Just as he turned around, he discovered a faint blue light emanating from not far away in another direction.
There are blue-level resources over there.
He looked around and found that there were no wild animals nearby, so he walked over.
It turned out to be a blue-grade poplar tree.
"What a great harvest! The blue-grade wood is almost used up." Xu Xin happily cut down the poplar tree.
After collecting the newly cut wood (blue), Xu Xin looked in the direction of the stone pillars he had seen before. Although his view over there was blocked by the dense jungle, he could still see dots of blue light mixed in with the green light.
"Let's not go today. It's more important to go back and make the crossbow and heavy crossbow first." Xu Xin took a look at the pile of materials in his backpack and decided to return.
This resource area is surrounded by a circle of hills, but there is also a ground exit between two hills.
Xu Xin glanced at the nearest exit. The map was covered with red dots, which should be where the wild boars lived.
Forget it, he still has to climb over the mountain. He doesn’t want to face a group of wild boars.
There weren't many wild animals on the hills. Because it was not within the resource area, there were only a few scattered green spots on the entire hill, and Xu Xin picked up the few green resources that could be picked.
Back to the top of the hill, Xu Xin looked towards the stone pillar again.
"Huh? Has the statue changed?" Xu Xin frowned, a little confused.
Although he couldn't see clearly what the statue was, its shape seemed to have changed.
Xu Xin was very curious, but he suppressed his restless heart and chose to leave. The black bear cave only emitted green light, which meant there was a black bear living there. The place that emitted blue light must be much more dangerous than the black bear cave.
Let's update our equipment first.
"Oh, it would be great if I could contract a mount." Xu Xin sighed as he looked at the long journey home.
Coco still lay comfortably on his shoulder.
"Can you ride it when you grow up?" Xu Xin rubbed the little guy's head.
"Hmm?" Coco was confused. It could only be this big
After nearly an hour's long journey, Xu Xin finally returned to the tree house. It was already afternoon, and Xu Xin was a little hungry.
When he came to the synthesis table, he first looked for tools that could extract salt.
As he expected, Xu Xin found an iron tool in the production list.
Salt distillation extractor (green): Add salt crystals and water, add fuel at the bottom, and you can get pure salt. Requires iron block (green) *2, wood (green) *5
"It feels comfortable." Xu Xin immediately made the extractor.
This is an iron tool, which is unlocked after Xu Xin obtains the golden treasure chest. Currently, only he and Ji Chaoyang can make it. In other words, even if others find the salt mine, they cannot make an extractor and cannot obtain fine table salt.
Of course, it is not ruled out that some people will use their own methods to purify salt.
Xu Xin put salt crystals and water into the extractor, and added a few pieces of white wood, letting the extractor work. He took this time to make a blue-grade backpack.
Excellent Backpack (Blue): A backpack with 20 slots. The amount of supplies that can be placed in each slot is determined by the type of supplies, and the weight of the supplies can be reduced to 10% of the original weight.
It has ten more slots than the green-level backpack and its weight is reduced by half! This way Xu Xin can carry more things.
Continuing to work, Xu Xin also had to make both the crossbow and the heavy crossbow.
The materials required for a crossbow and a bow are similar.
Crossbow (green): The arrowhead is made of iron, the arrow body is made of wood, and it is equipped with feathers. It is a very standard crossbow, and it strikes accurately! It can be recycled. Crossbow (green) *20 requires Iron Block (green) *2, Wood (white) *2, Feather (green) *2
Crossbows also need feathers, and he only has four owl feathers picked up after the beast riot, so he can only make 40 crossbows. But since it can be recycled, it is enough for the time being.
Xu Xin used wood (green) to make the crossbow, which should allow the crossbow to be recycled more times.
With a quick glance, he saw another crossbow that he could make.
Poison Crossbow (Green): Poison Crossbow is obtained by poisoning Crossbow. The poison can kill small beasts. It can be recycled and becomes a normal Crossbow. Poison Crossbow (Green)*20 requires Crossbow (Green)*20, Poison Sac (Green)*1
One poison sac can poison 20 crossbows!
Xu Xin immediately made 20 poison crossbows. The arrows of the poison crossbows were covered with a layer of light green, which was easy to distinguish from ordinary crossbows. In this way, he had 20 ordinary crossbows and 20 poison crossbows.
A crossbow requires 5 pieces of wood (green), 2 pieces of iron (green), and 1 piece of animal tendon (green). According to Xu Xin's experience, blue-level tools require a blue-level main material. He does not have a blue-level animal tendon, so he can only make a green-level crossbow first.
Although it is a green-level crossbow, it still feels heavy in the hand.
"Finally, I have a long-range attack method!" Xu Xin exclaimed. He tried to attach an ordinary crossbow to the crossbow, but it took him a lot of effort to attach it.
"This shouldn't be the way to string the crossbow, right?" Xu Xin observed carefully and found that there was a place on the front of the crossbow that could be stepped on. He took off the crossbow bolt and tried to put the front of the crossbow on the ground, stepped on it, and pulled the string upward. This time, it was easier to load a crossbow bolt than to load it directly.
"It turns out that you can wind the string with your foot. Winding it is so difficult, no wonder it is so powerful."
Xu Xin walked to the window, aimed at the poplar tree trunk outside, and pulled the trigger.
“Whoosh!” “Cut!”
The crossbow hit the place he wanted to shoot accurately, and the entire crossbow was halfway embedded in the tree trunk, and the tail was still trembling slightly.
"Powerful!" Xu Xin was very satisfied with the power of the crossbow. He went down to collect the arrows that had been shot out, and then used the crafting table to make a small wooden quiver. The quiver could hold 100 arrows, and Xu Xin put all the arrows in it and hung it aside.
Next is the heavy crossbow installed outside the tree house. The heavy crossbow is made directly in the tree house's production list. Xu Xin clicks on the tree house transformation option on the screen. At this time, the new heavy crossbow has appeared in the list.
Iron Automatic Heavy Crossbow (Green): Iron automatic heavy crossbow, can automatically attack enemy units, more powerful, longer range. Can load five rounds at a time. Requires fine wood (green) * 10, iron block (green) * 5, animal tendon (green) * 2
Heavy Crossbow Iron Arrow (Green): Heavy and sharp iron crossbow arrow, can pierce the body of a beast with its own weight. Recyclable, requires fine wood (green) *2, iron block (green) *1
Compared with the previous wooden weapons, iron weapons are obviously stronger, so Xu Xin chose to make an iron heavy crossbow without hesitation.
Please select the location of the heavy crossbow
A diagram of a tree house appeared on the screen, and the heavy crossbow could be mounted on the wall inside the canopy.
"Can't it be installed below? The blind spot is too big if it is installed on the wall." Xu Xin said to himself. He had to choose the first floor. After all, the first floor was high enough. If it was farther from the ground, he was afraid that the accuracy would be affected.
There was a "click" sound coming from downstairs, which should mean that the heavy crossbow had been assembled. Xu Xin made five more heavy crossbow iron arrows and went downstairs.
A small window appeared on the inner wall where the heavy crossbow was located. There was a small round hole under the window, which looked slightly thicker than the iron arrow of the heavy crossbow. There was also a simple joystick next to the round hole.
Xu Xin looked out the window and saw a heavy crossbow that was about two meters long and wide installed just below the window. The main body of the giant crossbow was made of wood, and the important parts were made of iron. It looked very lethal and gave people a sense of safety.
Xu Xin looked at the small hole under the window: "This should be the place where the arrows were assembled, right?"
Xu Xin pointed the iron arrow of the heavy crossbow in his hand towards the cave entrance. There was great resistance, so he increased his strength. When the iron arrow was completely immersed in the cave entrance, a sound of a crossbow being strung was heard from the crossbow outside.
Xu Xin looked at the cave entrance. It was empty and should be able to continue filling it.
The automatic heavy crossbow can be loaded with five arrows at a time. Xu Xin pushed all five heavy crossbow arrows in his hand into the hole. After the last arrow was pushed in, the tail of the arrow could still be seen from the hole, which meant that it could no longer be loaded.
"How do I make it fire? With this joystick?" Xu Xin held the joystick.
Heavy crossbow joystick: controls the direction of the heavy crossbow, pulls it outwards to fire, presses it inwards to enter automatic mode.
Its item identification function is very considerate.
Xu Xin operated the heavy crossbow and pulled it towards a white-grade poplar tree outside.
The heavy iron crossbow arrow shot out rapidly, accurately towards the place he aimed at. With a loud "kacha" sound, the crossbow arrow directly penetrated the trunk of the poplar tree, shooting through the poplar tree. Then the entire trunk of the poplar tree broke apart and fell to the ground, turning into several pieces of wood.
"It's powerful! With this killing power, most wild animals won't be able to withstand it if they can hit the target!"
However, there is a problem with this heavy crossbow. Since it has been assembled and cannot be moved, its range is only in this direction. Other directions and the position inside the tree house are not within the range.
If we want to solve this problem, we can only wait until more heavy crossbows are made in the future.
He went down to retrieve the heavy crossbow arrows and put them back into the heavy crossbow. He did not set the heavy crossbow to automatic attack mode. If a few small wild beasts came, it would automatically attack. Wouldn't that be a waste of the crossbow
Back on the third floor, the fine salt had already precipitated out. Xu Xin took a little and tasted it. The taste was no different from packaged salt.
“Eat, eat!”
"Hmm!" Coco, who was dozing off nearby, perked up when she heard about the meal and ran over immediately.
"You little guy." Xu Xin stuffed an apple into the dog's hand, and Coco held the apple and started to eat it.
Xu Xin couldn't wait any longer, so he cut off a small piece of the remaining bear meat and put the rest in five-kilogram portions on the trading platform. After all, it had been more than two days and would go bad if left any longer.
Xu Xin hung the snake gall on the window of the tree house, took out the snake meat, cut off a few pounds, paired it with bear meat, lotus root and mushrooms, sprinkled with fine salt and started to grill.
Before long, the sizzling sound of the oil and the strong aroma of meat made Coco, who didn't like meat very much, stop chewing her apple and said, "Hmm?"
"Do you want to eat?" Xu Xin asked Coco with a smile.
"Ying!" Coco was interested in meat for the first time.
After giving some of the roasted meat to Coco, Xu Xin couldn't wait to take a bite.
"Emm, this is so comfortable~" Xu Xin felt that his whole body was sublimated. The salt made the taste of the barbecue completely enhanced. This is the real barbecue! He never wanted to live without salt again!
Coco was also biting the barbecue with her little mouth, making whimpering sounds from time to time, and she seemed very satisfied with the taste of the barbecue.
"We have salt, meat, and vegetables. Next time, we need to look for staple crops like rice and wheat, and other seasonings like peppers." After eating his fill, Xu Xin licked his lips. While others were still worrying about survival, he had already begun to pursue the quality of food.