Returning to the stone house,
Andrew threw all the high-grade wood into the warehouse.
As the stone house was upgraded, the warehouse also increased significantly in size. The indoor warehouse capacity has now reached 2000, ten times what it was before. Andrew wondered how much it would increase after the next upgrade.
Opening the crafting menu, Andrew found the backpack option.
[Basic Backpack: Capacity 100. Crafting Materials: 7/2 Beast Skin, 9/1 Hemp Thread]
[Intermediate Backpack: Capacity 1000. Crafting Materials: 7/2 Beast Skin, 9/1 Hemp Thread, 3/1 Wind-type Beast Core]
There was no difference in basic materials compared to the basic backpack, except for the addition of a wind-type beast core for the intermediate backpack.
Since he had all the materials, Andrew naturally didn't consider the basic backpack!
Without hesitation, Andrew chose to craft the intermediate backpack.
There was a flash of gold.
In front of Andrew appeared a white backpack with fur made from the skin of a lightning leopard.
And on the lid of the backpack, there was a lightning symbol.
It was very beautiful.
Although the backpack looked big, it was very light when carried.
This was probably the effect of the wind-type beast core.
Putting on the backpack, Andrew left.
He returned to the forest and saw a woman collecting the vines and resin he had left behind.
"What are you doing?" Andrew shouted.
The woman heard the commotion and immediately turned her head to look at Andrew.
It was then that he saw the woman's appearance. She had wine-red curly hair and was dressed slightly provocatively. She was wearing a black dress and holding a stone axe. As she turned her head, she continued to steal Andrew's vines.
"Those vines belong to me. If you mess with them again, I'll chop off your hand!"
Andrew was furious.
However, the woman didn't say a word in defense and ran straight into the mist without hesitation.
Andrew was so angry that he took out his bow and arrow, planning to shoot the thief dead with one shot.
But surprisingly, Andrew found that the woman's running speed was incredibly fast.
Moreover, she was wearing a pair of strange pointed shoes that even emitted a little golden light as she ran.
Before Andrew could aim his arrow, the woman had already run into the mist and disappeared completely.
It seemed that the woman's shoes were quite interesting. Maybe they were obtained from a treasure box?
Since the thief had vanished, Andrew gave up and checked the loss. He was short 20 vines and 15 resins at least.
Fortunately, the woman's backpack was only a basic one, so she couldn't steal too much.
But even so, Andrew was still unhappy about it.
If he ever saw that woman again, he would kill her on the spot!
Andrew collected the remaining vines and resins into his backpack as he walked.
After he finished, the poison thorns of the beehive were also burnt out, and only the smoke was gradually dissipating.
Andrew took off his clothes and covered his mouth and nose, using them as an improvised gas mask before walking towards the beehive.
[Found charcoal. Do you want to collect it?]
Andrew walked through the bushes and noticed that many of them had been burned down, turning into charcoal.
Since he needed a lot of charcoal, Andrew didn't hesitate to collect them as he walked. He collected 121 pieces of charcoal from under the beehive, which was equivalent to collecting 121 dry branches, a great gain!
[Found fire-type beast core. Do you want to collect it?]
[Found 1L of honey. Do you want to collect it?]
[Found 5 pieces of propolis. Do you want to collect it?]
[Found a queen bee. Do you want to tame it?]
[Found 75 bee larvae. Do you want to collect them?]
[Found Flame Flower Honey 100ml. Do you want to collect it?]
[...]
Andrew had just approached the hive and a series of collection messages popped up.
It seemed like he hit the jackpot with this hive!
There were quite a few things in it.
Andrew waved his hand and collected everything.
In the blink of an eye, he had obtained 20 fire-type beast cores, 1 liter of honey, 5 pieces of propolis, 75 bee larvae, and 100ml of Flame Flower Honey!
[Found Queen Bee, tame?]
[Tame!]
Andrew attempted to tame the queen bee, although he didn't know what use taming a bee would have.
However, based on the logic of taming a white eagle, it seemed like taming a pet would allow him to gain some of its skills.
The white eagle had eagle eyes. He wondered what the queen bee could offer him.
[Ding! Taming success, obtained an adult Queen Bee with a lifespan of three years.]
[Master obtained Queen Bee pheromone ability!]
Pheromone ability? What's that?
[Queen Bee pheromone: an important skill to control the bee colony. Once the bee colony loses the queen bee's pheromone, it will become confused and directionless.]
Ah, he understood now.
Controlling the pheromones was equivalent to control the bees.
Andrew quickly released the bee colony's pheromone ability, but then he was dumbfounded.
He realized that he could only control the 75 larvae, and all the other bees that could come out of the hive were already smoked to death by him.
Only the larvae and the queen bee, which were hiding in the hive, managed to survive.
He decided to take the hive back and study it slowly later.
After collecting the hive, the sky started to darken, and Andrew checked the time. There were only fifteen minutes left before the sunset.
He decided not to take any risks and headed back first.
Anyway, he had already gained a lot today.
Back in the stone house, Andrew carried the hive and scanned the surroundings. There was a spot to the east where he could set up a pet cage.
He looked at the hive in his hand and wondered,
Could this be considered a pet?
It didn't matter.
He would build the cage first and think about it later!
Pet Cage: Allows your beloved pets to have their own private space, which is beneficial for their physical and mental health and can also accelerate their growth rate! Building requirements: Stone 186/20, Mud 279/20, Wood 204/10, Dry Grass 5/5, Fire-type beast core 21/1.
Build!
Since he had enough materials, built it right away. Anyway, this thing would have to be built sooner or later, and since the materials cannot be bargained for, there was no point in delaying the construction.
However, Andrew was surprised to find that this pet cage requires a fire-type beast core. Aren't buildings usually made with earth-type beast cores?
Then, a flash of gold.
In front of Andrew appeared a ten-meter-sized pet cage, or rather, a pet paradise.
Below was a small area surrounded by a circle of stone walls, and in the middle was a uniquely-shaped dead tree with a hook hanging from it, which was obviously used to hang a beehive.
Underneath the dead tree was a huge bird's nest made of dry grass and mud and a smaller chicken coop.
The chicken coop was undoubtedly meant for the wild chicken that Andrew didn't kill.
The large bird's nest was probably meant for the white eagle.
The design was really thoughtful.
Andrew hung the beehive he had in his hand on the dead tree, and when he touched the tree, he finally understood why a fire-type beast core was needed to build the pet cage.
Because the whole pet cage had a warm feeling to it.
It seemed that this pet cage was designed to prevent pets from freezing to death at night, so fire elements were added to allow the pets to grow worry-free!
Andrew took a look around the pet cage and found some small red exclamation marks.