[Four-Leaf Lucky Clover: If you burn it, it will bring you a stroke of good luck.]
'Good stuff!'
Ethan replied: ["Wait a moment, I'm making it! I've reserved your four-leaf clover."]
["Alright, thanks bro!"]
Soon after, Ethan received quite a few private messages.
But good items were scarce, until he received a strange message.
["Bro, want a Power Pill?"]
["Power Pill? What's a Power Pill?"]
[Trade request: 1 Power Pill : Exchange for 1 Compass]
[Power Pill: After taking it, your strength will increase by 100%, only effective the first time.]
[Ethan: "You want to trade this with me? Don' t you use it yourself?"]
[Reply: "I got two from a silver chest. I ate one already, the second one is ineffective!"]
[Ethan: "Deal! But wait a bit, the compass is almost ready!"]
[Reply: "No problem, I'll wait big bro!"]
While checking private messages.
All 100 magnetic stones were finally refined into magnets.
[Fine Compass: In the fog, having a fine compass will absolutely save your life! Crafting requirements: Magnet 100/1, Glass 114/1, Resin 385/2]
[Fine Compass +100, Magnet -100, Glass -100, Resin -200]
Ethan first collected the Power Pill and the Four-Leaf Lucky Clover.
The clover was just an ordinary patch of grass, nothing different from the grass we'd see by the roadside as kids, the only difference was maybe there was a red exclamation mark on it.
As for the Power Pill.
It was a black, muddy lump that smelled a bit like cultivation pills of those cultivation manhuas.
Fortunately, there was a description. This world might be a bit weird, but the descriptions didn't lie.
He swallowed the Power Pill whole.
"Damn, it's spicy!"
Ethan almost choked on the Power Pill's heat. He hurriedly drank nearly a liter of water, but that burning sensation traveled from his throat down into his stomach, then into his intestines.
It was like a ball of fire running around inside his body, constantly burning his internal organs.
Ethan felt so uncomfortable he almost dashed outside to jump into any water he could find.
Unfortunately, the sun hadn't risen yet.
Who knows what dangers might be outside right now.
Ethan dared not take that risk.
At this moment, he longed even more for the upgraded villa that had a shower room and even a swimming pool. He wanted to jump into it right now.
Flames rolled and burned inside him.
Ethan quickly checked what else was needed to upgrade the villa. Right now he only wanted to get a pool built as soon as possible, otherwise he doubted he could extinguish the raging heat inside his body.
[Villa upgrade requirements: Advanced Stone 181/200, Mud 179/1000, Advanced Wood 130/100, Tree Vines 386/200, Glass 14/20, Earth-Element Beast Core 1/10, Fire-Element Beast Core 15/5, Water-Element Beast Core 0/5]
"Damn!"
'I basically don't have enough materials, especially the beast cores.'
Ethan felt his head spin. He hurriedly put the remaining 98 compasses up for sale. Mainly to collect materials for villa upgrades.
[1 Compass: exchange for 10 Advanced Wood]
[1 Compass: exchange for 20 Advanced Stone]
[1 Compass: exchange for 100 Mud]
[1 Compass: exchange for 100 Quartz Sand]
[1 Compass: 1 Earth-Type Beast Core (alternatives: 1 Fire-Type Beast Core, 1 Water-Type Beast Core)]
Soon, someone commented below: ["Big bro, how do you get beast cores? Can you explain in the region channel?"]
Reply: ["Sure!"]
Ethan came to the [Region Chat] channel. The online count was down to 123 people.
["People in the fog, I am invited to answer about beast cores."]
["It's simple: kill the monsters in the fog and you can easily get beast cores."]
["Damn! Big bro showed up!"]
[Then: "Bro, why did I kill a rabbit and not get a beast core?"]
["Yeah, I killed a pheasant yesterday and didn't see a beast core either. What's going on? Are we in different worlds than the big bro?"]
["Holy crap! You can even hit prey? How did you do it? I haven't even seen a single rabbit hair!"]
[Unified answer to the above questions!"], Ethan said, ["Too weak prey don't have beast cores, they must be special mutated variants to drop them. For example, the lightning leopard I killed had two beast cores. I also wiped out a beehive, there were a dozen or twenty mutated killer bees in it, and those dropped beast cores!"]
["Hiss!"]
["Hiss!"]
["Hiss +10086"]
After dozens of hisses lined up below.
Everyone resumed chatting.
["Big bro is terrifying. I'm still catching chickens and he's already tearing leopards apart with his bare hands."]
["Please big bro, give a monster-killing guide."]
["What's a lightning leopard? Just from the name it sounds terrifying."]
["What do you use to kill it? A broken axe?"]
["I'm going out today to find a leopard and one-on-one it."]
["Bro above, take it easy. You're not a big bro. Be careful or the leopard will pick you apart."]
["Anyway, sooner or later we'll all die. You've seen our original region had one thousand people and now only a hundred or so remain. And according to system prompts, today it will display the top one hundred ranking; everyone else will be wiped out."]
The chat fell silent.
Everyone knew this person was telling the truth, and blunt truths often hurt.
Except for a few specific big shots, no one knew their ranking.
If someone happened to be ranked 101, wouldn't that be an unbearably unjust death?
Everyone knew today would likely be their last chance to compete for ranking. If judged by the big shots' standards.
["Then you'd better kill enough monsters, or explore far enough to find enough chests, upgrade your house and gear, only then could you avoid elimination."]
["So cruel!"]
["Enough talk, I'm going out to kill monsters now."]
["It's eight o'clock, time to head out! I can do it!"]
["Has anyone noticed the fog still hasn't cleared today? How are we supposed to explore? Cry!"]
["Are you that out of touch? We've already started saving up to buy compasses! So we can find our way in the fog!"]
["Looking for partners to buy together, several people sharing one compass. Message me privately."]
["Looking for a team. I have 5 pieces of Advanced wood. Message me if you have Advanced wood; let's pool together to buy a compass."]
Anyone who's survived this long isn't weak. They all knew trying to survive alone was hard, cooperating made it easier to carve out a new world here.
———
As time passed, the heat inside Ethan's body slowly subsided. It seemed the Power Pill's medicinal effect had been fully absorbed.
He took a piece of wood, squeezed it hard.
Crack!
The wood split under Ethan's grip.
His strength had indeed increased a lot. Although he hadn't been weak before, it had been impossible for him to crush a piece of wood like that.
Thinking it over, Ethan took out more wood and tied them together.
Then he punched them with a heavy blow.
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