"Are these stone blocks for sale? I want three of them," Xu Xin got straight to the point.
"It depends on what you're offering," the other side replied cleverly.
Xu Xin thought for a moment, then said, "You must have a lot of green stone blocks, right? I have a lot of green wood on my end. I'll provide you with 50 green wood pieces and help you build a crafting table. In exchange, you give me 3 blue stone blocks." Xu Xin directly took control of the situation.
The other side didn't respond for a long time, probably considering the offer.
"60 green wood pieces, and I want your red berries too."
"That works, but the red berries will be exchanged for iron ore, 20 iron ores for one berry."
"Deal."
[The other party initiated a trade: Stone Block (Blue) *3 for Wood (Green) *60]
So decisive? Xu Xin helplessly cancelled the trade and said, "I don't have that much green wood right now. I need to go chop some more. Let's trade the berries first. How many do you want?"
"…Let's start with three."
Xu Xin initiated the trade.
[You initiated a trade: Red Berry · Large (Blue) *3 for Iron Ore (Green) *60]
[The other party accepted the trade. You received Iron Ore (Green) *60]
[The other party initiated a trade: Stone Block (Blue) *1 for Nothing]
"Huh?" Xu Xin was a bit confused. What did this mean? Were they giving him one for free?
"I'll give you one first. Quickly make a new axe to chop trees, and I'll give you the remaining two after you finish chopping," the other side explained.
That's quite cute. Xu Xin couldn't help but smile. It seemed that the blue stone blocks on their side might not be scarce, perhaps comparable to the number of Red Berry · Large he had.
Xu Xin accepted the trade, sent a "good" message, and immediately crafted a new axe.
[Improved Stone Axe (Green): Can chop trees of blue level and below. It has become more durable and sharper due to the addition of higher-grade stone materials. Durability: 200.]
Nice, it can even chop blue-level trees! It seems he must maintain a good relationship with this Li Wenxi.
He suddenly remembered that he had found a blue-grade poplar tree. The function of blue-grade wood might be similar to blue-grade stone blocks. Now that he had this axe, it seemed it was time to chop down that blue tree.
…
On the other side, in a tree house slightly smaller than Xu Xin's, a short-haired girl was carefully examining the red berry in her hand, dressed in simple beginner's short-sleeved shirt and shorts, her tall figure and the exposed fair yet toned arms and legs showed that she frequently exercised to maintain her physique.
"It has an eye-brightening effect, providing 2 hours of night vision ability… Indeed, blue-quality items all have additional abilities," the girl murmured to herself.
This was a two-story tree house, with each floor about fifty square meters in area. Li Wenxi was currently on the second floor, sitting in front of the screen.
Li Wenxi went down to the first floor of the tree house, looking at the various stone blocks and iron ores piled up there. Yesterday, when she saw that the trading platform would open today, she knew that these stone materials and ores could be traded for good items, so she spent the entire day mining, which truly exhausted her.
To transport all these items, she had made countless trips back and forth. Fortunately, her tree house was close to the mine, and her physical condition was much better than that of average girls, allowing her to transport everything back.
However, even so, her limbs were sore today, and her legs trembled a bit when walking. After all, she had been overexerting herself all day, and even though she exercised regularly, her body couldn't withstand it. So she didn't plan to go out today, intending to trade these items for other resources on the trading platform.
"This guy seems quite capable. He's already made a crafting table. I chopped trees for half a day yesterday and didn't even see a shadow of green wood, all of it was white," Li Wenxi said, struggling to support her trembling legs as she returned to the second floor and lay back on the wooden bed. She sighed, "He's really skilled, but it looks like he doesn't have an iron ore source. We should be able to cooperate."
Li Wenxi's tree house was located next to a mine, with a small stream passing by. She had stopped here because she felt the location had two types of resources, and it was better to settle down here than to continue wandering aimlessly.
"A small, low tree house, only about twenty square meters and just one story. Could it be that my tree house is more advanced than theirs?" Li Wenxi felt a bit of secret joy. She was just a sophomore in college, and she had woken up in this unknown world.
"I wonder what that guy's tree house looks like. Maybe mine is even better!" Li Wenxi thought happily as she continued to lie on her side on the bed, scrolling through the text in the chat hall.
So far, only Xu Xin had inquired about her iron ore. It made sense, after all, at this stage, most people hadn't even made a crafting table and could only use the identification table to determine the level of resources. This meant that survivors could only obtain resources by guessing, so iron ore was useless to the vast majority of people at this stage.
"If that anonymous guy is really trustworthy, selling him a few blue iron ores wouldn't be a bad idea," Li Wenxi thought, as she couldn't glean much from the chat hall, her thoughts returned to Xu Xin.
She kept all the blue-quality resources on the second floor. At the moment, on her identification table sat an ore that looked obviously different from ordinary iron ore, emitting a blue light. Because she had Stone Block (Blue), her tools could mine blue-quality resources.
[Iron Ore (Blue): When smelting iron ore, only one piece is needed to produce Iron Ingot (Blue), economical and useful!]
Suddenly, Xu Xin sent her a message.
"Oh? How did this guy come back so quickly?"
…
On the other side, Xu Xin, holding the newly crafted Stone Axe (Green), came to the base of his tree house. Half of the area under his tree house hadn't been cleared yet, mostly populated by poplar trees, with white and green quality evenly split.
He swung his axe at the nearest poplar tree (White).
"Crack!"
The poplar tree fell at once, breaking into five sections.
"Is this for real?!" Xu Xin's eyes widened as he looked at the much sharper axe in his hand. He remembered that it used to take five strikes to chop down a white-quality poplar tree.
He swung at a poplar tree (Green). One strike, two strikes.
"Crack!" The poplar tree (Green) fell forever.
"This… this is too powerful!"
Five times the efficiency, one axe stroke equal to five – this was the power of blue-quality items! This was far more useful than some red berries!
So Xu Xin, like a war god, swept through the remaining trees under his tree house like a whirlwind, leaving the ground covered with white and green wood.
Since it was right under the tree house, there was basically no need for transportation. He just needed to grab the wood and let the tree house take him up. Soon, he had piled all the wood on the first floor, then initiated a trade with Li Wenxi.
[You initiated a trade: Wood (Green) *60 for Stone Block (Blue) *2]
It worked indeed. It seemed that as long as the materials were inside the small tree house, they could be traded regardless of location.
[The other party accepted the trade. You received Stone Block (Blue) *2]