Recap
What about using poisonous gas?
If there is none of these, then there will only be a physical encirclement, which will test the degree of preparation on both sides, the quality of weapons, the amount of information, and personal combat power.
The key to all this is not on the mountain, but at the foot of the mountain.
We must go down this mountain.
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[What do you think Brother Hai saw?] [I can’t guess it from his expression.]
What is there to guess? It must be the content of the mission. It’s a pity that only the students can see the students’ pages; otherwise, we would know what their mission content is this time.
[It’s useless to know; we can’t run in and give him a hint.]
In fact, all countries are guessing the content of the students’ mission this time. Judging from the traps they set, the weapons they made, and the hidden shelters they made, it should be an escape, and the enemy must be very strong, or there are many, so that most students will defend themselves after reading the mission content.
If the risk is too great or uncontrollable, the students will choose a conservative strategy. If they are blinded by the benefits, choose to take risks, and finally die, they will be scolded like dogs when they come back.
The enemy used long ranged artillery and occupied a building similar to a bunker. Elites from all countries outside the instance are now looking for the ‘instance prototype’ or ‘suspected prototype’.
Although it’s useless to find it.
Here, Ji Xinghai has put away his mission watch. He still has a stern face. He calmly takes out the roasted sweet potatoes and potatoes from the stove, puts them in the rattan basket, and washes the pots and bowls.
[Look at how neat he is.] [He must have done a lot of household chores before.]
The viewers ate fried dried mushrooms and commented, [Oh, our brother Hai is a good man at first glance. He has a lively look in his eyes.] [He is not a slacker who sits cross-legged and waits for food.]
[It’s tasteless to eat fried rice and watch videos.] [When do you think our brother Hai can prepare some melon seeds and peanuts?]
[Are you ordering side dishes here?]
[Just saying! Just thinking out loud, understand? [Just because the outside world can’t affect the inside world, we are not allowed to fantasize and have fun?]
[Then I look forward to some shochu* and salted peanuts with wine; the more you eat, the more delicious it is. That little taste, tsk tsk. ]
*(Japanese distilled beverage
[……] Ninth State is truly poisonous.
The copper bird whistle in his trouser pocket suddenly hit his leg at this time, and he remembered this thing.
Since this world is a specially arranged game scene, any things that appear that are not related to the environment will have their reasons for appearing.
What is the use of this bird whistle?
He washed the copper bird whistle, rolled it in hot water, and polished it until it was shiny. At this time, the watch shook slightly.
‘Here it comes,’ he said in his heart.
Sure enough, when he opened the mission watch again, a line of words appeared under the additional points that were originally not triggered: You have obtained an instance prop; please use the bird whistle to notify everyone, ‘There is an enemy attack. Retreat to the mountains as soon as possible.’
Ji Xinghai:…
He knew that bird whistles could produce sounds similar to bird calls, that people in the mountains used their sounds as bait to catch birds, and that bird whistles later developed into secret code for people living in the mountains.
But he really didn’t know the code used here.
The sun had already set outside, and the watch showed half past two, with only more than ten hours left before the clearing operation.
He pointed the number 7 on the dial at the sun to help him navigate the directions. Well, it was similar to his previous judgment. This area was in the southeast, and the direction he came from before was the west side of the mountain.
Standing here, he could vaguely see the bottom of the mountain, where a stone-built path was sandwiched between the shadows of the trees.
It was just too bright now, and he was afraid that the enemy was waiting at the bottom of the mountain for him to fall into the trap. He had not forgotten the previous sounds of gunfire, the enemy probably had the advantage of high-to-low fixed-point shooting.
If he leaves too early, he might get robbed. There’s only one stupid dog here…
The hound that was suddenly remembered jumped up, then quickly lay down, turned over to expose its belly, and shrank its limbs pitifully: “Woof.”
“…”
Combining the information he had already obtained, Ji Xinghai decided to go down later, at least when dusk arrives. Before that, he had to do some preparations, such as optimizing his weapons, stocking up long-lasting food, and other things that might be used in the next three days.
He went back to the forest, not for mushrooms, but to find a special tree.
This tree grew in the mountains and forests. It looked ordinary. Ji Xinghai found it and cut a large bowl of milky white sap.
The experts in the live broadcast room said that this tree is called the blood-strychnos nux vomica tree*, which is also distributed in Province Y. It is a highly poisonous plant that also has medicinal uses. The ancients applied its sap to arrows and blades. This sap entering the wound would cause cardiac paralysis or even suffocation, so it was called blood-strychnos nux vomica.
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image from india biodiversity portal)
“When did he find the strychnos nux vomica? Was it when he was collecting mushrooms?”
“Look at his familiarity with wild mushrooms and forests. It’s hard to believe that he doesn’t have any experience in wild survival.”
In the headquarters, the comrades on the night shift slurped instant noodles while staring at the screen. This is their night shift subsidy: synthetic instant noodles, not nutritious but filling.
“I remember that he participated in summer camp every year when he was in elementary school, and there were several wild survival-themed ones. This was popular back then, such as extreme survival and post-disaster survival. Those kids talked about it very well.
“Later, when the natural disaster really came, the summer camp changed to ‘How to use the balcony to grow vegetables’. Because of the Hunger Academy, the ability to survive in extreme environments has become a compulsory course for students.”
“Can you achieve this level just by participating in summer camp?”
“Hey, he’s a genius.”
“I think he achieved this effect because he separated his human soul from his body into a machine, hibernated, and trained his soul for nine years. Look at how smooth he operates. Can this be taught by a purely academic school? There must be practical experience.”
“Makes sense.”
Amid the sound of slurping noodles, Ji Xinghai on the screen quickly returned to the hunter’s cabin with his trophies on his back.
When walking on the mountain road, he also encountered a three-finger-thick red snake blocking the road. He broke a branch to hold down its head, grabbed it with his bare hands, and threw it into the woods.
This unlucky snake that crawled out to bask in the sun was firmly hung on the branch. It stuck out its tongue at Ji Xinghai in shock and slid away.
“! ” Ji Xinghai’s eyelashes fluttered quickly. It was not an illusion. Someone was watching him.
There was no movement in the wind. Nothing was following him. And this kind of watching was not the feeling of being photographed. Instead, there was a specific existence staring at him in a way he didn’t know.
It was not known whether the other party’s sudden emotional fluctuation was because Ji Xinghai was in danger or because he had quickly resolved the danger.
If it was the former, ‘Ji Xinghai’ himself was what the other party cared about. If it was the latter, ‘Ji Xinghai’s potential and ability’ was what the other party cared about.
Ji Xinghai returned to the hunter’s cabin with his backpack. He put firewood on the stove, roasted sweet potatoes and potatoes below, and steamed rice in the clay pot above.*
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something like this? The sweet potatoes in the image are lower right corner wrapped in aluminum foil)
The water in the pot was boiling and bubbling. Ji Xinghai He glanced at his watch and stood up.
The viewers didn’t know what he was going to do, but they immediately became alert when they saw him move. Although it was already early morning in Ninth State, there were still many night owls, all watching the live broadcast room to chat.
He walked out and picked up the dry bones of the wooden skeleton at the door.
It was called a skeleton, but it was more like a piece of dry branch. In Ji Xinghai’s hand, it was as brittle as a biscuit. It broke easily, and the broken surface was still shining with brown grease spots.
[I remember that the wooden skeleton was a mutation of agarwood.] The viewers in the live broadcast room remembered that wooden skeletons often appeared in the agarwood-producing areas in the south. In peacetime, it was more valuable than dried mushrooms.
It would be great if it were in the recipe. [I heard that agarwood can calm the nerves.]
[What are you thinking about?] [Forget about dried mushrooms; can this thing be eaten?]
“Crack. “
Ji Xinghai was gnawing on the wood chips in front of the “Taotie Food Sutra” with an expressionless face. Although the taste was bad, he could still swallow some of it after chewing it up and mixing it with saliva.
In fact, he had already seen that this thing was agarwood. He wanted to know whether only the ingredients could be eaten or whether anything that he could intuitively create can be eaten. Was the statement “anything can be eaten” reliable?
The viewers were almost scared to death by his decisiveness, but in the end, no accident happened. Instead, there was an extra item on the supplementary volume of the Food Sutra in hand. Description of the ‘wooden bone man fragment’.
The wooden bone fragment is a variation of agarwood, which can be used to make incense and medicine and has the effect of calming the mind and strengthening the body.
Note: It is best not to eat it; it is not delicious. Try it yourself.
The viewers in Ninth State looked at the description stupidly and subconsciously summoned it. Of course, those who had used up their quota for a day could not summon anything, but those who still had their quotas had a piece of agarwood as thick as a finger appear in their palms.
Although it is very small, judging from its color and smell, it is a top-grade product.
“Hurry, hurry, hurry!”
Staying up late really brings surprises. The Chinese medicine practitioner watching the live broadcast has come out. Agarwood can not only make incense but also be used as medicine, and it has different effects when combined with different medicinal materials. Because the raw materials are precious, they haven’t used this high-quality agarwood for a long time.
‘Sure enough, he eats everything.’ Ji Xinghai here was also surprised. His appetite is getting worse and worse.
Wood residue is not easy to swallow, but it does come with a little special energy. Even if it can’t be compared with dry fungi, he is not picky.
However, the best use of agarwood is to make incense.
Will the incense made from this agarwood have a better effect?
Ji Xinghai collected the agarwood left by the wooden bone man and set it aside.
Although Agarwood is good, it does not improve his current situation. It’s better to have resources to be able to make poisonous smoke such as wolfsbane, croton, arsenic, and so on.
But there is no poisonous smoke on hand now, only the poisonous sap.
The poisonous sap is prepared for arrowheads. The arrows hung on the wall by the hunter are all homemade wooden arrows, about twenty of them with iron heads, wooden bodies, and bird feathers, and some of the arrowheads have red rust.
He summoned the wooden skeleton and asked it to sharpen the arrowheads with the whetstone beside the stove.
[He wants to use a bow.] This thing is not as good as an axe for ordinary people, right?
[I guess he will.]
Most students have their own considerations when doing instances, and the viewers have passed the period of questioning everything they see, so they just guess in the live broadcast room.
Some people are curious about the difference between the main volume and the supplementary volume of “Taotie Food Sutra.” The difference between the two is definitely not just the use of the summons and the number of summons.
As the person holding the main volume, the wooden skeleton summoned by Ji Xinghai is not a piece of agarwood but a level-one anomaly that can walk and stands at a height of more than one meter tall. Although it is not very smart, it has enough strength to polish an arrowhead.
Seeing that it did a good job, Ji Xinghai stopped staring at it and took the remaining arrows to practice at the door.
There are many enemies, and it is certain that the other party has long-range artillery. In this case, of course, bows and arrows are more useful, provided that he knows how to use them and has high accuracy.
It’s a coincidence; he really knows how to use them.
Because he hasn’t found his feel yet, he missed the first two arrows, but the third arrow hit the pine wood a hundred meters away steadily. After that, he became more and more skilled and never missed a single arrow.
He must have learned shooting, and he is a master. Is there still money to learn shooting in this day and age? His family is not simple. ]
[No, Ji Xinghai was my elementary school classmate, and then he suddenly transferred to another school. I remember that his family conditions were just okay; his parents were both workers, and he was an only child. ]
[Naive, he was still a student, how could this society be so simple? ]
Someone who knew the students appeared in the live broadcast room and talked with others about “Ji Xinghai’s background.” But the experienced Ninth State viewers just listened casually and did not believe it.
There are too many people pretending to be students, classmates, neighbors, and relatives in the live broadcast room.
They especially like “role-playing”, one plays the white face* and the other plays the red face*, and then says some specious words, either provoking the opposition between men and women, or provoking the opposition between the rich and the poor.
*(evil, crafty characters)
*(upright and righteous characters ref. See Jing role in chinese opera)
[Don’t believe in rumors or spread rumors; always be vigilant against scammers. Reported. ]
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