Pour refined salt into a bucket of clear water and stir until evenly mixed.
Pour it into the wooden bucket containing the lion's blood.
Carrying the wooden bucket.
Chen Yu arrived at the drying rack.
He was going to make lion blood jerky.
Similar to duck blood, it would be cut into pieces and eaten after preparation.
At this moment, the meat on the drying rack was not yet air-dried, even with a perfect-grade drying rack.
He didn't want to take the meat off the rack.
Canceling the air-drying felt like a waste of time.
Ding.
Wind Element Crystal Shard - 1, Timber - 4, Copper Block - 2.
Perfect-grade Drying Rack +1.
The Lucky Set was very useful; the chance of creating a perfect-grade blueprint was not low.
In the future, when resources were abundant.
Chen Yu would definitely upgrade all his drying racks to perfect-grade.
Not for any other reason.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder!
He had to arrange the drying racks neatly, aligned horizontally and vertically.
The air-drying time also had to be the same.
Otherwise, due to level differences, if one batch of meat was air-dried while another wasn't, it would make Chen Yu extremely uncomfortable.
"I need to organize this."
Chen Yu opened the base interface, and the drying racks became movable.
Fine-grade in one row.
Rare-grade in another row.
Perfect-grade in a third row.
After placing them all, Chen Yu let out a sigh of relief.
Immediately, Chen Yu divided the wooden bucket containing the salted lion's blood into two portions.
He hung them on the drying racks.
Once solidified, they could be eaten as lion blood jerky.
Chen Yu's current seasonings were a bit lacking; if he could sprinkle some chopped scallions, it would taste even better.
After completing all this, he specifically took more than ten steps back, using his hand to measure whether the drying racks were aligned horizontally and vertically and if the spacing was consistent.
During this time, Hei Dou and Ku Ka silently watched him.
Ku Ka (´･_･`): "What is the boss doing?"
Hei Dou (;￢＿￢): "OCD."
Confirming everything was in order, Chen Yu finally breathed a sigh of relief.
He nodded with satisfaction.
He happened to catch Hei Dou giving him a sideways glance.
"Who are you looking at sideways?"
Chen Yu immediately locked Hei Dou with a Dragon Claw Hand.
"Hey, hey, hey!" Hei Dou, pinned down, said sideways, "You're strangling me again, aren't you? If you've got the guts, try a different move."
Immediately, he was grabbed by the scruff of his neck and lifted up.
His feet were dangling in the air.
His limbs flailed wildly (┗(0﹏0)┛surrender.
"I surrender."
"Look at your pathetic state, what are you going to do if I use eighty different moves?" Chen Yu sneered and put Hei Dou down. The moment he turned, Hei Dou braced his legs.
Charging forward!
Chen Yu sidestepped, delivering a hand chop, and followed with a grapple.
(=￣w￣=) Meow.
Pinned to the ground, Hei Dou lay there, while Chen Yu grinned and lightly snorted at him.
(▼⊿▼): "Little brother, you're too tender."
ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ: "Dare you let go!"
"What will you do if I let go?" Chen Yu loosened his grip, and Hei Dou immediately leaped up with a "fierce tiger emerging from its cave" move, only to be kicked by Chen Yu.
Ku Ka's gaze followed Hei Dou, who had transformed into a perfect parabola.
He watched as Hei Dou landed on the ground with a thud.
Chen Yu, with one hand in his pocket, walked up to Hei Dou and looked down at him.
"You want to fight me? Wait another hundred years."
Hei Dou: "Hmph!"
He shook his little head and darted into the camp. When Chen Yu entered, he saw Hei Dou devouring cheese.
"No matter how much you eat, what difference does it make? Don't you understand the gap between us?"
"If you dare, wait until I grow bigger, then we'll see who's the big brother and who's the little brother." Hei Dou bared his teeth and glared, as Chen Yu snatched the cheese back.
"Who are you talking to?"
"Big brother!"
"You know I'm your big brother now?"
"Big brother, little brother was wrong." Hei Dou held up his little hands earnestly. "Once a big brother, always a big brother. Little brother was just talking big. No matter what, you are my good big brother."
Chen Yu threw the cheese away.
Catching the cheese, Hei Dou held it and muttered softly.
"Tch~ When I stand up, I'll show you who..." As he was muttering, Hei Dou suddenly felt a cool breeze above his head. He looked up and saw Chen Yu tilting his head, watching him.
Before Hei Dou could even speak, he saw Chen Yu put his finger to his mouth and blow on it.
"Hey, if you dare, don't flick my weights."
"Alright, then... here we go!" Chen Yu kicked him.
"I'll be back!"
That day, Hei Dou became light.
Chen Yu didn't bother to look at Hei Dou, knowing that the little guy was quite resilient. If he couldn't even withstand that kick, he wouldn't be a spirit beast.
He looked down at the cheese in the golden chest.
It had piled up into a small mountain.
With the Greed Critical Strike upgrade and the Lucky Set bonus, the cheese production had increased considerably.
He took out a piece from the chest and took a bite.
Delicious.
He glanced at the attribute bonus.
[Physical Defense +9]
This bite of cheese even triggered an attribute critical strike.
"Huh?"
Suddenly, Chen Yu looked down at his Adventurer Set.
Could this also be affected?
Chen Yu quickly finished a piece of cheese, and as he prepared to take a second one, he saw Ku Ka (゜p゜).
Stretching out its neck, its saliva was about to drip.
Was it that greedy?
Chen Yu thought for a moment and took out a piece of cheese from the chest, extending it to him. Ku Ka's eyes widened, practically bulging out.
"It's for you." Chen Yu tossed the cheese over. Ku Ka, catching the cheese, looked at him incredulously. "Boss, you... you're really giving it to me?"
"You owe me 40 groundhogs."
"80!"
Ku Ka shouted with wide eyes.
"What are 40? I owe boss 80 groundhogs. Boss, don't worry, I'll work hard in the future and make the cave's groundhogs extinct!"
"Uh... it's not that serious. Your intention is good enough," Chen Yu said.
Groundhog extinction.
Causing ecological imbalance, he would be wanted.
Ku Ka, with tears of gratitude, sniffed and took a bite of the cheese.
┭┮﹏┭┮
Tears streamed down its face.
"It's not that serious, not at all, just a piece of cheese," Chen Yu said softly to comfort it.
Ku Ka shook its head vigorously.
"No, this... this also contains boss's trust in me, your expectations of me, your... Boss, Ku Ka has no way to repay you. I'll kowtow to you."
Kneeling in the camp, Ku Ka went thud-thud-thud.
It just kept kowtowing.
It even made Chen Yu a bit stunned.
Said one kowtow.
How many had it done?
Indeed, being stepped on by a donkey in childhood must have injured its brain.
It couldn't count.
Chen Yu took another piece of cheese, glanced at the still kowtowing Ku Ka, closed the chest lid, and walked to the water condenser.
The bucket now had about half a bucket of water.
Drinking Water +2976
[Fine-grade Water Condenser Blueprint: Guaranteed Fine-grade, you know the deal (･w
Hey!
Watch, please don't change your gender.
Does the spirit of gluttony really put that much pressure on you?
Chen Yu was starting to panic a little.
His body trembled, and Chen Yu looked at the crafting requirements.
[Crafting Requirements: Timber 8/40, Stone 265/30, Iron Block 79/30, Silver Block 173/10, Water Element Crystal Shard 39/2, Fire Element Crystal Shard 23/2]
Guaranteed Fine-grade meant more materials were needed.
Everything else was fine.
He was short on timber.
Chen Yu never dreamed he would be troubled by timber.
He opened his private messages.
Chen Yu: "Old Yu, send some timber."
Ding.
You have received a gift from Pu.
Timber +100
Yu Pu: "Timber sent, I'm in battle."
Chen Yu was surprised that Yu Pu could send it instantly, and while in battle, he could still be distracted enough to send timber and reply to messages.
This guy was quite capable.
These 100 timber pieces were equivalent to 1000ml of water. Chen Yu figured he wouldn't be short of water or food now. Chen Yu couldn't sell other resources externally anyway.
He would just keep them.
He would support Yu Pu when he needed it.
"Oh!"
A thought suddenly struck Chen Yu.
He should craft the water condenser first.
He opened the crafting blueprint. With Yu Pu's gifted resources, all requirements were met.
"Craft."
With the Lucky bonus, Chen Yu wasn't worried about the grade being too low; it would at least be rare-grade.
[Cave Reminder: Crafting Successful]
A golden water condenser appeared before Chen Yu.
Wow!
Golden—
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Author's Notes:
A good start to the day, good morning, the production team's donkey is reporting for duty~~~ Remember to give a five-star rating.