After all that work without success, Lin Feng was genuinely a little disappointed. Just then, he suddenly remembered that guy who was incredibly good at making things.
Maybe he knew how to make salt?
With that thought, Lin Feng could only give it a try.
Lin Feng: [Do you know how to make salt?]
Ye Hua was promoting his bows and arrows in the Chatroom when he saw Lin Feng's message and hurriedly opened it.
Making salt?
He actually did know how, but the conditions here were far too restrictive!
Forget it. He would accept the job first and figure something out later.
With that thought, Ye Hua promptly replied to Lin Feng.
Ye Hua: [Boss, I know a little. I can give it a try. Do you have any raw materials?]
Lin Feng had never expected him to actually know how. This was great! As for raw materials, fortunately, he had been afraid of failing and hadn't used up all the seawater.
He still had two bottles of seawater left.
Lin Feng: [I've listed the seawater on the Exchange. Just trade anything for it.]
Ye Hua: [Okay, boss. Give me a few days.]
Lin Feng: [All right.]
Lin Feng: [By the way, you don't have anything to keep you warm, do you?]
Ye Hua: [No, boss, but I have a coat. It should get me through.]
Lin Feng: [I'll give you a blanket too. If you freeze to death, who's going to make salt for me?]
Ye Hua: [Thanks, boss!]
Now that there was hope of solving the salt-making problem, Lin Feng felt considerably better. Ye Hua was quite talented, knowing how to make so many things. The blanket he had given him was actually the one he had brought back from the wedding bed on the Ghost Marriage Floor.
Lin Feng had a feeling that this guy would amount to something someday.
Being on good terms with him probably wouldn't be a bad thing.
After dealing with that, Lin Feng rummaged through his Leather Backpack.
He eventually took out the berry bush he had brought back from the Prehistoric World.
He had been a little constipated lately, perhaps because his diet was unbalanced.
He wondered whether this Purple Fruit tasted good.
Lin Feng picked one and put it in his mouth.
"Mmm!"
Pure sweetness, without a hint of any other flavor. Delicious!
"Rawr~"
"You want some too? Aren't you a meat eater...?"
Looking at Little Velociraptor, who had sidled over again, Lin Feng helplessly picked a few berries and tossed them to him.
He had thought Little Velociraptor only wanted to try them out of curiosity.
To his complete surprise, after eating those few, he asked Lin Feng for more.
"Well... could you actually be an omnivore?"
Lin Feng stripped off another handful of berries and placed them in front of Little Velociraptor.
He continued eating happily.
After eating some berries and a can of food, Lin Feng went to rest. He had barely slept last night because of the sudden drop in temperature, and now he fell asleep as soon as he lay down.
Thanks to the Induction Cooker, the temperature inside the elevator essentially stayed above freezing, while everyone else still faced the risk of freezing to death or falling ill at night.
Beep. Host will soon enter the Metal Recycling Yard Floor. The floor contains large quantities of scrap iron, scrap copper, scrap aluminum, and other metal supplies. No danger.
Woken by the system, Lin Feng clearly hadn't had enough sleep. He shook his head but still put on his clothes and got ready to get up.
He also remembered to clear out his Leather Backpack. Thanks to the Material Storage Area, his Leather Backpack now had much more room. One slot held dinosaur meat, another held goat meat, and the remaining three slots were empty, enough to carry things from inside.
With everything ready, Lin Feng quietly waited for the time to come.
The Chatroom was very active too. Most people were praying for a good floor. Unlike Lin Feng, they couldn't learn information about their floors in advance, so their preparations were sometimes incomplete.
Or they didn't know what dangers were on a floor, and by the time they discovered the danger, it was already too late to retreat into the elevator.
[I was so cold I didn't sleep all night. Right now, I just hope the next floor is somewhere warm. Ideally, I'll get something to keep me warm too.]
[Has nobody tried making a chimney? Connect it directly to the vent. As long as it's properly sealed, lighting a stove underneath or building a fireplace for warmth would work perfectly fine.]
[Buddy, don't just talk. Make one. If you can make it, I'll absolutely buy it!]
[Exactly. There are billions of us. Is there really nobody skilled enough to make a fireplace?]
[The conditions are too poor. We don't have bricks or materials to make a chimney.]
[I think we need to make full use of the information about the floors. Take the Forest Floor, for example. I don't know if any of you have been there, but wouldn't the mud there make good building material?]
[Holy shit, now that you mention it, I just remembered being at a construction site before. There were a few bags of cement and lots of bricks piled in a corner. I was so focused on getting iron and wood that I completely ignored all those useful things.]
[The guy above is really something. I wanted to take everything useful, but my elevator couldn't fit it all.]
[That's why upgrading the elevator is still the most important thing. Only by making the elevator bigger can we survive better.]
Reading the Chatroom, Lin Feng thought they had a point. He really hadn't paid much attention to things other than the supplies needed for upgrades before.
Of course, the main issue had also been that his elevator couldn't fit them. Now that he had the Material Storage Area, he had saved a great deal of space. He would have to pay more attention to other useful supplies from now on.
Ding-dong! Elevator ascending. Please hold on.
Soon, the elevator doors opened. Although this was a safe floor, Lin Feng still took his handgun and shotgun. Other survivors might end up on the same floor as him, so having weapons for protection was still important.
"Holy shit, there's so much scrap iron here!"
Looking at the mountains of scrap iron, Lin Feng swallowed. All this scrap iron had been compressed into individual iron slabs and stacked up, looking extremely neat. He wondered what kind of world this was, where so much scrap iron was stored without anyone watching it.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the mountain of scrap iron, two people emerged from their respective elevators.
"Hello, beautiful! This place doesn't look dangerous. How about we stay out of each other's way?"
"But I can't carry these things. Could you help me, handsome?"
Watching the woman pose seductively in front of him, the young man laughed inwardly. It seemed this woman wasn't exactly decent either, so why the hell should he keep pretending?
"Heh. Show me a good time, and I'll help you."
Soon, the two were entangled at the elevator entrance.
"Ah! You fucking-!"
The young man, whose eyes had been half-closed, suddenly felt a sharp pain in his crotch. The next instant, his weight dropped by 100 grams.
The agonizing pain in his dick left him barely able to stand, let alone fight back. The woman pulled out a dagger and plunged it down viciously.
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