Fearsome Farmer - Chapter 44

Chapter 44: Untitled

During the noon break, Li Siwen squatted in the treehouse, spacing out as he stared at the stove. He was considering whether to build a flue. Mm, in other words, a chimney.

After all, his treehouse currently did not have a capped top, smoke was free to surge upwards, but in winter, an unsealed treehouse would be an ice throne.

He had never made a chimney before, but he’d seen the big chimneys in the red brickyard, so he still understood the principles.

“Or build a heated brick bed? Light up the skill tree [1. Game reference] of a bricklayer/carpenter too? Mm, speaking about carpenters, should I cut some wooden spears, those wild boars are at least two to three catties, with just this stainless steel axe of mine, it really isn’t enough to hack them. I need to rely on traps for support.”

Doing it once it came to mind, vigorously and effectively, Li Siwen swiftly leaped out of the treehouse. Heh, it was mainly because he was too hungry.

He selected a few perfectly straight wood poles from the branches he’d chopped down. Only, once he pared them with the long knife, Li Siwen knew that it was bad.

These big trees that had their Vitality Points absorbed by him were though still very tough but ultimately lacking. For example, the few wooden poles that he’d selected earlier. Don’t mention the wild boars with rough skin and thick flesh, even himself, when he used strength in a single hand, some clear fingerprints were left behind on the wood.

This was solely the quality of the Chinese White Poplar [2. Tree species].

“If only I could go to the east side of the stream to fell some trees, the trees there are like steel. Hold on, there’s not right either. If they’ve had their Vitality Points extracted, they would no longer have the hardness. So the problem still lies with the Vitality Points.”

This was the first time Li Siwen felt a little vexed, extracting Vitality Points actually still had these drawbacks!

Standing under the blistering sun, his brows were tightly knitted, yet he had no way out either.

Opening his Attribute Bar, he found that the cooldown for his Level 3 logging skill had ended. He randomly found a big tree and just as he prepared to throw this skill out, when he was suddenly struck with a wild idea. What if he could choose not to extract Vitality Points?

The description of this was to ‘put it to good use’ right? What if this logging technique could allow Vitality Points to not be extracted?

This thought thoroughly sliced through Li Siwen’s entire body like a flash of lightning. All at once, he gathered his attention, reciting to himself, don’t extract, don’t extract, whoosh, the skill was thrown out!

Li Siwen immediately grabbed his axe and chopped, putting this tree down like a gust of wind. Then, he checked his Attribute Bar, oh yeah! The Vitality Points inside the small green orb remained as nine points, he’d succeeded.

For a moment, Li Siwen almost snorted out loud.

Sure enough, in life, it’s about feeling proud.

Haha, not proud, not proud.

A minute later, Li Siwen composed himself and decisively returned to the treehouse for his afternoon nap. Remember, at any time, recovering stamina is the first priority!

He had a nice and cozy sleep, replenished enough water, caught, grilled, and ate several hundred grasshoppers, then came to the tree that had not been extracted of Vitality Points. He was far more than ready for action.

31 points of full Stamina, this condition, wow.

After carefully examining this big tree that was as wide as a person’s embrace, Li Siwen first used the axe to chop off all the branches.

Speaking of which, once he did so, he was instantly shocked, because the hardness had been doubled, at least.

This was miraculous. Before these big trees had been chopped off and extracted of Vitality Points, their hardness was only so-so, compared to those strange trees east of the stream, they were much worse.

Equivalent to the old elm trees on earth.

But now, this hardness was definitely comparable to the worst strange trees on the east bank of the upper stream. Using them to kill wild boars was no problem at all. But here came the problem, was he going to pare one wooden spear or one wooden spear?

The ancient times had Li Bai’s grinding an iron bar into a needle. Could it be that there was going to be Li Siwen’s giant tree pared into a spear emerging today?

Weehoo~ so neatly done!

After pondering for a long while, Li Siwen just could not set to work, mainly because the wild boars across the flooding valley were too unusual. Thin wooden spears made of branches weren’t enough at all.

“They’ve got to be at least three meters long and as thick as a person’s arm. But how would I make them into a trap? Forget about digging pits, those wild boars wouldn’t even cross the flooding valley. And if I were to cross the flooding valley, I would be discovered quickly. The boars’ noses are real sensitive, so——”

Finally, Li Siwen still brought out a proposal. He planned to divide the trunk of this 20 meters tall, big tree into five parts, after removing the crown, each part would be about three meters. He first chopped it up with an axe before thinking further.

This was certainly a tough decision, and it was also a tough job. Now that the tree was harder, chopping it took quite some effort. Li Siwen used one entire hour to have it in pieces, he’d even spent 12 points of Stamina.

Too crazy.

And to make up for the excessive consumption of stamina and in the situation where he could not get any breakfast snakes, he could only go around catching grasshoppers, emptying bird nests, digging in rat holes, trying to scrape a living to restore his stamina.

However, at this time, he finally realized that something wasn’t quite right. This was because he’d expanded his search area to a diameter of one kilometer, yet he still didn’t see a single breakfast snake. Could this be normal!

In addition, considering that the herd of wild boars always gave chase till the flooded valley and would go no further, this instantly had Li Siwen even more alert.

Recalling the vague sense of being spied on from last night, he felt tremendously stressed more than ever.

But would he retreat and escape just like that, with his tail between his legs and find another area to settle down?

He directly shot down this thought at heart. This was his territory, even if the boorish Feudal Lord came——alright, at the worst, he would escape one more time.

No matter what, it’ll first depend on the circumstances. If he was no fighting match for him, of course, he’d know to run.

Leaving nothing untried, catching grasshoppers, digging in rat holes, and bird nests, he finally made himself 20% full. Li Siwen then squatted in front of the treehouse and looked at the five sections of round logs that couldn’t be considered neat. Then, he quietly went forward with his axe and swung down again and again. Who cares whether it’s a snake spirit or a madman. He was bent on eating the wild boar meat opposite!

Only when it was getting late, did he finally finish a ‘wooden spear’, if he could call this a wooden spear.

This thingamajig was three meters long, thick on one end and thin on another. The thick end was as big as a washbasin while the thin end was the thickness of a person’s arm. This was clearly a big wooden club.

Just this had spent 12 points of his stamina.

Li Siwen dragged this huge wooden club that weighed a good three hundred catties into the treehouse. He planned on working overnight. At the least, it had to have some sharpness.

Moreover, this was too heavy, it seemed like it was because of the Vitality Points not being extracted. It was more than twice as heavy as the usual wood.

Fortunately, carrying it with his 18 points of Strength didn’t take too much effort. If he were to reduce a hundred catties from it, there was no reason he couldn’t carry this gigantic wooden spear and begin a charge towards honor between knights with the wild boars!