Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

Chapter 564 - 384: Strength Too Strong Feels a Bit Fake

He walked to the window and looked at the view outside.

The cold wind swept by, making Xu Xin, dressed lightly indoors, shiver slightly.

Although the temperature had risen, it was only in comparison to other areas where it was more than twenty degrees below zero.

The single-digit temperature wind was still very cold.

This winter, it would only truly pass after the activation of thirty Snow Mountain Arrays.

However, he didn’t really want this cold winter to end so soon.

After all, once the winter ended, the rewards for District 188, where they wouldn’t be attacked in dangerous areas, would disappear.

Thinking about it, the regions that received rewards probably didn’t want the severe winter to end too quickly.

What an insidious reward this is.

He opened the leaderboard.

Today, the number of people climbing the snow mountain had increased to 18.

District 188, District 1, and District 23 didn’t increase any further, as people from other areas reached the peak.

Their top three districts had basically exhausted their talents capable of climbing the snow mountain.

Unless they ran seventy or eighty kilometers to climb another snow mountain, these three districts would find it difficult to have new climbers.

But that would be too troublesome; they’re still dealing with their own Xue Feng and naturally wouldn’t climb other snow peaks.

Even Xu Xin and the others were too lazy to climb.

After all, the nearby Snow Mountain Array, even if activated, wasn’t of much use.

At most, they could just make it onto the leaderboard.

It’s really not necessary to risk their lives for it.

That could be a life-threatening event!

So he placed high hopes on Niu Fugui, who was far away from them.

He hoped he could succeed.

He would provide him with the strongest guarantee, just hoping he wouldn’t desert at the last moment.

As for the Snow Mountain Array...

So far, they still had only those two in District 188.

Finding a shortcut entrance from four or five meters of snow was still too difficult.

Xu Xin decided that if Niu Fugui succeeded in reaching the summit tomorrow, after giving him the purple-grade red berry, he would put three super large (purple) red berries on the world channel and explain their use.

Let the snow in other regions continue to pile up, making it truly difficult for this winter to end.

He didn’t want to encounter any "terrifying things."

It’s time to help them a bit.

Now, the district channel was quite harmonious.

The survivors who succeeded in seeking refuge were boasting, while those who couldn’t were enviously longing.

"Wow, you guys didn’t see how Brother Xin massacred the wolf pack, it was simply invincible!"

"That’s right! Brother Xin just took out a glowing orb, and the surrounding wolves didn’t dare to approach! Then a single explosive arrow bolt blew up a hairy mutant freak, and the whole pack went into chaos! Then, he cut through each mutant wolf with a single spear, cutting them in half, it was incredibly cool!"

"Crap, our Sister Gui Xin is the truly strong one, okay? You should know, Sister Gui Xin is recognized by Xu Xin and Ji Chaoyang, the two big shots, as the strongest combat power among explorers! My Sister Gui Xin didn’t even have to make a move; she just touched a wolf, and the pack started rebelling like waves, that scene was so magical, words cannot describe it!"

"Huh? Boss Ji Chaoyang is also very strong, alright! He..."

"And Boss Wang Lei! I’d like to call Boss Wang Lei the god of strength! He..."

A bunch of people in the district channel were spontaneously praising the strength of the explorer members.

Ji Chaoyang told everyone in the explorer group to manage them and not let them talk about their abilities randomly on the world channel.

So they were restricted from showing off on the world channel and could only madly express their feelings in the district channel.

"Why do I feel like you’re making things up?" Someone questioned.

"Seems like hired commentators; you’re praising too much, aren’t you?"

"Yeah, no matter how amazing the explorer bosses are, they can’t be that exaggerated, right?"

"Huh? Do explorer bosses need hired commenters? Are you kidding me!"

"These days, does no one believe the truth anymore? What a sad era..."

"Is it true or not? Why don’t you come see for yourselves!"

Xu Xin looked at these discussions, chuckled, and shook his head.

Although these survivors were telling the truth, it was indeed hard to believe just by hearing about it without actually witnessing it.

Honestly, if it were him, without knowing Wen Guixin’s abilities, he wouldn’t have believed their descriptions of her mowing down wolf packs with effortless ease.

It’s indeed too exaggerated.

He was initially worried whether their capabilities, once spread outside the region, would be too high-profile, standing out too much.

But now it seemed he was overthinking it.

Even people in their own region doubted, let alone those outside.

They’d just think this talk was bragging.

Because they were so strong, they seemed a bit fake.

Of course, this strength was only relative.

Even with such strength, they had no absolute certainty to deal with the pterosaur statue.

Currently, the pterosaur statue was still stable.

They had too many matters to attend to; it’s better not to provoke it for now.

First, solve the issues in District 187 and then try to handle the pterosaur over there.

Meanwhile, in the world channel, the craze for the purple-grade steel armor hadn’t stopped and was actually intensifying.

Zhao Xiaochuan and Wang Lei had already taken down the trades they had put up.

But even though they no longer topped the trades, those famous people in other areas began to pin their trades to the top.

Not just the three people from Area 1 and Area 23, but in areas that were on the leaderboards, there were basically people pinning trades to the top.

They were all inquiring about the purple-grade steel armor, all wanting to trade with [Explorers].

After all, blue-grade metal resources could be used freely, and even the purple-grade metal resources were abundant, which was simply their dream scenario.

However, after their discussion among the explorers, they didn’t respond that day.

Keep them hanging for now.

Besides, it wasn’t the explorers who were in a hurry.

Unless they offered something the explorers didn’t have, and paid a bit of a price, the explorers wouldn’t aid the enemy.

After all, regional conflicts still existed.

Objectively speaking, they were still enemies.

At this moment, his watch vibrated.

He raised his hand and saw it was a private message from Li Wenxi.

"Quick, give me a voice call, just say you need me over there to help!"

Huh?

Xu Xin blinked, understood the meaning of the message, and then made the voice call.

"Hello? Xu Xin? Is there something wrong?" Li Wenxi’s voice carried confusion, as if she was completely unaware.

"...Do you have a lot of green-grade steel blocks there?" Xu Xin asked.

"Huh? Steel blocks? What...oh oh, green-grade steel blocks, yes, um... it seems there aren’t many, why do you want green-grade steel blocks?" Li Wenxi was genuinely a bit puzzled this time.

Green-grade steel blocks and blue-grade steel blocks are smelted separately.

A portion of steel fire can smelt one portion of blue-grade steel blocks, but only five portions of green-grade steel blocks.

Generally speaking, there is a value difference of dozens of times between green-grade and blue-grade.

But the smelting difference is only five times, which makes the green-grade steel block of very low cost performance.

So Li Wenxi generally wouldn’t smelt green-grade steel blocks.

But there were piles and piles of green-grade iron blocks.

"I need to equip the survivors who come to join us with blue-grade steel armor, making blue-grade steel armor requires a large amount of green-grade steel blocks."

"Oh, okay, then I’ll smelt them for you now." Li Wenxi said.

"No need, it’s so late now, you just come over first, there’s something here I need your help with."

"Oh oh, alright, I’ll head over now! I’ve got some business to do everyone, you guys just..."

With that, she hung up the voice call.

"..."

Over there, are they still having a welcome party?

It’s already ten o’clock...

Although it’s understandable that after being solo for so long, they were finally meeting other survivors, and were about to start collective living, they got very excited...

But the duration of this party is too long.

No wonder Li Wenxi messaged him, looking for an excuse to escape.

If it were him, he’d escape too.

At this moment, outside the treehouse, came the sound of a portal.

The sound of roots being manipulated came from underneath the treehouse, and Li Wenxi crawled into the treehouse.

"Wow! Finally over!"

Seeing Li Wenxi pounce directly onto his side after entering the treehouse, Xu Xin pinched her cheek and asked, "What’s going on over there with you? It’s this late and you’re still playing together?"

"Exactly! They’re still at it!" Li Wenxi grabbed his hand, turned over, and sat up from the sofa.

She leaned beside Xu Xin, poked the egg that had somehow jumped beside her, and then leaned back, slumping onto the back of the sofa.

"Those people clearly ran around all day today, and yet they’re still so energetic! I’ve also been mining all day today, I wanted to rest early!" She slumped on the sofa, her tone carrying a slight hint of resentment.

Xu Xin chuckled: "Then why didn’t you just end it? Or escape yourself. Did you have to accompany them?"

"Well, at first, it was really fun to play with them..." she said, a bit embarrassed, "It’s not good to leave when tired, plus, they insisted I tell them about the explorers’ journey to now, they needed me."

Well, another one who can’t say no.

"And besides, Yajun already told them that after enjoying tonight, starting tomorrow, we need to start working. They all agreed, I couldn’t not let them enjoy themselves..."

Li Wenxi tilted, lying on his leg.

"Moreover, that Le Youfang guy keeps boosting the atmosphere, keeping everyone hyped, how could I have the nerve to say it’s over!"

Thinking of this, Li Wenxi gritted her teeth: "I hinted more than once with my eyes for that guy to stop, but he kept ignoring it and even went further, it really pissed me off!"

"Is it possible he misunderstood your intention?" Xu Xin suppressed his laughter.

"...Hmph! If you hadn’t called me away, it might have taken much longer! You’re the best, no one bothers you, so comfortable!" Li Wenxi sighed.

It has to be said, one of the reasons Xu Xin didn’t want other people residing there was his "fear of trouble."

At this moment, Li Wenxi’s watch vibrated again.

She opened it and was somewhat exasperated: "So it ended when I left! It’s infuriating!"

"Well, you’re a key figure, of course it ended when you left." Xu Xin chuckled.

"I’m exhausted, next time I’ll hand everything over to Yajun, I’ll be the hands-off boss!"

Li Wenxi lay on his leg, her expression somewhat vexed.

"Leading them to mine during the day was already exhausting, I need rest, I won’t do 9-9-7! Hmph, tomorrow I’ll have them mine the whole day, let’s see if they still have the energy for any parties!"

Xu Xin looked down, meeting Li Wenxi’s eyes: "Since we’re busy anyway, how about working overtime tonight?"

"...Okay~"

Even though both were exhausted from the day, there were still things they could find the energy to do.