Forget it, let's not think about it for now. At least this strange thing hasn't happened to the survivors in Area 188.
"You know, Xu Xin, Zhang Daoguang has already discovered that Ma Hongwei's name has been darkened in the channel of Zone 187. He is now furious and has sent private messages to the top ten of us, asking us to find the murderer. It's so funny. Let the murderer find the murderer, haha!"
“… You guys tricked me…” Ma Hongwei said with some helplessness and frustration.
“… Just don’t let yourself get caught.” Xu Xin also smiled slightly. He was somewhat interested in Zhang Daoguang.
"Don't worry, I won't be exposed!"
"Ma Hongwei, make a few more control panels." Xu Xin said to Ma Hongwei, "And the green-level crossbows, make fifty of them first, I think the materials are enough." As he spoke, Xu Xin traded him a bunch of materials, including green-level fine wood and animal tendons.
"That's enough." Ma Hongwei nodded and said, "I'll trade it to you when I'm done."
After hanging up the call, Xu Xin thought for a moment and placed a control panel next to the tree house screen.
The control panel itself can see in all directions. If it is placed near the window, it will be vulnerable to attack while operating. It is better to place it in an inner position.
He slid open the panel, and the scenery around his tree house, as if taken from an aerial perspective, was displayed on the panel. The heavy crossbows he had placed on the tree house could already be operated through the panel.
However, the heavy crossbow on the west wall had disappeared, because his heavy crossbow was placed on the first floor, and the west side was covered by the crown of the banyan tree he had newly planted, creating new space, and the original heavy crossbow disappeared directly.
Xu Xin tried to control the heavy crossbow to attack a tree a hundred meters away.
Immediately, the sound of a heavy crossbow firing was heard from outside the tree house. Then, with a loud "click", the tree he had clicked on the control panel had been accurately hit by the heavy crossbow and broken directly.
"Hmm!?" Coco, who was sitting on the sofa, was awakened by the sudden sound outside the tree house and jumped up from the sofa.
Yin Wang and Mimi also stood up vigilantly, only Ah Fu turned his head, looked out the window, and then continued to hang on the windowsill.
Xu Xin calmed them down and then looked at the control panel again.
"This thing is really amazing." Xu Xin exclaimed.
Although he had seen such operation by Qi Xuefei, it was the first time for him to operate it himself. It felt extremely smooth and it was a tool that made him feel safe.
The attack range of the heavy crossbow controlled by this panel is not determined by the panel, but by the heavy crossbow itself.
His tree house is equipped with heavy crossbows of different levels. Clicking on the green-level heavy crossbow or the blue-level heavy crossbow will show a faint red circle indicating the shooting range. The shooting distance of the blue-level heavy crossbow is obviously about twice that of the green-level heavy crossbow.
It seems that even for a repeating crossbow with explosive loading, the blue grade is stronger than the green grade because it can hit farther.
As for the blue-level heavy crossbow, Ma Hongwei can only make blue-level wooden heavy crossbows now, which requires blue-level fine wood. This thing needs to be planted by oneself. Although there are many seeds and many people can plant and obtain them by themselves, not many people use blue-level soil to plant birch trees, so blue-level fine wood is in short supply.
But once he develops a blue-grade iron or even steel heavy crossbow, that will be easy. Although blue-grade iron ore and steel blocks are much harder to obtain than blue-grade fine wood for others, they are not short of them. With Li Wenxi and him, such resources are very abundant.
Now, let Ma Hongwei make some green-level heavy crossbows.
There are still two in hand, and Xu Xin first traded one to Ji Chaoyang and Li Wenxi.
Ji Chaoyang immediately agreed to the deal.
Li Wenxi was still outside and unable to complete the transaction, but she immediately sent a voice message to Xu Xin.
"Can this control panel be mass-produced?" Li Wenxi asked with some surprise.
Her voice echoed, and it was obvious that she was in the mine. If she wasn't in the mine, she would definitely send a video instead of a voice message.
Xu Xin told her that it was not enough and he could only supply the explorers first.
"Logs? It seems that Zhao Xiaochuan has a planting house. Why not let him plant blue-level logs?" Li Wenxi suggested.
"No, the pine tree is nearly ten meters tall and cannot be planted inside the house. It can only be planted outside. There is no use in planting it in a house." Xu Xin shook his head.
Li Wenxi doesn't have a farm, he just grows some vegetables and fruits, so it's normal that he didn't think of this.
"Yes. Then this control panel can only be used as a high-end weapon equipment."
"By the way, you should dig up more saltpeter today. We are going to start making explosive crossbows in large quantities. Do you have enough saltpeter in your mine?"
"Don't worry about the reserves. Don't worry, there are plenty. It won't be a problem to supply our entire region!" Li Wenxi assured.
"Won't you be exhausted to death if you supply the entire district?" Xu Xin joked.
"Ah? You really want to supply the whole district..." Li Wenxi's tone suddenly became a little weak, "Don't do that, you're really going to tire me to death..."
"Well... just pick as much as you can today. I'll send you another worker this afternoon, and I'll ask Lou Fei'er to help you, too."
Xu Xin was naturally talking about Le Youfang. Le Youfang should not have any special abilities. Xu Xin did not intend to transplant his tree house here. It would be just right to send it to Li Wenxi for mining.
Moreover, since we already know that there will be a crisis tomorrow, we must naturally prepare sufficient explosive crossbows, weapons that can exert considerable power in anyone's hands.
"Is it so urgent? Um... how about you come over and help?" Li Wenxi didn't know there would be a beast tide tomorrow, so she was relatively relaxed. She wanted to be with Xu Xin so that she could feel more relaxed.
"I'd love to see you too, but I have other things to do today."
Xu Xin was just about to tell her what would happen tomorrow, and Ji Chaoyang told everyone in the explorer group and the regional channel what might happen the next day.
Li Wenxi also noticed it and immediately exclaimed: "Oh my God, there will be a beast tide tomorrow?! You already knew about it?"
"Well, so come on, your saltpeter mine is very important and is related to the survival rate of our area."
"I'm going to collect saltpeter right now, and I'll take Yajun with me! You should do your best too!"
"good."
After the call was disconnected, Ma Hongwei had already traded ten control panels and fifty heavy crossbows to him directly.
At the same time, Xu Xin heard Lou Feier's screams under the tree house.
"Xu Xin, are you there? Let me go up for a moment!"
Xu Xin controlled the roots of the tree house and pulled her up.
"What are you doing here? Didn't I ask you to go find Le Youfang?"
"That's why I came here... Well, can you lend me your Silver King for a while?" Lou Feier glanced at the Silver King who was resting in the corner and asked tentatively.
If the Silver King could take her there, she wouldn't have to run more than ten kilometers by herself.
"Silver King, is it okay?" Xu Xin also wanted Lou Feier to finish quickly and go help Li Wenxi mine together, so he looked at Silver King and said.
"Ouch!" The Silver King stood up.
"Great!" Lou Feier ran to the Silver King and touched its head.
"Take Silver King with you and come back within an hour." Xu Xin gave Lou Feier a time limit. After all, he still needed Silver King to take him to the border of the reserve to kill vines today.
The raw materials for explosives, in addition to saltpeter, also include the juice of mutant vines. He needs to go to the edge of the safe zone to kill the vines and collect some juice, while also getting more points.
Points can be exchanged for blue-level fertilizers, which can help grow blue-level pine trees and obtain blue-level logs. Kill two birds with one stone.
"No problem!" Lou Feier was very confident and took the Silver King downstairs.
"You..." Seeing that Lou Feier had already gotten down from the tree house, Xu Xin stopped talking about what he was about to say.
I was just about to remind her to hold on tight. She hadn’t signed a mount contract with the Silver King. If she didn’t hold on tight...
"Wow! It hurts, it hurts... Silver King, please slow down!"
Sure enough, he fell down.
Xu Xin shook his head and ignored her.
He traded a control panel and four Tree House Crossbows to each of the explorers.
As for why there are four, it’s because the tree house has four sides in total, and each side may be attacked, so of course four are needed.
Both the Explorer and the regional channels became extremely lively because of Ji Chaoyang's words.
Wang Lei: "A tide of mutant creatures sounds terrifying!"
Wen Guixin: "If an enemy comes, we will stop him. If a flood comes, we will block it with earth. What is there to be afraid of?"
Qin Yunlong: "... We don't have the same fighting power as you. So, what exactly are your abilities? Can you tell me now?"
Qi Xuefei: "I hope those beasts won't attack the tree house. But you've been seeing each other for so long, don't you know Gui Xin's abilities?"
Qin Yunhu: "She can defeat other survivors with just her fists and feet."
Wen Guixin: "... My ability is not very good, it's quite complicated, and I can't help you with anything, so let's not talk about it for now..."
Zhao Xiaochuan: "Brother Xin sent a bunch of stuff! A control panel and a tree house crossbow?!"
Xu Xin introduced the functions to them and told them that they now needed to mass-produce explosive crossbows, so they needed the juice of plant vines.
Wen Guixin: "I'll go collect the vine juice!"
Li Wenxi: "Leave the saltpeter to me. Ah! The hundredfold explosion rate is coming again!"
Wang Lei: "Hundred times the explosion rate? What does that mean? Hundred times?!"
The four people that Xu Xin had already met did not explain his abilities in detail to them.
Xu Xin: "Let's prepare for tomorrow's work first. Tonight, we explorers will have a meeting to describe our respective abilities and discuss our respective positions. There's no point in hiding things like this."
Wen Guixin: "Okay..."
Zhao Xiaochuan: "Do you want to know what Brother Xin and Brother Chaoyang are capable of? Exciting!"
On the regional channel side, everyone had lost their previous calmness and composure, and a sense of urgency permeated the entire regional channel.
"I just bought another twenty pieces of tree house armor! If I can't beat them, I can just use the armor to stack defense and hold on!"
"Good idea, I'll do that too!"
"Old men, I have some green-level fine wood and animal tendons. Who should I trade them to?"
Just now, Ji Chaoyang told everyone in the regional channel that he would send them a new type of heavy crossbow, but it required fine wood and animal tendons, and he asked everyone to collect these materials.
Xu Xin immediately said on the regional channel: "Send the fine wood and animal tendons to a man named Ma Hongwei."
His words were immediately repeated by many survivors and flooded the screen.
Xu Xin immediately contacted Ma Hongwei and asked him to receive the resources and then make and put the repeating crossbows on the shelves, with a limit of two per person.
Soon, the Tree House Crossbow began to be available for purchase, and could be obtained with normal green-level resources.
Now, the big bosses of this group of explorers do not lack any resources, and the people below them are unlikely to have more precious resources than them. They cannot get anything good from them, so there is no need to sell at a high price.
Otherwise, if they are drained of their resources, explorers will still need their help, which is really unnecessary.
Xu Xin also installed several crossbows in his tree house, especially on the wall of the new banyan tree house. At the same time, he also equipped the trunks of the new banyan trees with armor.
Although this is within the protection range of the plant heart, it is still necessary to assemble it properly.
He equipped the crossbow with an explosive crossbow weapon and shot at the open space next to the tree house.
“BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!”
Five shots were fired in quick succession, creating a dent in the entire ground.
Very good, very useful!
"Oh oh!" Coco was shaken awake from the sofa again. This time it couldn't sleep, so it ran to Xu Xin.
Xu Xin touched Coco's head and took Coco down from the tree house.
"My beloved, we're going to dig coal!" Xu Xin shouted at the entrance of his beloved's cave.
The beloved concubine uttered a clear cry and crawled out of the hole in the ground.
"Dig more." Xu Xin instructed his beloved concubine, and then took Coco to the place that he had been keeping secret recently.
It is the edge of this bottomless lake.
"Coco, is there still danger in the lake now?" Xu Xin asked, touching Coco's big tail in his arms.
"Hmm." Coco shook its little head, indicating that it didn't feel any danger now.
There is no danger in the lake anymore.
Xu Xin took a deep breath.
Now that the Silver King has been taken away by Lou Feier, he can't go to the border to kill the vines. Besides, there are other explorers collecting vine juice together, so there is no need to rush.
It's time to go down and take a look.
There is a high possibility that a beast tide will strike tomorrow, and by then, the giant anaconda will most likely return. Now is the last chance.
Go and see what that green mineral is!