Chapter 15

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

“The nineteenth!”

Lin Yue held the wooden shield in his left hand and the iron spear in his right. Under his attack, the small blue lizard that had spat out venom was instantly cut into two!

[You have obtained a wooden treasure chest.]

A familiar voice sounded. Lin Yue placed the treasure chest in his inventory.

After cleaning the mucus on the shield with soil, he continued to search for mutated creatures.

After killing another three small lizards nearby, Lin Yue placed the half-meter-wide round shield on the ground and sat on it, wiping the sweat from his face.

Fighting could accumulate experience.

Whether it was confidence, physical skills, or reaction speed, they would increase with the number of battles.

It could also make him stronger.

Although it had only been two days, Lin Yue had already gained some proficiency in using the iron spear.

The sun was about to set again, and another day was about to pass.

The breeze blew the loess and the sparse weeds in the wasteland.

No one knew what was hidden behind these weeds and under the loess.

With the 100% chance of dropping treasure chests, Lin Yue did not lack water and food, but this did not guarantee that he could survive the disaster four days later.

For this, he had to force himself to kill stronger mutated creatures, like the giant locust.

But it was not easy. Previously, he had spent a lot of time and energy and was almost forced into a corner to kill just one giant locust.

He was originally just an ordinary person. Compared to those ferocious people in the group who went to hunt more powerful mutated creatures, the difference was quite huge.

The cheat could prevent him from dying of thirst and hunger, but how to use this to survive in this survival game depended upon him.

After resting for a while, Lin Yue picked up the shield.

Just as he stored the wooden treasure chests, he heard a rustling sound. He looked up and saw a shadow jumping over from the other side.

Lin Yue grabbed the iron spear and focused.

He slowly approached that direction while paying attention to his surroundings, not daring to be careless.

The outline of the shadow became clearer. Lin Yue realized that this was a mutated creature he had seen on the first day.

Giant locust!

He took a deep breath. Another one was here.

However, the current him had made huge progress.

With the increase in confidence, Lin Yue moved much faster. Soon, he was less than twenty meters away.

The giant locust also noticed Lin Yue. It quickly turned its body and moved towards him!

Lin Yue stopped and waited for the other party.

With the flapping sound of wings, the red locust jumped into the air!

Lin Yue protected his body with the shield in his left hand, and rolled to the side. Before the giant locust could move further, his iron spear had already stabbed it!

[You have obtained an iron treasure chest.]

The red giant locust was pierced into two by the sharp spear. Beside it, the iron treasure chest was waiting for Lin Yue.

“I seem to be stronger than before.” Lin Yue heaved a sigh of relief and picked up the treasure chest.

At this moment, the sky had turned red. Lin Yue did not continue to search for mutated creatures. Instead, he returned to the shelter.

He made a new torch, and the fire lit up the dark room again.

Sitting by the bed, Lin Yue took out bread and water. At the same time, he opened the wooden treasure chests and the iron treasure chest he had just obtained.

The wooden chests were nothing special. It was just water and food.

Among the 19 wooden chests, 11 gave water, 7 were 500 grams of bread, and one gave a packet of instant noodles.

These things were not surprising, and Lin Yue’s attention was not on them.

He opened the iron chest.

[You have obtained regional map fragment x1, saw blueprint x1]

Good things.

Taking out the regional map fragment, Lin Yue was about to take a closer look when a notification suddenly sounded.

[The map has been transferred to the system. You can check it at any time.]

Oh, how convenient.

It saved him the trouble of carrying it with him and considering the problem of wear and tear.

Lin Yue opened the system and quickly found an option.

“Click… then, lock onto the upper right corner.”

Following the system notification, a map appeared in the upper right corner of his vision.

To his surprise, it was actually an electronic map!

A square area was marked in the map, and the center of the area was his shelter.

There was a red dot on it, and there was even an arrow that looked like a navigation guide. The one in the shelter was gray.

As Lin Yue moved, the arrow kept changing directions.

On the map, other than the wasteland, the wood, a huge pit, and a few unknown areas were also marked.

Lin Yue clicked on the map and realized that the selected area could be fit to the screen, but it did not have another function of a map.

The scale.

Without the scale, there was no way to know the actual size of this map.

Although there was a centimeter long scale mark, there was no label.

He looked at the wood closest to his shelter and thought for a moment before moving in that direction.

Direction, northwest.

Lin Yue took out his dagger and drew a line beside the door. He squatted on the ground and stretched out his arms.

A person’s arm span was equivalent to their height. Lin Yue was 182 centimeters tall, and the size of his shoes was number 40 which was 25 centimeters. When added together, it would come to less than 2.1 meters.

He took out the dagger and marked the ground. This was a distance of more than two meters.

He also moved the iron spear when he suddenly realized that this iron spear seemed to be about two meters long!

This thing was really a good ruler.

He kept measuring the distance between the shelter and the wood with the iron spear and quickly came to a conclusion.

“This wood is 102 meters away from the shelter, so…”

Looking at the map, he realized that the wood was about a centimeter away from the shelter.

A centimeter in the map was about 100 meters of distance, so the ratio of the scale was 1: 10,000.

Lin Yue looked at the location of the pit. It was about eight centimeters away in the map, so about 800 meters.

It was getting dark. Lin Yue decided to explore tomorrow.

After getting inside the shelter, Lin Yue lay on the bed and opened the trading interface to confirm the transactions.

More than 2,000 offers proved the buyers’ eagerness.

He realized that many people had taken out really good things, some of which surprised him.

Then…

[You lost 5L of water.]

[You have obtained stone x40, copper x43, coal x22, potato chips x1, snickers X3, rock salt x2, bacon x2, sewing kit x1, bowl blueprint, barbecue grill blueprint, iron sword blueprint, machete blueprint, mutant creature egg.]

What a great harvest!