【Survivor Andersen has exited the train. Beginner tools awarded: one wooden pickaxe and one wooden axe】
The familiar Mechanical Voice rang out in his mind, followed by a flash of white light.
A wooden pickaxe and a wooden axe suddenly appeared in An Bai's hands.
An Bai could understand the wooden pickaxe, but this wooden axe...
【Ding! Common grade tools—wooden pickaxe and wooden axe】
Description: Even though it can be done by hand, it still looks down on that.
An Bai: “......”
He took out the Railway Survival Manual to learn about everyone's situation. The chat inside mentioned that beginner tools would be issued when people exited the train.
However, everyone's tools were different. Some received a Wooden Hammer, while others received a wooden barrel.
It seemed that everyone's beginner tools were made of wood; the only difference was that some people received one item while others received two.
The World Channel even showed someone who had received three beginner tools. They really must have been blessed by fortune!
“The most important thing now is to collect energy and other materials.”
An Bai walked in the direction where he had previously passed out. It was a pine forest.
Every pine tree here was astonishingly tall, and pine resin occasionally dripped from the trunks onto the ground.
To improve efficiency, An Bai directly used the wooden axe to shave off the partially solidified pine resin together with the bark, placing it in a relatively conspicuous corner.
The wooden axe was not good enough for chopping trees, but it could still barely manage to chop bark.
Fortunately, it was not Mist Mode on the first day. In less than an hour, An Bai collected approximately twenty jin of solid pine resin.
“I should be able to enter the System Shop now, right?”
Panting heavily, An Bai dropped onto the ground covered with pine needles and took out the Railway Survival Manual.
He turned directly to the third page. Sure enough, the System Shop was no longer restricted.
When he tapped into it, four large words immediately appeared before An Bai's eyes: Bronze Shop.
The Bronze Shop had four categories: food, water, energy, and materials.
There was a lock icon in the materials section, meaning that this section was temporarily unavailable to the public.
Without a second thought, An Bai tapped into the water section. A person could endure seven days without food, but they could not last three days without water.
The System Shop displayed a water reserve of ten thousand liters, equivalent to ten tons of water.
This amount of water was undoubtedly a drop in the bucket before three billion people. In reality, it had sold out ten minutes after everyone crossed over.
An Bai hurriedly tapped into the food section.
Fortunately, the food had not sold out. Approximately five hundred jin remained.
He quickly took out several pieces of solid pine resin and placed them into the “Sell Goods” slot indicated by the manual. A flash of white light passed by.
The pieces of solid pine resin vanished, replaced by two potatoes.
By the time An Bai's transaction was complete, the food in the System Shop had also sold out.
There was another clear ding.
【Transactions in the System Shop are determined by the rarity of the supplies provided by survivors. Naturally, less rare items exchange for fewer supplies】
【The System Shop reserves the right of final interpretation】
An Bai immediately opened the chat page. Sure enough, most people were cursing and complaining.
“What a heartless capitalist! Thirty jin of wood only got me half a Potato. This is the result of nearly two hours of hard work!”
“That's not bad, kid. I gathered fifty jin of stone and only got one cabbage leaf.”
“A cabbage leaf boiled into soup can keep you going for a day.”
“Drink cabbage soup in the morning, smell it at noon, and eat the cabbage leaf in the evening as a reward for a day's hard work.”
“Invincible, brother!” someone liked his idea.
“I tried it. The condition before the grave was excellent.”
“Looks like this brother has had an experience like that.”
“Ahahaha, looks like not many people Teleported to the desert. I casually gathered two Barrels of sand and exchanged them for a Potato.”
“Damn, that works too?”
“Desert brother, add me as a friend. I just love being a man living in the desert.”
“Earlier, I thought anyone who crossed over to the desert was doomed. Who would have thought they could make it work like this?”
“This System Shop doesn't play by the rules. I can't believe I honestly chopped trees.”
“A minute of silence for Honest Brother.”
“I'm a woman!”
“A minute and a half of silence for Honest Sister.”
.....
An Bai put those thoughts aside and opened the energy section again.
Since the initial energy was only enough to keep the train running for three days, he had to make preparations for energy as early as possible.
There was only one product for sale in the energy section: coal.
Unlike the food and water that people were scrambling for, relatively few people were buying coal.
However, the coal reserve provided by the System Shop was also considerably smaller than the food and water reserves.
There had been approximately ten thousand jin of coal, of which around two thousand jin remained. It would probably sell out within half an hour.
He placed the remaining pine resin on the ground as instructed by the manual, and another flash of white light appeared.
The amount of coal he received this time was not large. An Bai roughly estimated it at only five jin.
Watching the coal reserve in the System Shop dwindle, An Bai did not dare delay and continued collecting pine resin.
To exchange for as much coal as possible, An Bai exchanged it every time he finished collecting pine resin within a ten-meter-radius area.
In this way, before the coal reserve was emptied, he exchanged for approximately another four jin of coal.
“After all that rushing, I finally managed to get some.”
An Bai sat on the ground to rest, his clothes already soaked through with sweat.
“If only I had some water.” He really wanted a sip.
He looked around. Although he was in a forest, it did not look like a place with water.
Pine trees were drought-resistant plants, and they generally did not grow near water sources.
He turned to the third page again. There was a player trading channel there.
“Does anyone have extra water? I have pine resin to trade.”
Not long after he posted it publicly, one person found An Bai and sent him a private message.
Hoping to Survive: “Hello, are you saying you have pine resin?”
“Yes. There is a fairly small pine forest near me with a little pine resin.”
An Bai kept his thoughts to himself. In reality, the pine forest where he was located was very large.
“I don't need much. I just want all the pine resin near you.”
After saying that, the person directly sent over a cup of water.
An Bai took the wooden cup and drained it in one gulp, then sent the cup back.
“Looks like this guy has a river nearby.” He sensed a faint fishy smell in his mouth.
“Give me half an hour.” An Bai left him with that sentence and continued working.
Half an hour later......
An Bai collected approximately ten jin of pine resin and opened the Trading Channel.
“I have eight jin of pine resin here.”
“Really? That much!”
“Yes. I searched carefully from beginning to end to gather this much.”
“All right! Three cups of water for it, deal? I'll also give you a wooden cup.”
“Deal!”
An Bai and that fellow traded back and forth three times, sending him the eight jin of pine resin in separate batches.
He likewise sent An Bai three cups of water in separate batches using a wooden cup.
After drinking two cups, An Bai placed the remaining cup on a relatively flat patch of ground.
“Since you seem sincere, let's add each other as friends,” that fellow said.
“Sure!” An Bai readily agreed. After all, more friends meant more options.
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