Ideas 2 (Xie Yu Xian, Alliance Master Qi Tian)

Chapter 44 044 Ideas, Part 2 (Xie Yu Xian, Alliance Master Qi Tian) Inside the Mountain Cave Safe House.

The morning sunlight faintly seeped in from the exploration window baffle.

Yu Hong leaned against the Fireplace wall, slowly waking from a hazy dream.

He frowned, tilted his neck, and felt a bit numb in his back, his cervical spine stiff, probably from being compressed.

Opening his eyes, he looked at Doctor Xu, who was lying in a sleeping bag, as soon as possible.

She was sleeping soundly, and her complexion was much better than yesterday.

"Doctor Xu? Doctor Xu?" he called out a few times.

Doctor Xu slowly moved her eyelids, her legs twitched, and she suddenly opened her eyes, revealing an alert look.

"I'm still alive?"

"Looks like it." Yu Hong replied, "Yesterday I thought you were paralyzed, but luckily you recovered after lying down for a night."

Doctor Xu propped herself up, her chapped lips moving.

"It's an old problem, it's easy to happen with strenuous exercise, but yesterday was a little more serious than usual."

"That's called a little more serious?" Yu Hong was speechless.

"Is it morning now? What's the situation outside?" Doctor Xu asked in a deep voice. "Is there any water? Give me some."

"I don't know, I haven't been out yet, but it looks like there's no movement." Yu Hong got up and poured her some cold boiled water.

Watching her sip it little by little, he couldn't help but continue to ask.

"To be honest, with that level of danger outside, with Evil Shadows and Eerie Shadows coming in turns, you don't have that many Large Glowstones, how did you survive? When I wasn't around, you didn't even have Large Glowstones, right? Could you withstand it?"

"There weren't any Evil Shadows nearby before..." Doctor Xu breathed a sigh of relief, "Just call me Xu Ruoying. You saved me, so we can be considered to have gone through thick and thin together."

"Alright." Yu Hong didn't care about that, he just stared at her, waiting for the answer to his previous question. He had wanted to ask this question for a long time, but he never had the chance.

"Actually..." Xu Ruoying said helplessly, "Before, we rarely confronted Eerie Shadows or anything like that head-on."

"Then how did you do it? Could you possibly hide?" Yu Hong asked in surprise.

"Why not?" Xu Ruoying asked back, "Didn't Little Stutterer tell you about it? The method of hiding?"

"No." Yu Hong shook his head.

Suddenly, a picture flashed in his mind, and a thoughtful look appeared on his face.

"Wait... I seem to have thought of something... Is it, using Glowstone to surround and make a small space, and people hide inside, can it have a hiding effect?"

He thought of Little Stutterer also having such a secret room. It's just that the secret room was only enough for a child's body to squeeze into, and adults couldn't get in at all.

"That's it." Xu Ruoying nodded, "As long as Glowstone is inlaid on the surrounding walls, and the density reaches a certain proportion, it can have the effect of hiding oneself. At a critical moment, you hide inside, and Eerie Shadows and Evil Shadows won't be able to find you."

"What about Blood Tide and Black Worms?"

"There's no way to deal with that, you can only resist it head-on." Xu Ruoying shook her head.

Yu Hong nodded, finally understanding how the others survived in such a dangerous environment.

He thought to himself, from beginning to end, how much Glowstone and Large Glowstone had he consumed to fight against the Eerie Shadows and Evil Shadows? But look at Xu Ruoying, look at Jenny from before? And the Postman, they clearly didn't have nearly as much Large Glowstone, yet they were all able to live safely for so long.

This made him very strange. "Wait!" Suddenly, Xu Ruoying paused, stunned. Her eyes fixed on Yu Hong, a look of disbelief on her face.

"Don't tell me you haven't been hiding at all? You've been directly fighting the Eerie Shadows and Evil Shadows???!"

"." Yu Hong couldn't answer. If he had known about this trick earlier, he wouldn't have wasted so much Large Glowstone! "Oh my god" Xu Ruoying was speechless. This was the first time she had encountered someone like this. It was only because he could make Large Glowstone that he wasn't dead already.

The two of them stared at each other for a moment, not knowing what to say. They could only sit facing each other, speechless.

After a moment of silence, Xu Ruoying couldn't sit still any longer. She looked at the sunlight outside the door.

"I have to go back... my medicine still needs to be taken out to dry, otherwise it will spoil."

"Let's go out and take a look together." Yu Hong also got up and walked to the Silver Symbol Array Wooden Door that had been restored and replenished.

Whoosh.

He pulled open the viewing window baffle and looked outside. Then he pulled open another baffle on the side of the viewing window, revealing the high-strength glass that could see outside.

In this way, light could enter through both areas on the door, and the sunlight outside could shine in to the greatest extent.

Instantly, the entire Mountain Cave was bright, and the golden light reflected on the Fireplace and then onto the opposite wall, slightly dazzling.

Yu Hong stood at the window and looked outside.

Everything outside was quiet, the dark green forest was empty, only the bloodstains left by Jenny on the open space were particularly conspicuous.

The rustling of leaves was like waves, one after another.

"No movement. Be careful." The Silver Symbol Array in Yu Hong's Anti-Stab Suit was also fully replenished. This gave him some confidence.

Crack.

The Wooden Door was slowly opened.

The two of them walked out slowly, one after the other.

"It seems safe..." Xu Ruoying said in a low voice. "I have to go back immediately. Now is the safest time."

"Safe travels." Yu Hong nodded, he knew Doctor Xu's temper, this guy was not only tough on the mouth, but also had a tough personality. People who could survive alone in this environment were not easy to deal with.

"Consider this a favor I owe you!" Xu Ruoying left a sentence and quickly jumped down the stone steps, jogging towards the Post Office settlement.

Her figure slowly disappeared into the forest, quickly disappearing from sight.

Yu Hong watched her until he could no longer see her, then closed the door, jumped down the stone steps, and came to the grass where Jenny had been lying before.

He crouched down and carefully observed the grass stained with blood, and soon found two deformed copper bullets.

He reached out and picked up the two bullets, sighed, and turned back to the Mountain Cave Safe House.

Closing the door, all the Symbol Arrays were now fully replenished.

He reached out and pressed on a bullet.

'Enhance bullet, direction: Restore to normal state.'

'Integrity insufficient.'

The Black Mark gave feedback, causing Yu Hong to frown slightly.

He changed direction again.

'Strengthen bullets, focusing on increasing durability.'

This time, the black line flashed, seemingly successful.

A countdown appeared on the bullet's surface, very small.

'13 minutes.'

He exhaled, put the bullet down, and picked up the previous handgun, placing them together.

Next was waiting to see if the bullet could be restored to its original state.

Recalling what Xu Ruoying had said before, using Glowstone to create a completely enclosed space could hide and avoid the Eerie Shadows and Evil Shadows. "Right, I forgot to show Xu Ruoying that research manual." His gaze flicked over the plastic bag on the ground.

"I'll have to wait until next time. Also, if a closed space made of Glowstone can hide from Eerie Shadows, then the Symbol Array, made of Glowstone powder, should have a similar effect. I can completely cover the entire Safe House Mountain Cave with Symbol Arrays."

He acted on his thought, quickly taking out Large Glowstone ink and drawing Large Glowstone Symbol Arrays on the walls, the ground, the ceiling, the door, all the blank spaces, all the gaps.

Before long, the bullet strengthening was complete.

He returned to the handgun and bullet, squatted down, and picked up the bullet.

The previously twisted and deformed bullet had returned to normal, its surface color also changing from copper to silver-black, as if even the material had completely changed.

Yu Hong tried to load it into the magazine.

Click.

The bullet was stuck. "The size is wrong, it's a bit too big." He took it out and examined it carefully, discovering that the strengthened bullet was a size larger.

"Looks like it won't work." He put down the handgun and bullet, throwing them all into a corner.

He ate a Protein Bar, drank a glass of water, and stuffed some Dried Mushrooms into his mouth, solving his breakfast.

Next was strengthening the Symbol Arrays in the gaps one by one. As long as all areas were covered, it should have the hiding effect Xu Ruoying mentioned.

The strengthening continued until noon, only completing a small portion, but there was no further activity from the Evil Shadows outside.

This calmed Yu Hong down a lot.

He thought for a moment, fully armed, left the Safe House, and headed towards the Post Office.

This encounter with the Evil Shadows made him deeply understand the value of information. If he had known from the beginning that Glowstone could build a hiding room, he wouldn't have had to consume so much Large Glowstone and Symbol Arrays to fight the Eerie Shadows and Evil Shadows.

Therefore, to further obtain more information, he decided to discuss the next arrangements with the new Postman.

Lao Yu was dead, and Jenny and her daughter were also dead. Next, someone had to be responsible for cultivating mushrooms for meat, otherwise everyone would starve. That Postman dared to come to the wasteland near White Mound Village alone, he definitely had the means to survive on his own.

So, finding him was definitely the right choice.

Along the way, Yu Hong was fully focused, constantly paying attention to the movements around him, fearing that Evil Shadows or Withered Women would suddenly emerge and surround him.

Soon he arrived at the place where Eve had fallen before.

"Where are the clothes?"

He frowned, not seeing Eve's clothes on the grass where they had been before.

Eve's clothes had the Black Handprint on them, and he had weighed them down with a stone. The wind alone couldn't have blown them away.

But now... Yu Hong's eyes scanned the grass, but he couldn't find Eve's clothes anywhere.

Helpless, he quickened his pace towards the Post Office Stone House.

In a few minutes, he stood in front of the Stone House and knocked on the wooden fence outside.

Bang, bang, bang! After waiting for a while, a soft sound came from inside the Stone House.

A tall, sturdy man in a dark green vest opened the door and walked out. It was Li Runshan, the new Postman.

"A living person?"

He asked warily from a distance.

"I'm Yu Hong, I live nearby. We've met before," Yu Hong replied. "Did you see the set of clothes with the Black Handprint on them that were on the grass earlier?"

"Burned them together," Li Runshan pointed to a pile of black ashes on the right. "Luckily, I brought Hidden Mist, and it's a good thing you didn't come yesterday, otherwise the Evil Shadow would have seen the burning and you would have surely died."

Yu Hong didn't know what Hidden Mist was, but seeing the pile of black ashes, which included the metal buckle from Eve's belt, he knew the other man was telling the truth. They had indeed been burned.

He turned his gaze back to the new Postman in front of him, about to speak.

"Daddy, can I come out now?" a clear, delicate girl's voice came from inside the Stone House.

"Not yet, I'm talking to someone. You keep watching the lid, don't let them push it open," Li Runshan turned his head and instructed loudly.

After replying, he turned his gaze back to Yu Hong.

"What is it, do you want to buy something, send a letter, or mail an item? The price is negotiable."

"." Yu Hong was speechless. He stepped past the other man and saw a furry little head poking out by the window of the Stone House.

It was a little girl, no more than eleven or twelve years old, with small braids and chubby, fair cheeks. She looked quite plump.

"How about it? Want to buy something? I heard you guys have Glowstone Marrow to collect here, it's worth it to buy anything!" Li Runshan still stood there smiling.