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Chapter 11 Blank Expansion Card

Qin Ziwen took out the two reward cards.

The first card was a blank card, and the second was a thin gray metal card.

The two have completely different textures; the former is warm and smooth like jade, while the latter has a metallic frosted texture and is decorated with animal cage patterns.

The former is a blank expansion card, and the latter is a standard (micro) card.

After receiving them, I learned the purpose of the two cards.

The former can be used in any area of ​​the homestead. Once activated, it will expand that area, providing a 10*10m expansion space. This expansion space is similar to the cellar and granary, and is a folded space that will not affect the building's shape.

The latter requires selecting a square area of ​​4*5m to activate the ability to create a cage within the area where animals can be kept.

Qin Ziwen looked at the card in front of him. His house originally had an internal area of ​​only 98 square meters, which was the area recognized by the community.

After using the blank expansion card (micro), the area directly increased from 98㎡ to 198㎡, becoming a large single-level apartment.

If we could get more blank expansion cards, wouldn't we be able to build a "building within a building", or even a city within a building?
After thinking for a moment, Qin Ziwen decided to put the blank expansion card in the bathroom.

The newly built animal cages will definitely have to be placed in the expansion area. If livestock are kept in the cages in the future, the smell will be very strong, and it will not be suitable to put them in the bedroom.

The house has a layout of three bedrooms, one living room, one kitchen, and one bathroom.

He lives in the master bedroom, his younger brother lives in the second bedroom, and there is a guest room, which is the room where Wang Xiaoli was hiding.

With the water and power outages, the bathroom in the house has become useless. Qin Ziwen opened the bathroom door and chose to use the bathroom at the far end near the window.

There was a flash of light.

At the far end of the bathroom, a large blank area was opened up, and the original bathroom window had disappeared.

Almost simultaneously, from the outside, the windows of the bathrooms on the fifth floor of Building 8 in the community were "erased" from the map, leaving only the exterior walls covered with tiles.

"so amazing."

Qin Ziwen was amazed to find that a large area of ​​grayish-white land had appeared as a dividing line on the wall where the bathroom window used to be.

The ground was hard rock, without soil or vegetation, as if it had been cut from an enormous rock and embedded there.

The moon is not visible in the sky, but the light intensity, temperature, and humidity within the extended area are the same as those outside.

The overhead area and the boundaries of the extended area were shrouded in a layer of gray mist, inaccessible, like an air wall.

The ceiling height is similar to my own home, still 2.8 meters.

Even so, Qin Ziwen couldn't help but marvel after witnessing it with his own eyes.

He selected a 4x5 square area near the left and used a level 1 animal cage.

The card transformed into light, enveloping the designated area.

When the light faded, a huge wire cage appeared on the spot. The four corners of the cage were inlaid with thick pieces of wood, and the interior was divided into several small areas by wire mesh.

It also contains a feeding trough and a water trough.

Summon the small orb of light in your home; text appears on the white light screen.

[Jiayuan] Building 8, Unit 2, Room 5-2
[Area] 198㎡

[Height] 2.8m
[Buildings] Level 1 Cellar/Grain Storage, Level 1 Animal Cage

Qin Ziwen called his younger brother.

Qin Ziwu opened the bathroom door and was stunned when he saw what was behind it.

Qin Ziwu stared at the scene in shock. "Brother, what is this?"

Qin Ziwen said in a serious tone, "I couldn't sleep last night, so I dug it."

Qin Ziwu rolled his eyes. "Fine, I believe you, I believe you all. Anyway, I won't ask you anymore." However, Qin Ziwu had a guess in his heart. This should be the mysterious power of the card that his older brother mentioned. He suspected that it might have been dropped when he hunted crocodiles during the day.

Qin Ziwen smiled. He knew his younger brother's character well, having grown up together since childhood, and besides, such a big change couldn't be hidden.

Qin Ziwen said, "Next time we catch field mice, we can keep them in animal cages. We can feed them by collecting some plant roots or small insects every day. If we can get a male and a female, we might have a whole nest of field mice in no time, and then we'll have meat to eat every day."

"I don't know about field mice, but hamsters have a scary reproductive ability. I used to have a roommate who kept two hamsters, a male and a female. They had a litter of more than a dozen offspring in less than a month after they were put in a cage."

Then, less than a month later, the female hamster gave birth to another litter. He later learned that hamsters go back into heat on the day they give birth, and they can reproduce year-round.

Qin Ziwu became even more excited upon hearing this. The hamster's reproductive ability was so terrifying that he figured the field mouse's reproductive ability must be no less than that of the hamster.

For Qin Ziwen, obtaining a stable source of meat from captive animals was secondary; the main purpose was to calculate his daily score.

According to his speculation, raising livestock should also be considered a bonus item in the daily settlement.

He doesn't have crocodiles to hunt every day, nor does he encounter someone like Xie Jun every day.

It won't be easy to get such a high rating today.

Thinking about making smoked meat tomorrow, Qin Ziwen had to prepare tonight. He then went to the kitchen, cut the crocodile meat into thin strips, and then marinated the strips with salt and pepper.

"Brother, let me help you marinate the meat."

The two brothers worked for an hour and finally finished processing the 80 pounds of crocodile meat. Luckily, they received three 1-pound bags of salt as a bonus yesterday, otherwise they wouldn't have enough salt at home.

Early the next morning, it was just dawn.

Qin Ziwen brought a bag of marinated meat and met up with Lao Deng's family.

Noticing that Old Deng's wife was looking him up and down as he went downstairs, Qin Ziwen couldn't help but ask, "Sister-in-law, what's wrong? Is there something on my face?"

Xiao Meixue quickly shook her head, "It's nothing."

Deng Guang said, "I guess she's still thinking about what happened last night."

He glanced at his wife. After decades of marriage, he knew her personality well enough to explain on Qin Ziwen's behalf, "If you ask me, this matter is not Qin's fault at all. The Xie brothers are a cancer that should have been dealt with sooner. It's fortunate that they are here, otherwise, if the Xie brothers had targeted the other people in our building, who knows what kind of trouble they would have caused."

Xiao Meixue rolled her eyes at him. "I didn't say anything. I was just curious, weren't you scared since it was your first time doing something like this?"

Qin Ziwen laughed nonchalantly: "Of course I was scared, how could I not be? I was terrified back then. But since they were bullying me, I couldn't just keep backing down."

Qin Ziwu tried hard to recall if his elder brother had shown any fear at the time.

He couldn't quite remember.

Deng Wen asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

Xiao Meixue said, "It's nothing. Adults are talking, children shouldn't interrupt."

Deng Wen scoffed and raised her chin: "So what if someone died? What's so hard to talk about? I'm seventeen, do you really think I'm a child?"

Xiao Meixue was furious, but Deng Guang interrupted her, "Alright, so what if Xiaowen knows? Her generation of young people has been exposed to more things than we were back then. She's a grown woman now."

Deng Wen muttered to herself, "There was such a commotion last night. I was already asleep, but I was woken up. I immediately felt like something serious had happened!"

She didn't show any aversion to Qin Ziwen's murder; on the contrary, she admired him somewhat. He was much more handsome than those "Jiahaos" at school.

As Qin Ziwen exited from the south entrance, he glanced at the spot where the body had been dumped the previous night.

His brow furrowed. The two corpses at the dumping site had vanished without a trace. Two people of that size had simply disappeared.

He walked over and stepped on the wild grass.

Crouching down to examine the area, I discovered that the surrounding grass and plants showed signs of being dragged and trampled, and there were also faint traces of blood along the way.

(End of this chapter)