Crossing the wilderness to survive, starting with a broken kitchen knife

Zhang Shi had a good impression of Ge Dalong. When everyone was first transported to the wilderness world, he once spoke to remind everyone about the novice gift pack. He seemed like an enthusiastic person. However, he did not answer questions directly in the chat channel. Instead, he chatted privately, which made Zhang Shi a little suspicious.

Zhang Shi (VIP): Yes, what can I do?

Ge Dalong: I know a little about wilderness survival and can teach you some ways to find water. But I want to know where you got your VIP and what specific privileges it has?

Zhang Shi thought for a while and felt that he would rather be thirsty than expose the secret of the golden finger. In this wilderness world, integrity cannot be eaten anyway, so he just lied casually.

Zhang Shi (VIP): This membership card is opened from the treasure box. It doesn’t have any privileges, except that it can pin your speech to the top.

The other party was silent for a long time, obviously not believing what he said. Just when Zhang Shi thought this matter was out of the question, Ge Dalong sent another message.

Ge Dalong: Observing animal tracks can guide you to the location of water sources, especially birds. They fly low and straight when heading towards the water source. For another example, insects such as bees usually live near water sources.

Zhang Shi felt a headache, even though the other professor's knowledge was indeed useful. However, it is also difficult for Zhang Shi to find traces of these animals in the wilderness.

It seemed that he was aware of Zhang Shi's embarrassment. Ge Dalong sent another large message.

Ge Dalong: Of course, you can also search near the shelter. If you can find plants such as berries, palm trees, and bamboos, you can collect them. These plants are rich in or store water. Finally, you can make some containers and go out to collect dew when day and night alternate. Although the amount is small, it is easy to obtain. If none of these methods work, you can wait until the trading market stabilizes and exchange resources for water. However, in the early stages of the game, only a few people can find water sources, and the price may be relatively high.

Zhang Shi carefully read the message from Ge Dalong and had a general direction for solving the water source problem.

"In the morning, we stayed as originally planned, exploring and looking for water sources. If that didn't work, we exchanged resources for water. After today, we can try to collect dew tomorrow."

After replying to the message and thanking Ge Dalong, Zhang Shi stood up and rode slowly along the forest path around the shelter.

After wandering around for a long time, Zhang Shi still found nothing. For a person who has lived in the city for a long time, it is indeed a bit difficult for him to search for resources in the wild.

When I turned on the system, I saw that it was almost 11 o'clock. Seeing that there was no progress in his plan to find water sources, Zhang Shi put it away temporarily, put away his bicycle, took out his stone ax, and prepared to chop down trees and collect some wood.

"Hey!"

Zhang Shi used all his strength to attack a tree as thick as a person. There was only a muffled sound as the stone ax chopped through the bark of the tree, leaving a shallow mark on the trunk.

Zhang Shi was unwilling to give in and struck three times with the ax at the same position. Unfortunately, the stone ax was too blunt and only made a small gap in the thick tree.

"This ax is too blunt."

Zhang Shi touched the stone ax with his hand and calculated the cost of cutting down a tree in his mind.

"It might even take half a day to chop down a tree with this stone axe."

Zhang Shi squatted on the ground and rested for a while, silently warning himself: Don't be anxious, be patient.

After about 5 minutes, Zhang Shi adjusted his mood, picked up the stone axe, replaced it with a thinner tree, and began to cultivate silently again.

"Hey, hey, hey..."

After working intensively for more than half an hour, Zhang Shi's hands were red and swollen, and he finally chopped down the small tree.

"Holy shit, I'm exhausted."

The system prompts, congratulations on getting:

[Wood (white) 】

After wiping his sweat, Zhang Shi looked at the wood stacked in a grid in his backpack and began to re-examine the wilderness world. For these three pieces of wood alone, Zhang Shi spent half an hour and a lot of energy. It's still far from the 100 units of wood required to upgrade the shelter.

Zhang Shi knew that there was absolutely no chance of this going on. He would starve to death before he could cut 100 units of wood.

"If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tool. In the final analysis, this stone ax is too rubbish."

Zhang Shi muttered silently, wondering if he could get a handy ax. His eyes glanced into the backpack and landed on Lao Duan.

"Hey, I forgot that I still have this thing. It's an iron tool after all. It shouldn't be more laborious than a stone ax to chop wood."

After looking at Lao Duan's item description, Zhang Shi decisively picked up the broken kitchen knife and slashed towards the tree trunk.

"Whoosh!"

Lao Duan was like cutting tofu. Although he did not directly cut off the big tree, the blade of the knife penetrated three-thirds of the wood and got stuck directly in the trunk. Zhang Shi's eyes lit up, and it took a lot of effort to pull the old section out of the trunk.

"Damn it, it's really a magic weapon."

Zhang Shi learned his lesson and cut a "V"-shaped gap diagonally on the tree trunk by cutting up and down. When he cut down two-thirds of the diameter of the big tree, Zhang Shi changed the direction, pushed the trunk with one hand, and swung the knife with the other hand to carefully cut off the wood from the opposite side.

The system prompts, congratulations on getting:

[Wood (white) 】

It took only two minutes to kill a towering tree. Zhang Shi was so excited that he wanted to offer Lao Duan to him immediately. He kowtowed to Lao Duan three times.

"Lao Duan, I was too loud just now. I will follow you from now on. I hope you can let me eat delicious food and drink spicy drinks."

After the madness, Zhang Shi began to kill people in the woods, picking only the thick and big ones.

In just two hours, Zhang Shi had harvested 300 units of wood. The most important thing is that Zhang Shi did not spend much effort and his physical strength was still abundant.

Seeing that the wood reserves were sufficient, Zhang Shi turned around and began to look for stones. The conditions for upgrading the shelter are 100 wood and 30 stones. Even with VIP privileges, the number of stones is still a challenge for Zhang Shi. But thinking of his leaky shack, Zhang Shi still planned to gather resources and upgrade the shelter before sunset today.

Zhang Shi wandered around the woods for a long time and picked up some scattered stones on the road.

The system prompts, congratulations on obtaining:

[Stone (white) X1: basic resource, widely used, you can't do without it. 】

There are not many small stones of this kind, and if you want to obtain a large number of stones, you still need to collect them.

Zhang Shi spent a long time before he found a huge stone on a hillside.

He took Lao Duan and started to work on the huge stone with great interest. As expected, Lao Duan cut the stone like mud and easily cut the huge stone in half. However, the system did not prompt him to obtain resources.

Zhang Shi was suspicious for a while, and then he started to cut the big stone into square stone pillars, but there was still no response. Zhang Shi tried to put the stone pillar into the backpack again, but found that it could not be operated.

"It seems that things that the system does not recognize cannot be put into the backpack."

Zhang Shi gave up the plan to carry the stone pillar back home. Since the system does not recognize this thing, even if he takes it back, he may not be able to use it as a material for upgrading the shelter.

"Do I have to use a broken stone pickaxe to count it as mined material?"

Zhang Shi reluctantly took out the worn stone pickaxe and started to knock at the other half of the intact boulder. After a lot of effort, he finally got a reminder from the system.

System prompt, congratulations on getting:

[Stone (white) x1]

Looking at the 5 stones in the backpack, Zhang Shi fell into deep thought. With the presence of Lao Duan, the efficiency of tree felling has been greatly improved. Instead of knocking stones here, it is better to cut down a few more trees and see if they can be exchanged in the trading interface later.

Thinking of this, Zhang Shi immediately decided to give up quarrying before getting better tools.