Chapter 10: The First Day of Frost Season (2) When the snipe and the clam fight, the fisherman wins...
Monsters are like tools you need for work: when you don't need them, they hover before your eyes, and when you want to find them, you can't find them. Yu Luowei walked around for a long time and saw a few cute and harmless hedgehogs and birds, but didn't see any monster hair.
Just as Yu Luowei was about to give up on killing the monster and go hunt a few more chickens before heading home, a few roars came from not far away. Yu Luowei's eyes changed, and he quickly locked onto the direction and rushed towards the source of the roars.
In front of a cave, a massive black bear and a flaming lion were facing off. Enduring this powerful pressure, Yu Luowei skillfully hid behind a thick pine tree and observed the situation.
The system heightened the monsters' aggression. Perhaps one of them, while foraging, stumbled into the other's home, sparking the conflict. It was also because the presence of these two large monsters scared away the smaller monsters nearby, leaving Yu Luowei with nothing to show for it. Now, the two monsters were gauging each other's combat power, and a fight was imminent.
These two monsters were too high-level for Yu Luowei to defeat at her current level, so she could only try to see if she could get away with it. However, it was already four o'clock, and it would take another forty minutes to get back. Yu Luowei couldn't wait that long, and since the lion happened to be a fire element, she decided to use some tricks to trap the lion.
Pulling out the bow, this time with the "rocket", Yu Luowei was quick with his hands and eyes, and shot an arrow at the big black bear. Although the level gap was too big, the rocket didn't even burn the big black bear's fur, but the accumulation of small arrows finally angered the big black bear, and it roared and pounced towards the fire lion.
The lion was stunned for a moment, obviously not expecting the opponent to suddenly attack. After being pounced on, he became angry and the flames on his body became bigger, and he started fighting with the opponent.
Both of them gradually developed more wounds. Perhaps because they were of similar levels, the larger black bear gradually gained the upper hand. The lion seemed to realize this and suddenly exerted force, repelling the black bear's attack and retreating a few steps, as if preparing to unleash a powerful move.
This was beyond Yu Luowei's expectations. The lion's attacks were often accompanied by fire, and after this brief fight, many of the surrounding trees were ablaze. Yu Luowei had to quietly change her hiding place several times. If the lion's final attack was unleashed, it would probably cause a massive wildfire, burning the entire area to ash. For a moment, Yu Luowei's heart rose to her throat, and she took a few steps back, unconsciously forming icy mist in her hands, ready to flee at the first sign of trouble.
Fortunately, the big black bear also realized that it could not let the lion continue, so it got a stone as big as a car from somewhere and rushed over to interrupt the lion's attack.
Although it didn't seem that the big black bear had any special abilities, its strength, speed and defense were terrifying. It rushed to the lion in an instant and smashed the stone down heavily, smashing the lion's skull in one fell swoop.
However, the big black bear didn't escape unscathed. The lion unleashed its final blow—a massive fireball that landed squarely on the big black bear. Flames instantly erupted from the big black bear, and it rolled around on the ground in agony, trying to extinguish the flames. However, the flames had absorbed the lion's last remaining strength, and no matter how hard the big black bear tried, it couldn't extinguish them. It could only close its eyes in agony as it shone.
Yu Luowei waited until the two monsters were motionless before walking out from behind the tree. He first went to the lion's body. The lion's head had been shattered, and it was indeed dead.
Enduring the stench of blood in the air and the indescribable horror, Yu Luowei first attempted to freeze the lion's blood. Perhaps because the lion was already dead, Yu Luowei wasn't restricted by his level and successfully froze the entire blood, the blood-red ice extending deep into the lion's body. Yu Luowei also obtained 5 Lion Blood Ice. The system described lion blood as drinkable, with the benefits of improving physical fitness and possessing mysterious special properties. Yu Luowei stored it in his bracelet.
As for the corpse, when Yu Luowei approached, the system automatically popped up a prompt [Do you want to decompose the corpse of the level 5 monster Flame Lion?] After selecting yes, the bracelet added 500g of beast meat (level 5) x 20, Flame Lion Fang x 2, Flame Heart x 1, Flame Crystal x 10, and a supply treasure chest (orange) x 1.
Accustomed to the system's stinginess, Yu Luowei checked her bracelet and then walked towards the big black bear. The flames on the big black bear were still burning. Fortunately, it had finally rolled to the side of the cave, and the surrounding vegetation had been burned, preventing the flames from spreading further. As soon as she got closer, Yu Luowei felt a wave of heat, making it impossible to examine and dispose of the body.
Just as Yu Luowei was struggling with how to deal with this "fire bear", the system voice sounded like the sound of nature:
[Detected that the survivor has fire magic, whether to absorb the remaining lion flame to upgrade the fire magic
Note: Monsters below level 5 will actively move away from the survivors during the absorption process. However, due to the survivors' low level, they may experience unknown mental problems or even be life-threatening after absorption. Please choose with caution.
Perhaps because Yu Luowei was a fighter who yearned for a challenge, she checked the time and saw that it was only an hour until six, so she chose yes without hesitation. As soon as she finished her choice, the flames on the big black bear seemed to come alive, floating towards Yu Luowei and squeezing into her body.
At that moment, Yu Luowei felt like she had fallen into a volcano, her whole body burning to death. It was only thanks to her upgraded mental strength and strong willpower that she didn't faint immediately.
After the flames died down, the charred black bear seemed to stir faintly. It turned out that its strong defense had allowed it to survive. Even though it was seriously injured, when it opened its eyes and caught sight of Yu Luowei beside it, it still slapped him, wanting to kill the little ant in its eyes.
Yu Luowei could no longer stand, kneeling on the ground, battling the flames. Feeling the pressure from above, her desire to survive overwhelmed her. She forced herself to dodge, concentrating the lion's flames in her right hand, transforming them into a massive flaming sword, which she swung down heavily at the already wounded black bear. The black bear never imagined that after dodging the fiery lion's final blow, he would ultimately die at the hands of a mere ant in his eyes.
Many prompt sounds rang in her ears, but Yu Luowei was no longer in the mood to listen. She chose one at random and tried to run towards the base while she was still fully conscious.
Because she had absorbed the buff from Lion Blaze, Yu Luowei didn't encounter any other monsters along the way. By the time she stumbled into the shelter and fainted on the ground, it was exactly six o'clock.
When Yu Luowei opened her eyes again, more than an hour had passed. She was still a little sore but otherwise fine.
I took out the manual and checked my current personal information:
Name: Yu Luowei
Gender: Female
Age: 24 (49)
Level: 3
Constitution: 40
Attack: 40
Defense: 36
Speed: 35+2
Mental strength: 50 (156/500)
Luck: 7 (average 5)
Talents: Level 3 Mutated Fire Magic, Level 2 Ice Magic (unique)
Skills: Dao Sheng Yi, Lion Soul Flame Slash
Equipment: Novice Cloak (destroyed), Ordinary Top (destroyed), Ordinary Pants (destroyed), Ordinary Shoes (green)
Note: Since the survivor has dual magic, only when both magic and magic are upgraded to level 3 can the individual level be upgraded to level 4, and so on. However, the attribute limit increases by 20 with each upgrade.
Comment: Oh my god, I've leveled up again. Are you the cheating child of destiny? This time I'm serious: Boss, please help me!
Fire magic suddenly rose to level three, adding two new skills. The first was Yu Luowei's most commonly used move, which used ice or fire to condense various objects. It just had a fancy name, but the mental energy consumption remained the same. The second was the move that had just defeated the big black bear, which consumed 400 mental energy and could only be used once in battle.
All aspects of his physical attributes had been greatly improved. However, Yu Luowei didn't feel happy for long before he saw that his equipment column had been damaged. He looked down at his tattered clothes and pants. Thinking of the thrilling experience just now, Yu Luowei reflected on himself:
She hadn't fully adapted to the fact that she had lost her psychic powers, and still believed herself to be a top-tier psychic who could control thousands of zombies with her mind. That's why, upon hearing the prompt and knowing only that the monsters couldn't get close, she resolutely chose to absorb them. This near-death experience also taught Yu Luowei a profound lesson.
After making another set of equipment with the leftover cloth, animal skins and threads, Yu Luowei checked the system prompt that he had not had time to read at the time: in addition to decomposing the corpse, there was another achievement: [Achievement: The first killer of a level 5 monster (Gas Bear)], which had no special effect after wearing it, but only awarded an extra 50 points.
Decomposing the giant black bear carcass yielded a supply chest (orange) and 40 pieces of meat, as well as 1 Swift Bear Hide and 4 Swift Bear Claws. Besides the meat, the remaining items were high-level materials for crafting weapons and equipment. Unfortunately, Yu Luowei didn't have the right blueprints, so he had to store them in his warehouse for now. After this "spot," his meat reserves suddenly reached over 100 pounds, ensuring he'd have plenty of meat for a while, greatly satisfying even a carnivore like Yu Luowei.
It was exactly 8 o'clock, and the first day's leaderboards had been updated. The leaderboards were anonymous by default, and only one's own ranking could be seen. Publicity was optional, but would be mandatory on the settlement day. Yu Luowei's combat power ranked first in both the district and overall leaderboards. His progress was a bit off, ranking second in the district and 12th overall. The leaderboards had just been updated, and no one had volunteered to reveal their names. There was no special reward for revealing their names now, so Yu Luowei decided not to be the first to do so. After learning that his ranking was about the same as expected, he closed the leaderboards.
The mailbox dinged for a while, signaling the arrival of the novice rewards. Yu Luowei excitedly pulled out a purple treasure chest, two blue treasure chests, four green treasure chests, and two white treasure chests. These were the rewards for first place in the district, third place in the district, the top 50, top 500, and top 1,000 overall. There were also two white treasure chests and two orange treasure chests for the day, stacked on the ground. The colorful display almost caught Yu Luowei's eye.
Ever since entering the game, his life had become chopping trees and killing monsters during the day, and unpacking and tidying up the house (shelter and supplies) at night. Yu Luowei couldn't help but sigh that his days were more regular than when he was on Blue Star.
Although he was sighing, Yu Luowei did not stop. He opened two orange treasure chests and got 1 grid expansion card, which can increase the storage capacity of each grid of the warehouse or bracelet to 999; 1 Flame Arrow Tower (orange) blueprint; 20 Flame Crystals (orange); 1 Gale Armor (orange) blueprint; 1 Gale Blade (orange) blueprint; 30 Wind Crystals (purple); and 100 Crystals (blue).
The purple treasure chest contained three items: a level 5 villa blueprint, a level 3 ice fence blueprint, and a disaster prediction card. The prediction card could only be used three times, with a 10-day interval between uses, corresponding to a season. Yu Luowei used it once. A message slowly emerged on the card: Your fire magic will be very useful during the upcoming natural disaster. Remember to maintain the temperature within the base.
Although no direct, precise information was given, the fire magic was useful and it was a natural disaster, so the next step was definitely related to the extreme low temperatures. Yu Luowei's anxiety subsided somewhat when he thought about the fire magic reaching level three. However, the level five blueprint had already arrived before the level four. Since he couldn't use it now, Yu Luowei put it away for the time being.
The blue treasure chest opened a universal thermometer that could be used at any temperature. Yu Luowei hung it by the door. In addition, four intermediate planting boxes were opened.
In addition to 100 hot packs, 2 baby cabbages (500g) and a bag of cabbage seeds (50 seeds), the rest of the green and white treasure chests are ordinary supplies, but the other materials are reduced and there is more charcoal, which is also a hint of the upcoming disaster.
Just as Yu Luowei sorted the supplies into categories, her stomach rumbled, and she remembered she hadn't eaten dinner yet. She had planned to make something delicious, but today's experience was so thrilling that she didn't have any extra energy left, so she just cooked a pack of instant noodles and a self-heating hot pot.
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