The next two days were the 12th and 13th days since entering the Survival Game.
Every day, Wang Yu roasted a pound of mutton for a player named Fang Miaomiao, and each time he earned eight pounds of Giant Lizard Meat.
On the 13th day of the Survival Game, he had three batches of eight pounds of Giant Lizard Meat. He had sold all 192 pounds of Giant Lizard Meat over the previous two days, so Wang Yu used Dice to increase the quantity of the three batches.
He rolled the Dice.
Three.
Wang Yu rolled a three. He took out the Giant Lizard Grilled Meat, and now he had twelve batches of Giant Lizard Meat, weighing 96 pounds in total.
He grilled all the Giant Lizard Meat and put it up on the Trading Channel.
The grilled meat he listed was snapped up in no time.
The players had an even harder time of it over these two days. The heavy rain had never let up, and thousands of people were dying in the floods every day.
No one knew whether tomorrow or death would come first, so the players were even less inclined to be stingy. Any grilled meat was snapped up at once.
Other players had also learned from Wang Yu and started selling grilled meat. He wasn't afraid of the competition. The market was big enough, and those players charged more than he did, so he had no trouble selling his meat.
Most importantly, firewood was precious. Wang Yu was only doing this because he had a serious surplus of it. If those players didn't have much firewood stored up, they might regret burning it to sell grilled meat.
Over the three days, Wang Yu sold a total of 288 pounds of Giant Lizard Grilled Meat and took in 576 pounds of assorted meat.
Wild Rat Meat made up the largest share, at 237 pounds. Those must have been caught by players using Animal Traps.
He had also received 180 pounds of fish. There were plenty of rivers and lakes in the wilderness, and most players had managed to catch some.
There were also 73 pounds of Water Snail Meat and 36 pounds of Dwarf Rabbit Meat.
The rest included all sorts of meat from pheasants, birds, shellfish, and other creatures. None of it weighed much individually, but together it came to around forty pounds.
Besides the 576 pounds of assorted meat, Wang Yu had also collected nearly 29 pounds of Edible Salt.
He had really raked it in over those three days. It seemed doing business truly was a way to get rich, especially when you had a trade no one else could manage.
Over the past few days, aside from his business, Wang Yu had been most concerned about the rain. In a survival game, things could go wrong at any moment.
After several days, Wang Yu was finally at ease. The four boulders around his shelter were massive, so he didn't need to worry about the floods washing them away. He had plugged every gap between the boulders with moss, and there was no sign of water seeping in.
He should make it through the Seven Days of Heavy Rain without a hitch. Given his circumstances, that was only to be expected.
Over the past few days, Wang Yu had kept using Dice to increase the number of large stones. He had built a wall around his shelter, adding another layer of security.
On the seventh day of the heavy rain, it was the 14th day since entering the Survival Game.
For the other players, those seven days had felt like a year. They had endured the whole time, hoping the rain would end soon.
And it would end at midnight tonight.
At nine in the morning, the rain was still pouring, and the flood outside the shelter roared.
All the players were waiting for nine o'clock sharp, because normally, that was when new Prompt Messages appeared.
Nine o'clock.
A Light Screen appeared before Wang Yu.
[ Ding! Congratulations to all players who have survived to the 14th day of this Survival Game. The Game Hint Information, updated once every seven days, is now available.]
[Hint One: This Survival Game has reached its 14th day. A benefit is being issued. Click to view its details.]
[Hint Two: Starting at midnight tonight, the Wilderness World will grow colder, with the temperature dropping by 2°C each day. Please monitor the temperature and take precautions to keep warm.]
Wang Yu read the text on the Light Screen twice. There were only two hints.
The game was offering another benefit.
Wang Yu clicked to view the details.
[Benefit Name: Fruit of the Birch Tree]
[Benefit Quantity: 1000 (this region)]
[Benefits Remaining: 1000/1000]
[How to Claim: Benefits will appear at random locations in the wilderness. Players who come within 300 meters of a benefit will receive a prompt. Please proceed with caution when claiming it.]
Fruit of the Birch Tree?
After reading the details, Wang Yu opened the Game Map. Nothing had changed on it. It seemed this time the game benefits wouldn't appear on the Game Map. Players would only receive a prompt when they got within 300 meters.
So he would have to look for them himself.
"Please proceed with caution when claiming it"? That warning again. Wang Yu furrowed his brow. It probably wouldn't be easy to claim the benefit.
As the saying went, risk and opportunity went hand in hand. Wang Yu had to consider whether he should go looking for it. In his current situation, he could simply stay in the shelter and wait out the Extreme Night Time. He should have no problem lasting until it ended and claiming his reward.
What should he do? He needed to think it over.
According to Hint Two, the temperature would drop by 2°C every day from now on. He had guessed right: it really was going to get colder. He just didn't know when the cooling would stop. If it lasted for months, he might freeze to death.
He opened Weather Forecast.
Today's temperature was 8°C. Weather Forecast showed the weather for the next seven days, and it would drop by 2°C each day. In four days, the temperature would be below zero.
Wang Yu felt the Sheepskin Set he was wearing and thought of the stacks of firewood on the Second Floor of Shelter. They should be enough to help him withstand temperatures dozens of degrees below zero.
After reviewing the Game Hint Information updated every seven days, Wang Yu left the shelter.
In the rain, he climbed onto Big Cat and went to collect the pine resin. He now had ten lots of 120 ml of pine resin in the Tin Bucket.
Floodwater surrounded the shelter, but it sat high enough that he could just about get around on Big Cat.
Afterward, Wang Yu went to the Rocky Area, found a large stone, and increased its quantity.
While it was raining, he could still increase the number of large stones a few more times. Although he had finished building the wall around his shelter, he could still add large stones to the "maze" in the woods.
He could block off key points along the route with a few boulders. Even if other players entered the area, they wouldn't be able to reach the shelter.
When he got back to the shelter, Wang Yu didn't grill any meat to put on the Trading Channel. He still had plenty of other things to do.
First, Wang Yu took out the Crossbow and nine arrows. He extracted the poison from the Giant Centipede Poison Fangs and coated the arrows with it.
With this deadly poison, anyone he hit with an arrow was done for—even if it only grazed them.
Then Wang Yu took out some wood and pine resin. He was going to make a few torches.
Torches were useful things. They could provide light and drive away wild animals. More importantly, if he encountered other players, he could fight with one in hand, or chase after them if they ran, without worrying about it breaking. They were very practical—unlike the Oil Lamp.
Wang Yu made ten torches in one go.
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