The developers still haven't forgiven the players.

"Women are such a hassle."

Tenka Fubu made this assessment with a straight face, but did not refute the fact that he was being tormented by his wife.

Brother Niu shrugged helplessly.

He wasn't surprised that this happened.

After all, he knew that if his brother-in-law lived in ancient times, he would be a complete martial arts fanatic.

Even though she's getting older and started a family under pressure from her parents, she still focuses most of her energy on physical exercise and doesn't play games at all.

In addition, since he spends most of his time at the Sports Bureau, his excuse of being too engrossed in games to reply to his wife's messages naturally failed to convince his older sister.

Brother Niu knew that his brother-in-law was bad with words, and that the cause of this incident could also be attributed to him. That's why he rushed to his sister's house late at night to help explain, otherwise he was worried that it would cause his sister and brother-in-law's marriage to break down.

"Alright, family scandals shouldn't be aired in public."

Tianxia Buwu raised a hand to stop Brother Niu from saying what he was about to say, then looked at Old Kuai, who was still lying flat on the ground, and changed the subject: "Is he still not awake?"

As he spoke, he walked over to Old Kuai, squatted down, and checked Old Kuai's physical condition.

His physical strength, at nearly level 20, is strong enough, and he seems to have recovered quite well, probably in a state where he could wake up at any time.

"Including the downtime for updates, almost a whole day has passed."

Peng Zhi patted Lao Kuai's face and said optimistically, "I feel like I can take the bandages off already."

After confirming that Old Kuai was alright, Tianxia Buwu found an empty spot and began practicing the blood circulation route of the Tiger Fiend Technique.

He was also eager to try it out and see what it felt like to circulate his blood energy in battle.

When I used to read martial arts novels, I was always fascinated by the descriptions of internal energy.

Unfortunately, in the real world, he could never cultivate internal energy; at most, he could only make his body stronger through years of training.

But now, such an opportunity is presented to him, even if it's just in a game, the mental pleasure it brings him is incomparable to any other kind of fun.

On the other side of the open space, a stone kiln has been built.

Yunyan Chenglu pushed the bellows with all his might. Due to a lack of professional materials, he could only cover it with a layer of animal hide, which did not seal it very well. This meant that he had to work twice as hard to make the fire inside the stone kiln burn brighter.

Fortunately, both of them have completed the most basic upgrades, and their physical fitness is stronger than that of ordinary people, so they don't get so tired that their muscles ache.

After the initial heating work was completed, the drunkard, oblivious to the world around him, kept throwing the rubbish he had scavenged into the stone kiln.

The lack of good forging equipment at the moment does not mean they have no solution.

I should at least try to see if I can forge weapons myself in this game.

So far, nothing unexpected has happened.

Their "traditional steelmaking method" is indeed unlikely to produce any accidents, after all, the iron content of this batch of "iron ore" is as high as 99%.

The highest temperature that this stone kiln can reach is naturally not as high as the effect of refining with professional equipment in one's own factory.

However, they do not intend to add alloying elements such as chromium or manganese to improve performance, as the current temperature is sufficient for them to remove impurities and reduce the carbon content.

The orange-red liquid slowly flowed out of the small hole and poured into the molds they had made in advance out of stone.

"Ah Shui".

Yunyan Chenglu squinted and shouted.

The two worked together seamlessly, and without any special reminder, Ah Shui gave a soft hum to indicate that she had heard him.

Then, using two bone fragments, he removed the molten steel from the mold and began to hammer it with stones.

Hearing these sounds, Peng Zhi couldn't help but look in the direction the two were forging.

Not only him, but Jiang Chen, who secretly brought supplies back to the second-floor villa, also glanced over with some curiosity.

He didn't actually consider recruiting industrial talent; he just wanted the players to work hard to level up.

However, since there are two players who are good at this, he naturally won't stop them from the planning level.

Ultimately, this isn't a real game; it's impossible for him to give every new player a beginner's wooden sword.

Now that some players can craft weapons for early-game use, it saves him some trouble.

Jiang Chen stopped paying attention to the two blacksmiths on the open ground and started adding new items to the player shop.

……

The area where slug nests are located.

Some people were responsible for guarding the entrance to the hole, while others were responsible for pulling out the slugs, and then someone else would smash them into mincemeat in two or three blows.

With experienced players leading the way, killing slugs has almost become an assembly line operation.

Everyone helped each other and took turns refining and absorbing the slug's blood essence. At the beginning of the game, there was no fighting or scrambling, and the whole scene was a lively and bustling one.

Si Dongquan finished absorbing the blood energy from the slug paste in front of him. Feeling the abundant blood energy in his body, he got up and prepared to join the next round of slug processing.

Compared to the Si Dong Fist, the Nian Dong Sword has no psychological burden when it comes to killing slugs, but it doesn't really have much interest in this kind of repetitive operation.

In her opinion, this kind of upgrade is really inefficient. It's better to climb to the top of a tree and enjoy the view than to bother with such a trivial matter.

Bored out of his mind, Nian Dongjian opened the game store again.

Even though she browsed the game store as soon as she logged on.

Although she couldn't afford any of them, her shopping desires still made her unable to resist looking at the items sold in the mall.

To her surprise, when she opened the store this time, she found that many new items had been added.

"Wow! This game's in-game store updates so fast!"

She exclaimed in surprise and immediately focused her attention on the cheapest items.

The cheapest item in the store now is no longer the beginner wooden sword that costs 2 spirit essence.

Instead—【Refined Rice Seeds: Can be sown on one acre of land, grows extremely fast, and yields four harvests a year.】(Price: 1 Spirit Essence) (Stock: 20 bags)

The price of 1 Spirit Essence means that any player can afford it now.

By the way, the daily check-in refresh time is midnight in real time. It's already past 2 a.m. in real time. Those players who spent their spirit essence on barbecue have already got 1 spirit essence again.

Of course, for most players, even if they could afford it, they would most likely not spend spiritual essence to buy a bag of rice, especially since it's just seeds.

Unlike military strategies and weapons, buying a bag of grain seeds does not improve one's combat strength in any way.

Instead of wasting time on this, you might as well sell the spiritual essence to Brother Gou.

Nian Dongjian did not hesitate and placed an order decisively.

In fact, she and Si Dongquan were both students majoring in agricultural environment. She was very curious about what polished rice that could be harvested four times a year was like. Wouldn't this kind of crop damage the soil fertility?

I didn't see any fertilizer for sale in the mall.