Chen Yu stretched lazily.
As soon as he pushed open the window, Chen Yu saw the diligent Bee Girl already toiling in her flower garden.
Not to mention—
Her flower garden seemed to vaguely show the seedlings of a hundred flowers.
"Good morning!"
He greeted with a smile, and the Bee Girl, who was carefully tending to her flower garden, sweetly replied.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
In the side yard, the familiar rhythmic sound followed suit.
Glancing sideways slightly.
He could see Kuka, shirtless, striking gophers with his golden shovel. The furnace in the smelting area emitted intense heat.
The kobolds also came and went, transporting resources from the warehouse.
Everything was in perfect order.
Chen Yu actually quite enjoyed the current situation.
Now, his place was gradually starting to take on the rudimentary form of a camp, thriving.
After a simple wash—
Chen Yu went to the side yard to dismember the gopher corpses.
[Cave Reminder: 300g Gopher Meat +1]
[Cave Reminder: Complete Gopher Fur +1]
[Ding: Glutton's Greed triggered, Food Greed Critical Hit 50x]
[Greed Critical Hit: 300g Gopher Meat +50]
…
A total of 75 gopher corpses.
Having cleared his inventory the night before, Chen Yu's current stock was again close to 4000 units of 300g meat.
Overnight, 1.2 million earned.
He wanted to keep a low profile, but his strength truly wouldn't allow it.
Breakfast was still roasted meat.
After a hearty meal, Hei Dou and the others collapsed on the ground, patting their round bellies. Even Hei Lu had become a bit like Hei Dou recently, lying on the ground with a bulging stomach.
Only the Bee Girl was relatively reserved; after eating some fruit, she returned to her flower garden.
"Boss!"
Hei Dou, lying on the ground digesting his food, mumbled lazily.
"What's the plan for today?"
"What other plan is there? Explore the caves," Chen Yu whispered. "We are still in the initial stage. If we don't explore for resources, do you still want to conquer the world?"
Up to now, the challengers were all still in the exploration phase.
They had not yet set up camp.
An important reason for this situation was the segmentation of the cave dimension, and the restrictions imposed by exploration invitations on survival challengers.
This prevented them from rooting themselves and opening up their own territories.
Chen Yu believed that
This would be achievable in the future.
At that time, it would be an era of a hundred schools of thought contending.
With interwoven forces, each in their own camps.
Now—
It was likely that such a scene would be difficult to achieve in the short term.
"Heh, then…"
Hei Dou, patting his bulging belly, squinted and smiled.
"Can we have something good for lunch?"
Seeing his gaze, Chen Yu knew what he was planning.
"You want me to cook it myself?" Chen Yu raised an eyebrow and smiled. Hei Dou nodded his little head as if pecking rice, "Yes, radish stewed with meat, delicious!"
"Alright."
Chen Yu agreed without a second thought and then extended his hand towards Hei Dou.
Seeing this, Hei Dou was stunned.
"What for?"
"Give me money, what else do you think?" Chen Yu glared. "Do you think I'm a free chef? Whatever you want to eat, I'll make it for you. If you want to order, pay up. If you have no money, eat whatever there is. Stop talking nonsense!"
Cooking was hard work!
Chen Yu was too lazy to do anything else. Although his camp was developing better and better, his workload had also become heavier.
Dismembering required him to do it personally.
Cooking required him to do it personally!
For example, the gophers Chen Yu had just dismembered that Kuka brought back; dismembering one took a minute, and processing all those corpses took him over an hour.
Time was not enough!
"Kuka!"
Chen Yu raised his eyebrows. Kuka, who was sitting with his hands propping up the ground, immediately sat up straight.
"Boss."
"How many gophers can you get in a night?" Chen Yu gestured towards the side yard. "I see your efficiency in catching gophers is quite high now."
"Hiss!"
Kuka pondered for a moment.
"It's not really that much. If I go all out, I can get around 200. Mainly, you told me not to catch from only one camp, and re-establishing the spatial anchors is troublesome. If I didn't have to re-establish anchors, three to five hundred a day would be easy."
Chen Yu was shocked.
Three to five hundred.
It seemed Kuka had grown extremely fast during his time with him.
He vaguely remembered that when he asked him to steal twenty gophers, it was like asking for his life, but now three to five hundred was not a problem.
Even with re-establishing spatial anchors, he could get two hundred.
A tenfold increase!
What would happen if he were given more time?
If Kuka could catch thousands of gophers a day in the future, Chen Yu wouldn't even be able to dismember them all.
"I need to think about automation."
Chen Yu, noticing this issue, couldn't help but mutter to himself.
His camp would only grow stronger.
If he had to do everything personally, then he wouldn't be able to go out and adventure, and would spend his entire days in the camp as a butcher and a cook.
This was not the life he wanted.
Hei Dou, who had been rebuffed by Chen Yu, pouted unhappily. Chen Yu's mind, however, was filled with future plans.
He absolutely could not continue like this.
The current weakness was already evident, and in the long run, he would be bound by these trivial matters.
"Alright, you've improved so much in a few days?" Chen Yu patted Kuka's shoulder. Kuka chuckled foolishly, "It's all thanks to your good cultivation, boss. I feel like I've already reached the threshold of a Black Iron Mage during this time."
"Oh?"
"Heh, I'm not entirely sure. I'll have to test it at the Mage Association when we return to the city-state to know."
"Don't worry, we'll be back soon."
Returning to the city-state was simple for Chen Yu. He now had a city-state return scroll. He was still staying in the wilderness of the caves, waiting for adventurers from those city-states to arrive.
He could go back, but before that, he had to do something significant!
This way, when he went to the city-state, he could also gather more resources from them, especially resources beneficial to the Skeleton Warriors.
Didn't the little demon say that?
Devouring type!
Worth nurturing!
Chen Yu guessed that things like these skeleton bones could be bought in the city-state.
Chen Yu had a standard in mind.
He was willing to provide 1000 gold coins worth of resources for the Skeleton Warriors. If they could provide him with satisfactory returns, he would continue to provide resource support.
Otherwise, he would abandon this bottomless pit.
But—
In fact, purchasing resources was not as cost-effective as producing them oneself.
Chen Yu's peripheral vision suddenly noticed the skeleton staff at the doorway. The bones he had obtained earlier came from the skeleton warriors summoned by the Skeleton Mage.
Unfortunately, Chen Yu was not an undead mage.
Although he had a staff,
And the Skeleton Summoning spell.
Alas, his attainments in the magical field were also superficial; he only knew how to use the "convincing with virtue" demon whisper.
He took out the magic tome from his prayer beads.
[Skeleton Summoning: Requires Black Iron Mage]
A strict requirement.
One had to be at least a Black Iron Mage to learn it.
Chen Yu chose to learn it.
The cave reminder would continuously warn him that he had not yet met the learning standard.
"What should I do, Black Iron level?" Chen Yu licked his lips, then his expression sharpened, and he looked down at the tome in his hand and muttered, "Black Iron level?"
Chen Yu had a sudden inspiration.
He slowly looked up, his eyes falling on Kuka, who was still digesting his food.
"Kuka, you just said, you're almost Black Iron level?"
"Right!"