Survival for All: I can deconstruct projections and synthesize everything.

Lin Xiao's figure had just disappeared when, outside the Yuanmu House, the little girl in red... oh no, she had now become a young woman in red.

The figure of the girl in red appeared. After not sensing any dangerous aura like that of the sacrificial lantern, she quietly lay down in front of the window of the Yuanmu House.

“Eh…”

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Daylight broke, and the fifth day of the lunar calendar arrived.

Lin Xiao pushed open the door of the safe house and stretched.

Looking outside, I noticed that the fog had become extremely thin.

After the nighttime boss was eliminated, the daytime environment returned to normal.

Lin Xiao used the Fog System to check the level of his safe house.

[Safe House Level: Small Wood Hut, 100m², contains a trace of Source Crystal. Most low-level Mist creatures dislike the scent of Source Crystal and will avoid places where Source Crystal exists.]

"A small wooden cabin?"

"Oh right, I almost forgot..."

Lin Xiao was puzzled for a moment, then suddenly realized that he hadn't upgraded the Source Wood House yet.

Previously, I used a talent to upgrade the Wood House to +10, but using talents is not within the scope of the system's calculation.

After glancing at the resources needed for the upgrade, Lin Xiao shouldered his sickle and entered the forest.

Twenty minutes later, Lin Xiao had collected 2000 units of timber.

【升级到源木屋+1，需要木材2000/200，源晶4500/10】

"upgrade."

[Yuanmu House +10, omitted]

Apart from being 10 square meters larger, nothing else has changed.

Upgrading to a Source Stone House requires 100 Wood, 500 Stone, and 100 Source Crystals.

"Alright, let's leave it at that for now. We'll talk about the Originium House later..."

Lin Xiao rolled her eyes when she saw the newly added stone resource.

Around Lin Xiao's safe house, not only were there no source crystals, but not even ordinary stones.

It's been five days, and the only resources around Lin Xiao's safe house are still straw.

Lin Xiao glanced at the current rankings again. Several more people had appeared on the Extraordinary Rank Ranking. Shen Zhi was in second place, and Sui Tang was in third place.

The fourth to tenth places were people Lin Xiao had never met before.

[Fourth Place: Sikong Xinyou, First Rank]

[Fifth Place: Chang Yi, First Rank]

[Sixth Place: He Long, First Tier]

[Seventh Place: Gong Wanqi, Tier 1]

[Eighth Place: She Jin, First Rank]

[Ninth Place: Li Jun, First Tier]

[10th Place: Zhuge You, Tier 1]

There is no one in eleventh place, which means that there are currently only ten people in this area who have reached the first level of transcendence.

As for the safe house rankings, apart from Lin Xiao's significant changes, almost everyone else remained largely unchanged.

[Safe House Ranking]

[First Place: Lin Xiao, Yuanmu House +10]

[Second Place: Shen Zhi, Cabin +8]

[Third Place: Xu He, Cabin +8]

【…】

[100th Place: Jiang Wu, Cabin +7]

Looking at the rankings, Lin Xiao was considering something else.

"I wonder how many people in our area will survive after the safe period ends, and what changes will occur in the misty world after that?"

Lin Xiao felt that the current world of mist seemed too rudimentary; either it was in a safe period and other things weren't open yet, or he hadn't found those places.

However, Lin Xiao believes there is a high probability that it is his former conjecture.

"Not open...?"

While pondering these matters, Lin Xiao's main body walked out of the safe house.

"boom!!!"

The sound from afar startled Lin Xiao from his thoughts. He snapped back to reality and looked into the distance.

"What's going on? It seems to be not far from here?"

Lin Xiao recognized the direction from which the sound came and began to think.

"That direction seems to be... the twenty-third point I marked earlier?"

Lin Xiao quickly realized what the marked point was for.

If he remembered correctly, that place should be a huge beehive with hundreds or even thousands of bees.

At the time, Lin Xiao didn't have the ability to attack in groups, and there were too many bees, so he didn't provoke that place.

However, after Lin Xiao gained the ability to attack multiple targets, he forgot about the marked location because of the little girl in red and other reasons.

Then a new question arises. Lin Xiao is certain that he has cleared all the mist creatures on the ground in the Misty Forest, so what kind of creature is fighting the beehive now?

Lin Xiao was somewhat puzzled by this, but her curiosity quickly prevailed.

After holding the Perfect Ring and the Mantis Blade in his hands, Lin Xiao used Instant Step to rush towards the marked location.

That's right, this time, Lin Xiao is acting with his true form.

He felt that there was nothing in the forest during the day, especially in the forest on his own territory, that could threaten him.

A minute later, Lin Xiao arrived at the vicinity.

What came into view was a magnificent sight.

Ants and bees were flying haphazardly through the air, covering the sky.

An ant the length of an adult's forearm, and a bee the size of an adult's fist.

For reasons unknown, the two forces launched a major battle.

Even with Lin Xiao's first-tier life level, it took him more than ten minutes to barely make out the number of participants on both sides.

Moreover, Lin Xiao had already used the system to investigate the basic information of both parties.

Bullet ants are social insects with extremely strong individual combat capabilities. Worker ants are first-order beings from the moment they are born.

According to Lin Xiao's visual estimate, the current number of bullet ants is around 9000, but it should not exceed 10,000.

Bees are social insects, extremely numerous. Worker bees have no hierarchy, but their numbers are vast. Drones are of Tier 1 combat strength, but their numbers are relatively small.

Lin Xiao estimated that the number of bees was around 8 to 9.

Although the number of bees is several times greater than that of bullet ants, Lin Xiao believes that the bullet ants are on the offensive and have a significant advantage.

"Wow, these bullet ants can actually fly! Those bees are practically defenseless!"

According to Lin Xiao's observation, almost all the corpses that had fallen on the ground were from the Bee faction, numbering approximately 3000 to 5000.

On the contrary, it seems that only about three hundred bullet ants died.

The sheer size of the loss left Lin Xiao speechless, and it also piqued his curiosity about the origins of the bullet ants and why they had suddenly become like this.

So Lin Xiao made a decision: he would follow the bullet ants to find out where they came from.