Chapter 29: Stressful Upgrade Conditions
The condition for the first upgrade is to kill one hundred zombies. After the upgrade, the space is expanded tenfold and the maximum number of people is reduced to two.
Luo Jiu believed that if the upgrade was successful again, the space would be expanded several times and the number of passengers allowed would also increase.
If they were to upgrade to four people, they could hide in space and avoid any risk. But the problem was that the conditions for upgrading again were too difficult to meet.
Second upgrade requires: Hunting 10,000 prey (non-small).
Ten thousand? Not counting the small ones?
Luo Jiu made a rough calculation in his mind. Taking the big black bear as an example, he killed one in the morning and one in the afternoon, which means two in a day.
Even if they hunted non-stop for 365 days, there would only be 730 of them a year, and it would take ten years to kill enough!
And the bigger problem is, even if they strengthen their bodies and are still able to kill prey in their thirties a dozen years from now, where can they find ten thousand prey to kill?
If they really kill 10,000 of them, wouldn't the food chain be broken? Maybe they will cause the extinction of species.
What should I do? Luo Jiu held his head with both hands, feeling a headache.
Cheng Yaoyao crawled over and pondered with her, "How small is small? The prey here are all bigger. A wild rabbit weighs more than ten kilograms. It's not small, right?"
Luo Jiu shook his head. "It would be nice if rabbits could be counted. They reproduce quickly. We can catch them and raise them. We can kill them whenever we want. But the specific standard must be determined by the system. Let's go hunt a few kinds of prey tomorrow and see which one can be counted."
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The next day, the four drove two electric tricycles and took thirteen cavemen on hunting.
Leaving Datian's pregnant sister-in-law and his injured brother to stay in the cave, the rest of the people went out together.
The weapons in the hands of the Shangding Cave people were sharpened wooden sticks. Although they were an upgrade compared to the stones they had used before, they were still a bit crude.
The crude weapons, advanced means of transportation, and uniform clothing make the scene look very absurd.
This time they came to the woods where they hunted black bears last time. The trees here were very lush, and Luo Jiu thought there must be a lot of wild animals.
In order to motivate everyone, Luo Jiu used the student motivation method.
"If we can kill twenty prey today, we will have a holiday in the afternoon, no classes, and no homework.
If we can hunt thirty prey today, then we will have a day off tomorrow, no classes, and no homework.
If we can kill fifty prey today, we will also have a holiday the day after tomorrow, no classes, no homework!"
She didn't dare to think about the two and a half days off. If she made such a bold statement in a high school classroom, the class would be in an uproar.
As a result, after she finished speaking, the cavemen looked depressed and unhappy.
"What's going on? Don't you understand?" Luo Jiu asked Zhong Jialing, "Didn't you say that they can understand everyday language?"
Zhong Jialing spread her hands helplessly, "It's not that they didn't understand, they just didn't want to take a holiday."
"Ah, you love studying so much? You really are like my child." Luo Jiu coughed lightly, "Then on the contrary, the more prey you kill, the more lessons you will get and the more hours of TV drama you will watch."
As soon as he finished speaking, there was an "oh" sound from below, like crowing of a bird.
Everyone was so happy and loved to wander in the ocean of knowledge.
Feng Qi found it incredible. "Humans originally had this attitude towards school? Then... why did they become so disgusted with school later?"
Luo Jiu tilted his head and smiled, "You hate studying, but I don't. Let's go, today's task is heavy."
Seventeen men began to go into the forest, hunting with a dragnet, and wherever they went, nothing could escape.
A hare jumped past everyone's eyes, and Feng Qi shot an arrow, nailing the hare directly to the tree.
He hunted pheasants, wild deer, wild foxes, and even killed two wild wolves.
He captured a nest of wild pigeons, stole a piece of wild bee honey, and raided half of the forest, gaining something in all aspects.
But there is only one thing, the system count is still 0/, motionless.
Zhong Jialing began to doubt her life. "It won't be broken, right? This doesn't even count?"
She pointed at the wolf that was stabbed like a hedgehog and said, "Isn't this big enough?"
Feng Qi wiped the sweat off his face and rubbed the blood on the blade onto the wolf's fur. "Who knows? Is there a delay in the system? There can't be so many. None of them count, right?"
"Don't worry," Cheng Yaoyao comforted softly, "Comrade Luo Jiu will find a way."
Luo Jiu smiled and sighed. The system was so overbearing, what could she do? But seeing everyone's frustrated look, she came up with a solution.
"There is a way. We can mobilize the power of the masses. When the small ones are gone, we will stop fighting and let everyone go find the big ones. When we find the big ones, we can fight them again."
Luo Jiu gathered everyone together and issued new instructions.
These cavemen are excited.
Each of them carried a bag of Bawang Chaji, which was filled with pheasants and rabbits. In just over three hours, they harvested so many prey. In the past, they would not have dared to think about this.
Luo Jiu asked them to send all the prey to the car, and then go in groups of two to find big prey. When they found them, they would come to them and they would go together to capture the prey.
Whoever finds a large prey will be rewarded with a long knife.
Everyone's eyes lit up when they heard this. Datian asked, "How big do you want it to be?"
Her language skills have improved rapidly and she can basically express herself.
Feng Qi said: "The bigger the better. We are not afraid of big things, but we are afraid of not being big enough."
Mother Datian showed a nervous expression, "Big, scary."
“No, no, no!” Zhong Jialing quickly came out to encourage everyone, “We must believe in ourselves. We are as strong as the mountains. No matter how big the prey is, it is still prey. Don’t be afraid of it. We can easily kill it with knives and arrows.”
Luo Jiu also said: "Just go find it without worry, remember, it has to be big!"
The cavemen carried the prey away. They carefully placed the prey on a cart and left Mother Datian in the cart to watch over it.
Others headed deeper into the forest, into areas never before explored.
Luo Jiu and his companions had been hunting in the jungle for the whole morning and now sat down to take a short rest.
Zhong Jialing was curious, "What kind of large is this? An eagle's wingspan is several meters, is that large?"
"But when its wings are folded, it's not that big." Luo Jiu speculated, "The size of the prey may be based on weight. Oh, let's go back and weigh it. Today's prey may still be too light."
Cheng Yaoyao looked around and couldn't help muttering: "How could there be only small animals in such a big forest? If there was a tiger or a lion, it would definitely count."
Feng Qi stretched and said, "If there is a tiger or a lion, it won't be so easy for us to fight. It's better to have an animal that is big but easier to fight."
Luo Jiu narrowed his eyes and responded: "Then let's hope we can find a group of giraffes soon."
But she was also confused. Logically speaking, such a large forest should have its own ecology, and the food chain could not be so short. How could there be only small animals and no big animals?
Was it a coincidence that the half they were sweeping was where the small animals gathered, while the other half was where the big ones were?
Luo Jiu was just daydreaming when Datian’s second brother and second sister came running over.
"Big! Big!" The two of them made a big circle in the air with excitement in their eyes.
The four of them immediately became excited, "What's the big one?"
These two people have poor learning abilities. They can only understand the general idea when listening, and can only speak daily expressions such as eating, drinking, and going to the toilet.
Zhong Jialing was anxious, "What on earth is so big?"
Feng Qi said, "Never mind. We just want to kill the big one. Let's go, call the others and go together."
The second brother and sister were so happy that one of them excitedly went to call people, while the other stared at the machete in Zhong Jialing's hand, waiting to receive the reward.
Everyone gathered together, with the second brother and second sister leading the way, and hurried westward.
After walking for about ten minutes, Luo Jiu suddenly stopped and said, "Wait a minute!"
"What's wrong?" Feng Qi asked puzzledly.
Luo Jiu pointed to a large area of flattened weeds nearby and asked, "Does that look like a snake's mark?"
Cheng Yaoyao squatted down and took a closer look. "It looks a bit like this. I saw such traces in the mountains when I was a child. The flattened grass paths are usually where snakes often walk, but they are usually only two or three fingers wide. This one is more than two meters wide. Is that impossible?
How could there be such a big snake? Maybe a stone rolled over here and left similar marks."
Luo Jiu shook her head. She felt something was wrong and asked Feng Qi to climb up the tree to take a look.
Feng Qi put the knife behind his back, picked a sturdy tree, and climbed up with his bare hands.
She hung on a branch about eight or nine meters high, looking around with a telescope.
She actually thought Luo Jiu was worrying too much. No matter how strong this ancient creature was, it couldn't be beyond common sense. Even in "Anaconda", there were no snakes that were two meters thick.
She watched and reported to everyone.
"To the east, everything is normal. To the south, there is nothing. To the west, there is a hill. To the north..."
Something moved in the telescope, and she stopped talking abruptly, shifting her gaze back to the west.
The "hill" seemed to be moving, rising and falling, just like breathing.
Feng Qi's heart instantly rose to her throat. She slowly moved the camera and finally found the head of the "mountain". It had two huge eyes that were bigger than the bath tubs they had stockpiled.
This is a super giant python. It has just captured a wild leopard and is lying there enjoying its meal leisurely.
The sun's light refracted on the lens of the telescope, and the giant python looked over fiercely.
Feng Qi looked into the eyes of this super monster through the telescope, and his heart trembled, and he almost fell off the tree.
The crowd could not see the scene in the telescope, but only saw Feng Qi's face pale as he slid down from the tree in panic, lowering his voice as he slid, saying, "Run!"
Luo Jiu's heart skipped a beat. "What is that?"
Feng Qi was shocked and said, "It's an extremely large snake."
The second brother raised a wooden stick and said fiercely, "Hit me!"
Datian also echoed, "We are as strong as the mountain!"
Feng Qi was so angry that he kicked each of them, "I told you to run!"
Everyone hurriedly retreated out of the forest. Cheng Yaoyao ran out of breath and asked, "Why are you in such a hurry? Is it chasing us?"
"It didn't chase me, but it found me." For some reason, Feng Qi was a fearless person, but the look in the giant python's eyes just now made her feel creepy.
At this moment, a creaking sound came from the forest. Luo Jiu looked back and saw that thing coming!
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