Xu Xin immediately asked in the explorer group: "Do you have a lot of food when you go out exploring?"
Li Wenxi: "I was just about to ask, I'm tired of eating meat these days, I want to eat some fruit, but I searched for a long time and couldn't find a fruit tree. I can't eat blue-level fruit to satisfy my craving..."
Qi Xuefei: "I haven't left yet."
Wang Lei: "I don't have any here... My refrigerator that I used to store food in was struck by lightning, and now there is no food outside. This is too difficult!"
Ji Chaoyang: "At least for now, I can hardly get food from the jungle. I don't know how long this situation will last."
Qin Yunlong: "The fish in the lake have become fewer and fewer. Before, there were schools of fish in the lake, but now there are only a few."
Wang Lei: "I'm so hungry... Can ornamental fish be eaten?"
Zhao Xiaochuan: "I still have some food. Call me Daddy and I'll share some with you."
Wang Lei: "Fuck you, bastard!"
Xu Xin was a little amused and traded him ten kilograms of green-grade carp meat, the meat of the big carp he had let go before, and also traded Li Wenxi a few apples he had just picked.
Wang Lei: "Fuck! Boss Xu actually gave me ten kilograms of fish! Thank you, Boss! I love you, Boss!"
Li Wenxi: "It's an apple! Love you, Xu Xin!"
"Wang Lei, shut up." Xu Xin said unhappily, and then asked, "I picked up this fish on the ground after the water receded. Don't you have any?"
Wang Lei: "Why do you just let me shut up..."
Wen Guixin: "No, I walked around outside and didn't see any food, but there is a tree called rosewood, which can produce red wood, but it is very rare, and this rosewood can only be cut with an iron axe, not a stone axe."
Can only be chopped with an iron axe
Xu Xin had indeed used the Iron Axe to chop down trees just now. The Iron Axe was introduced to be able to chop down some special types of trees, and rosewood should be one of them.
No wonder its seeds are so special.
However, if this situation continues, I'm afraid there will really be a famine.
Fortunately, he was not short of food. He had a plantation on the top floor of his tree house and an ice cellar full of mutant beast meat on the bottom floor. Not to mention a shortage, it was no problem for him to feed the entire explorer.
But others may suffer.
Many things in the survivors' tree houses were destroyed by lightning during the rainy season, most likely including the stored food, just like Wang Lei. But even if they were not destroyed, it was not easy.
Today is already the third day after leaving the dungeon. The mutant beast meat in their hands is basically rotten. If they had gone out to pick and hunt during the rest day before the rainstorm, they could have held on for another day until tomorrow. Otherwise, they would starve tonight.
Unless they eat meat and fruit that may rot, but if it causes diarrhea and vomiting, the consequences are much more serious than starvation. Eating rotten meat is simply seeking death.
There are water resources, and we can actually survive for a while without food. It just depends on how long this situation will last. If it lasts for a long time, we will probably start eating tree bark and grass roots.
Xu Xin glanced around again.
He had already completely searched through all the blue-level resources around him, and now he looked towards the direction of the hills.
There is a resource area over there. There must be new resources now, but...
He now has two choices: go back and continue carving to improve the decoration of the tree house, or go to the hilly resource area for more exploration. That place is very special. The beast statue altar alone is worth Xu Xin's inspection now.
Xu Xin looked at the hills in the distance with complicated eyes. He now basically equated those hills with the blood-marked trolls that appeared last time.
Xu Xin checked the map and confirmed that there were no red dots over there either.
There were originally three tigers in the hilly resource area, but one died from the contaminated meat of the mutant wild cat summoned by Xu Xin, leaving only two. Now the other two are nowhere to be found.
He had never explored the hilly resource area in detail before because he was afraid of being targeted by those fierce tigers. There were also wolves there, which were not easy to deal with for him at the time.
Now is a great time to explore.
Go and take a look.
Although there were no wild beasts for him to sacrifice now, he was somewhat curious whether the altar would undergo any changes. After all, he had seen with his own eyes that the statues on the altar had changed.
Riding on the Silver King, Xu Xin moved rapidly towards the hilly resource area.
The closer he got, the more familiar Xu Xin felt.
Arriving at the foot of the hill, Xu Xin saw the mine where he had dug salt.
The surrounding jungle had already been completely transformed, and even the resource area inside the hills had changed its appearance. Only the area near the hills had not changed at all.
At the foot of the hill, the tree where Xu Xin hid from the wild boar was still standing there. There was also the arched pit under the tree, and even the roots of the tree were still exposed. Nothing had changed.
When he reached the entrance of the mine, Xu Xin immediately noticed something strange.
Not long after the water receded, the soil outside the mine was soft and moist, but the ground inside the mine was completely dry!
Moreover, there were some salt slags on the ground, which were obviously left over from Xu Xin's last mining. If water had really flooded into the mine, then these slags would not be there, after all, salt is soluble in water.
Sure enough, it was confirmed. If it was not visible from a distance, it might be an illusion, but everything in the mine pointed to the fact that there had never been water here.
Xu Xin frowned.
The hills surrounding the area are truly mysterious, and the altar, which is surrounded by hills and is located in the center of the resource area, is also extremely mysterious.
"Ying!" Just as he was about to step into the salt mine, Coco suddenly cried out in a hurry. It jumped off the back of the Silver King, ran in front of Xu Xin, and pushed his feet back to prevent him from entering.
There is indeed danger in this mine!
Xu Xin's eyes narrowed, and he took out his sharp spear. He was wearing the purple-level scale armor, holding the first spear below the purple level in his hand, and stared at the interior of the mine cautiously.
Seeing that he had taken out his weapon, Coco stopped trying to stop him and quickly climbed onto his shoulders and looked into the cave with Xu Xin.
Just looking from the cave entrance, Xu Xin couldn't see any danger inside the cave, but he still believed in Coco's feelings.
Mimi walked up, glanced at Xu Xin, and then paced into the cave.
"Be careful, there is danger in the cave!" Xu Xin warned.
He was not worried about Mimi. After all, its burst speed was too fast and it was extremely flexible. Even if it was attacked by surprise, it would be difficult for anything to hurt it.
The moment Mimi's body completely stepped into the cave, a sense of crisis rose in Xu Xin's heart, and then a red dot quickly lit up on the map!
This is! Those monsters in the underground!
"careful!"
But Mimi didn't need Xu Xin to remind her. The moment before he opened his mouth, it had already sensed the danger, kicked its hind legs, and jumped forward at an extremely fast speed.
The moment it landed, the ground where it was originally located suddenly cracked, and a thorny vine covered with blood-red barbs suddenly emerged from the crack and swung directly towards Mimi!
Mimi is not a vegetarian, it is a mutant beast that is almost at the intermediate level. Facing the attack of the blood thorn vine, it gently twisted its body to avoid it, and then scratched the vine with one claw!
In an instant, the front end of the vine was cut in half by several knives and fell to the ground in the mine in pieces.
At the same time, on the map, red dots lit up again from where Mimi was, and this time there were three red dots!
"There are a lot of these things, come out quickly!" Xu Xin shouted as he took out a crossbow and aimed it at one of the vines that had already emerged from the ground.
Mimi also listened to Xu Xin's words, and rushed out of the mine in two steps, landing lightly on the ground without a trace of panic. She even licked her claws that had torn the blood-thorn vine into pieces with just one claw.
When not in an attacking state, Mimi's mutated nails can be retracted a little bit, which doesn't look too exaggerated, and even looks a little cute a little fleshy.
The object that Xu Xin's crossbow arrow hit was a vine covered with patterns. Although there were no thorns on this vine, it was as thick as an upper arm, and was covered with countless blood-red patterns, the color was extremely bright.
After being shot by Xu Xin, the vine twisted and struggled violently.
Under Xu Xin's astonished gaze, the front end of the vine, like an octopus tentacle, wrapped around the crossbow arrow stuck in its branches, pulled it out, and then swung it towards Xu Xin!
Fortunately, this vine cannot use crossbow arrows. The crossbow arrows are thrown towards it like darts, and Xu Xin simply swept the crossbow arrows aside with a single shot.
This is the tree house protection area. He looked at the three vines that had emerged from the tree and waited quietly for them to die.
But as time passed, Xu Xin's face became uglier and uglier.
What's going on? Isn't this within the tree house protection area? Why can these blood veins and blood thorn vines, which are obviously underground creatures, survive for so long!
Could it be that this hilly area is no longer protected by the tree house
No, although these vines were not dead, they did not dare to come out of the cave. They just circled in the cave towards Xu Xin, as if provoking him.
Xu Xin immediately fired another crossbow, hitting one of the thinner vines. The crossbow arrow was very powerful and penetrated directly through the vine. The vine that was shot was directly broken, and the front half fell to the ground, still twisting!
"… This thing looks really weird!" Xu Xin pulled the bowstring and fired another crossbow at the twisting half of the vine on the ground.
Half of the vine was nailed to the ground and gradually stopped moving.
The remaining half of the vine slowly retracted into the crack in the ground, leaving only two thick vines waving in the cave.
This cave is really not protected by the tree house!
What on earth is in the mine that allows them to survive under the protection of the tree house!