They didn't have any special resources, so Xu Xin symbolically accepted some blue-level fruit and wood and gave them directly to Li Wenxi, who didn't lack any.
Zhao Xiaochuan: "Thank you, Mr. Xu! I'm going to go gallop under the tree!"
Wang Lei: "Mr. Xu, this is basically a free gift. I love you!"
"Can you please stop calling me Mr. Xu? It sounds awkward." Xu Xin wanted to improve their relationship, and starting with the name was one of the best ways.
Zhao Xiaochuan: "Brother Xin!"
Wang Lei: "Yeah, just call me Brother Xin!"
Xu Xin was speechless: "I'm not necessarily older than you."
Wang Lei: "Brother doesn't represent age, it represents status!"
The blood-veined vines could not cause any damage to the tree house for the time being, so the group of people did not try to clear the vines, but instead started chatting.
Qi Xuefei: "Xu Xin, how old are you? You're definitely not as old as me."
Qi Xuefei had told them before that she was about to graduate with a doctorate. The undergraduate, master's and doctoral program in medicine takes eight years, so she is probably around 26 years old now.
"Well, I graduated from college last year, and I studied at home for a year and just passed the postgraduate entrance examination. I was waiting to go to school, but then I came here."
Wen Guixin: "Ah? You are younger than me. I am in my second year of graduate school."
Wang Lei: "… They are all highly educated seniors. I have quit the group. Social animals with a college degree and working for three years have no human rights in this group."
Qin Yunlong: "... Do you really want to talk about academic qualifications? Then I will also leave the group."
Qin Yunhu: "I won't quit. I have a bachelor's degree, and I think it's okay."
Zhao Xiaochuan: "I am also an undergraduate! I am a junior now. Brother, are you and I the same age?"
Qin Yunhu: "Oh, I have been working for almost eight years, and I am thirty this year."
Zhao Xiaochuan: "...Brother Tiger!"
Li Wenxi: "You are all older than me. I am only a sophomore, and I am the youngest!"
This was the first time that the explorers talked about age, which brought them closer together.
At present, Li Wenxi is the youngest, about 18 or 19 years old, not yet 20 years old, while Qin Yunlong and Qin Yunhu are the oldest, already 30 years old. Their team really fills the 18-30 age range.
However, Ji Chaoyang didn't say anything, which made Xu Xin a little confused. What was this guy doing now
Zhao Xiaochuan: "Hey, hey, hey, let's not talk about this anymore. Anyway, Brother Xin is awesome. I'm going to shoot the vines!"
Wang Lei: "I came out a long time ago. I was hanging under the tree house chatting with you..."
The group returned to silence, and Xu Xin gave all the other resources obtained from the transaction to Li Wenxi.
After looking out the window and making sure there was nothing unusual, he said to the bat, who was lying on the windowsill and moving from time to time, feeling a little uncomfortable in any posture: "Go down if you want. It's safe now. Call me if you need anything."
The bat uttered a shrill cry, flapped its wings, and flew to the canopy, where it hung upside down. It really preferred hanging under the tree house to floating inside it.
Yin Wang and Mimi were sleeping, while Coco followed Xu Xin to the study.
"What are you doing here?" Xu Xin sat down in front of the carving and painting workbench, looked at Ke Ke who had curled up on his legs and said, "You can stay here if you want, but I'm going to carve, and you're not allowed to move."
"Hmm!" Coco looked up and responded, then lay on his legs without moving.
Why is this little guy suddenly so clingy
However, Xu Xin did not delve into it further. He touched Coco's little head and couldn't wait to try carving.
With the help of deepwater pearls, he has become an entry-level artist. Now that he has reached the entry level, can he process blue-level crystals and create blue-level carvings
It turned out that he was overthinking it. Holding the carving knife, Xu Xin stared at the crystal in front of him with several scratches on it for a long time.
I still don't have the feeling of getting into the state as soon as I pick up the carving knife, and I still feel like I don't know where to start.
With a sigh, Xu Xin put away the crystal. It seems that blue-level engraving requires a higher level of artist skills.
He took out another green crystal and picked up the carving knife again. This time, the familiar feeling came, countless inspirations emerged from his mind, and the carving knife in his hand began to carve rapidly.
He could clearly feel that his speed and accuracy were faster and more accurate than before, and his movements were also smoother.
Is this what entry-level feels like
"Huh..." After an unknown amount of time, Xu Xin let out a breath, stopped what he was doing, and placed the carving knife and the freshly-made small statue on the table.
This time it's a small statue of Fuku, depicting him flying with his wings spread. The small statue is so lifelike that it looks like he's about to take off.
A bat blue crystal statue (green) is detected in the tree house. The decoration degree of the tree house is +10. The current decoration degree of the tree house is 146.4.
Xu Xin reached out and took down the small statue of Coco that he had carved at the beginning from the mahogany bookcase. Comparing it with the small statue of Ah Fu this time, some details on the small statue of Ah Fu were obviously more delicate than those on the small statue of Coco.
It is definitely meticulous. In addition to the improved skills, his current random ability and enhanced eyesight also provide him with considerable help in the engraving process. Although the crystal is small, it is completely visible under his microscope-like eyes.
However, this more detailed Ah Fu statue still only adds 10 points of decoration, and perhaps 10 points is the highest decoration that can be added to a green-level statue.
However, the advantage of improved technology is still very obvious. This time, the consumption of mental energy for carving is much smaller than before.
Xu Xin rubbed his temple with his index finger and squeezed his dry eyes. Although he felt a little tired, it was much more relaxing than the previous feeling of wanting to fall asleep.
He checked the time and was surprised to find that only half an hour had passed since he started carving! Previously, one carving took two hours!
Efficiency is directly increased to four times!
Is this an entry-level artist
The tree house has not been upgraded yet, so we don’t know what the role of the decoration is, but judging from its rewards, the functions provided by the decoration itself will definitely not be too bad.
If the artist's level continues to rise, the time he spends making carvings will become shorter and shorter. When it is shortened to more than ten minutes or a few minutes, he can sell the carvings and provide carvings to others to increase the degree of decoration.
Nodding with satisfaction, Xu Xin placed the statues of Coco and Afu on the bookshelf.
There were no books on his bookcase, but rather it was like a display cabinet, on which were placed his carved statues of Coco, Mimi, and Ah Fu, as well as a crystal white deep-water pearl.
One more Silver King moment left.
Although he had painted a portrait of the Silver King, it was an ink painting with only the shape of a wolf. It was a bit far-fetched to say that it was the Silver King.
Taking out another piece of crystal and picking up the engraving knife, Xu Xin immersed himself in engraving again.
Soon, the carving of the Silver King was completed.
A white crystal statue of the Wolf King (green) is detected in the tree house. The decoration degree of the tree house is +10. The current decoration degree of the tree house is 156.4.
Placing the Silver King small carving with the previous three small carvings on the same layer of the mahogany bookcase, and placing the four small carvings of different colors side by side, gives people a visual enjoyment.
Coco, who was originally lying on Xu Xin's legs, saw that he had stopped carving, so she climbed up. When she saw the four small statues lined up on the mahogany bookshelf, her eyes widened and she cried out.
"How is it? Very similar, right?" Xu Xin was a little proud. A few days ago he was still a layman in carving, but now he can carve such lifelike little statues at will.
"Ying!" Coco nodded vigorously and made the same gesture as Coco Xiao Diao Ke.
"Haha." Xu Xin touched Coco's furry tail and was about to say something when suddenly, Coco turned her head and looked out the window.
"Hmm!" It broke free from Xu Xin's hand, jumped to the window and looked down.
At the same time, outside the tree house came the loud screams of bats and the sound of something breaking through the ground.
Even the floor of the tree house was shaking.
Xu Xin's expression changed.
Something happened!
He stood up from his seat and felt his head sink.
Carving two green-level statues in a row was a great burden on his spirit. He immediately ate an orange, restored his spirit to its peak, and quickly walked to the window to look out.
"Hiss—" Xu Xin took a breath.
He saw that under and around the tree house, which he had originally cleaned up, there were actually densely packed blood-thorn vines that were several times thicker than the blood-veined vines!
How could so many blood-thorn vines appear for no reason
However, what made him temporarily relieved but also somewhat puzzled was that the blood-thorn vines did not attack the tree house, but instead gently swayed their branches in the breeze under the tree house.
Xu Xin narrowed his eyes. This was a strong sense of déjà vu, as if...
Just like those swaying vines in the red mist last night.
Those vines seemed to be restricted by some rules or being watched by something powerful. They did not dare to attack easily and could only sway their bodies slightly to relieve the desire to attack.
But once they strike, it’s a destructive blow that contains enormous power!
The occasional local conflicts between the blood-veined vines and blood-thorn vines last night opened his eyes. He was constantly amazed at their extremely strong destructive power, which could pierce or sweep across an entire area if they attacked.
Are these blood-thorn vines the same as last night
Also, how do they appear, growing from seeds or burrowing out of the ground
Looking at the map, he unexpectedly discovered that there were only red dots under and around his tree house. These red dots tightly surrounded the tree house, while there were still no red dots in other places.
These blood-thorn vines were definitely coming for his tree house!
"Afu, come up, don't stay down there!" Xu Xin called out. Blood-veined vines won't attack above five meters, but that doesn't mean these blood-thorn vines will do the same.
After hearing this, Ah Fu flew into the house through the study window.
Seeing that the vines did not attack, Coco was no longer nervous and pulled Ah Fu to take it to see Xu Xin's carving.
Xu Xin looked at the blood-thorn vines below and his hands began to itch.
Since you don't attack, let me go first.
Although ordinary crossbows are not very effective against these blood-thorn vines, he does have an explosive crossbow!