Chapter 85: Chapter 85: Don’t Mess with a Foodie

Translator: 549690339

When he opened the construction list for the level one manor, a new defensive structure appeared before Song Jian’s eyes.

“Catapult: A defensive building. Effect: Inflicts 150 physical damage to all enemy targets within 100 meters and causes splash damage. Each attack has a five-second interval. Construction Requirements: 300 units of wood, 150 units of stone. Building Explanation: This building consumes 100 units of stone every 60 seconds. If there is no stone supply, the building will cease to function.”

Build, build, keep building!

Within the projection of the level one manor, a red circle appeared atop two sub-towers and the main castle. These were the spots to place the catapults.

Three catapults could be placed in a level one manor.

Song Jian quickly finished placing the catapults!

Just at this moment, another line of red text from the system appeared:

System: The appearance of a level one manor has attracted the attention of the level eight Elite Boss, [Skin-Flaying Zombie—Kulamar]. This boss will appear in thirty minutes.

Level eight Elite Boss?

Song Jian’s face changed, and his heart pounded even harder.

He had barely survived against an ordinary zombie, but this skin-flaying zombie was a named Boss, obviously more formidable. What was he to do?

Looking around, all of the walls of the manor had been advanced from level one stone walls to level three stone walls. They were over two meters tall and more than half a meter thick. An average mutated zombie could break its claws without causing any damage to these walls.

Everything that needed to be promoted had been promoted, everything that needed to be upgraded had been upgraded.

He couldn’t continue constructing the manor. The higher the building’s level, the better the defenses, but it would also attract stronger bosses in larger numbers. It would be like drinking poison to quench thirst.

“It seems that 1 will have to rely on other methods!” After looking around, Song Jian eventually focused on a small tree in the courtyard that was just over a foot tall.

“Treasure, treasure, dammit, are you telling me to spend more money to stay alive?” Thinking of this, Song Jian tossed a pine nut emitting a faint golden glow from his package next to the small sapling.

Before it could even fall, a delicate root shot out of the soil with a “whoosh” and wrapped the pine nut, pulling it underground.

The tree spirit sapling grew at a visible rate and stopped when it had grown about five inches tall.

Checking the time, this pine nut had saved nearly one day’s worth of growth.

“My God, this is a treasure that can increase vitality points by fifty. If 1 sell it, it’s definitely worth a lot of money. Well, never mind, you’re lucky this time, foodie.” Song Jian shook his head and threw all the “Mutated Pine Nuts” in the package over there.

Whish-Whish-Whish-

A few delicate roots emerged from the soil simultaneously, accurately enveloping the mutated pine nuts, and drawing them into the soil.

Song Jian looked at the tree spirit sapling in a strange manner, as if feeding a kitten or puppy.

The tree spirit sapling was growing rapidly, but it would take a long time to mature.

Song Jian started to rummage through his package, tossing the pan-fried meat, roast meat, stir-fried dog’s heart, snake soup, and all the food he had prepared for himself at the tree spirits. However, these items didn’t seem to be of much use to the tree spirit sapling. Although all were absorbed, it only saved seconds of time.

“Um, what else…the rest are all materials, do you want this?” Song Jian frowned as he looked at his package.

He took out a roll of “Mutated Snake Beast’s Leather” from the package. It was a blue-quality material that Song Jian had kept very well for selling or exchanging goods in the future.

As soon as it was tossed, five or six roots protruded, tightly wrapping the leather and dragging it into the soil.

“You, you eat both meat and vegetables, you eat everything!” Song Jian exclaimed in surprise.

Then, Song Jian began to clear the materials in the package. All the blue, green, white, and finally even gray materials were given to the tree spirit sapling.

Hard pine, Yin Soul Wood, all were given to the tree spirit sapling.

The tree spirit sapling was getting bigger and bigger, at this point it had grown more than three meters high. Its leaves were lush, and strange patterns appeared on the trunk, which looked a bit like the Yin Soul Ghost Tree.

However, the tree spirit sapling did not have the eerie aura present on the Yin Soul Ghost Tree.

“Only the zombie cores, two pieces of jewelry, and fifty-three gold bricks are left. I’m telling you, you can’t be planning to swallow everything, can you?” Song Jian took out one gold brick hesitantly, pushing it forward with some reluctance.

These gold bricks were cut very neatly, each brick being one standard kilogram. Song Jian was reluctant to part with them. According to the price of gold in reality, each gold brick was worth three or four hundred thousand! It was just like throwing money into water!

Whoosh-

A root as thick as a finger stretched out, tightly coiled around the gold brick twice, and pulled it back. Song Jian’s face turned sour, but he refused to let go. “This thing is very hard and tasteless. If you eat it, you will have indigestion, or maybe you wouldn’t want it.” Song Jian pleaded softly.

The root tugged harder but Song Jian did not let go. His painful expression was clear; he kept shaking his head as if he were about to cry.

System: The appearance of a level one manor has attracted the attention of the level 10 Elite Boss, [Clawed Zombie—Wang Dachui]. This boss will appear in thirty-five minutes.

Level 10 Elite Boss!

Song Jian was startled, his hand trembled suddenly.

Whoosh-

The root seized the opportunity to pull the gold brick back and rapidly withdrew into the soil.

“A level ten Elite Boss is here, my God, what kind of broken game is this?! Why weren’t advance warnings given for dangerous situations? Why did they have to wait until the construction was completed to say something…” Song Jian couldn’t help but curse loudly.

“Fine, fine, I will give you everything to eat, as long as you can digest it, 1 will feed you everything!” Song Jian made a determined decision. Baring his teeth, he took out the remaining fifty-two gold bricks and piled them at the root of the tree spirit sapling.

Just as he was about to stand up, Song Jian hesitated for a moment, then put a gold brick back into the package. He would keep that one as a souvenir.

The fifty-one gold bricks slowly sank into the soil. Song Jian checked the time, and now it would only take the tree spirit sapling less than a day—just twenty-four hours—to mature.

Looking at the empty package, Song Jian felt like crying. With a trembling hand, he retrieved two pieces of jewelry.

“For these two, you wouldn’t eat them too, would you?”

If it ate the gold, it was logical that it would would eat the two pieces of jewelry as well!

Whoosh-

Two roots stretched out and seemed to hesitate for a moment when they made contact with the jewelry before withdrawing into the soil.

“Phew, finally something you don’t eat!” Song Jian breathed a sigh of relief. The two items of jewelry were priceless, worth much more than that pile of gold. Since the little thing did not eat them, he would take them back.

After returning the jewelry to the package, Song Jian looked at it again. In his package, besides a bunch of zombie cores, all that was left was a blueprint for the Blood Pool.

“You wouldn’t want to eat my equipment too, would you?” Song Jian looked at the tree spirit sapling, which would mature in about ten hours, and felt like crying.