“So hot. How could it be this hot...”
Inside the log cabin, Li Qinglang walked around while fanning himself with his hand.
His rapidly rising body temperature even caused the surface of his skin to turn slightly reddish.
The temperature of his body collided with the cold air, making him look as though he had been set on fire, with white smoke continuously billowing from him.
When his body temperature first rose, Li Qinglang’s first thought was that he had been poisoned.
But after thinking it over, he realized this should be the feedback from the increase to his physical fitness after eating fine-grade food.
Previously, when he drank excellent-grade spring water, hot streams would also surge through his entire body, accompanied by a tingling sensation in his bones.
If the sensation of spring water increasing one’s physique was like a gentle big sister massaging your body, then hyena meat was like a burly man pounding your body with his rough hands.
The effects brought by fine-grade food were not limited to a rise in body temperature.
The stamina and energy he had exhausted by pushing himself during the daytime seemed to be continuously surging out from his body at this moment.
Filled with energy, Li Qinglang was no longer satisfied with merely walking around. Instead, he gradually began running around the Shelter.
However, because of the log cabin’s limited area, after running two laps, he simply began doing push-ups and frog jumps in the original place.
Only after half an hour did that inexplicable power gradually fade away.
“The effects of fine-grade food are truly amazing!”
After sensing the changes in his physical fitness, he felt that the extent of the increase was about the same as the effect of the spring water!
One had to know that this was merely fine-grade food, while the spring water was Excellent Grade!
However, the spring water’s method of increasing his physique was gentler, and it could stack with food.
Li Qinglang made a rough estimate. Based on his current physical fitness, he could eat at most half a jin of fine-grade food per day.
If he exceeded this quantity, his body could easily suffer damage from being unable to withstand the huge amount of energy.
Spring water, on the other hand, was unaffected by this!
In other words, after Li Qinglang used food to increase himself to the limit each day, he could stack the increase from spring water on top of it!
Unfortunately, drinking spring water repeatedly within a short period would have no effect. It was probably because its gentler method of increase required time for slow nourishment.
Even so, Li Qinglang was very satisfied.
This meant that under the same conditions, his physical fitness would increase much faster than other people’s!
“Awooo!”
When Li Qinglang’s body had shown abnormal signs just now, Da Ju had anxiously kept circling around him.
Li Qinglang smiled and rubbed Da Ju’s head:
“All right, it’s fine. Your master is becoming stronger. I’ll hunt more meat for you in the future.”
“Awooo~”
Just now, Li Qinglang had eaten approximately one hundred grams of meat before his whole body became feverish and he felt his body brimming with energy, making it impossible for him to eat any more.
Da Ju was different, however. An entire jin of meat had gone into his stomach, yet there was no way to tell from the surface whether it had produced any effect. Nothing special had happened at all.
“Such a small one can eat more than I can! Come to think of it, have you grown a little?”
“Awooo?”
When he had previously discovered that the spring water had been secretly drunk, he had felt that Da Ju’s body size seemed to have Increased slightly. However, since the change was too small, he had not paid much attention to it and had assumed he had seen it wrong.
But after eating an entire piece of hyena meat, Da Ju was clearly a round larger compared to his original body size.
“Sigh, looks like I’ll have to give you a share of the spring water from now on.”
“Awooo~”
As the energy from the fine-grade food was Digested, the surrounding chill surged back in. Li Qinglang hurriedly returned to the lounge chair and added some firewood to the fireplace.
Feeling the hard lounge chair beneath his buttocks, he recalled the soreness in his waist and back from this morning:
“Tsk, I still need to get a bed. The lounge chair is comfortable for short-term rest, but sleeping on it for a long time is a bit torturous.”
With that thought, Li Qinglang opened the Exchange and searched for sleeping supplies.
“Good heavens, there really are quite a lot of things!”
He looked at the number of pages displayed at the bottom: 999+
The various items were dazzling, including straw mats, bedsheets, pillows, quilts, sleeping bags, and so on.
Moreover, each type of item had many smaller categories. For example, the beds Li Qinglang wanted to purchase included wooden beds, spring beds, hammocks, metal-frame beds, and even waterbeds.
Looking at the general prices, beds were not expensive. Sleeping bags capable of providing warmth were costly, while the most extravagant quilt prices were probably beyond even Big Tycoon Wang Yixin’s means.
“Six-jin quilt — selling price: 500 wood or 200 stone.”
“Eight-jin quilt — selling price: 1,000 wood or 400 stone.”
“Goose-down quilt — selling price: 999 stone or food.”
“Thickened lambswool quilt — selling price: an excellent-grade item or a large quantity of food and clean water resources.”
This world truly had no shortage of lucky people.
Actually, regardless of the type of quilt, they were all normal grade in terms of Grade. In other words, they could be found in the easiest-to-obtain iron treasure chests.
The air-conditioned quilt Li Qinglang currently used as a mattress had been obtained from a treasure chest. His luck was fairly good, but compared with those who had obtained down quilts and lambswool quilts, he seemed rather unlucky.
Although he was envious, he had no intention of purchasing one. Never mind that he could not afford the price; even if he had that many resources, he would prioritize exchanging them for food.
Only after solving his food needs would he divert resources toward warmth items.
Otherwise, constantly looking from one side to the other could easily result in neither type of item being stocked adequately.
Leaving those things aside, Li Qinglang still intended to solve his sleeping arrangements tonight.
He deleted the sleeping-supplies keyword and searched for only one word: bed.
Looking at the items displayed, the number of pages at the bottom showed 500+. Although the quantity was still large, he could finally see the end.
“Hammock? This won’t do. I’m afraid Da Ju will climb onto it in the middle of the night and overload it.”
“Round bed? I quite liked them on Blue Star, but now... they take up too much space. No.”
“Plank bed? This will barely do. Let’s see if there’s anything softer.”
“There’s even a trampoline. They can sell this thing too?”
Li Qinglang carefully selected the beds one by one. Their prices were not high, with most commonly listed at 20–60 wood.
However, beds that were slightly better and offered some comfort cost two or three times as much. This made him feel that they were not worth it.
“Oh? This one’s pretty good.”
After browsing through more than a dozen pages, Li Qinglang took a liking to one item.
“20-centimeter-thick spring mattress — selling price: 50 wood.”
The twenty-centimeter-thick mattress was moderately soft and firm. As for the height problem, the wood automatically decomposed by the System was very neat, somewhat resembling square wooden stakes. He only needed to lay two layers on the ground like building blocks.
After Private Chatting with the seller, Li Qinglang successfully bought it with a bamboo tube filled with approximately 300 milliliters of coconut water.
The mattress was probably 1.5 meters by 2 meters, a standard small double bed.
After the trade succeeded, Li Qinglang eagerly moved the lounge chair aside, then used eight units of wood as the bed frame.
After laying down the mattress, he spread a layer of air-conditioned quilt over it, then comfortably wrapped himself in a four-jin quilt and lay down.
“Today I can finally get a good night’s sleep.”
Da Ju also seemed very satisfied with the new bed. With a swift movement, he leaped onto it and lay down right beside Li Qinglang.
After solving his sleeping equipment needs, Li Qinglang had only one trading opportunity left today.
Originally, this trade had been reserved for Killer Bro He Yajun.
Last night, he had agreed to exchange 100 milliliters of spring water and 100 milliliters of purified seawater for Shi Gu Sand and the Zhuge repeating crossbow.
But plans could not keep up with changes.
He had already sent a Private Chat message, but He Yajun had not replied yet. Li Qinglang did not know what he was busy with.
Comfortably curled up on the bed, Li Qinglang leisurely scrolled through information on various trade items.
Since the trade with Killer Bro could not be completed, he would see whether there was anything else he could exchange for.
The Exchange contained numerous, disorderly items. The entire Communicator screen was occupied by things such as ballpoint pens, stockings, garbage bags, dead electric fans, and so on.
“This won’t do. I can’t see any practical items at all. I still need a definite goal.”
Li Qinglang thought hard about what he was still lacking. Actually, there were many things he lacked, but his water resources currently consisted of only 500 milliliters of purified seawater and some coconut water. He could not currently afford anything with high practical value.
After a moment, Li Qinglang silently decided on the type of item he wanted and entered Make Blueprint into the Exchange search bar.
Make blueprints had always been something Li Qinglang coveted.
According to what people in the chat channel said, as long as one collected the required materials, the Make Blueprint would automatically transform them into the corresponding item.
For example, to make a bed, if one did not have a Make Blueprint, one would need to construct the bed frame oneself, calculate the mortise-and-tenon joints, and assemble and polish it.
But if one possessed a bed-making blueprint, one only needed to provide wood. The blueprint would handle the remaining steps.
The price of make blueprints was often considerably higher than that of finished products, since they were reusable items.
However, some blueprints were relatively cheap. These blueprints generally involved items that were not difficult to make or were not very practical.
For example, a charcoal-making blueprint. Although charcoal could be used for heating, making charcoal itself required no real technical skill, so its price was naturally low.
Li Qinglang carefully browsed the Exchange listings, and before long, one blueprint caught his eye.
“This thing seems pretty good.”
【Earthenware Crafting Blueprint（Normal）】
Introduction: After collecting the required materials, one can make earthenware pottery. The size of the finished pottery depends on the quantity of materials provided.
Required materials: soil, water
This blueprint was quite practical, and its listed price was not expensive: 60 wood, about the same as the mattress.
Following the usual practice, he used coconut water in a Private Chat trade. However, the owner of this blueprint did not lack freshwater, so the coconut water was changed to coconut meat, and the trade was successfully completed.
This blueprint had arrived at exactly the right time. Li Qinglang was currently especially short of larger containers.
At present, he could obtain at most six liters of seawater from treasure chests each day for purify.
Six liters sounded like a lot, but high-quality items and equipment were quite expensive, so it was completely insufficient for trades.
If he had enough purified seawater tonight, he would not merely be exchanging it with Xu Zhiqiang for two jin of meat. He was certain the other party had hunted more than one beast and definitely had plenty of surplus food.
Ultimately, this was because he had no suitable container. For resources such as purified seawater, whose consumption was not large, it was best to conduct a large trade all at once. Otherwise, after one trade, he would have to wait until the other party finished using the purified seawater before trading again.