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Chapter 8 - Sometimes What You Are Looking for Is Next to You

"What? I don't really trust you." Adam gave an incredulous response when he saw Lincoln's chat text.

"Black soil."

"What's so good about black soil?" Adam asked curiously when he saw the sentence, but he suddenly remembered a hidden clue that appeared before. 'The ginseng plant is under the ground of the player's feet, it can only be found in a piece of black soil to absorb nutrients.'

"This black soil has extraordinary uses! When I found it, a grass seed flew through the air and landed on the black soil, and I watched the grass grow, and the growth rate was too fast."

"Such an extraordinary item, why are you trading it?" Adam said skeptically when he learned about the use of black soil for plant fertility.

Lincoln thought for a moment, and finally said, "Because if I have Ashwagandha tree trunks, I can get more black earth!"

Lincoln started to speak, "There is a cliff where my dog's kennel is, I fell as soon as I stepped on the fragile rocks. Luckily I grabbed the rock wall, there was a burning red fruit on the rock wall, and I exchanged the burning red fruit with your Ashwagandha tree trunk. Then took the bark and rubbed it against the rope, and threw it to hook the big tree, then walked up the cliff."

"Under the cliff, the endless area is full of black soil, if I can go down, I can collect more black soil."

"And underneath, there are many precious tree species!"

"There are also things that grow on trees that look precious."

"However, I need Ashwagandha stems and juicy bark to combine into longer strings!"

Adam pondered for a moment and chose to trust Lincoln for now.

"How many Ashwagandha tree trunks do you want?"

"I have a total of 50 black soil, in exchange for 20 Ashwagandha tree trunks, how about that?"

"10." Adam thought to himself that the storage room only had 52 Ashwagandha trees, moreover, he had to store them for drinking water and firewood, so Adam had to save a few Ashwagandha trees from trading.

"15."

"10 Ashwagandha tree trunks, that's all I can offer you!"

"I'm afraid 10 won't be enough for me to get to the bottom." Lincoln was a little worried.

Adam thought about it for a while and found it reasonable, then he made a request. "15 is fine, but you have to promise me one condition."

"What are your terms?" Lincoln was overjoyed.

"After you get off the cliff, I will have to share half of the resources you have collected."

Lincoln's conversation froze for a moment, never expecting that Adam would open his mouth so greedily.

"If you don't agree, forget it, I will sell the Ashwagandha tree trunk to others, there are so many players, you are not the only one who can find the location of the cliff over there."

"Agreed!" As soon as Lincoln heard this, he immediately agreed. Instead of sharing profits with many people who will visit the cliff location, it is better to share the results with Adam. Even though the split ratio is very high, namely 50:50, at least the resources found on the cliff can be selected first before sending them to Adam.

*Hall of Hunger: 15 ashwagandha trees for 50 black soil (half of the resource extracted at the agreed location), promised parties must not default, transactions are protected by a world of hunger, and those who break the agreement will starve to death instantly.*

A prompt appeared at the top of the two's private chat page.

With the appearance of the prompt, Adam and Lincoln were suddenly dumbfounded.

"Damn it, there's no loophole to exploit!" Lincoln silently cursed inside. Originally he thought that the verbal promise would not be billed by the other party, but he never expected that it would be so clearly arranged by the hungry world.

But after thinking about it, Lincoln could also accept that if there was nothing under the cliff, then he didn't need to share it with Adam.

Since it is already a protected transaction, it can only be executed fairly.

Lincoln notices an additional Ashwagandha tree trunk in front of him, withdraws from the private chat and begins picking up bark and rubbing rope.

The storage space in Adam's kitchen knife has an additional 50 black earth.

[Black soil, the nutrient soil of a hungry world, can catalyze the growth of all kinds of plants, and if you plant tamarind leaves on it, you will reap more tamarind leaves.]

"That's good."

But Adam looked at the dog cage or temporarily gave up this idea. Everyone has to wait until it is upgraded to the clay room. The black soil field creation plan is inoperable. With this small dog cage in front of him, a strong growth of tamarind leaves will drill out of the cage, causing unnecessary trouble!

"But how do I get Ulla grass?" Adam looked at Hungry Hall one more time. But there is no single agreement about Ulla grass. And the transaction of exchanging its dead branches for Chilop Worms is actually a very popular transaction.

[Dead branch -1]

[Chilop worm +1.]

[Dead branch -1]

[Chilop worm +1.]

...

"Looks like I have enough food reserves to survive!" Adam saw that the number of Chilop worm transactions had exceeded his expectations. He didn't expect it to be this popular just exchanging it for a dead tree branch.

Then another look at the elm tree branch. Adam received three major deals.

[Pure water with clay pot 10 parts -1]

[Elms +25.]

[Pure water with clay pot 10 parts -1]

[Elms +25.]

...

Plus other offers.

A total of 83 elm tree branches were harvested. Moreover, the trade in Chilop worms and elm tree branches is still thriving, showing no signs of slowing down.

Adam immediately modified the purified water trade for the elm trade.

[1 Pure water for any item, need confirmation.]

Today, there is only ulla grass left from the clay house improvement.

"I only need one more ingredient which is Ulla grass before I can upgrade this dog kennel into a clay house!" Adam sighed.

[Try to look at the grass around you, sometimes what you are looking for is right next to you.]

"Nearest place?" Adam stared intently at the environment around the cage, especially some of the grass that had fallen from the top of the cage.

"Is this what the hidden clues mean?" Adam saw the grass that had just fallen from the stable.

[Ulla Grass is a great material for upgrading clay houses.]

"Huh?! Turns out these kennels are made of Ulla grass?! The hungry world played us a big joke!" Adam was stunned to learn of the information provided by the hidden clues, then raised a kitchen knife and cut it into the cage.

Slash!

At this time, the cage disappeared, and a pile of grass appeared before his eyes.

*Hungry World: Found Ulla grass. You are so brave that you stumbled upon the secret of the kennel in despair, and you are a tough man for daring to destroy the only novice shelter!*

[Ulla Grass +3000.]

Adam couldn't help but secretly cursed the hungry world, how much courage did it take to cut down the cage with a kitchen knife to bet that the cage was Ulla grass?

roar!

Thum! Thum! Thum!

At this time, terrifying phenomena from the outside world also appeared before Adam's eyes.

The sight of devouring in the dim light was truly indescribable.

Even though there was no human scent, Adam still didn't dare to take a breath.

*Hungry World: The conditions for upgrading a clay house are met, do you want to upgrade a clay house?*

"Upgrades!"

Adam's eyes flashed slightly, and a clay room appeared, standing in the middle of the room.

The terrifying outside world was finally cut off.

[Elm tree branch -50]

[Clay -500]

[Ulla Grass -1000]

[Clay House +1.]

This clay house was quite spacious, about forty meters squared, and more than two meters high.

Elm tree branches build the basic structure of the house: beams, roof, and doors.

A mixture of Ulla clay and grass builds the walls and then reaches out to touch the texture, and the structure formed by Ulla clay and grass is much stronger than the previous dog kennel.

"The feeling of having a comfortable home and being free to move around in a hungry world is really cool." Adam straightened up and jumped again, he still couldn't touch the roof of the clay house.

Then Adam ran back and forth vigorously for a few steps, and there was enough space for simple movements.

"The only thing missing is just myself in the clay house, and not a single bit of property."

As soon as Adam's mind moved, all the materials flew out of the storage room and came to the center of the clay house.

It suddenly filled the house.

"Make clay pots!" Adam made 20 clay pots at a time and recycled the Ashwagandha tree trunks into pure water.

"Fill 20 purified water into the clay pot."

With enough water to drink and dead branches, there are still 7 Ashwagandha tree trunks that are not decomposed left in reserve.

At this time, Adam finally saw the black soil from the transaction from Lincoln just now.

[Black soil can be planted with tamarind leaves, black soil has abundant nutrients and is very suitable for planting tamarind leaves. If watered with pure water, tamarind leaves can grow quickly in the black soil, and thrive.]

Adam took out half of the black soil. Then took out the tamarind leaves and stuck them in the black soil.

Hold a piece of pottery water and pour it over it.

[Black soil -25]

[Pure water -10]

Then Adam saw that the tamarind leaves were quickly taking root and fell to the black soil.

Once the roots were firmly established, the tamarind leaves grew at a rate visible to the human eye.

The roots spread along the black earth to the sides, and new branches and leaves grew.