appraised it with the system, hoping for a little luck, and looked pleased.
[Excellent Plier Toolkit Design Blueprint (Excellent)
[Description]: This is a design blueprint that contains a method of making high grade pliers. If you strictly follow the materials specifications and manufacturing requirements when creating it, you will get an excellent and handy tool.
[Required place to load]: Workbench
[Limitation 1]: Must be manually created by the player
[Limitation 2]: Production site. Must have the corresponding workbench.
[Comment]: It’s not too much to carry around a 14kg wrench when we’re sailing a ship, right?
After making his first workbench, Su Mo had kept an eye out for subsequent upgrades to it.
There was no shortage of excellent quality work modules and experiment modules for sale in the market.
However, there were never any tools above good quality!
In fact, things were so much so that by the time they went to sea, all the operating tools on the workbench were still not of any quality and were marked with the large word ‘simplistic’.
“I never understood why no one was selling high grade tools before, but from the looks of it now, perhaps people who had the blueprints ran into the big problem of not being able to make the items!”
Since the first silver treasure chest he opened was a good one, Su Mo did not hesitate. After putting the item aside, he continued opening the other treasure chests.
This time, as long as the contents of the chest did not have a miraculous flicker of light, Su Mo would set them aside and move on to open the next treasure chest.
Compared to the bronze and iron chests, this time the game did not treat the players like dogs and did not dare to set any limitations for the drop rates.
After opening up all 48 treasure chests, Su Mo did not manage to get even a single food item.
Likewise, he did not get anything useless either.
“Let me count. I’ve got quite a haul for the silver treasure chests with a total of…
“19 design blueprints, 11 small tools, 8 instruments, 1 rare quality high power charger, 4 coupons, and 5 consumables.
“Not bad! Not bad at all!”
Each item he had obtained from the silver treasure chest had its own unique effect, but right now, Su Mo had set aside any intentions of calculating it all.
When he was almost at the 300th treasure chest and it was time to open the gold ones, an indescribable feeling suddenly went through Su Mo’s mind.
It was like a sixth sense in the dark, or maybe it was just self-consolation.
He stood up and surveyed all the remaining golden treasure chests, then took two steps forward and drew out the fourth one.
There seemed to be a voice speaking loudly to him.
‘This treasure chest definitely contains hard goods!’
Since he held the rights to all the treasure chests, Su Mo chose to follow his heart at that exciting moment. He lifted the treasure chest in his hands and opened it in the air.
The next second, the treasure chest unlocked, and a golden light that did not disappoint Su Mo suddenly shone out as the lid lifted slowly!
The golden light was not dazzling, nor did it stand out!
It was like the sun suddenly bursting out of the clouds in the bitter cold of winter.
It was warm!
It was so warm that even the corners of Su Mo’s taut lips turned up in a small smile!
He pulled the lid open and let the golden light in the box shine out for a few seconds. After it disappeared along with the box, a card appeared in Su Mo’s hand.
Unlike the resource card he had obtained previously, this time, the image on the card was extremely unfamiliar to him.
For such a novel object, Su Mo did not use the system to identify it, but paid some Disaster Points directly and selected the game panel to conduct detailed identification.
He felt the same novelty as when he had first found a resource card.
The next second, as the card’s properties floated up, Su Mo looked over at it with wide eyes.
When he saw it, Su Mo could not help but exclaim in amazement.
“Holy crap, I can’t f*cking believe this!
“This is really playing dirty, right!”
