Chapter 9: The First Day of Frost Season (1) The game officially begins...
After putting his own products on the shelves, Yu Luowei casually browsed the trading mall to see if he could find any bargains.
Thanks to the emergence of automatic logging machines, the price of wood in the market has dropped significantly, with a bottle of mineral water costing about 8 pieces of wood and a compressed biscuit costing 12 pieces of wood. Yu Luowei traded three compressed biscuits and ten bottles of mineral water for 116 pieces of wood.
The price of stones also dropped a little, but not by much. Yu Luowei used up his last two packs of compressed biscuits and exchanged them for 6 stones.
Other than that, there wasn't much to buy. Most of the items on the market were commonplace, and the few blueprints were priced so high that even a fool wouldn't buy them. The few weapons and equipment available were all beginner-level. Yu Luowei browsed for a while, traded two packs of instant noodles for a four-piece bedding set, and closed the manual.
She laid the new bedding set neatly on the bed, the fabric still adorned with tiny flowers. She folded the original quilt and placed it at the foot of the bed. Yu Luowei spent the last day of her novice period in her increasingly cozy little bed.
Because an unknown disaster was right in front of him, Yu Luowei did not sleep well that night and opened his eyes before the alarm clock rang.
With only an hour left before a new challenge, Yu Luowei was anxious but also a little eager to try. Thinking that she would explore the other side of the stream today, Yu Luowei took out bamboo and rope, preparing to make a tool to cross the river.
The bamboo was about 2 meters long. Yu Luowei put four bamboos together, tied them at different places with four ropes, and reinforced the ropes with ice magic. After making sure that it would not fall apart, he put this [Simple Bamboo Board] into the bracelet.
Yu Luowei had long ago tried to see if he could use ice magic to freeze an ice bridge. However, the second-level ice magic could only freeze water that was fifty centimeters long and wide, and it was only a little thick. He knew without trying that it would break if stepped on, so Yu Luowei had to give up this plan.
He made another twenty ice arrows. The game notification sounded at the right time. It was five minutes before eight o'clock. Yu Luo was stunned for a moment and was attracted by the content of the notification sound:
Congratulations to all the survivors who have successfully passed the Novice Period and officially entered the Survival Trial game! Next, we will introduce the new rules:
1. The Trial Game consists of a season of ten days. Each season will feature a different disaster, which will become increasingly severe over time. The name of the disaster will be officially announced on the fourth day of each season.
2. The last day of each quarter is the settlement day, and there will be no disasters.
3. A new ranking system has been added, which is divided into [Overall Ranking] and [Region Ranking]. There are combat power ranking, progress ranking and temporary activity ranking respectively. The ranking is updated at 8 pm every day. The top 1000 in the overall ranking and the top 50 in the region ranking on the settlement day will receive rewards.
4. The ranking rewards for the novice period will be distributed at 8 o'clock tonight.
5. Accurate disaster information for the next season can only be obtained in advance from the ranking rewards (this season's disaster information may be obtained from the novice ranking rewards).
6. More types of neutral creatures and monsters will be added to the surrounding environment, and the monsters will have a higher desire to attack.
7. A new base defense system has been added. The base will no longer be absolutely safe, but it is still the safest place for survivors in the game. Defense is related to the level of the base, shelter, and fence. Try to improve the defense level of the base. Other ways to improve defense are yet to be explored.
8. The probability of treasure chests appearing in the surrounding environment and the treasure chest drop rate after defeating monsters are restored.
9. If the number of surviving residents in a region is less than 50% on the settlement date, the regions will be merged and the area code will continue to use the region with the largest number of surviving residents.
In addition, the game will be updated from time to time, and various welfare activities will be held from time to time. All rights of interpretation belong to xx Galaxy.
Congratulations again on officially entering the Survival Trial game! One small goal: I hope to see you all again at the end of the first season!
By the time I finished listening to the rules, eight o'clock had arrived, and light from outside was streaming into the shelter. The words "Novice Period" at the top of the manual had disappeared, replaced by "First Day of Period," officially marking the end of the Novice Period.
As soon as it was announced that more species of creatures had been added, the forest outside seemed to be given new vitality in an instant. With the appearance of light, a few bird calls were heard after a long time. Even the green color seemed to be more tender, and the air seemed to smell better.
In the early days of the zombie world, ordinary animals still existed. Later, except for those raised by the psychics themselves, all other animals were basically infected and turned into zombies. From the tenth day after the zombies arrived to the blue planet with no greenery around, Yu Luowei hadn't heard such crisp birdsong for a long time. He couldn't help but take a deep breath of fresh air before officially setting out to explore.
Today, the bushes and forests have many different scenes, clear dewdrops on the grass leaves, purple and blue flowers blooming in the grass, and various insects flying around, especially a few ladybugs, which awakened Yu Luowei's memories of catching ladybugs and crickets with his friends at night in his rural hometown forty years ago.
The scenery of the village was also very beautiful at that time. Apricot trees, peach trees, mulberry trees and walnut trees were planted on the hills next to the village, and there were endless wheat fields, corn fields and sesame fields in the fields.
As a child, Yu Luowei loved the late summer and early autumn. He could just watch the sesame stalks drying in the sun, and climb up and down to pick peaches and apricots. But after the zombie apocalypse, he never saw such scenery again. The zombie virus gradually contaminated the land, forcing him to dig deeper and deeper underground to collect soil for the base's laboratories to grow food.
Not to mention arriving on Blue Star, where technological advancements were accelerating, rural areas and farmland were becoming increasingly scarce, practically disappearing. Pollution was also becoming increasingly severe. While at the Blue Star Orphanage, Yu Luowei could only breathe polluted air and eat the daily nutritional supplements provided by the orphanage.
Fortunately, Luo Wei was a frugal person, and he still had a lot of the supplies he had collected in his space, which had not disappeared even after he came to Blue Star. Relying on these supplies and the various survival skills he had cultivated in the late apocalypse, he finally achieved the class leap on Blue Star before these supplies were consumed.
Because of his advanced psychic abilities, Yu Luowei not only has a photographic memory, but also a strong learning ability. Not only did he quickly master the various new technologies developed on Blue Star in the 26th century, but after graduation, he also started a business with his college seniors and opened his own biotechnology company, which was considered a small achievement. He got rid of the terrible nutritional supplements and ate fresh fruits and vegetables.
Pulling back from her memories, Yu Luowei felt a surge of emotion. If the purpose of this xx galaxy was truly as it claimed, it would certainly be a boon for Blue Planet as a whole. However, for all the humans drawn into it, it would be a life-or-death struggle. Yu Luowei was determined to persevere through the trial game. However, the original space still contained a lot of supplies and high-tech gadgets added after her work on Blue Planet, but unfortunately, they were now unusable.
But honestly, the current environment gave Yu Luowei more room to find food. Not to mention the other animals that might appear, even these insects, such as crickets, were a good source of protein. Yu Luowei planned to catch some crickets on his return if he didn't catch anything else today.
On the way, he saw those tree stumps again. Compared with the other vibrant scenery, these stumps looked even more dry and ugly. Yu Luowei moved closer, wanting to see if he could deal with them. Unexpectedly, as soon as his hand touched the stump, a prompt appeared in front of him: [Do you want to disassemble the stump?], which was like a pillow for a sleepy person. Yu Luowei did not hesitate and immediately chose yes. Then a second prompt appeared in front of him:
You have two options:
A. Normal digging. You will get the same number and type of saplings as stumps, but they cannot be planted for the time being.
B, Fire method, you will get wood equal to the number of stumps x 2. 】
Choosing B to decompose the stumps yielded a lot of wood, and it was much easier than chopping down trees, and she didn't have to do it herself. However, Yu Luowei still chose A, mainly because this method of burning wood was a bit strange, and she was also afraid that if the fire got out of control and burned down the entire forest, it would be disastrous.
The decomposition took only a few minutes, and the large number of tree stumps in front of me disappeared in the blink of an eye, turning into an open space covered with weeds. Only the more than two saplings in the bracelet proved that they had existed.
Since they had said they couldn't plant anything for the time being, Yu Luowei didn't stop and continued on his journey. Along the way, he used fire magic to deepen the mark and pulled down thirty or forty vines before finally reaching the stream. There were more fish in the stream, and there were more normal little frogs beside the stream, croaking and looking much cuter than the frog monster from the beginning.
Yu Luowei hadn't made a fishing net yet, so she could only look at the fish to appease her craving. She took out the simple bamboo plank from her bracelet, spread it over the stream, and carefully stepped over it to the other side.
Although the stream wasn't wide, the scenery on either side was quite different. The trees on this side were more diverse and taller; Yu Luowei even spotted a few mulberry trees bearing mulberries. There were also more animals, with squirrels occasionally darting through the trees, and gray rabbits and hedgehogs hopping about.
Yu Luowei took out her ice axe, infusing it with a few strands of fire magic, and sporadically chopped down around fifty pine and mulberry trees, harvesting not only 97 logs but also 16 bunches of mulberries (50g each) and 8 bunches of pine nuts (50g each). Two white treasure chests fell to the ground as the trees vanished, and Yu Luowei quickly collected them into her bracelet.
Just as she was about to eat something and rest, a pheasant suddenly swaggered past her. Images and recipes of various dishes, such as big plate chicken, braised chicken, clay pot chicken, and chicken pot, instantly appeared before her eyes. Her saliva was almost uncontrollable, and she immediately took out her bow and arrow and followed the pheasant.
This chicken had probably eaten its fill outside and was on its way home, having already reunited with its family—two large pheasants and four small ones. This was a great opportunity for Yu Luowei, as he sent the pheasants away with just a few swishes, allowing them to reunite in another world. He obtained 5 chickens (500g each). It was a shame he didn't get the feeding equipment, otherwise he could have raised these chicks and not worried about protein for the time being.
He fished out six more pheasant eggs from the nearby area. After thoroughly wiping out the chickens, Yu Luowei was finally able to sit down and rest. He took out the fried animal steak from this morning and sandwiched it between two slices of bread, making a simple sandwich. Even though the system was a swindler, it still removed the odor when it decomposed the animal meat. Even though it was only seasoned with salt, the texture and flavor of the meat were quite good.
Yu Luowei had barely had a proper meal since entering the game. Now that she had the basic ingredients and seasonings, she could show off her cooking skills tonight and treat herself to a delicious meal.
Remembering the unknown disaster that was gradually approaching, Yu Luowei didn't rest for long before he started exploring again. No matter what kind of disaster it was, the difficulty of going out to collect supplies would increase as time went on, so it was better to stock up on more supplies in advance.
Yu Luowei went to pick some mulberries. On the way, she passed a willow tree and picked some branches. As she passed a thorn bush, she discovered a treasure chest that glowed green.
After deftly chopping away the thorns and collecting the treasure chest, Yu Luowei decided to proactively search for monsters. While the chances of obtaining a treasure chest from defeating a monster were low, it was still much better than wandering around the forest like a headless chicken. It would also allow him to train his combat abilities and see if he could upgrade his fire magic.
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