38: Storage

Ning Ruogong opened his eyes while unconscious, then regained consciousness.

Although he felt it was only a moment, he knew some time had passed.

Things were always like this.

He looked down at the jungle, surprised to find it pitch black all around.

He looked up at the sky and saw a few streaks of light in the east, but none were visible in the jungle.

“I didn’t expect it to be this bad for them.

If Clavis people lived in such dense forests, they’d be dead by now.” He looked around again for a few minutes, then decided to do what he intended to do after waking up.

He wanted to collect energy under the cover of night, and with a thought, the Yin-Heat Conversion Technique began to operate.

Hyesi was not around, so he was worried that the Yin in the air would not be enough to fully fill his limit, but he was wrong.

Previously, when he used this skill around Hyesi, Hyesi had always stayed inside the small stone bead on the necklace.

Therefore, when the skill was activated, the covered radius of five meters was decent, but not large.

But now he was inside a giant tree, the largest he had ever seen, and a five-meter radius from the surface of the tree trunk covered at least fifty times the volume of that small bead.

The tree immediately began to heat up, and in less than ten seconds, Ning Ruogong had collected five million energy.

Ning Ruogong released the remaining Yin as he no longer needed it.

“Ah, that’s great.

Huh… what’s this heat?

Didn’t I already release the technique?” He thought, looking outwards, and found that most of the dead trees on the mountaintop had started to catch fire.

“Hmm… this is bad,” he thought.

“Wait, will that fire spread and destroy everything in the area?

Firstly, if everything burns down, then I will also face the risk of losing all this energy.

I need to get rid of that fire as soon as possible.

System, any ideas?” he asked eagerly.

“You can shoot water at the top to extinguish the fire.”

“You can spray carbon dioxide gas to extinguish the fire.”

“You can shoot out…”

“:”

“ ”

“Extinguish fire.”

The system suggested various methods to extinguish the fire.

He asked, “Which store’s fire extinguishing technique is the cheapest?”

“You can spend 200,000 energy to purchase ‘Water Bomb’ for a temporary single use.”

“Ah, ah,” spending so much energy exhausted him, but he could do nothing now.

“Alright, do that.

Extinguish that fire.” He commanded the system.

“Confirmed.”

A stream of water appeared from nowhere and landed directly on a pile of burning dry leaves, extinguishing the fire.

“Too dangerous,” he thought, and looked for any potential fires.

A few minutes later, he found nothing, so he looked around, thinking, “I should do what I planned to do and get some food for those poor guys.

However, the same problem arose again.

Should I get a human body first, or Telepathy, or directly control an animal’s body?” He began to ponder.

By this time, the sun had already risen halfway above the horizon.

“Wait a minute, even if I get food, what should I do with it?

Let it rot, and then I go collect more food?

I need to find something to preserve food while I look for more.

Hmm, is a refrigerator an option?

Probably not,” he thought.

When he found food, he didn’t know what to do with it, so each time he turned to his only solution – the system.

“Hey, System.

Do you know how to store food without letting it rot?” he asked.

“The system strongly recommends you purchase Time-Stopping Cross-dimensional Storage.”

“Oh, right.

Cross-dimensional Storage, how could I not think of it?” If he had any, he would surely slap his face.

“So how much does it cost?” he asked.

“Cross-dimensional Storage consumes 500,000 energy per kilogram of stored item.”

“The price increases tenfold when time is stopped.”

“So, it costs 5 million per kilogram.”

“Oh my, that’s a lot.

Thank goodness I can only buy a few now.

Buy 5 kilograms,” he commanded the system.

“Purchase Time-Stopping Cross-dimensional Storage (5KG) for 25 million energy, are you sure?” “Yes,” he said.

“Confirmed.”

Ning Ruogong felt nothing, “Is it there?

Go check the skill list, status.”

“Status

Name: Ning Ruogong

Energy: 50,571,484

Skills: Synchronized Thinking, Beginner Map, Intermediate Clavis Language, Candlelight, Yin-Heat Conversion Technique, Night Vision I, Cross-dimensional Storage (Time Stop; 5KG)”

“It’s right there, I should try to do something with it,” he thought, beginning to look for something to store.

He looked at a few stones at the base of the tree and decided to experiment with them.

“Alright, I just have to think about it, right?” He began to focus his attention on the stones, imagining them disappearing to some distant place.

Suddenly, a few small pebbles on the ground floated into the air and flew straight towards Ning Ruogong.

Ning Ruogong was startled for a moment, thinking they would hit him, but before they did, the pebbles disappeared.

“W-what?

Why did they come towards me?

System, what just happened?” he asked.

“The dimension where the storage is located is inside you.”

“Oh, me, so that’s why they came towards me?

You should have warned me.

I was scared for no reason.” As he spoke, a small, rabbit-like animal hopped around the tree he was residing in.

“Alright, let’s go see what else we can find in this forest.

I should be able to find some food, right?” he thought, letting the rabbit lead him on a tour around the forest.