"Here! Here, here!" Li Wenxi stood on tiptoe and waved to them.
She didn't wear the steel armor, but a leather armor, which showed her tall and slender figure to the fullest. Her hair was also well-groomed, and her smooth black hair was simply tied behind her, showing her extraordinary vitality.
The two soon arrived under the tree house.
"Wow, both of your mounts are so handsome!" Li Wenxi looked at the Silver King and the white horse with envy.
"Don't you have one too?" Xu Xin and Ji Chaoyang jumped off their mounts together.
"My Ah Niu is silly, not handsome at all." As she said that, she straightened her face and stretched out her right hand to Xu Xin who had just got off the wolf's back, "It's our first meeting, please take care of me."
She even laughed as she said this.
"I always feel like we just met last night." Xu Xin held Li Wenxi's hand and teased.
"I finally touched your real body! It feels so unreal!"
Li Wenxi gently squeezed Xu Xin's hand. She wanted to squeeze his arm and face, but felt it was impolite, so she held back. However, she kept looking at Xu Xin's face: "Did you shave today? This is the first time I see you without stubble."
"So do you prefer having a beard or not having a beard?" Xu Xin asked with a smile.
Although she is often seen in videos, and all of them are close-ups of her face, there is still a difference between reality and videos.
Looking at her face so closely, Xu Xin could see her thick eyelashes trembling slightly, and the delicate skin that could not be shown in the video was also clearly visible, making him want to reach out and pinch it to see if he could squeeze out water.
This little beauty goes mining every day, how can her skin be so good
"I like them all! Oh no, I mean, they are all pretty, hehe!" Li Wenxi smiled happily, her almond-shaped eyes curved into crescents, and she held his hand tightly without letting go.
Well, it seems that tidying up my appearance before coming here did have some effect.
Xu Xin is still confident about her appearance. With a simple tidying up, she can look very good.
Ji Chaoyang stood behind Xu Xin, with his arms crossed over his chest, leaning against his white horse, with a helpless look on his face: "You two, have you forgotten about me? I'm still here."
“Ah…” Li Wenxi immediately let go of her hand somewhat embarrassedly and waved to Ji Chaoyang, “Hello, Brother Chaoyang, hehe.” She still had a happy smile on her face.
"Your discrimination is too obvious." Ji Chaoyang shook his head helplessly, "You don't have to call me Brother Chaoyang, just call me by my name."
"Since they all call me that, I'll call you that too. Besides, you should be older than me, right?" Li Wenxi was a little curious about Ji Chaoyang's age, because from his appearance, it seemed that his age could not be determined at all.
In fact, Xu Xin was also very curious about his age. The last time everyone discussed age was when Ji Chaoyang disappeared, and he still didn't know how old this guy was.
Judging from his appearance, he couldn't tell that this guy looked very young. He felt that if he wore a blue and white school uniform, he could directly sneak into a high school. Of course, judging from the age of the survivors, there would naturally be no high school students.
"Yes, I am older than you. I am already 27."
"Ah?" Li Wenxi's eyes widened.
"I..." Xu Xin almost blurted out the word "national treasure", but luckily he held it back. Li Wenxi was standing next to him, which was inappropriate. "I thought you were about my age at most..."
This guy's appearance doesn't match his age at all!
"Haha, being small is not a good thing. The shopkeeper has to ask a lot of questions when buying alcohol and cigarettes."
"Are you still smoking?" Xu Xin couldn't imagine him holding a cigarette with such a meticulous look.
"No, you haven't started working yet, right? Even if you don't smoke, you should always have two packs of cigarettes in your car. But you don't need them now." Ji Chaoyang talked about his work experience with his face that looked like a high school student.
"Wow, with this face of yours, I can't imagine that you are a seasoned veteran in the workplace..." Li Wenxi also exclaimed.
"Not really. I'm just a rookie in the workplace. I graduated at the age of 25 and have just been working for two years when I ended up in this damn place." Ji Chaoyang also sighed.
"Graduated at the age of 25, and a master's degree..." Xu Xin felt that the people around him had very high academic qualifications. Qi Xuefei, who he was going to meet later, was a doctor of medicine.
He is also highly educated and has been admitted to graduate school, but the school term has not started yet. Li Wenxi, on the other hand, can only study as an undergraduate due to his age.
Could it be that this special ability is granted based on academic qualifications? In this day and age, even survival depends on academic qualifications!
"Hmm!" Coco also greeted on the wolf's back.
"Ah, it's Coco, hello! I finally meet you! Hello too, Silver King!" Li Wenxi walked forward with surprise and picked up Coco from Silver King's back.
Keke had seen Li Wenxi in videos more than once and knew that she had a good relationship with Xu Xin, so she did not resist and let Li Wenxi pick her up.
"Wow, it's so cute. You can see it in almost every video. I've wanted to touch it for a long time." Li Wenxi gently stroked Coco's fur, touched its little ears, and pinched its big tail.
"Hmm~" Perhaps because Li Wenxi's technique was better than Xu Xin's, Coco immediately cried out in comfort.
Xu Xin looked at the little guy who was so comfortable being touched that his eyes were narrowed, and felt a little funny: "This little guy... you are the first person besides me to touch it. It didn't let anyone else touch it before."
"Hey?" Li Wenxi rubbed Coco's belly and looked at Xu Xin curiously, "Have you met other people before?"
"Ah... Yeah, I should have mentioned the survivor to the north of my tree house in the group, in Area 187."
"Oh, it's him!" Li Wenxi said suddenly.
"Well, when he wanted to touch Coco, the little guy refused. I didn't expect you to be able to do it directly."
Lou Feier had never touched Coco either. Although the Silver King allowed her to touch him, it was because they were both mutant creatures and had a contract. The Silver King would feel that she was a companion and had a natural sense of intimacy with her.
But Coco is not like that. Coco is still not shown on the map. Strictly speaking, it is still a neutral creature.
There is no mutation, no contract, Coco simply likes to follow Xu Xin. It has nothing to do with Lou Feier, so it naturally won't let Lou Feier touch it.
"Hehe, it must be because I often video chat with you. Coco is familiar with me and likes me, right, little one?" Li Wenxi rubbed Coco's little face.
"Ying~" Coco responded with a cry. It felt very comfortable being touched, and its big tail was swaying back and forth.
Ji Chaoyang stood there speechlessly: "You two have started again, are we going to stand here forever?"
"Ah!" Li Wenxi finally reacted and hugged Keke and said, "Well, do you want to go up and sit for a while?"
"Not yet." Xu Xin said, "Let me help you solve the troubles around you first. We have to meet up with Qi Xuefei later."
"Oh, okay! Wait a minute, I'll go up and put on the steel armor you gave me!" Li Wenxi handed Coco to Xu Xin and controlled the roots to come down.
"Why don't you just wear the steel armor? It's much stronger than this leather armor, right?" Xu Xin wondered.
“… I just like wearing leather armor!” Li Wenxi glared at him and was pulled into the tree house by the roots.
Xu Xin was confused and turned to ask Ji Chaoyang: "So, why do you all like to wear leather armor?"
Ji Chaoyang glanced at him and said, "I wear leather armor because I personally prefer stealth and assault. She is probably different. She wears leather armor because it looks more casual and nice."
Leather armor sets are closer fitting and show the figure better, and are not as bulky as iron armor sets.
"Hmm... ? Is that so?" Xu Xin opened his eyes, "She looks pretty good in the armor suit."
Compared with iron armor sets, steel armor sets are lighter and thinner, and look more comfortable.
"… You said this to her, what's the point of telling me?" Ji Chaoyang was speechless, then he said seriously, "But I want to ask, the steel armor she just mentioned, did you make it with steel blocks? How is the effect? Do you have the ability to mass-produce it?"
Whenever Ji Chaoyang talked about serious matters, his voice would become low.
"For mass production, there's no problem with the materials I have. It depends on her. If she has abundant iron ore resources, we can make one for each of them." Xu Xin pointed at Li Wenxi's tree house. "You guys, I don't think you've dug out any iron ore, right?"
"Well, most of the iron blocks I bought before were purchased from the trading platform."
"Most of the iron ore you purchased should also be sold by her." Xu Xin took out a steel block from his backpack and handed it to Ji Chaoyang. "This is the steel block. I happen to have one on me. I'll give it to you. You can unlock the blueprint first."
Ji Chaoyang took the steel block and looked at it.
"Both are blue-grade, but the steel armor suit increases strength by twice as much as the iron armor suit. It is silent when in action, and has higher defense. Moreover, blue-grade steel blocks are equivalent to the materials of the intermediate-level mutant beasts we have obtained. The weapons made from them are the highest-level among the same level. The same is true for purple-grade ones."
As he spoke, Xu Xin took out his halberd.
"Is this a purple-grade steel weapon?" Ji Chaoyang's eyes trembled. The three-meter-long sharp spear looked very intimidating.
"That's right, the strongest weapon among the purple level." Xu Xin walked to a tree and waved the halberd in his hand.
"Card!"
With his super strong strength today, the tree was easily cut down with just one stroke.
At the same time, Xu Xin felt a very weak warm current flowing into his body from the handle of the halberd he was holding.
Huh? Chopping down a tree with this halberd can actually absorb the tree's vitality
"This weapon is really powerful." Ji Chaoyang looked at the weapon in Xu Xin's hand with surprise in his eyes.
"It only takes two purple-level materials to make it. You should be able to do it. Have you used your core?"
"Not yet. Are there any special features of purple-level weapons compared to blue-level ones?"
"Of course."
Xu Xin squatted down and reached out to touch the cut tree trunk.
Although the tree is bare, it is actually alive and well. It is just about to enter the winter state.
After being chopped down by Xu Xin with his halberd, the tree immediately became dry and brittle. Xu Xin just squeezed it lightly with his hand, and a large piece of it broke, and there was no prompt to obtain supplies.
Although the halberd can cut down trees, the trees that have had their vitality absorbed have become waste and no wood can be obtained from them.
"…Is this tree dry?" Ji Chaoyang asked in surprise.
Facing Xu Xin, who has always been ahead of him in the rankings, Ji Chaoyang has been surprised several times today.
"This is the ability of this purple-level weapon."