novelraw Chapter 165: Tie Xiong and the Wilderness Hunter, Trait—Budget Audit (Silver)
Chapter 165: Tie Xiong and the Wilderness Hunter, Trait—Budget Audit (Silver)
[From Hive Shelter: Did you see that? Star Duke was taken out by Yu Yuan!]
In a forested area where the Stag Shelter was located.
Tie Xiong looked at the information lighting up on the Virtual Light Screen but did not reply. Instead, he gripped his homemade spear and walked up to a Deer King that stood a full three meters tall, its body pure white.
At this moment, the Deer King's limbs were entangled by a ring of thorny vines. The thorns on the vines were deeply embedded in the Deer King's body, creating bloody holes.
Seeing Tie Xiong approach, the antlers on the Deer King's head glowed faintly as it tried to fight back.
But in the next instant, the white bone spike on the homemade spear in Tie Xiong's hand pierced the Deer King's chest, running through its heart.
The light that had just gathered on the antlers instantly dissipated. As the spear was pulled out, a spray of heart's blood gushed forth, drenching Tie Xiong in the scalding liquid until his whole body felt burning hot.
Finally, he simply opened his mouth wide and began swallowing the blood in great gulps.
[Ding, critical node triggered: Hunt 1000 deer-type creatures (√), No use of firearms (√), Personally hunt a deer-type Spiritual Creature (√), Undergo baptism by the heart's blood of a deer-type Spiritual Creature (√). Conditions for Title Path upgrade met.]
[Title Obtained: Wilderness Hunter (Rare)][Achievement Unlocked: Call of the Wild]
[Achievement Points Gained: 1500]
[Stag Shelter Leaderboard information updated...]
[Current Shelter Ranking: 5786th (↑976 places)]
As the system notification messages rang out, Tie Xiong slowly opened his eyes, feeling a wave of comfort wash over his body.
He looked around at the wilderness environment and sensed an inexplicable emotion, as if he had returned home.
"The third stage of the title, finally obtained!"
"Unfortunately, this title's potential is still too low. Otherwise, a third-stage Title Path should be able to break into the top four thousand or so."
A trace of a smile couldn't help but appear on Tie Xiong's normally stern and unsmiling face.
"Soon, just need to kill four more players to unlock the [God Slayer] Title Path. Then everything will be fine."
He looked at the message sent by Beehive on the Virtual Light Screen.
"Even Star Duke was taken out. The Title Path Yu Yuan unlocked must be quite strong, probably not inferior to [God Slayer]."
Tie Xiong licked the blood remaining on his lips, a glint of light flashing in his eyes that only appeared during a hunt.
Last time, in order to obtain the [God Slayer] Title Path, he had to grind against that player ranked in the five thousands for over a month before finally achieving victory and obtaining the unlock conditions for the [God Slayer] title.
This time, the feeling Yu Yuan Shelter gave him was extremely similar to the feeling that player gave him back then.
Previously, he was still somewhat unsure about Yu Yuan Shelter's strength. But now, with his Title Path upgraded and his power greatly increased, Tie Xiong didn't want to wait any longer.
Otherwise, that madman Xiao Wu would probably make his move soon too. He had to seize this Yu Yuan Shelter before him.
"I hope you don't disappoint me! I am determined to get this Title Path."
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[Trait Discovered—Budget Audit (Silver Grade)]
Type: Passive
Function: When constructing shelter facilities, the total quantity of construction materials required is reduced by 10%.
Yu Yuan looked at the shelter trait that had suddenly appeared on the shelter management log page, blinked, and then broke into a smile.
"Good stuff! Star Duke was a good guy!"
This trait was obtained from the Silver-grade Civilization Treasure Chest he got from killing Star Duke.
It counted as a not-so-small surprise for Yu Yuan.
As the upgrade levels of shelter facilities got higher and higher, the corresponding quantity of upgrade materials increased exponentially.
This trait came at just the right time.
Yu Yuan looked again. The construction materials for [Defense - Spiked Trap], after the 10% reduction, now clearly met the construction requirements.
He immediately chose to construct it. The deployment range for the Spiked Trap was similar to the Flamethrower.
It could only be deployed within a 100-meter radius of the shelter.
But this distance was more than enough for Yu Yuan.
And the location he chose to deploy it was on the few necessary passageways of the civil defense shelter level.
As the trap locations were selected and construction began.
Green light screens appeared at the corresponding positions on the civil defense shelter level.
Yu Yuan went to the passageway, watching as Spiked Traps began construction on the passage floor, the walls on both sides, and the ceiling.
This was the effect he wanted to achieve.
Who said Spiked Traps could only be built on the ground? They could be built on walls and passage ceilings too.
As long as someone barged into the passage, they would face spiked attacks from all directions. These spikes were one meter long, and the passage clearance was only two and a half meters.
With bad luck, you'd get skewered right through, heart flying.
And on both sides of the passage with the Spiked Traps, there were also Flamethrowers. Yu Yuan even wanted to quickly see the look on the next unlucky guy's face when they triggered the traps.
"Steel rod barbecue should be pretty good, right?"
This construction time was exceptionally long, requiring 15 hours.
Fortunately, Yu Yuan had already activated the [Ceasefire Token], so he didn't have to worry about players appearing during this period.
Yu Yuan took out the electric clippers again. Unknowingly, it was time to shear Mie Mie again...
Because of the Endless Cold Wave, the High-Quality Wool on Mie Mie had become a strategic resource for him to resist the cold wave.
Time came to Wasteland Calendar Day 33, 7:00 AM. Yu Yuan woke up from sleep.
Yesterday, Yu Yuan was busy constructing the hydroponics planting racks, placing seeds, and completing the three-hour outdoor task for [Regional Event—Endless Cold Wave]. He didn't sleep until 3:00 AM.
There was one hour left before the preview information for [Wasteland Battle Royale] would be updated. Yu Yuan used this time to hurriedly complete his daily tasks.
He first went to the passage where the Cree Mountain sheep were.
The Ram that had been butting him before was now lying limp on the ground after a day and two nights of... exertion.
Yu Yuan was somewhat dissatisfied.
The effect of that powder was supposed to last two days, but it had only been a day and two nights, and it was already done?
What a waste!
Thinking for a moment, besides feeding them green grass as usual, Yu Yuan also provided them with some wheat bran.
This could help the Cree Mountain sheep recover their stamina more quickly.
He then continued to check the pupation status of the mealworms, collect resources from the trash cans, clean up, and prepare breakfast.
Regarding the chives in the Crazy Planting Trough, Yu Yuan had consciously let them grow freely to obtain new chive seeds as quickly as possible.
He also tried giving Mie Mie some wheat bran, but it didn't like it.
Apparently, compared to wheat bran, Mie Mie preferred fresh green grass and the vegetables and fruits refreshed daily in the Bountiful Vegetable Basket.
Naturally, Yu Yuan didn't force the issue.
As per routine, he divided today's refreshed vegetables in half, one half for Mie Mie and the other half for himself.
There were 10 minutes left until 8 o'clock.
Yu Yuan finally found time to check today's news newspaper.
But after seeing the first piece of news, Yu Yuan took out the Walkie-Talkie and sent a message to Carmen.
—[This morning, Thug Prison will attack your convoy and headquarters. They have secret weapons supported by a backing force. Dangerous!]
He then returned to the shelter to check the other news.
Yesterday's news mentioned that Thug Prison would seek revenge, but he didn't expect it to be this fast, this sudden.
It was also fortunate that he had given Carmen a Walkie-Talkie before, otherwise, there really would have been no way to send this message out.
"Still, what exactly is Thug Prison's 'mechanical modification body'? Judging by the name, it doesn't sound simple!" Yu Yuan thought to himself.