"Three and a half days it is. As long as there's hope."
Tang Zhixue did not feel much about that. His emotions were running high mainly because the Shelter could absorb those upgrade materials ahead of time.
He carefully examined the entire Shelter and found little change. It seemed that the Clear Spirit Wood had been placed in a unique space.
"Tsk, this saves me from worrying about the white fog eroding the Clear Spirit Wood."
Tang Zhixue walked into the Shelter in a good mood.
He took out some charcoal, put it in the fireplace, and lit it. Then he took out a simple bamboo tube made from a section of bamboo, added some rice and clean water, and placed it above the flames to cook.
Tang Zhixue had made these himself after buying a thick stalk of bamboo from someone else.
He had even filled ten bamboo tubes with soil and planted seeds in them.
Five White Melon Vines, two Water-Gathering Grasses, and three Jade Flowers.
After planting them, Tang Zhixue had used plant vitality to accelerate their growth, but he had not grown them straight to maturity. Instead, he had stopped once they successfully took root and sprouted.
At that moment, the plants sat quietly in the corner.
Tomorrow, Tang Zhixue would take them outside and continue accelerating their growth with plant vitality.
Soon, the rice in the bamboo tube gave off a rich aroma in the heat.
Only once the rice was cooked did Tang Zhixue take the bamboo tube off the flames. Then he began eating, with a White Melon as a side dish.
The rice still tasted like rice, but in an environment like this, it was especially delicious.
It made Tang Zhixue unable to resist opening the regional chat channel.
[Tang Zhixue: Rice with no side dishes. This sucks.]
[???]
[Wait, rice? White rice?!]
[Bro Tang really has no decency left. We're still making do with wild fruit to fill our stomachs, and he's already eating white rice!]
[Xu Shi: Bro Tang, could you trade me some rice?]
[Yuan Lexian: Yes, yes, Bro Tang, I need to trade for some rice too.]
[+1]
[Tang Zhixue: I don't have much rice myself, so I'm sorry, everyone.]
[Tang Zhixue: But you can try finding a way to go out and hunt those monsters tomorrow. Killing them drops Supply Cards, though I don't know if the drop rate is 100%.]
[Hunt monsters?!]
[Supply Cards?!]
[My god, Bro Tang actually went out of his way to hunt monsters!]
[Fang Yunxi: I killed a monster too, but no Supply Card appeared, so the drop rate probably isn't 100%.]
[!!!]
[Xu Muqiu: You're amazing, Sister Fang! You actually managed to kill a monster just like Bro Tang!]
[Tang Zhixue: @Fang Yunxi Add me as a friend. Let's discuss the details.]
[???]
[Wait, you're adding her as a friend already?]
[Wow, Bro Tang!]
[Bro Tang, you're no longer my brother!]
Ignoring everyone else's teasing, Tang Zhixue soon added her as a friend.
The moment they added each other, she sent him a message.
Fang Yunxi: "Hello."
Tang Zhixue: "Hey, hello, beautiful."
Tang Zhixue: "I wanted to ask, what did the monster you encountered look like?"
Fang Yunxi: "A first-tier Nether Hound. It didn't have a single patch of intact flesh anywhere on its body. You could even see bones in some places."
Fang Yunxi: "What kind of monster did you encounter?"
Tang Zhixue: "A humanoid monster, covered in rotten flesh. It even had maggots. I named it the Rotting Living Corpse. Killing it gave me a Supply Card containing rice."
Fang Yunxi: "Rotting Living Corpse? You named it yourself? Why didn't you bring the corpse within your Shelter's boundaries to check its information?"
When Tang Zhixue saw that message, the corner of his mouth twitched involuntarily. "Beautiful, that corpse stank to high heaven, and it was covered in rotten flesh. I was afraid it would contaminate my Shelter."
That was indeed the case. When Tang Zhixue lifted the corpse, he could see maggots and rotten flesh constantly slipping off the monster's body, which completely put him off checking its information.
Fang Yunxi: "All right."
Fang Yunxi: "I killed a beast monster, and you killed a humanoid monster. Could it be because the monster types were different? Do only humanoid monsters drop items when killed?"
Tang Zhixue: "Hard to say. The sample size is too small."
Tang Zhixue: "Once everyone goes out to hunt monsters tomorrow, we should be able to reach a conclusion by sharing information."
Fang Yunxi: "Then why add me as a friend now? Couldn't we just discuss it with everyone tomorrow?"
Tang Zhixue: "Come on, I also added you because I need to learn more."
Tang Zhixue: "And to ask if you have anything good to trade."
Fang Yunxi: "Tsk."
Fang Yunxi: "Speaking of trading, I do have something here. Would you want a first-tier Planting Box?"
Tang Zhixue raised his eyebrows. "A first-tier Planting Box? You're not keeping it for yourself?"
Fang Yunxi: "No seeds."
Tang Zhixue: "If I remember correctly, didn't you buy White Melons? Didn't you save the seeds to grow them?"
Fang Yunxi: "You can do that? I don't know anything about this."
Tang Zhixue: "I see. Then what do you want?"
Fang Yunxi: "A hundred White Melons will do."
Tang Zhixue: "A hundred White Melons? Beautiful, your asking price is a little high."
Although a hundred White Melons were nothing much to Tang Zhixue, and he only needed to spend some time gathering plant vitality to accelerate their growth, it was already night, and he did not have many White Melons left.
Even if he had a hundred White Melons, Tang Zhixue did not want to spend that much to buy a Planting Box whose specific information he did not know.
This time, Fang Yunxi did not reply immediately. Her message only arrived three or four minutes later.
Fang Yunxi: "It has twelve square meters of planting space (3*4). The soil inside the Planting Box can independently absorb free energy from the surroundings to replenish its fertility."
Fang Yunxi: "With the Silent White Fog outside now, your plants should already have undergone strange mutations, right? I haven't seen you selling White Melons at all today."
Tang Zhixue paused. He was not particularly surprised. After all, anyone who was not blind could see the changes brought by the Silent White Fog.
Tang Zhixue: "Your Planting Box is indeed good, but your asking price really is too high. I don't have that many White Melons on hand right now, and I need to eat too."
Tang Zhixue: "How about this? I'll trade you ten pieces of charcoal for your Planting Box. Ten pieces should last two or three nights if you use them sparingly."
Tang Zhixue: "With charcoal, you can sleep peacefully at night."
Fang Yunxi: "You have charcoal too? Did you make it yourself?"
Tang Zhixue: "So, do you want to trade?"
Just as he did not ask where she had obtained the Planting Box, he did not want her asking too many questions either.
Fang Yunxi: "All right."
Along with that message came a trade request.
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