3: SSS-level Mecha Workshop

After getting the map, although the surrounding war fog had not lifted, the locations of various resource points within the fog were visible. Han Huohuo led the Mechanical Wolf, taking no detours, and headed directly towards the nearest wolf den.

The tools were melted down, and there was no iron.

All gathering is impossible.

Damn Gou San!

The only resource that can be gathered now is by using the Mechanical Wolf's super combat power to hunt!

In the early stages, everything is lacking, but obviously, for most Lords, food is definitely the most scarce.

Whether it's raising workers, farmers, recruiting soldiers, or raising wild beasts, all require food!

And the harvest period for farming is seven days, which is simply not enough to cope with the first round of challenges. Therefore, the main sources of food in the early stage are gathering, hunting, and fishing.

The mountain road was not very steep. From the camp to the official road down the mountain, there was a huge gentle slope. Han Huohuo frowned slightly. While this slope made walking convenient, if there were enemies attacking, it was not a good defensive terrain.

"Howl..."

Before he had walked a few steps, wolf howls came from a distance. Even though Han Huohuo had originally gone out hunting, hearing the sound of a wild beast up close for the first time still startled him, causing him to stumble.

Damn it, this is a real wolf!

He didn't dare to approach directly and hid behind a large tree, peering out. In the distance, he saw two fierce wolves crouching at the entrance of a rocky den.

These wolves are forest wolves!

They are different from what many people think.

Forest wolves do not appear in packs. In fact, only prairie wolves and desert wolves form packs. Forest wolves are either lone wolves or a male and female pair.

He looked at the forest wolves' attributes from a distance. They were okay, not very strong, slightly stronger than Gou San, but definitely not as strong as the Mechanical Wolf.

【Level 1 Forest Wolf】: Den Guardian, can be tamed.

【Combat Power】: Strength 4, Defense 2, Stamina 6, Intelligence 1.

【Special Skill】: Wolf Howl, within fifteen seconds, the forest wolf's attack speed increases by 20%.

【Drop】: 30-50 Wolf Meat.

【Chance Drop】: Wolf Skin, Wolf Teeth, Blueprint.

When Gou San saw the fierce wolves, his legs were trembling with fear, not much better than Han Huohuo.

"Go! Kill these two fierce wolves!"

"Me?"

Gou San's face was ashen. His loyalty was now 100, with no will to resist at all. He picked up his saber, then secretly glanced at the Mechanical Giant Wolf beside Han Huohuo.

The Mechanical Giant Wolf stood over a meter tall, like a small calf, still giving off a sense of security.

At Han Huohuo's command, the Mechanical Wolf charged out without hesitation, fearlessly rushing directly towards the fierce wolves.

mechanical soldiers are the most obedient type of troops, completely obedient, without the slightest fear, they are simply perfect killing machines.

Gou San was inspired, gritted his teeth, and went for it! He held his saber and followed behind the Mechanical Wolf, charging up together.

Han Huohuo hid behind the tree, watching the battle from a distance.

Let me personally go fight and risk?

No way!

I am the Lord! I will absolutely not personally gather or fight!

The mountain path was very flat, very suitable for mechanical troops to charge.

Instantly, the Mechanical Giant Wolf had rushed to the front of the forest wolf den. The two fierce wolves discovered the intruder and quickly stood up, with their tails tucked, and fiercely pounced forward.

Although the Mechanical Giant Wolf was huge, its movements were very agile. With a slight dodge, it avoided the pounce of the forest wolf in front.

It quickly turned its body and lifted its iron claw, smashing it fiercely onto the back of this forest wolf.

Wolves are not as good as felines because wolves mainly fight with their teeth, and their claws have very limited combat power. But the Mechanical Giant Wolf is different. Smashing down with this iron claw was like a tiger's claw, and with one claw, it broke the spine of this forest wolf.

The first forest wolf was smashed to the ground, whimpering, and instantly lost its combat power.

The other wolf howled sadly but did not escape. Its eyes glowed with ferocious green light, its mouth opened, viscous liquid dripped from its teeth, and it pounced fiercely.

The Mechanical Wolf had just smashed the first wolf to death, its claw hadn't even fallen yet.

This forest wolf seized the opportunity, leaped up, and bit the Mechanical Wolf's back. The Mechanical Giant Wolf's back was full of various metal joints, making clicking sounds when bitten. The metal giant wolf suddenly turned its head, opened its mechanical giant mouth, and reached over, biting off the throat of this forest wolf with one bite.

Effortlessly!

Gou San was panting with exhaustion at this time, holding his battle saber, and had just arrived at the battlefield. Both fierce wolves had already fallen dead.

Fierce!

The Mechanical Giant Wolf is too fierce!

After the battle ended, Han Huohuo cautiously approached, confirmed that the forest wolves on the ground were all dead, and then had Gou San put the wolf corpses on the Mechanical Giant Wolf's back.

He looked back at this den.

【Forest Wolf Den】: You can recruit two forest wolves from the den each week to fight for you. Recruiting one forest wolf requires 50 units of food and requires the recruiter to have the taming skill.

Han Huohuo had no interest in recruiting forest wolves. He had no food, and he didn't have the taming skill.

Moreover, he had the more ferocious Mechanical Wolf and didn't need this kind of tamed wild wolf.

Currently, he only needed this wolf meat.

Just as he was about to leave here and return to the camp.

A more terrifying roar came from a distance. This sound was too frightening, a hundred times more terrifying than the howl of a forest wolf, and made one's legs go weak even more than a tiger's roar.

Han Huohuo's heart almost jumped out.

He quickly peered out.

Fortunately, the monster was still far away, about a hundred meters away. There were only two of them, and they didn't seem to have discovered this place, just roaring casually.

Damn it, why are you roaring for no reason, you almost scared me to death!

【Mammoth】: Wild Beast, cannot be tamed.

【Combat Power】: Strength 14, Defense 8, Stamina 30, Intelligence 1.

【Special Skill】: Trample, all enemies within a ten-meter radius are stunned for 3 seconds, monsters unaffected by stun are not affected by this.

【Drop】: 300-500 Mammoth Meat.

【Chance Drop】: Heavy Hide, Ivory, Excellent Blueprint, and a very small chance of dropping a treasure.

These were two ancient elephants, even more brutal than tigers and leopards, with bad tempers. They stepped on the ground, shaking their heads, swinging their long trunks, and their two tusks were three meters long!

Han Huohuo remembered that this thing also existed on Earth, it was an ancient creature, weighing up to 12 tons! Almost as huge as a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Can't afford to provoke them!

One Mechanical Wolf is definitely not an opponent, but this monster drops a lot of good things, especially meat, directly several hundred!

Greed cannot match strength, Han Huohuo decided to retreat first.

"Return to camp!"

The Mechanical Giant Wolf carried the forest wolf corpses on its back and returned to the camp with Han Huohuo.

He butchered the two wolf corpses at the camp, obtaining 80 pieces of wolf meat, two wolf skins, and two wolf teeth.

These were all good things. Wolf teeth could be used to make weapons, and wolf skin could be used to make armor.

It's just that these wolf teeth and wolf skins still had bloodstains and a bad smell. They obviously needed further processing before they could be used, and Han Huohuo didn't know how to do that.

He would put them away for now.

Unfortunately, no blueprint dropped.

Han Huohuo estimated that the blueprint drop rate should be very low, so it was normal not to get one.

The food description showed an unusual color. He clicked in to take a look.

【Food】: 20

【Quality Food】: 80, can increase loyalty.

Huh?

It turns out wolf meat is Quality Food. This is good stuff, not only can it fill one's stomach, but it can also increase the loyalty of subordinates. It should be a good item.

Keeping it himself was useless, he needed to sell these things quickly. Han Huohuo needed some iron ingots to make tools.

He opened the system and found the market option.

【Level 1 Market】: Can conduct cross-space-time transactions, a very... very important building. Level 1 Market charges a 20% transaction commission, all taxes are settled in gold coins. Upgrading the market can reduce the commission rate.

【Materials Required】: 50 Wood.

So dark!

Normal transactions between Lords even require a commission? Is this forcing everyone to gather resources themselves?

I would rather starve to death than gather myself, that is absolutely impossible!

He happened to have fifty wood left, so Han Huohuo didn't hesitate and built the market.

Wood -50

A trading market appeared in the camp.

Wood instantly became zero.

Then he opened the forum, preparing to sell his food.

He found the forum was full of various complaints!

"This start is too difficult. I finally met two vagrants who said they could help me work, but recruiting one vagrant requires fifty food. Damn it, where can I get food?"

"Same here, I found a native den of a black kid at my doorstep, but I have no food, so I can't recruit anyone at all."

"Don't think about it, hurry up and cut wood first. Having food is useless, you also need to build houses first. This wood is really hard to cut. Damn it, I'm exhausted."

"F*ck, everything is lacking. The Lord even has to personally cut wood and gather fruits. It's really messed up!"

"Yeah, why do I feel like we're not Lords, but workers?"

...

Suddenly, a show-off went online.

"Ding! Let me show you guys, what is this treasure? A blueprint, a D-grade rare barracks, the Longbowman Training Camp blueprint. I'm rich, hahaha!"

"Holy cow, you're so lucky."

"Lucky my ass, I've even seen a Da Ge who got a blueprint for a Chaos Pond at the start. That's an S-grade blueprint for recruiting Xiang Liu. What's the use of your longbowman?"

"Xiang Liu? Really? I checked the data, S-grade is the top-tier barracks! Is it that giant snake Xiang Liu with nine heads from the Classic of Mountains and Seas?"

"I'm not lying to you, of course it's true."

"..."

"..."

Everyone was shocked. Someone picked up a blueprint for top-tier troops when they went out. How can we play this game? Should we just surrender!

"Everyone, don't be nervous. It's useless even if he has the blueprint. I also saw that blueprint. I was online when he was showing off.

Let me tell you guys.

Building a Chaos Pond requires a large amount of resources, especially 20 extremely rare fire sea sulfur. It's impossible for him to get 20 fire sea sulfur within seven days. What's the use of just a blueprint? Maybe he won't even survive until the seventh day.

Moreover, the Chaos Pond must be built near water. It would be fine if he were a Pirate, but he's just a bandits. He can't use that blueprint at all. It's just for finding an opportunity in the future to sell it for a good price."

"Ah, hearing you say that, I feel much better!"

"Then the Longbowman Barracks is more practical. He can directly train longbowmen!"

"Da Ge, how do you know?"

"I just caught a government spy and interrogated him after torture."

"Da Ge is mighty!"

"Da Ge is amazing!"

...

Han Huohuo was surprised. So barracks blueprints also have grades? Why didn't he notice.

He quickly went to look at his Mecha Workshop.

Then he sat on the floor in silence for a long time.

"Didn't they say S-grade is the top-tier barracks? But what is my Mecha Workshop, which is SSS-grade?"

In a corner of the system, the Mecha Workshop was marked as an SSS-grade building.

A little scary!

The most crucial thing is, others need a massive amount of resources to build top-tier barracks, but I built this Mecha Workshop completely free!

If you suffer a loss, you should shout loudly. If you take advantage...

Never mind, I'm going to sell meat first!

Sell meat... why does that sound strange.