Chapter 543: Low-Temperature Disaster Arrives, Molten Element Blocks Go on Sale

The psychic abilities awakened by Baku and Habaar.

Even Yu Yuan was somewhat surprised.

"Damn, is this for real? This is basically a natural tank and control mage!"

Yu Yuan's gaze shifted continuously between Baku and Habaar.

This caused Baku and Habaar to exchange glances, their eyes filled with confusion.

When Yu Yuan told Alpha about the two men's talents and psychic abilities.

Even Alpha showed a shocked expression.

He looked at Baku and Habaar in disbelief.

Then came sheer delight.

When all fifty-nine doses of Genetic Modification Serum had been fully injected.

All the high-level members and main combat forces of the Ten Thousand Nations Pact Civilization had completed their enhancements.

Carmen was also beaming with joy.

Feeling the 【Battlefield Insight】 psychic ability he had awakened, he was quite satisfied.

As the upgraded supporting psychic ability for his 【Insight】 talent, Carmen declared that this was absolutely the most suitable psychic ability for him.

With the end of the genetic modification process, the strength of the entire Pioneering Group had been elevated once again.

Alpha returned to Dead Mine Town.

Baku and Habaar, as the main forces of this operation, naturally followed Alpha's side.

The campaign against the Reyes Legion officially began.

As dozens of Mechanical Armor vehicles transformed into a steel torrent, driving away from Dead Mine Town toward the town where the Reyes Legion was stationed.

Yu Yuan did not accompany them.

Or rather, Yu Yuan had no intention of participating in this operation.

He arrived at the Starry Sky Observatory, waiting for the birth of a new Celestial Phenomena Card.

Yu Yuan looked at the unchanging layout and decoration inside the Starry Sky Observatory.

He gazed at Green Forest City shrouded in nightfall outside, checking the contents of the Chat Channel.

A few days had passed, and the commotion he had stirred up had already died down. No one mentioned his name anymore. After all, too many things were happening across the Civilization Ladder.

For example, right now, Yu Yuan spotted something interesting in the Chat Channel...

【Aerodynamic Train: What's up with that Destroyer Dragon Train? Hasn't his ranking shot up in the past two days like he's cheating? When did he break into rank 9874 on the leaderboard? What's his background?】

【Thunder Mobile City: I heard he's also a newcomer who just advanced to Bronze Rank. In just over a month, he's already made it onto the leaderboard. This batch of newcomers is terrifying!】

【Ghost Lord Train: I can vouch for that. The Destroyer Dragon Train really did advance to Bronze Rank just over a month ago. He's on the same train leaderboard as me. This guy is ruthless, truly terrifying!】

"Destroyer Dragon Train..." Yu Yuan stared at the name as some buried memories resurfaced.

Back when Black Domain Shelter launched an invasion against him, it seemed to be the Destroyer Dragon Train that had acted as the middleman.

Going further back.

When he had just entered the Wasteland game and was still in the Newbie Protection Period.

This Destroyer Dragon Train had once killed a high-ranking shelter player during the Wasteland Battle Royale.

That was also the first time Yu Yuan had learned about the concept of the Wasteland Battle Royale.

The memory was still fresh.

Yu Yuan hadn't expected to see this name again so soon.

"According to Black Domain, this Destroyer Dragon is also a player who fused a civilization shard, and he fused the Molten Demon's high-level evil spirit bloodline..."

Yu Yuan suddenly thought.

Destroyer Dragon knew Moon Shadow's Breath. Back then, Destroyer Dragon had acted as the intermediary, getting Black Domain Shelter to launch an invasion against him.

Now that both of them had made it onto the leaderboard, he wondered if Destroyer Dragon would continue to launch an invasion war against him.

Although the possibility was small, Yu Yuan felt it wasn't impossible. Even though his ranking was far higher than Destroyer Dragon's, Bronze Rank players all had challenge privileges.

He would keep this in mind for now.

He continued browsing the information, and a fleeting message was quickly caught by Yu Yuan.

【Habuuzz Shelter: Damn, a week ago it was still summer here. Why has the temperature dropped to 3°C in just one week? What kind of crazy weather is this?】

This message was buried among countless others, completely inconspicuous.

But obviously, someone else had noticed it too.

【Lua Highway Vehicle: @Habuuzz Shelter, bro, did you suddenly get a temperature drop too? Same here—dropped more than ten degrees Celsius in three days, sending us straight from summer to autumn...】

【Feiyu Treehouse: @Habuuzz Shelter, you too? Same here—we've had heavy rain and hail starting two days ago. In two days, the temperature has plummeted nearly ten degrees...】

Yu Yuan carefully searched through these chat messages about the temperature drop.

Excitement welled up in his heart.

"The low-temperature disaster... has it begun?"

"It should have already started, but it's just the beginning. Only a small number of worlds are affected..."

Yu Yuan quickly analyzed the situation.

He sent a message to Black Flame.

Asking about the recent development of Molten Ore.

Soon, a message from the Kobold Black Flame came through.

Ever since receiving Yu Yuan's order to go all out on mining Molten Ore, with the help of the Multi-functional Mining Vehicle, the Molten Kobolds had excavated a total of four thousand tons of Molten Ore in less than a week.

That amounted to 260,000 units of Molten Ore.

All of it had already been transported to Dead Mine Town for smelting.

"260,000 units of Molten Ore. One unit of Molten Ore can be smelted into one unit of Molten Foundation Block. Although the volume and weight are greatly reduced, the heat output and sustained release time will be greatly enhanced..."

Yu Yuan quickly calculated the value of the Molten Foundation Blocks.

He opened Taotao Hole again, preparing to check the prices of cold-weather items.

But he suddenly froze.

Looking at the completely different Taotao Hole interface, along with the various tiered search options and secondary and tertiary pages for item displays.

He finally understood.

After he had advanced to Bronze Rank, even Taotao Hole had switched from the Rock Rank interface to the Bronze Rank one.

This made Yu Yuan's next move much more convenient.

He immediately began searching for prices of cold-weather supplies.

Soon, item details appeared one by one on the Virtual Light Screen.

The prices were not beyond Yu Yuan's expectations.

Prices ranged from a few hundred Survival Points all the way up.

Based on item type and rarity, they were divided into: consumable supply type, active heat generation type, passive insulation type, and environment modification type or energy type.

Depending on the type, the prices varied drastically.

The most precious ones were naturally the environment modification type. They had a large area of effect and could change the temperature of a small environment, such as portable heaters, heating furnaces, and the like. However, these items generally required external energy sources like fuel or electricity.

Prices ranged from a few thousand Survival Points to tens of thousands of Survival Points. Extremely excellent ones could cost hundreds of thousands of Survival Points. And this was for Ordinary items.

Next came the passive insulation items. These items generally required no resource consumption and had long insulation times. Various insulation materials (clothing, equipment), reflective materials, and windproof materials all fell under this category.

The higher the insulation efficiency, the greater the value.

The value of active heat generation items was actually similar to or even higher than passive insulation items, but these items also required energy consumption to generate heat.

Energy depletion was also an issue.

As for the Molten Foundation Blocks in Yu Yuan's hands, they clearly and perfectly combined the environment modification type, passive insulation type, and active heat generation type into one.

They could continuously provide heat to the surrounding environment, lasting and high-temperature, without needing any external energy source.

They could even be carried on the body and used as portable warmers. They were practically the perfect all-around god-tier item.

No matter how poorly a Bronze Rank player was doing, they would still have at least tens of millions of Survival Points.

After thinking it over, Yu Yuan set a price that wasn't too low.

—100,000 Survival Points per block.

"This price should be acceptable, right? Even if other players have similar ores as a cheaper substitute, the block's shape still adds some appeal."

And so, the 【Molten Element Block】 was quietly listed on the Bronze Rank Taotao Hole without a sound.