Chapter 42: The Second Day of the Eclipse Rainy Season (1) New Minerals
There was no barrier at the entrance to the Black Abyss, but the rain was still lighter than outside. Furthermore, there were no other animals like frogs near the lake, let alone monsters. Yu Luowei speculated that this was due to the Black Abyss and the previous boss.
But the ground around the lake was already muddy. Luckily, Yu Luowei had remembered before bed last night and bought a pair of rain boots. It was just tough on Ma Tuan; all four panda feet were covered in mud.
Yu Luowei asked Ma Tuan if he wanted to return to his pet space, but he refused, still wanting to go out into the forest and look for monsters. Seeing Yu Luowei's agreement, Ma Tuan scurried off.
After Ma Tuan left, Yu Luowei first went to the lake. The water looked a little muddier than yesterday, thanks to the constant dripping of rain. After observing carefully for a while, Yu Luowei spotted a few small fish swimming around in the lake.
Since he was now the Black Abyss King, catching a few fish from the lake shouldn't be a problem. Yu Luowei took out a plastic bucket. Trying to control the water around the fish, he lifted it up and dropped it into the bucket. It took less than two minutes in total, surprisingly efficient.
Considering the potential for flooding, Yu Luowei carefully caught a dozen fish. However, after catching some of the larger fish, they showed signs of "slightly contaminated, inedible." Suspecting the presence of the so-called black energy, Yu Luowei tossed them back into the water, leaving only the uncontaminated ones.
After catching the fish, Yu Luowei also fetched two buckets of water. One bucket was used after purification, and the other was kept for making potions in the future. Although he had not obtained the potion blueprint yet, maybe he would get it tonight.
The lake was very large. After it was filled with water, Yu Luowei walked along the lake to the other side and began to explore the new area.
Because the ground was covered with weeds, Yu Luowei was worried about cutting her raincoat, so she took out her ice axe again. However, this time, she didn't cut "weeds" but "wet grass." After drying, it could be fed directly to animals like rabbits and ducks, or it could be mixed with other ingredients to make feed that all animals could eat.
Yu Luowei's feed still came from the treasure chest, and the quantity was small, and it would be used up in two days. Now that he saw the ready-made fodder, he immediately started harvesting it.
During the process, Yu Luowei also discovered another raw material for making feed - wild millet. She harvested even faster, not stopping until the grass occupied two grids and the wild millet filled one grid.
Yu Luowei had almost cleared the area. Just as she was about to move on to the next place, she suddenly saw a burst of white light, which was very conspicuous in the rain.
Yu Luowei walked over and took a look around. Not finding anything unusual, she decided to dig it up and see. Of course, she didn't waste the soil she dug out. Although it was a little wet, it could be used to make red bricks after drying.
After digging for a while, a white treasure chest appeared. But even after Yu Luowei put it away, the glow persisted. It seemed he had to keep digging. Yu Luowei wiped the rain from his face and continued to work.
After an unknown amount of digging, she unearthed another treasure chest (purple), but the glow still persisted. Yu Luowei felt a little exhausted. The heavy rain, the forest, being alone, and wearing a raincoat easily brought back unpleasant memories. But after digging for so long, giving up now wouldn't be worth it. The cave was almost completely filled with soil, and Yu Luowei planned to place the remaining excavated materials on the wall, then use ice to create a path.
After digging for a while longer, Yu Luowei even changed her ice shovel and finally unearthed something hard. She thought it was a higher-level treasure chest, so she cleaned off the dirt and discovered it was some transparent ore. She dug a piece out and checked the instructions, and it turned out to be crystal ore.
Crystal ore doesn't require smelting, just decomposition. Yu Luowei decomposed a piece on the spot, and after confirming it was the crystal needed to repair the base's defenses, he burst into laughter. He hadn't expected the minerals discovered after the environmental upgrade to be even better. But his laughter made him look more like some kind of murderous demon in the rain.
After another half day of mining, the rain grew heavier, forming a small pool at the bottom of the pit. Seeing that she had dug up quite a few crystals, Yu Luowei climbed up her ice stairs. With each step, she would freeze the soles of her shoes together with the stairs, so she didn't have to worry about falling.
When Luo Wei reached the ground without much difficulty, Ma Tuan was already waiting for her there, with two treasure chests on his back and two ducks in his mouth.
After receiving the treasure chest, Yu Luowei looked at the two ducks. They were just ordinary ducks, without any strange features. However, the ducks couldn't be kept in the animal enclosure yet, because there was no pond in the base. They couldn't be allowed to swim in the fountain!
Yu Luowei first asked Ma Tuan to put the ducks into the pet space and then raise them in the lake at the entrance to the Black Abyss. As for now, she was going to help Ma Tuan get revenge.
That's right, Ma Tuan had come back to complain. He had just discovered two level three Broken Gold Wolves while exploring alone. After a fierce one-on-two battle, Ma Tuan successfully took down both wolf heads.
But the fighting still attracted the wolves, and five level three Golden Broken Wolves and ten level two Golden Broken Wolves surrounded Ma Tuan. Fortunately, Yu Luowei had given Ma Tuan a skill card, which allowed him to break through the encirclement after killing three wolves and return to find Yu Luowei. Ya Zi discovered him while escaping.
Because of the rain, the wolves were temporarily unable to find their way. This was why Yu Luowei and Ma Tuan had been delayed for so long. However, these wolves were simply more numerous and of lower rank. Yu Luowei simply asked Ma Tuan to take her back to the place where they had encountered the wolves before, ready to avenge Ma Tuan.
Before they even reached their destination, they ran into a pack of wolves. Upon seeing Ma Tuan and Yu Luowei, they immediately bared their fangs and took an attacking stance.
Normally, facing so many monsters, Yu Luowei would have hesitated for a moment, pondering her strategy before she could resolve the battle without sustaining any injuries. Unfortunately, it was the rainy season, and the relentless raindrops became her best weapon. She transformed the rain into ice blades and stabbed them at the wolves.
Because there was no prompt yet, Yu Luowei couldn't tell which ones were level 2 and which ones were level 3. After they were all injured, he simply trapped them with ice cubes made of rainwater and handed the battlefield to Ma Tuan.
After Ma Tuan killed a level 3 wolf monster with one claw, he gave the rest of the monsters to Yu Luowei. This was because the corpses of the monsters killed by Ma Tuan could not be decomposed. Yu Luowei then used his weapon to kill them, harvesting eight level 2 beast meat and four supply treasure chests (green).
Now Ma Tuan has killed enough monsters, and he just needs to wait for the next upgrade when he grows up. Yu Luowei habitually wanted to touch Ma Tuan's head, but he only felt a handful of rainwater, so he had to give up.
Today's harvest was pretty good, mainly because the rain outside was getting heavier, so Yu Luowei asked Ma Tuan to return to the pet space first and walked back to the base by herself.
On the way, she passed the spot where the mushroom tree had been yesterday, but it had disappeared today, presumably because Yu Luowei had taken the item. However, a few colorful mushrooms had grown on the ground. Yu Luowei carefully picked one up, and after noting it was not poisonous, she confidently picked all the mushrooms.
She casually threw the duck into the Black Abyss entrance lake and observed it for a while. Seeing that the duck didn't show any adverse reactions, Yu Luowei left. Her connection with the Black Abyss was strong enough for her to sense the duck's movements and stop them in time if they tried to escape.
However, we still need to dig a pond in the base as soon as possible, otherwise the duck will be contaminated by the black air at any time.
As she thought about it, Yu Luowei walked to the side of the base. The trap she had set this morning was already mostly submerged in water, and inside lay a dripping unicorn rabbit. Because it was floating on the water, it wasn't seriously injured.
Yu Luowei picked it up, went into the base, got a towel, wiped it dry, and put it in the animal enclosure.
The little rabbit was shivering, either out of fear or cold. Seeing this, the other little rabbits gathered around it, folding their fur together to keep each other warm. Yu Luowei, watching from the side, was heartbroken. How could she bear to eat rabbits again?
He ravaged the cute bunny again and collected its eggs. The eggs laid by the mutant hens in the game didn't look much different, but the number of eggs had increased significantly. The two hens laid six eggs at once. Yu Luowei, following past experience, left two eggs in case the hens stopped laying.
Yu Luowei spread the wet hay flat on the open ground at the base and built a bonfire in the middle. Since there was no sun, a bonfire would speed up the drying process. He then left his and Ma Tuan's raincoats outside to dry before entering the shelter.
The first thing he did when he came in was to give himself and Ma Tuan a bath, then brush his rain boots and put them next to his raincoat. Ma Tuan said he didn't want to go out tomorrow because his feet were covered in mud and it was too uncomfortable. His nest was also dirty, so Yu Luowei had to brush it as well.
Yu Luowei poured a bucket of lake water into the water purifier, then heated up a bowl of ginger soup for herself as she sipped while unpacking. Besides the materials, she also received two electricity cards, a washing machine and dryer, and a hair dryer. More importantly, she found a blueprint for a fish pond.
This was truly what he had in mind. The fish pond wasn't very high-level, requiring very few materials, so Yu Luowei simply made one, using the blueprint in the manual—the same one used for base upgrades—and placed it in front of the animal enclosure.
The fish caught today from the lake were transferred to the plastic bucket using water control, so they were still alive and kicking. Yu Luowei dumped all the fish into the pond to raise them. Tomorrow, the ducks could be brought back, and the animal enclosure could be expanded a bit (Yu Luowei could only draw water from the lake remotely; he couldn't teleport fish or ducks directly).
Although the fish pond was not big, it was more than enough to hold these dozen fish, and there was even room for them. Yu Luowei decided to catch a few more fish tomorrow to fill up the pond.
After getting two more electricity cards, Yu Luowei decided to be a little extravagant. He plugged in the electricity cards and used the washing machine to wash and dry his previously soiled equipment, as well as the small quilt and blanket made of hemp balls. Finally, his hands were free.
While the washing machine was working, Yu Luowei fried herself an egg and made a bowl of rice noodles. She ate while opening the manual.
There were also some new saplings in the Points Mall, the same trees that had just appeared in the forest, though the variety was a bit limited, with no golden silk wood. Yu Luowei had bought half of the new saplings yesterday and planted them in the forest farm. Today's harvest was the same as what he'd harvested from felling trees: all special wood.
The base and shelter cannot be upgraded this season, and using special wood to raise the base would be a bit of a waste. Yu Luowei temporarily kept the special wood and only put ordinary wood on the shelves.
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