Chapter 1 The Beginning

After asking Bei Shi Bi about the trees behind the stone wall, Lin En planned to upgrade his Home to level 1 today, and then use the Home Upgrade Blueprint to upgrade it to level 2.

"Bei Shi Bi, are you sure there are many trees behind the north stone wall?"

Bei Shi Bi: "How many is considered many?"

-_-|| Lin En didn't bother with unnecessary talk. As long as there were trees behind it, that was enough. As for how many, he'd know once he got there. With that, he grabbed his pickaxe and started digging.

Ding~ ding~ ding~~

[System: Stone*10]

The first thing Lin En saw when he entered was the enormous rock, and only then did he notice the forest to the side.

This cave was quite large. It took him more than ten minutes to reach the giant rock. Standing beneath it, Lin En found it to be excessively large, estimated to be over 20 meters high and 10 meters wide.

After circling the giant rock, Lin En was about to go chop trees when he suddenly noticed a chat notification on the rock. Thinking the rock was talking, he clicked to take a look.

Stone Giant (Fifth Order): "zzzzzzzz"

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So you can see monsters' chats too?, Bah, that's not the point. This giant rock is actually alive? A fifth-order Stone Giant? Holy crap, Lin En immediately moved far away.

He ran for about ten minutes, stopping only when he could no longer see the Stone Giant.

Haa haa haa haa.

After resting for a while, Lin En walked outward again, stopping when he saw the stone wall. Looking at the surrounding trees, he took out his axe from his backpack and began to chop wood.

Thud thud, thud thud.

Crash, the fallen tree directly turned into a wood pile. Lin En immediately collected the wood pile.

[System: Wood*5]

??? Didn't they say that logging only yields 3 wood, and takes half an hour to chop a single tree?

Then why did it only take me a dozen minutes to chop down a tree, and the amount of wood is also more than theirs? Lin En was completely puzzled until he saw the axe in his hand and remembered that this was a Fine Axe. Wasn't it normal for it to be faster than theirs?

Lin En even specifically opened the [Trade] to search for it.

Name: Iron Axe

Category: Tool

Effect: Logging

(A very ordinary logging tool)

After figuring it out, Lin En quickly started chopping trees.

I chop.

I chop, I chop, I chop chop chop.

More than two hours later, Lin En looked at the Wood*132 in his backpack and finally stopped. Enough was enough, he should leave quickly. After so long, he didn't know if the Stone Giant had woken up, but the Stone Giant was so big that it would definitely cause vibrations when it walked. The fact that there weren't any vibrations now meant that it hadn't woken up yet.

Although the Stone Giant hadn't woken up yet, Lin En still didn't want to stay any longer. A wise man does not stand under a dangerous wall. These were the words left by the ancestors.

Time to slip away.

On the way, Lin En also found wild strawberries.

[System: Wild Strawberries*15]

[System: Strawberry Seeds*3]

Ding~ ding~ ding~

Lin En felt the ground start to vibrate slightly, probably because the sound of digging through the stone wall had woken the Stone Giant. Luckily, the stone wall had already been dug through.

[System: Stone*10]

Lin En looked back in the direction of the Stone Giant and immediately saw the Stone Giant standing up. Damn, it was a full fifty meters tall after standing up? But luckily, it wasn't coming towards him.

Lin En watched as the Stone Giant passed through the stone wall and disappeared.

Damn it, Lin En realized that the stone wall the Stone Giant had passed through was perfectly intact. Monsters can directly pass through stone walls?

This discovery would save Lin En's life in a certain cave in the future.

Lin En posted this situation in [Chat] and then ignored it.

He glanced at the dug-out stone wall. Lin En wasn't in a hurry to enter. Looking back at the place where the Stone Giant had been sleeping, sure enough, the trees in the place where the Stone Giant had walked were all collapsed. Some had directly turned into wood piles, and most of the broken trees only needed to be chopped twice to be fully harvested.

Just as Lin En was busy chopping trees and picking up wood piles, the [Chat] channel became lively again.

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"Picture picture"

"It's you again? What is it this time? View"

"凸(艹皿艹), I just felt weird. I was saying, I clearly explored the entire cave and only relaxed and started chopping trees after finding no fierce beasts, but then a rabbit bit my butt. I thought I hadn't discovered it, but it turns out it came from another cave."

"Brother, I don't care about your butt, I only care about the rabbit. Where's the rabbit?"

"Rabbit?, What rabbit, picture picture, so delicious"

"Rabbit is so cute, and you actually roasted it. Slurp, you have no heart, slurp, drool is flowing"

"I almost accidentally hurt a friendly soldier"

"Roasted rabbit is nothing, look at my picture picture picture"

"Damn, there's watermelon, frozen cola, and fried chicken"

"Big brother, please give me some food. I've dug three caves in a row and haven't found a single thing."

"There's even frozen cola and fried chicken?, Unlike me, I only have this, picture picture"

"Damn, lobster and beer, and spider crab"

"Looking at the fried chicken and lobster of the big bosses, I silently threw away the steamed bun in my hand, and then painfully picked it up again"

"I see that the big boss is by the sea, could it be that the big boss caught the lobster and spider crab himself?"

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"Wait, how did we turn the topic to food?, Shouldn't the focus be on this?, Picture"

"I understand, I understand, picture picture. Continue"

"Picture picture"

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Not to mention the lively [Chat], Lin En finally finished chopping down the last broken tree. Finally finished chopping, not easy.

But looking at the amount of wood in his backpack, 132+387, Wood*519, one hour was two times more productive than two hours of chopping myself, but this situation is rare.

Lin En rubbed his stomach. After chopping trees for so long, his stomach began to growl. He opened his backpack, preparing to eat some bread. Oh, he suddenly realized that he hadn't eaten the braised wild boar heart yet, which increased 5 points of Strength.

Searching on [Trade], Lin En used two portions of Fierce Scale Bird tail meat to buy a bottle of chili sauce and a frying pan.

He found two stones to make a support, found some dry wood and dry grass, lit it with a fire starter, put the frying pan on it, and poured 500ml of mineral water.

While the water wasn't boiling, Lin En used a paring knife to cut the pig heart into slices. After the water boiled, he put the pig heart slices in to cook.

Seeing that it was almost ready, he took the frying pan off and put it aside, smeared chili sauce on the pre-cut bread slices, and added two slices of pig heart. Hmm, not bad.

After eating and drinking his fill, Lin En cleaned up and prepared to go to the next cave through the stone wall he had just dug.

But Lin En first opened his character panel to check.

Name: Lin En

Constitution: 16(+2) (Average adult male 10)

Strength: 21(+3) (Average adult male 10)

Agility: 16(+3) (Average adult male 10)

Spirit: 13(+0) (Average adult male 10)

Equipment: ......

Backpack: ......