After checking the public channel and the private channel, Wang Yu picked up a burning piece of wood, wanting to see if it could provide light.
He tried it, but the wood extinguished within a few minutes, indicating that relying on burning wood for continuous illumination would be difficult.
Wang Yu dismissed the idea of traveling with a burning piece of wood.
He had four lanterns, providing twelve hours of illumination, so he should quickly find a place with a water source.
He couldn't waste time trying to save kerosene by relying on wood that would extinguish in a few minutes; that would be too time-consuming.
He needed to quickly find a suitable location to build a Shelter.
Wang Yu put all the collected firewood into his backpack; the one-cubic-meter backpack wasn't huge, but at a meter in length, width, and height, it could hold a lot of things.
Dry firewood was a very precious resource to him now, a matter of survival, so he had to put it in his backpack and take it with him.
Then, Wang Yu took out a lantern, lit it, and continued on his way.
Wang Yu walked for about half an hour.
The good news was that he encountered a forest and picked up some dry firewood.
The bad news was that he hadn't found a satisfactory water source.
He had encountered some small ditches and puddles, but these places obviously couldn't provide him with a stable water supply, so he had to consume more illumination time to continue searching for a quality water source.
Just then, Wang Yu suddenly saw many small berries on a tree ahead.
Wang Yu walked over and picked a berry with his hand.
A prompt appeared:
berry
Edible
Edible! Wang Yu's heart swelled with joy; he had found something to eat in the Wilderness World.
The berries were small, but eating enough of them could fill his stomach.
It was a good thing there were game prompts; otherwise, he wouldn't dare eat this small berry randomly.
The game prompt stated that it would provide important information throughout the game, which indeed reduced a lot of trouble.
Wang Yu immediately lit a fire next to the berry tree; picking these small berries would take a lot of time, and he couldn't waste the lantern's kerosene.
With the bonfire lit and the lantern turned off, Wang Yu began picking berries.
Having nothing to store the berries, Wang Yu took out his tin bucket and placed the picked berries inside.
There were indeed many berries on the tree; Wang Yu picked a lot.
He also tasted them, and the berries tasted good.
After picking all the berries from the tree, Wang Yu picked up a burning Tree Branch and looked around the berry tree, and sure enough, he found another berry tree nearby.
Wang Yu relit the bonfire and started picking again.
After picking from another berry tree, Wang Yu continued searching for berry trees nearby, but he didn't find any.
Instead, he saw some wild animal droppings.
This indicated that wild beasts were active nearby.
It would be suitable to place animal traps in this vicinity, but since no water source was found nearby, Wang Yu dared not place animal traps haphazardly.
If he placed animal traps, he wouldn't be able to find them later; it was so dark that if he left, he wouldn't know how to get back.
It would be safer to find a place to build a Shelter first, and then place animal traps nearby.
After searching the vicinity, Wang Yu didn't find any more berry trees, so he continued on his way.
Along the way, Wang Yu encountered several more berry trees; he would first light a bonfire, then pick the berries.
When he encountered dry firewood, Wang Yu would also conveniently put it into his backpack.
He had walked for almost three hours in total, filling his tin bucket with half a bucket of berries, but he still hadn't found a water source.
The fact that he could pick so many berries indicated that there were many berry trees in the wilderness.
Thanks to nature's bounty, and the game prompt said that there was a newbie protection mechanism for the first 7 days of the game, so this could also be considered a newbie gift.
With food to eat, Wang Yu was no longer flustered, but if he still couldn't find a water source, the kerosene in his lantern couldn't afford to be consumed any further.
At noon, Wang Yu was about to find a place to rest and eat some berries, then figure out what to do next; continuing to consume resources like this was not a solution.
Just then, Wang Yu noticed that the terrain ahead was different; it suddenly dropped significantly.
He carefully walked over and saw that there was a downhill slope ahead.
Wang Yu walked down the slope, growing more excited with each step.
He roughly guessed the terrain and environment.
When he reached a large rock, he saw water ahead; it was a stream.
“Hahaha~”
Wang Yu felt incredibly lucky to have found a stream.
The stream had a large flow, so there was no issue of water scarcity; it could completely meet his daily water needs.
It had taken him almost two hours to walk here, indicating that his starting location in this Wilderness World was quite good, as he had found a stream by walking randomly in the dark.
Of course, this was also because he had four lanterns and twelve hours of illumination time, which allowed him to walk like this.
Other players probably wouldn't dare to search for a water source with a lantern like this; once their three hours of illumination time were used up, they would truly be finished.
Having found a stream, the biggest water source problem was solved, and he could now safely look for a suitable place nearby to build a Shelter.
Wang Yu cautiously walked towards the stream.
It was important to remember that in the wilderness, a water source meant danger.
This was where wild beasts were most active, and the stream was full of rocks, so he didn't know what might be hiding in the crevices.
If he were bitten by something in this place without medicine, he would just have to wait for a game over.
Wang Yu held a lantern in one hand and gripped his military shovel tightly in the other, making sure to clearly see the situation with each step before moving forward.
There were fish.
Wang Yu saw small fish in the stream water; they were very small, probably only a few centimeters long.
When Wang Yu's light shone on them, the small fish instantly hid in the rock crevices.
Small fish also meant big fish.
If he could catch fish, he would have a stable food source in the future.
Wang Yu regretted not choosing a fishing net and fishing rod.
However, regret was useless now.
Wang Yu walked downstream along the Little Creek for a while, then he saw many broken Tree Branches by the river.
So, Wang Yu collected these Tree Branches, then found a clean spot, used a few stones to form a circle, broke a few dry pieces of firewood and piled them in the circle, and lit a bonfire inside the circle.
After adding some firewood to the bonfire, Wang Yu picked up a burning piece of wood and went to the Little Creek, wanting to see if he could catch some fish.
When Wang Yu arrived at the Little Creek, he saw fish quickly hiding under the rocks.
Wang Yu moved the rocks, but the small fish quickly disappeared again.
After struggling in the water for a while, he didn't touch a single fish.
It seemed that catching fish in the stream was not that easy; he had no fishing tools and it was impossible to catch fish by hand in such deep water.
Just then, Wang Yu suddenly saw a snail in the stream.
A snail?
He quickly picked up the snail.
water snails
Edible
Edible! Wang Yu became excited.
This meant he had found another type of edible food, and it was meat.
Where there's one, there are two.
So, he started searching nearby.