Ideas Four

Yu Hong flipped through the subsequent pages.

'Humus soil needs to be dug from under trees. Please dig in areas with as many rotten branches and leaves as possible, so that the soil dug out is more nutritious. After the soil is dug out, it needs to be exposed to the sun for three days to kill the insect eggs and weed seeds in it.'

The following content detailed how to put the soil into the box, how to maintain the environmental humidity, how much water to pour, how to put in the Culture Medium, how often to observe, and how to deal with various problems.

All kinds of problem details, everything that one could need, were included.

In just a few pages, the recorded content had not a single superfluous point, and there were even reminders on how to prevent Mushroom Lung.

After reading the mushroom cultivation section, Yu Hong had a rough idea of the process of how to cultivate them.

"The key is no Culture Medium, and no Breeding Box!" He frowned, "So that's what they were waiting for."

He returned to the previous page and saw a line written below: If you need to buy Culture Medium and Breeding Box, you can ask for the specific price.

Speechlessly shaking his head, Yu Hong continued to strengthen a new Symbol Array, and then flipped through the following content.

This time he flipped through it faster, just skimming through it.

Then he discovered a problem.

'This mushroom cultivation is actually the basis of other cultivations?'

'After cultivating mushrooms, use them to cultivate cockroaches, and after cultivating more cockroaches, use them to cultivate lizards. One link after another... but the initial seeds of each link must be bought from the Post Office.'

He finally understood how Lao Yu was able to provide three kinds of food: mushrooms, cockroaches, and lizards, all by himself.

As for wild vegetables, they were everywhere in the forest. He had learned to recognize many of them with Little Stutterer.

After reading the survival booklet, Yu Hong picked up the Fighting Leg Technique Manual.

"Ugh," he looked speechlessly at the drawings in the booklet.

There were only three moves in this booklet.

Low Section Kick, Sideways Grab Kick, Upward Kick.

According to the drawings, the Low Section Kick was just kicking the opponent's calf to make them lose balance and fall.

The Sideways Grab Kick was more ruthless. It involved grabbing the opponent's arm and kicking their waist and abdomen with the heel of the foot. Because the arm was pulled and the kicked part formed a tearing pull, this move was extremely lethal. Once successful, a normal person would be instantly seriously injured in their internal organs and fall to the ground.

The Upward Kick was the simplest move, which was to kick the opponent's vitals between the legs.

'Just these three moves... I might be able to come up with them myself by thinking randomly.' Yu Hong was speechless and continued to flip through.

The content behind it was a bit more interesting to him.

The booklet described how to use those three leg techniques as quickly as possible when encountering various situations, various states, and when in various positions and postures.

'This is more like it,' he nodded slightly.

After carefully studying the two booklets, it was dark again outside.

After he cooked some food, he lit a fire and continued to strengthen the Symbol Array.

For three consecutive days, he went nowhere, either exercising the Advanced Physical Training Method in the Mountain Cave or studying and copying the Survival Manual and Leg Technique Training Manual.

The reinforced charcoal pencil lines were very fine, and quickly copied down the contents of both manuals.

The place for copying was the thin wooden boards that Yu Hong had split with an axe. The wooden boards stacked together became a manual.

After finishing the copying, he returned the manual to Li Runshan and asked about the three difficult problems he had accumulated.

Li Runshan answered the questions readily and began to promote the mushroom breeding box and clean culture medium he had just made, as well as the simple wooden dummy for training leg techniques.

This guy was aiming to fleece Yu Hong for all he was worth.

But in order to be self-sufficient, Yu Hong still bought the box and culture medium with Large Glowstones.

After taking them back, he began to dig up soil and expose it to the sun, while preparing enough clean water for future cultivation.

A separate space also needed to be dug out in the Mountain Cave to serve as a room for growing mushrooms.

Although there was a special breeding box, the spores that floated out when the mushrooms matured could fly out as long as there was a gap, which was very harmful.

He didn't want to end up coughing, feverish, and physically weak like Lao Yu.

Soon, another two days passed.

All of Yu Hong's Symbol Arrays were finally reinforced. The Symbol Arrays covered the entire Mountain Cave, and all corners were perfectly covered, forming a standard Glowstone secret room state.

The Black Mark could finally free up time to reinforce other things.

And what Yu Hong wanted to reinforce most was the Fighting Leg Technique Manual.

Inside the Mountain Cave Safe House.

He quietly looked at the Leg Technique transcription wooden boards stacked together in front of him. There were thirteen wooden boards in total, which together made up the Leg Technique Training Manual that Li Runshan sold him.

'The previous ordinary physical training could be strengthened into the Advanced Physical Training Method, so what will this ordinary Leg Technique fighting skill be strengthened into?'

Yu Hong felt another trace of coolness in his body. He had already cultivated a total of four strands of coolness, which meant that he could replenish his physical strength four times under extreme fatigue.

Although other aspects were still no different from ordinary people, that is, he could run a little faster if he practiced running often.

The existence of coolness made Yu Hong completely different from ordinary people and turned him into a little superman! 'If an average person can run a maximum of five kilometers, then I can run four times that, twenty kilometers. If they can run a maximum of ten kilometers, then I can run forty kilometers! It is best to reinforce this strengthened High Physical Method (Advanced Physical Training Method) as early as possible, so that it can become a snowball effect and become stronger and stronger.'

Thinking of this, Yu Hong exhaled a long breath and reached out to press on the wooden board.

He silently recited in his heart.

'Reinforce the Leg Technique Training Manual, in the direction of: Internal Force Martial Arts Leg Technique!'

Last time, his mind was biased towards the martial arts style, which is why he was able to reinforce the High Physical Method. After getting a taste of the sweetness, this time he imagined the martial arts movie scenes he had seen before in his head.

The black line flashed.

Immediately, the Black Mark gave feedback.

'Start reinforcement?'

Yu Hong looked down and saw a countdown timer appearing on the wooden board: 4 days, 17 hours, 41 minutes.

"It really works!???" His heart was shaken, and a strong expectation appeared in his eyes.

The High Physical Method gave him a great physical advantage, and now, if the reinforced Leg Technique fighting skill can also greatly improve his fighting ability, then in this harsh environment, he will have a great guarantee of survival when facing people.

Able to fight and run, and with a full set of enhanced bulletproof equipment, that would truly be armed to the teeth! 'Hopefully, the enhancement will be strong enough!' Yu Hong thought with anticipation. 'Last time, enhancing the Advanced Physical Training Method only took over nine hours. This time, it's going to take more than four days. It must be far more powerful than the Advanced Physical Training Method!'

***

White River City.

In a gloomy underground tunnel.

The ground was made of abandoned rails, dark and occasionally showing red rust, with various miscellaneous garbage piled up every so often.

Xu Yang, with two team members, holding hand-cranked flashlights, walked along the edge of the rails.

As they passed piles of miscellaneous garbage, they could smell a variety of strong musty odors and the foul stench of dirty water.

The three walked, observing left and right.

The walls on both sides were covered with messy patterns and slogans. Under the slogans, there was a brightly lit room every so often, from which came noisy curses and laughter.

Xu Yang frowned as he walked in, soon arriving at a room with "Old Cat Bar" written on it.

At the entrance of the room, the walls on both sides were covered with green mold, with a slippery sheen.

Xu Yang looked up and saw that the tunnel roof seemed to be leaking. A thin stream of water flowed down the wall, splitting at the door frame and falling to the ground.

He wrinkled his nose in disgust and walked into the room.

This was indeed a bar, with red lights dyeing the individual sofas red.

Each sofa was separated by wooden boards.

A sparse dozen people sat inside, with scantily clad waitresses coming and going, serving food and drinks.

At a sofa in the center, four people were gathered together, playing cards loudly. The noise came from them.

"Would you like a mushroom wine?" As soon as Xu Yang and his team entered, they were approached by a ponytail girl wearing only a three-point bikini.

"Looking for someone." Xu Yang impatiently pushed her away and walked straight to the corner of the bar.

The three were fully equipped, wearing United Army uniforms, which made the security guard preparing to get up frown, but he didn't dare to step forward.

Soon, the three arrived in the corner, in front of a burly man at least two meters tall.

"White Python Guo?" Xu Yang asked in a deep voice. The burly man lowered his head, his hands resting on the table, like a bear lying down, his black hair disheveled, and a few buttons of his gray shirt were open, revealing his strong chest muscles.

He looked to be in his early forties, with a worried expression, cloudy eyes, and traces of vomit on the corners of his mouth.

This was a frustrated man.

"What is it?" The burly man coldly looked up, glancing at Xu Yang and his team.

"There's a job, we'd like to ask you to take a trip. The reward is negotiable," Xu Yang said in a low voice.

"Speak, what job?" White Python asked coldly.

"Go to the Glowstone Mine area, two hundred kilometers away, find someone, and bring him back, within half a year," Xu Yang replied.

"Too far, not going," White Python said coldly. "And there's no information about the person."

"Just an ordinary adult male, might have some equipment, but even ordinary new recruits can easily handle him. The difficulty is mainly on the journey," Xu Yang said quickly. "We can offer fifty pounds of Dried Meat, twenty pounds of Dried Mushroom, and one hundred pounds of synthetic flour."

"Too little." White Python didn't even look up. "Add five Silver Coins."

Xu Yang was silent for a moment.

"Okay, a third of the deposit will be paid before departure, and the rest will be paid in full upon return."

"Agreed." White Python said coldly. "Three days later, meet here again. Give me the things then, and I'll leave immediately."

"Okay!"

Xu Yang and the others left.

Once out of the bar, one of the team members finally couldn't hold back.

"Xu team, that's five Silver Coins, are you really going to agree to him? One Silver Coin can be exchanged for ten to fifteen pounds of Dried Meat!"

"White Python's strength is very strong, with excellent firearms, combat, and stealth skills. Apart from his attitude, everything else is fine. Moreover, as long as we can catch that person, everything will be fine. If that person is gone, then even if White Python fails the mission, we won't need to pay the remaining amount." Xu Yang smiled slightly.

"Also," he paused. "You remembered the exchange rate incorrectly. At the current National Bank, one Silver Tower Silver Coin can be exchanged for twenty-three pounds of Dried Meat. After all, it's a mineral composite currency that can be used to extract Sunshine Series Materials."