It was getting late, so Li Xiao ate some cooked meat and fell asleep hastily. Lying in bed, he thought about his future plans.
If I remember correctly, I will unlock the wooden building after I upgrade a few levels. At that time, I will demolish the current shabby thatched hut, build a wooden hut, get some arable land, plant some crops, and myself in the Ark.
Even in the early stage, it was stable.
By the way, you also need to create a circle for the mounts. This is not a game where domesticated creatures just stand there and don't move when they hear orders.
In this real world, tamed creatures still have their own thoughts and habits. When they are free, they will wander around. Although they will not go too far, if they encounter danger, they will not be able to provide immediate support.
You also have to keep some herbivores such as dodos in captivity. After all, you can't kill wild ones every time, otherwise you will be left with nothing for a while...
Gradually, snoring came from the hut, and Li Xiao fell asleep...
The dodo's beak came into close contact with Li Xiao's forehead, waking him up again.
This dodo seemed to have formed a habit of pecking Li Xiao awake every day at dawn, and Li Xiao was used to it. Anyway, this bird is very punctual, so it can be used as an alarm clock.
What was different from usual was that this time Li Xiao took a lot of effort to open his eyes, and he found that his whole body was weak and his head was dizzy.
I opened the cloth strip of the wound bag, and sure enough, the wound had some ulcers, and I was infected!
There are also differences in the character attributes column:
[Vital status: Trauma and infection]
"Hey~" Li Xiao slapped his head, feeling extremely helpless. He was not bitten to death by the raptor, but would he die from infection?
He knew what he had to do, otherwise the wound would get worse and worse until it was life-threatening.
"The problem is there is no medicine!"
It's hard for a good woman to make a meal without rice, so Li Xiao couldn't think of any way to prevent the wound from getting worse. He could only wash the wound with some water and wrap it with a clean cloth.
The only way now is to use the body's resistance to resist!
Li Xiao dragged his heavy body, lit a bonfire, roasted a lot of cooked meat, and filled four or five water bags with water. These few things consumed all his energy.
The tamed creatures are all wandering around. They can find food by themselves, so Li Xiao doesn't have to worry about it.
Putting the food and water next to the bed, he lay down on the bed again...
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"Cold!" The cold comes from within!
Li Xiao wrapped the animal skin quilt more tightly, but it still didn't work. It was obvious that he had a fever!
It was already midnight, and the fever caused Li Xiao to become confused and weak. He had no choice but to fall asleep again...
The next day, the high fever still persisted, and he could only get up reluctantly. He was very grateful for his foresight. The food was right in front of him and he could grab it by raising his hand. After eating some food and drinking some water, Li Xiao lay on the bed.
The body cannot lift any strength.
The entire wound has suppurated, but he no longer has the strength to deal with it...
On the third day, he had no strength to stand up and could not lift his arms. The fever persisted and his physical condition was already in critical condition.
His consciousness collapsed and he couldn't concentrate at all. The only thing he knew in his mind was that he needed food and water!
Fortunately, these are right next to the bed, and although he can't get up, he can squirm around!
He struggled, squirmed, twisting his heavy body like a maggot, and little by little, he moved his mouth to the food...
The pain left him with no appetite, but he still forced himself to eat some. He still needed some water, so he knocked down the water bag with his head and bit open the cork with his teeth.
The water in the water bag suddenly rushed out like a wild horse. Li Xiao put his mouth up and swallowed with difficulty...
The water bag emptied in the blink of an eye and soaked the bed, but that didn't matter. The important thing was that Li Xiao drank the water!
This action consumed all Li Xiao's mental strength. He had no strength to straighten his body anymore, so he fell asleep in a weird posture...
Li Xiao didn't have the energy to look at his injured arm, but he knew without looking that the wound must be festering!
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Li Xiao's desire to survive is so strong, but unfortunately it cannot stop the naked reality!
On the fourth day, the Dodo "alarm clock" pecked Li Xiao's head as usual, but he never woke up again...
[The player "Li Xiao" has died, the resurrection mark point is found, the fixed-point resurrection begins, countdown: 23:59:59]
This is a real world, so real that it is so sad and helpless...
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After Li Xiao was resurrected again, he found that he was still in the thatched house, and the only furniture in the house that caught his eye was the bed.
On the bed was "my" body.
Next to the corpse is a curled-up dodo, which has been by Li Xiao's side...
He stepped forward and touched the dodo's head. The dodo was awakened. It raised its head and saw that the person in front of it was Li Xiao, and cradled its head in his palm affectionately.
"Are you hungry?" Li Xiao took some berries from the corpse inventory and fed them to the "alarm clock", watching it gobble it up.
The pterosaurs and velociraptors were all wandering outside, but the dodo was the only one nesting in the thatched house. He probably hadn't eaten for several days.
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Standing beside the bed, Li Xiao observed "his" body——
"Is it so serious?!" The injured left arm of the corpse was completely ulcerated, and even the shoulder was black.
"It seems that I need to find some anti-inflammatory herbs quickly. The next time I get injured, I can't just die like this!" Li Xiao smiled bitterly, with a trace of sadness flashing in his eyes.
This trace of sadness is not for others, only for himself. But Li Xiao is not a sad poet, nor can he recite a few poems to blame others. All he can do is to continue his existence...
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The small plain is close to the cliff.
Three simple small mounds of soil were piled in a line at the bottom of the cliff. Together with the wooden boards erected in front of the mounds, it was obvious that these three mounds were grave mounds...
People who don't know must think that this is the ancestral cemetery of a certain family, but if you look closely at the wooden tombstones, you will find the difference.
A few words were crookedly carved on the wooden board:
Li Xiao's Tomb.
Each of the three wooden boards is the same. The only difference is the number engraved on the upper left corner of the board.
Li Xiao's Tomb 1, Li Xiao's Tomb 2...
This is the "burial place" Li Xiao prepared for himself.
These three mounds are lined up in a row. Mound No. 1 is where he was bitten to death by a Dilophosaurus...and then froze to death and swallowed by a snake...There are no corpses in the last two graves, but in order to commemorate "my own
"Death", Li Xiao still piled up a mound of earth and erected a wooden board in front to serve as a tombstone.
Next to "Pile No. 3", Li Xiao dug a hole and buried "his" body.
This time, the number of graves here became four.
After skillfully inserting the wooden boards and carving writing on them with stones, Li Xiao clapped his hands and completed the work.
Standing up, Li Xiao looked at the four graves in front of him, but there was no wave in his eyes.
Death seems to be something I have become accustomed to...
Counting this death due to infection, Li Xiao has died four times. With the lessons of the four deaths, Li Xiao quickly adapted to the rhythm of the Arkworld.
The number of resurrections in the attribute bar has not changed.
[Number of resurrections: more (I believe you have deeply experienced death, so you'd better cherish what you have left more. I remind you once again that once you cannot be resurrected, you will turn into nothingness!)]
The number of resurrections is still relatively high. It seems that the total number of resurrections is quite high.
However, Li Xiao, who is familiar with the Ark game, is not happy at all. He must know that he has already died four times after entering Ark for the first time. There will be more and more dangers in the future, and the opponents he faces will become stronger and stronger.
You must not waste the number of resurrections!
If you want to defeat the final boss of Ark and return to the real world, you must be more careful!
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The most important thing at the moment is that he is still upgrading, and with the bow and arrow, all the creatures in the swamp area are no longer a threat to him.
There is no need to train Dilophosaurus anymore. This creature with low combat effectiveness can no longer keep up with the strength of its opponent.
The next thing to do is to go to the swamp to "gain experience".
All the necessary items were prepared. Li Xiao led the raptor and set off towards the swamp area. The pterosaur also stayed in the small plain. It was of little use in this operation.
There are many kinds of creatures in the swamp area, among which giant pythons are the most numerous, and there are also many species such as Baryonyx, pig crocodiles, devil frogs, etc. Emperor crocodile is the least numerous.
In the water deep in the swamp, there are dangerous creatures such as difficult leeches and giant piranhas, so going into the water must be avoided.
Standing on a high ground beside the swamp, Li Xiao glanced at the wetland below:
On the surface full of puddles and silt, there are thickets of water and grass, and there may not necessarily be a human-hungry Crocodile hidden in any of them! There are scattered boulders, and there may not necessarily be a few lying in the darkness under any boulder.
Resting python!
Li Xiao took out a piece of bloody raw meat from the inventory and threw it towards the swamp. The piece of raw meat fell far into the water of the wetland, and the blood on it gradually dyed the puddle red.
Within ten seconds or so, there was movement in the grass pool, and rustling sounds kept coming.
The bloody smell attracted these bloodthirsty creatures in the wetland, and the quiet wetland suddenly became noisy. The dangerous animals hidden in the grass, water, and behind the rocks were exposed!
Gradually, many threatening creatures gathered around the piece of raw meat.
"Not enough, not enough! This wetland definitely has more than just these creatures!" Li Xiao shook his head slightly, with an inexplicable light shining in his eyes.
With a thought, Li Xiao held another piece of raw meat in his free hand, raised his arm, and the raw meat flew into the wetland...
This piece of raw meat exuding the smell of blood was kept at a considerable distance from the first piece in order to attract as many creatures as possible.
After a while, many swamp creatures gathered around the piece of meat.
"Not enough, not enough!" Li Xiao was still unfinished and threw four or five pieces of raw meat into the wetland.
At this moment, like water dripping into a hot oil pan, the entire wetland reacted! Noisy noises were heard, and giant pythons and emperor crocodiles could be seen everywhere, scrambling to run towards the food. The entire wetland was in chaos!
Li Xiao's face showed a satisfied smile, and then, he had a bow in his hand...
Lifting the bow and aiming, Li Xiao's eyes were fixed on the target!
"Boom~" sounded through the air, announcing that his hunting game had begun!
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With long-distance weapons like bows and arrows, the results can be imagined. Many creatures in the wetland were still immersed in the temptation of flesh and blood, but were taken away one by one by arrows that pierced the air...
Occasionally, some creatures discovered Li Xiao standing at a high place.
But in comparison, raw meat exuding blood fascinates them even more!
The corpses of the killed creatures were devoured by the same kind in a blink of an eye, and the smell of blood attracted more predators. These bloodthirsty creatures can usually live in harmony, but now they are obviously aroused by the smell of flesh and blood.
For a piece of meat, you can quarrel with the same kind, and you start to bite each other, and the fight is fierce!
These bloodthirsty animals killing each other helped Li Xiao a lot. He only needed to deal with those seriously injured ones to gain full experience points!
Even so, the speed at which he pulled the bow gradually slowed down, and his arm gradually became tired. Li Xiao had to stop and rest from time to time...
Archery is not an easy job, especially such a powerful bow with high lethality. An ordinary person who does not exercise often will lose strength after shooting twenty or thirty bows in a row. Fortunately, Li Xiao has been fully trained in the Ark World recently.
, so that he is not so weak that he cannot even pull the bow.
Li Xiao prepared a hundred arrows. When half of the hundred arrows were consumed, he stopped completely.
Take out some roasted lean meat and eat it to replenish the lost energy.
The bloody scenes in the wetland are still unfolding, with torn and shapeless corpses everywhere, viscera, blood, muscles...
The entire water area was dyed red, and the word "tragic" is just right!
Li Xiao watched these creatures killing each other while eating cooked meat with relish.
In the past, seeing such a bloody scene, Li Xiao would have vomited out his bile and would have been unable to eat, but it was different now.
After all, in the face of a desperate situation like Ark Island, one has to either die or adapt to it, and Li Xiao is a strong person at heart, so he chose the latter.
Everyone will grow up. It has been almost half a month since he came to the Ark World. The confusion, youthfulness and exaggeration in Li Xiao's eyes have faded a little, and have been replaced by a bit of perseverance and a bit of stability.
After resting for a while, the pain in Li Xiao's arm eased, and he picked up the bow and arrow again...
He didn't just shoot randomly. Li Xiao aimed every arrow carefully and drew the bow fully, striving to achieve maximum damage!
The damage of stone arrows is not too high. Li Xiao tried a few arrows just now and found that they could not break through the solid skin of Emperor Crocodile, so he turned his targets to monsters such as giant pythons and Baryonyx with low defenses.
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Li Xiao is not greedy either. He first stares at one to kill, kills it and then looks for the next one...
It is difficult to kill with one hit. With Li Xiao's archery skills, hitting the head or other fatal organs depends entirely on luck. He can only aim at the parts of the body that are easy to hit.
One hundred arrows were used up and the wooden bow was almost scrapped. Li Xiao's arm was swollen and he couldn't lift it at all.
But his face was full of smiles, because he had been prompted to upgrade more than once or twice!
Li Xiao counted in his mind that he had killed nearly twenty-five swamp creatures. On average, four arrows would kill one.
Half of the twenty-five creatures killed were giant pythons, and the rest were Baryonyx, Pig Crocodile and the like. Li Xiao also happened to kill an Emperor Crocodile.
There are not many Emperor Crocodiles. This huge creature with super high defense is the overlord in the swamp. Other creatures dare not compete with it for food. Li Xiao's stone arrows will not harm it. Logically speaking, Li Xiao is
Can't kill it.
But what a coincidence, Li Xiao's arrow was a little crooked and missed the target. Instead, it hit the emperor crocodile feasting next to it. The arrow penetrated directly from its open mouth and hit its head.
On the upper jaw, the pained Emperor Crocodile closed its mouth suddenly, and the arrow pierced directly into the brain from its soft upper jaw...
