Chapter 51 Preparation before the event
Just when he turned around, he found a faint blue light not far away in the other direction.
There are blue level resources over there.
He looked around and found that there were no wild animals nearby, so he walked over.
It was actually a blue-grade poplar tree.
"What a bumper harvest! It just so happened that the blue-level wood was basically used up." Xu Xin happily cut down the poplar tree.
After putting away the newly cut wood (blue), Xu Xin looked in the direction of the few stone pillars he had seen before. The view there was blocked by the dense jungle, but he could still see bits of blue light mixed with the green light.
"I won't go there today. It's important to go back and make the crossbow and heavy crossbow first." Xu Xin looked at the pile of materials in the backpack and decided to return.
This resource area is surrounded by a circle of hills, but there is also an exit on the ground between the two hills.
Xu Xin glanced at the nearest exit. The map was dotted with red dots, which should be where the wild boars lived.
Forget it, he still had to climb over the mountain. He didn't want to face a herd of wild boars.
There are no wild animals on the hills. Because it was not within the scope of the resource area, there were only sporadic green spots on the entire mountain, so Xu Xin easily picked up the few green resources that could be picked.
Returning to the top of the hill, Xu Xin looked towards the stone pillar again.
"Eh? Has that statue changed?" Xu Xin frowned, a little confused.
Although he couldn't see clearly what the statue was, the shape of the statue seemed to have changed.
Xu Xin was curious, but she still held back her restless heart and chose to leave. The black bear cave only emits green light but there is a black bear living in it. That place emits blue light and must be much more dangerous than the black bear cave.
Let’s update the equipment on our body first and then come again.
"Oh, it would be great if I could contract a mount." Xu Xin sighed as he looked at the long way home.
Coco still lay comfortably on his shoulder.
"Can you ride when you grow up?" Xu Xin rubbed the little guy's head.
"嘤嘤?" Keke was confused. It can only be so big?
After a long journey of nearly an hour, Xu Xin finally returned to the tree house. It was already afternoon, and Xu Xin was already a little hungry.
When he came to the synthesis table, he wanted to see if there were any tools that could extract salt.
As he expected, Xu Xin found an iron tool in the production list.
[Salt distillation extractor (green): Add salt crystals to it and add water, add fuel below to get pure salt. Requires iron (green)*2, wood (green)*5]
"I feel comfortable." Xu Xin immediately made the extractor.
This is an iron tool. It is a prop that Xu Xin unlocked after getting the golden treasure box. Currently, only he and Ji Chaoyang can make it. In other words, even if others find the salt mine and cannot make the extractor, they will not be able to make it. Get fine table salt.
Of course, it is not ruled out that some people will use their own methods to purify table salt.
Xu Xin put salt crystals and water into the extractor, and added a few pieces of white wood to let the extractor work. He took advantage of this time to make a blue-grade backpack.
[Excellent backpack (blue): A backpack with 20 grids. The number of supplies that can be placed in each grid is determined by the type of supplies. It can reduce the weight of supplies to 10% of their original weight. 】
It has ten more slots than a green-level backpack and is half the weight! In this way, Xu Xin can take more things.
Continuing to be busy, Xu Xin also wants to make both the crossbow and the heavy crossbow.
Crossbow arrows and bow arrows require similar materials.
[Crossbow arrow (green): The arrow is made of iron, the arrow body is made of wood, and it is equipped with feathers. It is a very standard crossbow arrow, and it strikes accurately! Can be recycled. Crossbow arrow (green)*20 requires iron block (green)*2, wood (white)*2, feather (green)*2]
The crossbow bolts also needed feathers, and he only had four owl feathers he picked up after the beast riot, so he could only make 40 crossbow bolts. But since it can be recycled, that’s enough for the time being.
Xu Xin used wood (green) to make crossbow arrows, which should allow the crossbow arrows to be recycled more often.
With a glance, he saw another crossbow bolt that he could make.
[Poison crossbow arrows (green): Quench the crossbow arrows with poison to obtain poisonous crossbow arrows. The poison can kill small beasts. It can be recycled and turned into ordinary crossbow arrows after recycling. Poison crossbow arrows (green)*20 require crossbow arrows (green)*20, poison sac (green)*1】
One poison sac can quench poison for 20 crossbow arrows!
Xu Xin immediately made 20 poisonous crossbow arrows. The arrows of the poisonous crossbow arrows were covered with a light green color, making them easily distinguishable from ordinary crossbow arrows. In this way, he has 20 ordinary crossbow bolts and 20 poisonous crossbow bolts.
The crossbow requires wood (green) *5, iron (green) *2, and animal sinew (green) *1. According to Xu Xin's experience, blue-level tools require a blue-level main material, which he does not have. There is a blue-level beast tendon, so you can only make a green-level crossbow first.
Although it is a green-level crossbow, it still feels heavy in the hand.
"I finally have a long-range attack method!" Xu Xin sighed. He tried to load an ordinary crossbow bolt on the crossbow, but it took a lot of effort to load it.
"Isn't that how it's wound?" Xu Xin looked carefully and found that there was a place on the front of the crossbow that could be stepped on with his feet. He took off the crossbow bolt and tried to place the front of the crossbow on the ground. Put your foot there and pull the string up. This time it was easier to load a crossbow bolt than to load it directly.
"It turns out that you can wind it with your feet. It's so laborious, no wonder it's so powerful."
Xu Xin came to the window, pointed at the poplar trunk outside, and pulled the trigger.
"Whoosh!" "Click!"
The crossbow arrow accurately hit the spot he wanted to hit. The entire crossbow arrow was immersed in more than half of the tree trunk, and the tail of the crossbow was still trembling slightly.
"It's strong!" Xu Xin was very satisfied with the power of the crossbow. He went down to recover the fired crossbow arrows, and used the crafting table to make a small wooden quiver. The quiver can hold 100 arrows. Xu Xin put all the crossbow arrows in and hung them aside.
Then there is the heavy crossbow mounted outside the tree house. The heavy crossbow was made directly in the treehouse production list. Xu Xin clicked on the [Treehouse Transformation] option on the screen. At this time, a new heavy crossbow has appeared in the list.
[Iron automatic heavy crossbow (green): An iron automatic heavy crossbow that can automatically attack enemy units with greater power and a longer range. Five rounds can be loaded at one time. It requires fine wood (green)*10, iron block (green)*5, animal sinew (green)*2]
[Heavy crossbow iron arrows (green): Heavy and sharp iron crossbow arrows can pierce the body of beasts by virtue of their own weight. Can be recycled, requires fine wood (green) *2, iron block (green) *1]
Compared with the previous wooden weapons, iron weapons were obviously stronger, so Xu Xin chose to make an iron heavy crossbow without hesitation.
[Please select the location of the heavy crossbow]
A structural diagram of a treehouse appeared on the screen, and the heavy crossbow could be mounted on the walls inside the tree canopy.
"Can't it be installed below? The blind area of the wall is too big." Xu Xin said to himself, and had no choice but to choose the first layer. After all, the first layer was already high enough. He was afraid of accuracy problems any further away from the ground. .
Just hearing a "click" from downstairs, it should be that the heavy crossbow has been assembled. Xu Xin made five more heavy crossbow iron arrows and went down to the first floor.
A small window appeared on the inner wall where the heavy crossbow was. There was a small round hole under the window, which looked slightly thicker than the iron arrows of the heavy crossbow. There was also a simple rocker beside the round hole.
Xu Xin looked out the window and saw a heavy crossbow, which was almost two meters long and wide, being assembled under the window. The main body of the entire giant crossbow was made of wood, and the important parts were made of iron. It looked very lethal and very safe.
Xu Xin looked at the small hole under the window: "This should be the place where arrows are assembled, right?"
Xu Xin pointed the iron arrow of the heavy crossbow in his hand toward the entrance of the cave. The resistance was great, so he increased his strength. When the iron arrow completely sank into the entrance of the cave, the sound of a crossbow being cocked was heard from the crossbow outside.
Xu Xin looked towards the entrance of the cave. It was empty and he should be able to continue loading.
The automatic heavy crossbow can be loaded five times at a time. Xu Xin pushed all five heavy crossbow arrows in his hand. After the last arrow was pushed in, the tail of the arrow could still be seen from the hole, indicating that it could no longer be loaded inwards.
"How to make him launch? This joystick?" Xu Xin held his hand on the joystick.
[Heavy crossbow joystick: Control the direction of the heavy crossbow. Pull it out to launch, and press it inward to enter automatic mode. 】
His item identification function is considerate.
Xu Xin manipulated the heavy crossbow, pointed at a white-grade poplar tree outside, and pulled it outward.
The iron heavy crossbow arrow shot out quickly, accurately heading towards the place where he aimed. With a loud "click", the crossbow arrow sank directly into the trunk of the poplar tree, piercing the poplar tree. Then the entire poplar trunk broke and fell to the ground into several pieces of wood.
"It's so powerful! As long as you can hit it with this lethality, most beasts won't be able to withstand it!"
However, there is also a problem with this heavy crossbow. Because it has been assembled and cannot be moved, the range is only in this direction. Other directions and the location below the tree house are not within the range.
If we want to solve this problem, we can only wait until a few more heavy crossbows are made in the future.
He went down to retrieve the heavy crossbow arrows and put them back into the heavy crossbow. He did not set the heavy crossbow to the automatic attack mode. If a few small beasts came, it would automatically attack. Wouldn't it be a waste of crossbow arrows.
Back on the third floor, the fine salt had precipitated. Xu Xin dipped some in it and tasted it. The taste was no different from packaged salt.
"Eat, eat!"
"Hey!" Coco, who was napping next to him, became energetic as soon as he heard about eating and ran over immediately.
"You little guy." Xu Xin gave it an apple, and Coco held the apple and started to chew on it.
Xu Xin couldn't wait any longer. He cut off a small piece of the remaining bear meat and hung the rest on the trading platform in portions of five kilograms. After all, it had been more than two days and it would go bad if left alone.
Xu Xin hung the snake gallbladder in the window of the tree house, took out the snake meat, cut a few kilograms off, garnished it with bear meat, lotus root mushrooms, sprinkled with fine salt and started grilling.
Not long after, the sizzling sound of oil combined with the strong smell of meat made Coco, who didn't like meat very much, stop chewing the apple and said, "Ugh?"
"Want to eat?" Xu Xin asked Coco with a smile.
"Hey!" Coco was interested in meat for the first time.
Giving a portion of the roasted meat to Coco, Xu Xin couldn't wait to bite it.
"Emmmm, this is so comfortable~" Xu Xin felt that her whole body was sublimated. The salt completely enhanced the flavor of the barbecue. This is the real barbecue! He never wants to live without salt again!
Coco was also biting into the barbecue with her small mouth, making slurping sounds from time to time, and seemed very satisfied with the taste of the barbecue.
"Salt is available, meat is available, and vegetables are available. Next time, we have to look for staple food crops such as rice and wheat and other seasonings such as pepper." Xu Xin licked her lips after eating. When he was worried about survival, he had already begun to pursue the quality of food. (End of chapter)