7: Fragrant apples as bait, and strangely scented poisonous chestnuts! A unique method for slaying monsters!

Hum!

The Anxiety Apple transformed from its original Fuji apple appearance into a fruit that was blood-red all over.

It radiated a delicate fragrance.

This scent made the atmosphere of the entire Shelter smell exceptionally pleasant.

"Can it be eaten now?"

Su Lie looked curiously at the Enhanced Anxiety Apple.

[Bait Apple: Purple Epic Quality, bait poisonous fruit, containing a dormant Soul-Eating Insect. Once used, it will parasitize the user's Spirit and devour their soul within 1 to 60 seconds, using the victim's brain as nourishment to grow into a Bait Tree seedling.]

"Good grief! A bug that directly devours souls! It's not that it can be eaten, it's just become even more poisonous!"

Su Lie looked at the apple in his hand, swallowed a few times, and set it aside.

He then proceeded to Enhance the mang insect chestnut.

A light flashed.

The skin of the mang insect chestnut was now covered in centipede-like patterns.

Su Lie sniffed the chestnut, but it didn't seem to have any smell.

He looked at the chestnut's panel.

[Strange Fragrant Chestnut: Golden Legendary Quality, bait parasitic wonder-fruit, emits a scent that attracts Mist Monsters, with a range of 1 kilometer in diameter. After a monster eats it, it will be parasitized by the larvae of the Heart-Piercing Rampant Insect. The larvae will devour everything the monster has within 1 hour and grow into an adult Heart-Piercing Rampant Insect.]

"Before it turned into a tree, now it turns directly into an insect monster!"

Su Lie's eyelids twitched.

This chestnut was definitely a good item.

But he wasn't sure if he could handle a Heart-Piercing Rampant Insect.

Just then.

Howl!

A violent noise came from outside the stone house.

One could hear the wails of monsters approaching from afar, sounding continuously.

[Hum!]

[A large group of monsters is rushing towards your Shelter...]

[The Exorcism Rune cannot drive away all the monsters!]

Seeing this, Su Lie's expression changed slightly, and he hurried to the door.

Clatter! Swoosh!

With nimble movements, he threw the Strange Fragrant Chestnut out.

Through the gaps in the darkness, he saw a monster radiating a grayish-white light.

The monster was entwined with countless patterned little snakes.

Seeing this made his scalp tingle.

Clatter!

Su Lie hurriedly closed the door.

At this moment, he suddenly discovered that scales were starting to grow on his arm.

It felt as if something was about to grow out from the scales.

"Ah!"

Suddenly, a heart-piercing pain came from his arm.

He saw a little snake growing out of the scales.

Only then did Su Lie realize that he had been contaminated again.

He hurriedly set aside the chestnuts in the gourd ladle, scooped up a spoonful of water, gulped down two mouthfuls, and then poured the rest onto the finger-length little snake that was poking its head out and looking around, as well as onto the scales.

Sizzle!

It was as if water had been poured into a hot pan of oil.

Su Lie was in so much pain he almost fainted.

Forcing himself to endure the pain, he saw that the scales and the snake on his arm had been dissolved by the effect of the Exorcism Holy Water.

His arm was restored to its original state.

Ugh!

Immediately after, he spat out a mouthful of black phlegm.

Under the light of the Night light, he saw some small bugs wriggling in the black phlegm.

Upon contact with the air, the bugs quickly shriveled up.

Finally, the phlegm turned into a small pinch of dust.

Su Lie was still worried, so he drank a few more mouthfuls of Exorcism Holy Water.

At the same time, he splashed water onto the powder.

After carefully checking himself inside and out, he finally let out a long sigh of relief.

He didn't expect that just by taking a glance, without even making physical contact, he would be struck.

This Mist World was indeed even more dangerous than he had imagined.

By now, Su Lie was exhausted. He picked up the chestnuts he had just taken out of the gourd ladle, looked closely at the panel, and was immediately overjoyed.

After being placed in the Purification Water Bucket for an hour, these chestnuts had actually turned from mang insect chestnuts into hairy chestnuts.

They had become edible and clean, pollution-free food.

Seeing this, Su Lie immediately used his Enhancement Talent on the hairy chestnuts.

The hairy chestnuts became twice as big as before, and the skin became thinner.

He couldn't wait to look at the panel of the Enhanced hairy chestnut.

[big hairy chestnut: Green Fine-quality food, clean and pollution-free, a green fruit that can be eaten with confidence, containing rich starch, large amounts of protein, fat, vitamins, minerals required by the human body, and salt; one can satisfy hunger.]

Seeing this, he couldn't wait to peel the chestnut and eat one.

Once this one was in his stomach, he quickly had the feeling of being "full."

"Good stuff! Tomorrow, I'll strive to get more of these chestnuts! Enhance them all!"

A spirited light shone in Su Lie's eyes.

This kind of food was the best food for Survivors in the early stages.

Surely, the sales would definitely not be bad!

Subsequently, he untied the bundle made from his upper garment, scooped out a handful from inside, placed it into the gourd ladle, and then put it into the Purification Water Bucket.

He lay on the Ula grass and carefully recalled today's gains.

Under the effect of the power of Enhancement, he not only Enhanced himself, turning from a beanpole into a muscular man, but also awakened the Human Emperor Bloodline and gained three new attributes.

At the same time, he also gained 13 free attribute points and 112 Mist Points.

In his possession, he had the Exorcism Stone Axe, Purification Water Bucket, jade-like gourd ladle, tough Ula grass, lighter, Night light, 1 monster crystal, Demon-Subduing Wolf Fang Hammer, one Enhanced Bait Apple, about three hundred-plus mang insect chestnuts, plus about 20 liters of Exorcism Holy Water.

He had Enhanced the Shelter from a thatched cottage into a stone house with a fireplace.

In addition, there was a Red God-level Quality bed crafting blueprint, as well as a crafting blueprint for a dining table of the same quality.

And 95 units of wood.

This was just his physical and material gain.

Besides this, he also obtained about twenty pieces of basic intelligence information regarding food, panels, Survivors, etc., in the Mist World.

...

While reminiscing, Su Lie leaned against the warm fireplace and fell into a deep sleep.

Howl!

Not knowing how much time had passed, Su Lie suddenly heard a piercing howl.

This startled him awake from his deep sleep.

He first looked around in a daze, and then let out a sigh of relief: "Phew! Still in the Mist World!"

When Su Lie got up, his body made crackling sounds: "Find some time to make the bed and dining table; now the wood is enough! It's just lacking iron nails!"

The bed needed 10 units of wood and 20 iron nails.

The dining table needed 5 units of wood and 10 iron nails.

Saying this, Su Lie came to the Purification Water Bucket at the door.

He checked the mang insect chestnuts placed inside; these chestnuts had all been purified into hairy chestnuts.

He Enhanced these hairy chestnuts into big hairy chestnuts and then roasted one on the fireplace.

Crack.

A few minutes later, the roasted chestnut shell cracked open, and a glutinous, fragrant chestnut aroma wafted out, which made Su Lie's stomach let out a hungry wail.

"How long have I slept? What was that roar just now?"

Su Lie came to the iron door and decided to open a crack to take a look.

Creak!

When the iron door opened a crack, he saw that it was already dawn outside.

The bright sunlight made him squint his eyes.

Creak!

Only then did Su Lie pull the door open.

He first ate the roasted chestnut and drank two mouthfuls of Exorcism Holy Water.

While eating, he took a look at the Trading Center and found that his order was still not completed.

"It seems that no one has the ability to trade 100 units of Stone at once!"

Su Lie pondered for a while, and couldn't bear to take down the order and waste 1 Mist Point.

He decided to wait a bit longer, then took the Exorcism Stone Axe and went outside.

"Eh?"

Suddenly, he stopped on the flat ground to the side of the stone house, and saw that a pile of decayed bones had been left on the ground here.

Among the bones was a monster crystal.

Beside the monster crystal was a transparent membrane like a snake slough.

This aroused Su Lie's curiosity.

He didn't dare to touch it directly with his hands, so he hurriedly used the stone axe to pick up the membrane and went into the stone house with the monster crystal...