It was getting dark, and Xu Xin quickly returned to his tree house.
He also planted the newly brought back parasitic tree house seeds at the outermost edge of his "back garden", but in the opposite position of the previous parasitic tree house 01, planted on the other side.
There was no special consideration, he just felt that symmetry would be more comfortable.
While the parasitic tree house was still under growth, Xu Xin sent a voice message to Ji Chaoyang. He wanted to analyze today's information with Ji Chaoyang, and then consider whether to tell the other explorers about their inferences.
The call was connected quickly.
"I met people from other districts." Xu Xin went straight to the point.
"...Oh?" Ji Chaoyang's voice on the other side also became serious, "Which district is it from?"
"It's pretty much what you guessed. Jungle Area 187."
“…Neighborhood? Neighborhood is fine.”
Ji Chaoyang had the same concern as him. He was afraid that they were surrounded not only by neighboring districts such as District 187 and District 189, but also by a bunch of other districts. It would be easy to deal with one or two districts, but if there was a melee in many districts, the difficulty would be greatly increased.
Xu Xin told Ji Chaoyang all the information he got from Leyoufang.
"It seems that our speculation is almost right." Ji Chaoyang was silent for a while and then spoke.
"What did you find over there?"
"I also walked around the reserve and found two tree houses, but unfortunately, they both had lost their owners and were on the verge of death. I didn't encounter any living survivors."
"Have you noticed a problem?" Xu Xin frowned. "We haven't found anyone from this area. There seem to be only survivors from other areas around us. Are we completely separated from the people in the same area?"
He found three tree houses in total, and now that he thought about it, their locations were even relatively regular.
The first tree is in the east, the second tree is in the north, and the third tree, which is the one in Leyoufang, is in the south. Although there are some deviations, they are all roughly the same.
There is a tree house corresponding to each direction, however, these three tree houses are not the tree houses in their area!
If he had not seen the light of the lightning rod on Li Wenxi's tree house, which was about 20 to 30 kilometers to the east of him, he would have really thought that there was something wrong with his position.
"This should be what I said before, cross distribution." Ji Chaoyang said after pondering for a while, "All of us have been separated."
Xu Xin naturally understood what cross distribution meant, just like black and white floor tiles.
The tree house protection zone of each survivor in Jungle Zone 188 is equivalent to a white square, while the survivors in other zones are all black squares. White squares are only connected to black squares, and black squares are surrounded by white squares.
In other words, producers in the same area can only be found in diagonal directions, such as northwest and southeast.
However, the protected area is not a square, but a circle, which cannot be fully covered like a square. Between the diagonally opposite circles, there are dangerous areas that cannot be covered by the protected area.
Therefore, at least until the protected area continues to expand, there will be no direct connection between the same areas.
Now, if you want to find people in the same area, you must pass through the protected areas of survivors in other areas.
"I think we can tell them about this now. We need to build a close-knit group as soon as possible. Otherwise, if someone has bad intentions, someone will suffer." Xu Xin said. The "they" he mentioned naturally refers to the other explorers.
"Then let's do it tomorrow. Since the protected areas can already communicate with each other, functions like the world channel should also be open. Let's verify it again today."
"good."
Xu Xin hung up the call.
At this time, the tree house has grown completely. Yin Wang and Mimi are circling around the tree house. It is the first time for them to see a tree grow so fast, and they are very curious.
Xu Xin renamed the tree house Parasitic Tree House 02, opened some of its functions, and then took the four beasts back to his own tree house.
He took out the cores of the two low tree houses and prepared to use the cores to upgrade the resources.
"What should I upgrade?"
The carving knife was put aside for the time being. After all, even if he made a purple-level carving knife, with his artist level, he would not be able to carve a purple-level statue. It would be meaningless. Maybe the carving speed would be slightly improved, but his current speed was enough and he did not need to consume a purple-level resource to improve it.
Weapons are actually a good choice. He can now upgrade two materials and can make weapons. He just got the strongest steel in the same level. If he upgrades the steel block (blue) to steel block (purple) and uses the steel block to make weapons, he can get the strongest weapon in the purple level!
In this way, it is equivalent to having purple-level equipment all over his body!
However, in terms of practicality, what he should upgrade the most is the Boning Knife, because a purple-grade boning knife can be decomposed into purple-grade materials, and the possibility of decomposing it into blue-grade materials may also increase.
After considering for a long time, Xu Xin finally chose weapons.
There were no wild beasts or mutant creatures around, and no one knew when they would appear. Once they were made, they might be shelved for a long time. Moreover, he had not been to the west yet. After assembling himself, he planned to go there to try it out. There might be another tree house core there.
Ultimately, he chose a steel spear over a crossbow of all weapons.
A purple-grade steel spear only requires two purple-grade materials: wood and steel blocks, but a purple-grade crossbow requires three materials: wood, animal tendons, and steel blocks, which he cannot make yet. Moreover, he now has powerful explosive arrows, so the crossbow's own firing speed and power are not so important, and it is enough to use.
Steel Spear (Green): A spear made of steel blocks. It is sharper than an iron spear and is the hardest and sharpest weapon of its class! Durability 1000. Requires 5 wood (green), 2 steel blocks (green)
A purple-grade steel spear requires four pieces of blue-grade wood, one piece of purple-grade wood, one piece of blue-grade steel and one piece of purple-grade steel.
Taking out a piece of blue-grade steel and the core of a low tree house, Xu Xin tried to put the two resources together.
Use the core from the Humble Treehouse to upgrade the Steel Block (Blue) to Steel Block (Purple)
When the prompt sounded, Xu Xin did not hesitate and immediately chose yes.
The core of the tree house, which had been emitting a bright white light, suddenly shone brightly. Then, with his ability to identify, the blue light on the steel block gradually began to turn purple.
Finally, the light in the core of the tree house dimmed, from a "night pearl" emitting a white light to an ordinary pale yellow spherical stone. The steel block also completely turned purple.
The core of the low tree house that has lost its energy: The core of the tree house has used up all its energy and turned into an ordinary stone. Perhaps there is a way to fill it with energy again.
Full of energy again! As expected, even if the energy core is lost, it can still be recharged!
This made Xu Xin overjoyed. If he found this method, he could really produce purple-level resources on his own!
But how to charge it
"The core of the tree house..." Xu Xin muttered to himself, "Could it be related to the parasitic tree house?"
He had looked through the functions of the parasitic tree house, and there was no option to charge the tree house core.
He suddenly remembered that when he was operating in the parasitic tree house 01, Coco had been scratching the floor with its little claws. When he finally left, it was still scratching on the floor, and he took it away directly, and it was a little reluctant at the time.
Xu Xin originally thought it was sharpening its claws, but now it seems that...
He didn’t care about the purple-level weapons. He could make them anytime anyway. He picked up Coco from the sofa and rushed to the parasitic tree house 01.
"Hmm?" Coco was dozing off on the sofa when she was lifted up and put on Xu Xin's shoulders. Her little head was full of question marks.
"Help me see if there is anything special in the parasitic tree house."
"嘤!" After hearing these words, Coco was no longer sleepy. She waved her little paws and cried, as if to say that she had actually discovered it a long time ago, but was taken away by Xu Xin last time.
Sure enough, it was similar to what he guessed.
Arriving at the first floor of Parasitic Tree House 01, Coco jumped off Xu Xin's shoulder, ran to the center of the tree house, and scratched the floor with her little paws: "Bing!"
Xu Xin was very familiar with this location. Wasn't this the location of the tree house's trunk, and also the location of the original core of the tree house
The parasitic tree house has no core, so it should be empty inside.
Do we need to pry open the floor in the center of the tree house and insert the tree house core in the original location of the tree house core
Xu Xin touched the floor with his hand, but did not trigger any prompts to control the floor to be lifted up.
… Then chop with an axe!
Anyway, he just needed to remove a piece of tree house floor, and he wouldn't even have to repair it himself afterwards. The tree house could recover by its own self-repair ability.
He did what he said. Taking out the iron axe, Xu Xin swung the axe at the floor.
"Card!"
Just like the previous situation, the green-level parasitic tree house was completely unable to resist the blue-level iron axe. With just one strike, the floor in the center cracked. After a few strikes, the floor shattered.
Xu Xin cleared the debris on the floor, revealing the situation under the floor.
"really!"
The floor is different from that of a normal tree house. A normal tree house is a hollow trunk, with the core buried in the soil at the bottom. However, the trunk of the parasitic tree house is solid, with only a hemispherical groove, which is just right for placing the core of the tree house.
Discover the parasitic tree house charging slot and unlock the core charging function
Do I have to discover this core charging function by myself
Xu Xin placed the core of the low tree house, which had run out of energy. With a slight "click" sound, the core of the tree house just happened to be stuck in the hemispherical hole.
A faint white glow emanated from the already dim core of the tree house.
Xu Xin touched it with his hand. The core, which had become cold after losing energy, was now warm, like a hand warmer.
Remaining charging time: 4 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes
It can really be charged!
"嘤!" Coco also touched it, and finally even lay on it, showing a comfortable little expression, with her little tongue sticking out.
Xu Xin fell into deep thought.
Originally, the core of the tree house was used to provide energy to the tree house, but the energy of the parasitic tree house is obtained from the host tree house, so there is no need for the tree house core to provide special energy. Instead, the energy obtained from the host tree house can be supplemented into the tree house core.
This should be the principle of charging the core.
However... From this point of view, the host tree house, that is, his tree house, needs to provide more energy, and the burden is even greater. It is unknown at most how many parasitic tree houses it can withstand.
Although five days of charging time is a bit long, the purple-level resources are worth the long wait.
If we have more parasitic tree houses in the future, won’t we be able to mass-produce purple-level resources
By the way, what would happen if a fully-energy core was placed on top