Chapter 11: Frost Season Day 1 (3) New Special Buildings...
Decomposing a blue treasure chest yielded 2 plastics, a purple treasure chest yielded 2 iron blocks, and an orange treasure chest, a more advanced one, yielding a material selection card that could be exchanged for 10 of any material. After dinner, Yu Luowei decomposed all the chests and placed the two material selection cards she obtained into her bracelet as a backup resource.
The decomposer finished its work this morning. Yu Luowei went to check it out and took out four bags of primary fertilizer from the grid in front of the machine. It was a good harvest, a stable source of fertilizer. Yu Luowei threw the garbage from the previous meal into the decomposer and continued to decompose it.
Just then, four more intermediate planting boxes appeared in the ranking rewards, four times the size of the primary ones. Yu Luowei was about to take out the new planting box and place it next to the old one, and plant the cabbage seeds he got today and the seeds left over from eating cherries, when he suddenly received a system notification:
[Detected that the survivor has 1 self-service logging machine, 4 planting boxes, 5 fertilizers, and 100 saplings. Do you want to consume these materials and 50 points to fuse them into new items?]
These larger props were stored in the form of cards in the wristband grid when Yu Luowei didn't take them out for use. The planting box was too big, and Yu Luowei originally wanted to take it out outside, but unexpectedly, it triggered a prompt.
Today, he killed a level five monster, opened two orange treasure chests, and got an achievement. Now he has quite a lot of points. Yu Luowei hesitated for a while, and finally chose yes with great courage.
[Item fusion in progress, time required 01:59:58]
It only takes two hours to wait, which is not very long. Yu Luowei plans to get the new props before going to bed.
Then he dealt with other supplies. He first used the expansion cards in the warehouse to free up a lot of space, and then sorted the food and materials into different categories. Yu Luowei then opened the chat channel to kill time.
The channel is buzzing with discussion about today's rankings:
Ma Liu: Damn it! I'm so awesome, yet I'm not even on the leaderboard. Forget about this damn game. I have an automatic logging machine now. When the day of reckoning comes, I'll show you my true strength!
Liu Xin: Is the automatic logging machine really that useful? Anyone willing to trade me for one? I really don't want to chop down trees anymore!
Ma Ming: What are you thinking? An automatic logging machine can work all day and harvest over a thousand logs a day. Why would anyone be willing to trade them? But the price of wood is much lower on the market now; you can just buy it directly. I really hope there are more automatic stone excavators to bring down the price of stone as well.
Wang Si: By the way, are there any experts from the novice rankings willing to share information about upcoming disasters so that everyone can prepare in advance?
Liu Xin: Yes, yes, everyone will thank you.
Sun Yue: You're just trying to get people to reveal their intelligence as soon as you open your mouth. What's the point of them asking for your thanks?
Liu Xin: How could you be so harsh? We're doing this for the benefit of everyone in the district!
[Jin Yu: I just finished sorting out the novice period leaderboard rewards. I was very lucky to get the props. This disaster is related to the low temperature, so everyone should prepare in advance!]
Liu Xin: Wow! You're truly a big shot! I saw your name on today's district leaderboard. As expected, a big shot is a big shot. He cares about everyone in the district! Unlike some people who are petty and narrow-minded.
Sun Yue: Who are you trying to trick? Forget it, for our boss's sake, I won't argue with you.
This Jin Yu was the one who traded the bonfire blueprint to Yu Luowei. Yu Luowei had taken a special look last night. Since the newbie gift pack included matches, almost everyone could make their own bonfire. The blueprint was priced at one piece of wood on the market, yet no one was buying it. On the other hand, fire starters like matches, needed for both making and rekindling new bonfires, were always in high demand on the market, costing ten pieces of wood each.
I didn't expect this person to make it onto the leaderboard and even receive disaster information from the rewards. But how could someone who offered a useless bonfire blueprint in exchange for fire be so kind as to proactively disclose this information? Luo Wei became wary.
Jin Yu: Thank you so much! I just wanted to make a small contribution. I discovered that this chat can be used to create a group chat, and I hope we can build an organization through this group chat where we can exchange information. I also got an automatic logging machine in the last event, and anyone who joins the group chat can get a piece of wood for free. If you're interested, please private message me.
As soon as these words were spoken, the refresh rate of the public screen instantly slowed down, presumably because everyone was chatting with Jin Yu privately. Given what he had done before, Yu Luowei was really not impressed with him. Seeing that there was no other useful information in the trading channel, she closed it, with no intention of chatting with him privately.
However, at this time, Yu Luowei's only friend took the initiative to send a message:
Fang Min: Weiwei, have you checked the chat channel? This time, our disaster is low temperatures. I found a supply chest today and got matches and lots of charcoal. I'll share some with you.
Along with the message came ten pieces of charcoal. She didn't know how much Fang Min had offered, and she didn't even know if it was enough, yet she took the initiative to ask her. Yu Luowei felt warm in her heart, accepted the charcoal, and gave her ten heat packs and the down jacket in return.
Yu Luowei: Thank you. I also opened some other warming supplies today. Let's exchange them! By the way, are you still short of wood?
Fang Min: Ah! Thanks for the hand warmer and down jacket, Weiwei! I'll take them without hesitation. You don't know, I was incredibly lucky yesterday. Not only did I complete the event, I also found tons of treasure chests, which gave me tons of materials and water. Now my shelter is at level three!
Fang Min: But Weiwei, let me tell you something. I think Jin Yu is a little strange. If you believe me, it's best not to join his group chat.
Fang Min also felt that something was wrong, and Yu Luowei began to think more about this person.
Yu Luowei: Thank you for the reminder. I believe you, but I don't want to join either. I prefer being alone.
Fang Min: That's good. Woohoo, Weiwei, you're so kind! You're the first person who believes in me so much since we were little. I love you so much! You must accept me!
Then he sent another cantaloupe.
Yu Luowei typed with a mixture of laughter and tears:
Yu Luowei: Thank you for the cantaloupe. You should be more careful next time and don't give gifts right away. By the way, I have a water purifier here. Although it can't produce water, it can purify rainwater and other things. Do you need it?
Fang Min: Don't worry! I'm not someone who'd treat you this way. But is this water purifier the one from the trading area? I found an oasis here with a small lake, but the water is unfortunately polluted. It says it needs to be purified before drinking. I saw ten water purifiers listed in the trading area last night and wanted to buy one, but I was too slow and didn't get any.
Yu Luowei: Ah, is there one in the trading area? I haven't seen it, but the functions should be the same. I've opened two, and they can purify water below the intermediate level of pollution. I can give you one. Take it and check the instructions.
Fang Min: Thank you, Weiwei! But this thing is quite valuable. I really need it, but I can't take it for free. Let me think about this. How about I trade it for a basic planting box?
Yu Luowei: Of course. I have a bag of fertilizer here as a return gift for your cantaloupe. You must accept it!
Yu Luowei gave Fang Min a bag of fertilizer and the water purifier, accepted the cantaloupe and planter, and closed the communication window with Fang Min. After this little test tonight, it was clear that Fang Min was indeed a lovely, kind, and principled little girl. Yu Luowei also gained her first friend in this game world.
However, his water purifier was surprisingly popular. Yu Luowei quickly opened the trading channel and sold out all the weapons. Everyone exchanged them for three times the raw materials. Yu Luowei collected the materials from the trade and made 30 more water purifiers and 30 novice longswords, giving away 10 of each, still priced at three times the raw materials. The rest were marked as only exchangeable for special items or blueprints.
The Level 2 fence blueprint was also traded, but this time, instead of raw materials, it was a Level 2 spike trap blueprint. Yu Luowei retrieved it and entered the construction page. This trap can be installed in front of the fence. Each trap increases the base's defense by 10 points. However, in addition to wood, thorns are also required. These are quite common in the forest, but Yu Luowei has never specifically collected them. She can collect some tomorrow.
After closing the trading channel and finding some more fruit, Yu Luowei took out the willow branches she had cut today and tried to weave a basket to put all the fruit in so that it wouldn't take up space on her wristband. The temperature was still quite high, so she put a few blocks of ice next to the basket to make a simple refrigerator.
After processing the fruit, Yu Luowei moved the planting box back to the base and planted cabbage. Cabbage only took three days to mature, so Yu Luowei didn't use the only bag of fertilizer he had left.
There were still a few minutes left before the new props were integrated. Yu Luowei took out a bag of steak-flavored potato chips and happy water that he had just opened from the reward, and ate while waiting for the final countdown.
Just after finishing a bag of potato chips, the new props were integrated. Yu Luowei clicked to receive it:
[Congratulations on obtaining the special building card: Forest Farm, activating the building system]
[Forest: A special building that can be placed in an open space outside the base. Once placed, the building shares defense with the base. It provides saplings for harvesting trees. A maximum of 500 saplings can be placed at a time. After 24 hours, each sapling yields 5 logs. Saplings of the same species and other additional products are randomly dropped. Survivors can teleport freely within the base and special buildings.]
[Congratulations to the survivor who was the first among all survivors to activate the building system. You will be rewarded with 1000 saplings of a random type and a level 3 ice fence blueprint.]
Yu Luowei from the Special Construction Forest Farm was very surprised and thanked himself again for not using this automatic logging machine or choosing to burn the wood piles to get wood.
Resisting the urge to rush out and build the forest farm right now, Yu Luowei carefully put away this special building card and waited until eight o'clock tomorrow morning.
Tomorrow I will go and clean up and decompose the trees that were burned in front of the cave, and I will get a lot of saplings. This way I can free my hands and never have to cut down trees again!
The Level 3 Ice Fence blueprint required 100 pieces of wood and 50 ice crystals. Unsure of what this ice crystal was, Yu Luowei pulled out a crystal from an orange treasure chest and used the Life of All Things skill, copying the instructions and condensing it with ice. Surprisingly, it was actually recognized as an ice crystal, albeit a green-level one.
After the novice period, upgrades within the base will be directly counted into the progress rankings. There is no separate base upgrade reward. It is only the first day now and there is not much danger. Yu Luowei plans to wait until the ice magic reaches level three and condenses blue ice crystals before upgrading to build this fence, so that it is at least worthy of the status of a level three blueprint.
The bonfire was about to die out, and the temperature in the shelter gradually dropped to ten degrees Celsius. Yu Luowei shuddered in his ordinary shirt, which provided no warmth. He quickly injected fire magic. The upgraded variant fire magic could keep the bonfire burning for 24 hours, and the temperature in the room rose back to 20 degrees Celsius.
The first day of the official game was extra thrilling and exciting because of some unexpected events. Yu Luowei was exhausted both physically and mentally. He brushed his teeth carefully with the toothpaste and toothbrush he had just opened today, then closed his eyes and fell asleep.
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