Chapter 9 Rice and Springs

"Blood Essence" can be obtained through other channels, so there is no need to choose "Beast Hunting Flower".

The remaining three items are also difficult to choose.

"Winter Warm Summer Cool Tree" is very effective and is very helpful for the recent cold wave.

Sunflowers are also very good, almost ensuring the healthy growth of all other plants.

"Crystal Rice" is not to mention a long-term food source and can also improve physical fitness.

After a long struggle, Qi Yuan gritted his teeth and chose "Crystal Rice".

Qi Yuan must consider what to do if there is no food in the future!

"Crystal Rice" is definitely the most secure!

As the plant items are selected, five natural items appear.

They are also excellent levels.

[Micro Fire Copper Mine]: A copper mine with temperature and easy to shape. 5 square meters in size, automatically restores 5% fire copper every day.

[Micro Spirit Mine]: Contains a small amount of spirit stone ore, about 500 pieces.

[Hot Spring Pool]: A hot spring rich in minerals.

[Spring Eye]: 500 ml of energy-rich spring water is produced every day, which has certain effects of conditioning the body, sterilizing and disinfecting, and cleaning the body.

One drop of "water milk" rich in energy is produced every seven days.

[Black Soil]: Soil rich in vitality, moderately improves the growth efficiency of plants. (Need to supplement nutrition, otherwise it will degenerate into ordinary soil.)

This time it is easier to choose.

First of all, hot springs are excluded!

I don't know fire copper and spiritual ore, so exclude them!

Then just choose between "Qingling Spring Eye" and "Black Soil".

After some ideological struggle, Qi Yuan finally chose "Spring Eye".

Obtaining a stable, high-quality and long-term water source has always been what Qi Yuan hopes for.

After the choice was made, the stone pillar in front of him disappeared.

"Crystal Rice" and "Spring Eye" turned into light balls in Qi Yuan's hands.

Qi Yuan licked his lips with satisfaction, and looked at the two light balls in his hands with fiery eyes.

Today's harvest has far exceeded imagination.

Completely laid the foundation for the early advantage!

...

Qi Yuan did not rush out to dig stones. Instead, he returned home first.

There are still many things to do in the shelter.

For example, fences should be built, crystal rice should be planted, thorns and springs should be placed.

After returning, Qi Yuan first arranged the fence.

The wooden house is a 5×6 rectangle with the door facing south.

Qi Yuan surrounded a long strip on the side with the door, similar to a corridor.

The length is the same as the house, both are six meters, the width is about 1.66 meters, and the height of the fence is 0.6 meters.

In this way, you can enter the fence as soon as you go out, and it is also convenient to go to the fence space at night.

The spring covers an area of ​​0.25 square meters and is relatively small.

Qi Yuan also placed the spring in the open space surrounded by the fence.

The gurgling spring flows in the small pond, making a pleasant sound of water.

There is spring water in the spring, but it produces 500ml of spring water every day. If it is used beyond the standard, it will affect the output in the future, or even dry up completely.

At present, the spring is not full of water. It will take until the evening to have 500ml of spring water.

Then Qi Yuan moved the guardian thorn out and planted it next to the fence just outside.

At present, there is only one thorn, so it can't play a role.

Qi Yuan didn't have many plants around him, so he could only pull up a bunch of grass and put it at the root of the thorn to barely keep it alive.

Qi Yuan didn't plan to plant the crystal rice outside.

Instead, he put it in the flowerbed in the house and waited for it to germinate and grow completely before moving it out.

The crystal rice Qi Yuan obtained was a complete and mature rice.

It was full of dozens of crystal clear rice grains, each of which was half the size of a fist.

Qi Yuan counted carefully and there were 33 rice grains in total.

In the case of unsuccessful planting, Qi Yuan was naturally reluctant to eat it.

At least he had to wait until he could harvest it smoothly before eating it.

He dug a pile of soil on the grass outside and filled the flowerbed.

There was no other way. At present, he could only use the most ordinary soil.

This reminded Qi Yuan of the black soil in the secret realm, and he couldn't help but feel envious.

It would be great if he could get all of it!

Qi Yuan picked all the crystal rice, took out five and planted them in the flowerbed, and then watered them.

Qi Yuan didn't dare to use river water for irrigation, so he generously used mineral water.

The flowerbed was 1 meter long and 0.5 meters wide.

So Qi Yuan arranged the five seeds in a long row.

After taking care of everything, looking at the completely new wooden house, Qi Yuan expressed great satisfaction.

...

Half an hour of daytime had passed, and it was time to go out to work.

Qi Yuan didn't plan to cut down trees, one reason was that stone axes were less efficient.

Second, stones were more valuable.

At present, a large number of people did not have drafts, so stones were more valuable.

You can trade stones for more wood in the trading market.

Qi Yuan planned to dig stones for four hours today, and then explore the west and south of the shelter.

It is still very necessary to understand the situation around the shelter.

…

“Ding, ding, ding”

The pleasant sound of the pickaxe hitting the stone came from the north of the shelter.

Four hours later.

Qi Yuan sat next to a pile of stones, sweating profusely, panting.

In four hours, a total of 186 stones were mined.

This time, Qi Yuan also brought an empty resource box to carry the stones.

“Hey, it would be great if there was a small cart! It would be much easier to carry!”

Qi Yuan looked at the pile of stones behind him, feeling both happy and desperate.

Thinking about moving 186 stones back, he felt a pain in his waist and back.

Considering that there was not much time left in the day.

Qi Yuan forced himself to support his tired body and began to move.

It took nearly half an hour to finally move all the stones back home.

This time, the stones were not placed in the wooden house, but in the fence outside.

In the current fence.

On the far left is the spring, and on the far right is the thorn.

In the middle are the piled stones.

All are placed next to the wall of the shelter, leaving a walkway outside.

Qi Yuan looked at the spring and found that the spring water had increased a lot.

He checked the crystal rice and thorns, and they were healthy and there was no major change.

Without wasting time, Qi Yuan walked to the west.

After upgrading to the second-level shelter, the fog-free area expanded to 500 meters, and the mist area expanded to 5 kilometers.

Qi Yuan still did not plan to go deep into the mist area.

At most, he explored within two or three thousand meters.

Qi Yuan walked in the misty area in the west for more than ten minutes and found nothing.

All along the way, there were messy grasslands.

And the soil nearby did not look fertile.

Although it was full of weeds, it looked withered and yellow.

At first glance, there was a feeling of desolation and ruin.

Fortunately, the sunlight gave this land great warmth.

Qi Yuan walked counterclockwise around the wooden house to the south.

When he walked to the southwest, Qi Yuan saw several berries.

Red berries the size of fingernails hung on the branches.

After Qi Yuan walked in and picked the berries, the berry information appeared.

[Name: Berries (Ordinary)

Function: Quench thirst and hunger to a small extent.

Introduction: If there is really no food, just make do with it! ]

This is just a very ordinary food, but Qi Yuan does not dislike it.

Pick all the ripe and complete berries.

It shows a total of 521 grams, a very loving number.

Putting the berries in his pocket, Qi Yuan tightened his clothes and walked quickly towards the south.

Trees began to appear in the south, and the weeds on the ground became more vigorous.

If there is a water source nearby, it is most likely to be in the east and south.

The most likely is the south!

The trees in the east are still relatively sparse and cannot form a forest.

Now the trees in the south are growing much more vigorously.

And there are many other types of plants.

The forest in the south is about 600 meters away from the shelter cabin, just in the mist area.

Qi Yuan did not go in, but just looked at the periphery, and heard the sound of animals coming from inside.

The clear bird calls and the rustling sounds of activities indicate the vigorous vitality of this forest.

Qi Yuan couldn't help but sigh, if it were closer to the cabin.

Guardian Thorn doesn't have to worry about nutrients.

Now it is not enough to just "eat" grass. Sooner or later, you have to collect some nutritious plants to feed the thorns.

Looking at this forest, Qi Yuan is quite satisfied.

But the overall view is still quite disappointing.

There are only stones and trees around the wooden house.

There are no other more precious resources.

Even food only found 500g of berries.

If there were no task rewards and food obtained from resource boxes.

Qi Yuan would probably spend a lot of time and resources for food.

The overall development trend would also be greatly slowed down.

Qi Yuan took out the "Mist Survival Manual" and found that there was only one hour left.

Qi Yuan planned to cut some trees, not mainly for wood, but to collect some tree roots.

Tree roots are essential materials for making healing potions.

Moreover, since tree roots can be used to make life potions, they must be rich in life energy.

They must also be useful for protecting the growth of thorns.

Qi Yuan mined in the nearby southern woods.

Because it was not for obtaining wood, Qi Yuan tried to find smaller trees, which was much more efficient.

After cutting off the trunk, dig out the remaining roots.

Since there is no shovel tool, the iron pickaxe can only be used as a substitute, which reduces the efficiency.

After the roots are roughly dug out, a small green rhizome will appear on the ground, and it is not necessary to really dig out the complete root.

The size is only the size of a finger.

It took 40 minutes, and Qi Yuan dug out a total of 5 roots and 23 wood.

Because the selected trees are very small, the wood harvest is relatively small.

With the last ten minutes left, Qi Yuan loaded the roots and wood and hurried back to the cabin.

The sky darkened quickly, and the sunlight dissipated quickly in ten minutes.

Thick clouds filled the sky, and the fog gradually thickened, filling every corner of the foggy world.

The survivors returned to the shelter cabin one after another!

Other mysterious and ferocious creatures began to occupy this land.

Qi Yuan ran all the way back to the cabin, and the distance of more than 600 meters was soon reached.

…

Put the wood in the fence outside the door and pile it with the stones.

As the sky darkened, the candlelight in the wooden house seemed to become brighter.

Sitting cross-legged on the straw mat, Qi Yuan opened the bottle of mineral water and drank it.

Then he took out two loaves of bread for today's lunch.

The bread was not big, only the size of a palm, and could not satisfy the appetite of an adult.

Food is really scarce now, and it can only meet basic needs.

Qi Yuan still kept the treasured compressed biscuits, after all, food is not abundant now, and it needs to be saved.

"How long will the days of hunger and cold last?!" Qi Yuan rubbed his stomach worriedly.

It is definitely impossible to return to Earth, so he can only work hard to get a better life in the foggy world.

Qi Yuan looked at the plump crystal rice, and his heart itched.

How nice it would be if he could eat a mouthful of hot rice at this time!

But for the sake of future development, Qi Yuan still cruelly moved his eyes away.

At this time, the "Mist Survival Manual" glowed slightly, and a "beeping" sound was heard.

This is a reminder of the announcement of the foggy world!