Seeing that she was quite pleasing to the eye, Xu Xin felt that he could reveal some information to her, "Go and dig up the soil around your treehouse and put it on the appraisal desk to check the grade of the soil. The soil here also has grades, it's just that we can't see their names and grades."
"The soil is also a type of resource?" Li Wenxi jumped up from the bed, her chest facing the screen. Then she sat down again and asked eagerly, "What did you find?"
Xu Xin told Li Wenxi about the patterns with the plants and the soil. The more Li Wenxi listened, the more shocked her expression became. She even looked at him with eyes full of worship for an expert.
"Xu Xin, no, boss, you're so strong. Please bring me along when you soar!" Li Wenxi bowed to him.
Xu Xin didn't know whether to laugh or cry as he looked at the pretty girl who was pretending to bow to him, "Are you just going to believe everything I say? You're not going to verify it?"
"What's the need for that?" Li Wenxi sat back on the edge of the bed, not thinking much of it at all, "There don't seem to be any blue-grade plants around me, and there's nothing in it for you to lie to me, is there?"
"I have the feeling you'd even be counting money for someone who sold you," Xu Xin couldn't help but mock.
"How could you say that!" She had been calling him "boss" just a minute ago, but he was just "you".
Li Wenxi stared at him with her large, almond-shaped eyes, "Are you really lying to me?!"
"What good would I get by lying to you?" Xu Xin rolled his eyes at her. He finally understood that this girl was just a hotheaded brat. She was probably from a rich family and was overprotected, thinking that everyone around her was a good person. Fortunately, she was dealing with him, who had a lot of resources and a special ability, so he wouldn't go to the extent of scamming others to survive. Otherwise, she might have really been scammed.
"Oh ..."
"Alright, let's stop chatting. It's time to work," Xu Xin stood up and put the stone pick aside. He wanted to make an upgraded version of the stone shovel. After all, the trees had been cut down, but the stumps were still there, so he had to clean them up first.
He also remembered that there was a certain chance of getting seeds with a shovel.
"I don't want to work. I moved stones the whole day yesterday. My whole body is sore," Li Wenxi pursed her lips. She was a little addicted to chatting.
To her, she had been in a lonely situation these two days where her future was uncertain and her life was not in her hands. She didn't know what to do other than mining. Now that she had found someone to chat with, and most importantly, it was a handsome man, she was reluctant to turn off the video.
"Today is the last day of the novice protection period. Who knows what the hell will appear tomorrow? You'd better take advantage of today to bring back as many stones as you can," Xu Xin immediately tried to persuade her not to waste the last day.
"Oh... Alright!" Even though her limbs were sore, Xu Xin's words made sense. The two of them had been chatting for a long time, and the stress that had accumulated over the past two days had been released anyway. Since there were things to do, she couldn't stop. As a young girl who had maintained a workout regime, her self-control was stronger than most people.
"Then... Then let's exchange information again tonight," Li Wenxi said with a little reluctance.
"Alright, let's talk again tonight," With that, Xu Xin ended the video call.
He picked up a stone (blue) and made a stone shovel.
[Improved Stone Shovel (green): Able to excavate soil-type materials of the blue grade and below. 50% chance of obtaining seeds from the soil. Durability 200]
The probability of obtaining seeds had increased from extremely small to 50%, wow!
Xu Xin picked up his stone ax and shovel and came down from the treehouse to continue his work.
With the improved stone shovel, he only needed one hit to dig the tree stump out of the soil.
[Obtained ordinary soil (green)*1, wood (green)*1, poplar seed *1]
The tree stump had turned into a piece of wood, and he had even obtained a seed!
Xu Xin dug out the seed from the soil.
[Poplar Seed: Can be planted in soil. It only takes ten days to grow into a poplar tree that can be cut down.]
Speaking of which, wasn't the poplar seed something like dandelions? Forget it, let's not care about this.
Xu Xin looked at the seed in his hand. It was the same as the treehouse seed. It didn't have a grade, and his Item Identification ability didn't show him the grade color of the seed either. Xu Xin was deep in thought. The grade of the poplar tree was probably related to the fertility of the soil as well.
The dug up soil immediately turned into a pit, and Xu Xin filled it back up and continued digging.
It didn't take long for him to harvest more than 20 poplar seeds and more than 40 pieces of wood. However, he didn't plant the seeds back to where they came from. Instead, he turned the area under his treehouse into a flat open space. After all, it was too troublesome for him to choose a spot without trees every time he went up. Besides, he could put some facilities in this open space in the future, or plant some short crops or something.
Xu Xin first moved the wood back to the treehouse, then spent half a day cutting down the trees in other places. After that, he planted the seeds in the empty spots where the trees had been cut down. It was a sustainable development!
Soon, the sun was right above his head. It was already noon on the third day. Xu Xin looked at the wood that had filled the first floor and nodded.
After wiping his sweat, he decided to have lunch first and explore the places he had not been to in the afternoon. He had to make good use of the last half of the protection period.
Before that, he wanted to take a bath in the lake. His body was sticky and it was really uncomfortable.
After taking a bath, he also washed his clothes. It was noon in the summer, the time when the sun was at its strongest, so he hung his clothes by the window, and they would dry in less than twenty minutes.
Even though the window was covered with dense banyan leaves, the sunlight could still easily pass through the leaves and shine into the room, as if the leaves were transparent.
While eating fruits, Xu Xin opened a bag of bread. He had to explore in the afternoon, so he needed to replenish his energy. As he ate, he looked in the Chat Room.
"Who has water? I'm dying of thirst ..."
"Why is there nothing but trees in this damn place?"
"Aren't there streams all around? Don't you guys know how to take a walk?"
"God knows where the stream is. If I go any further, I won't even know where my treehouse is. I can't even go home!"
"Why did I choose to plant a treehouse here?"
"Is there anyone by the stream who can give us some water? Your water isn't worth much anyway!"
While Xu Xin and Li Wenxi were discussing blue-grade resources, many could not even guarantee the most basic water resources.
Xu Xin didn't intend to help them, though. After all, if he wanted to give them water, he would have to move the water up and fill them in containers to give to them. He didn't even want to do the first step since it would waste a lot of time. He couldn't waste the last half a day of the novice protection period on such things.
It wasn't like he couldn't make containers, though. There were some containers such as wooden buckets, basins, and bowls on the production list. The Synthetic Station wasn't needed and they could be made with just wood (white). After the novice protection period was over and he could make a backpack that could carry water resources at will, then maybe he could give them some. He couldn't possibly be a porter now. Only Saints would do something like this. If he did it, wouldn't he be stealing the limelight from those Saints?
Water seemed to be scarce, but in fact, as long as one could find water, one would have an endless supply of water. Therefore, water could not be exchanged for anything good. At most, white-grade goods. Those who could not find water would probably only have white-grade goods anyway. Only fools would spend half a day transporting water for white-grade goods.