Xu Xin didn't pay attention to Ji Chaoyang's first sentence, but his eyes lit up when he heard the second sentence.
"I almost forgot. Coco was attracted by the big red berries in her pocket. Naturally, those beasts would also be interested in the blue-grade fruits."
Xu Xin thought about it and decided to release some information in the group.
“Blue-grade fruits will not attract the attention of wild beasts before they are picked. Only after we survivors pick them will they have quality and appeal. You don’t have to worry about blue-grade ingredients being eaten by wild beasts, but you must be careful when picking them in the wild and put them in your backpack as soon as possible, otherwise you will attract powerful wild beasts.
Of course, you can also judge whether the fruit is blue grade by the reactions of the surrounding beasts."
Ji Chaoyang also popped his head up: "I really don't know this, but now that you mention it, I remember another piece of information. The carcass of the beast must be cut with the boning knife made in the tree house. I tried to cut it myself yesterday, but the meat and skin I cut off were not of grade.
Animal skins cannot be used to make backpacks and armor, and the cut meat cannot be traded on the trading platform. It is just ordinary meat and skins. The meat does not affect your own consumption, and although the skins can be used to make an animal skin backpack, it does not have the storage and weight reduction functions of the tree house backpack.
So everyone, don’t choose to cut it yourself just because you’re missing something with a boning knife, because what you cut out will be useless.”
"Oh?" Xu Xin narrowed his eyes and began to think.
He remembered the introduction of the blue-grade boning knife.
Boning Knife (Blue): An exquisite little knife that can quickly decompose the corpses of wild animals, with a chance of obtaining blue-level and lower materials.
Using this boning knife, there is a chance to obtain blue-level materials. In other words, the reason for obtaining blue-level materials is not the original level of the beast's corpse, but because of this knife.
This also explains why the 200-kilogram wild boar that Xu Xin hunted with great effort did not produce any blue materials, but the poisonous snake that he stepped on to death produced some.
The beast's corpse affects what kind of materials it produces, and the level of the boning knife affects the level of the materials. Perhaps the corpse of a powerful beast is more likely to produce high-level materials.
The reason may be similar to what Xu Xin had previously speculated about why red berries do not attract wild animals before they are picked.
These so-called attributes are bestowed by this survival game. The original beasts have no levels, and he cannot use his abilities to see the green, blue, and purple lights on the beasts. He can only see red dots of different brightness using the map.
The boning knife gives these materials cut from wild animals a property that allows them to be used in the manufacture of tree houses.
This conjecture further proves that these so-called green, blue and purple resource levels are not something that this world originally possesses, but are given by this survival game.
There is a mysterious big hand controlling this world and these alien survivors.
Shaking his head, Xu Xin suppressed these thoughts in his heart. Now is not the time to think about these.
He sent a private message to Ji Chaoyang: "Did you find any strange buildings when you were hunting yesterday?"
Ji Chaoyang replied after a while: "Indeed, there are several stone pillars where the beasts gather. They are too far away for me to see clearly. They feel a bit like an altar or something like that."
Altar? Xu Xin thought about it. Judging from their positions, the exposed stone pillars could indeed be seen as the four vertices of a square, just like the four corners of an altar.
"Yeah, it's the same as what I saw. I plan to go check it out today."
"Be careful, the beasts around here are tough and thick-skinned. We can't deal with them right now."
"good."
After hanging up the call, Xu Xin turned around to look at Yin Wang and Coco. The two guys had become familiar with each other. Yin Wang was lying on the ground, while Coco was lying on the back of Yin Wang's neck, grabbing the wolf's fur with her little paws and burying her head in the fur. She looked very comfortable.
"Okay, we're going out to hunt the beast."
Xu Xin checked the map and found that there were many red dots around the tree house. The brightest one was about the same brightness as a black bear. There were no groups of wild beasts, and the wolf pack had already gone far away.
After loading a normal crossbow bolt, Xu Xin went to the first floor and turned on the automatic shooting mode of the heavy crossbow. Maybe he would get something unexpected when he came back.
Xu Xin brought Yin Wang and Coco to the ground.
It was Xu Xin’s first time riding a wolf and he was a little excited.
As if he had sensed Xu Xin's intention, the Silver King simply leaned forward.
"Quite well behaved." Xu Xin touched the Silver King's head and directly mounted on the wolf's back.
After Xu Xin sat firmly, Silver King stood up. Xu Xin clamped the wolf's body with his legs and grabbed the fur on the wolf's back with both hands, feeling a little nervous.
He had been to the grasslands of Inner Mongolia and rode the horses trained there for entertainment. He held the reins tightly with both hands and was led by the horse to run several laps around the racecourse. After getting off the horse, both arms were weak, so he didn't dare to let Silver King run casually.
It is impossible for an untrained person to ride a horse directly.
Coco also climbed onto his shoulders at this time.
Xu Xin let the Silver King run two steps. He was surprised to find that although there was no saddle-like device installed, he seemed to have merged with the Silver King and was so relaxed that he would not be thrown off even without holding the wolf's hair with his hands.
It seems that this is the ability of the contract.
Convenient ability.
"Silver King, run in that direction." Xu Xin pointed to Silver King in a direction. There were a few darker red dots over there. Xu Xin planned to try the crossbow in his hand.
The Silver King let out a wolf howl and quickly ran towards the direction Xu Xin pointed.
"Oh! Haha!" Xu Xin experienced the thrill of riding the Wolf King through the forest. Every time he felt that he would hit the poplar tree in front, but the Silver King could always avoid it skillfully without slowing down. It was really exciting.
"Oh, oh, oh!" Coco also seemed quite excited. It probably had never experienced such a speed before, and it kept calling in the oncoming wind.
"Stop!" Seeing that the red dots on the map were very close, Xu Xin called Silver King to stop.
Silver King braked suddenly, but Xu Xin didn't feel anything, but Coco on his shoulder almost flew out.
"Bing!" Coco jumped onto the Silver King's head and stepped on it.
"Oh?"
"You two, be quiet!" Xu Xin shouted in a low voice, and the two guys finally quieted down.
Xu Xin had already seen those wild animals. They were not dangerous animals, but some sika deer. They were far away and were not noticed by the sika deer.
Xu Xin did not ride the wolf forward because he knew that wolves usually could not outrun deer, let alone carry him.
After thinking for a while, Xu Xin rolled off the Silver King and replaced the poison arrow with the crossbow.
He wanted to try the effect of poison arrows, which were said to be able to kill small wild animals. So, does a sika deer count as a small wild animal
He aimed at the body of a sika deer, steadied his hands, and shot an arrow.
"Swoosh!" The crossbow arrow accurately hit the body of a deer and penetrated half of it. The injured deer jumped up with a scream, and several sika deer that were grazing fled.
Xu Xin immediately loaded another ordinary arrow and shot at a fleeing deer.
However, he missed the shot because the deer was too fast and disappeared into the jungle.
Xu Xin shook his head helplessly. His crossbow skills still needed to be improved.
The sika deer that was shot by his poison arrow only fled a few meters before falling stiffly to the ground, twitching continuously.
Xu Xin walked forward, and the twitching of the sika deer on the ground gradually became smaller and smaller, and finally stopped moving.
Hunting sika deer, earning points: 10 points.