He scrolled a few more pages down the forum and finally saw some useful posts.
"That Black Bear Beast in the suburbs of Rongcheng North District has the strength of a Second Rank Initial Stage. It's incredibly strong. If you don't have a Second Order Middle Stage Cultivator leading your team, you'd better not mess with it.
Our team accidentally ran into it this morning. After a brief clash, our captain, who is at the Second Rank Initial Stage, was seriously injured while covering our retreat."
"We encountered that pack of Forest Wolf Beasts in the Rongcheng West District suburbs, about five kilometers from Erxian Bridge. The size of the pack was unknown.
There were fifteen Forest Wolf Beasts in total. The strongest, the alpha, was at the First Rank High Stage, while the others were generally at the First Rank Middle Stage.
Except for the alpha, which escaped, our team killed all the other Forest Wolf Beasts, suffering only minor injuries in the process."
After browsing the forum for half an hour, Lin Li closed the application. His biggest takeaway was that hunting Mutant Beasts in the wild was incredibly dangerous, and injuries were common.
Moreover, after reading so many posts, he discovered that all the posters had joined Exotic Beast Hunter teams; not a single one was a lone wolf.
Because of his "golden finger," Lin Li needed to acquire the flesh and blood of a Mutant Beast within an hour of its death, which made it impossible for him to join an Exotic Beast Hunter team.
If he were just trying to earn money, he could have temporarily joined one of those Exotic Beast Hunter teams to hunt Mutant Beasts together.
'Sigh…' Lin Li scratched his head in frustration. 'I'll give it a try on my own tomorrow. If that doesn't work, I'll have to figure something else out… I'm getting a little hungry. I'll make a bowl of noodles with egg and shredded pork for now!'
He picked up his phone and checked the time. It was already 11:30 AM. Lin Li got up, walked into the kitchen, and started cooking the noodles.
...
「Three in the afternoon.」
A figure appeared out of thin air on the Mysterious Small Island.
This figure had a damp towel hanging around his neck. He held a hoe in his left hand and a plastic bucket in his right. Inside the bucket were a small red plastic bag and a ceramic cup.
It was still a long time until his Mutant Beast hunt the next day. With nothing to do at home, Lin Li had decided to visit the Mysterious Small Island after his afternoon nap. He wanted to try planting some vegetables and see if they would even grow here.
Although Lin Li had never farmed before, he'd seen others do it. How hard could it be?
Besides, with the internet being what it was, he could just look up farming tutorials on video sites. Even if he couldn't become an expert farmer overnight, just copying the motions shouldn't turn out too badly.
Placing the plastic bucket on the grass, Lin Li shouldered the hoe that had cost him fifteen yuan, picked a spot in the northeast corner of the Mysterious Small Island, and began to till the land.
"Hup…"
"Hup…"
"Hup…"
Having carefully studied videos of expert farmers, Lin Li looked quite the part as he started to till the field.
He bent at the waist, swinging the hoe in his hands, clearing the weeds and loosening the soil.
Although the space where the Mysterious Small Island was located had a pleasant temperature, feeling neither hot nor cold, Lin Li was currently swinging a hoe and tilling the land. It was all physical labor, and it was hard not to get hot.
About ten minutes later, Lin Li was covered in sweat from tilling the land. He used the damp towel draped around his neck to wipe the sweat from his forehead.
Even though he had carefully watched the videos of expert farmers beforehand, when it came to actually doing it, he discovered it wasn't as simple as he'd thought while watching.
Lin Li had originally planned to spend half an hour tilling a fifty-square-meter plot of land, but in reality, it took him over an hour to finish the job.
'Man, I didn't think tilling a small plot of land would be this exhausting.' After finishing, Lin Li wiped the sweat from his face with the damp towel, then thumped his aching back.
But, as tiring as it was, looking at the field he had tilled with his own two hands, a happy smile appeared on Lin Li's face.
The field was ready. Next was to plant the vegetable seeds.
Lin Li walked over to the plastic bucket he'd left at the edge of the island. He first took out his ceramic cup, squatted down, filled it with water, and GULP GULP GULP, drank it all in one go.
"So good…" Drinking a big glass of water after hard labor was incredibly refreshing.
Placing the cup on the grass, Lin Li took the red plastic bag out of the bucket and pulled out a packet of white radish seeds.
Then, he filled the plastic bucket halfway with water. Holding the seeds in his left hand and carrying the bucket in his right, he walked toward the field he had just tilled.
He poked a hole in the dirt with his finger, then placed four to five white radish seeds inside.
He repeated this process. After more than half an hour, having watered all the newly planted seeds, Lin Li gazed at the field with a fond expression.
'Grow, come on, grow! You'd better sprout! Don't let nearly two hours of my time go to waste.'
With his goal of tilling the field and planting the white radishes accomplished, Lin Li fetched some more water in the plastic bucket and watered the Magical Little Tree in the center of the island.
Then, he left the cup, bucket, and hoe right there on the island and returned to the real world.
On the empty and quiet Mysterious Small Island, in the plot of farmland that Lin Li had tilled...
An hour after Lin Li had left the Mysterious Small Island, the white radish seeds planted in the soil actually began to sprout.
...
The space containing the Mysterious Small Island had no day or night.
When Lin Li emerged after being busy on the island for over two hours, it was already past 5:00 PM on Blue Star, and the sky outside was growing dim.
Because he had bought the hoe, Lin Li, who originally had only seventy yuan, now had just fifty-five left.
'Sigh... Looks like it's noodles with egg and shredded pork again tonight.'
Just as Lin Li, who could no longer afford takeout, was about to go to the kitchen to make himself a bowl of noodles, his phone rang in his pocket.
RING RING...
He pulled out his phone and looked at the caller ID. It was Su Yue.
The moment he saw the call was from Su Yue, the image that popped into Lin Li's mind wasn't her charming face or her incredibly voluptuous figure, but the mountain of delicious food she'd cooked before.
Having eaten nothing but noodles with egg and shredded pork since yesterday, the thought of Su Yue's delicious cooking made Lin Li's mouth water uncontrollably.
"Hello..."
"Lin Li, have you had dinner yet?"
"Not yet! Have you?"
"I haven't eaten either! I made some dumplings and was just about to cook them. Want to come over and have some?"
'Dumplings, my favorite…' Just as Lin Li was about to say yes, he swallowed the words on the tip of his tongue.
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PS: Thanks to "08a" for the 100-point tip.