203 Storage Balls (2/2)

Anna shouted as she pedaled furiously uphill. Behind her were her friends Erin and Emman pushing their bikes as they followed her while breathing roughly.

”Can't we take motorcycles or at least something motorized? This will kill us before those carriers get us.” Emman said as he gave his final spurt of energy to reach the top.

”We've already been using these for a week but you still haven't adjusted yourself? Give me a break. You are the only man I know who complains like a girl! Besides, isn't the reason why we use bikes clear? We could get in trouble if we attract a large horde with our small group!” Erin sighed deeply while shaking her head.

Takaw who was leading ahead suddenly stopped running and growled at the intersection corner. The three quickly reacted by taking a gacha ball from their dimensional storages and tapping it on their bikes.

The next second, their bikes glowed and got absorbed by the gacha balls.

The item was named 'Storage Ball' and was a recent invention by Evo to store larger things that could not fit through the dimensional storage. It was one of the top-secret equipment of Black Haven that wasn't even listed in the Black Haven Virtual Library.

Currently, it could only store regular-sized bicycles due to certain circumstances and has to be charged every time you have to use it.

Also, motorcycles and cars were too heavy and would always destroy the storage ball when forced to store them. An accident when someone almost got crushed to death isn't funny when there was literally no risk to someone's life due to the town being safe.

Due to this, a lot of scavenging requests have been listed on the Black Haven Notice Board. All kinds of enhanced woods, odd-looking plants, and durable stones were submitted daily.

Also, the information gathering missions were gaining a huge success after the world changed.

With almost everything having some minuscule changes to them, the information gathering mission has become a profitable way to gain credit points and reputation. As long as someone found something new and submit it to the Notice Board, after a few minutes and several verifications, the person could quickly know whether he would get a hefty amount or not.

If the same information gets submitted repeatedly, its value would continue to go down until it could no longer be priced by the authenticating system Evo created. Of course, Evo couldn't handle all that, and so he hired planners from the people. He distributed the task from the Notice Board and masked it like it was just a simple survey on what they wanted to be improved.

Afterward, he would implement them whether those functions were useful. Those surveys regularly come once a day and is a jackpot mission for the people since it's basically free and they all need to do is provide feedback to earn free credit points.

The best information they got was that trees gained enhanced durability depending on their age. Also, pre-cut woods from before the apocalypse have a lower durability cap than woods being processed now.

On a side note, tree loggers appeared and wanted to hoard trees but got rebuked by the police. There was no reason for the people to cut trees recklessly, and Black Haven and The Frontier supported the decision.

A Nature Conservation Group was created with the three powers in town as members leaving the alliance of small parties out of the loop.

Though the people were annoyed, they agreed on the surface and planned to do it when no one was looking. The three factions knew that they couldn't stop everyone but would be able to reduce the number of troublemakers with this. Also, people can just report someone who recklessly logged trees.

Also, cutting down trees isn't illegal; hoarding trees is illegal.

Anna charged the storage ball, so she could use it under an emergency. Erin and Emman did the same before all three of them stored the balls on their dimensional storages.

Anna and Emman brought out their new longbow and crossbow made from redwood with enhanced properties before taking their corresponding arrow and bolt from their dimensional storages.

Erin armed herself with a metal sword crafted from smelted metals and ground D2 bones. Her round shield was pure metal with leather strips as the handle.

The group slowly inched closer to the corner with Erin in the front with Anna and Emman at the back. Takaw continued growling until it saw the one-meter mutated dog that appeared on the corner.

Takaw stopped growling and wagged its tail acting like a good dog.