A little after three in the afternoon, the Dice in Right Hand became usable again.
Behind the shelter, there were many huge stones in the Rocky Area.
Wang Yu found an irregularly shaped boulder over three meters tall and more than five meters long. It was big enough, and he wanted to use Use Dice to Increase to multiply it.
He rolled the dice.
Three.
Wang Yu rolled a three.
The number of boulders increased by three.
Wang Yu went into the woods, where he had left traces of making a fire and the stumps of seven felled Big Trees.
He went to the stumps and placed three boulders over them, covering all the stumps beneath them.
Then he used leaves to disguise the marks where the boulders covered the stumps.
Moss covered the boulders. Once they were placed there, it was impossible to tell they had been moved, especially in the dim Lamp Light.
There were seven stumps in all. Wang Yu covered three of them, and decided to use boulders to cover the remaining four that night.
After he placed the three boulders over the stumps, Wang Yu realized they blocked the way to the shelter. The woods between the stream and the shelter lay along the only route, and now the three boulders were blocking it.
Then an idea struck him. If he placed more boulders nearby, couldn't he create a rocky barrier?
Other players definitely wouldn't venture deep into the Rocky Area if they passed by, so his shelter wouldn't be discovered.
That way, the Rocky Area would hide the traces of his activities while also providing his shelter with a Protective Barrier.
He only needed to leave a small path through the Rocky Area to get to and from the shelter. Then his shelter would be safe.
Other players wouldn't dare wander around the Rocky Area. Even if they entered it, they wouldn't find the path to his shelter.
It was a brilliant idea.
After covering the stumps with boulders, Wang Yu also used moss and leaves to disguise the place where he had cut down the trees and made a fire, concealing the traces.
He checked the time. It was only a little after three in the afternoon, so he was going to cut down some trees.
He needed to chop and store wood, and planned to fill the entire Second Floor of Shelter with it.
He no longer needed Dry Firewood to use as torches for light, but he still planned to store plenty of wood for fuel. Newly felled trees couldn't be used as torches, but they were fine for cooking.
Since this game was called Extreme Night Wilderness Survival, the extreme night would surely bring bitter cold. It couldn't hurt to store plenty of wood.
Wood could be used not only for cooking but also for warmth and Cold Protection.
In a Survival Game, it paid to plan ahead.
The woods along the route from the stream to the shelter were vast. He could only cut trees here because they were close by and easy to transport.
But Wang Yu couldn't just cut down any trees. He wanted to preserve the woods' natural appearance, so he had to carefully choose which ones to fell.
After cutting them down, he still had to cover the stumps with boulders.
That would hide the stumps and create a Rocky Area nearby, preventing other players from reaching the shelter.
Wang Yu took out the Small Hacksaw and began choosing which trees to cut down.
He wouldn't cut down any especially thick trees. He'd stick to birches or cedar trees with trunks ten to twenty centimeters thick, since they would be quicker to fell.
Once he had chosen the trees, Wang Yu got to work.
First, he used the Small Hacksaw to fell the trees, then cut off the branches.
He cut the branches into one-meter lengths and bundled them up. That way, he could load some into his Backpack and take them back to the shelter.
As for the trunks, Wang Yu also sawed them into one-meter lengths with the Small Hacksaw. He could cut each tree into five or six Meter-Long Large Logs.
He could also load the Meter-Long Large Logs into his Backpack and take them back to the shelter.
With a Backpack to use, he could transport the wood much more efficiently.
After felling a tree, Wang Yu only needed to make two or three trips to carry it all back to the shelter.
He carried some himself and loaded the rest into his Backpack.
He kept cutting from a little after three in the afternoon until after eight at night.
He had felled five trees in all.
Cutting down the trees didn't take much time. The time-consuming part was sawing the branches and trunks into one-meter lengths and carrying them back to the shelter.
After felling five trees, he had stacked a good deal of firewood neatly on the Second Floor of Shelter.
Once he was done, it was time for dinner.
Wang Yu took out 213 grams of Pincer Fish Meat and lit a fire in the fireplace to roast it.
He was having roasted fish for dinner.
Just then, a message came in.
Wang Yu opened it and saw that it was from Zhang Dahai.
[Zhang Dahai: Bro, are you there?]
[Wang Yu: I'm here.]
[Zhang Dahai: I caught a fish. Since you like fish, I'll trade it to you.]
[Wang Yu: Sounds good.]
A moment later, Wang Yu received a Trade Request.
He opened it.
[Player Zhang Dahai sent you a Trade Request: Grass Carp 450g.]
After seeing it, Wang Yu listed Wild Rat Meat 500g and sent him a trade request in return.
Wild Rat Meat was the only thing he could trade right now.
[Zhang Dahai: Bro, 500 grams of meat is too much. I only have 450 grams of fish.]
[Wang Yu: It's fine. Let's make it a round number. I like fish, so I'm the one getting the better deal.]
[Zhang Dahai: Bro, you're a real stand-up guy. I won't hold back, then.]
[Wang Yu: We can trade again next time you catch a fish.]
[Zhang Dahai: Sure.]
After clicking confirm, Wang Yu had 450 grams of fish in his hands.
Giving Zhang Dahai a little extra meat was no big deal. He had eighteen pounds of Wild Rat Meat, so even after giving away one pound, he'd still have seventeen.
A little incentive would make Zhang Dahai more eager to trade fish with him in the future.
He could use the Dice to increase the quantity of this 450 grams of fish and get a few more pounds out of it. Either way, he'd come out ahead.
Last time, Zhang Dahai had traded him a 580-gram Grass Carp. Now he had two Grass Carp.
It seemed that building a good relationship with Zhang Dahai and trading fish with him had been a wise choice.
Wang Yu put the fish away and continued roasting his own.
By the time he finished eating, it was after nine in the evening.
Wang Yu could use the dice in his hand to increase the quantity of an item again.
He went to the Rocky Area behind the shelter.
He found a boulder.
It was over seven meters long and more than four meters tall, with an irregular shape. Wang Yu had chosen it because it was so big.
Wang Yu used the Dice in Right Hand to increase the quantity of this stone.
He rolled the dice.
Four.
Wang Yu rolled a four.
Then the Phantoms of Four Big Stones floated above the dice.
Wang Yu went to the stumps and placed the boulders over four of them.
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