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Yan Yu raised her wrist and looked at the watch. It was 9 o'clock in the morning. The time in this game world was not much different from that in the real world.

The human entered the survival game at around 3 p.m., which meant that the tools, weapons, and water she carried would only last for 6 hours.

She must find new weapons or a human settlement within 6 hours, otherwise she will surely die in this dangerous forest.

The sense of urgency was always there. Yan Yu quickly ate something to fill his stomach, then immediately used his watch to look at the sun to determine the general direction and headed towards a fixed direction.

She couldn't just sit there and wait for death.

The walk lasted for 4 hours. Yan Yu's clothes were scratched by countless branches and leaves, but her body did not show any obvious signs of fatigue, probably because of her strength and physical fitness.

On the way, she also encountered five level 1 wood-eating ants. After killing them, she only provided 15 experience points and 10 copper coins, no attribute point bonus, and of course no treasure chest dropped.

Yan Yu's face was full of disgust as he looked at the place where the wood-eating ants turned into spots of light and disappeared.

"Tsk, the drop rate of these level 1 monsters is too low."

Yan Yu frowned: "Or is it that my luck is too low?"

From childhood to adulthood, she thought she was pretty lucky. Although she was not a European emperor, she was not a poor loser either.

The low drop rate is definitely a problem with the game settings. After all, there is no "luck value" attribute on the player panel.

Sure enough, the game is not like human beings.

What Yan Yu didn't know was that compared to other players, her drop rate was already quite good.

After walking for four hours, Yan Yu still found no signs of human activity, but he did find three wood-eating ant nests that were two or three meters high.

The black ants are densely packed.

She only dared to take a look from a distance, and then quickly took a detour.

Just kidding, in addition to countless level 1 worker ants, there are at least dozens of level 5 soldier ants. The male ants and queen ants have not been seen yet, but it is obvious that their level will only be higher and more difficult to deal with.

As the saying goes, "A swarm of ants can kill an elephant," let alone a rookie like her who just reached level 3. She would be a complete failure against the army of ants.

Yan Yu carefully avoided the area where the wood-eating ants were active, and a look of difficulty appeared on her face.

She didn't dare to stop and wanted to leave the forest quickly.

Yan Yu didn't want to waste time. When she was thirsty, she would just drink some water. When she was hungry, she would just eat some energy bars or chocolate.

As he walked, he picked up a few hard branches and sharpened one end of them with a boning knife so that he could use them as makeshift weapons in the future.

On the way, Yan Yu also discovered a small fruit forest with more than a dozen shrubs with many yellow fruits growing on them, which looked a bit like miniature apples.

Yan Yu activated the detection technique, and it showed [Unnamed wild fruit, sour taste, edible].

As long as it's edible, it doesn't matter whether it tastes bad or not. So she picked more than a dozen in one go.

After leaving, Yan Yu made some marks on the trees every ten meters, thinking that if he couldn't find any human settlements later, he could return along the marks.

At least there are wild fruits here, so we won’t starve to death.

She had to prepare for the worst.

However, there is always a way out. Just when Yan Yu was about to give up, she suddenly heard the faint sound of flowing water.

There is water!

Since ancient times, humans have lived near water. As long as they go downstream, they will definitely find human settlements or walk out of the forest.

Yan Yu's eyes lit up, and he walked forward quickly. After pushing aside a large patch of grass, a stream nearly two meters wide was revealed.

The water keeps flowing.

Although the stream water seemed extremely clear, Yan Yu did not rush over to get some water to drink. Firstly, he was worried that there was something wrong with the water source, and secondly, he was afraid that there might be aggressive carnivorous animals in the water.

The forest is full of dangers, so you can never be too careful.

So Yan Yu kept a short distance from the stream and went downstream along the direction of the water flow.

Fortunately, she was lucky and actually found a village before 3 o'clock.

Looking up at the words "Novice Village No. 1111" engraved on the stone at the entrance of the village, Yan Yu's mouth twitched involuntarily.

This really has a bit of the flavor of an online game.

It didn't even bother to come up with a decent name.

However, this also proves that Yan Yu found the right place.

As expected, the moment Yan Yu stepped into the village, the system prompt sounded:

[Ding, congratulations to player Yan Yu for successfully arriving at the Novice Village, triggering the Novice Main Mission: Survive for 7 Days.]

After the prompt sound, a new badge appeared in the upper left corner of her field of vision, corresponding to the badge on the personal panel on the right.

Yan Yu's gaze paused on the left corner mark for three seconds, and the taskbar appeared in front of him.

[Main Mission: Survive for 7 Days]

[Side Quest: Not Triggered]

[Special Mission: Not Triggered]

It turns out that the tasks in the infinite survival game are all triggered. No wonder she had never found the task bar before.

It's understandable that the side quests and special quests are triggered, but it's too much of a scam to set the main quests to be triggered as well.

If she never finds this novice village and can't unlock the main quest, will she be unable to leave here even if she successfully survives 7 days?

Or is it only like this for the novice copy, and the subsequent sub-tank copies will be different?

Yan Yu walked into the village with a lot of questions in his mind. He didn't show it on his face, but he still maintained a slight vigilance in his heart.

After all, this is just a novice village stamped by the system, and it doesn't mean it is absolutely safe.

Yan Yu first walked around the village to get familiar with it.

Novice Village No. 1111 is about the size of a medium-sized village in the real world, with about a thousand households, and is fully equipped with shops, hotels, blacksmith shops, herbal medicine shops, etc.

The NPCs living in the village are generally below level 10, and only a few patrol NPCs have reached level 15.

The village looked quite peaceful. Yan Yu also saw a notice on the bulletin board of the village affairs center that read, "Killing is prohibited in the village, and anyone found will be expelled from the village immediately."

This announcement did ease Yan Yu's anxious heart.

After making sure the Novice Village was temporarily safe, Yan Yu turned and entered the store. She had too many things to buy.

Weapons, equipment, medicine, food... Oh, yes, there are also props that can be used for storage.

Yan Yu held the only 140 copper coins in her hand, looked at the E-level dagger worth 80 copper coins, the D-level armor worth 300 copper coins, the small red medicine worth 200 copper coins, and the storage ring worth 1 gold coin displayed in the store, and finally walked out of the store in tears.

She only bought a very ordinary cotton and linen top and trousers as a backup, spending 20 copper coins.

There's no way, she is really too poor.

With her current financial resources, she could only afford ordinary clothing and the lowest-level weapons and equipment. However, the attack and defense power of those E-level items were all in single digits. It made no difference whether she used them or not. It was a pure waste of money.

Apart from ungraded daily necessities, there aren't many items in the Novice Village store. Most of them are E-grade and D-grade items. Even C-grade items are rare, let alone higher-grade items.

The most valuable item inside is the storage ring.

It costs exactly 1 gold coin.

The storage ring contains 1 cubic meter of space and is a special D-level item, with a price close to that of C-level equipment.

In the game, 1 gold coin = 100 silver coins = 10,000 copper coins.

In other words, Yan Yu still needs 9,880 copper coins to save enough money to buy this storage ring.

How many monsters do we have to kill in the wild?

The key point is that there is only one storage ring in the entire store, and it is on a first-come, first-served basis. If you go too late, it will be gone.

As for the equipment drawings that Yan Yu cared about most, there was not a single one here.

Why.

Life is not easy, I can only sigh helplessly.

Soon, Yan Yu regained his spirits and walked straight towards the blacksmith shop.

Just as she was getting familiar with the terrain, she saw a job posting at the door of the blacksmith shop. They were looking for handymen, and apart from requiring a strength attribute of more than 10 points, there were no other requirements.

Since the blacksmith shop could manufacture weapons and equipment, it must have equipment blueprints. If she could obtain any one of them, she could make her first fortune with her talent as a divine craftsman.

Moreover, the handyman receives a daily salary of 10 copper coins, including food and accommodation.

Yan Yu inquired about restaurants and inns. It would cost at least 7 or 8 copper coins a day for food and accommodation in the Novice Village. If he worked in the blacksmith shop, he could save this money. He could just go in without leaving, which seemed suitable to him.

Yan Yu's abacus was jingling.

After all this trouble, time had unknowingly passed 3 p.m. The countdown on the items Yan Yu brought from the real world was reset to zero, and they instantly shattered into countless pieces and disappeared.

All that was left was the clothes and shoes he was wearing.

Yan Yu had noticed before that there was no hourglass-like countdown on the clothes and shoes. It seemed that the game was not so cruel as to let the players be naked.

Yan Yu used the shirt he had just bought as a bag to wrap his trousers, wolf skin and wolf teeth, and held them in his hands. He also stuffed the dozen or so wild fruits into his trouser pockets and went straight to the blacksmith shop.

"Sorry, we're already full of handymen here, please look somewhere else."