Luo Xinglan quickly finished her dumplings and grapes, then privately messaged Qian Duoduo: "Hi, is everything you just said true?"
Qian Duoduo quickly replied: "Of course it's true, I, Qian Duoduo, never lie! It's just that there are too many resources that need to be upgraded, so I didn't upgrade."
Luo Xinglan looked at her raft, which was currently 20 square meters. To expand it to 50 square meters, she would need 300 pieces of wood, 30 nails, and 30 screws.
She currently has [120 pieces of wood], [19 pieces of nails], and [14 pieces of screws], so she's not that far off.
The raft will need to be expanded sooner or later, so it's okay to expand it a little earlier.
Moreover, the air conditioner she just acquired requires a closed space to operate, and she only has a leaky raft, so it's definitely unusable. She might as well expand the raft to 50 square meters and see what the situation is like.
Furthermore, today's "lucky draw" bonus seems to be related to the homestead system.
It seems like we should expand the raft!
Luo Xinglan immediately messaged Jiang Mingze privately: "Jiang Mingze, can we use my exploration card another day?"
After a while, Jiang Mingze replied: "I'm sorry, Sister Lan, I just woke up. I was so tired yesterday, and my whole body aches when I woke up. I was thinking the same thing. Let's explore another day."
Jiang Mingze: "Hey, Sister Lan, do you have any food over there? I'll trade you some everyday items!"
Luo Xinglan then remembered that she had promised to give Jiang Mingze food, but she had forgotten because she was busy when she got back.
She quickly grabbed some steamed buns, French bread rolls, grapes, cucumbers, and mineral water and gave them directly to Jiang Mingze.
Jiang Mingze's voice was filled with excitement: "So many?! Sister Lan, you're so good to me! From now on, I'm your half-brother! If you need any daily necessities, just tell your brother!"
Luo Xinglan smiled and got down to business.
She took out 26 pieces of scrap iron and threw them all into the smelting furnace. In a short while, she obtained 26 pieces of refined iron.
These 26 pieces of refined iron were used to make nails in half and screws in half, resulting in a total of [65 nails] and [65 screws].
She currently has 84 nails and 79 screws, which is more than enough to upgrade the raft. The only thing she's missing is wood; she's almost 200 pieces short.
Luo Xinglan shouted in the chat channel: "Trade wood with French bread or mineral water. One bread or one bottle of water can be exchanged for 10 pieces of wood. Anyone who wants to trade, come on over."
Yesterday, a bag of bread could be exchanged for 20 pieces of wood, but a day has passed and everyone should have received some food by now. So Luo Xinglan simply lowered the exchange rate, mainly because she didn't want to waste time haggling with people.
She watched it three times in a row, afraid that others wouldn't see it.
"Boss, I may not have much else, but I have plenty of wood. I'll trade with you!"
"Why collect so much timber? It can't be eaten or drunk."
"While you're still struggling to make ends meet, others are already thinking about expanding their rafts! That's Luo Xinglan, she certainly doesn't lack food or drink."
"That's right, and didn't Qian Duoduo just say that the raft can upgrade the home? I guess Luo Xinglan wants to upgrade her home."
Luo Xinglan stopped looking because her private messages kept ringing.
She clicked on each item one by one and began exchanging supplies.
Within minutes, she had enough wood.
Click "Expand".
[Consume 10 wood, 1 nail, and 1 screw to expand the raft by 1 square meter?]
"yes!"
[Triggering the "Joyful Event" reduces wood consumption by 50%!]
[Expand your raft by 1 square meter! Current raft area: 21 square meters!]
Luo Xinglan was overjoyed; so that's how "Joyful Arrival" is used!
Then, she clicked "Expand".
[Triggering the "Joyful Arrival" event reduces nail consumption by 100%!]
[Triggering a lucky event reduces screw consumption by 100%!]
...
In the end, Luo Xinglan expanded the raft to 50 square meters using only 200 pieces of wood, 25 nails, and screws.
As the raft is expanded to 50 square meters, the system prompts: [The survivor has expanded the raft to 50 square meters, and can upgrade their home to unlock more buildings!]
[Do you wish to upgrade your home using 1000 wood, 100 nails, and 100 screws?]
Luo Xinglan was shocked. No wonder Qian Duoduo hadn't upgraded. Expanding the raft to 50 square meters had already consumed a lot of wood, nails, and screws. Who knew that upgrading would require even more!
However, with the blessing of Xilinmen now, she shouldn't be able to consume that much.
Of course, we should take advantage of every opportunity to get the best deals!
She rummaged through her backpack and found that she didn't have many French bread rolls left, and she didn't want to trade them for snail rice noodles, braised chicken, or roast duck...
That leaves only cucumbers. She currently has 45 cucumbers, which should be enough.
I was going to shout it in the chat channel, but then I suddenly thought of Zhou Yiran. She said she loves to eat fruit, so cucumbers should be okay, right?
Luo Xinglan opened Gen Zhou Yiran's private chat and asked, "I have 45 cucumbers, and I need a lot of wood and scrap iron. Do you want to trade?"
Collecting scrap iron, smelting it into iron blocks in a furnace, and then making it into nails and screws is much more profitable than collecting it directly.
After all, for survivors without a smelting furnace, scrap metal is really just a pile of scrap metal, completely useless.
Zhou Yiran quickly replied: "Okay, okay! How about I give you 10 pieces of wood and two pieces of scrap iron for every cucumber?"
Luo Xinglan did some mental calculations and then said, "I don't need that much scrap metal. I can trade one cucumber for 15 pieces of wood and one piece of scrap metal. If that's okay, then trade with me."
Zhou Yiran readily agreed: "Okay, but I have a small request. Could you store the cucumbers in your storage cabinet and give me five a day?"
There are so many cucumbers, she definitely can't finish them in three days, then they'll go bad.
Luo Xinglan agreed to the deal.
After the transaction, Luo Xinglan received 675 pieces of wood and 45 pieces of scrap iron.
Even with the wood saved from triggering the Happy Door event earlier, the amount of wood is still insufficient.
So she continued to message Zhou Yiran privately: "I still have grapes here, do you want some?"
Zhou Yiran: "Ahhhh! You still have grapes, boss! Tell me, what do you want to exchange for? How do you want to exchange them?"
She loves grapes the most!
Luo Xinglan: "Let's change the wood, but I don't have many grapes here, so maybe..."
Here we pause for tactical reasons.
Zhou Yiran: "I understand! I'll provide 20 pieces of wood for that bunch of grapes?"
Luo Xinglan did not answer.
Zhou Yiran: "20 sticks isn't too many, how about 25..."
How about we just get 30 sticks?"
Luo Xinglan: "Deal!"
However, she was a little curious as to how Zhou Yiran could have so much wood.
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