Xu Xin took a bite of the fresh strawberry he had picked. It was a normal strawberry, with the tip of the strawberry very sweet, but the bottom of the strawberry had no taste.
After washing a basin of strawberries, Xu Xin ate them while contacting Qi Xuefei who wanted to collect medicinal herbs.
"I have a few snake gallbladders and deer antlers here, but they are all green grade. Do you want them?"
Qi Xuefei replied quickly: "Yes, I will exchange it with you for the green-level hemostatic grass."
"I don't need green-level hemostatic grass," Xu Xin fed Coco a strawberry, "Can you give me some of the medicine you made with these materials?"
Qi Xuefei was silent for a long time before she replied, "It's still in the testing stage. It will take some time for the finished product to be available. If you want it, I can only give it to you when the time comes."
Xu Xin didn't know if what she said was true. Did Qi Xuefei really have the ability to develop medicines? Was it just an ordinary medicine, or a medicine with entry abilities that could be recognized by the Tree House system
He thought about it and decided to invest in this woman who seemed to have medical abilities.
Anyway, these things are basically worthless in his hands and can't play any role.
"How long will it take to get the finished product?" Xu Xin asked, and put the remaining half basin of strawberries in front of Coco. Coco immediately buried her head in the basin and started eating.
"About three days later." The other party gave a deadline.
Xu Xin thought of something, narrowed his eyes, opened the trading platform to check, and then showed an expression of "as expected".
"Are you related to that organization called Xuanhu Jishi?" Xu Xin asked suddenly.
This woman was the last one to join the organization.
She joined the organization after Xu Xin fell asleep at night, and during the day when she joined, an organization called Xuanhu Jishi began to be active on the regional channel.
To this day, Xu Xin still sees Xuanhu Jishi advertising on regional channels and selling hemostatic grass (green) at high prices on trading platforms.
Xu Xin has always had a question: where did these people get so many hemostatic herbs? Don’t they know how precious hemostatic herbs are? If they sell them to others, won’t they have less for their own use
Another possibility is that they have a method to quickly grow and cultivate hemostatic grass.
This woman named Qi Xuefei had a lot of hemostatic herbs (blue) in her hands. Xu Xin didn't know how many there were, but based on Xu Xin's experience in picking hemostatic herbs (green), wild hemostatic herbs were all solitary, with only one plant in one place.
So where did she find so many blue-grade hemostatic herbs? She sold three of them to him alone.
Xu Xin just took a look at the hemostatic herbs for sale on the trading platform. In the transactions of Xuanhu Jishishi, there is basically a note: priority is given to trading materials that can be used as medicine.
It is basically the same as what Qi Xuefei just said in the group.
"I don't know what you mean." It took a long time for the other party to send this message.
"I have no ill intentions. It doesn't matter if you don't want to say it. I'll give you these materials. I hope you can give me a satisfactory result in three days." Xu Xin directly initiated the transaction.
“… Just give it to me?” The other party hesitated and didn’t click the button to agree to the transaction.
“I’m not giving it away, I’m just collecting the traded items after three days as a token of my sincerity in our cooperation.
However, you don't want to deny your debt. I think, with my reputation as the number one on both lists and a member of the strongest organization, Explorers, if I publicly announce that your organization, oh no, is a medical practitioner, and that you are dishonest in transactions and cheating on materials... I think you don't want to get into trouble."
The other party was silent for a long time again, confirmed the transaction, and replied: "I have nothing to do with Xuanhu Jishi, but I have made this deal. I will give you the result in three days."
"Okay, I'll wait for your results. If you have new materials, you can come and trade with me. I have everything from iron spears, iron swords, and iron heavy crossbows."
…
At the same time, inside a two-story tree house, a woman in a two-piece novice suit sat on the bed, looking at the contents on her watch with some confusion.
The thinness of the two-piece suit for a novice could not hide her extremely proud figure at all. Her refreshing and clean long hair was tied behind her. Her face was pretty and her clothes were very neat. She did not look like she had just experienced two days of hunting. Instead, she exuded an elegant temperament.
"As expected of someone who has won the first place in the ranking twice, it is really stressful to trade with him." The woman sighed and smiled helplessly, "It seems that he noticed what I said in the group."
Qi Xuefei's watch suddenly vibrated, and someone sent her another private message.
It’s a private message from Ji Chaoyang.
Qi Xuefei cheered up. She thought that Ji Chaoyang, who was ranked second, must have come to exchange supplies with her. She was indeed in need of materials for making medicine.
After five minutes, she was silent.
She felt that she was a little stupid for hiding herself for the past few days, and even more stupid for saying that in the group.
“… As expected of someone who has won the second place in the ranking twice.”
Unexpectedly, just one sentence made these two people realize something was wrong. Fortunately, Ji Chaoyang only came to her for cooperation and only asked casually about this matter.
"It seems there is no need to hide it. I need to discuss with Xiaoxuan how to deal with it."
…
Xu Xin sent the video directly to Li Wenxi.
It is very common for him and Li Wenxi to use video calls now. Xu Xin is not opposed to this. In this world where dangers are lurking everywhere and one can't see a single person all day long, and one has to kill people all day long, being able to chat face to face with a beautiful girl is also a kind of entertainment.
The call was connected quickly, and the video showed that she was also in the tree house.
"Congratulations, Xu Zhuangyuan, you're first again this time!" Li Wenxi was sitting at the dining table with a smile on her face. There were several plates of stir-fried dishes on the table and she was eating dinner.
"Cooking? You built a kitchen? Wouldn't it cost a lot of wood?" Xu Xin looked at the simple stir-fried meat with unknown vegetables in front of her and swallowed his saliva. After eating barbecue for so long, he really missed cooking.
"You can redeem green-grade fertilizer in the points exchange mall. It's not expensive, only 5 points for one bag. I got a 20% discount, so it's only 4 points. I used the logs I ripened before. Anyway, this fertilizer is not a scarce resource." Li Wenxi said indifferently.
What she said does make sense.
Xu Xin calculated that a kitchen would require more than a hundred logs, or about twenty trees. This was a bit too much. He only had fifty portions of green-grade fertilizer before, and using twenty portions to build a kitchen was too extravagant.
"You really know how to enjoy yourself..." Xu Xin shook his head.
"Alas, fertilizer doesn't need to be placed there, it will just gather dust. The sooner you use it, the sooner you can enjoy it." Li Wenxi picked up a piece of fried meat with chopsticks and put it in his mouth. "But without salt, the taste is a bit bland."
“… I do.”
"Oh, it would be nice if we could find a salt mine someday... What did you say!" Li Wenxi still had a piece of meat between his chopsticks, but he slammed his chopsticks on the table and stood up, and the piece of meat flew out of the camera.
Xu Xin couldn't help laughing and said, "Don't be so excited. I just discovered the salt mine as well. It just so happens that I can make a salt extractor and I'm planning to open it to all the survivors."
"Wow! That's great. I've been eating salt-free food these past few days and it's almost traumatizing me! Especially these beast meats, which are woody and fishy, and without salt, they are simply unpalatable!"
"Then trade with me? I'll trade salt for your iron, how about that?"
"No problem at all!" Li Wenxi turned sideways and pointed the camera behind him. Behind him were piles of metal blocks. "Come and clear out the inventory for me. There are too many. I have piled them all up to the second floor."
"… You can make a few backpacks to use as storage. Animal skins are so plentiful nowadays."
"… What you said makes sense! Why didn't I think of that!"