Duan Lili looked ahead. The riverbank was an open, treeless clearing. The small floral-patterned, rustic-style sofa lay there all alone.
Where could she go to relieve herself?
After thinking for a moment, Duan Lili chose a spot about twenty meters away from the sofa, positioned horizontally, and tried to control the retrieval of Wood Blocks from her Personal Inventory.
The first Wood Block was placed on the ground. When Duan Lili took out the second Wood Block from the warehouse and placed it directly on top of the first one, the two one-meter-cubed wooden cubes merged, becoming a cube with a length and width of one meter but a height of two meters.
She took out the third block and placed it snugly against the first one. The third block also merged in.
The three Wood Blocks fused into an L-shaped whole.
Success! This proved that, with the System’s support, she could directly use materials to construct buildings.
Duan Lili attempted to retrieve the first Wood Block from the L-shaped fused wooden structure, and it worked. The moment the first Wood Block was retrieved, the second block above it lost its support and, unable to float in mid-air, fell onto the spot where the first block had been, merging horizontally with the third block again.
This block manipulation was actually the same mode as in sandbox games on mobile phones. The System that had possessed Duan Lili had two different modes simultaneously, which felt quite incongruous.
But Duan Lili was currently in urgent need of a bathroom and had no time to ponder this deeply. She hastily arranged the three Wood Blocks on the ground in a triangular shape resembling the character 'pin', took out the Small Wooden Knife to use as a shovel, dug a shallow pit in the middle to prevent splashing, then retrieved a wooden plank and placed it over the opening of the triangular shape. Squatting inside, she relieved herself.
Ah, what a relief…
This temporary toilet used three Wood Blocks and one wooden plank and could continue to be used. Under the current circumstances, Duan Lili was quite satisfied.
The sky grew darker, and Duan Lili took out a torch.
The torch was a one-meter-long wooden rod, with something wrapped around its head that burned brightly. It provided both light and warmth.
Duan Lili held the torch and returned to the sofa.
Sitting on the sofa, she took out a piece of raw wood to examine. The raw wood turned out to be a tree trunk without roots or branches, still covered in bark.
She put away the raw wood and took out the Small Wooden Hammer. First, she spent ten minutes consuming one piece of raw wood to craft four Wood Blocks. She propped her legs up, took out three Wood Blocks, and placed them in front of the sofa, pressing them tightly against it.
This sofa of Duan Lili’s was one she had bought herself after renting an apartment, dissatisfied with the landlord’s worn-out sofa.
The three-seater fabric sofa had a wooden main frame, three seat cushions, and three back cushions. Its overall length was exactly three meters, perfectly blocked off by the three Wood Blocks.
Duan Lili tried to prop the torch upright on a Wood Block by hand, but it wouldn’t stay. She retrieved the torch into the warehouse and then performed a "retrieve" operation to place it directly on the Wood Block. With a "thud," the torch stood firmly on the Wood Block.
The connection point merged, as if the torch had grown out of the Wood Block.
Duan Lili took off her Coarse Cloth Shoes and placed them on another Wood Block, then lay down.
The Wood Blocks were one meter high, considerably taller than the sofa’s surface. Pressed tightly against the sofa, they, along with the sofa back, enclosed Duan Lili. This way, even if she fell asleep, her hands and feet wouldn’t extend beyond the sofa.
The Safe Zone was bounded by the edges of the sofa. Stretching hands or feet beyond it risked being bitten or attacked by some animal, but blocking it with Wood Blocks eliminated that fear.
This feeling reminded Duan Lili of her days in boarding school.
During winter and summer vacations, most classmates would return home, but some, like Duan Lili, were entrusted entirely to the school by their parents. Some had parents too busy with work, often in distant cities or countries, while others, like Duan Lili, were children no one wanted.
In winter, when her dorm mates went home, she lived alone. On pitch-black nights, she would curl her hands and feet under the blankets, afraid to extend them, always feeling as if something lurking in the darkness might bite them.
It was as though the blanket was some magical Barrier, protecting her safety.
Now, unexpectedly, it had become the sofa, and the Barrier had turned real.
As night fell, stars gradually lit up in the sky.
Though lying down, Duan Lili wasn’t idle. Holding the Small Wooden Hammer, she processed raw wood one by one into Wood Blocks, planks, and wooden rods.
The stars grew brighter, gradually filling the night sky. Though illuminated by the torch, its small flame seemed as tiny as a firefly in the vast darkness.
Each Crafting session consumed ten minutes. After admiring the seemingly unpolluted night sky for a while, Duan Lili closed her eyes.
Another piece of raw wood decomposed. Duan Lili opened her eyes, ready to process the next one, but suddenly froze—in the sky above, the moon had risen. Two of them.
One was a Yellow Moon, white with a faint hint of pale yellow, and the other was a Blue Moon, shimmering with a soft blue glow.
This proved that this place was indeed not Earth. The System had brought her to a completely unknown world.
While gazing at the two beautiful moons, Duan Lili continued processing raw wood.
She decomposed raw wood to make Wood Blocks. Over four hours, she decomposed 25 pieces of raw wood, crafting 100 Wood Blocks. However, there was already 1 Wood Block in the warehouse. When the count in that slot reached "100," the extra Wood Block occupied the slot previously emptied by the torch.
She had tested it: the capacity limit for a single slot in the warehouse was 100.
To verify this data, the moon had already reached its zenith. Duan Lili was exhausted, yawning.
Honestly, not having a roof overhead still felt quite insecure. Duan Lili leaned over the sofa back and glanced toward the southern forest—oh my, what were all those pairs of green, glowing eyes in the night? Terrifying.
Duan Lili quickly lay back down, afraid the eyes in the forest might spot her.
She didn’t dare put away the torch either. The darkness of a world without lighting was too frightening.
Tomorrow, she must remember to make more torches.
Accompanied by the torch, Duan Lili curled up in the narrow space squeezed between the Wood Blocks and the sofa. She covered her face with her home T-shirt to avoid being bitten into a swollen mess by mosquitoes, closed her eyes, and gradually fell asleep.
The first day in this otherworld had come to an end, and it could be considered safely passed.
In nature, untouched by human civilization, there was no such thing as "sleeping in." When the birdsong changed from sporadic "chirps" to a chorus of "chirp-chirp-chirp," Duan Lili naturally woke up.
Opening her eyes, she took a deep breath, filled with the fresh scent of grass and trees. Perhaps due to the proximity to the river, the air was very humid, making her skin feel comfortable.
Sitting up, before her were three wooden blocks each one meter square. On one stood a steadily burning torch, on another lay her coarse cloth shoes.
Looking ahead was the river, with flat banks, forests, and mountains on the opposite side.
Looking behind, it was much the same.
Not far away, the makeshift restroom she had set up yesterday was still there—three wooden blocks and one wooden board, standing alone.
None of this was a dream; it was real. She had crossed over into a world with two moons and was currently in a place with no human presence for hundreds of miles around.
Since there was no way back, she might as well make the best of it.
Duan Lili stretched lazily. The sun had just risen, and the morning was a bit chilly, making her long sleeves and pants perfectly suitable.
Picking up her shoes, she tried to first store the three wooden blocks and the torch in front of her. She managed to store two, but the one with the torch stuck in it wouldn’t budge.
Trying to store the torch alone didn’t work either—the warehouse was full.
How she hated not having enough warehouse space!
Duan Lili slipped on her shoes, took out the snake sinew—whose use she still didn’t know—to free up a slot, stored the torch, and left one wooden block behind, placing it in front of the sofa to serve as a makeshift coffee table.
Checking the torch, she found its durability hadn’t dropped; it was still at 100.
Duan Lili remembered a sandbox game she used to play worked the same way: as long as you didn’t use the torch as a weapon to fight monsters, it wouldn’t be consumed.
An eternal torch.
Duan Lili took out the small wooden knife and held it in her hand, cautiously approaching the riverbank to observe for a while. If the snake from yesterday had any family or mates, she would run if she could, luring it to the sofa area to deal with it. After all, she couldn’t go through the experience of being swallowed and suffocated again.
But the riverbank was quiet, with no unusual movements. Duan Lili tapped the water with the small wooden knife and tossed a few stones into the center of the river.
Her Strength was now 10, twice what it used to be, making it effortless to throw small stones. With one stone, she deliberately used all her strength, nearly throwing it to the opposite bank.
She could never have done that before. Duan Lili clenched and unclenched her fist, feeling her newfound strength, and gained a bit more confidence about surviving in this otherworldly place.
Seeing the river surface calm and peaceful, Duan Lili finally felt at ease. She crouched down, washed her face, and rinsed her mouth.
Shaking the water off her face, she returned to the sofa. Using the river water in the cola bottle, she took out the steamed bun she had bitten into twice yesterday and continued eating.
A warm steamed bun in the early morning was truly delicious!
With one hand holding the bun to munch on and the other gripping the small wooden hammer, she managed to craft a small wooden axe while eating breakfast.
It consumed [wooden rod 1, Wood Block 1].
Speaking of which, when she crafted for the first time yesterday, she had no experience and hadn’t yet taken out a Wood Block to see it with her own eyes, so she hadn’t given it much thought. Now, thinking about it, a Wood Block was a massive one-meter-by-one-meter square—how could it only make a toy-like small axe?
What a waste.
Despite grumbling, Duan Lili continued crafting small wooden axes.
But the crafting time was simply too long, and Duan Lili couldn’t afford to waste time just waiting. Holding the small wooden hammer in her left hand to continue crafting, she took out the small wooden axe with her right hand and went to the edge of the forest, attempting to craft and gather simultaneously.
No problem—the small wooden hammer and small wooden axe didn’t interfere with each other. After swinging the small wooden axe ten times, a tree fell with a crash and promptly disappeared, while the warehouse slots gained three raw wood.
Duan Lili used up this Small Wooden Axe, chopping down ten trees and gathering a total of 35 raw wood.
Gathering was much faster than Crafting. It only took about a quarter of an hour to exhaust one Small Wooden Axe. The Crafting Interface had already produced another Small Wooden Axe, and a third one was halfway through its progress bar.
Duan Lili took out the newly crafted Small Wooden Axe and continued hacking at the trees. Today's goal was to have 100 raw wood in the warehouse.
This Small Wooden Axe yielded 34 raw wood. By then, Duan Lili had already crafted two more Small Wooden Axes, so she kept chopping trees.
She kept at it until the warehouse was filled with 100 raw wood.
However, the Small Wooden Axe in her hand had already lost 40 durability, so it couldn’t be stored in the same slot as the brand-new ones in the warehouse. The Crafting Interface was still working on another Small Wooden Axe.
Duan Lili thought for a moment and continued chopping trees. After felling six trees and gathering 20 raw wood, the Small Wooden Axe in her hand shattered. Just then, the Crafting Interface finished producing a new one.
Duan Lili carried the wooden hammer back, took out the 20 raw wood, and piled them into two stacks behind the sofa. Only then did she have an empty slot to store the Small Wooden Hammer.
These tools had to be carried at all times.
But the warehouse was always running out of space, which was really annoying. Duan Lili pondered how to organize the warehouse.
Tools had to be kept on hand, food needed to stay fresh, and other items could be taken out and placed elsewhere.
At that moment, Duan Lili noticed the empty wooden chest beside the sofa. Right, she still had a chest.
This was the Old Wooden Chest the System had given her for basic equipment. When she opened it yesterday, a flash of white light appeared, and the basic equipment automatically entered the warehouse. She hadn’t had time to deal with the remaining wooden chest back then.
It should be usable as an ordinary wooden chest, right?
Duan Lili walked over and lifted the lid of the chest.
As the lid opened, a Light Screen automatically appeared before her eyes.
Oh my god! It wasn’t an ordinary wooden chest after all!
It was a storage box with 20 slots!
Duan Lili was ecstatic!