CHAPTER 119: CHAPTER 119: OPENING TREASURE CHESTS UNTIL EXHAUSTED, MECHANICAL ARM SUCCESSFULLY CREATED!

Bai and the Little Ice Lizards hopped and skipped back.

They had already caught the sweet fragrance wafting from the direction of the shelter.

It made the fun of chasing those mutant sheep seem less appealing.

"Boji boji boji~"

Bai and the Little Ice Lizards dashed into the shelter and jumped around their master, who was holding a bowl of something red.

The sweet smell they had sensed came from those plump, bright red fruits!

What delicious treat is this?

"Strawberries are here!"

"Boji!" They watched as their master Lin Yue picked up one of the fruits, and couldn’t help but swallow.

The master eats first; it’s the rule, and they all understood.

Lin Yue picked up this deep red strawberry and could already smell its distinct sweet fragrance.

He removed the stem and put it in his mouth.

The slightly tart sweetness instantly captured Lin Yue’s taste buds, making every cell in his body seem rejuvenated as he completely indulged in the taste of strawberries.

"Are strawberries really this delicious?"

Lin Yue couldn’t resist another one; the long-missed fruit filled his heart with unspoken happiness.

"Indeed, humans can’t go without eating fruit."

He took a small plate for himself with a few, and placed the rest on the ground as Bai and the others were given permission by Lin Yue to start grabbing them joyfully.

Lin Yue tossed another strawberry into his mouth and used this time to harvest from the greenhouse yet again.

"10kg of chicken feather greens... 8kg of chives, not bad. 50 radishes, 200 onions? Wow, so much?"

Lin Yue kept harvesting, and he also noticed that, apart from items like chives, others just needed a gentle swipe of his hand to be gathered.

However, he didn’t harvest everything, keeping some as mother plants to let them flower and seed.

The seeds in the Survival Points Mall were many but not comprehensive, like not finding seeds for chives and chicken feather greens.

"Better be prepared; keeping some doesn’t take effort or space." Lin Yue muttered, eating another strawberry and walking to the planting boxes.

Unbeknownst to him, the Devil’s Pepper in the planting box had sprouted small white flowers!

Just a few days... Indeed, this humus nutrient soil seems to be too nutritious.

He watered the more than ten Devil’s Pepper plants growing into a patch, looking forward to their growth.

Vegetables aren’t necessarily just for eating.

Just now, he had thought of a very interesting idea.

"What the outcome will be, I don’t know yet, but let’s plant them first."

Lin Yue checked the growth of bean king, cherry tomatoes, and cucumbers before leaving the greenhouse satisfied.

Still lots of work to do, like the daily routine.

Open, treasure, chests!

The number of treasure chests had accumulated quite a bit unknowingly, mostly Wooden Treasure Chests and Copper Treasure Chests, but never opening them leaves them piling up.

The more they pile up, the less you want to open them.

[You received a packet of Baixiang Instant Noodles, Chicken Rib Flavor!]

[You received a bottle of Jingjia Drinking Water, 600ml X1]

[You received...]

wooden chests, Lin Yue chose to open them all at once!

Satisfying, yet mentally exhausting.

Gained 71 bottles of water, 32 packs of instant noodles, and 3 packs of noodles.

The odds of getting water and food always fluctuate, but unfailingly, a Wooden Treasure Chest always outputs a single item, never more.

Additionally, it’s effortless for Lin Yue to collect; regardless of the original brand, in the Storage Space, they’re simply tallied as "water."

"Next up is the tedious part, but a task delayed remains a task."

Copper Treasure Chests, though occasionally something good pops out, the odds are low. If these were 37 Golden Treasure Chests, Lin Yue thought they might truly hold lethal allure for him.

Open them!

[You received...]

Lin Yue chose to ignore the system sound, confirming the totals after opening them all, sometimes Copper Treasure Chests would have repetitive items like water or map fragments.

With the final system tip sound fading, Lin Yue looked at all the stuff scattered on the ground and sank into thought.

map fragments, 5 buckets of water in 4L, 3 packs of compressed towels, 2 rolls of tin foil, 4 small emergency medical kits, 2 button compasses, 1 pendant knife necklace, 1 waterproof notebook, 1 anti-rape spray, 2 bags of compressed biscuits, 1 baton, 22 number 5 batteries, 12 number 7 batteries, 1 iron saw design map, 1 small portable tool set.

Overall, nothing entirely new was revealed, but looking at it now, the quality appears acceptable.

Especially the emergency kits, even opening 4, they are crucial for survival; despite not much variety in medications and emergency items, each holds great value.

As for the rest, Lin Yue wished to slowly sort them out without urgency.

Using the 17 map fragments one by one, Lin Yue also glanced over at the now more populated large map.

Like before, these map fragments dispersed across the entire map, but this time none were as close as usual.

Instead, Lin Yue discovered some mountain ranges and valley regions, more areas near large bodies of water.

"All quite far, hard to tell when I’d reach them..." Seeing some icons of still-empty shelters, Lin Yue felt tempted.

Who would mind having a bigger shelter?

He had two Shelter Design Maps, one normal, one iron-based, and of course, one alloy version, which just lacked some alloy materials.

Nonetheless, he only had zinc alloy and hard aluminum alloy; is there a more robust alloy available?

Looking towards the shelter outside, the large amount of titanium iron ore shimmered with some peculiar light under the sun.

For example, if there was titanium alloy, building such an Alloy Shelter might make it more solid, more invincible, perhaps?

"Boji!"

Bai finished eating strawberries, slightly unsatisfied.

It glanced toward the greenhouse and then looked at Lin Yue, unsure of what to do next.

Should it go through the door in the basement or towards the door covered by vines and bricks not far on the greenhouse side?

Lin Yue also saw the Ancient Secret Realm Gate and felt inclined to visit it again.

Not to mention, he was running low on fletching for crossbow arrows.

The 240 wooden arrows left behind by the raider in the yard lacked fletching; not many remained.

Taking out the Alloy Compound Crossbow, Lin Yue wondered if he should try using it in the Secret Realm?

Speaking of alloys...

"Right, could the alloy mechanical arm be built now?"

[Mechanical Arm: Claw Arm, Claw Arm, Lift Rotation Mechanism, Power Device, and Linkage Rotation Mechanism (hard aluminum alloy 5/5), drive arm (oil cylinder X1/1, air cylinder X1/1, rack X1/1, cam X1/1), guiding device, control parts (hard aluminum alloy X10/10, precision electric actuator 1/1, power controller 1/1)]

All materials are ready!

So, now let’s craft it!

[You received: Alloy Mechanical Arm X1]

A burst of white light flashed, and Lin Yue discovered something entirely different from what he imagined appeared on the shelter floor!

Lin Yue couldn’t help exclaiming: "This, this isn’t a mechanical arm, it should be called..."

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There’s one more Chapter later, a bit delayed today, sorry about that, apologies!