Time flies, and a month has passed since the last time Li Xiao was toyed with by a griffon and died.
Over the past month, Xiao Pingyuan's yard has changed a lot, the area has increased, and the facilities inside have also increased a lot...
But the biggest change is Li Xiao himself!
The change in appearance was only secondary, the most drastic change was in his expression——
From a helpless college student, he was completely transformed into a hunter who could survive on this primitive Ark Island with ease!
His eyes were firm and cold, without any of the cowardice and confusion he had when he first came to this world...
His daily life over the past month has been very regular - he practiced bow skills in the courtyard in the morning, renovated the courtyard during his break; went out to collect supplies and hunt dinosaurs in the afternoon...
He didn't go out of his way to gain experience. His level just increased normally. He rose to level 4 in a month and reached the current level 18.
[Remarks: Apply it on your body, and bugs will not dare to come near you! (Actually, they think you are disgusting! "Ugh!" I won't say anymore, I'll vomit for a while!)]
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"As for vomiting?" Li Xiao looked at the note and the corner of his mouth twitched.
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【Stone water pipe】……
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After killing a giant python yesterday, his level reached level 18, which also marked the end of Li Xiao's comfortable days.
With the Velociraptor Saddle, your mobility and safety are greatly improved, and you can go out and explore again.
As for the animal skin cover, the unlocking of anti-infection medicine and insect repellent, it also shows that you can do some big things!
For example, go into a dangerous cave to find an artifact?!
This idea kept wandering in his mind, and Li Xiao thought about its feasibility. After a moment, he decided to go!
First go to the Southern Cave, the least dangerous cave in the Southern Islands, to get the artifact "Hunter"!
Opening the production bar, Li Xiao asked Bai Shou to make all the necessary equipment, and he himself used a grinder to make potions.
In addition to preparing supplies and equipment, there is one more thing Li Xiao needs to do today——
Build water supply facilities!
Li Xiao has always obtained water for drinking and planting from the river on the west side of the small plain.
But the creek was some distance from the yard, and Li Xiao didn't have a good container. The only way to get a lot of fresh water was to run back and forth several times a day.
It takes time and effort.
The unlocking of the reservoir and aqueduct saves him the trouble of running back and forth between the creek and the yard.
Looking for an open space in the yard, Li Xiao built water supply facilities...
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One day flew by, and early the next morning, Li Xiao stood at the entrance of the courtyard wearing an animal skin suit and riding a dinosaur on his crotch.
I saw that the Parasaurolophus that he often rode under his crotch was no longer there, but was replaced by "Xiao Xun", the velociraptor that had been idle in the enclosure, and Parasaurolophus returned to the enclosure.
Xiao Xun stayed in the pen for more than a month. Li Xiao fed him good food and drink every day, and his body became fatter.
If you don't let it come out and run around, it will almost be unable to walk.
Li Xiao checked the items he needed to carry in his inventory again——
Needless to say, weapons, tools, and food such as bows and arrows, spears, stone axes, stone pickaxes, water bottles, and cooked meats are all items that will never leave the inventory.
The other things in the inventory are what Li Xiao needs to pay attention to:
Three flare guns, used to illuminate areas in the cave that are too dark;
Two servings of insect repellent, no need to go into details about its effects;
A few stimulants are used to relieve the narcotic toxins after being bitten by poisonous creatures in the cave;
An antiviral agent is prepared just in case. You must know that once bitten, in addition to the risk of infection, the germs in the mouths of these wild creatures are also quite deadly!
Especially the clawed bats and ancient monitor lizards in the caves carry a potent rabies virus in their mouths!
Once bitten, the virus will flow throughout the body along the blood within a few minutes, and symptoms will appear in your body within half an hour!
Dizziness, weakness, confusion, and being deep in a cave, surrounded by dangers...
When he first played the Ark game, Li Xiao died several times because he went into the cave without any medicine!
When a character dies in the game, the most you can do is regret the lost equipment and items...
But if he died in the cave...Imagine being eaten by a spider the size of a table...
Li Xiao's hair stood on end!
In comparison, death from infection is a luxury...
After double-checking that nothing was missing, Li Xiao patted the raptor's neck.
The Velociraptor screamed with excitement, and took off towards the Southern Islands...
Li Xiao had already experienced the speed of the raptor, but when he actually rode the raptor with a saddle, the feeling was even more shocking.
The wind blowing against him made Li Xiao's face numb. He didn't dare to look ahead, because the scenery that was just a hundred meters away was right in front of him in a few breaths!
It's so fast!
At this speed, if the Velociraptor accidentally slipped, it would definitely hit the tree with both the person and the dragon, causing a tragic "car accident"!
The distance of several kilometers is nothing at all at this speed, and it only takes a cup of tea.
Li Xiao descended from the dragon, took his bearings, and walked toward the islands in front of him.
According to the topography in my mind, the southern cave is in a ravine on the central island of the archipelago.
However, the vegetation here is lush, full of tall broad-leafed plants, which block the sky and the sun, making it difficult to find this gully.
Moreover, it was very difficult to move forward. Li Xiao could only use a stone ax to cut off these branches and leaves before he could move forward.
After pushing aside the messy palm leaves, Li Xiao took a step forward, but missed the step and fell down.
He stood up in disgrace, calming his heart that was beating violently due to the weightlessness.
Fortunately, there was only a drop of about three meters in the place where I fell, so I was not injured.
Looking around, the corners of Li Xiao's mouth couldn't help but twitch.
"What a coincidence!"
What appeared in front of him was a hole as tall as a person, with a dark and numb interior!
It's the entrance to the southern cave!
"Okay." Li Xiao also accepted his fate and asked the raptor to guard the entrance of the cave. He walked in alone...
The road inside the cave winds downwards, leading deep underground.
Walking along the road, Li Xiao discovered a shiny, translucent ore.
quartz!
This mineral is the most important material for making telescopes. Li Xiao wielded a stone pick and collected a lot of it.
Then walked down and soon encountered the first fork in the road.
"You can find the artifact to the left, and you can find the treasure chest to the right." Li Xiao was extremely familiar with the path in this cave.
He decided to get the artifact first and then go to the treasure chest when he came back.
So he chooses the path on the left.
After turning a corner, the view suddenly became wider:
This is a wide underground space, almost as big as half a football field.
The high top is covered with stalactites that point downward, and many pale quartz are distributed on the walls of the space, illuminating the entire space.
Several dung beetle-like creatures were walking slowly on the ground. They were harmless ancient dung beetles.
What caught Li Xiao's attention was that several huge scorpions were hiding in the shadows of the corner!
If you look closely, you will see that those scorpions have two pairs of powerful pincers, several pairs of slender carapace feet, and a scorpion stinger that bends forward and stands high on the back!
It looks like an ordinary scorpion in appearance...
Except - they are as big as a coffee table!
The hairs on Li Xiao's body stood up! This giant scorpion was really creepy.
But when he continued to look inside the cave, his hair stood up!
Hidden in the darkness of the rock wall are a much larger number of creatures - spiders!
They were so densely packed that there were hundreds of them!
Furry belly, slender and sharp joints, large and small, densely packed eyes...
The point is that the size is also huge!
"Oh my god!!" He felt like his goosebumps were falling off!
Seeing that there were also several spiders where he was going, he hesitated whether to continue moving forward.
Without saying anything, Li Xiao took out the sticky insect repellent in a wooden bowl and wiped it on his body desperately...
The smell of the insect repellent is not unpleasant, and it has a light lemon smell.
But when Li Xiao took out the insect repellent, the spiders and scorpions not far from him all stayed away from Li Xiao.
It seems that the insect repellent is quite effective!
Suppressing the discomfort in his heart, Li Xiao carefully moved to the next intersection.
Wherever he passed, spiders and giant scorpions stayed away, causing a dense "rustling" sound.
This made Li Xiao feel even more furious...
He could only try not to look or think about those giant spiders that penetrated people.
Finally, he walked through this wide space and entered the cave road again!
Occasionally, furry spiders can still be seen in the dark, but compared to the dense numbers in that wide space, these are just childish.
As he walked, he stopped.
What interrupted his progress was the presence of several washbasin-sized figures hanging upside down on the top of the road ahead.
The retracted wings, sharp teeth, and blood-red eyes—it’s a clawed bat!
The clawed bat looks very ferocious in appearance, but compared to the giant spider scorpion, it is already very pleasing to Li Xiao's eyes.
Taking out his bow and arrow, Li Xiao shot a few arrows and shot down the clawed bats.
The light in the cave was dim, but Li Xiao still kept his aim, and the arrow hit the clawed bat's head, killing them immediately!
Continuing forward, passing by the clawed bat on the ground, Li Xiao casually took back the arrow...
There are many kinds of creatures in this underground cave. After walking for a while, Li Xiao found several Titan pythons lying on the road.
Seeing these giant pythons, Li Xiao almost shed tears.
In this infiltrative underground cave, except for the clawed bat, no creature has less than six legs!
At this moment, the round, legless giant python looks so cute...
He kept moving his hands, sending these "cute" giant pythons one by one into the arms of death!
Continuing forward, we came to a rather large space.
Different from the one just now, there are many silver-white ores on the ground and rock walls of this space.
This is raw iron ore. If you refine it in a furnace, you will get metallic iron.
And iron will be an important resource for your mid-term and late-term development...
There were a lot of empty cells in Li Xiao's inventory, and he filled most of them with metal ores.
There were still a lot of spiders, giant scorpions and other poisonous things around, but Li Xiao gradually got used to their existence.
Since he was wearing insect repellent anyway, he became bold and collected metal ores as if no one else was watching.
When Li Xiao's inventory was completely full, he stopped.
keep going!
Along with the sound of gurgling water, Li Xiao came to the bank of an underground river.
Looking across the shore, on the other side, a suspended triangle is glowing green...
It's a treasure chest! Li Xiao was so excited that he almost forgot that there was also a treasure chest on the way to get the artifact.
You must know that the treasure chest contains blueprints for advanced equipment!
Without saying a word, Li Xiao jumped down into the water and swam towards the treasure chest...
The flow of water in this underground river was not fast, but the water temperature was relatively low. Li Xiao shivered after jumping in.
"so cold!"
But when he saw the glowing treasure chest on the other side, his coldness disappeared instantly.
His mind was filled with speculation about what would be inside...
Dragging his wet body onto the shore, Li Xiao threw himself in front of the treasure chest.
He looked at the treasure box carefully:
The overall size of the treasure chest is similar to that of a basketball, and its shape is an extremely standard regular triangle. It is covered with precise textures, similar to the textures on the giant obelisk hanging in the sky.
The treasure chest floats half a meter above the ground, rotating slowly, and its texture emits a green light.
This is a green treasure chest, indicating that the blueprints inside are of high quality.
I just don’t know what the equipment is inside?
Is it a bow? An axe? A pickaxe? A spear?
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At this moment, Li Xiao was still immersed in the joy of finding the treasure box, and did not pay any attention to the creatures moving softly above his head...
Li Xiao's hand touched the treasure box excitedly...
And the creature above him quietly aimed its sharp mouthparts at his head...
