Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse - Chapter 9

Chapter 9: Improved Tools

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

“Do you sell these stones? I want three pieces,” Xu Xin went straight to the point.

“It depends on your conditions,” The other party was also very smart.

Xu Xin thought for a moment and said, “You should have a lot of green-grade stones, right? I have a lot of green-grade wood here. I’ll provide you with 50 green-grade wood to help you build the Synthesis Station. In exchange, you give me three blue-grade stones.”

He immediately turned the tables.

There was no reply for a long time. The other party was probably thinking.

“60 pieces of green-grade wood. Also, I want your red berries.”

“Sure, but you have to exchange the red berries with iron ores. 20 iron ores for one.”

“Deal,” The other party replied.

[The other party has initiated a trade with you. Stone (blue)*3 in exchange for wood (green)*60]

So swift and decisive? Xu Xin had no choice but to cancel the deal, “I don’t have that much green-grade wood right now. I need to go down and cut some trees. Let’s trade the berries first. How many do you want?”

“…Let’s do three first. ”

Xu Xin initiated the trade.

[You have initiated a trade. Big red berry (blue)*3 in exchange for iron ore (green)*60]

[The other party has accepted the deal. You have received 60 iron ores (green).]

[The other party has initiated a trade with you, stone (blue) *1 for nothing]

“What?” Xu Xin was a little confused. What did the other party mean? Was she giving one to him for free?

“I’ll give you one first. Make a new axe to cut the trees. I’ll give you the other two after you’re done,” The other party explained.

She was quite cute. Xu Xin couldn’t help but laugh. However, it seemed that she had quite a lot of blue-grade stones, perhaps comparable to the number of red berries he had.

Xu Xin accepted the deal and sent her an “okay”, then immediately made a new axe.

[Improved Stone Axe (green): Able to cut down trees of the blue grade and below. It has become tougher and sharper because of the addition of higher grade stones. Durability 200.]

Great! To think his ax could now cut blue-grade trees too! It seemed that he had to build a good relationship with Li Wenxi.

He suddenly remembered that he had found a blue-grade poplar tree. The function of blue-grade wood might be similar to blue-grade stones. Now that he had this axe in his hand, it seemed that it was time to cut down the blue-grade tree.

…

On the other side, in a treehouse that was slightly smaller than Xu Xin’s, a short-haired girl was carefully examining the red berry in her hand. She was wearing a simple novice t-shirt and shorts. She was tall and slender. From her fair and firm arms and legs that were exposed, it was obvious that she often worked out to maintain her figure.

“It has the effects of improving one’s eyesight and gives two hours of night vision… As expected, blue-grade items all have additional abilities,” The girl muttered to herself.

This was a two-story treehouse, and each floor was about 50 square meters. Right now, Li Wenxi was on the second floor, sitting in front of the screen.

She went to the first floor and looked at the various stones and iron ores that filled this floor. Yesterday, when she saw that the Trading Platform would be open today, she knew that she should be able to trade her stones and ores for something good, so she worked hard for the whole day, which really tired her out.

To move these things, she had walked back and forth countless times. Fortunately, her treehouse was very close to the mine, and her physical fitness was much better than the average girl, so she could move all these things back.

But even so, her limbs were sore today, and her legs were trembling when she walked. After all, she had been overworking all day, and her body couldn’t take it even if she worked out often. So, she didn’t plan to go out again today. She wanted to use these things to trade for some other supplies on the trading platform.

“This guy seems to be quite powerful. He has even created the Synthesis Station. I had been cutting trees for half a day yesterdat, but I didn’t even see the shadow of green-grade wood, all white-grade,” Li Wenxi moved her slightly trembling legs and returned to the second floor. She lay back on the wooden bed and sighed, “He’s an expert, but it looks like he doesn’t have any iron ore sources. I should be able to work with him.”

Li Wenxi’s treehouse was located beside a mine. At the same time, there was a small stream passing by. At that time, she had stopped when she reached this place because she noticed that there were two kinds of resources in this location. It would be better to take root here than continue to walk aimlessly.

“A low treehouse is only about 20 square meters and only one floor. Could it be that my treehouse is more advanced than theirs?” Li Wenxi was secretly delighted. She was only a second-year student, and she had found herself in this unknown world when she came to.

“I wonder what that guy’s treehouse looks like. Maybe mine is better!” Li Wenxi was elated. She continued to lie on her side on the bed and read the chats in the Chat Room.

So far, only Xu Xin had asked about her iron ore. After all, at this stage, no one had even made the Synthesis Station. The fact they could only use the appraisal desk to identify the grade of materials made it so that survivors could only rely on luck to obtain materials. Therefore, iron ore was useless to most people at this stage.

“If that anonymous guy is really trustworthy, I can sell him a few pieces of blue-grade iron ore,” Li Wenshu couldn’t gather anything new from the Chat Room, so she turned her attention back to Xu Xin.

She had placed all the blue-grade items on the second floor. At this moment, there was an ore on her appraisal desk that looked obviously different from ordinary iron ore since it was emitting blue light. Because she had the stone (blue), her tools could collect blue-grade materials.

[Iron Ore (blue): When smelting iron ore, you only need to add one piece to produce iron (blue), affordable and easy to use!]

Suddenly, she received a message from Xu Xin.

“Eh, why is this guy back so quickly?”

…

On the other side, Xu Xin held the improved stone ax (green) and left the treehouse. In the area at the bottom of his treehouse, half of it had not been cleared. It was mostly poplar trees, half of which were of the white grade and half of which were of the green grade.

He raised his axe and chopped at the nearest poplar tree (white).

“Crack!”

The poplar tree broke into five pieces as it fell to the ground.

“Holy sh*t?!” Xu Xin’s eyes widened as he looked at the ax in his hand. He remembered that he had needed five strokes to cut the white-grade poplar trees.

He then chopped at a poplar tree (green). Once, twice.

“Crack!” The poplar tree (green) fell.

“This… Isn’t this too strong?!”

Five times the efficiency, one swing was worth five. Was this the power of blue-grade materials? Wasn’t this much more useful than the red berry?!

And so, like a god of War, Xu Xin cut down all the remaining trees under his treehouse, covering the ground with white and green grades of wood.

Because the area was right under the treehouse, there was basically no need to move them. He only needed to grab the wood and let the treehouse bring him up. Soon, he had piled up all the wood on the first floor, and then initiated a trade with Li Wenxi.

[You have initiated a trade. Wood (green)*60 in exchange for stones (blue)*2]

Sure enough, it seemed that as long as the materials were in the treehouse, he could initiate trades anywhere.

[The other party has accepted the deal. You have received stones (blue)*2.]