Chapter 9: Entering the Stone Age
[Your friend: Wu Xiu, the Scholar, talked to Wu Guan, the Outsider, about you, but they didn’t hit it off. Wu Guan, the Outsider, thought that Wu Xiu, the Scholar, was talking nonsense, increasing his hostility towards you by +1. Current hostility: 0.5 stars]
[Enemy (1/1)]
[Wu Guan, the Outsider: Online, Hostility: 0.5 stars]
“….”
Chen Xiyi was speechless. Well, it’s amazing that you can interact like this here.
“This game, previously, if I had a good impression of a guy, I could endure it, after all, we could be good buddies, but now it’s considered an enemy? Maybe it’s disapproval or dislike, but when it comes to you, it turns into hostility.”
Chen Xiyi was somewhat speechless about hostility. It should cover a wide range, not just limited to hostility as a type.
“Wu Guan should be Wu Xiu’s father. It seems like Wu Xiu told his father about me, but his father didn’t believe him?”
“Moreover, it appears that his father is scolding him with anger.”
Chen Xiyi felt that this was a rare happy event in his mining career today.
Today’s gains were not very pleasing. Most of them were just stones and dirt resources, and he didn’t even see a trace of iron ore or coal, which made Chen Xiyi a bit frustrated.
He had been working for almost half the night. According to his internal timekeeping, it was already half past eleven at night.
Chen Xiyi was contemplating whether he should go back to sleep and decide later, as he hadn’t slept today yet.
“The wooden ladder is used up. Does that mean I dug down three hundred units?” Chen Xiyi looked at the disappeared wooden ladder and embedded torches on the side of the earth wall.
In terms of the ratio between torches and wooden ladders, Chen Xiyi used a ratio of three to one to illuminate the entire downward passage to the maximum extent.
“It seems like there’s not enough resources. I should go back to sleep first; otherwise, negative states might emerge after staying up all night.” Chen Xiyi was not sleepy. Instead, he was full of energy. It was his first day in this world, so naturally, he was very excited.
After putting the wooden pickaxe back into his inventory, he climbed up the wooden ladder. Just this night, he broke several wooden pickaxes.
Wooden pickaxes have durability, and using them a lot would naturally decrease their durability. When the durability reaches zero, the wooden pickaxe breaks.
Repairing it is possible, but for Chen Xiyi, it wasn’t worth it. It was better to just replace it with a new wooden pickaxe. After all, it was just one unit of wood for the pickaxe, the same as the repair cost. It was more cost-effective to get a new one.
Moreover, repairs had to be done before the durability reached zero. After it reached zero, the pickaxe would just break down, even if he wanted to repair it, there was nothing to repair it with.
After climbing back into the stone house and freshening up, Chen Xiyi looked at the time.
“Wow, it’s almost the next day.”
Chen Xiyi quickly placed the things in his hands on the table and then collapsed onto the bed.
“Just a tiny bit more.”
23:59 jumped to 00:00.
Then Chen Xiyi opened his eyes.
“That was close, almost didn’t get to sleep.”
Looking at all his restored stats, Chen Xiyi couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.
What? Only slept for 1 minute?
Still counts as sleeping.
For Chen Xiyi, sleeping was just a process of refreshing his status; rest was not the main point.
“Let’s go back to the homestead first. Today’s crops and animals are already mature. I’ll harvest them first, carry some of the soil and stone I dug today back, then update and upgrade the equipment on me. Stone tools can dig faster, and stone weapons and armor are stronger, ensuring my safety better.”
Chen Xiyi pondered for a moment and thought, “Sharpening the knife won’t delay the cutting of firewood. Using a wooden pickaxe to mine is not as efficient as a stone pickaxe.”
The durability of the stone pickaxe is higher, and it also has a higher mining attribute, so his efficiency will be faster.
With a higher mining attribute, Chen Xiyi can save a lot of physical strength.
“Go back.”
After silently reciting it, Chen Xiyi returned from his stone house to the wooden house in his home world.
After making several rounds around the farmland and ranch to harvest with a torch, he returned to the wooden house.
He stored some of the resources in a wooden storage box and began making the tools he needed.
After a busy period, an hour passed quickly. After preparing, Chen Xiyi set off for the Great Li Kingdom.
This time he could be said to have upgraded directly to the Stone Age, where both tools and equipment underwent a qualitative change.
[Stone Pickaxe]
[Durability: 30/30]
[Mining: 20]
With the mining attribute doubled, Chen Xiyi estimated that if he continued mining, the soil would probably only need 5 strikes, while the stone might require 10 strikes.
This saved him half of the time and physical strength.
The stone helmet, stone cap, stone spear, and other equipment on him also had significantly improved attributes.
The original wooden armor had a defense of 1, now it had become a defense of 2.
He not only iterated on weapons but also made twelve hundred wooden ladders and four hundred torches.
This time he wanted to dig deeper. If these wooden ladders and torches were used up and he hadn’t found iron ore or coal resources, Chen Xiyi would have to find another way, inquire in the city to see where such resources were available.
He couldn’t waste time here.
The reason he was here now was partly to take a chance and partly to dig up enough soil and stone.
Furthermore, it was only a little past one in the morning. According to Chen Xiyi’s estimation, at this time, the Great Li Kingdom should be under curfew.
In Chen Xiyi’s impression, the Great Li Kingdom was like a feudal dynasty from his previous life.
At this hour, almost everyone should be asleep.
“I wonder if Lingqu City has city walls. If so, before leaving, I can knock a bit off and take it away. Maybe I can knock out some stone bricks.”
Chen Xiyi went down the mining pit, pondering.
“No, not only the city walls, but I can also remove the city gate when I leave. As long as I can knock fast enough, the soldiers guarding the city definitely won’t react in time.”
Although it was a bit unethical, Chen Xiyi felt that as a player, not ransacking the homes of various civilian NPCs was already a display of good manners.
“A 3×3 mining pit. If I dig another twelve hundred units, it will probably take until noon today to finish.”
Chen Xiyi suddenly felt a bit rushed. Each time he dug, he created a pit with equal length, width, and height, meaning he actually dug up 9 units of resources, not just one unit.
And then 9×1200 is 10,800 units of resources, which made Chen Xiyi feel a bit overwhelmed.
“Forget it, let’s dig for now.”
After reaching the bottom, Chen Xiyi began to dig with the stone pickaxe.
It may be a lot, but you can’t just stop because there’s too much.
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