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

The only thing left before Bell can start offering free items is dealing with those two patrol dogs in front of the warehouse.

The hunting dogs, which lie listlessly at the warehouse entrance during the day, are extremely energetic at night.

"Hounds have very keen senses. If I start digging at the base of the wall, they will definitely find my trail and then attack me fiercely."

Although, judging solely from their attributes, Bell could easily take down these hounds in hand-to-hand combat, the commotion they would cause would certainly be considerable.

At times like these, the bard's versatile abilities come in handy.

"Originally, I planned to sing a lullaby to let these two hounds get a good night's sleep. But judging from their energy levels, a lullaby won't be enough without using magic."

He crept up to a spot not far from the two hounds, intending to subdue them directly with a more powerful song.

According to Bell's observation, both hounds are male and of reproductive age.

Unfortunately, as hunting dogs, they don't have the freedom of other breeds. They spend most of their early lives in training and then perform tasks after reaching adulthood, so they rarely see the opposite sex in their lives.

Therefore, the Song of the Single Dog is the best weapon to deal with these two hounds.

"Hmm~ You can't bring yourself to do it to people you know well~ You can't bring yourself to talk to strangers~ You like people but you think they're a bit ugly~ The people you like always avoid you."

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This time, Bell didn't use his own magic to sing; instead, he extended his powerful spiritual energy, enveloping the two hounds.

Bell hummed a song about being single, and the mental energy that extended from him was the wireless earpiece he put in the hound's ear.

"You like someone, but you think they're a bit ugly~ The people you like always avoid you~ So you can only be a single dog."

This time, the song was directed only at the two hounds; Bell's mental power mobilized the magic within the hounds.

Although the hounds are not magical beasts, the magic within them is not as resistant as that of magical beasts. When Bell provoked them, this magic was immediately activated within the hounds.

In an instant, Bell's intense resentment at being single in his previous life, mixed with the hounds' unfulfilled youthful desires, created a powerful impact on their small brains.

"Ouch!"

With a mournful howl, the two hunting dogs huddled together, tears streaming down their faces as brothers in misfortune.

Bell withdrew his mental energy and confidently walked to the base of the warehouse wall. The two hunting dogs wouldn't recover anytime soon.

"This is the regret of my lifelong single status. Do you think you two little dogs can break free from it?"

Swinging his stone pickaxe, with a series of soft clicks, Bell dug a square passage at the base of the warehouse wall and stepped inside.

After he finished, he didn't forget to fill the excavated blocks back in to cover up his crime scene.

This small, square mark, only a dozen centimeters in size, is extremely difficult to spot within the overall architectural layout of the warehouse.

"Alright, let's see what treasures are here."

The warehouse was not the messy, cluttered place Bell had imagined.

On the contrary, the entire warehouse looked very tidy, with different items placed in different areas, and handwritten labels and item names.

"This place is full of monster materials: leather, claws, organs..."

There aren't many Warcraft materials in the warehouse, but their value is definitely not low. Leather has always been a best-selling item, and claws, teeth, and organs each have their uses.

Bell glanced at the pile of magical beast materials and found a blazing tiger whip that was six times his length, which amazed him.

Unfortunately, these magical beast materials were too scattered, and it was impossible to tell from which magical beast corpses many of them were taken.

"If the materials from monsters are too fragmented, it will be difficult to obtain a valuable magic formula even if they are burned. Compared to the materials from monster bodies, I still need more diverse basic materials."

Leaving the area where the monster materials were located, Bell quickly walked to a pile of stacked mineral materials and swept a large amount of mineral materials into his inventory with a wave of his claws.

The warehouse contained three types of mineral materials: a large quantity of coal, a large quantity of iron ore, and a large quantity of copper.

Bell collected the materials for quite some time, taking away two sets of coal, two sets of iron ingots, and one set of copper before finally stopping.

The reason for stopping was that Bell had taken all the mineral materials here.

“There aren’t many mineral reserves here, but it’s enough for me. Next up is timber.”

There was no fixed stockpile of timber in the warehouse, but the boxes and wooden frames used to store various items were all made of wood.

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Bell didn't stand on ceremony and proceeded to dismantle the house, taking a large amount of wood and storing it in his inventory.

In about twenty minutes, he had obtained two whole sets of wood.

"If I weren't afraid of making too much noise, I could have dismantled the timber even faster."

With a snort, Bell had two inventory slots left to use, excluding the one containing the stone pickaxe.

He returned to the area where the monster materials were stored, took away more than fifty pieces of leather, and picked out a good item from the pile of agricultural products in the corner of the warehouse.

"pumpkin!"

At the market, Bell saw many vendors selling fruits and vegetables, and pumpkins were something he had his eye on for a while.

However, perhaps due to the size of the pumpkins, none of the pumpkins he tried to get his hands on in the market provided any information or prompts in the [Information Insights] section.

Only in this warehouse did Bell see a pumpkin that could be displayed in [Information Insights].

"If there's anything special about this pumpkin, it's that it's very big."

The pumpkin in front of me is about 0.8 meters tall. The whole pumpkin is huge and heavy, and can be called the best of the best.

After you put the pumpkin into your inventory, it will naturally turn into a block.

In the inventory, items of the same type can be merged and treated as a single unit, but different items must occupy a separate slot.

Bell could take away a lot of items like copper and iron, but he could only take one pumpkin, which made him a little depressed.

"Hey?! Look at this dog, what's wrong? Why is it crying?"

Human voices were heard outside the warehouse. The patrolmen, on their routine patrol, discovered two hunting dogs that appeared withdrawn.

The unusual event caught the attention of the Night Watchers. A lot of voices could be heard outside the warehouse, and some Night Watchers entered the warehouse.

"It looks like we've been robbed; something seems off about the goods in the warehouse!"

"Quickly check the surroundings! Everyone, get moving!"

The night watchmen, carrying oil lamps, were frantic inside the warehouse. The warehouse, which was not large to begin with, was now nearly half empty, and they had no choice but to panic.

By the time they entered the warehouse, Bell had already completed preparations for their retreat.

"Shadow, take me away."

With a thought, Bell activated [Living Shadow].

The shadows that enveloped them shed from Bell and gathered at his feet, forming a mouse-shaped rocking horse.

The shadows spread silently beneath the mouse-shaped rocking horse, causing the small rocking horse to quickly sink into them.

In just two breaths, Bell's body disappeared from the warehouse, and all the shadowy traces that had appeared before vanished.

"What happened! A large amount of goods just vanished without a trace!"

The warehouse manager rushed to the warehouse that very night. When he saw the warehouse in such a mess, his face turned ashen.

But no matter how much he roared, Bell could no longer hear him.

After sinking into the shadows, the mouse-shaped rocking horse sped through the dark world, its two wheels, no bigger than Bell's paws, spinning rapidly.

In a moment of confusion, the scene before Bell's eyes suddenly changed, and light flooded back into his vision.

He returned to the underground base he had completed excavating that afternoon, where there were ever-burning block torches and a vast, empty space waiting for him to fill.

(__)(-)(~O~)……

The shadow that carried Bell back to the underground base transformed from its rocking horse form back into Shadow Mouse. It rubbed against Bell's cheek, yawned, and then burrowed into Bell's body.

Bell stood in front of the torch, the light shining on him, but there was no shadow beneath his feet.

Chapter 73 Enchantment

The shadow entered Bell's body to rest and will not reappear for 24 hours.

But his mission was complete. Now Bell had taken the supplies he had purchased for free out of his inventory and started sorting them.

"First, there's the monster leather. As leather, it can be used to make leather armor, saddles, books, horse armor, and other things."

Place the monster leather into the chest. The monster leather can be used directly as a material in the crafting table for crafting, or it can be used as a monster material for Bell to craft items.

But compared to the leather, the coal and metal excited Bell even more.

First, there's iron. Iron and copper purchased for free in the warehouse only show up as iron in Bell's inventory, but it can't be used to craft them.

After some experimentation, Bell discovered that the reason it was unusable was that the copper and iron were not pure enough and were not recognized by the inventory and workbench.

"The best solution to this is to burn it!"

Taking the cobblestones out of the box, Bell built several furnaces and used the coal he bought for free to remelt the iron and copper.

The era of stone props has passed, and the era of iron props has begun.

With a pickaxe, a shovel, and an axe, plus the iron sword that Bell already had, Bell concocted his four commonly used iron tools.

Scissors and an iron bucket also appeared at Bell's side.