Chapter 52: The First Day of the Wartworm Season (2) Screen Window and Magic Tower...
Before her was an endless expanse of golden wheat fields. Yu Luowei picked one to confirm it was indeed an ear of wheat.
The shelf life of flour is generally about one year, while that of wheat grains is generally two to three years. This large wheat field in front of us is enough for a family of three to eat only noodles for a year.
Yu Luowei was excited but also a little worried. Either this was a resource point for the future city, or it meant that completing this survival game would take an incredibly long time. She certainly hoped it was the first case.
It was obviously impossible for one person to harvest all the wheat in one day, so Yu Luowei cut a dozen portions (each portion weighing one pound) and left along the edge of the wheat field.
Perhaps it was a compensation for not being able to go out and explore last season due to the rain. Today, these resource points came one after another. Before walking far, Yu Luowei saw a small hillside flashing red light.
Taking a closer look at the red light, Yu Luowei discovered that the rocks on the hillside were Flame Crystals, a special material used for base upgrades. Jiang Nian'an seemed to need them for upgrades. Checking the time, Yu Luowei decided to chisel some Flame Crystals before heading back.
While Yu Luowei was chiseling stones, Ma Tuan was entertaining himself around, and by the way, he stood guard for Yu Luowei and cleared out some blind monsters.
After Ma Tuan killed two level 4 monsters and several lower-level monsters, harvesting two blue and one green supply chests, Yu Luowei called Ma Tuan and left together. Because the few times he'd gone out, he'd teleported directly to the Black Abyss entrance lake. This time, Yu Luowei had reserved time to walk back and take in the scenery along the way.
After picking some fruits from the roadside, Yu Luowei got on the carriage and entered the shelter.
The first thing Yu Luowei did upon returning was check the clue card. This time, the clue was in the form of a picture: a circular area with several insects in the center. Because it was a simple sketch, Yu Luowei could only make out that two had wings and one did not. There were also some small black dots around the insects.
Although crude, considering the game's description of "little surprises when food exceeds its shelf life," Yu Luowei was certain it was an insect plague, and one of the insects was most likely a fly. He was just unsure what the surrounding black spots meant.
Bugs - Before seeing zombies, Yu Luowei hated all kinds of bugs. This included spiders, flies, mosquitoes, and so on. It looked like this season would be a tough battle.
Because she guessed that the bracelet's preservation function would disappear, Yu Luowei had already moved all the food to the storage room last night and placed countless magic ice blocks around it. To be on the safe side, she went downstairs to the storage room to check the expiration date. After comparing it with the normal expiration date of food summarized by Zhao Linlang, it was about twice as long, and meat could be kept for twelve days.
Yu Luowei took out some of the fruits she had picked before and some unknown fruits from her homemade ice storage, washed them, added yogurt, and divided them into two portions, one for Ma Tuan and one for herself, and put the freshly picked fruits in them as well.
The fruit native to the game world tasted good too, fresh from the freezer, still icy cold, with a unique flavor. Yu Luowei fell in love with it after a few bites.
I took the treasure chest out and opened it while I ate. The purple treasure chest revealed a new potion recipe: [Constitution Potion], and it thoughtfully came with two ingredients, including the brocade flower I picked today. Considering that this treasure chest was found on the same plot of land, it made sense.
The remaining treasure chests yielded some marinade ingredients and a screen window blueprint. The upgraded shelter would have room for windows, but they still needed to be crafted using the window blueprint Luo Wei had obtained a long time ago before being installed.
Excluding the basement, there are about eight windows per floor. Yu Luowei usually opens them during the day when she goes out to let in some fresh air. The system is quite intelligent in this regard; as long as a circuit is connected nearby, it can open as many windows as desired at once, without having to open them one by one.
Knowing that an insect plague was imminent, screens were essential. Yu Luowei quickly entered the blueprint and then used thread and fiber to make a sufficient number of screens, which he installed directly on the existing windows.
The installed screens are quite simple and look out of place in this manor-like shelter, but they work beautifully:
[Screen Window: Although it looks simple, the screen window shares the base's defense. Before the base's defense drops below 10, ensure that not even a mosquito can pass through the screen window!]
A mountain's fame depends on the presence of immortals, not its height. Props don't need to be extravagant; they just need to be useful. Yu Luowei also unpacked the electric fence, which had been hidden away because the base had no electricity, and installed it on the fence. Finally, there were the stinger traps he could place. With at least three lines of defense (electric fence, level 5 fence, and screens), the insects would be sure to be kept away.
As soon as she got the message, Yu Luowei posted it to the seven-person group. Others who had received the tip also shared it, and were engaged in an intense brainstorming session. After finishing her work, Yu Luowei joined in the discussion for a while. However, she didn't forget she had another matter to attend to. Once everyone's discussion had subsided, she contacted Jiang Nian'an and sent her the Flame Crystal.
Jiang Nian'an was surprised and excited. Because only survivors who needed the materials could find them in treasure chests, there had never been any Flame Crystals on the market, except for those she had found in her own treasure chest. She had been saving points lately, but she was still a little short of leveling up, let alone buying enough materials.
After thinking about it, Jiang Nian'an didn't know what could match the value of the Flame Crystal, so he simply put all his stock in the bracelet, took screenshots and sent them to Yu Luowei - this was also a function of the system update, allowing Yu Luowei to choose by herself.
Yu Luowei spotted the blueprint for the magic tower right away. She had always wanted to add some new features to the base's arrow tower, but she had never come up with any other type of base attack facility. Unexpectedly, she saw it here at Jiang Nian'an's place, so she immediately chose this blueprint.
Although Jiang Nian'an had also opened this blueprint from the red box, the magic tower, both for construction and subsequent attacks, required the consumption of different types of elemental crystals, and she didn't have that many, so Jiang Nian'an didn't enter it immediately. Seeing that Yu Luowei had chosen this blueprint, Jiang Nian'an reminded her, but thinking that Yu Luowei was number one on the Six List and must have more resources, she insisted and gave the blueprint to Yu Luowei.
The first thing Yu Luowei did after receiving the blueprint was to build eight of them and place them in the base, maxing out the maximum capacity. For Luowei, magic towers were more useful than arrow towers because they didn't have any specific types. They only required crystals, and the type of magic attack they unleashed depended on the crystals consumed. Yu Luowei could make his own crystals—he simply had to infuse them with magic.
Yu Luowei's magic hadn't been upgraded in ages, so she took the opportunity to recharge the magic tower with crystals to practice some magic. However, it was clear that her magic world wasn't developing due to lack of practice, but rather a lack of opportunities. This was why she insisted on going out exploring every day—perhaps one day she'd encounter another fight between two level six ice and fire monsters, taking advantage of the opportunity and upgrading her magic.
After replenishing the crystals in the magic tower to 100, Yu Luowei returned to the shelter and put most of the remaining flame crystals and copper ores on the shelves. He also put some extra-large ice blocks made from ordinary water on the shelves for those who had not upgraded to a level four shelter or did not have electricity cards for temporary use.
Then, she opened the chat channel. Everyone on the channel was discussing their day's harvest, and it seemed like they were mostly discussing food. If it had been at the beginning of the game, everyone would have been happy, but now, without enough storage space, too much food would be a burden.
Because most people don't know how to cook, they tend to prefer fast food (including compressed biscuits and nutritional supplements). The fast food produced by the system is a combination of meat and vegetables, has no additives, and has a long shelf life. Therefore, most people choose to sell the excess meat. After all, meat should be the easiest to obtain of all foods.
Yu Luowei was just busy putting his own things on the shelves, but now he went to the trading market and took a closer look. He could actually buy five portions of first-level beast meat with just one piece of compressed biscuit!
The price of this kind of meat was unimaginable on Blue Star, no, even in the world before the zombies arrived. Yu Luowei was a little restless.
While prices might drop further, today was the first day the freshness feature was removed. While the meat's freshness was still guaranteed, it was hard to say what would happen after that. With this in mind, she took out the half of the compressed biscuits she hadn't exchanged for points when she sold the charcoal and spent a fortune on them at the market.
However, she herself had a lot of meat, so she didn't buy too much. She also told the others in the group about this news, but unlike Yu Luowei, the others didn't have the same size refrigerators as they wanted, so only Su Tang bought a lot, while the others only bought a moderate amount.
If anything, Yu Luowei's harvest today was also related to food, such as the wheat field. The marinade ingredients from the treasure chest also came in handy at this time - braised meat can be stored longer than fresh meat.
After a busy night, the braised meat was only one-third of Yu Luowei's meat inventory. She stopped and planned to make something else tomorrow, such as bacon.
But now Yu Luowei no longer wants to use plastic boxes to store prepared dishes. Before, she thought the bracelet could keep the food warm so that she could just take it out and eat it whenever she wanted. But now, it doesn't work. After it's cooked, it has to be frozen first, and then heated up before eating. Isn't it really a pre-prepared meal?
Coming out of the kitchen, Yu Luowei lay down on the massage chair, ready to massage for an hour first, and then go to bed when she felt comfortable.
But things went against his wishes. Just after submitting the points and before he started pressing the buttons, Yu Luowei heard the sound he least wanted to hear on a summer night - a symphony of mosquitoes.
This completely shattered Yu Luowei's desire for a massage. She quickly paused the massage chair, produced a Flame brand mosquito swatter, and began searching the living room for mosquitoes.
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