Chapter 65: Chapter 65: Transaction

Translator: 549690339

Song Jian continued to collect wood, but this time in the collection process, he became a bit cautious, always examining the surrounding situation.

After collecting more than a dozen large trees, there was a slight tremor in the ground, putting a joyful expression on Song Jian’s face, he started to look around.

A face-like contour gradually emerged on the trunk of a big tree about five or six meters away from his right hand;

“I’ve got you!”

Without waiting for the mutant tree spirit to attack, Song Jian released an “Earth Teeth Assault” directly, then dashed towards the mutant tree spirit;

Hiss- Hiss- Hiss-

A series of roots pierced out from the ground, but Song Jian’s figure couldn’t be captured at all;

This time, Song Jian did not cut off the roots at first, instead directly targeting the main body of the mutant tree spirit.

The mutant tree spirit had limited ways to attack and could not pose an effective attack on Song Jian. While it did continuously disturb Song Jian with its roots, Song Jian focused on wielding his dagger, releasing “Poison Nova” in rapid succession. After three or four rounds of “Poison Nova” were unleashed, they directly killed the mutant tree spirit that only had more than three hundred vitality points.

“As long as you familiarize yourself with its attack method, it’s quite easy to kill a tree spirit.” Song Jian sighed, talking to himself;

As long as the players are familiar with the attack patterns of the monsters, they can find the most efficient ways to kill them. The first encounter with new monsters always calls for caution, but when they meet again, the monsters simply become experience points and supply units;

This time, Song Jian only lost about twenty vitality points, less than the first time. It was mainly because most of the roots didn’t even have the chance to stretch out from the ground. The body of this mutated tree spirit hadn’t completely detached itself from the ground before Song Jian killed it, turning it into a still planted dead tree;

The drop from the tree spirit was significantly smaller this time, only two items were dropped: more than eight hundred standard units of wood and a piece of vitality recovery fruit;

Although these were all things Song Jian needed, he was still slightly disappointed at heart.

Just like that, a day passed. At dusk, Song Jian finally stopped his collection. He summoned his motorbike and headed back to his villa;

“1 have collected enough wood. Starting tomorrow, I’ll start gathering stone.” Song Jian looked at the more than ten thousand units of wood in his inventory and smiled, talking to himself.

Song Jian’s level had reached seven with an extra 23% experience, and he had accumulated another skill point. Now he had three unused skill points.

The amount of wood collected today was several times more than before. Each tree could yield a hundred or two hundred units of wood, but killing a mutant tree spirit could bring five to eight hundred units of wood, which was why Song Jian collected so much wood today.

Moreover, Song Jian also collected more than a dozen vitality fruits. Though not every mutant tree spirit could drop a vitality fruit, relatively speaking, the drop rate for vitality recovery fruits was quite good;

Song Jian used up the “Mixed Grains Snack” he had during the fights, but he didn’t dare to consume any of the vitality recovery fruits, leading to his vitality being only fifty or sixty points now;

However, in the game, the loss of vitality can be completely restored by sleeping five or six hours, so Song Jian didn’t want to consume any vitality recovery fruit and kept them all up;

A night went by without any incidents, and the next morning, Song Jian arrived at the small forest near the neighborhood where he saw over a dozen people chopping down trees. He saw Li Ke’er and gave her a small smile;

“Little Cheap Brother!” Seeing Song Jian, Li Ke’er was quite happy and waved at him energetically, “Little Cheap Brother, where were you yesterday?”

“1 went to do a task and got some good stuff!” Song Jian said and initiated a trade with Li Ke’er;

In the trade interface, Song Jian put up several vitality recovery fruits and three thousand units of wood;

“Wow, Little Cheap Brother, you’ve struck it rich!” Li Ke’er was taken aback by the three-thousand units of wood;

Li Ke’er didn’t dare to chop wood with her delicate little hands, every time it took her several days to kill a level one mutant zombie, then she would sell the dropped items, save up for a long time, then she could buy a tool to come here to collect wood. But the tool would only last half a day and break, so she had to continue grinding to save up money for a new one;

This process was exhausting, there was no fun to be had from playing the game, it just felt like working a job. That Li Ke’er could persist for so long showed her strong will, but even so, so far she has only managed to accumulate less than a thousand units of wood;

“Next time, brother will take you to a nice place, where you can quickly gather wood…” Song Jian said with a smile, patting Li Ke’er on the head;

Upon hearing this, the eyes of the people around lit up. A few even showed intentions that were not good, but seeing the level displayed by Song Jian, they all retracted their eyes, fearing that Song Jian would notice their gaze;

Most people’s level was around three, but Song Jian’s level was significantly higher than the rest. He looked like a pro.

Personal information can actually be hidden, but to deter other people, Song Jian did not hide his level, and displayed it openly;

“Mister pro, would you be interested in doing some business with me?”

Just then, a slightly overweight man, seemingly in his thirties, slowly approached Song Jian, looked left and right, then asked in a hushed voice; “Doing business?” Song Jian squinted his eyes, sizing the man up and down.

The man was only level two, holding a crude stone axe, sweating profusely. His small eyes were fixed on Song Jian—full of anticipation;

“What kind of business do you want to do with me?” Song Jian asked.

“Any kind, 1 buy everything!” The middle-aged man’s eyes shone, he hastily replied: “Equipment, weapons, skill book, wood, stone, Doomsday coins. I can pay with real money, and don’t worry, I’m Zhao Sihai, the chairman of the Four Seas Group. 1 will never take the goods without paying.”

The Four Seas Group was the largest listed company in Coastal City, the chairman of the Four Seas Group, Zhao Sihai, was worth over ten billion, the richest man in Coastal City. Song Jian couldn’t even dream of getting close to such a figure in the real world. He would probably be driven away by the bodyguards;

“Sorry, I’m not interested in real money, either trade with me using Doomsday coins, or with items I’m interested in, otherwise there’s no deal!” Song Jian said indifferently;