Shen Qingyao retrieved all the items from her successful transactions on the trading market.
Then she discovered that she could upgrade her shelter to Level 3!
This time, she upgraded it immediately!
With a wolf pack nearby, she constantly felt that her house wasn’t safe enough!
“Ding! Congratulations to the host for being the first to complete the Level 3 Shelter upgrade! You have received a reward: Gold Treasure Chest ×1!”
A Gold Treasure Chest!
She hurriedly opened it. Sure enough, a Gold Treasure Chest was much better than a Silver Treasure Chest!
【Wood ×23, Stone ×18, Iron Ingots ×7, Glass ×12, Copper Ingots ×6, Cotton Cloth ×8, Cotton ×10, Mortal-tier Iron Sword ×1, Spirit-tier Combat Suit ×1, Fertilizer ×10, Blueprint ×1, Random Seed Bag ×1, Four-Piece Bedding Set ×1, Hemostatic Bandages ×3, Electricity Card ×1】
She had actually obtained a Spirit-tier Combat Suit!
She’d struck it rich!
With a Spirit-tier Combat Suit, why would she still be afraid of going to the river?
Even if her combat ability was weak, dealing with small animals would no longer be a problem!
Sure enough!
She still had to stay ahead of everyone else!
The blueprint was for a Basic Trap. It really was a case of getting exactly what she needed!
She desperately needed traps!
She checked the required materials:
【Wood ×5, Iron Ingot ×1】
It only required that much!
She immediately learned the blueprint. Unfortunately, she couldn’t craft any traps for the time being. She would have to wait until tomorrow.
The nights on the Wild Planet were unbearably hot. There was no air conditioner or fan, and the air itself seemed filled with scorching heat. It was hot enough to make people toss and turn, unable to sleep.
Fortunately, she had been exhausted to death these past few days. The moment she lay down, she fell asleep.
She put on the Spirit-tier Combat Suit and discovered that she couldn’t feel the oppressive heat anymore!
The Spirit-tier Combat Suit could actually regulate the wearer’s perceived temperature!
Wonderful!
After upgrading her shelter to Level 3, her house gained another room. There was now a kitchen area, complete with a built-in stove. It even came with an iron wok!
In other words, she finally had an iron wok and could stir-fry food!
The floor had also been completely paved with gray bricks, instead of the muddy ground she had before!
As for the exterior, the stone walls had turned into gray-brick walls, while the roof was covered with dark gray tiles. The whole place had become a small Jiangnan-style gray-brick cottage!
Shen Qingyao was ecstatic. She could finally live like a normal person!
She spread the mattress and bedsheet over the bed, then stuffed some cotton into the pillowcase to make a pillow.
Here on this Wild Planet, she actually had a stable and comfortable bed!
That night, she slept peacefully in her combat suit.
Today was the third day of the Otherworld Survival Game.
Early in the morning, the first thing she did after getting up was open her Daily Wooden Chest.
Her luck was average today. There was only wood, stone, water, and a bar of chocolate.
She quickly crafted twenty traps and placed them along the route from outside her farmland all the way to the river.
When she saw the mess left behind by the wolf pack yesterday near the river, there was no need to ask.
All three of her shrimp traps were ruined!
One of them even had obvious tear marks on it.
Clearly, that annoying wolf pack had done it!
Fortunately, there were actually a few small fish trapped inside the lollipop-shaped maze!
She stabbed them with her sword and collected them, then rearranged the stones that had been washed away by the current or destroyed by the wolf pack.
She also collected some more clay from the riverbank.
Pottery sold well and had brought her quite a few resources through trading, so she had to make some every day.
After collecting water, she carefully made her way back.
This time, she didn’t dare let her guard down at all!
“!!!”
She hadn’t expected that in such a short time, one of her traps had already caught prey!
It was a native frog!
Shen Qingyao didn’t dislike it. She simply removed it from the trap and threw it into her warehouse.
Today’s food was settled.
After returning to the wooden house, she first cooked some fish soup and added a pack of instant noodles, eating until she was full.
Then she took out her stone hoe and fertilizer and headed to the fields.
She planned to use a round of fertilizer on the lettuce to speed up its growth. She didn’t know exactly how much time it would save.
She carefully fertilized all the lettuce.
Then she watched with her own eyes as the tiny sprouts gradually grew bigger.
Almost in an instant, they reached the point where they could be harvested!
Her mouth fell open.
Was this the technology of a higher civilization?
If she had enough fertilizer, what couldn’t she grow?
She immediately began harvesting.
“Ding! Congratulations! You have harvested Lettuce ×1,329!”
“Ding! Congratulations! You have harvested Lettuce Seeds ×2,365!”
“Ding! Congratulations! You have harvested Rank 2 Mortal-tier Lettuce Seeds ×398!”
Clearly, the lettuce itself was Rank 1 Mortal-tier, which was why it hadn’t been specifically labeled!
But Rank 2 Mortal-tier seeds had actually appeared!
So saved seeds could evolve!
The system hadn’t lied to her!
Every head of lettuce was huge, almost as large as a Chinese cabbage!
She simply fertilized the Lamb’s Quarters in the field as well.
Sure enough, they rapidly grew and soon became ready for harvesting!
At the moment of harvest, she felt a special energy from the vegetables enter her body, nourishing her damaged body.
“Ding! Congratulations! You have harvested Lamb’s Quarters ×2,567!”
“Ding! Congratulations! You have obtained Lamb’s Quarters Seeds ×3,899!”
“Ding! Congratulations! You have obtained Rank 2 Mortal-tier Lamb’s Quarters Seeds ×380!”
“Ding! Congratulations, host! Your Farmland has leveled up!”
After the farmland leveled up, the yellow soil actually turned black!
It was visible to the naked eye that the soil had become more fertile!
So as long as she kept planting, the farmland would automatically level up?
Unfortunately, the situation she had imagined—where all her crops would instantly mature after the upgrade—didn’t happen!
She tried fertilizing the adzuki beans as well. As a result, they only grew from the seedling stage to the vine-climbing stage and didn’t mature immediately.
It seemed that fertilizer wasn’t as effective for crops with long growth cycles.
So she stopped wasting it.
At this point, she should use lettuce to grind levels and earn points!
Although Lamb’s Quarters also had a short growth cycle, their yield was lower than lettuce. Naturally, lettuce should take priority.
Previously, she had no choice because she didn’t have enough seeds. But now that she had more than enough lettuce seeds, of course she would focus entirely on planting lettuce!
Plowing land that had already been cultivated once was much easier. Shen Qingyao quickly finished turning over the soil and planted lettuce again.
Perhaps there was still some residual fertilizer left in the soil, because the lettuce continued growing quickly.
However, it wasn’t as ridiculously fast as the first batch.
After that, Shen Qingyao stopped paying attention to them and let them grow naturally.
She had basically cultivated all the farmland within her safe zone.
Now, it was time to expand beyond the safe zone!
She carefully expanded toward the river. Worried that wild beasts might attack, she surrounded the outer perimeter of the newly expanded area with traps.
Her luck was fairly good. She didn’t encounter any wild beast attacks before she finished work and returned home.
At noon, she grilled the native frog meat, wrapped it in lettuce leaves, and ate until her mouth was full of fragrance!
What a pity.
It would have been even better if she had some fruit!
Thinking that she seemed to have some tomato seeds, she quickly dug them out.
She didn’t plan to grow them on a large scale—just enough to improve her diet.
Because the tomatoes were grown from Rank 2 Mortal-tier seeds, their starting point was already higher than lettuce, and they had a greater chance of upgrading in the future.
She planted the tomatoes beneath the corner of the wall beside her door, making them convenient to pick and eat whenever she wanted.
In order to eat them as soon as possible, she even sprinkled all the little fertilizer she had left onto them.
The tomatoes didn’t mature immediately, but they did grow all the way to the flowering stage.
Looking at the lush tomato plants, Shen Qingyao removed the side shoots.
For tomato plants, if the branches and leaves grew too luxuriantly, they wouldn’t produce fruit as easily.
She had a feeling that tomorrow, she would finally be able to eat tomatoes.