Wen Zuo: Perhaps more difficulties await us.

Mo Shuwan sighed, buried her face in Wen Zuo's arms, and said in a low voice, "I would rather encounter all kinds of difficulties now. Generally speaking, if things are too peaceful at the beginning, they will become very difficult later."

Wen Zuo reached out and hugged her, then patted her head.

Discovering that the giant tree could heal itself, Mo Shuwan and Wen Zuo squatted in front of the tree for a while before calling over Liu Dongcheng and the other two. They quickly chopped off all the leaves and then began to cut down the tree.

In less than ten minutes, a giant tree was cut down to its bare trunk, leaving only a small piece of it. If they weren't worried that the tree wouldn't be able to heal after being completely cut down, they wouldn't have let even this small piece go.

With timber in hand, everyone worked with great enthusiasm and quickly turned the wood into planks.

"Help me dig a few holes that are half a meter long. The distance between the holes should be about the length of this piece of wood I'm holding right now."

Wen Zuo and the others, who were at a loss for how to build a house, immediately compared the holes and dug out four holes that were exactly half a meter wide. Then they were chased aside by Mo Shuwan.

Mo Shuwan inserted one of the pillars into the hole they had just dug, used her foot to poke the sand around it to fill the hole, and then held the pillar for about half a minute before tentatively letting go. The pillar did not budge.

"It really can stick..."

"Captain, I never expected you could build houses."

Mo Shuwan smiled and said, "I saw a video of building a house before and thought it was very interesting. I wanted to find a place to try it myself, but I was a homebody at the time, so I just put it off. I never thought I would be able to use it now."

Chen Jiaxu gave Mo Shuwan a thumbs up, sincerely agreeing, "That's amazing."

"Alright, stop wasting time and get this house built quickly."

Several grown men glared at Mo Shuwan.

“…I’ll do it. Wen Zuo and Liu Dongcheng, stay and help me. You two go to the oasis and bring back some grass. We need to put it in the house once it’s built.”

Finally, they had something to do and didn't have to watch helplessly anymore. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and Yang Zhou and Chen Jiaxu immediately ran to the oasis to pick grass.

"I need to make some nails myself now. Look at this, I'll make one for you to see. You can make them to the same length as mine. Also, you need to drill some holes in the pillars above."

Wen Zuo and Liu Dongcheng immediately went over and squatted down next to Mo Shuwan, carefully watching her movements. After she finished demonstrating, the two of them took the daggers and took turns examining the wooden nails before starting to work.

Mo Shuwan trusted the two of them completely. After glancing at them, she went to do her own thing. She inserted several support pillars into the sand and waited for them to settle into place. Then she kicked them hard, but the pillars didn't budge. They were very stable. It seemed that as long as there wasn't a major sandstorm, there shouldn't be any problems.

After the scaffolding was completed, the roof had to be installed. This time, Mo Shuwan didn't do it herself, but directed Wen Zuo and Liu Dongcheng to do it.

Half an hour later, the small house finally took shape. Yang Zhou and Chen Jiaxu, who had picked a lot of grass, ran back excitedly when they saw that the house was finished. "Captain, you guys are amazing!"

Mo Shuwan stood outside the house and looked around, feeling an overwhelming sense of accomplishment. "I'll go in and take a look!"

After saying that, she couldn't wait to go into the house. There were no lights inside, and she was a little uncomfortable in the darkness at first. However, she quickly took out a flashlight, looked around, and didn't find any large gaps. She then poked her head out and asked Yang Zhou and Chen Jiaxu to give her the grass.

It was another ten minutes or so after the grass was laid out on the floor of the room. Mo Shuwan walked out of the house and said, "You guys should go in and take a look. It can probably sleep two people."

Chen Jiaxu and Yang Zhou, who had been eagerly waiting, rushed in immediately. They were stuck at the door for a moment, which made Mo Shuwan and the others outside not know whether to laugh or cry.

Wen Zuo pulled Mo Shuwan to his side and rubbed her wrists.

"I'll go check on those humans."

Wen Zuo nodded, not letting go of her hand, seemingly intending to go with her. She turned around and greeted Liu Dongcheng, Yang Zhou, Chen Jiaxu, and others in the house, and then went with Wen Zuo to the house at the bottom of the steep slope.

The people inside had already woken up, and when they saw Mo Shuwan and Wen Zuo appear outside the window, they quickly stood up.

"I have something I'd like to ask you."

All five people nodded immediately.

It was daytime, and the temperature outside was normal. She didn't want to go into the stuffy house, so she waved and called everyone out.

"Can you tell us where you're from? And why were you captured by the monster?"

The oldest middle-aged man hesitated for a moment, then withdrew his strange gaze and said in a low voice, "We come from the forest in the east. This time it was our turn to hunt, so we left the village and went into the desert. Before we could find any prey, we encountered a monster and were captured."

A very ordinary experience.

Mo Shuwan looked at her with surprise and asked, "You come from the forest, why are you hunting in the desert?"

The middle-aged man looked at her with even more surprise than Mo Shuwan, and said in a low voice, "There is no food in the forest. If we want to eat, we have to go into the desert."

Mo Shuwan and Wen Zuo exchanged a glance, still somewhat confused. Everyone else was in the desert without food, so why was it in the forest? However, their confusion didn't last long before they figured it out themselves. The game didn't play by the rules, so there was nothing strange about it.

The only question is whether this place is the real world or a virtual world created by the game.

After their initial excitement subsided, Chen Jiaxu and the others quickly came over and joined in listening to the story. The more they heard from the middle-aged man, the more confused they felt.

Nothing in the forest is edible. If they don't want to starve, they must leave the desert. As for food in the desert, they say that the grass in the oasis is edible, as is the fruit from the giant tree they just cut down. Occasionally, some small animals will also appear.

The oases do indeed disappear from time to time, but they often recover quickly, and the monsters wander among these oases.

The middle-aged man glanced at Mo Shuwan and whispered, "That's why we were surprised when you said you wanted to build a desert city. If there really is a city in the desert, we won't have to worry about going hungry all the time."

"I see. We have some things to do and have gone up first. You can move around here, but don't go too far. Otherwise, if an accident happens, we won't be able to protect you."

The group nodded hurriedly.

Mo Shuwan pulled Wen Zuo to his feet, then turned and winked at Liu Dongcheng and the others. Liu Dongcheng stood up, and they were all leaving. Chen Jiaxu and Yang Zhou, of course, wouldn't stay any longer and stood up as well.