After dinner, it was already past nine in the evening.
Wang Yu felt that the greatest threat to him right now came from the other players, so he went back to the rocky area behind his shelter. He wanted to keep adding more boulders. He picked a boulder that stood over four meters tall.
Wang Yu used Dice-Increased Quantity.
Three.
Wang Yu rolled a three, increasing the number of boulders by three.
There were still five stumps. He had dealt with three of them, and would take care of the other two tomorrow. He wasn't going to chop down any more Big Trees for now. The last two stumps weren't a big problem.
After putting down the three boulders and disguising them with leaves, Wang Yu went to check his 12 Animal Traps.
He soon finished checking all 12 Animal Traps.
[Wild Rat Meat 360g] [Wild Rat Skin*1] [63 Copper Coins]
The 12 Animal Traps had caught three Wild Rats.
They'd caught three Wild Rats again.
Wang Yu got Wild Rat Meat 360g*3, three Wild Rat Skins, and 189 Copper Coins.
What a great haul.
The Newbie Protection Period seemed to be ending. He didn't know if he would have hauls like this in the future.
Back at the shelter, Wang Yu put the three Wild Rat Skins together with the 12 he'd collected earlier.
The female Player he'd met upstream at the creek today seemed to need three units of animal skins—that was, 60 Wild Rat Skins. She was offering an Extraordinary Item in exchange, which made Wang Yu very tempted.
Wang Yu planned to collect a few more Wild Rat Skins, then use dice to increase their quantity. After that, he'd offer two units of skins to the female Player in exchange for an Extraordinary Item. That would be a fantastic deal.
After putting away the 15 skins, he checked the time. It was still too early to go to bed.
So Wang Yu took stock of his Wild Rat Meat.
His Animal Traps had caught 15 Wild Rats in total. He had used dice to increase the quantity of the meat from four of them. He'd been lucky enough to roll a four, giving him 18 jin of Wild Rat Meat. He'd traded one jin to Zhang Dahai, leaving him with 17 jin.
He still had 11 Wild Rats whose meat he hadn't increased with dice. He had plenty of Wild Rat Meat.
After counting his Wild Rat Meat, Wang Yu took out the Wild Rat Meat he'd increased with dice—250g*20, or 10 jin—and put it up in the Trading Channel.
At that moment, a message popped up in the Chat Channel.
[ Ding, Player Wang Yu has listed Wild Rat Meat 250g*20 in the Trading Channel. ]
The Players were chatting away in the Chat Channel. As soon as this prompt appeared, they all hurried into the Trading Channel.
There were very few listings in the Trading Channel, and meat was especially scarce.
They saw a listing in the Trading Channel.
[Wild Rat Meat 250g*20] [Exchange terms: Trade Wild Rat Meat for berries at a ratio of 1:2.5. Each Player may exchange for only one portion.]
The Players in the Chat Channel were stunned. Someone was trading meat for plant food? What kind of outrageous move was that?
But at a ratio of 1:2.5, many Players hesitated. They'd have to offer 625g of berries for 250g of Wild Rat Meat.
The Chat Channel exploded in an instant.
[What the hell, someone's trading meat for plant food! Does this person have that much meat? They're already thinking about eating vegetables? We're all Players, so how can the gap between us be this huge?]
[He wants to trade meat for plant food at a 1:2.5 ratio? Dream on. Only an idiot would make that trade.]
[I remember this Player. Last time, he traded fish for other kinds of meat just to change things up. Is this guy really that loaded? He's eaten so much meat that now he wants plant food.]
Wang Yu had listed his Wild Rat Meat in the Trading Channel, confident that someone would trade for it.
During the Newbie Protection Period, there were plenty of berries in the wilderness, but meat was scarce. There were 100,000 Players in the game, so there were bound to be Players with berries to spare who'd be willing to trade them for meat.
Wang Yu had limited each Player to one portion of Wild Rat Meat because he didn't want the stronger Players to get more of it. He needed to eliminate potential threats.
He was about to get 25 jin of berries, but he didn't have a container big enough to hold them. His earlier basket couldn't fit that many, so Wang Yu took out some Vines. He wanted to weave a large basket.
Wang Yu got to work. He wasn't skilled at basket weaving, and it took him over an hour to make a large basket.
After finishing the basket, Wang Yu checked the Trading Channel. His Wild Rat Meat 200g*15 had long since been exchanged.
Other Players had traded berries for all of his Wild Rat Meat. It had taken less than a minute. The other Players had far more berries than Wang Yu had expected.
Meanwhile, people in the group kept tagging him, wanting to trade berries for meat. Some had been too slow, while others had hesitated and missed out on the Wild Rat Meat. They weren't satisfied and wanted to trade with Wang Yu.
Wang Yu ignored them. He couldn't put out any more meat in exchange for berries.
However, not long after Wang Yu traded meat for berries, several Players listed meat in the Trading Channel, all offering it in exchange for berries at a ratio of 1:3.
[ Ding, Player Fang Miaomiao has listed Giant Lizard Meat 250g*40 in the Trading Channel. ] [ Ding, Player Ye Feifan has listed Black Bear Meat 250g*20 in the Trading Channel. ] [ Ding, Player Su Qingxue has listed Dwarf Rabbit Meat 250g*20 in the Trading Channel. ] [ Ding, Player Zhang Dahai has listed Grass Carp Meat 250g*10 in the Trading Channel. ]
The continuous stream of meat-listing prompts in the Chat Channel left the other Players bewildered.
Did so many Players really have extra meat to trade for berries?
And as soon as the meat was listed, it was snapped up.
The Players in the Chat Channel were in despair.
They couldn't understand where these Players had gotten so much meat, or why they were trading it for plant food. Someone wanted the influencer Brother Feng to explain what was going on.
[Jia Feng: Since so many fans want me to explain what's going on, I'll share my thoughts.
You all know that many of us don't have any food to spare and are still relying on berries to fill our stomachs. But some Players have already secured a steady supply of meat.
Now they're trading meat for plant food, which means they already have more than enough meat and are stocking up on plant food for the future. They may have realized that once the berries run out, it'll probably be very difficult to find plant food.]
The seven-day Newbie Protection Period is about to end. Things may get even harder for everyone after that, so prepare early.]
You may all be wondering where those Players got so much meat. Since I've said so much already, I'll share some other news you may not have heard.
Those Players who've stored large amounts of meat are probably Veterans. They've taken part in other Survival Games and got their hands on good stuff, such as various Extraordinary Items.
As long as those items have been loaded into their Personal Panels, they can use them in the next Survival Game. So it's no surprise that these Veterans can hunt a lot of prey after entering the game.]
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