Chapter 20 The System's Overt Scheme
After the five lantern fruits were harvested, the original plant disappeared, leaving behind five seeds.
Yu Qi plans to plant these five seeds again tomorrow. After the newbie protection shield is removed, everyone will definitely need lantern fruits. Planting more of them will also allow them to be exchanged for resources.
As for the mutant sunflower, it not only has a long growth period, but also requires an investment of energy every day to maintain.
However, looking at the initial form of this sunflower, Yu Qi felt that she hadn't lost out. This sunflower was very likely an offensive plant, which could help her guard her vehicle in the future!
With the remaining time, she used some resources to buy empty chests from acquaintances, and then dismantled the forty chests she had opened to upgrade her homestead once again.
Vehicles and homes began to rumble and rumble, and Yu Qi resumed his daily practice of improving his skills.
The reason I say this is because she can actually see the proficiency level.
Every time I shoot a slingshot or an arrow, a golden +1 icon pops up next to me.
Although the Homestead System didn't explain it, Yu Qi knew that it was the same as the proficiency system in the game, but the game seemed incomplete and many functions were not displayed.
It's okay, as long as she gets the hang of it, her efforts won't be in vain!
Although her initial accuracy was a bit poor, as long as she calms down and practices, her accuracy will definitely improve, and one day she will be able to hit the bullseye every time!
Yu Qi was absolutely convinced, so he picked up the Crimson Feather Piercing Arrow again and began to wreak havoc on the monsters outside.
This time she made thorough preparations. First, she placed a lantern fruit on top of her vehicle, and then placed one in each of the four directions of the protective shield.
The area within a 4.5-meter radius was instantly illuminated.
Yu Qi even saw a pitch-black tiger snoring near the protective shield, nestled there like a shadow.
Shadow Tiger seemed to smell a faint, unpleasant odor, but it shook its head, finding it perfectly tolerable, and continued to curl up there licking its fur.
Some of the monsters with shorter health bars disappeared, leaving only a few with thicker health bars.
Thick health bars are great! These monsters are easier to practice against, as they won't kill you in one hit.
Yu Qi quickly drew his bow and shot an arrow, aiming it at the health bars.
If Shadow Tiger's health bar is fifty bars, then other monsters generally have around ten or twenty bars.
Each time the Heart Piercing Arrow hits a monster, one bar of health disappears into thin air. If the arrow hits near the heart, two or even three bars of health will be lost instantly.
Once, Yu Qi shot a snake right at its vital spot, and the snake's health bar instantly dropped by half.
If her power doubled, that snake would definitely have its health bar emptied!
The Shadow Tiger outside the protective shield skillfully tossed the monsters in, gently pushed away the arrows that had missed their mark, and then quickly moved away from the battlefield to avoid being caught in the crossfire.
Seeing Yinghu's swift figure, Yu Qi's expression turned strange.
Could she have actually formed an alliance with this tiger?
However, the health bar above the opponent's head did slowly change, transitioning from a light red to yellow.
In any case, this is a good thing.
However, Yu Qi would not let his guard down completely; he still needed to remain vigilant until the health bar above the shadow tiger's head turned completely green.
Furthermore, she still harbored doubts about some of these things.
How did this shadow tiger manage to catch up with us? Doesn't it have its own den?
After the upgrade, her vehicle will definitely be faster. Will Shadow Tiger still be able to catch up?
Forget it, let's talk about tomorrow's problems tomorrow.
The vehicles and the home base are now fully upgraded. Let's check out the upgraded vehicles first.
Vehicle: Level 4 Van (Max speed 40km/h, 100% battery, upgrade resources required: 0/60 Refined Iron, 0/30 Polymer Plastic, 0/6 Reinforced Glass, 1/4 Reinforced Tires, 23/50 Universal Metal, 2/50 Intermediate Energy Heart)
Intermediate Energy Heart: Ten ordinary energy hearts can be combined to form one intermediate energy heart.
(Note: A mid-level energy core can be synthesized from a level 4 or higher vehicle core.)
Yu Qi's pupils contracted. The upgrade materials for level 4 vehicles had all changed, and all the materials needed to be synthesized at a workbench!
Ten ordinary materials are needed for both tempered glass and tempered tires, as are refined iron and polymer plastics.
But the number of workbenches is limited, so how can everyone have a workbench?
What is this system going to do? Will it eliminate all players who don't have a crafting table in the future?
Looking at the additional notification at the bottom, she was now certain that the system was playing a dirty trick!
If a Tier 4 or higher vehicle core can be synthesized into a mid-level energy heart, then killing fifty people is enough to bypass the massive resource exchange and directly advance!
Players like Yu Qi, who control their homestead and can produce a large amount of resources every day, naturally have no shortage of 500 ordinary energy hearts. But what about other powerful players who don't care about human lives?
There will definitely be such a serial killer appearing at that time. What should the other players do?
Upgrades may be locked by those players.
Without upgrading, there's no way to cope with the ever-increasing game difficulty. This system has really come up with a clever plan!
There was no server-wide announcement for the first vehicle upgrade, and Yu Qi doesn't know what level other players, or players from other regions, have reached.
She needs to hurry up and improve her skills!
Who knows what kind of weird cards the system might throw out next? Like a vehicle travel card, a highway location card, a player curse card, or a parallel highway travel card?
With anxieties about the future, Yu Qimeng flaunted a bottle of spicy meat sauce. Only after seeing his strength increase by five points to 47 did he breathe a sigh of relief.
She got a new meat sauce, took three more bites, and then stopped when she found it didn't improve her condition.
It seems that the food produced in the food processing workshop is also limited; a single type of food can only increase an attribute value once a day.
She put all the remaining sauce into the storage container given to her by the uniformed black cat, and then went to the Seeking Immortals Home.
The homestead has been upgraded to level three, and the warehouse has been expanded by five more slots, bringing the total to thirty slots.
This time, three more plots of land were added, bringing the total to eight plots. This also made the food processing workshops able to produce food faster.
Click to use the Heart of Energy to repair the previous land. She then floated onto the three newly opened plots of land, dragging her fishtail.
Each plot of land can be planted with five seeds. She originally planted five mutated wheat seeds, but she didn't expect that she could sow more seeds after scattering them. In the end, she planted all five ears of mutated wheat. Only then did the plot of land indicate that the plant was growing and could not be planted.
In the other plots of land, she scattered five lantern fruit seeds and five tomato seeds.
Finally, she came to the mutated sunflower, gently patted its leaves, and murmured, "Little sunflower, I hope you grow up and mature quickly!"
Yu Qi took the opportunity to take out the intermediate energy heart to examine it, but when she turned her head, she saw the mutated sunflower move, swallow the intermediate energy heart in her hand, then saturate and fall asleep.
The reason she said he fell asleep is because she saw a row of "zZZ" floating out from above his head.
Yu Qi: "..."
Goodness, this thing isn't even fully grown yet, and it's already feeding itself!
She reasonably suspected that the mutated sunflower was pretending to be asleep!
Wait a minute, the ripening time of sunflowers has been shortened by a day!
In other words, this guy will be fully mature by tomorrow night!
Exchanging one intermediate-level energy heart for a day's time—no matter how you look at it, you're still losing out! That's ten ordinary energy hearts!
Yu Qi then took the Ordinary Energy Heart and looked around at the lantern fruit, tomatoes, and wheat, only stopping when he found that none of the seedlings were moving.
Is it only mutant crops that can be cultivated in this way?
Wait a minute, mutant wheat is also a mutant crop, so why won't it work?
Let's try again tomorrow. Maybe we need to nurture it for a while first so that the mutant crop can grow teeth!