He closed the chat box.
Wang Yu took out three animal traps from his backpack; of course, he wouldn't directly trade them to Zhang Dahai.
He went to Little Creek, found a tree vine, and used it to string the three animal traps together before tying them securely.
It was past 3 PM, and six hours had passed since he last used the dice in his right hand, so he could now use the dice to increase the quantity of items again.
Wang Yu spread out his right hand, and an egg-sized dice appeared in his palm, with all the pips on each face having returned to gold.
At the same time, Wang Yu picked up the three animal traps strung together with the tree vine in his left hand, and he thought to himself, “Increase the quantity of this string of animal traps.”
Then, Wang Yu felt the string of animal traps in his hand being locked, and he immediately threw the dice in his right hand.
The dice instantly spun in mid-air.
A moment later, the dice stopped.
Four pips.
Wang Yu rolled a four.
At this moment, four light clusters appeared on the dice, which were the illusory images of four strings of animal traps.
As Wang Yu willed it, four strings of animal traps appeared on the ground.
Good luck, he actually rolled a four.
His animal traps increased by four strings, which meant an increase of 12 animal traps.
He now had a total of 15 animal traps.
Stringing the animal traps together and then using the dice to increase their quantity was a method Wang Yu had researched for using the dice.
If the animal traps were not strung together, the dice could only lock onto one animal trap and increase its quantity by one.
However, if the animal traps were tied together, the dice could increase the quantity of an entire string of animal traps.
If animal traps were tied together with other items, the dice could not lock onto them to increase their quantity.
Only items of the same kind placed together could have their quantity increased by the dice.
Wang Yu now had 15 animal traps, and he initiated a trade request with Zhang Dahai.
Zhang Dahai sent a message after receiving the trade request.
【Zhang Dahai: Are you sure you want to trade?】
【Wang Yu: Yes.】
【Zhang Dahai: Okay, if I catch fish in the future, I will repay you.】
【Wang Yu: Let's start the trade.】
A moment later, Wang Yu saw what Zhang Dahai had put up for trade: a Crossbow and three arrows.
Wang Yu carefully examined the items the other party had put up, then clicked confirm.
Instantly, Wang Yu had a 40-centimeter Crossbow and three 20-centimeter arrows in his hand.
“Hahaha~”
Wang Yu felt he was incredibly lucky to have obtained a Crossbow.
Looking at a small tree seven or eight meters away by the river, Wang Yu stood up, drew the bowstring, loaded an arrow, aimed at the small tree, and then pulled the trigger.
“Whoosh~”
“Thud~”
The 20-centimeter arrow shot out with a whoosh and then thudded firmly into the trunk of the small tree.
“That’s amazing.”
This was his first time using a bow or Crossbow in his life; this was the real deal.
This Crossbow was the most primitive wooden-framed Crossbow, but it still had an effective killing range of over ten meters.
Having obtained such a powerful weapon, Wang Yu was in a great mood; his safety in the wilderness had increased significantly.
However, Wang Yu still regretted not being able to trade for Zhang Dahai's fishing net; otherwise, he could have fished in the stream.
【Wang Yu: If you can't find a fishing spot, contact me anytime; I'll trade you something for your fishing net.】
【Zhang Dahai: If I can't find a fishing spot, I'll give you the fishing net before I die.】
【Wang Yu: ...】
He closed the chat box.
Besides Zhang Dahai, it seemed he could also trade tools with other players.
So, Wang Yu checked the information in the chat channel.
He searched around but couldn't find anyone willing to trade a fishing net.
However, one player chose a 【Camping Pot】 at the start, and Wang Yu added them as a friend, but the other party had not yet accepted the friend request.
After putting the Crossbow into his backpack, Wang Yu drank several cups of boiled water and felt sufficiently rested.
Wang Yu continued searching for a suitable place to build a Shelter near the stream.
After searching for more than half an hour, Wang Yu found a few decent spots, but he always felt they weren't perfect enough; building a Shelter was crucial and couldn't be done haphazardly, so Wang Yu wanted to keep looking.
Suddenly, Wang Yu saw green leaves ahead, strange leaves growing on the ground.
Wang Yu walked over and saw, was this a succulent?
It looked too similar to the succulents on Blue Star.
Wang Yu touched the succulent with his hand, and at that moment, a message popped up.
【Green Mushroom】
【Contains paralyzing toxins, not edible.】
Wang Yu immediately pulled his hand back after seeing the message.
“How unlucky.”
This should be a type of mushroom fungus.
Since it couldn't be eaten, Wang Yu lost interest, and just then, he saw a hillside ahead.
If it was an uphill, Wang Yu had to go up and see.
The slope wasn't steep, with scattered trees, and Wang Yu walked upwards; after two minutes, he saw a forest further up ahead.
Never enter a forest; this was a rule of the wilderness.
Wang Yu urgently needed to find a high-ground location to build a Shelter, so he could only cautiously walk up to investigate.
As he reached the forest, the terrain became much flatter.
In this forest, there were many Big Trees, and the ground between them was covered in fallen leaves, with no dense weeds, so Wang Yu decided to continue forward.
After walking for a few minutes, there were scattered rocks blocking the path ahead; upon inspection, Wang Yu saw that this whole area was a jumble of rocks, varying in size, covered in moss, with weeds growing between them.
It seemed there was no way to continue forward, so he could only walk along the outer edge of the rocky area; after walking for a short while, suddenly, Wang Yu's eyes lit up—he saw a Great Stones ahead.
Wang Yu quickly walked over.
Illuminated by the torch, Wang Yu began to examine the Great Stones.
This Great Stones was very tall, standing out like a crane among chickens here; Wang Yu walked around the Great Stones once, and the more he looked, the more satisfied he became.
Wang Yu stopped; he decided to build his Shelter here.
So, Wang Yu moved some stones nearby to form a 'fire pit,' then took out firewood from his backpack and started a bonfire.
With the bonfire, Wang Yu raised his torch and once again observed the Great Stones.
This Great Stones was very tall; Wang Yu opened the bracelet on his hand and found 'Measuring Tool' in the private channel; 'Measuring Tool' could weigh objects and also measure their length.
Wang Yu wanted to use the 'Measuring Tool' to measure the height of this Great Stones.
By aiming the bracelet at the Great Stones and scanning it, the height data of the Great Stones appeared.
The highest point of the Great Stones was 5.4 meters.
This Great Stones had a square shape with four stone walls; Wang Yu measured the width of the four stone walls, and the longest widths were 5.3 meters, 5.9 meters, 6.5 meters, and 7.1 meters respectively.
“Good, good.”
Wang Yu was very satisfied with this Great Stones; with it, building his Shelter would be much simpler.
How to use this Great Stones to build a Shelter, he still needed to think carefully; the design concept for building a Shelter was very important, as a good concept could lead to a good Shelter.
Wang Yu came to the 5.3-meter wide stone wall; this side of the stone wall had a relatively flat surface, with very small concave and convex parts, and Wang Yu wanted to use this side of the stone wall to build his Shelter.
However, this side of the stone wall had two minor drawbacks: one was that the stone wall was only 5.3 meters wide, making it the narrowest among the four stone walls of the Great Stones.
The other minor drawback was a large gap in the upper left corner of the stone wall, caused by the 7.1-meter wide stone wall on its left side being significantly shorter than the other stone walls.
While the other stone walls were 5.4 meters high, this side of the stone wall was only 4.1 meters high, a full 1.3 meters shorter.
This shorter section of the stone wall extended to the upper left corner of the 5.3-meter wide stone wall, about 0.7 meters wide, creating a gap 1.3 meters high and 0.7 meters wide that destroyed the integrity of the 5.3-meter wide stone wall.