Shocking! Start With a Piece of Land, Crits Bring Miracles

Chapter 17: Rare Resources, Luo Yu’s First-mover Advantage

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

“Coo-hoo.”

The hen jumped down from Luo Yu’s arms and ran out of the door to peck at some insects. Seeing this, Luo Yu hurriedly ordered, “Don’t leave the base and don’t eat the crops in the vegetable field.”

“Coo-hoo.”

The hen cawed and started pecking on its own.

Alright, there would be eggs to eat every day in the future. His nutrition would be balanced.

As Luo Yu built a hen’s nest, he received a notification: [Fang Yumeng has invited you to join a group chat. Do you accept?]

Group chat. This was a smaller chat channel than the regional chat channel.

In fact, there were quite a lot of people in this region. There were 10,000 of them, but over the past few days, everyone had more or less formed a small clique. Most of them were from the same race and chatted together. It would be faster to spam the regional chat, so people began to establish small group chat rooms.

After accepting it, as expected, other than Fang Yumeng, there was also Na Ke’er, Niu Da, Alice, and Alina.

Na Ke’er: “Luo Yu is here? Everyone is finally here.”

Niu Da: “You’re finally here. I was the only male in the group chat just now. It was quite awkward.”

Luo Yu: “Eh? Where’s Zhu Lie? Why didn’t you pull him?”

Fang Yumeng: “We’re not familiar with each other. Just the few of us will do. By the way, Luo Yu, how’s the fish pond going?”

Luo Yu said, “I’m done digging it. I’ll continue fishing tomorrow.”

There was also a screenshot of the fish pond.

Fang Yumeng: “My two sisters are asking you, what’s your physique? How can you dig out a fish pond of this size in two days alone?”

Luo Yu replied, “A little more than a normal person. It’s average.”

Fang Yumeng said, “Physique is really important. My two sisters and I are both at 9 points. I feel that sometimes, we can’t do much.”

As she spoke, she sent a screenshot of her physique.

Na Ke’er: “Eh? I heard that human males only have 10 points. The three of you have 9 points. That’s not bad. I only have 10 points. My younger sister only has 8 points.”

Niu Da: “My physique is 18, and my strength is 16. I will protect you!”

Na Ke’er: “No need!”

Alina said, “Humans are so thin and weak. We female elves have at least 15 points in agility and physique. Alice, are you already in the twenties?”

Alice said, “Well, around twenty points.”

Fang Yumeng and Na Ke’er: “Wow! The two elf sisters are so powerful!”

Alina asked, “Luo Yu, how many points in your physique does a stupid man like you have?”

Luo Yu said, “It’s not high. It’s not much.”

Fang Yumeng: “What’s not high?!”

Luo Yu thought for a moment. Everyone in the group was familiar with each other, and they usually had a good relationship, so it was better to reveal a little.

“I made some money. I have a lot of points in my physique.”

He even sent a screenshot of his physique stat.

[Physique: 30]

Fang Yumeng: “!!!”

Niu Da: “You are the real blood bull!”

Na Ke’er: “A strong man!”

Alice said, “Oh my… I’m surprised.”

Alina: “How, how is that possible? How can a mere human male have such a high physique!”

Fang Yumeng: “Us three girls combined don’t have as many points in the physique stat as you…”

“What a… ridiculous man!”

Luo Yu’s face revealed a hint of smugness as he chuckled and said, “I was just lucky. Let’s get to work. I won’t chat anymore.”

Fang Yumeng: “Wait a minute! What’s the name of our small group?!”

Luo Yu said, “Hmm… Your name has the rain character, and there are two elven girls. Let’s call you Rain Spirit Xiao Zhu?”

“Good!”

This name received unanimous approval. Luo Yu smiled faintly and continued to work.

After cutting stones for a while, the total length of the wall reached 300 meters. Looking at the wall that was about to be completed, Luo Yu could not wait.

He directly entered the mine and started mining again!

With his current strength and physique, coupled with his LV4 mining level, his mining efficiency could be said to have soared. Before the sun set, the black spotted stones and other ores he dug out piled up into a small mountain. If not for Dumby helping to move them, the Golden-shelled Beetle would not have been able to move them all.

After dinner, Luo Yu built a bonfire and cut the stones overnight to make up the last section of the wall.

It was completed!

The wall, which was originally expected to take twenty days to complete, only took eight days to complete.

The wall was 100 meters long and five meters tall on all four sides. There were stone doors on all four sides, and there were stairs leading up from the inside of the wall, giving people a heavy sense of security.

Luo Yu nodded in satisfaction and looked at the time. It was already midnight.

He hurriedly took a shower and went to bed.

When he woke up in the morning, he looked out of the window and realized that the wall had been erected, but the view was not as good as before.

If he wanted to have a good view, he would have to build a three-story villa.

That was just a fantasy. For now, it was better to be a watchtower.

He first went to the fish pond to fill the water. As the effect of the bait had decreased, he only caught 450 units of fish and prawns this time. Luo Yu did not sell them. He decided to keep this batch for himself to eat slowly.

After eating a boiled egg, an apple, and half a crucian carp for breakfast, Luo Yu opened the building page in high spirits.

15-meter watchtower: [1,000 wood, 200 stones, 100 silver]

This watchtower could also be used as a shooting tower. From above, one could obtain the high ground, but it was a little expensive.

There were still 1,000 units of stone, but there was no more wood left.

The grove that was near the territory had been cut down. Every day, he needed wood to start a fire. What’s more, he also needed a large amount of wood to make bows and arrows.

Especially in winter, without wood to start a fire, one might freeze to death. He had to plan ahead.

Only then did Luo Yu realize that wood was a relatively difficult resource to obtain on this plain.

As for cutting down trees in the purple mountain range, after paying attention to the world chat channel and other news sources for the past few days, Luo Yu learned that there was an air wall at the edge of the territory that blocked the trial-takers.

If he wanted to leave on foot, he had to spend a large amount of silver to unlock technology.

At the same time, Luo Yu also learned that the range of the air wall could be expanded. In other words, the territory could be expanded, but it also required unlocking technology and spending a large amount of resources to expand.

There was no need to think about that now.

Wood was so precious that Luo Yu was very concerned about it. He could not cut down that small grove anymore. He opened the auction house and prepared to buy some with silver.

After a search, he realized that 1 unit of wood was only sold for 1 silver!

A tree basically produced 10 units of wood. In other words, a tree was only 10 silver. This was the case where everyone’s initial location was a plain, and each person could only have one forest. Wasn’t wood too cheap?

However, on second thought, Luo Yu seemed to understand.

Nowadays, people were still worried about food. Who could build a watchtower like him?

It was not yet time to use wood on a large scale, and everyone was near forests, which made wood very cheap.

At this moment, Luo Yu’s advantage as the first-mover was revealed.