Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse
Chapter 137 - 136: The Possibility of Immortality

Chapter 137: Chapter 136: The Possibility of Immortality

Xu Xin deliberated for a long time before sending a private message to Qi Xuefei.

"Sister Xuefei, welcome to truly becoming a member of the [Explorers]."

Qi Xuefei had just left the organization she founded and even had a falling out with her own brother. At this time, she must be feeling quite melancholic, perhaps a bit absent-minded and insecure. Xu Xin used a friendlier title to help her quickly feel a sense of belonging to the Explorers.

Moreover, her actions indeed made Xu Xin feel admiration.

Unlike him and Ji Chaoyang, Qi Xuefei didn’t know about any of the potential future events. Her goal was pure - to heal as many other survivors as possible.

In all honesty, if he were in her position, he wouldn’t be able to make such a selfless move. It was almost like giving away resources for free. To the survivors being healed, she was a saintly existence.

Xu Xin doesn’t dislike saints; he dislikes those who lack the ability but still stand on moral high grounds to criticize others—a hypocritical saint.

She helps others through her own abilities, and no one can criticize her for that.

For someone like Qi Xuefei, who has a strong ability that others don’t have, yet doesn’t misuse it but instead helps those in need, he has absolute respect.

Perhaps it’s because he himself can’t achieve this that he feels such people are incredibly noble.

In this place lacking order and legal protection, for most people, their true selves may only become apparent after gaining strong abilities.

At this moment, [Explorers] was bustling with excitement.

Ji Chaoyang: "Our team finally has a real physician now."

Li Wenxi: "Oh my god, Sister Xuefei, you’re so awesome!"

Zhao Xiaochuan: "Don’t worry, beautiful Xuefei, following the top two brothers is definitely the right choice!"

Wen Guixin: "And me, I’m also the third in our area. From today, I’ve got Xuefei covered!"

Qin Yunhu: "If there’s anything you need, just let me know. I’ll do my best to help."

Wang Lei: "Me too!"

Qi Xuefei: "Thank you all, rest assured, with me here, you no longer need to worry about sickness and injuries."

With such a strong doctor officially joining the organization, anyone would be enthusiastic. Moreover, Qi Xuefei’s actions have truly earned everyone’s respect.

The members of [Explorers] are top survivors who have rarely faced life-threatening situations, and their resources are abundant, so there’s no need for scheming or backstabbing. Naturally, the atmosphere is much more relaxed than over at [Compassionate Healers].

This is actually one of the reasons why Qi Xuefei chose this side.

Xu Xin received the last batch of herbs. Just moments ago, many people had donated herbs to him, and now, his backpack was full, with many having to be placed on the ground.

He immediately initiated a trade with Qi Xuefei and transferred all the herbs to her.

Qi Xuefei suddenly asked, "Do you all think what I’m doing is foolish, essentially giving the medicine away to them for free?"

It seems she had some self-doubt after breaking up with her own brother.

Xu Xin immediately replied, "If you weren’t of this nature, you might not possess such abilities. You’ve used your abilities to save the lives of nearly a thousand people; who has the right to call you foolish?"

Qi Xuefei was silent for a moment and then replied, "Thank you, Xu Xin. If it weren’t for you, and the others, I fear I wouldn’t have taken this step. If I had stayed with those people, I’m afraid I would have been assimilated by them."

At the same time, Qi Xuefei initiated a trade with him.

"This is the improved pill. There’s only one left now, but with the materials you gave me and what I have, I can soon make the next batch."

Xu Xin didn’t ask her why there was only one left. Presumably, it was the cost of leaving [Compassionate Healers], so he replied, "Alright, no rush, there hasn’t been much need for pills lately."

He looked at the small blue-glowing pill in his hand.

Compared to Qi Xuefei’s introduction, his was more detailed, with an additional line at the end.

[After using a hundred, the body becomes impervious to all diseases.]

"This...!" This effect directly stunned Xu Xin.

Impervious to all diseases? Never get sick?

But thinking carefully, the ultimate effect of this pill seems rather trivial.

Within seven days, only the first pill taken is effective. To truly achieve immunity to all diseases, at least seven hundred days are needed.

He still wasn’t sure if he could survive seven hundred days in this world, and if he could, surely there would be more advanced resources available.

However, the effect of enhancing physical fitness was quite good.

Speaking of enhancing physical fitness, he thought of the Tai Chi Fish in the treehouse. The purpose of the Tai Chi Fish also was to enhance physical fitness, but its effect focused on "longevity," namely increasing lifespan.

Wait a minute!

"Hiss..." Xu Xin took a sharp breath.

The effect of the Taiji fish combined with this pill (blue), wouldn’t that mean... immortality?!

No, immortality might be unlikely. The life-extending effect of the Taiji fish probably isn’t that strong. Maybe raising it for a lifetime would extend one’s life by four or five years at best.

But, these two resources are only blue-grade resources!

Above the blue grade is the purple grade, and who knows what levels are beyond purple. If blue-grade supplies can spark hopes of immortality, then the resources of higher grades...

Xu Xin suddenly had some doubts. Those things that brought them to this world, that mysterious voice, and the "deities" mentioned in the altar’s introduction, could they really be some kind of ancient and immortal creatures?

... Starting to indulge in wild thoughts again, better deal with the matters at hand first.

In front, Mimi and the Silver King swallowed the last bite into their stomachs, and a full two hundred kilograms of fish meat disappeared without a trace, leaving Keke on Xu Xin’s shoulder staring in disbelief.

After splitting the two hundred kilograms of fish meat, the Silver King and Mimi showed no changes at all.

Xu Xin watched in amazement as the two beasts’ bellies did not bulge even slightly: "You two, where did all that food go? Two hundred kilograms of meat, just... eaten like that?"

Xu Xin reached out to touch the bellies of the Silver King and Mimi.

Mimi was so startled by his action that she leapt three meters into the air, jumping away and arching her back upon landing, hissing at Xu Xin, her tail all fluffed up.

This guy, even though these past two days she’s been getting closer, she still won’t let him touch her.

He touched the Silver King’s belly. The Silver King’s belly was somewhat soft, but Xu Xin couldn’t feel any of the food it had just eaten.

Keke also curiously crawled under the Silver King, poking with little claws, only to get kicked away by the Silver King, which prompted a dissatisfied "whee-whee" cry.

No, this wasn’t how it was before. Previously, after feeding them, Xu Xin could clearly see their bellies bulge, and he even wondered if he was overfeeding them.

Wait, this had happened once before. After the Silver King had just become a mutant beast, it ate a whole deer, and its belly showed no change.

Recalling how, earlier in the day, the Silver King’s speed was much faster than usual, Xu Xin’s eyes lit up with increasing brightness.

These two guys, could they be about to evolve into intermediate mutant beasts!

"Eat! You can eat all you want! You two, once we get back, I’ll let you have your fill of frozen mutant beast meat from the freezer, and if you want, I’ll give you intermediate mutant meat too!" Xu Xin vigorously patted the Silver King’s head.

If he could have two obedient intermediate mutant beasts, his power would be greatly enhanced!

Contaminated meat wouldn’t poison mutant beasts, Xu Xin had experimented with the bat swarm in the underground tunnel. But he’s not sure if intermediate mutant meat would still be effective for the Silver King and Mimi, considering that the mutant potion produced from it had already lost its effectiveness.

"Awoo!" The Silver King howled, its two wolf fangs reflecting the sunlight as sharp as ever.

Mounting the Silver King’s back, Xu Xin continued traversing the resource zone.

Not far from the felled acidwood (blue) tree, he found five acidwood (green) trees.

It seems that acidwood capable of producing hardwood has begun to grow in the jungle.

There should be some green-grade acidwood in the jungle, but now with green-grade trees everywhere, the appearance of acidwood is inconspicuous, making it hard to find. Besides, since he doesn’t lack it, he doesn’t bother looking further.

He cut them all down and dug out the seeds.

What piqued his interest was that both the green-grade and blue-grade acidwood had this description: [requires over a hundred years to mature], and it was noted that they were artificially matured.

He looked at the seed in his hand again. Strangely, even though he dug it out with a shovel, the acidwood seed did not show any description, seeming to be just an ordinary seed.

Is this redwood unplantable?

To verify, Xu Xin planted an acidwood seed in the soil on the spot, waited for a long time, but no sapling emerged from the ground. If it were a birch or pine seed, it would have sprouted by now.

He dug out the seed, which had not changed at all, as if it were just a very ordinary seed.

It seems that for now, he can’t plant acidwood to obtain redwood; if it truly relies on this world’s special abilities to grow, Xu Xin might age long before it matures.

However, since the seed was dug out with a shovel, it surely is a special seed. Perhaps it requires some specific conditions, so he’d better store these seeds for now.

Next, he focused on finding blue-grade resources, and soon found a few blue-grade poplar trees, obtaining over ten pieces of blue-grade wood.

But that was about it.

Roaming through the forest, Xu Xin finally stopped by the lake, frowning.

Something is not right.

In the entire resource zone, the food resources he saw were only one apple tree and a red berry bush, both green-grade.

Throughout the expansive green-grade soil, only two fruit-bearing plants had grown. Previously, taking just a couple of steps would find a green-grade fruit tree, and even blue-grade ones were more numerous than the green-grade ones now.

"Is the jungle starting to be short on food?" Xu Xin’s eyelid twitched.

Not only were the beasts gone, but the once abundant fruit resources had also almost disappeared. The sources of both meat and vegetarian diet were cut off, could this mean that food shortages were about to begin?