She opened the daily wooden chest first:
Stone ×10, Wood ×8, Instant Noodles ×5, Water ×3
There were actually instant noodles!
She was so excited that she nearly jumped on the spot!
Instant noodles!
The important thing wasn’t the noodles—it was the seasoning!
The salt she had traded for yesterday had almost been unbearably bitter. Instant noodle seasoning was so much better!
Excited, she washed her hands again and decided to open the chest containing her leaderboard reward.
“Ding! Rank No. 20 on the leaderboard. Reward: Copper Treasure Chest ×1.”
It was actually a copper treasure chest!
Her expectations immediately soared!
What would it contain?
Iron Ingots ×3, Copper Ore ×2, Fully Automatic Toilet ×1, Cotton Cloth ×5, Women’s Underwear Set ×1, Iron Axe ×1, Lettuce Seeds ×112.
As expected of a copper treasure chest!
The items inside were obviously different from those found in a wooden chest!
Lettuce had a growth cycle of only twenty days. It should grow even faster in this other world!
Maybe even faster than huìhuìcài!
So excited that she ignored the blazing sun, she went out and reclaimed another small patch of land, then planted all the lettuce seeds.
Afterward, she carried over a large jar of water and watered them thoroughly.
By the time she returned to the cabin, she immediately felt dizzy and lightheaded!
The heat had gotten to her!
She hurriedly gulped down some water, then lay down on the bed for a midday nap.
When she woke up, the groggy feeling was completely gone.
She was recovering surprisingly quickly!
Then she took out the fully automatic toilet and had it automatically installed inside her little cabin.
Finally, she no longer had to nervously relieve herself out in the wilderness!
But when she thought about eating, sleeping, and using the toilet all in the same room, she wrinkled her nose in disgust.
She had to upgrade the wooden cabin immediately!
She checked her wood and stone supplies.
She had enough stone but was still short on wood. After trading for some on the market, she finally gathered enough.
“Upgrade to a Level 2 Shelter? Required materials: Wood ×100, Stone ×100.”
“Yes!”
Shen Qingyao decisively upgraded her shelter to Level 2!
Then she heard another notification:
“Ding! Congratulations, Host! You are the third person to upgrade your shelter to Level 2! Reward: Silver Treasure Chest ×1!”
She was actually the third!
As expected, there were many experts in this survival game.
She wasn’t the only lucky person!
She eagerly opened the silver treasure chest and saw a pile of supplies:
Wood ×10, Stone ×20, Iron Ingots ×3, Copper Ore ×2, Self-Heating Hot Pot ×5, Water ×12, Mattress ×1, Men’s Hiking Boots ×1, Random Seed Bag ×1, Iron Shovel ×1.
The men’s hiking boots were of no use to her, but she thought of Wang Guodong, whom she had added as a friend earlier.
She sent him a private message.
It was better to sell them to him than to sell them to a foreigner.
“Men’s hiking boots ×1. Want them?”
When he didn’t reply immediately, Shen Qingyao hesitated for a while before deciding to wait.
Such a good item wasn’t going to be hard to sell!
She then began examining her Level 2 shelter.
The original thatched roof had become a wooden roof. The wooden walls had been replaced with bluestone walls.
Most importantly, the one-room cabin had become a two-room shelter.
She finally had a separate bathroom!
More importantly, her house was obviously much sturdier!
At that moment, Wang Guodong was fighting a lone wolf.
After a tremendous struggle, he finally managed to kill it. He immediately cut off a piece of the meat and placed it in his inventory, while submitting the rest to the system.
With that, his points once again reached the top of today’s leaderboard.
When he saw Shen Qingyao’s private message, he immediately replied:
“Yes! Women’s sun-protective clothing ×1 and sunscreen ×1. Want them?”
Originally, he had only intended to offer the sun-protective clothing. But after thinking about it, he added the sunscreen as well.
For some reason, he had the feeling that the person on the other side—the one with the ID 666—was a girl.
When Shen Qingyao saw the offer, she immediately agreed.
“Deal!”
She casually added a clay pot to the trade.
“This is a gift for you, as an apology for last time!”
Wang Guodong naturally added one jin of wolf meat to his side of the trade.
“Alright! Thanks, I actually need this!”
He had been eating roasted meat ever since yesterday. Unfortunately, his cooking skills were terrible, and the meat he grilled tasted awful!
Fortunately, he had traded for Shen Qingyao’s bowl of cattail shoot soup. Otherwise, he might have poisoned himself with his own cooking!
Now that he had a clay pot, he could at least stew the meat.
This time, Shen Qingyao didn’t add anything else and simply pressed Confirm.
Once she received the items, she discovered that the women’s sun-protective clothing gave her a pleasantly cool feeling when worn. Even when she stepped into the sunlight, she no longer felt the burning pain of sunlight scorching her skin!
Combined with the sunscreen, it was truly the perfect outdoor equipment for someone like her, whose territory was located in a vast, open river valley!
As for the wolf meat, she checked its description:
“Mortal-grade, sixth-rank Green Wolf Meat. Consuming it can moderately improve physical fitness.”
There was a huge difference between a slight improvement and a moderate one!
Shen Qingyao finally understood what it meant for the strong to grow stronger!
Wang Guodong had been able to eat mortal-grade, sixth-rank Green Wolf meat from the very beginning. His physical abilities would improve much faster than those of ordinary people!
In the future, he would leave everyone else even further behind.
Shen Qingyao stood there blankly for a moment.
Sure enough, there were many powerful people.
She shouldn’t become complacent!
Taking advantage of the strong sunlight, she stayed inside and crafted several more clay jars, clay bowls, and clay basins. She then listed them on the trading market in exchange for the resources she currently lacked.
She still didn’t have enough materials to upgrade to a Level 3 shelter!
The requirements were:
Stone ×1000, Wood ×1000, Glass ×10, Iron Ingots ×10.
Stone wasn’t a problem for her. What she lacked most was wood.
The nearest forest was somewhere in the distant mountains. It looked to be at least several kilometers away, and she didn’t dare go there!
Meanwhile, the entire river valley was filled with stones!
She didn’t have a single piece of glass!
She was also still short on iron ingots.
She used her pottery to trade for these basic materials, and her asking prices were quite high. She wanted one hundred pieces of wood for a single clay bowl.
This immediately caused dissatisfaction among many people:
“That 666 wants 100 pieces of wood for one bowl. Are you robbing us?”
“Exactly! I spent all day cutting trees yesterday and only got a little over a hundred pieces of wood. You want 100 just by opening your mouth? Isn’t that a little too greedy?”
“Stone bowls can be used too. There’s no need to have clay bowls!”
“Exactly!”
“@666 Big Boss, I don’t have 100 pieces of wood, but we’re both from China. Can you give me one for free? I’ll definitely repay you in the future!”
Shen Qingyao recognized the person named Xia Jian.
He was the man who had previously made lewd verbal advances toward that internet celebrity, Li Li!
How could she possibly give him anything?
Besides, she was socially anxious and extremely afraid of speaking in public channels. If she could avoid talking, she absolutely would!
So, she simply pretended not to see the messages and calmly continued listing items in the background.
Naturally, there were people willing to trade for her clay pots and clay basins. However, almost no one wanted to trade for the clay bowls.
When she noticed that she had run out of clay, she once again braved the blazing sun and ran to the riverbank to dig up more.
By the time the next batch of pottery was finished, the public channel had already moved on to another topic.
Clearly, ignoring the comments had worked.
However, someone was now asking for help in the public channel:
“Can anyone help me? My stone axe broke! I can’t cut down trees anymore! And without a weapon, what am I supposed to do?”
Shen Qingyao saw that the person’s ID was marked with China.
Without saying anything, she quietly listed one of her stone axes on the trading market for Wood ×100.
If the person could cut down trees, that meant they had access to wood.
If they weren’t even willing to pay one hundred pieces of wood, then Shen Qingyao couldn’t be bothered to help them!