After finishing the carving last night, he was exhausted both physically and mentally and fell asleep directly.
After Coco's small carving was completed, the decoration level of the tree house had increased to 96.4, almost reaching the 100 mark.
Although I don’t know whether 100 decoration level will work, but the decoration level of 96.4 is really uncomfortable. I should go back and increase the decoration level.
Within a few minutes, Xu Xin was back under the tree house.
Under his tree house, there was a piece of blue-level fertile soil with no plants planted in it. It was the same soil where the apple tree was planted before.
A blue poplar tree grew on this soil after the rainy season ended, which he cut down in the morning.
Xu Xin tried to plant the redwood seeds in this blue-level soil, but it didn't work. It seems that planting redwood requires more special conditions.
He did not bring the soil to the plantation on the fourth floor of the tree house. The plantation can only grow relatively short plants, and tall trees still need to be planted under the tree house.
After thinking about it, Xu Xin planted a pine seed in the soil.
His kitchen and bathroom appliances require logs to make. Blue-level logs can be used to upgrade these appliances, which may have unexpected effects.
Although there are no wild beasts now, Xu Xin still built a fence around the land for protection.
It was already after noon when we returned to the tree house, and Silver King and Mimi were lazing around in the living room.
"Do you guys still want to eat?" Xu Xin asked Yin Wang and Mimi. These two guys might be about to become intermediate mutant beasts, so it would be better for them to eat more.
However, the two beasts shook their heads. It seemed that the big meal they had in the morning had temporarily satisfied their needs.
Xu Xin took Coco to the cold storage and took out a few pieces of mutant beast meat, half for stir-frying and the other half for grilling.
While eating, a slight warmth flowed through Xu Xin's body, which made him start to wonder how strong he was now. In the morning, when he was moving boulders, he easily lifted a stone that was almost as big as himself.
Of course, this is thanks to the scale armor on his body and the human-shaped statue in the tree house.
I feel that even if he doesn't have any weapons, it shouldn't be a problem for him to fight a black bear head-on with his bare hands.
After dinner, Coco curled up on the sofa for a nap, and Xu Xin sat on the sofa to rest, thinking about what to do in the afternoon.
This time, he was not going to carve, but to paint.
His artist contract not only enabled him to acquire engraving skills, but also endowed him with superb painting skills.
But before that, he needed to make the painting tools.
Paintbrush (green): Dip it in water to draw the desired ink painting, and you can draw green-level paintings. You need 1 piece of wood (green) and a strand of animal hair (green)
A paintbrush requires wood and animal hair. He has plenty of blue-grade wood, but Xu Xin has never obtained animal hair.
Could it be that this kind of resource cannot be decomposed using a boning knife
Xu Xin looked at the Silver King who was dozing off in the corner.
Isn't it a ready-made wolf hair brush? It's the wolf hair brush of the mutant wolf king!
Xu Xin smiled and walked up to the Silver King, staring at its silver and red tail.
Wolf hair is not actually the hair from a wolf's tail, but the hair from a weasel's tail. However, using the tail hair of the Silver King should not be a problem.
The Silver King had already opened its eyes when Xu Xin walked over. Looking at his smiling face, it always felt that something bad was going to happen.
“Ouch—”
The bat hanging upside down under the tree house was startled by the Silver King's howling and fell down. It flapped its wings a few times and flew to the window to look inside the house.
Xu Xin was holding a bunch of silver and red fur in his hand, while Silver King was looking at Xu Xin with a sad face with his tail between his legs. A closer look revealed that there was a small bald spot on its tail.
Mutated Wolf King's Tail Hair (Blue): The hair on the tip of the mutant wolf king's tail can be used to make a brush.
Wow, it’s a blue-level resource!
Xu Xin looked at Silver King's fur with shining eyes, which frightened Silver King so much that he ran to Mimi in two steps.
In the end, Xu Xin plucked a few more tufts of hair from its body. After all, this guy shed a lot of hair, so it was easy to pluck the hair from its body, and nothing could be seen.
However, to Xu Xin's disappointment, only the hair on the tip of the tail was blue-level hair. The few tufts of hair plucked from the body were not even considered resources, not even white-level.
Well, maybe only the hair on the tip of the tail can be used to make a paintbrush.
If you want it again next time, you can only wait for the hair on the tip of the Silver King's tail to grow out.
Xu Xin immediately used this bunch of blue-level animal hair to make a paintbrush. Because it was made from the hair of the Silver King, the hair of the paintbrush showed a silver and red color.
Wolf-hair brush (blue): Dip in water to draw the desired ink painting, and can produce blue-level paintings.
Beautiful, you can directly draw blue-level paintings!
The pen is ready, next is the paper.
Xu Xin looked through the production list and found two types of paper.
One is paper made from reeds, and the other is paper made from mahogany.
Xu Xin focused his attention on the paper made of mahogany.
Mahogany paper (green): paper made from the essence of mahogany, can be used as drawing paper, requires mahogany*1
Paper that can be used as drawing paper.
but…
A piece of paper actually requires a whole piece of redwood!
One tree only produces two pieces of redwood, one piece is used for one piece of paper, which means that one tree can only make two pieces of paper!
This mahogany paper is too precious...
Xu Xin had originally been thinking about whether he should use a piece of blue-grade mahogany to make a stack of blue-grade paper for backup, but now he saw that there was no stack at all, only one piece!
Forget it, I’ll just practice with green-level paper first.
Xu Xin immediately made a piece of mahogany paper (green).
The paper is very large, just slightly smaller than the engraving and painting workbench, and can be placed completely on the workbench.
The paintbrush only needs to be dipped in water to paint. Xu Xin prepared a small dish of water and picked up the paintbrush.
The moment he picked up the paintbrush, he felt the same sense of immersion as when he picked up the carving knife.
Lightly dip the tip of the pen into water.
The hair on the tip of the pen was originally silver and red, but after being dipped in water, it turned black, as if it were dipped in ink.
Xu Xin picked up his pen and pondered, what should he draw
Well, let’s just draw a silver king. After all, it has made great sacrifices for Xu Xin’s painting career, and the tip of its tail is even bald.
Ink painting is not as delicate as engraving, so there is no need for Yin Wang to be a model. Xu Xin picked up the brush and began to paint on the mahogany paper.
With just a pen dipped in water, Xu Xin was able to draw different shades of gray and black, and draw wild lines on the mahogany paper.
Xu Xin has been completely immersed in painting.
He didn't know how much time had passed. The Silver King on the mahogany paper and the jungle behind it had become increasingly complete and were almost finished, but his spirit was beginning to fail.
Like a student falling asleep in class, his head drooped and almost hit the table.
… The consumption of mental energy is too huge, even greater than that of withering.
Because he wanted to compare the mental energy consumption of painting and engraving, Xu Xin did not eat oranges (blue) that could maintain his mental energy before painting. He did not expect that the consumption of painting would be so great.
Trying hard not to fall asleep on the table, he quickly took out an orange and ate it.
After eating the orange, Xu Xin's spirit instantly became full. The difference before and after was like a shot of adrenaline.
Really good! The artist's talent and the orange are perfect!
I looked at my watch and realized that nearly two hours had passed since I started painting.
Time flies by so fast?!
He waved the paintbrush vigorously and felt that he was painting very quickly. He didn't expect that so much time had passed.
Taking advantage of the duration of the orange's effect, Xu Xin continued painting.
The painting was finished quickly. When the last stroke was finished, Xu Xin breathed a sigh of relief.
On the paper, a wolf was running towards him. Although it was an ink painting and not very realistic, so the Silver King's appearance could not be seen, it was full of tension, as if the wolf was about to jump out of the paper.
The effect was not triggered. Xu Xin thought about it, made a picture frame out of wood, put the ink painting of Silver King in it, and framed it on the wall of the bedroom.
A framed Wolf King attack map (green) is detected in the tree house. The tree house decoration degree +10. The current tree house decoration degree: 106.4
This time a prompt to increase the degree of decoration appeared.
This is a green-level painting with its own name. As for why it is green-level instead of blue-level, it should be because of the drawing paper. The drawing paper is green-level, so no matter how good the painting is, it can only play the role of green-level.
However, even a green-level painting has a ten-point bonus to decoration, bringing the tree house's decoration level to over a hundred.
But it seemed that nothing special happened.
Xu Xin checked the contents of the decoration options again, and there was no change.
Is the decoration not enough, or are there any effects that I need to discover myself
Perhaps it’s because the second phase hasn’t started yet, so the decoration has no effect yet.
Since there is nothing else to do now, let's continue.
Xu Xin took out a red crystal, which was one of the blue-level crystals he got from the wooden box in the whirlpool.
He wanted to try to engrave blue-level crystal. After all, his engraving knife was blue-level and could be used to engrave blue-level crystal.
As soon as Xu Xin fixed the crystal on the table, his tree house watch began to vibrate.
It was Li Wenxi who called him.
After the call was connected, he saw Li Wenxi sitting on the back of a cow.
The little beauty was very leisurely at the moment, and she was even imitating the cowherd boy by holding a piece of dogtail grass in her mouth.
"You just finished mining?"
"Yes, I'm on my way back. Ah Niu helped me carry a lot of things. This time, I have to walk many times before." Li Wenxi spat out the grass in his mouth, stuck out his tongue, and frowned, "This grass is so astringent..."
"Are you here to chat with me because you're bored on the road?" Xu Xin put down the carving knife and said with a smile.
"Hey, what's wrong with chatting for a while?" Li Wenxi fell on the cow's back, the camera was facing her face, and her voice became much lazier. "It's not just a chat. I found something strange in the mine."
Weird stuff in the mines
Xu Xin became interested instantly.