Chapter 68: First Day of the Fierce Sand Season (2) Magic Upgrade...
Determined not to let the snake succeed, Yu Luowei immediately drew her sword and slashed at the snake's body. However, because the snake was so large, she couldn't precisely hit its vital point, so she could only strike at a narrower spot.
With Yu Luowei's perseverance, a long wound gradually appeared on the snake's body. The basilisk felt pain, and its half-entangled body gradually slowed down.
However, the defense was too high, and the efficiency of continuing to chop was too low. Yu Luo slightly changed his attack method, using fire to continue expanding the range of the wound, and then using ice to freeze the basilisk's blood.
In this world of ice and fire, the basilisk's movements became even more frantic, continuing to entwine and roll up and down. Even though his feet were fixed, Yu Luowei had to stop his attack and barely maintain his balance.
Although there's no amusement park in town, I did get to experience a roller coaster today. Yu Luowei found joy in the midst of hardship, and once the basilisk's movements had stabilized, he resumed his attack.
Yu Luowei was standing a little distance away from the snake's head. The snake was too big, and continuing to freeze its blood was not very efficient, so she wanted to walk onto the snake's head.
Slowly moving forward, the basilisk was still thrashing around. Yu Luowei sometimes wished he could crawl over it, and finally he reached right above the snake's head. He took out his greatsword and continued to chop.
The snake's head had more bones and was harder. Yu Luowei seemed to have returned to the time when he first came into the game and was chopping trees outside.
Finally, a small cut was made. Yu Luowei stabbed the sword into the cut, and then continued to use fire magic and ice magic to attack the inside of the snake monster, successfully killing the snake.
After all, at a higher level, ice magic is more effective than fire magic. If it weren't for the need to practice fire magic, Yu Luowei should have been able to end the battle faster.
After jumping off the basilisk, Yu Luowei saw a huge snake corpse in front of him. While letting the system decompose it, he wondered in his heart what kind of snake it was. Snake gall and bones would definitely be good for making wine.
In addition to the orange treasure chest, the system actually gave snake gallbladders and snake bones, but these were only medicine and equipment materials, as well as snake scales and snake skin. Putting away these materials, Yu Luowei prepared to return to his base.
After the basilisk died, a copy was naturally formed. However, this place is too far away from the city. If there is no transportation facilities, it would be troublesome for others to come.
Yu Luowei temporarily set up a teleportation point here using a teleportation card, intending to connect the city to this place when a bus station or a large teleportation station can be built outside the city in the future.
The basilisk led Yu Luowei from her original location to the depths of the swamp. She had to make her way through the swamp, stepping deep and shallow. However, there was a benefit: she discovered the same vines from the spring season in the depths of the swamp and picked some Life Fruit, Source Fruit, and Poison Fruit.
The time spent on the journey was almost longer than the time spent fighting monsters. Although he got another treasure chest on the way, by the time Luo Wei reached the lake at the entrance of the abyss, his pants were already covered in mud.
He called Ma Tuan and they teleported back to the base. The first thing to do was wash clothes. The mud had dried, and a regular washing machine wouldn't be able to wash them. But this one was a system-made machine, upgraded with an electronic butler, so it was incredibly powerful. Just throw the clothes in and they'll wash them without any detergent.
Perhaps this is the advantage of games over reality. Yu Luowei changed into clean clothes and went to the processing center.
Yu Luowei was shocked when she opened the electronic butler on the second floor: the 500-person space was already full. When she left this morning, there were still nearly 200 people left. This was too fast.
He already had enough equipment sets, so Yu Luowei thought of some metaphysics. Maybe he could get more special building cards by opening the boxes in the city processing center. So Yu Luowei opened the orange treasure chest on the spot, and sure enough, he got a special building card for the city management center and a magical blueprint that could change the city layout.
The so-called City Management Center, or simply the Urban Management Center, is a place where patrol officers and security personnel can be recruited. It belongs to the defense zone. With only this defense zone facility missing, Yu Luowei immediately installed it and prepared to upgrade the city to a fourth-level city.
When the flag was raised, Yu Luowei suddenly realized that the city warehouse had grown a lot in terms of materials. Now, there was basically no need to purchase additional materials for upgrading.
While waiting for the upgrade, Yu Luowei curiously clicked on the Citizen Contribution List, which he had never opened before. This list is used to record the contributions made by citizens to the city, including donations of materials, completion of commissions or participation in city work.
The first place was occupied by a familiar name - Lu Zhi. He had just arrived today and had already taken the "number one" spot. Yu Luowei probably knew where all this information came from.
After sending a private message to thank his senior, Yu Luowei went to the first floor and informed the electronic housekeeper and Lin Zhixia, who was now the only employee of the processing center, about the city upgrade and new recruitment information.
Although Fang Min was "fired", she couldn't sit idle. More and more people came to the restaurant, but there was only Su Tang's restaurant, and they were short of staff, so Fang Min went there to help out.
There is also Su Tang's mother. Yu Luowei has known about her for a long time. Aunt Su seemed to have studied medicine before. Now after asking her specifically, she found out that she studied pharmacy. She also got a lot of medicinal seeds during the previous game time.
Yu Luowei was eager to try it, but ordinary farmland could not grow medicinal herbs, so special medicinal fields were needed. Although medicinal farmland did not require special building cards, it only needed to be directly cultivated in the selected area of the processing center; but the area within the city was not enough, and the current number of fields had reached the maximum.
Yu Luowei remembered that he still had a city expansion card that could be used in cities above level three, so he used the expansion card in the direction of the original farmland behind the base.
After the expansion, the city behind Yuluowei Base is almost as large as the area in front. Two medicinal fields have been reclaimed nearby. However, this plan isn't entirely rational. The blueprints found in the treasure chest come at the perfect time. While we've been recruiting talent for this area, we haven't found any suitable ones. City upgrades could bring in some suitable talent.
Aunt Su was told about the medicinal field, and she was very excited, eager to start work right away. Seeing that it was almost six o'clock, Yu Luowei persuaded Aunt Su to add some grass and trees to the empty city to increase the greening rate and make it look less empty.
The countdown card that had marked the start of the morning had now revealed its true form—an endless expanse of desert. Yu Luowei was wary: Could this be a combination of high temperatures and drought?
This message was first posted on the city's public channel, which immediately became lively as citizens began to chatter about various measures. Someone pulled out a weather forecast card, saying it might rain tonight, and everyone rushed to get out their pots and pans to collect some water.
Yu Luowei followed the crowd and found a few large plastic buckets to place at the center of the base. She also stocked up on water cards in advance. She certainly didn't need water herself, but within the city, parks and green spaces needed water for flowers, and hospitals and restaurants also needed water. If the stream they had been using for the past few days dried up, they would be doomed.
When Yu Luowei got the ranking points yesterday, he had already bought some water and electricity cards, so when he opened the points mall today, Yu Luowei found something wrong - the price of water cards had doubled.
It seemed like a drought was inevitable. Unwilling to bet on whether the price of water cards would increase, Yu Luowei stocked up on 50 cards, then noticed an extra number below the item—only 8,965 cards left.
Not only are prices increasing, but quantities are also limited. This game has learned its lesson. Another settlement day has passed, and the number of cities has now reached over 3,000. With the addition of survivor gathering places, there will be even more. Unsure if these water cards will be enough for others, Yu Luowei didn't buy any more. 50, plus the nearly 70 she bought yesterday, are more than enough for this season. If that doesn't work, she'll just use her skill to make snow.
At this time, the district communication channel gradually became lively again. Some people from small organizations or those who had not yet joined any city or organization asked for disaster information in the channel, but no one responded - well, now everyone at the top of the list has their own organization, and they will definitely give priority to their own organization.
Thinking of his own city, which had just been promoted to level 4, Yu Luowei mentioned it in the channel for the purpose of recruiting new members, but he didn't mention the rain. Sure enough, as soon as the news was released, Yu Luowei received many messages of thanks and inquiries in his private messages.
Letting the electronic butler do the chatting for a while, Yu Luowei prepared to upgrade her magic - today's snake fight was not in vain, she felt that her ice and fire magic had reached the critical point.
Pulling out the magic stone—having gained a lot from opening other boxes today, Yu Luowei began to level up. Her fire magic upgrade went smoothly, bringing her to level six. But for ice magic, she had used twice as many magic stones as she could, but she still didn't feel the need to upgrade.
Realizing that continuing to use it was futile, Yu Luowei stopped wasting the magic stone and began to think. Actually, decomposing the polar bear carcass yielded not only level 6 beast meat but also Frost King Blood. However, even with Yu Luowei's level 5 ice magic at the time, the blood nearly froze into ice when he extracted it from the bracelet, forcing him to put it aside for the time being.
Now, Yu Luowei took it out again, and sure enough, the chill that permeated her bones was much less now. However, she instinctively felt that this was still not enough. Remembering the mysterious stone from before, Yu Luowei took out another bucket of Black Abyss Lake water and soaked the magic stone in it for a while.
After drinking the blood of the Frost King and holding the soaked magic stone in his hand, Yu Luowei closed his eyes and began the process of upgrading ice magic again.
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