[Cooler LV.8: 2805/1280 (Upgradable)]
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[Cooler LV.9: 1525/2560 (Works when placed in water, can reduce the temperature within a 12.8-meter radius, minimum temperature can drop to fifteen degrees; the closer to the cooler, the better the cooling effect, easily affected by the environment; non-upgradable)]
The level nine cooler just has a larger radiation radius, nothing else has changed.
"It's a pity this temperature can't condense water droplets, just bear with it for now, the next level will definitely be able to condense water droplets, then we will never lack water again!"
Yang Yuan put the cooler back into the water bag that only had one pound of water left, then took the animal skin bag containing Ancient Lynx blood outside.
"Drink some Exotic Beast Blood, then you guys go to sleep."
He took a sip himself and then handed the animal skin bag to Zhao Jiayan: "This taste is indeed not good, but it has both moisture and energy, it's good stuff."
"It's okay, the energy contained in this blood is immense and easily absorbed, I feel my physique and strength have improved a lot."
Zhao Jiayan did not dislike it, on the contrary, she quite liked this food.
Apart from the bad taste that isn't considered a real drawback, this Exotic Beast Blood is practically treasure blood, ordinary people might be able to live longer and healthier by drinking it.
She first let Jiang Yiyi take a sip before drinking herself.
"That's good then."
Yang Yuan said: "You guys go to sleep, I'll keep watch and monitor those eight guys."
"If you can't hold on, call me." Zhao Jiayan didn't refuse; she hadn't fully recovered yet and was exhausted.
Jiang Yiyi hadn't slept much last night either, quickly fell asleep in her small compartment.
Yang Yuan didn't stay outside; he carried the disassembled parts to the corridor of the Safe House, sat cross-legged there, and continued assembling these coolers.
As he guessed, assembling ordinary coolers now couldn't gain him any experience.
It seems all the coolers need to be upgraded to level eleven to gain experience.
So, he didn't stop assembling, planning to specifically work on some easy-to-upgrade items to farm experience.
Perhaps due to the cooler's larger radiation range, the temperature difference inside and outside was too great, and the clashing hot and cold air currents made the wind outside the Safe House very strong throughout the night.
Fortunately, there were three people and a pile of cooler parts pressing down inside the Safe House, otherwise who knows if it would have been blown away.
In the middle of the night, Zhao Jiayan got up to replace Yang Yuan.
Seeing that the eight Superpower Users more than ten kilometers away had also entered a cave to rest, Yang Yuan didn't push himself and slept for a while.
An uneventful night passed peacefully.
The next day, when Yang Yuan got up, he found the outside temperature was even higher, all the plants within view had completely withered, even scorched and dry, seemingly ready to ignite at any moment.
But because of the cooler's presence, they didn't feel any discomfort, continuing to enjoy air-conditioning here.
The only slight trouble was that, because this area was so cool, nearby poison insects would crawl over, even those underground couldn't help but emerge.
So during their leisure time, they had to constantly kill insects.
Fortunately, with the current temperature, most poison insects have died, others entering this range were easily killed by Zhao Jiayan using a level four pistol.
By afternoon, Yang Yuan had assembled quite a few coolers, with few unassembled ones left.
"I used to think assembled items could be casually discarded, now it seems assembled items are useful later; once they reach a certain level, they can give me experience again."
Gaining experience multiple times from one item.
'Is this considered a second round?' Yang Yuan thought happily.
This way, it seems very necessary to find some people to help him farm item experience.
Of course, he could also only use something like the cooler to farm experience; as long as there's water, the cooler will continue to gain experience when in water.
But even relying on automatic cooler experience farming, a large number of coolers would be needed later.
So, it seems he still needs help.
And currently, it seems joining the safe zone is the only way to find people to help farm item experience, since in such an environment, there are almost no ordinary people alive in the wild.
"Let's see how things go first."
Yang Yuan didn't have much aversion to joining the safe zone.
But he doesn't like restraints, especially when possessing such strong superpowers.
Besides this, another concern was encountering a leader with a few screws loose, which would be troublesome.
So—
He thought that even if he wants to join the safe zone, it's best to increase his personal strength or influence first.
This way, he would have negotiating leverage, instead of being a tool at others' beck and call without freedom.
These thoughts flashed through his mind.
Yang Yuan thought about other issues.
Now his physique is stronger than the tattered Power Armor he wears; Power Armor seems no longer necessary.
The current function of Power Armor is only to control the Firepower Flying Disc.
'But physical strength is secondary, my main capability is item upgrading; personal level improvement is for not limiting item levels.'
Yang Yuan knows the priority, he won't specifically practice any close combat unless when idle, it might be worth trying for precaution.
After all, long-range attack is so convenient, there's no need to risk himself.
But this Power Armor is indeed too poor now.
He's thinking about, if necessary later, getting a better quality one.
Through this period of exploration, he has roughly understood that the initial experience of items assembled by his ability doesn't relate much to material quality, it's mainly about the structure.
The more complicated the structure, the more initial experience there will be.
Meaning, even if it's the same Power Armor, even if the shell is replaced from plastic to metal, as long as the structure doesn't change, the initial experience should still be a hundred points.
Of course, it's still speculation; however, Yang Yuan feels it's quite close.
He looked at the sky, stood up, walked out of the cooler's radiation range, and felt the outside temperature.
"Still around one hundred degrees Celsius, those eight people killing that small Drought Fiend should have some effect."
He used the radar of the Firepower Flying Disc to scan the situation within a hundred miles and saw that there were no other small Drought Fiends in this area, then walked towards a stone pillar.
...
Over fifty kilometers away, Wu Chengxin and others rested under a gigantic withered tree, taking turns drinking from a water canister.
The water canister is specially made, very large, with more than a hundred coolers inside, enough to keep the water temperature below fifty degrees with the lid on to prevent evaporation.
"It's boiling hot..."
At this moment, one person glanced at the huge Firepower Flying Disc thousands of meters high, fanning with a huge dry leaf, and curiously asked: "Yueyue, can your 'Moonlight Treasure Box' materialize? I heard other Conceptual Superpowers create objects; why is yours like a Rule System ability?"
"I also want to know, damn it."
Yueyue, the slightly overweight man, scoffed: "Moreover, who told you Conceptual System always creates objects?"
"Isn't that so?" Tan Zhiming, who spoke earlier, asked.
The others curiously looked over; they all knew Conceptual Superpowers were the rarest but also the most mysterious and were very interested in this system's powers.
They were a temporarily assembled team, not familiar with each other's abilities, each wary of the others, and among them, several used aliases instead of names.
Now seeing 'Yueyue' inclined to speak, everyone couldn't help but listen attentively.
Yueyue said: "So-called Conceptual Superpowers just manifest concepts, not saying Conceptual System is necessarily object-creating. For example, I knew a person whose impression of his leader was omnipotent and his idol, so his awakened Conceptual Superpower was that his long-dead leader became his Summoner, with completely independent memory, could reprimand and scold him."
"Summoner?"
"Reviving the dead?"
"Wow, isn't this still creating objects?"
The other seven people, including Wu Chengxin, were all surprised.
The slightly overweight man Yueyue chuckled: "I don't really understand whether this counts as creating objects; my understanding of Conceptual System abilities comes from ancient records excavated by the league from Ancient Ruins. Anyway, my ability isn't object-creating."
He secretly curled his lips, thinking, should he tell them he wants to create a Moonlight Treasure Box but must use Moonstones?
Wouldn't that give them a chance to inflate prices?
Thinking of this, he internally complained.
His ability belongs to the Conceptual System, named "Moonlight Treasure Box."
The original function of the Moonlight Treasure Box is to take people through past temporal spaces.
But strangely in his concept, past temporal spaces don't exist; he believes past times are history, covered by current time, unable to exist independently.
Thus, the capability of the Conceptual Superpower "Moonlight Treasure Box" becomes fixed; he can only travel to places he has been in the past, not through past temporal spaces.