This time, he made a 50-liter water tank, two casseroles for making soup and cooking dishes, as well as several bowls, plates, and Cups for drinking water.
After filling the water tank with seawater and stuffing it into the Spatial Backpack, he also collected all the newly discovered coconuts along the way, obtaining a total of 6 large coconuts, before returning to the Shelter with ease.
“The Spatial Backpack is seriously useful!”
Li Qinglang could not help sighing. If he had relied on himself to manually transport all these items, he could have worked himself to death for two days without necessarily getting them completed.
But with the Spatial Backpack, it had taken only a little over an hour!
There was still some time before the agreed-upon return time for the Spatial Backpack, so Li Qinglang planned to transport back the fine-grade soil he had discovered near the bamboo forest yesterday.
Next came nearly another hour of digging soil. Even with his strengthened physique, the skin on Li Qinglang’s both hands, tightly gripping the pickaxe, had been rubbed raw.
Still, it was all worth it! The ground outside the Shelter’s window was now piled high with leaf mold.
Although he had not yet solved the problem of the planting temperature, Li Qinglang believed that there must be a solution among the various strange items.
When the Spatial Backpack’s usage time expired, Li Qinglang was reluctant to part with it, but he still upheld his personal integrity and returned it to the Big Tycoon through gritted teeth.
“Bzzz~ bzzz~ bzzz~”
A message arrived through the Communicator’s Private Chat.
“It should be a message from Killer Bro.”
Before dawn, Li Qinglang had contacted He Yajun and told him that he already had enough spring water for him.
But He Yajun had said there was no rush. He wanted to use the effect of immortality to hunt some beasts first before making the trade. That way, he could also give Li Qinglang some meat as part of this trading opportunity.
He took out the Communicator and looked at it. Sure enough:
He Yajun: “Qinglang, the system announcement was right. There are exceptionally many beasts today. So far, I have already dealt with four Fine-grade ones.”
Li Qinglang: “holy crap, Killer Bro is awesome!”
Li Qinglang was genuinely shocked. Although He Yajun had immortality, without sufficient skill as a foundation, it would have been completely impossible to accomplish this in only three hours.
If it had been Li Qinglang instead, immortality? Hah, he would merely have been a legendary punching bag.
He Yajun: “hahaha, the harvest is pretty good. I’m preparing to enter the Dense Fog Zone to look for the totem.”
Li Qinglang: “All right. As long as you’re confident you can get an S rating, then let’s make the trade now.”
With that, the two conducted their first trade of the day.
He sent over 200 milliliters of spring water and the Mist-Piercing Glasses, while Killer Bro gave Li Qinglang two excellent grade meat patties and the Zhuge repeating crossbow.
He Yajun: “Since I’ll be undergoing the rating shortly, I’ll give you two jin of meat first. After I receive the reward, I’ll trade some more to you.”
Li Qinglang: “no rush. This meat is enough for me to eat for now. Don’t waste the trading opportunity.”
He Yajun: “also, tsk, it’s really inconvenient that there’s no gifting function. I wonder whether the Level Three Shelter has any new Friend Slots.”
…
Li Qinglang loved the Zhuge repeating crossbow he had received. When he was collecting leaf mold near the bamboo forest earlier, he had encountered a flock of pheasants.
But because he had no weapon, he had held back from making a move.
Li Qinglang could have taken the pickaxe into close combat, but he would very likely have suffered an injury, and might not even have been able to defeat them.
Those were no ordinary pheasants. Although they were all normal grade, their body size was three times that of an ordinary rooster!
Their hardness beaks and blade-like claws both indicated that these creatures were not to be trifled with.
But things were different now. With the Zhuge repeating crossbow, he could greatly reduce the risk of injury, and a Fine-grade weapon still possessed sufficient power from over 100 meters away.
Li Qinglang had been a bow and arrow enthusiast on Blue Star. Attending the bow and arrow club once or twice a month had been one of his few forms of entertainment.
He had no problem with accuracy, but bows and crossbows were ultimately different, so he still needed to familiarize himself with the operation.
The daytime was limited, so Li Qinglang could only conduct simple repeating crossbow training around the Shelter.
After spending roughly half an hour and confirming that there were no problems, Li Qinglang went home to call for help:
“Da Ju! Time to go out and work!”
Upon hearing that he was going outside with him, Da Ju sprang over and affectionately rubbed against Li Qinglang’s trouser leg.
Thus, the man and tiger strode majestically toward the flock of pheasants.
When they reached the area near their destination, Da Ju, who had originally been walking with relaxed footwork, seemed to sense the presence of prey and instantly entered a hunting condition.
As he walked, his hind pawprints completely overlapped his front pawprints. Using the grass to crawl forward and conceal his body, he made not the slightest sound throughout the entire process.
“As expected of a max-level feline species, this hunting ability is engraved in his DNA.”
Influenced by Da Ju, Li Qinglang also tried his best to bend down as he walked. The effect was surprisingly good; he reached within 100 meters without alarming the flock of pheasants.
What Li Qinglang did not know was that his amateur stealth skills had been discovered long ago…
It was just that the flock of pheasants felt he posed no threat. In addition, he had encountered them nearby while digging leaf mold earlier, and both sides had remained peaceful. Thus, when Li Qinglang approached, the pheasants simply pretended not to see him.
A distance of 100 meters was the limit at which Li Qinglang could guarantee his accuracy, but to improve his hit rate, he still had to get closer.
Li Qinglang bent his waist with all his might and slowly shortened the distance.
80 meters
70 meters
60 meters
When Li Qinglang was only 50 meters from the nearest pheasant, it moved…
It walked slightly farther away, then casually continued digging through the soil for insects.
Li Qinglang approached, and it walked away.
He approached again, and it walked away again.
…
“Could I have been discovered?”
At that moment, Li Qinglang, who had felt good about himself, finally faced reality.
The Perfect concealment in his own eyes looked like a clown’s act to others…
Even though there was no one else nearby, Li Qinglang’s old face still flushed slightly.
“This is too embarrassing, truly too embarrassing…”
“Since you look down on me, don’t blame me for showing no mercy. Eat my five arrows!”
To ensure his hit rate, he fired all five arrows at once!
“Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.”
Five Space-Piercing sounds rang out within nearly half a second.
Using all his eyesight, he looked over. Three had missed, one had hit the body, and another had hit the neck!
Li Qinglang really wanted to say that he had actually been aiming for its head.
However, the final result was the same. The Fine-grade crossbow bolt pierced straight through its neck upon impact, then continued forward and drove fiercely into the soil.
The pheasant only had time to let out a mournful cry before collapsing.
“Hahaha, it seems this Genius really does have some talent for hunting!”
Li Qinglang laughed loudly and was about to approach to inspect the corpse.
It was precisely then that he sensed something strange about the surrounding silence.
The environmental sounds of the thirty or forty pheasants digging through the soil nearby for food had vanished in an instant!
Every pheasant raised its head and stared intently at Li Qinglang.
Two seconds later, they simultaneously launched a charge at him.
“Holy crap! Are these still chickens?”
In Li Qinglang’s understanding, after he had shot one pheasant to death with five arrows, the others should have scattered and fled upon seeing it. How had they ended up swarming him instead…
“Da Ju, the wind’s picking up. Let’s get out of here.”
Thirty or forty pheasants would be difficult even for He Yajun to handle, let alone Li Qinglang and Da Ju.
Just then, Da Ju, who had been concealing his form the entire time, pounced toward the nearest pheasant like a bolt of lightning.
With a simple slap, he knocked it to the ground, then bit through its neck. He finished the entire Battle in less than two seconds!
The remaining pheasants all stopped in their tracks when they saw Da Ju suddenly appear.
Da Ju, who was lowering his head to lock onto the throat, seemed to sense something:
“Roar!!!!”
A tiger roar rang out, and the flock of pheasants scattered in all directions.