Chapter 5: My Turn, Draw!
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Now her panel had completely turned into a Lord template, and the original player panel hadn't disappeared; it only required a click on the Lord panel's name to switch over.
The upper right corner of the panel featured several icons, which looked like they might be the so-called Free Market and chat channels.
However, Bai Yi didn't rush to click into them, instead choosing to first open the warehouse.
The warehouse in the panel was not some sort of bug-like Space Warehouse, it seemed to be just a tally of the resources within the territory.
Those First-tier bones and wood stored inside came in this way, all of them dropped within the territory or from creatures the giant banyan had once killed.
"This seems more reasonable now..."
Bai Yi muttered to herself and shifted her gaze downward to open the warehouse.
Inside the warehouse, there lay two small travel packs. One was adorned with the pattern of a rose flower and edged with golden thread, looking extremely luxurious. The other bore a Ladybug pattern, simple black leather without much decoration.
It seemed these were the so-called soldier packages.
"Then let's open it together with the Newbie Gift Package!"
The Newbie Gift Package differed from the soldier package, being a flat square box that couldn't be opened alongside the soldier package, so Bai Yi decided to first click on this gift package.
[You have opened the Newbie Gift Package. You have obtained: Iron Knife*1, Whole Grain Rice*1 (unit), Bloodthirsty Beetle Insect Nest Blueprint*1]
[Iron Knife (White): An ordinary fruit knife, but a lifesaver when necessary, Attack Power coefficient 1.1, extra +10 Attack Power.]
[Note: Different weapons have different Attack Power coefficients. Final damage is directly proportional to the Strength used.]
[Bloodthirsty Beetle Insect Nest Blueprint (Green): After learning, ingredients can be consumed to create [Bloodthirsty Beetle Insect Nest]. Required materials: Wood*20, Stone*20, Fresh Blood Flesh*30]
[Bloodthirsty Beetle Insect Nest (Green): Can consume Fresh Blood Flesh to recruit (breed) unit [Bloodthirsty Beetle], the nest comes with 5 initial units, recruitment consumption: Fresh Blood Flesh*1]
That was all the information Bai Yi could see. When she attempted to continue looking at the details of the Bloodthirsty Beetle, she was prompted that she would need to build it first.
The construction cost wasn't much. For others, Fresh Blood Flesh might be hard to come by, but Bai Yi was different, the warehouse still contained 647 units of Giant Boar Pork!
Ah no, now there were only 644 units.
Bai Yi noticed that a small root from the giant banyan was still poking into the corpse of the giant boar, sneakily absorbing its flesh.
Discovering that Bai Yi seemed aware of its actions, the giant banyan reluctantly withdrew the root, appearing rather pitiful.
"Never mind, the giant banyan killed it, so eating a bit is fine."
Food was abundant for Bai Yi, so she didn't mind this slight consumption, of course, there was also the fact that Bai Yi had no means to deal with the giant boar corpse currently.
But what excited Bai Yi even more was the unhusked rice lying in the panel, wrapped in a small cloth bag!
The kind without husks!
That would indeed pose a problem for others as they'd need a way to remove the husks to eat, but Bai Yi was different, she didn't plan to waste it as just food.
With her superpower, she could start the great business of farming directly!
She shifted her attention back to the panel and continued to open the two soldier packages.
Like the Newbie Gift Package, two bags materialized from the panel, each accompanied by a semi-floating wooden table.
As the two travel packs were opened together, a pile of cards flew out and landed on the two tables.
The stacks of cards bore the same design as the packages; on the left was a rose card back, and on the right, a Ladybug card back.
Seeing this scene, Bai Yi suddenly became excited.
"Holy shit, card drawing!"
Bai Yi had played a few card-drawing games before, experiencing both the highs of "ten consecutive pulls with double gold cards" and the lows of "eating a full big minimum guarantee," making her luck very average.
But this also made each of her card draws an unknown, forever uncertain whether she was lucky or not.
"How could I say no to card drawing! Let's do it!"
Bai Yi swiped her hands over the two piles of cards, scattering them, and quickly picked two cards out of the lineup.
"May the heavens and earth bless me! This is connected to survival! I must pull something good!"
With her eyes closed, Bai Yi prayed briefly, then lifted her eyelids a crack.
She placed her hands on the two cards, slightly lifting a small corner.
Bang!
The cards lifted, Bai Yi caught sight of the results and, incredulously, slapped the two cards back down on the table.
"No way..."
Holding onto the last thread of hope that she had seen it wrong, Bai Yi widened her eyes and once again lifted a corner of a card.
The light emanating from beneath the card was unobscured, casting into Bai Yi's eyes.
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"Hiss!"
Blue skies and white clouds!
"Fuck!"
Bai Yi cursed loudly and pushed the card back in place.
"Forget it, out of sight, out of mind! Let's check out what that announcement was about the chat channel."
Frustrated by the card drawing, Bai Yi didn't even care to check the result and went straight to open the panel and entered the chat channel.
[Please set a nickname for the player.]
Seeing this feature, Bai Yi's eyes lit up.
My real name was revealed in the announcement just now, but now there's this feature that's perfect for hiding my identity again, which will also help me keep a low profile!
With that thought, Bai Yi decisively entered a name.
"Green."
[The nickname is already taken.]
"Tree Queen."
[The nickname is already taken.]
Bai Yi immediately had a question mark over his head and couldn't help but curse:
"Have all the good names been snatched up by dogs, huh?"
[Please confirm the nickname "Have all the good names been snatched up by dogs, huh."]
"I..."
[The nickname is already taken.]
For a moment, Bai Yi felt like he was going to be infuriated to death by the system, he clicked 'No' and blurted out a word:
"Fan Mao."
[Please confirm the nickname "Fan Mao."]
"Confirm."
[World chat room is not open yet, welcome to join World 9805, District 33 chat room.]
As soon as he entered the chat channel, Bai Yi felt like he was in Brother Shui's group chat, bustling with activity.
In the channel at the moment, they were still discussing the recent first-kill announcement.
Shuishuishui: "What's the use of getting better soldiers now? Advanced troops need much more resources! Mine are just Purple Soldiers, and they need a whopping 100 units of regular food to be built!"
A plant: "Brother Shui even has Purple Soldiers! Brother Shui is so badass!"
Nanshan: "What do you think the reward for the first kill really is?"
Light Special Soldier: "Even if you know, it's meaningless, Brother Shui, please list more water! Just one bottle will do! I'm really dying of thirst!"
Corpse King: "What's the deal with Purple Soldiers? The most important thing for a Lord is the Lord Talent!"
[Corpse King shares a picture]
[Talent: Zombie Dominator (Gold)]
Nanshan: "Holy shit"
Light Special Soldier: "Holy shit"
A plant: "What's so great about Zombie Dominator! Brother Shui has secured a warehouse as his territory! When it comes to needing food later, we still have to ask Brother Shui for help!"
Corpse King: "Sorry, I've controlled zombies and looted quite a few treasure boxes. No worries about food and drink now. I could part with some, who wants it?"
Light Special Soldier: "Me! I want water! I can exchange wood for it!"
Corpse King: "Private chat"
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Bai Yi had just arrived and witnessed a show-off by the big shots, making him want to show off his own talent too.
He lifted his hand but put it down again, in the end, he gave up.
"No, I need to stay low!"
Suppressing his competitive spirit, Bai Yi began to scroll through past messages, trying to analyze the current situation.
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Zombie: Mutation is not always good, once humans and other animals fail to mutate, they will become zombies. Although they gain strong bodies, they also lose their intelligence, wandering the wilderness all day hunting everything in sight...
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