Survival of the Nation: My luck was a tiny bit worse.

"The second is the energy core."

Chen Hao opened his notebook.

"It's not an ordinary energy core; it's a device that can convert all energy into the energy needed for the furnace core. Such a device is marked as the Storm Core on the blueprints... However, I strongly suspect that this thing is a drop from some mutated species."

Upon hearing this, Ou Yun thought to himself, "That's right, this is the forbidden area!"

Here's an awesome blueprint, but the building materials are even more awesome. It's obvious you'll need to spend a lot of time searching for them, and whether you find them at all is entirely up to fate.

It's practically an Easter egg quest in the game. They give you the item's name and the location, but whether you get it or not depends entirely on luck.

But Leng Ruolan, who was standing next to her, immediately slapped her thigh and exclaimed, "Oh, that's easy!"

Then he looked at Ou Yun and asked, "Big brother, when are we leaving?"

"..."

Hesitant to speak.

"Captain Leng, we don't even know where these two things are. How are we supposed to find them?"

Chen Hao adjusted his glasses.

"Whether it's the Abyss Crystal or the Storm Core, none of us know a clue!"

Hassan suddenly seemed to have an idea. "Among the iron ore that Captain Leng and his team brought back before, there was a super large one. Could it be this Abyss Crystal?"

Leng Ruolan said no, "I've seen that one, it's different. That one was just a lump of iron, but maybe the things made from it would be of much better quality."

At this moment, Alexander and his group finally returned after finishing their work.

"Wow, so many people! It's so lively!"

"Brother, have you ever heard of Abyssal Crystal and Storm Core?"

"Wow, what good stuff is this? Never heard of it."

Alexander sat down as he drank some water.

"But Storm Core... I've never heard of that. Does Storm Black Hawk count? Haha."

"Tell me about it?"

Alexander then said that when they were patrolling the mountains before, they saw an eagle that could generate electricity in the northeast direction, chasing something and circling in the sky.

That scene.

It was as if a gale was swirling up dark clouds, and between the clouds and the sea, an eagle soared proudly like a black lightning bolt!

Ou Yun's eyes lit up immediately: "An eagle? Electric discharge?"

Alexander scratched his head. "Yes, but that was a long time ago... I don't know if that eagle is still around now."

Whether he is there or not is not important.

Before Ou Yun could speak, Leng Ruolan gave a wicked smile, "As long as it has ever existed, there is a way to find it."

Ou Yun shook his head as he listened.

Sigh, buddy, I just finished one adventure and now I'm about to embark on a new one...

Upon hearing this, Xiong Guo and the others immediately stood up.

"Then let's go together! Even farting adds a bit of wind—"

Chen Hao held him down.

"Alright, you should stop interfering with their cause and effect."

"oh oh……"

Alexander was puzzled but impressed, and still sat back down.

Leng Ruolan thought to herself, "Has the karma now shifted from my elder brother's karma to the karma of the two of us?"

*

In short, we're definitely going to find the eagle that can generate electricity.

Leng Ruolan thought that since this was a magical attack, she should bring more things as a precaution.

Ou Yun, standing nearby, asked, "Does it include north and south directions?"

"bring."

"Do you bring a gold supply crate?"

"bring."

"Do you bring dried meat?"

"bring."

"well……"

Looking at the huge bag full of stuff, Ou Yun thought to himself, "Dude, didn't we already complete such a major phase of rebuilding our homes? Why do we still have to do this so much work?"

Leng Ruolan then asked, "When are you leaving?"

"Let's do it first thing tomorrow morning. Let's turn over the land today and set an example for them."

Ou Yun rolled up his sleeves and walked toward the pile of simple stone farm tools.

"Come on! Let them see what a true agricultural superpower looks like!"

*

The area where the fertilizer field is located—the huge crater where the Abyss Bone Demon was destroyed—has already been thoroughly explored by Chen Hao.

The bottom of the pit has an area of ​​about 300 square meters, and the area with a gentle slope on the sides of the pit has an area of ​​nearly 700 square meters, totaling more than 1,000 square meters of usable land.

This scale would be nothing in a real-world farm, but in the Forbidden Zone, it's considered a colossal project.

Ou Yun stood at the edge of the pit and looked down.

The scorched soil at the bottom of the pit has completely changed, its color has changed from charred black to dark brown, and its texture is soft.

Several small grasses sprouted sporadically from a corner at the bottom of the pit, tender and green, full of vitality.

"This soil...it makes me want to plant something!"

Alexander squatted down, grabbed a handful of soil, rubbed it in his palm, and then brought it to his nose to smell it, looking very professional.

Maxim pulled several small cloth bags from his backpack, filled with seeds they had collected over the past few days: "This is what we've gathered. There are wild potato tubers, wild wheat ears, and some other things I don't know but that look like they can be planted."

Leng Ruolan also took out the small bag of seeds that they had collected at their camp.

By piecing together these various seeds, the variety of seeds has become quite extensive.

"Alright, let's get started!"

Ou Yun was the first to pick up a stone hoe and jump into the pit.

The hoe pounded into the loose soil, turning up a large clump of dark brown earth.

The soil had a peculiar warmth and a faint aroma of burnt soil—it was more like some kind of dried organic fertilizer than soil.

"This soil is really light."

Ou Yun hoeed a couple more times and found that turning the soil was much easier than he had imagined.

The soil in the fertilizer field has a very loose structure; a single hoe stroke can create a deep trench.

Leng Ruolan, carrying the largest stone tool, stood in the center of the pit and looked around: "First, level the bottom of the pit, then divide it into plots."

"Oh my, you can even divide the plots?" Ou Yun was somewhat surprised.

"My hometown is in the countryside."

Leng Ruolan raised her hoe high and struck the ground with a loud thud.

"I helped my family farm when I was little. Although I only remember the general outline now, I still know the basics."

"Oh right, you seem to have mentioned that before."

"It's because you didn't remember."

"..."

OK, that's undeniable.

So the five people split into two groups.

Alexander and Ivan were responsible for marking the boundary with vines and stakes, while Maxim was responsible for picking up the pebbles from the ground and piling them aside.

These rubble stones can be reused to build furnaces.

—Perhaps.

Ou Yun and Leng Ruolan were responsible for turning over the soil and preparing the land.

Although the stone hoe was rudimentary, it worked surprisingly well on the loose, fertile soil.

I swung my arms around the ball dozens of times, and apart from my arms getting a little sore, the efficiency was pretty good.

Since his physique was enhanced by both the forbidden area and the national fortune, doing this kind of physical work is almost like warming up for him.

Suddenly, Maxim shouted.

"We've found something!"

Everyone turned to look.

He was holding a fragment of bone armor in his hand—it must have been a fragment that flew out when the Abyss Bone Demon was destroyed.

Chen Hao was squatting on it when he heard this and immediately shouted, "Don't throw it! Give it to me!"

Maxim tossed it up with a whoosh, and Chen Hao caught it precisely. He wiped off the dirt, then wrapped it up in a cloth like a precious treasure.

Ou Yun, leaning on his hoe, stood below, tilting his head to look up: "Is this thing that important?"

"This is extremely important."

Chen Hao clicked his tongue a few times.

He thought to himself that although it wasn't mentioned on the parchment, if the ashes of the Abyss Bone Demon could fertilize the land, then wouldn't the Bone Armor be even more awesome?

Although it should be possible according to the markings on the drawings.

But we still need to get it done first!

"Finish your work first," Leng Ruolan said coolly.

"oh."