The whole nation is trying to survive on the cable car; I'm choosing one of three options at ea

The experience points are increasing slowly but steadily.

54→57→61→65→70......

At the same time, the durability of the animal traps is constantly decreasing.

First bear trap: 29→28→27→26......

This continued until around 3 a.m.

It seems the cable car is gradually moving away from this area densely populated with eerie bats.

Su Mu glanced at the animal trap's durability; it had 14 points remaining.

Number of kills: 16.

16 experience points gained.

Unfortunately, not every one of these monstrous bats left a box. Out of 16, only 4 boxes were dropped.

Su Mu glanced at the cable car's durability again.

99%.

It decreased by 1%.

Although it's not a lot, it's a signal—if it keeps getting hit like this, these things could indeed wear down the cable car's durability.

We must not be careless.

The cable car must be upgraded as soon as possible.

Taking advantage of the slower attack frequency, with only one or two impacts every ten seconds or so, Su Mu tried clicking on the wooden box on the cable car screen.

You can pick it up now.

However, it's a bit troublesome to do it one by one.

He tapped three times, and four wooden boxes were transported directly from the roof of the vehicle into the cable car.

Su Mu opened them one by one.

[Obtained: Mystic Crystal x1]

[Obtained: Mystic Crystal x1]

[Obtained: Mystic Crystal x1]

Mysterious Crystal?

Su Mu picked up a piece and examined it carefully.

【Mysterious Crystal (White)】

[Type: Basic Material]

[Effect: Basic material required for crafting, modifying, and enhancing equipment and items.]

It's completely different from what you get from killing goblins during the day.

Killing goblin cubs during the day yields useful resources such as food, water, iron ingots, and glass essence.

Killing the ghost bats at night drops ghost crystals, a material related to the ghost race.

There was no food, no water, and no fuel.

Two different systems?

Su Mu kept this discovery in mind.

He paused when he opened the fourth box.

What lay in the box was not a strange crystal, but a yellowed blueprint.

[Obtained: Crafting Table Blueprint (White)]

Su Mu's eyes lit up.

Crafting table?

When he first saw the animal trap blueprints, the system notification said, "Once you have a crafting table, you can automatically master the crafting process." He was wondering where to get this thing, and then it suddenly appeared.

Su Mu quickly checked the properties of the blueprint.

【Workbench blueprint (white)】

【Crafting Workbench (Lv1)】

【Required Materials: Iron Ingot x3, High-Strength Glass Essence x1, Mystic Crystal x2, Wood x5】

[Area occupied: Approximately 1 square meter (normal table size)]

[Function: Can craft various basic items that you already know how to make; some blueprints need to be completed on the crafting table.]

Mysterious Crystal?

It must be a strange crystal, right?

wood?

Su Mu frowned.

He has iron ingots—7 were used to upgrade the cable car, 1 was used to make animal traps, and he has 3 left.

There's also glass essence—after using 3 upgrades to the cable car, there are 5 left.

I just got 3 Ghost Crystals, which is enough.

The only problem was the wood... He didn't have a single piece.

This thing never drops from killing goblins during the day, nor from killing ghouls at night.

Su Mu opened the trading channel.

Su Mu quickly made a list of purchase requests.

Fortunately, someone has this thing.

Five servings of food can be exchanged for five pieces of wood.

Another 3 cents for food and a metal ingot

Complete the materials.

Actually, the price could have been lowered even further, but Su Mu was too lazy to argue. Right now, he needed to quickly build the crafting table in a short period of time.

Because there were still some remaining monsters at this time.

Although the attack interval has increased, there are still some. I'll make another bear trap.

Gain as much experience as possible.

He knew that such good opportunities to gain experience were rare, and he didn't think he could be as lucky as he had been when he encountered goblin cubs before.

Wood (Gray)

[Type: Basic Material]

[Source: Decomposition of trees and wooden items]

Without delay, Su Mu immediately opened the blueprints for the crafting table.

[Craft a "Crafting Table (Lv1)"? Consumes 3 Iron Ingots, 1 High-Strength Glass Essence, 2 Mystic Crystals, and 5 Wood.]

confirm.

The next second, all the materials disappeared from the backpack.

A glimmer of light gathered inside the cable car and slowly took shape.

About 10 minutes later—

A metal table, about one meter square and half a meter high, appeared in front of Su Mu.

The overall color is dark gray, the surface is smooth and flat, and there are fixed slots at the four corners, making it look like some kind of worktable.

【Crafting Table (Lv1 White)】

【Function: Craft items you already know】

【Craftable Items: Bear Trap (Lv1 White)】

[Upgrade Materials Required: 20 Mystic Crystals, 5 Steel, 2 Bulletproof Glass Blocks, 1 Mystic Wood]

Su Mu frowned slightly as he looked at the introduction. Upgrading the crafting station didn't depend on experience; it only required meeting the material requirements, which was good news.

But steel, bulletproof glass blocks, and strange wood...

He guessed that the steel and bulletproof glass blocks could be obtained by killing monsters during the day, or by using the dismantling skill to obtain them from certain items.

But the strange wood...

The name itself sounds like it's related to the Ghost Clan.

It's estimated that it will drop from these monsters at night, or be obtained through some special method.

But it's too far ahead to think about that now.

I'm already very satisfied that I was able to make a production table.

Su Mu pushed the workbench into a corner, making the already crowded cable car even more congested.

A space of 4 cubic meters sounds like a lot, but in reality it's only about two meters long, two meters wide, and one meter high.

With the production table set up, supplies piled up, and him there, it was practically impossible to even turn around.

But Su Mu couldn't care less about any of that.

He opened the production interface.

As expected, there is only one option left now: the [bear trap].

[Craft "Beast Trap (Lv1 White)"? Consumes 1 Iron Ingot.]

confirm.

Two minutes later, a brand new animal trap appeared in his hand.

Su Mu placed it on the external weapon slot of the cable car.

Then he took out the corpses of the monstrous bats he had killed one by one and tried to decompose them.

[Decomposition failed. 1 nutrient obtained, 1 decomposition experience gained.]

[Decomposition failed. 1 nutrient obtained, 1 decomposition experience gained.]

[Decomposition failed. 1 nutrient obtained, 1 decomposition experience gained.]

......

All sixteen corpses failed to decompose.

But Su Mu breathed a sigh of relief.

Even if decomposition fails, you can still gain nutrients and experience, which is already quite good.

[Nutrients] Although we don't need this for now, we will eventually need to grow it ourselves, and it might come in handy.

Furthermore, the experience gained from dismantling also increased by 16 points.

Su Mu opened the skill panel:

[Decomposition (Lv1)]: 16/100

【Gathering (Lv1)】：0/100

You need another 84 experience points to reach level 2.

I wonder what changes will occur with second-order decomposition?

Just as Su Mu was pondering, the sounds of impact outside the window suddenly became more frequent.

Tap tap tap—tap tap tap—

It was more intense than ever before.