Building infrastructure in a digital world

Chapter 5 5. Red Berries
Now her backpack contains: lord token (does not take up space), string*10, gravel*2, wood*5, empty, empty
There are: Broken Traps*1, Rough Wooden Needles*1, Broken Branches*31, Leaves*19, Fiber Scraps*3, Wooden Needles*1 (Durable 4/20)

In fact, Su You didn't choose the place to rest randomly. She deliberately found an open space with shelters all around. This is not only a temporary rest place, but also a temporary place to live for tonight.

Putting some useless materials that are only used for ignition here, and putting some more important items on her body, Su You will now leave here to do three things.

First, place the small trap she just made in the forest.

Second, look for edible food in the forest.

Third, continue to look for the missing piece of gravel, and then make an ax to chop trees.

Although branches can be synthesized into wood, the efficiency is too slow and time-consuming.

Su You didn't rest for a long time, but her current state has returned from 'slightly exhausted' to 'normal', and her physical strength has also risen from 51 to 72.

According to the recovery rate of two points per minute, she should have rested for about 10 minutes, but in fact she rested for much more than 10 minutes, just because she was making wooden needles and small traps, although it was not Very tired, but still consumed some energy.

But 72 physical strength is enough.

Su You patted the dirt and dust on her body, marked the location, and then returned the same way with three traps in her hands.

She was going back to her spawn point first, because she remembered seeing a few berry bushes with edible fruit behind the spawn point.

On the way back, she observed the surroundings, and when she saw some tiny traces, she placed the small trap in her hand in a hidden corner around the traces.

But halfway through the journey, the three traps in Su You's hands were all set.

No need to observe the animal traces around her anymore, Su You walked much faster than before, and left the outskirts of the forest in a short while, arriving at the birth point.

Facts proved that her memory was not wrong, because she just walked out of the forest, and saw a few bushes of uneven heights growing under a big tree on the left side in front of her. fruit.

Su You glanced at her hunger point which had dropped to 59 points, then walked to the berry bushes, first picked some and ate them, and after the hunger point reached full, she began to collect the remaining berries.

【Red Berries】

Category: food

Quality: white
Attribute: Hunger +6 after eating
Introduction: A red berry that grows on the bushes. It tastes sweet, full and juicy. Eating it can relieve thirst to a certain extent, but it is very perishable.

Although the character panel of this game only shows the hunger value and no thirst value, but this game has many hidden attributes, and some things do not mean that they are not visible.

If you don't eat thirst-quenching food for a long time, the status of the character will change, and even debuff (negative effect/aura) will appear in severe cases.

Similarly, drinking water in this game can actually increase the hunger point. Although it is very small, drinking a large bucket only adds 1 point, but there have been people who have been drinking stream water frantically for a long time to solve their thirst and hunger problems because they did not find food.

Although the stream water is non-toxic and harmless, he still got the debuff in the end, because he can't do without something to quench his thirst, and he can't do without a staple food to satisfy his hunger.

The reason why red berry can be said to be one of the most important materials for beginners in the early stage is that it is the only one in the entire game that has both the labels of 'thirst quenching' and 'satiating hunger' without any processing (emphasis) food.

Not only in the early stage, but even in the late game, those city lords who appear to be noble in gold and silver, have countless capable men and strangers, and respond to everyone, secretly eat red berries for convenience but still live in a 'miserable' way. Countless.

However, although red berries are good, they also have a fatal shortcoming, that is, the shelf life is extremely short, which is also illustrated by the four words 'extremely perishable' mentioned in the introduction.

In the absence of any fresh-keeping measures, the shelf life of red berries is only about two days. If it exceeds two days, it will become a 'deteriorated red berry'. Although eating at this time can also increase hunger and quench thirst, the increased hunger value becomes Not to mention, there is a certain probability of getting the 'diarrhea' debuff.

As an experienced person, Su You naturally wouldn't let this kind of thing happen, so she just picked a group (fifty) of berries and was ready to leave.

Fifty berries are [-] hunger points. Although it looks like a small amount, the berries can be processed and eaten. The processed berries will increase the hunger points and increase the shelf life slightly.

The method of processing red berries is very simple, at least it can be done with what Suyou currently has.

In addition, the red berry clusters are not too far from her temporary foothold. If there are not enough, you can come and pick them at any time. If you pick too many at one time, it will take up space in her backpack...so one set is enough.

With an extra group of red berries, there is only one slot left in Suyou's backpack.

Then, she changed to a forest path opposite to the one before, and was ready to complete her third thing-looking for gravel.

I don't know if it's because she had a problem with her vision in choosing the path before, but Su You walked less than a few steps on the second path that was completely opposite to the previous one, and when she turned around and could even see the bushes, she actually went directly to the path. They found two pieces of gravel next to each other in a row.

【Obtain gravel*2】

Su You: ... Is this good luck or bad luck?

If she was unlucky, she managed to find the gravel, and there was no situation where she couldn't even make an axe.

If she was lucky, then she should have chosen this road long ago. You must know that she just bent down to pick up the gravel. Because her sight became lower, Su You saw the first road covered by unknown low shrubs. Three gravels.

【Obtain gravel*1】

Looking at the three gravels in her hand, Su You fell into a brief silence.

After a few seconds of silence, she threw the gravel into the workbench.

[Do you want to make gravel*3 into stone*1? 】

[Creating: stone materials, estimated time: 60 seconds]

After waiting for a minute to make the stone, Su You turned around again, trying to find the fourth piece of gravel in this area.

Although she already has the gravel for making an axe, there is more than one tool that needs gravel in the early stage, and all tools are durable. Before there is no way to make props that restore the tool's durability, she can only make it repeatedly. New tools are used.

(End of this chapter)