Without hesitation, he immediately wanted to craft a stone pickaxe using a blue stone block. He planned to gather more green stone blocks today, as that place was after all the Black Bear Mine. Once the newbie protection period ended, he wouldn't be able to go there again until he could defeat the black bears.
At this moment, Li Wenxi sent him a message: "How did you collect everything so quickly? Are you surrounded by green trees?"
Xu Xin looked out the window. At least the entire circle around the lake was lush with dense green. The trees he had cut down these past two days probably didn't even amount to a fraction. So he replied: "That's right, I don't lack wood."
"Do you also have a lot of food?" the other side asked further.
"What do you want to know?" Xu Xin didn't rush to answer, but instead asked back.
The other side suddenly initiated a voice chat, which startled Xu Xin.
Can we even voice chat?
After thinking for a moment, he still accepted the call.
A pleasant girl's voice came through the screen.
"Hello? Hello? Can you hear me?"
The girl's energetic voice also invigorated Xu Xin, who replied: "I can hear you. You want to cooperate with me, right?"
"Wow, your voice sounds so nice!" The praise from the girl on the other end made Xu Xin want to laugh. He remembered that when he first communicated with this Li Wenxi, she was quite aloof.
"That's right, I want to cooperate with you, so do you have a lot of food on your side?" Li Wenxi continued to ask.
"Enough for me to eat." Xu Xin didn't tell her that there were many wild fruit trees in this forest, and he was by the lake with abundant fish and shrimp. The forest also had many apple trees, so he didn't lack food at all. He could even support a group of people without problems.
"That's good. To be honest with you, I have a lot of green-level and above stone materials and ores on my side, but all the trees are white. It seems you don't have much stone material and ore either, right? How about this, let's exchange resources. I'll use stone materials to trade for your wood!" The girl's voice sounded somewhat excited.
"Then why did you ask about my food?"
"I was afraid you might not have enough food and try to get some from me. I barely have enough for myself, I can't support you." The girl expressed her true thoughts without care, "In one word, are we cooperating or not?"
This girl… Xu Xin thought of how she directly sent him a blue stone before, and couldn't help but ask: "Aren't you afraid I might deceive you?"
"What's there to deceive? I've indeed received the items, and with the trading platform, you can't deceive me anyway. At worst, I'll stop trading and find someone else to exchange with."
That made sense, even if it wasn't pleasant to hear! But Xu Xin didn't mind. He quite liked Li Wenxi's personality – straightforward and not awkward. So he said: "I have no problem with it. I just worry you might not have enough stones on your side."
"Are you kidding? I'm right next to a mine… You're trying to get information out of me!"
The girl suddenly became angry.
"What information am I trying to get? Even if I know you're next to a mine, what can I do? It's not like I can fly over there!" Xu Xin laughed, this girl was truly interesting.
However, knowing she was next to a mine, Xu Xin felt more at ease.
"That's true…" Li Wenxi scratched her head, her pretty face slightly flushed. Suddenly, she thought of something, "Oh, I don't even know your name yet. Why stay anonymous for no reason!"
Xu Xin thought about it and agreed. There was no need to stay anonymous with a cooperation partner, so he only revealed his name to her.
"Xu Xin, that's a nice name. How old are you?"
"Just graduated from university."
"Ah, I'm only a sophomore. You're older than me. Um, Xu Xin, do you have any wood now? I still want some." Li Wenxi was quite friendly.
"I just gave you all I had, you…"
"Oh, wait a second!" Li Wenxi suddenly interrupted Xu Xin and ended the call. Xu Xin was wondering what she was up to when a system prompt sounded.
[Li Wenxi is initiating a video call with you. Do you accept?]
We can even video call?
This girl is really bold,
initiating a video call with someone she's only chatted with briefly. But he could understand. It feels more real to discuss cooperation face-to-face, and besides, he couldn't do anything to her just by looking.
"Accept"
The girl's image suddenly appeared on the screen. A delicate face, almond eyes, thin lips, and short hair reaching about her chin, making her appear full of vitality. In the previous world, she would probably give off the impression of a beautiful young policewoman.
The other side's eyes also lit up upon seeing him, and she said: "You're quite handsome!"
Of course. Xu Xin smiled and said: "You're not bad yourself."
"I'm the beauty queen of our department!"
The pretty girl put her hands on her hips and puffed out her chest, looking quite cute. As for her chest… well, it was slightly bigger than Xu Xin's.
"Impressive, impressive."
"Hehe, I just wanted to show you… Wow! How is your tree house so big?!" Li Wenxi's almond eyes widened as she looked at the space behind Xu Xin. The vast and spacious area immediately stunned her.
Seeing her expression, Xu Xin chuckled inwardly and said: "I don't know either. It just grew this big. By the way, doesn't yours seem a bit small?"
"I…" The pretty girl deflated immediately. She had initiated the video call to show Xu Xin her tree house, after all, according to the information obtained in the chat lobby, everyone only had small, low tree houses of about twenty square meters!
"I… my tree house has two floors!" The pretty girl looked unwilling to give up and continued to argue.
"Hmm, that's nice."
"Hehe, right?"
"But I have three floors."
"Mm-hmm… Huh?" Li Wenxi was dumbfounded.
Seeing Li Wenxi's expression, Xu Xin finally couldn't hold it in and burst out laughing. Seeing the pretty girl's face gradually turning red in the video, he suppressed his laughter and asked: "By the way, what did you want to show me just now?"
"I… I…" His question made matters worse. The pretty girl's face instantly turned bright red. She nervously averted her gaze and quickly picked up a piece of ore beside her to show him, "This! I wanted to show you this!"
Although it was through a screen, Xu Xin could still see the blue light emanating from the ore.
[Iron Ore (Blue): Only one piece is needed when smelting iron ore to produce an iron ingot (blue). Economical and useful!]
"You even have blue iron ore." Xu Xin's eyes also lit up. Based on the function of stone blocks (blue), he could roughly deduce what iron ingots (blue) were for. This was truly a rare and valuable item!
"Yes, I told you not to worry about stone materials. No, no, why is your tree house so big?!" Li Wenxi couldn't hold back anymore and asked enviously as she looked at Xu Xin's incredibly spacious room.
It wouldn't hurt to tell her a little.
"Mine is a tall small tree house, it's purple quality." Xu Xin raised an eyebrow and said.
"Pur… purple quality!? So blue is followed by purple…" The pretty girl murmured, then looked at him with eyes full of envy and jealousy, "You're so lucky. I thought I was lucky enough, but it seems I can't compare to you."
She didn't think in any other direction, nor could she imagine that the change in the tree house was due to the fertility of the soil. After all, apart from the sentence "Remember to find fertile soil" on the tree house seed, she knew nothing else. She even thought this sentence was just a built-in joke like other introductions.