It was getting dark, and Xu Xin quickly returned to his tree house.

He also planted the newly brought back [Parasitic Tree House Seeds] at the outermost edge of his "back garden", but in the opposite position of the previous [Parasitic Tree House 01], planted it on the other side.

There was no special consideration, he just felt that symmetry would be more comfortable.

While the parasitic treehouse wasn't fully grown, Xu Xin sent a voice message to Ji Chaoyang. He and Ji Chaoyang would analyze today's information and consider whether they should share their conclusions with the other explorers.

The call was connected quickly.

"I met someone from another district." Xu Xin said directly.

"...Oh?" Ji Chaoyang's voice on the other side also became serious, "Which district is it from?"

"It's pretty much as you guessed. Jungle Area 187."

"...Neighboring area? Neighboring area is fine."

Ji Chaoyang had the same concerns as him. He was afraid that they were surrounded not only by neighboring districts such as District 187 and District 189, but also by a bunch of other districts. Dealing with one or two districts was easy, but if there was a melee in many districts, the difficulty would be greatly increased.

Xu Xin told Ji Chaoyang all the information he got from Le Youfang.

"It seems that our speculation is almost right." Ji Chaoyang was silent for a while and then spoke.

"What did you find over there?"

"I also walked around the reserve and found two tree houses. Unfortunately, they had lost their owners and were on the verge of death. I didn't encounter any living survivors."

"Have you noticed something?" Xu Xin frowned. "We haven't found anyone from our area. There seem to be only survivors from other areas around us. Could it be that we're completely cut off from the people in our area?"

He found three tree houses in total, and looking back now, the locations were even relatively regular.

The first tree was in the east, the second in the north, and the third, Leyoufang's, was in the south. Although there were slight deviations, they were all roughly the same.

There is a tree house corresponding to each direction, however, these three tree houses are not the tree houses in their area!

If he hadn't seen the light of the lightning rod on Li Wenxi's tree house, which was about 20 to 30 kilometers to his east, he would have really thought that there was something wrong with his position.

"This should be what I said before, cross-distribution." Ji Chaoyang said after pondering for a while, "All of us have been separated."

Xu Xin naturally understood what cross-distribution meant, just like black and white floor tiles.

Each survivor's treehouse sanctuary in Jungle Zone 188 is equivalent to a white square, while survivors in other zones are all black squares. White squares are only connected to black squares, and black squares are surrounded by white squares.

In other words, producers in the same area can only be found in diagonal directions, such as northwest and southeast.

However, the protected area is not a square, but a circle, and unlike a square, a circle cannot be fully covered. Between the diagonally opposite circles, there are dangerous areas that cannot be covered by the protected area.

Therefore, at least until the protected area continues to expand, there will be no direct connection between the same areas.

Now, if you want to find people in the same area, you must go through the protected areas of survivors in other areas.

"I think we can tell them now. We need to build a close-knit group as soon as possible. Otherwise, if someone has bad intentions, someone will suffer," Xu Xin said. The "they" he mentioned naturally referred to the other explorers.

"Then let's do it tomorrow. Since the protected areas can now communicate with each other, functions like the world channel should also be available. Let's verify it again today."

"good."

Xu Xin hung up the call.

At this time, the tree house has fully grown. Silver King and Mimi are circling around the tree house. It is the first time for them to see a tree grow so fast, and they are very curious.

Xu Xin renamed the tree house [Parasitic Tree House 02], opened some of its functions, and then returned to his own tree house with the four beasts.

He took out the two [cores of the low tree house] and prepared to use the cores to upgrade the resources.

"What should I upgrade?"

The carving knife was put aside for the time being. After all, even if he made a purple-level carving knife, he couldn't carve a purple-level statue with his artist level. It was meaningless. Maybe it would just increase the carving speed slightly, but his current speed was enough and there was no need to consume a purple-level resource to improve it.

Weapons were actually a good choice. He could now upgrade two materials, making it possible to craft weapons. He had just obtained the strongest steel of its tier. If he upgraded the steel block to a steel block and used it to craft a weapon, he would be able to obtain the strongest purple-tier weapon!

In this way, it is equivalent to having purple-level equipment all over his body!

However, in terms of practicality, the item he should upgrade the most is the boning knife, because a purple-level boning knife can be decomposed into purple-level materials, and the possibility of decomposing blue-level materials may also increase.

After considering for a long time, Xu Xin finally chose weapons.

There were no wild beasts or mutants around right now, and he didn't know when they would appear. Once he created it, it might sit there for a long time. Furthermore, he hadn't been to the west yet. He planned to try it out there after assembling himself. He thought he might find another treehouse core there.

Ultimately, he chose a steel spear over a crossbow of all weapons.

A purple-grade steel spear only required two purple-grade materials: wood and steel. However, a purple-grade crossbow required three: wood, animal sinew, and steel. He couldn't make them yet. Furthermore, since he now had powerful explosive arrows, the crossbow's speed and force were no longer important; they were sufficient.

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