Even with the addition of picking camellia seeds, Chen Yang only spent half the time crossing the Night Forest.
His physical strength of 99 points greatly increased his speed and endurance.
Physical strength is not just simple strength; it is a comprehensive improvement that includes every muscle and every organ.
Chen Yang's respiratory system is now much stronger than before, with explosive endurance. He can run at a speed of over 30 miles per hour for an entire day without rest, and his maximum speed even exceeds 100 miles per hour.
He wasn't running too fast, he was flying too low!
After returning to the camp, Chen Yang spent most of his time testing his abilities, in addition to helping with camp tasks.
Grandpa Yun was no match for him anymore, because he couldn't even scratch Chen Yang. Chen Yang's ability to withstand blows had increased three or four times. The old man couldn't hurt him, but a casual punch from him would be very difficult for the old man to block, because the speed and power were too great.
This is what is meant by overwhelming force, not to mention that Chen Yang's martial arts skills were already very high. Although Grandpa Yun's skills far surpassed his, that was all he surpassed; in other aspects, the gap between them was too great.
There was no need for basic strength and speed tests, as those were superhuman values. But Chen Yang did something he had long dreamed of.
Light-footed water-skimming skill!
That would be impossible for a normal person; even at 200 miles per hour, they wouldn't be able to float. But Chen Yang has a light and agile body!
The light breeze can reduce his weight, and may even lift him up the moment he touches the water, allowing him to take another step.
This is impossible to do on a river; it can only be tried on a lake when the wind is calm.
Chen Yang tried, and then he fell into the water. And he fell into the water again and again.
But he succeeded; he could take three or four steps. Not on floating boards or logs, but truly on the water, walking three or four steps on the shimmering surface. Each step was a leap, nearly ten meters.
This gave Chen Yang a lot of confidence, and he continued to practice on the lake. Because he would fall into the water again and again, he simply wore only a pair of shorts.
Why would Chen Yang practice such a useless skill? Is it because it's fun and looks cool?
Of course... that's part of the reason.
He wanted to master his strength by practicing walking on water.
Skimming across water requires a full-force run-up, followed by extremely precise control. It requires mastery of power, wind, and even the use of the Eagle Eye technique.
He doesn't just float like that; he needs to run at full speed to gain super speed and momentum, then aim for the landing point, find the most suitable position, and use the light wind to lift himself up and speed across the water.
It's impossible to run on water indefinitely, as water doesn't exert much force. Running on water relies mostly on inertia and wind.
However, Chen Yang felt that if he could control himself well, running over 100 meters would be no problem at all. Practicing water-skimming had indeed been very helpful in improving his strength control.
Midway through the journey, after Chen Yang fell into the water, a crocodile attempted to attack him—and it was a crocodile, no less.
Chen Yang fought the crocodile underwater and killed it with his bare hands, leaving the few bored bystanders who had come to watch him float on the water speechless.
“This thing is a prehistoric behemoth,” Linglong said while eating watermelon.
Don't be surprised that there are still watermelons in this season. They found them on the west bank of the western border, which is the other side of the desert. It's not surprising that anything can appear there.
Jiang Bo has completely perfected the bridge, and now people can freely cross between the two banks.
He was indeed very prescient. The flow rate of the West Boundary River is slowly recovering. After a while, the rafts will probably be unusable. While it is still passable, the bridge should be built.
They don't go to the other side often, so the wooden plank bridge is enough.
The winter temperature at Xijiehe is very comfortable. Many people at Xindu Camp plan to stay there during the winter because Xijiehe Camp needs more people at that time to expand farmland in preparation for spring. Spring comes very quickly in Xijiehe.
Compared to the western boundary river, the island in the middle of the lake is more popular, especially among the elderly who enjoy farming and raising cattle and sheep there.
They developed a large tract of farmland on the east side of the island in the lake, planning to plant wheat, soybeans, and nettles next year.
Housing is under construction on the island in the middle of the lake. Right now, everyone is staying in temporary accommodations. Fortunately, it's much warmer on the island, so people can stay overnight.
Meanwhile, Yan Su led the Owl Hunters to the Loess Plateau to train them and search for resources. Winters on the Loess Plateau are harsh, so it seems the Owl Hunters are in for a tough time.
In addition, they made two other discoveries while searching for tea trees, made by Guo Zifeng and Xing Tu.
The first discovery was of tea trees. The experienced Xing Tu found another type of tea in the Yinshan Mountains – Fuding white tea. However, this time no thousand-year-old tea trees were found. Moreover, Fuding white tea does not pursue thousand-year-old tea trees like Pu'er tea; they are all arbor trees, which are not very tall.
White tea was just one discovery that gave them another option for tea, which doesn't need much explanation. But another discovery is very important.
They discovered a mulberry grove, and a large mulberry grove at that.
They didn't care about the beneficial effects of the mulberry tree itself; what they cared about was whether there would be silkworms.
If there are silkworms, then they will have silk!
Silk is such a valuable material, but it's very useful. When the girls in the camp heard this news, their eyes lit up.
The micro-world has many aspects that are incomparable to reality, but reality also has many limitations, especially in terms of material aspects.
Which girl would want to sleep in animal skins and hemp clothing?
The daytime was bearable, but the nighttime was simply unbearable. This caused some girls to have trouble sleeping and frequently exit the online world to sleep in real life. Things only improved a little after the introduction of the "wool" (a type of virtual gift).
However, things are different if you have silk. Wearing a silk slept-on and silk underwear (cough cough) to sleep is simply a luxury, not to mention a silk quilt.
They searched carefully and found traces of silkworm cocoons, meaning there were indeed silkworms here, and they could raise silkworms here next year.
This news made everyone very happy; finally, they could wear silk underwear.
Men are the same; if there are better materials, they will certainly prefer them. Silk underwear is super comfortable, isn't it?
However, this winter, they will still obediently wear wool and animal skin underwear. Furthermore, they even built a special textile workshop and spinning machines specifically for processing and spinning wool, producing wool and nettle products.
Currently, because there are not many raw materials available, the workshops don't operate for long. However, next year, when the sheep population grows significantly and the nettles are harvested, the textile machines in the workshops may have to run non-stop.
(End of this chapter)
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