As Qi Yuan pondered, he opened the Mist Survival Manual.
At this moment, the World Chat Channel was already bustling.
Six hours of daylight, eighteen hours of night.
Even if you sleep for twelve hours, there are still six hours left to do nothing in the Wooden Cabin.
The current state of the cabin could be described as bare.
Aside from a straw mat, a table, and an oil lamp, what else was there?
At most, there were the trees chopped down during the day.
How to spend the extra six or seven hours in the cabin?
World Chat Channel!
Surviving alone in the Mist World, feelings of loneliness, fear, and panic would grow stronger.
The presence of other survivors became the last comfort for everyone.
Even Qi Yuan often browsed the chat channel.
The chat from the silly netizens could greatly alleviate the loneliness of surviving in the mist.
The immense pressure of survival could also be released through chatting and joking.
Whether it was the World Chat Channel, the Regional Chat Channel, or the Trading Market, they were all occupied by countless "netizens."
"I'm starving, does anyone have food?"
"Confirmed! The guy above is an online beggar!"
"If we can't find food soon, we'll all become beggars!"
"You guys can't find food either? I thought it was just barren around me!"
"Who isn't? All I see is weeds!"
"Be content, I'm in a primitive forest! No food, and I step into a swamp as soon as I exit."
"Damn, stop it, I'm on a mountain top! It's starting to snow outside... so cold!"
"..."
"Are you all that miserable? I was born by a river, took a few steps, and found a patch of potatoes, so comfortable!"
"???"
"???"
"What??"
"Brother above, you better go home and check!"
"Why?"
"Your ancestral grave is on fire!"
"..."
"By the way, can't anyone find food nearby?"
"You too? I thought I was just unlucky with a bad spawn location."
"Crying! Potato brother, sell me some water, I'm dying of thirst in the desert..."
"I don't have water either! I need some too!"
"I need some too, I'll trade wood with you!"
"+1"
"+1"
"+1"
"Bro, I'll trade my water with you, private chat for photo and video!"
"???"
"Is there business here too?"
"Can you deliver?"
"Even if you can deliver, would you dare open the door?"
"Uh... not really!"
"Brother, you can just extend the tool outside without opening the door!"
"Get lost!"
The conversation gradually veered off course, beyond correction.
However, most people were engaged in serious trading.
Quite a few people could find water sources nearby, but a large portion, like Qi Yuan, hadn't even seen a trace of water.
Water is the first necessity for sustaining life.
So many people began trading freshwater.
But a problem arose!
The container for holding water!
In the Trading Market, when a transaction is completed, items are transported to the other person's cabin by the system.
If freshwater is transported without a container, it spills directly onto the ground.
This troubled many people.
Buyers were frustrated, seeing water but unable to drink it.
Sellers were even more frustrated, unable to obtain the resources right in front of them.
This brings up an important point.
The issue of crafting items!
In the cabin, only cabin upgrades can be completed directly through the system.
But you can't directly craft other tools.
For example, a cup can't be made just by putting in materials.
The same goes for a pickaxe; you can't just put a stone and a piece of wood together to make one.
Crafting items requires a Crafting Scroll; otherwise, you have to make them by hand.
Handmade tools not only perform poorly but also lack additional functions, like accelerating plant growth in a Flower Bed.
So, the importance of Crafting Scrolls in the future is self-evident.
This design also prevents early exploitation of advantageous spawn locations for massive profit.
At the same time, it significantly increases the difficulty of survival.
Facing the dilemma of not having a cup, everyone had to find another way.
Using wood.
Carving a hole in the wood to hold water.
This simple and crude method maintained the normal operation of the freshwater trade.
Of course, some discovered bamboo and used bamboo tubes as containers, making a profit as well.
"If only there was a Crafting Scroll for disposable cups right now," Qi Yuan smacked his lips, unable to help but sigh.
But that was wishful thinking, as obtaining scrolls was already difficult.
Moreover, even if you got one, you couldn't control the type of scroll.
Various trades emerged in the Trading Market, leading to disputes and chaos.
"Brother, how black is your heart? Trading 1 unit of wood for 20ml of water? I gather fifty or sixty units of wood a day, and I still can't afford water?"
"Buy it or not, the water's with me, plenty of people will buy it, if you don't, don't complain!"
"Sorry, but no one's buying from you, there are plenty of water sellers!"
"Yeah, let's all boycott these unscrupulous merchants!"
"I even saw someone trade 300ml for a piece of wood earlier!"
The spontaneously formed Trading Market was very unstable.
Prices were either too high or too low.
But soon, the initial chaos settled down.
The price of freshwater stabilized at a reasonable range.
100ml of freshwater for one unit of wood.
This price was acceptable to most people.
So the Trading Market generally stabilized at this price, with little fluctuation.
Freshwater wasn't an especially scarce resource.
About 5% to 6% of people could find water sources nearby.
As exploration deepens, more people will inevitably find water sources.
Prices for resources other than freshwater fluctuated greatly.
While searching for "Flesh Essence" and "Seeds," Qi Yuan saw many exorbitantly priced items.
"Half a carrot, trade for 100 wood or 50 stones. The bite marks are mine, not from an animal!"
"A pair of thermal underwear, trade for 100 stones, essential for resisting the Cold Wave!"
"Chair Crafting Scroll, 200 wood + 100 stones."
"999 Cold Remedy, one pack for various food or basic resources! Stones preferred!"
"Cucumber Seeds, trade for 50 stones! Private chat!!"
"..."
The current Trading Market had extremely volatile prices.
Many items were priced quite high.
Under normal circumstances, in six hours a day, you could work for over four hours.
The harvested wood would be at most seventy or eighty pieces.
And that's without ensuring basic food needs.
If the resources collected daily can't meet basic dietary needs, how can you talk about resisting the Cold Wave?
Soon, you'd be eliminated by the Mist World.
Qi Yuan noticed that the number of people in the region and the total number of survivors had changed significantly.
Whether it was encountering beasts or some insurmountable difficulties, it was clear that the Mist World wasn't a peaceful farming paradise, and the dangers hidden in the mist were countless.
Browsing the chat channel, Qi Yuan found many things interesting.
Especially the brother who was born by the river and found potatoes after a few steps.
"Potato..." Qi Yuan muttered to himself.
Potatoes are tuber plants that can be planted by cutting them into small pieces.
The planting method is simple, easy to survive, and yields a lot.
Qi Yuan opened a private chat with this person named Zhou Ming.
In the chat channel, real names are displayed, and everyone's nickname is their name.
Just like Qi Yuan, if he posted a message in the chat channel, his nickname would be Qi Yuan.
Qi Yuan: Hello, how many potatoes did you find? I can trade stones for them.
Qi Yuan sent a simple message without saying much more, worried that showing too much eagerness would raise the price.
After waiting for two minutes, there was no response, probably because there were too many messages to reply to.
Qi Yuan continued to browse the Trading Market.
With 163 stones, he was considered well-off.
Currently, wood had become the basic currency in the Trading Market.
Because on the first day, there was only an axe, so people could only chop trees, and most people only had wood.
And not much of it, generally around sixty or seventy pieces.
Some people made their own pickaxes and mined some stones, but the quantity was very small.
Homemade pickaxes had very low mining efficiency and were prone to damage.
Qi Yuan considered the prices in the Trading Market, thinking about what ratio to use to acquire wood.
1:2?
1:3?
Maybe tonight he could upgrade the cabin to level two.
Just then, an announcement appeared on everyone's Mist Survival Manual.
[Mist Announcement:
Congratulations on surviving the first day.
But this is just the beginning, the Cold Wave is approaching, please stock up on supplies and prepare for warmth.
On the first day, many have received the Mist World's gift, Resource Chests!
Today's Resource Chest acquisition rate is:
Wooden Resource Chest: 1.286%
Bronze Resource Chest: 0.00142%
Now announcing a Temporary Mission, those who upgrade their cabin on the first day will receive a Novice Survival Pack!]
The announcement caused the entire chat channel to erupt.
"What Resource Chest? How did I not know?"
"I didn't see one either! Did I miss something?"
"This must be a rare resource that spawns randomly!"
"I should have wandered around more instead of chopping trees, maybe I could have found a Resource Chest!"
"Did any brothers get one?!"
"Surely many have, I just saw someone bragging in the chat channel!"
"Yeah, I even mocked him, didn't think it was true!"
"Hahaha, I told you so! Now do you believe me? Come, come, come, the bread I got from the Wooden Resource Chest, half left, trade for 20 stones, offer expires soon!"
"Don't be silly, without a pickaxe to mine, no one has many stones!"
"By the way, shouldn't Resource Chests contain tools like pickaxes?"
"Yeah, yeah! Although only a little over 1% got Resource Chests, there are so many people!"
"7 billion people, 1.286% means over 90 million people got Wooden Resource Chests, 0.00142%... okay, I can't calculate that!"
"0.00142% should be less than 100,000."
"Amazing!"
"666!"
"Didn't expect so many hidden Lucky Ones!"
"Sigh! I wanted to quietly get rich, but now everyone knows, hahahahaha!"
"Little Wooden Resource Chest, nothing to brag about! Don't be too envious, hahahaha!"
"Little Bronze Resource Chest, nothing to brag about! Don't be too envious, hahahaha!"
Seeing more and more Resource Chest recipients appear, Qi Yuan couldn't help but sigh:
Although the proportion isn't large, with such a huge population base, there are quite a few lucky ones who got Resource Chests.
However, those like himself who got two Resource Chests are surely rare!
"Big shots, what's in the Resource Chests? Show us!"
"Yeah, what's the good stuff!"
"They're all keeping it to themselves, not sharing!"
Before long, several item details appeared on the chat screen.
Even Qi Yuan couldn't help but gasp!
"These bastards, what kind of luck did they step in!!!"