Let's suffer a little longer, fellow Blue Star folks.

This is not possible!

So after the three of them thought briefly...

"Chief, you know me well. My favorite thing is infrastructure."

"Chief, you may not believe this, but I am actually a Buddhist and I hate killing the most."

"Chief, you may not know this, but I'm actually known as the Forest Destroyer. Wherever I go, no grass grows!" Chen Lu put the token in his pocket as if nothing had happened, then walked back to Xia Keyu's desk silently.

"So is there an axe in the camp? I'll go chop it now!"

"No." Xia Keyu shook her head slightly.

"Forehead……"

"Is there a tool bench? The kind where you put wood and stones in it and they turn into axes by themselves." Chen Lu asked.

In response, Xia Keyu gave him a puzzled look.

"You think you're playing Minecraft?" Oxygen glanced at Chenlu speechlessly. "This game obviously requires you to make your own axe."

"I'm just asking." Chen Lu touched her nose a little embarrassedly, then turned around to look at Oxygen and Yu Shui.

"So what now, can you make an axe?"

Yu Shui and Oxy shook their heads at the same time.

"Forehead……"

The three of them were immediately embarrassed.

"Oh, wait."

Suddenly, Chen Lu remembered that she seemed to know someone who could make a stone axe.

"I'm going to go offline and ask someone. Wait for me."

After saying that, he immediately logged out of the game, and the character who was still speaking also froze in place.

"You retreated so quickly." Oxygen looked at Chenlu, whose eyes were lifeless, and poked his head gently with her hand out of curiosity.

"call--"

"Oh!"

Chen Lu's body fell straight backwards and hit the ground.

Yu Shui and Oxygen looked at each other.

"Is he... okay?"

Chapter 8 Lack of money

"You want to make a stone axe?" The woman on the other end of the phone was clearly confused. "Aren't you in Jiangnan now?"

"In Jiangnan."

Chen Lu nodded, then immediately shook her head.

"Don't ask yet. This is a long story, and it's hard to be brief. I don't have much time right now, so I won't talk about it for now."

"Just tell me how to get the stone axe!"

"Okay." The female voice was still a little confused, but since Chen Lu was in a hurry, she didn't ask any more questions.

"Have you any stones there?"

"I don't know. It's just a valley with a river in it."

"There's a river. Then find a pebble, and then find a big rock to sharpen the pebble. Then find a wooden stick, drill a hole in it, and then put the sharpened pebble into the hole."

"No more?" Chen Lu raised her eyebrows.

"No," the woman said matter-of-factly. "It's just making a stone axe. What steps do you think it takes?"

"That sounds quite simple." Chen Lu's tone gradually became more confident.

"Well, it's quite simple." The woman smiled softly, but she didn't discourage Chen Lu's confidence. "You should encounter some problems when you practice. Just come to me then."

"Okay, I'll hang up first."

"Uh-huh."

Chen Lu hung up the phone, threw it aside, and immediately put on his helmet again.

After a moment of darkness, he opened his eyes again.

Then he saw two big faces.

"Brother, you're awake."

"Uh..." Chen Lu blinked, "What are you doing?"

Seeing Chen Lu wake up, Yu Shui and Oxygen also stood up again.

"Look, are you losing any blood?" Yu Shui asked curiously.

"Losing blood? Why..."

Chen Lu stood up and looked at her panel.

Rating: 1

Class: Unfair

Health: 87/100

Strength: 0/0

Experience value: 0/100

87? !

"Damn?! How come I lost eight drops of blood again?" Chen Lu looked back at the two people in front of her, then silently took a step back.

"What did you just do to me?"

"It seems that next time I log off, I still have to go back to the resurrection chamber. Otherwise, if I leave my body outside, I won't know what will happen to it."

Yu Shui ignored Chen Lu, but looked back at the five resurrection chambers placed side by side not far away, and nodded slightly.

"When you just logged off, you didn't lie down. Your body fell backwards and your head hit the ground. It's pretty good that we only deducted seven drops of blood from you." Oxygen slightly embellished what had just happened.

"By the way, have you figured out how to make a stone axe?"

Oxygen also changed the subject very skillfully.

"Done." When she said this, Chen Lu's tone became proud again.

"From now on, just follow my instructions."

"Oxygen, go find a pebble by the river first, then find a stone to sharpen it. Brother Shui and I will go find a stick suitable for an axe handle. Once we find it, we'll meet you by the river."

"OK."

"OK."

The three of them had cooperated in the game many times, so there was no fuss. After confirming the task allocation, they immediately dispersed.

Tang Yi, who had been watching the movements of the three people not far away, also nodded slightly.

As the players gradually get on the right track, he can also spare some time to study the subsequent main tasks.

He turned around and walked into the house, then opened the task panel and looked at the new task that had just appeared.

————【Master】Improve your strength————

Mission Description: After the gathering place is established, you will encounter more challenges. As the leader of the gathering place, you naturally need higher combat effectiveness.

Mission conditions: Raise your realm to the intermediate yellow level.

Mission reward: Two sets of standard weapons (including knife, gun, sword, stick, bow, axe)

Friendly reminder: After the player kills the monster, the system owner can directly obtain the cultivation.

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"Can I gain cultivation by killing monsters?" Tang Yi's eyes widened instantly after seeing the last sentence.

Why didn't you tell me about this good news earlier?!

That’s right, humans in this world can practice cultivation.

The energy they obtain through practice is called "Qi".

As mentioned before, in pre-war civilization, "Qi" was the energy source that drove most equipment. The "Qi" obtained by humans through practice could not only strengthen their physical strength, but also allow them to operate combat weapons with ease.

The realm of spiritual practice is generally divided into five stages: heaven, earth, mysterious, yellow, and untouched.

Tang Yi had read in a book in Yunzhong City that when humans break through to the Earth Level, the "qi" in their bodies will undergo a qualitative change, allowing them to resonate with the heaven and earth and gain some special abilities.

However, most books only record a few words about the two levels of heaven and earth. Books with more records may be in the hands of the leaders of various gathering places.

Tang Yi's own realm has been stuck at the lower level of the Yellow Rank for a long time. Although he is close to breaking through, the "Qi" he gained through practice will automatically dissipate within half an hour once it enters his body.

He had previously thought that this was the price he paid for obtaining the system, and that he would be stuck at the lower Yellow Rank for the rest of his life.

Unexpectedly, the way for him to improve his cultivation was actually here...

Thinking of this, he immediately looked up and looked at the three people who were still fighting for the first stone axe, and an idea suddenly began to grow wildly in his mind.

Let the three of them go hunting demons directly!

After all, the combat power of ordinary inferior demons is equivalent to that of ordinary adult males.

They only need three of them to fight one, they can't be killed in return.

"Hey! Will this pebble work?"

"That should be fine. It doesn't even look like it needs much sharpening. The edge is still pretty sharp."

"Then I'll use this one first..."

Listening to the excited voices of the three people in the distance, Tang Yi closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

"call--"

just forget it.

After the excitement, reason once again took over his IQ.

Tang Yi turned around and looked at the gasifier placed next to the wooden house.

The reason he had given for stopping Yu Shui and the other two from going directly to fight monsters was not nonsense.

If the player wants to revive, he needs to consume the "qi" stored in the gasifier, and each resurrection consumes about 1 unit.

He had just taken out the gasifier from the system yesterday, and it came with 10 units of "qi".

Moreover, although this machine claims to be able to convert everything into "qi", the efficiency of converting each thing into "qi" is different.

For example, right now, the gasifier is in a natural collection state, just like the solar panels on Blue Star. It will automatically capture free energy at a collection rate of about 24 units per 1.5 hours. Now, there are about a dozen units of "gas" stored.

With this limited amount of energy, if players' resurrections are not restricted, they will probably be gone before tomorrow.

“So the collection efficiency is still a bit slow.”

Tang Yi walked to the gasifier, looked at the rate on the instrument, and pinched his chin.

Although these dozen units of 'Chi' are enough for the current five beta test players, he can't always recruit only five players.

When there are too many players, casualties are inevitable, and this amount of energy will definitely not be enough.

Moreover, if the system gives him some pre-war equipment that needs to consume "qi" in the future, then relying solely on the natural collection of "qi" by the gasification instrument will be completely inadequate.

"Looks like I still need to get some air stones back."

Qi Stone, as the name suggests, is a special mineral that can produce "Qi". It is a bit similar to the spiritual stone in the Blue Star cultivation novels.

But it cannot assist humans in cultivation. It is called Qi Stone because it has an extremely high conversion rate in the Qi transformation instrument.

Almost one pound of Qi stone can produce 10 units of "Qi", which is almost thousands of times more efficient than ordinary stones.

In this world that is equivalent to a post-apocalyptic wasteland, the currency of pre-war civilization has long lost its purchasing power, and rare metals such as gold and silver have lost their value because they are of no use.