Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse - Chapter 20

Chapter 20 Finally, a Backpack

Holding the boning knife, Xu Ke got busy.

Although he had never dissected an animal before, the design of the boning knife was very thoughtful. With the knife in hand, instructions on where to start cutting would automatically appear in his mind. The knife was very sharp and didn’t require much effort either. Soon, Xu Xin finished dissecting the bear and wolf.

[Acquired: Complete bear skin (green) X1, tattered wolf skin (white) X1, bear meat (green) 200kg, wolf meat (green) 80kg, bear paw (green) X1, bear paw (blue) X1, bear bone (green) X2, Wolf bone (green) X2]

The notification of the materials obtained from taking the corpses apart came late.

The blue grade material made Xu Xin’s eyes light up.

A blue-grade bear paw!

Looking at the bear paw, an introduction appeared in Xu Xin’s mind.

[Bear Paw (blue): High-grade food. After proper cooking, it can become a stunning delicacy. It can permanently increase the strength of the consumer by a small margin.]

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It’s here, it’s here! An ingredient that could increase his strength attribute was here!

Xu Xin was overjoyed. He had long been diffident in his strength, but he couldn’t waste too much energy exercising in a place like this either, so ingredients like this were the best choice for him.

He looked at the remaining materials. There were a lot of them. There were skin, bones, and meat. Most of them were ordinary ingredients. Unfortunately, the boning knife did not leave the internal organs behind. The scraps seemed to have disappeared on their own.

Xu Xin quite liked to eat intestines like the heart, liver, and kidney. They were delicious in hot pot and stir-fried. However, there was no chili now. If he didn’t put chili in these dishes, their taste would be too overbearing. So be it if there weren’t any for now then.

Speaking of which, why weren’t there any beast tendons? Could it be that there was only a certain probability of obtaining such materials, and he had been unlucky this time?

Wasn’t that just unbearable…

Forget it, the most important thing now was to make the backpack. After all, he already had the bear skin and wolf skin.

The materials required to make a backpack were a piece of animal skin (green) and three ropes (white).

The rope could be made with the Synthesis Platform. The raw material was the reeds by the lake. Now that Xu Xin had a complete piece of bear skin (green), he could make a backpack.

He first rolled the reeds he collected from the lake into ropes, then straight away started making a backpack.

(Backpack (green): A backpack with 10 slots. The number of items that can be placed in each slot is determined by the type of item. The weight of the item can be reduced to 20% of its original weight.]

With that, a small backpack appeared in front of him. It looked very small, and it didn’t affect his movements at all when he carried it on his back.

Xu Xin tried to put 100 pieces of wood into it. It only took up one of the slots, and the weight was reduced to 20% of the original. A piece of wood weighed about half a kilogram, SO 100 pieces of wood would be 50 kilograms. After putting them in the backpack, they weighed only about 10 kilograms to Xu Xin, which was very light. After all, carrying a girlfriend would be 50 kilograms.

“This is really comfortable!” With a backpack in hand, Xu Xin suddenly felt his body filled with the desire to explore again.

There must have been many wild beasts that died in battle outside. If he went down and took a few corpses now, wouldn’t he make a big profit? The black bear weighed 200 kilograms, but would only be 40 kilograms in his backpack, which was still within the range he could bear.

Looking at the map, there were fewer red dots on the map than at the beginning. Most of the beasts were probably dead, injured, or running away. The “little sun” in the lake did not appear again either.

He observed the surroundings from the window. He had only cleaned up the trees under the treehouse’s crown, leaving the surrounding trees as they were so that his banyan tree would not be too conspicuous. As such, he could only look down through the gaps between the leaves of the surrounding poplar trees.

Fortunately, the top of the poplar trees was not as dense as his banyan tree. He could see the incomplete bodies of wild beasts on the ground. They had basically all been eaten. There were a few living wild beasts enjoying the feast beside each body.

As expected, how could these hungry wild beasts let go of a feast that was right in front of them? if he went down to search for corpses now, he would only find incomplete wild beast corpses, just like the wolf corpse that he had fished up. Even if he dissected those, he would only get white-grade tattered skin and a pile of gnawed meat. The possibility of obtaining resources like the bear paw was very small.

He didn’t plan to eat meat that had already been gnawed on. He couldn’t even finish the 200 kg of bear meat by himself, and he didn’t have any means of preserving it. He could only put the meat on the Trading Platform and sell it. However, there was no shortage of food in the forest. At most, people who were hungry for ordinary meat would exchange for two pieces to satisfy their cravings. Without the crisis of a food shortage, no one would use key materials to exchange for meat.

As for those who couldn’t even fill their stomachs, Xu Xin didn’t think that they would have anything that would catch his eye.

If he went down to pick up the corpses now, he could at most get bones that were considered a resource. However, he could also wait until the beast wave was over before going down to pick up the bones. After all, these beasts wouldn’t eat the bones too, right?

Besides, the positions of the corpses were all in places where the roots of the treehouse could not reach. His attack power was indeed higher now, but his body was too fragile without armor. He was not a master of the spear either, so he could not shoot out his spear like a pro. He might not be able to win and be sent to the ground.

Forget it.

If he had obtained the beast tendon just now and had been able to make a bow, Xu Xin could’ve hid a little further away and tried it out with caution. But with his current equipment, the meager rewards were not worth risking his life.

Xu Xin looked at the materials he had just obtained.

Was the tattered wolf skin useless? it was still a piece of animal skin, even though it was of the white grade.

Wait a minute!

If materials that were of a higher grade than that required by the blueprint could be used to create high-grade items, then could low-grade materials be used to create low-grade items?

The materials for a backpack were a piece of animal skin (green) and three ropes (white).

Could it be made with tattered animal skin (white)?

Xu Xin went to the Synthesis Platform and tried using the tattered wolf skin.

A ball of light flickered, and under Xu Xin’s surprised gaze, a backpack was made.

(Patched Backpack (white): A backpack made of low-grade animal skin. It has a total of five slots. The number of items that can be placed in each slot is determined by the type of item. The weight of the items is reduced to 50% of the original weight.]

Wow, recycling waste!

Although it was useless to him, he could sell it! Reducing the weight by half was already not bad. After all, it was equivalent to doubling the weight of things one could carry. At this stage, there shouldn’t be many who have a Synthesis Platform and can kill beasts, right?

Or he could directly exchange for some high-grade stones and iron ores from Li Wenxi.

Looking at the Regional Channel, the number of people in the channel had dropped to 8156, and in the second he looked at it, it jumped to 8155.

As expected, once the novice protection period was over, the reality became cruel. It had only been a few hours, and close to 2000 people had died.

Because he lived in a tall treehouse that was ten meters above the ground, as long as he didn’t do anything risky, he wouldn’t be in any danger. So, other than the python, he hadn’t felt much danger. But when he saw the number of people left, his heart also became heavy.

The monster horde outside gradually receded, and the Regional Channel gradually regained its vitality.

“I survived!”

“This… So many people have died… With so many dead on the first day, can we really survive?”

“The comment upstairs, there are still more than 20 hours left on the first day. It’s not even there yet.”

“You can shut up!”

“Thank you, expert Ji Zhaoyang, for giving me an idea and letting me live!”

“Thank you, expert Ji Zhaoyang +1”

“Thanks +2”

Ji Zhaoyang?

Looking at the name that had appeared once again, Xu Xin became interested.