Chapter 4: Spearmen Have Been Lucky Since Ancient Times S

Chapter 4 - 4: Spearmen Have Been Lucky Since Ancient Times SAt this moment, it has been over six or seven hours since everyone arrived in this Otherworld.

Lin Yue, while sighing, took a look at the marketplace and


Just like last time, Lin Yue did not disclose exactly how much he needed.



The purchase power of water, a hard currency, depends on the buyer's urgency and bargaining power.

If one reveals their bottom line casually, there'll be significant pushback when trying to sell in the future.

What's more, such an auction maximizes profits.

Isn't it better to trade for a bit more?

As soon as Lin Yue's auction entered the market, the group chat exploded again.

"Wow, who is Lin Yue? Selling water again?"

"Big boss Lin, you got so much water at the start, did you spawn near a water source? Damn, I'm in the Desert!"

"Still need materials this time? Are they really that scarce?"

"Mining now, picking up stones, chopping trees."

"To be honest, I have minerals, private chat Lin Yue?"

...

Lin Yue glanced at it and waited another ten minutes.

Looking again at the trading marketplace, his private messages hit over 100+, which he still ignored.

As for the bid count, it was an astonishing 50 times!

Lin Yue directly selected the highest bid confirmation and contentedly clicked confirm.

[You lost 200 milliliters of water]

[You received Iron Block x10]

[You received Plastic Bottle x1]

Sure enough, as time passes, the purchase power of water has increased again.

This is also somewhat due to many extracting more materials over time.

200 milliliters, compared to others' five or ten milliliters, shows a lot more sincerity, which is also one of the main reasons that drives these people to bid madly.

For Lin Yue, it was just the amount of a third of a bottle of water.

Besides, he could continue to eliminate mutant creatures to obtain more without costing much effort.

But Lin Yue was also very clear-headed.

This situation wouldn't last too long.

From the group's chat, he saw there are indeed a lot of strong people.

When he first arrived, some were already hunting small beasts like lizards—getting a treasure chest was just a matter of time, regardless of the low probability.

Moreover, he's not the only one with a craftable game interface; everyone else has this feature. With an increase in gathered materials, many will start using them for crafting.

In the early stage, everyone is still exploring and getting familiar with this survival game, but as time goes on, more people will sell water, and its purchase power will continuously drop.

Lin Yue believes that by stocking up various resources in the first two days, he'll be better prepared than others for any disasters revealed on the third day.

In the inventory, the wood count is 3, and Iron Block is 10.

Lin Yue closed the group chat and went to the crafting page.

He directly selected the Iron Spear, and soon a shimmer of light flashed.

[You received Iron Spear (Normal)]

[Wood -2, Iron Block -3]

A spear appeared in Lin Yue's hand!

The spearhead was sharp and pointed, with a shaft about two meters long, slightly heavy.

Lin Yue went outside and practiced a bit to get a feel for it.

Stab, thrust, pierce, twirl, sweep!

He recalled when he used to follow a bigger kid in the orphanage and practiced fighting with long sticks.

Although it seems ridiculous now, it indeed helped him quickly get accustomed to this new weapon, the spear, to some extent.



However, Lin Yue also discovered something.

After crafting the Iron Spear, there was a label "normal" on it.

Does this mean these things have different levels? Will making more with increasing proficiency produce higher-level items?

Or is it completely random?

Lin Yue had no more information and could only speculate for now.

After searching around for a while, he finally found a large purplish-black grasshopper.

The number of mutant creatures didn't seem as abundant as imagined.

This locust was several times larger than its Earth counterpart and seemed to have corrosive body fluid.

Its jumping was decent, moving not much slower than his walking speed.

Previously, he hadn't observed as closely as now, but now it indeed seemed a little dangerous.

Now, the thing has already spotted Lin Yue and directly leaped high, wings fluttering behind, flying straight towards him!

Lin Yue didn't choose to take it down in mid-air but instead, observed its flight direction, sidestepped, and split it in half with the sharp spear as it landed!

This time, Lin Yue was much more cautious than the previous recklessness.

Even though the bug remained the same, Lin Yue's mindset had shifted.

The first few times, he was lucky not to be burned by the bug's body fluid, but knowing that now didn't mean he could recklessly act the same.

Life is precious, and getting killed by this bug would be too much of a waste.

[You obtained a Wooden Treasure Chest]

The system notification chimed in as the treasure chest appeared.

Lin Yue was not surprised in the slightest.

Wooden Treasure Chests only contained either water or food, possibly better items in higher-level chests.

But around his Shelter, these mutant creatures were too scarce.

Challenging larger mutant creatures was beyond his current capabilities.

He had a cheat of 100% treasure chest drop rate, which others didn't have.

In this extremely low probability, others who killed nearby small mutant creatures but couldn't get any chests had to attack the larger ones.

This game forces people to adapt, to grow stronger...

Putting it directly into the inventory, he chose to continue hunting.

Setting aside the resource issue, getting familiar with weapons can't be bad.

However, Lin Yue circled the nearby area again and still didn't find a single mutant creature.

Questions swirled more and more in his mind.

Could it be that the scarcity of various resources here includes mutant creatures?

If so, a 100% treasure chest drop wouldn't matter either.

Lin Yue put away the treasure chest and headed to a relatively high small hill.

In a world composed of yellow soil and barren grass, hundreds of meters away, he indeed saw some flickering black dots in the wild grass.

If visible from this far, they must be much bigger than bugs...

He guessed they were at least as big as dogs or sheep.

Could he handle such big mutant creatures?

Perhaps, for now, it's better to first collect wood and convert the roof into wooden planks.

Selecting "Stone Axe," he spent 1 Wood and 1 Iron Block, quickly equipping a sturdy Stone Axe in his hand, much like the one he used to chop wood with as a child, looking fairly sharp.

He reached the wooded area and swung the Stone Axe.

Under the scorching sun, this kind of intense labor consumed a lot of mental and physical energy, easily making one thirsty.

Finally chopping down the tree and taking a huge gulp of water, Lin Yue could truly feel the thirst for water others experienced wasn't fake.



Now, except for those still lying in their rooms resting, probably everyone is out either chopping trees or gathering stones and mining for survival.

After resting for a while, Lin Yue picked up the axe and continued to chop trees.

After felling three small trees, Lin Yue acquired 15 units of wood, storing them in the inventory.

Resting for a moment, he picked up the stone axe and walked into the Desert.

It felt off earlier; have the mutant creatures all hidden away?

Searching more thoroughly once again, Lin Yue even spent more time than chopping trees before finding a strange hairy caterpillar covered in tentacles where he had previously stepped on a small lizard.

The Stone Axe came down, and a treasure chest appeared.

This should be about right.

Looking up, he realized that unknowingly, the sun was setting and the sky had darkened quite a bit.

Feeling slightly hungry, Lin Yue turned and headed for the Shelter, when suddenly, he heard an odd noise.

Quickly turning to check, he was stunned to see...

Just tens of meters away, a fiery red mass was slowly moving towards him.