Chapter 39 Untitled
Based on Mai Dong's past experience, she believes that a tree house high up in the forest is safer than a cave. After all, there are few animals that can climb trees. As long as some defenses are built around the tree house, she can live in peace.
But it's not the same with caves, unless they are on a cliff. If it is a cave at the foot of a mountain, any animal can break in. Unless she can make a stone door and lock it, she has to be vigilant at all times.
There may be a lack of anything in the forest, but there is definitely no lack of trees suitable for building tree houses. Mai Dong soon picked a tree with a trunk diameter of more than three meters.
This tree has many branches. The diameter of the branches about ten or twenty meters above the ground is about one meter, and each branch is not far apart, which is very suitable for building a tree house on it.
When Mai Dong first entered the forest, she thought about the possibility of building a tree house. So when she used her dagger to clear the way, she saw those tough vines and deliberately collected a lot of them, which came in handy right now.
So next she just had to cut branches of suitable length and size and weave and tie them together with these rattans.
The materials in the forest were much more abundant than those in the desert oasis, and Maidong had already had experience building a tree house once, so he finally finished the tree house before dark.
Because of sufficient space and materials, this tree house is taller than the one in the desert oasis, and its surface is smoother and more beautiful.
There was an incident in which Adventurer No. 014 was bitten by a mutant ant and died of poisoning in his sleep.
Mai Dong's new tree house is very dense, and even the ventilation windows have less than half a centimeter between the wooden lattices, so neither ants nor mosquitoes can get in.
Moreover, Maidong also sprinkled pepper water on the outer layer of the tree house. The smell of the pepper water was a bit pungent, enough to make all mutant animals retreat. It could also cover up her breath and prevent the mutants passing by from discovering her.
Maidong is also planning to build a smaller tree house underneath the tree house to use as a bathroom the next day or the day after tomorrow.
Because he didn't know if there were any potential dangers around him, Mai Dong didn't dare to rely on his psychic ability to detect the surrounding environment at any time and cook food under the tree.
Instead, I put safety first, understood the situation first, and continued to eat the food as it was prepared.
The night was pitch black without any lighting equipment and without the courage to light a bonfire.
However, Mai Dong can "see" with her spirit, and the darkness has little effect on her spirit. She does not practice, but lies in the tree house and "observes" the surroundings with her spirit, which helps her to find out the surrounding situation as soon as possible.
After two hours of observation, Mai Dong was sure that although the animals that survived to this day on the Blue Water Planet had evolved, their physical characteristics had not changed. Therefore, there were many mutant animals that came out to hunt in the forest at night.
Maidong's tree house is more than 20 meters above the ground. She also stimulated the branches of the tree to produce many branches and leaves, covering half of the tree house. She also painted the outside of the tree house with pepper water to cover the smell.
Therefore, the mutant beasts that walked under this tree, or the mutant insects that flew by, did not notice her existence.
After observing for so long, Maidong was sure that the tree house was relatively safe, so she took a rest. She hardly slept last night and was really tired today.
On the first night in the forest, although Maidong still didn't dare to sleep deeply, there were no unexpected events that night and she slept soundly until dawn.
In the dangerous forest, Mai Dong dared not get up early to run and consume half of his energy like he did in the desert oasis.
She sat on the porch in front of the tree house, watching the sun rise from the east, and ate her breakfast.
Then he climbed down the tree, determined the direction with his mind, and quickly moved through the forest.
Mai Dong used her spirit to observe the mutant beasts around last night and locked onto several level 3 mutant beasts and their caves. She was now ready to destroy their nests.
Hunting more edible mutants above level three is one of her main goals in training in the forest.
Maidong's primary target is a level 3 mutant male leopard.
The leopard can climb trees, but I'm not sure if the leopard Maidong can.
But the leopard's cave was only two or three kilometers away from her tree house, so she naturally had to first eliminate the dangerous existence that could directly affect her safety. Otherwise, it would be too dangerous for the leopard to climb to the side of the tree house while she was sleeping.
Mai Dong only saw a level 3 mutant leopard last night, and the leopard's cave was far away and had a mental shielding effect. So when she almost walked into the cave, she found that there was also a level 2 mutant female leopard in the cave.
These two leopards, one male and one female, are obviously a pair.
Mai Dong carefully observed and confirmed that the mutant female leopard showed no signs of pregnancy, so she decided to let the pair of cubs stay together to store food for her.
Although he has been reborn into a new world, and this world may even be an illusory world, Maidong has not changed the teachings he learned in his previous life and will not kill pregnant animals and their companions.
It's not because Maidong is too saintly, but because whether it's humans or animals, they have to procreate in order to continue their lives.
Mai Dong was still thinking about how to lure the leopard out of the cave. The third-level leopard had already smelled her scent, and after crawling out of the cave, it rushed directly towards her.
The leopard's body shape didn't change much, but its movements became more agile. Mai Dong's skills were not as good as others, so he would be thrown down and have his throat bitten off.
Mai Dong discovered that although they were all level 3 mutants, the level 3 mutants in the desert and the level 3 mutants in the forest were completely different in combat.
Perhaps because there are so many mutants in the forest, and in the brutal killings among the various mutants, the mutants that can survive to the age of 40 are not comparable to the mutants in the desert.
Therefore, a level 3 wolf in the desert may not be able to defeat a level 2 wolf in the forest. No wonder the first adventurer to die in this survival game was eaten by a beast in just one minute.
It was the same old saying. The stronger the opponent, the less Mai Dong felt comfortable with the dagger. If she had used the dagger she was more accustomed to, she would have been able to cut off a piece of flesh from the leopard when she counterattacked with her backhand, instead of just a minor wound like now.
This level 3 mutant leopard was smart. Mai Dong dodged its bites several times and even scratched it. It even called out the level 2 mutant leopards in the cave, and they attacked her from the front and back.
Being besieged by two mutant leopards, Mai Dong, who only had a short dagger in her hand, looked a little nervous, and the audience in the live broadcast room were all nervous for her.