No way, right?
He Miaomiao couldn’t help thinking to herself and immediately took action again.
1 strike.
[Wood ×1!]
[Wood ×1! (Critical Hit)]
1 strike.
[Wood ×1!]
[Wood ×1! (Critical Hit)]
2 strikes.
[Wood ×2!]
[Wood ×2! (Critical Hit)]
Swinging the axe just 4 times yielded her 8 logs of wood, and to top it off, she still had stamina to spare. It was completely unlike yesterday, where smashing a tree 3 times left her exhausted and only rewarded her with 2 logs of wood.
“I’m rich, I’m rich!”
Tools were so good to use!
Just as He Miaomiao was about to continue chopping trees, she suddenly froze, pulling out a piece of cooked rabbit meat to hold in her mouth first.
She almost forgot—the next swing would be the fifth strike, and she would meet her old friend, the Corrupted Rabbit.
[Wood ×1!]
[Wood ×1! (Critical Hit)]
Huh? Still got energy left?
Realizing this, He Miaomiao didn’t immediately munch on the rabbit meat; instead, she turned on her heels and ran first.
The Corrupted Rabbit charged forth headlong from the woods further out.
[HP -18!]
[HP -18!]
What a pity. With the rabbit interrupting her gathering, she couldn’t even test how many times she could gather consecutively with the Stone Axe before becoming exhausted enough to need meat for stamina recovery.
With a slight feeling of regret, He Miaomiao returned to the hut, ate meat, and counterattacked.
He Miaomiao held the Stone Axe to smash the rabbit, but—
[HP -5!]
Well then. The sharp axe that worked amazingly well for chopping trees didn’t add even 1 extra point of damage.
Now He Miaomiao understood what Appraisal meant by “tool for chopping trees”—the Stone Axe really was strictly meant for chopping trees and completely useless everywhere else.
No wonder the tree-chopping bonus was so high and effort-saving; all its stats were allocated into just one single function.
No, wait, it wasn’t completely useless—her leg hurt when she kicked rabbits with her feet, but her leg didn’t hurt when she smashed rabbits using the Stone Axe.
Therefore, even though the Stone Axe couldn’t increase her attack power, He Miaomiao continued to raise the axe.
[Raw Rabbit Meat ×1!]
[Raw Rabbit Meat ×1! (Critical Hit)]
[EXP +20!]
[EXP +20! (Critical Hit)]
[EXP: 300/100 (Upgradeable)]
Placing the meat beside the campfire to roast, He Miaomiao carried 10 logs of wood and 6 stones over to the workbench.
[Stone Sickle: Wood ×8, Stone ×6 (Requirements met, craft now?)]
Yes!
[Stone Sickle ×1!]
[Stone Sickle ×1! (Critical Hit)]
Cast Appraisal.
[Stone Sickle: Tool for cutting grass.]
“Not surprising at all.”
Eating a piece of rabbit meat, He Miaomiao set off toward the dry grass.
Stone Sickle, show me your power!
Yesterday, He Miaomiao’s bare-handed dry grass gathering efficiency was: every 2 pulls yielded 2 portions of dry grass. At full stamina, she could successfully gather 5 times to acquire 10 portions of dry grass.
Now, holding the Stone Sickle—
1 stroke.
[Dry Grass ×1!]
[Dry Grass ×1! (Critical Hit)]
After 5 consecutive strokes, the rabbit interrupted.
He Miaomiao’s mental state was still pretty good, needing no rabbit meat at all. She ran directly, only feeling the need for food to assist recovery after killing the rabbit.
She put the freshly hunted rabbit meat on to roast and picked up the 2 pieces of rabbit meat that had finished roasting.
Cooked Rabbit Meat ×4
Ate one piece, set off.
Momentum was going strong. He Miaomiao intended to keep going until she was too full to eat any more rabbit meat before stopping to rest and reorganize.
[Wood ×5!]
[Wood ×5! (Critical Hit)]
[Raw Rabbit Meat ×1! Copper Coin ×1!]
[Raw Rabbit Meat ×1! Copper Coin ×1! (Critical Hit)]
[Congratulations to the player for accumulating 10 Corrupted Rabbit kills! White Chest ×1!]
[White Chest ×1! (Critical Hit)]
[EXP +20!]
[EXP +20! (Critical Hit)]
[EXP: 380/100 (Upgradeable)]
He Miaomiao: !!!
Copper Coins! I finally see you!
Wait—killing 10 rabbits drops 1 Copper Coin?
Meaning… the guaranteed drop rate for Copper Coins is 10%?
Then…
He Miaomiao couldn’t help checking the Copper Coins required to upgrade the safehouse to Level 1.
She killed 10 rabbits to earn 2 Copper Coins. To earn enough—1200 Copper Coins—she needed to kill… 6000 rabbits!
He Miaomiao: TAT
Mom! Earning money is so hard!
He Miaomiao felt emo for two seconds, feeling an even stronger sense of urgency in her heart.
Even with the Crit Talent boost it was this hard. How exhausted would she be without critical hits?
No, she had to hurry up and work hard!
Wait a second, she also got 2 White Chests.
He Miaomiao had only seen a chest once before—the reward from her very first Corrupted Rabbit kill, which was purple and dropped her SSS-Rank Talent: Crit.
Since these were white, they should be the most common type of chest.
“Open.”
First chest.
[Stone Pickaxe Blueprint ×1! Copper Coin ×5!]
[Stone Pickaxe Blueprint ×1! Copper Coin ×5! (Critical Hit)]
He Miaomiao: “Wow! A chest that already duplicated into 2 via critical hit can continue to trigger critical hits when opened?! Thank you!”
Instantly gaining 10 extra Copper Coins—that was an amount that would take killing 100 rabbits to earn!
She hurried to open the second one.
[Stone Pickaxe Blueprint ×1! Copper Coin ×5!]
[Stone Pickaxe Blueprint ×1! Copper Coin ×5! (Critical Hit)]
It turned out to be identical—another 10 Copper Coins. How exciting!
Just like that, He Miaomiao possessed 22 Copper Coins and 4 Stone Pickaxe Blueprints.
Use.
[Stone Pickaxe: Wood ×10, Stone ×12]
She had 12 logs of wood, but she had 0 stones left, so she needed to gather more.
Wood had the Stone Axe for chopping, dry grass had the Stone Sickle for cutting, and the Stone Pickaxe for breaking stones had to be arranged too.
Sharpening the axe doesn’t delay the woodcutting. Once He Miaomiao finalized her action plan, she headed straight for the pile of broken stones.
Smash 4 times.
Stone ×4
Munch rabbit meat to restore stamina.
Smash 2 times.
Stone ×2
Kite rabbit, fight rabbit.
Raw Rabbit Meat ×2
EXP +40
Munch rabbit meat again, repeat the cycle once.
Stone ×6, Raw Rabbit Meat ×2, Cooked Rabbit Meat -1, EXP +40.
After this battle, He Miaomiao didn’t rush to step outside again. Instead, she sat down beside the workbench, operating with her hands while waiting for stamina to automatically recover.
[Stone Pickaxe: Wood ×10, Stone ×12 (Requirements met, craft now?)]
Yes.
Stone and wood flew toward the workbench, emitting a bout of clanking noises. Afterwards, He Miaomiao reached out to loot.
[Stone Pickaxe ×1!]
[Stone Pickaxe ×1! (Critical Hit)]
Appraisal.
[Stone Pickaxe: Tool for breaking stones.]
He Miaomiao: (＾－＾)V
The three-piece tool set—Stone Axe, Stone Sickle, and Stone Pickaxe—was complete!
He Miaomiao calculated roughly: from waking up in the morning until now, she had eaten 6 pieces of cooked rabbit meat. Based on yesterday’s experience, she could eat 3 or 4 more pieces at most—she wasn’t sure if the raw rabbit meat she was forced to munch yesterday counted—before hitting her limit and having to stop to rest.
Hopefully the Stone Pickaxe would be as effective as the Stone Axe and Stone Sickle.
“Let’s go!”
Target: Pile of broken stones.
He Miaomiao swung the Stone Pickaxe downward.
[Stone ×1!]
[Stone ×1! (Critical Hit)]
Works great!
4 more strikes.
Stone ×8
Just like using the Stone Sickle to cut dry grass and the Stone Axe to chop trees earlier, He Miaomiao could feel that her stamina was still sufficient to break stone many more times. However, because she had successfully gathered 5 consecutive times, her old friend the Corrupted Rabbit arrived right on schedule, interrupting her actions.
Cooked Rabbit Meat -1
Stamina restored, run, counterattack.
Raw Rabbit Meat ×2
EXP +40
“I can eat 2 or 3 more pieces.”
He Miaomiao didn’t wait, ate 1 piece, and set off again.
Right now she was short on everything. Having confirmed the efficiency boost of the Stone Pickaxe, she no longer picked targets deliberately, simply chopping at the nearest small tree based on distance.
5 strikes.
Wood ×10
Rabbit arrives, run, eat cooked rabbit meat to restore HP and stamina, counterattack.
Raw Rabbit Meat ×2
EXP +40
Next was time to test whether she could continuously eat 9 or 10 portions of food within a given timeframe.
Off she went!
After running back and forth, He Miaomiao returned to the safehouse carrying 10 stones and 2 pieces of raw rabbit meat. The test result was out as well—10 portions. She could continuously eat 10 portions of food each time; exceeding 10 portions was impossible.
Unable to continue, He Miaomiao wasn’t in a rush either. She placed the new rabbit meat beside the campfire, then expertly looted the 2 roasted pieces, obtaining 4 pieces of cooked rabbit meat via critical hit.
At the same time, she placed the gathered materials into the storage chest and took a moment to check the group chat.
Despair Village 4 Group.
[You Hua]: “Big boss! I tested it out—everything you said is true! Thank you, big boss! Because of your guide, I was mentally prepared. The moment the Corrupted Rabbit appeared, I ran instantly and even proactively killed the rabbit! Now I’ve received the Novice Gift Pack you mentioned! Waaaah, it really wasn’t easy! Without you, who knows how long I would’ve been blindly searching on my own and how much time I would’ve wasted! I wasted so much time yesterday! Why didn’t the group chat open sooner?! So I could’ve seen the big boss’s guide earlier!”
[You Hua]: “This goddamned survival world—the promised 3-day novice protection period really was fake! As long as we start gathering materials, a rabbit will suddenly pop out! The people who vanished earlier were definitely rammed to death by rabbits! They even hid the Novice Gift Pack on the first killed rabbit! How sinister!”
[Wang Shouyi]: “Hmph, scammer. Don’t think we’ll fall for it just because you talk so much! Everyone, join me in boycotting these black-hearted merchants profiting off human blood!”
[You Hua]: “Family in the group, hurry up and get moving too! Gather some materials to buy the big boss’s guide—it’s super useful! May I not be Chinese if I’m lying to you!”
[Qi Yi]: “Waaaah… my hands hurt so much from smashing trees… the rabbit is so ugly… why can’t I go home yet?”
[Duanmu Jing]: “My harvest was pretty good too. Without the guide, my life wouldn’t have been spared. Thanks.”
[Yu Qiaoyun]: “Without the guide, even if I were lucky enough to escape, I wouldn’t have thought to proactively kill the Corrupted Rabbit. Thank you, big boss, for the guidance.”
[Ai Kun]: “Thanks, big boss!”
[Shang Zhou]: “Thanks, big boss +1!”
[Xia Ning]: “Thanks, big boss +2!”
[Wan Zifan]: “Thanks, big…”
A long string of thanks followed. Naturally, there were discordant voices mixed in as well, but He Miaomiao didn’t pay them any mind, taking a quick glance at her personal panel instead.
Player: He Miaomiao (Lv0)
Coordinates: Despair Village 4
HP: 50/50
Attack Power: 5
Defense: 0
Agility: 5
EXP: 580/100 (Upgradeable)
Skills: Appraisal (Primary), Looting (Primary)
Personal Assets: Lv0 Safehouse (Durability 100, Defense 0, Monster Alert Radius 0m, Storage Box 4 slots (Wood 15, Stone 27, Dry Grass 26, Empty 1), Arable Farmland 0 slots, Defense Structures 0), Stone Sickle Blueprint 1 (Inv Slot 1), Cooked Rabbit Meat 36 (Inv Slot 2), Campfire 1 (Inv Slot 3), Stone Axe 2 (Inv Slot 4), Stone Sickle 2 (Inv Slot 5), Stone Pickaxe 2 (Inv Slot 6), Copper Coins 22 (Inv Slot 7), Stone Pickaxe Blueprint 3 (Inv Slot 8)
All 8 inventory slots were actually filled with items—truly not easy.
However, because of this, her inventory space appeared somewhat insufficient, so He Miaomiao decided to clear out a batch.
The first items she picked out were the blueprints—blueprints she had already learned were completely useless to her, but should be of help to players who already had a workbench but hadn’t acquired blueprints yet.
Thus, He Miaomiao listed all the blueprints in her hands in the group. Just like her previous guide, the prices were automatically generated.
Stone Sickle Blueprint ×1
Unit Price: Dry Grass 4 / Wood 2 / Stone 2.
Stone Pickaxe Blueprint ×3
Unit Price: Dry Grass 10 / Wood 8 / Stone 6.
“Blueprints drop from monsters. Buy and sell at will.”