I build a shelter in the eternal night.

Chapter 5 "You're simply a genius."

On the wasteland.

The man in the green robe, who was hiding behind the low hill, sighed after confirming that the boy couldn't see him from this angle. He then took out another strange-looking map from his pocket, preparing to take a longer route to "Jiangbei Market".

Follow the established route.

He should be heading east from this station.

but.
The wasteland was extremely flat, with an unobstructed view. He felt that as a person of great stature, it would be somewhat unbecoming to walk such a long distance in front of the two people.

A truly virtuous person should do good deeds and then disappear without a trace, leaving no trace behind.

"I am so"

He couldn't help but shake his head, amused by his own childish thoughts. After a while, the smile faded, and his eyes flashed with rage and irritation. He turned his head and looked in the direction of the Chen family station No. 37 in Jiangbei, muttering to himself.

"Why wasn't anyone willing to lend me a hand back then, as they are doing today?"

"In that case, perhaps there wouldn't be the Jiangbei Old Demon of today."

After confirming that the man in the green robe had gone far away, Chen Fan quickly went to the haystack behind the wooden house and took out the "Level 1 Animal Trap" and the strange creature that had been caught in the trap last night.

Animal traps can be reused multiple times, but the drawback is that they can only be effective once per night.

This strange creature is monkey-like; it looks just like a small monkey.

The monkey's mouth took up almost two-thirds of its cheeks, and its densely packed teeth looked extremely creepy.

Each of the strange objects contains a strange stone.

The Mysterious Stone is also the most important currency in this world.

"Young Master, this monster is called a 'Monkey-Headed Ghost.' It's a common low-level monster, generally between level 1 and 3. It's not very dangerous, but it's extremely fast. The monster stone is located at the back of its head."

"."

Chen Fan looked at the lame monkey with slight surprise: "How did you know?"

He had no memory of this incident, and how did the lame monkey, who was just a servant in the Chen family at the time, know about it?

"When we were assigned to the young master's household, all of us servants underwent three years of training, including some private lessons, in which we learned a lot about strange creatures."

"so."

Chen Fan looked thoughtfully at the map in his hand. He had a vague memory of this place. In fact, there was a private school for the core members of the family, but his predecessor was so self-destructive at the time that he would never have gone to such a place.

"I remember now, your family gave you a strange stone back then, and asked you to absorb it to become a cultivator?"

"Yes."

The lame monkey's voice weakened: "After the training, all the servants received a strange stone, and a few lucky ones became special cultivators and were personally taken away by the head of the family."

"I have never obtained another strange stone since then, and my physical condition is no different from before."

"He is said to be a cultivator, but he has no aura of a cultivator on him."

Chen Fan nodded and said nothing more. He also remembered that although he was targeted by the family, it wasn't too obvious at first. But after he absorbed a strange stone at the age of 16 but failed to awaken into any special cultivator, even the family head, who had originally held hope for him, completely gave up on him.

His status subsequently plummeted.

soon--

The lame monkey rolled up his sleeves, pulled out a small knife from his pocket, cut open the monster's corpse, and took out a blood-stained strange stone. He wiped it clean on his hempen clothes before handing it to Chen Fan.

This is the end.

Including the two Mysterious Stones in "Mysterious Fire", he now possesses a total of three Mysterious Stones.

"."

Chen Fan moved a chair out of the house and sat down by the eerie fire, contemplating his next plan to earn eerie stones. He didn't need to go to "Jiangbei Market" to find an architect to build buildings for him; he could build these basic structures himself.

However, he needs enough strange stones.

He has a quick way to acquire "Strange Stones": wholesale "Strange Fire".

This building has a wide range of applications in this world and a large market. Many "architects" also create "ghost fire" and sell it in the market, with a price tag of about 60 ghost stones.

The cost is around 50 Mysterious Stones.

Almost every architect would build this building, and there isn't much of a premium.

but--

His cost is only 3 Ghost Stones, and even if he sells it for 50 Ghost Stones, he can quickly make a fortune.

just
It's too conspicuous and has ruined many people's livelihoods. Also, it's quite a distance from "Jiangbei Market" that he can't go that far for the time being.

We still need to focus on the "bear trap" first.

A bear trap can only catch one creature at most in a night, but that's mainly because it's a single-target trap. If you can reset the trap after it catches the creature, it can continue to work.

Once the eternal night descends, he certainly won't go into the darkness to reset the bear trap.

But no one needs to go inside.

All he needs to do is make a small rope to pull the animal trap from the darkness to the safe zone, and then it can be reset.

"Lame monkey".

Chen Fan looked up at the lame monkey: "Can you weave rope from withered grass?"

"meeting."

"You're a genius."

He couldn't help but sigh, "Your task today is to weave a few hemp ropes from the pile of dry grass behind the cabin. They don't need to be too long, three or four meters will do. I'm going out to gather information. After you finish, catch up on some sleep during the day. There's an operation tonight."

"clear."

The lame monkey answered crisply and decisively, without asking what he needed the rope for.

After assigning tasks to the lame monkey, Chen Fan took out a few dry biscuits from the house and quickly swallowed them with water from the copper kettle. After filling his stomach, he left the camp, holding the "Ghost Skin Map," and headed towards the nearest ghost fire.

He planned to check out the situation at other sites.

The predicament he currently faces is not only a shortage of strange stones, but also a lack of food and water resources.

This "Ghostly Skin Map" is very useful. It not only displays the real-time status of nearby ghostly fires, but also shows the green dot of the holder on the map to ensure that you don't get lost. The red ghostly fire on the map, which is a different color from the other ghostly fires, is his camp.

We climbed over the small hill.

We headed west.

About thirty minutes later, he saw the nearest Ghostfire camp.

He lay prone on the cracked wasteland, observing carefully.

"It should be a level 2 ghost fire."

"Otherwise, the safe zone wouldn't be able to accommodate so many wooden houses. There are a total of 7 wooden houses, 2 large ones and 5 small ones."

"But there are no city walls."

"There is also a piece of reclaimed farmland."

There were 4 people in total.

As he observed, he muttered to himself. The four people seemed to be from this camp, and there shouldn't be any passersby. Indeed, as the man in the green robe had said, this station did look better than theirs.

With the same overnight fee of 1 Mystic Stone, his site has no competition.

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