Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse
Chapter 133: Exploring the New Jungle

Chapter 133: Chapter 133: Exploring the New Jungle

Xu Xin directly sent a private message to Ji Chaoyang: "How about we buy it directly from Qi Xuefei and then sell it under the name of [Explorer]?"

Ji Chaoyang immediately replied: "Good idea, but you have to persuade her to sell us a large quantity, and we’ll probably suffer a small loss since the price she sells to us won’t be low."

Then, Qi Xuefei, who had been silent for a long time, spoke: "...I’ll try to convince my brother."

Xu Xin sent a private message to Qi Xuefei: "If your brother disagrees, you can sell the remaining low-grade medicines to me, and I’ll give you a reasonable price."

Although Xu Xin didn’t have many resources, he had things that others didn’t have, such as advanced weapons, black gold lightning rods, and statues, all of which could be used for trade.

Qi Xuefei: "...No need, I think you’re right, this matter is more beneficial than harmful, and moreover..."

The other side remained silent for a long time before responding: "As a descendant of a medical family, I believe saving lives is paramount. If one has the ability, seeing someone die just to gain a bit more profit...

I know this world is dangerous and one shouldn’t have too much sympathy, but I really can’t do it.

If Zixuan insists on disagreeing... I’m also a member of [Explorer], and I will sell these medicines at a low price under [Explorer]’s name. It’s me who has the ability to make the medicines, and I have the right to dispose of these low-grade medicines."

Amazing, worthy of the heirs of a traditional Chinese medicine family, really quite the spirit of healing the world.

If she could sell these medicines under the name of [Explorer], that would be the best outcome.

Qi Zixuan, don’t give in, keep being stubborn!

Xu Xin pondered for a long time before replying: "Alright. If you plan to sell under the name of Explorer, inform Ji Chaoyang and me in advance, and we’ll create some momentum for you. Decide quickly, those people can’t hold out for long."

"Alright."

After solving these issues, Xu Xin moved his gaze away from the screen and found Keke, who had somehow come to his feet.

Keke rubbed her eyes, seemingly just waking up. She looked up at Xu Xin as if she was asking where breakfast was.

Silver King and Mimi also got up and walked to Xu Xin’s side.

After casually eating some breakfast, he eagerly looked outside the treehouse.

Sure enough, the water level in the jungle had completely receded by now, except for the muddy ground, it had fully returned to its original jungle appearance!

Finally! Finally, he can stand in the jungle again!

Looking around, Xu Xin searched for the location of the blue-level resources, ready to harvest them directly after heading down.

But when he looked northwest, his pupils shrank and he took a deep breath.

The disappearing hills had reappeared.

The hills that had disappeared during the rainy season were now steadily located three kilometers northwest. The hills had dense vegetation as if completely unaffected by the rainy season.

The hills unknown from what point in time had returned!

Disappearing during the rainy season and reappearing afterward, most importantly, the vegetation on the hills remained completely unchanged!

Ever since coming to this world, Xu Xin had often observed the distant hills from this direction, and he was very familiar with those few trees’ positions on the hills.

Now that position hasn’t changed at all, even the growth direction hasn’t altered, still growing crookedly on the hills.

He could almost be certain that the hills not only weren’t there during the rain but probably had disappeared during the earlier thunderstorms too.

Otherwise, how could the trees on the hills have escaped unscathed? They were much higher than the trees below the hills, practically acting as lightning rods.

Honestly, if unnecessary, Xu Xin really didn’t want to go there again.

But there’s a shrine there that can summon intermediate mutant beasts. If Xu Xin needed points, materials, or contaminated meat, the shrine would be the fastest and most direct way.

...Just don’t forget to return the shrine knife, and the Blood Pattern Giant shouldn’t appear.

Never mind that place for now, let’s inventory the new resources in this resource area.

"Let’s go, Keke, Silver King, Mimi, we’re heading down!" Xu Xin called to the three animals.

Keke skillfully climbed onto Xu Xin’s shoulder, and the person along with the three animals went to the ground from the treehouse.

The ground beneath the treehouse, although now overgrown with wild grass after being submerged for a long time, still felt somewhat muddy when stepped on.

As soon as Xu Xin got down, he saw two large fish bouncing on the ground not far in the forest.

"...These fish are really dumb. Can’t they swim back to the lake in advance?" Xu Xin walked up and looked at the two fish on the ground.

They were indeed the fish from the lake before, but the size... how is it so exaggerated?

It was Xu Xin’s first time seeing carp over a meter long.

Carp belong to a species with long lifespans, and their natural lifespan can reach over a hundred years. So carp can grow over a meter long, and carp that are over ten years old growing to one to one and a half meters long is quite normal.

But... there absolutely weren’t such long fish in the original lake, at most only thirty centimeters in length.

This means that these two carp have grown from at most about thirty centimeters in length to over a meter within two days, and the reason might be the blood staining the lake water during the battle between the giant python and giant crocodile.

...Could it be due to this rain? The plants grew rapidly, and the fish also grew quickly?

Xu Xin took out a spear and swiftly took out one of the big carp.

The other one calmed down at his approach but started frantically struggling on the ground due to his actions, bouncing towards the lake.

Is it that clever, with such a drastic difference in the carp’s behavior? Could it understand his actions?

And beside him, Mimi could hardly contain herself, poised in a tiger-like pounce, ready to take down the carp.

"Wait, Mimi." Xu Xin suddenly had a flash of inspiration and stopped Mimi’s actions, then shouted at the fish on the ground: "If you don’t want to die, lie still on the ground!"

After saying it, he felt a bit embarrassed himself. How did he think of talking to a carp?

But the result made him widen his eyes.

The carp, which had been struggling desperately to escape, actually obediently lay still after hearing Xu Xin’s shout, only its mouth and gills slightly moving.

It could actually understand Xu Xin’s words!

Have all the animals in this world gone to school? How can they all understand human speech!

Xu Xin didn’t believe it, so he said another sentence to the carp: "If you want to live, jump once."

As a result, the carp really jumped, even jumping towards the direction of the lake.

"Ying!" Keke also cried out in surprise, jumped down from Xu Xin’s shoulder, ran to the side of the carp, and patted the carp’s body with its small paws.

The carp’s body jumped slightly, its tail wagged, wanting to give Keke a slap with its tail, but seemed to be afraid of the nearby Mimi who was staring intently at it, as well as the Silver King who was always watching it, and finally obediently lay back on the ground.

Xu Xin first disassembled the dead carp on the ground.

To his disappointment, this carp still only provided very ordinary materials upon disassembly, not even blue-level materials, only green-level.

Has it not completed evolution? Or is it just purely bigger, just an ordinary carp?

With only green-level materials, Xu Xin really didn’t feel like killing and disassembling anymore, so he waved at the still alive carp on the ground, indicating it could leave.

The carp instantly understood Xu Xin’s gesture and crazily jumped towards the lake, jumping into the nearby lake after ten seconds, splashing a ring of water before disappearing.

This carp absolutely underwent mutation, not just in size but even its intelligence increased.

Keke, Mimi, and Silver King could understand his words, which he actually understood since they are higher-level mammals.

Speaking of high-intelligence creatures in the water, one naturally first thinks of whales, especially the dolphins, the sea elves, but whales are not fish, they’re mammals.

The intelligence of ordinary fish is generally very low; many stories jokingly claim fish have only seven-second memories, which of course isn’t exaggerated like that, but their intelligence isn’t that high either.

A fish that can understand Xu Xin’s words and react is indeed too unusual, making Xu Xin wonder if the blood of the giant crocodile and giant anaconda could enhance intelligence!

An oversight, he should have collected some blood from the giant crocodile back then; its wound kept bleeding, and not collecting it would be a waste.

Speaking of, how is the giant crocodile now? It was still injured the day before the rainy season.

However, Xu Xin wasn’t very worried. There was no tornado in the creek’s direction; the giant crocodile originally lived in the water. Plus, those intermediate mutated creatures were just a meal for the giant crocodile.

Let’s go see it today. But before that, let’s first collect the blue-level resources around here.

There was already a blue-level fertile soil under his treehouse, the one used to plant apple trees. He had already transplanted that apple tree to the fourth-floor plantation in the treehouse.

At the moment, a fully grown blue-level poplar tree was growing on this soil.

"Blue-level poplar tree?" Xu Xin raised an eyebrow. Blue-level wood is a must-have material for many weapons and tools to reach blue level, the more the better.

He chopped down the poplar tree, then rode onto Silver King, with Keke also climbing onto Silver King’s back, while Mimi elegantly trotted beside them.

"Let’s go, Silver King, in that direction." Xu Xin pointed towards the direction of the blue glow several hundred meters away.

"Aw—" Silver King suddenly surged in place and sped forward. Mimi followed at the same speed.

Xu Xin felt Silver King’s explosive acceleration was clearly faster than before.

"Is this stronger now?" He felt a bit delighted. Silver King and Mimi were just a step away from evolving into intermediate mutated beasts, and Silver King’s strengthening indicated it was not far from truly becoming an intermediate mutated beast.

All thanks to the radiation stone; the only thing around him that could strengthen Silver King even while staying at home was that radiation stone.

In just ten seconds, Xu Xin arrived at the site of the new blue-level resource.

"This is..."

A tree Xu Xin had never seen before; the tree was over ten meters tall, and he reached out to touch it.

[Sourwood (Blue): Requires hundreds of years to mature, and this hastened sourwood possesses even higher quality. Harvesting it yields redwood (Blue).]

Blue-level redwood!

Xu Xin swung his iron axe to chop it down. Just this one tree yielded only two pieces of redwood (Blue).

Two pieces, enough to make two blue-level furniture items!

However, redwood can also be carved; let’s save it for now and think about its use later.

Xu Xin then used an iron shovel to dig out the redwood seeds. He planned to plant them in the blue-level soil beside his treehouse once he got back.

This soil growing blue-level redwood was just ordinary green-level soil. Naturally, he had already explored around here, so the soil couldn’t suddenly become fertile.

Xu Xin continued riding Silver King across the jungle; the map showed no red dots, not even in the lake center, meaning there weren’t any beasts around at the moment.

"Ying!" Keke suddenly pointed in a direction.

A call indicating good stuff. Xu Xin immediately urged Silver King towards that direction.

Soon, Xu Xin saw a fish lying dead on the ground.

Its body was three or four meters long, its mouth was very sharp, its eyes bulging, but its body was very flat, the color resembling rock, looking somewhat strange.

"Is this... the fish from the giant cave in the lake center?"