Reincarnated as a bamboo rat, it begins its extreme survival struggle.

These were the demolition tools he had prepared last night; once Edu left, the stone pickaxe would come in handy.

"Where is the safest place? It has to be underground."

Running into Edu's kitchen, Bell dug a square hole in the wall in the corner of the kitchen.

This is an extremely ingenious location, allowing one to bypass Cangxing City's unique sewer system and dig directly deep underground.

During his reconnaissance, Bell discovered that Cangxing City, a medieval-style city, actually had an extremely advanced sewer system, which was quite remarkable.

It's important to understand that in medieval Europe, streets were piled high with excrement. Before the invention of composting technology in the East, excrement disposal was also a major problem.

Within Cangxing City, the well-developed sewer system can not only treat urban sewage but also compost excrement and other byproducts, transforming this waste into resources.

Although Edu was unaware of the sewer issue that Bell was so concerned about, he knew that the sewers used every day were designed and built by the Agricultural Association and mages, and that sewer unclogging tasks would occasionally appear within the Adventurers' Guild.

Standing in the cave, Bell began digging downwards, soon creating a passage that extended nearly fifty meters downwards.

From the foundation of the Edu family home, to the deep, compacted soil beneath the house, to the mixed layers full of broken rocks, and finally to the almost solidified rock layer.

With the help of Bell's stone pickaxe, all the obstacles along the way, regardless of their hardness, met the same fate.

That is—to become a cube!

Work volume

The massive excavation shattered the stone pickaxe in Bell's hand, but fortunately he had prepared plenty the night before.

Bell unearthed more than ten sets of rock blocks, which he then put into a chest he crafted using a crafting table.

This box, only the size of Bell's body, has an astonishingly large internal volume.

Fifty meters underground, Bell stopped digging downwards and began to expand the newly built underground secret base.

With the help of a stone pickaxe, Bell dug very quickly. In just half a day, he had created a square room that was 1.2 meters high and about 50 square meters in size.

The rock strata were so solid that they were not easy to collapse, and Bell specifically left several load-bearing pillars to ensure that his underground base would not collapse.

"This is my secret base."

Bell placed the workbench and furnace in the corner of the room, tossed a stick into the furnace as fuel, and then placed several logs inside.

While Bell was burning charcoal, he used the light from the furnace to place his bed in his underground base.

The bed, which was originally in Edu's room, has now been moved to the underground base as a teleportation point. The bed's presence ensures that only Bell can enter this place.

Bell took out the burnt charcoal, made torches, and stuck them into the room.

In an instant, these square torches with bright red tips, yet burning eternally, illuminated the entire underground base.

Although they are called torches, these blocky torches have no heat at all; they are like light bulbs, selflessly contributing their light.

"The effect of the torch is just as powerful as in the game."

With a slight gasp, Bell ran to the place where he had dug all the way down. The path was fifty meters deep, and it wouldn't be easy for Bell to get back to the surface.

Although Bell's current physical abilities allow it to climb upwards in this narrow space, such movement is undoubtedly too slow.

It sounds easy, but building this underground base has already taken Bell an entire afternoon. Edu will be back soon.

"At this point, I need to bring out the ladder that I prepared long ago."

The wooden ladder made of sticks was a prop that Bell had prepared beforehand.

Besides forging stone pickaxes, Bell used all the timber Edu had bought to make ladders, and burned the remaining scraps for charcoal; he didn't keep a single piece of wood.

The depth to which Bell dug was determined by the number of ladders he had.

From underground, he took out a ladder and laid it uphill, completing most of the fifty-meter-deep section.

With the ladders, Bell could quickly climb up and descend back to the secret base, making the journey extremely fast.

When he was about eight meters from the ground, Bell used up the ladder he was holding.

This was part of his calculations, because Bell couldn't expose the entrance to his secret base.

So, for the rest of the journey, Bell took out stones from his inventory and used them to build his way up.

The speed of climbing up by laying stones is much faster than laying ladders, since Bell only needs to hop a little and the stone blocks will appear directly under his feet.

The eight-meter-long stone paving makes it impossible for outsiders to perceive that there is such a cavity beneath Edu's room.

Aside from the fact that Bell needs to dig for a while each time he goes down to return to the base or continues upward from within the base, his underground base is perfectly constructed.

At least in terms of security, it is quite secure.

Chapter 71 Taming the Single Dog

After Edu returned home, Bell's evening routine remained largely unchanged.

He simply asks about his studies today and then prepares to tutor Edu in the evening, acting like a doting father.

However, Bell, the old father, doesn't cook; he just eats a lot.

Edu's rations, enough for two days' worth of food, were completely devoured in one meal thanks to Bell's efforts.

The key point is that after eating, Bell didn't blush or skip a beat, and his stomach only undulated slightly, looking like he could still eat a lot more.

"Mr. Bell, just how much can you eat?"

"I don't know, I've never tried it. Come to think of it, it seems like I haven't felt the need to go to the toilet in a long time."

patting his stomach, Bell recalled that he hadn't had a bowel movement since awakening [Fire-Loving Wisdom], as if his stomach had become a bottomless pit.

"However, this state should not be related to [Fire-loving Wisdom], but rather to the ability described in the [Big Eater] entry."

(ˇˇ) I want to~

After thinking for a while without coming up with a solution, Bell stopped dwelling on the issue.

He had a premonition that once he truly felt a strong sense of fullness, new abilities would emerge in his body.

However, this is not the main task for tonight. Having spent the whole morning scouting the area and memorizing the entire market layout, Bell has already planned his route for tonight.

Once Edu entered the state of magical inscription, Bell flipped over and jumped out of the window, using the uneven protrusions on the wall as leverage, and appeared on the street in a flash.

Now that night has fallen, the streets are no longer as crowded as they were during the day.

However, not all places in Cangxing City are quiet at night; the exceptionally popular taverns attract those who haven't gone to sleep.

A tavern is an expensive place, offering alcohol and board games. More importantly, it's a hub for exchanging valuable information.

Information that is unknown to others may be worthless or it may be invaluable.

The tavern, which serves a special purpose, is a bustling place at night. On the streets near the tavern, there are some older women standing on the sidewalk, waiting to go into the alleys with people.

If Bell wants to cause trouble under the cover of night, the first thing he needs to do is not be discovered by these people who don't sleep at night.

"Can my shadow envelop me?"

After patting his shadow, Belle, who was ready to buy something for free, first had to make sure he had the correct skin tone.

Upon hearing Bell's call, Shadow Bell immediately moved and stood behind Bell.

"Paji~"

The shadow lay on Bell's back, enveloping his body as if it had liquefied, giving him a non-reflective membrane.

As Bell's inseparable partner, Shadow always helps him in unexpected ways.

Having completed the transition from Elizabethan mouse to Nixie mouse, Belle ran quickly along the route she had planned in her memory.

In the darkness of night, Bell was almost impossible to spot with the naked eye.

Edu's house is located in the residential area of ​​the market, surrounded by many residents and street vendors, and at night there are many guys who don't sleep and wander the streets.

But after turning two blocks, Bell arrived at the area where the old shops were located, and in the quiet, deserted streets, there were many warehouses storing goods.

These large shops' warehouses contain goods for sale as well as large quantities of newly acquired raw materials.

"Woof woof woof!!!"

Bell ran along the wall to the entrance of a merchant guild's warehouse without being noticed by anyone, but the two burly hunting dogs tied up at the warehouse entrance were clearly not very friendly to him.

Warehouses are usually guarded, and after hearing the barking of the hunting dogs, several figures appeared at the warehouse entrance.

They were very vigilant, after all, the Thieves' Guild was in the city, and one of the tests for intermediate thieves to advance to advanced thieves was to steal things from the warehouses of these merchant guilds.

Because of the existence of the thief profession, all the merchant guilds have taken measures to prevent theft. Those guilds that specialize in high-end materials will even hire high-level thieves to guard against theft by other thieves.

The warehouse in front of Bell, with its combination of watchdogs and night watchmen, would be enough to stop a mid-level thief.

After all, people are quite large, and there are only a few passageways in a building that allow people to pass through. You can't exactly make a hole in the wall and crawl into the warehouse.

If you were to drill a hole in this brick wall, even just big enough for one person to crawl through, the noise would be considerable.

Not to mention, if you're going to steal from a warehouse, you have to consider how much you're carrying. If you steal too little, you won't make any money, and if you steal too much, you won't be able to take it with you.

A warehouse full of bulk commodities and raw materials is unlikely to be targeted by thieves with spatial equipment, right?

Spatial equipment is a rare commodity, even among high-level adventurers. Even a piece of spatial equipment that is only one cubic meter in size is worth tens of thousands of gold coins and is a priceless treasure.

From the business owner to the warehouse security, no one in the chamber of commerce ever imagined that their warehouse would be stolen by someone with spatial equipment, since even the lowest level of spatial equipment was worth more than all the goods in their warehouse.

But today, a situation that the chamber of commerce owners never expected has occurred.

Bell, shrouded in darkness, stood against the wall of the warehouse, holding a stone pickaxe and with his inventory emptied.