Chapter Eight The Traces of Terror!

After deleting his friend, Chen Ming closed the screen in front of him directly and fell asleep.

After mining for a day, he was indeed tired!

The next day, Chen Ming woke up to the sound of a few notifications ringing in his ears as soon as he opened his eyes.

Opening the system panel, he found that the time was already nine in the morning.

He had slept quite comfortably!

Checking the notifications, the latest one was a system announcement.

[Announcement]

[Due to the increasing absolute high temperature, the rising temperatures are making the wild beasts more irritable, increasing the probability of ambushes outside! The drop rate of treasure chests has greatly increased!]

After finishing reading this announcement, Chen Ming's last trace of sleepiness disappeared.

Wild beasts becoming irritable was not a good thing!

The announcement only mentioned ambushes outside, but in reality, even inside the wooden hut was not safe, and they would also face the possibility of being ambushed!

It seemed like he had to be even more careful in the days to come!

He then began to look at the previous notifications, only to realize that they were all sent by Song Xiaoyu.

The time of the messages sent was just after he had gone to bed.

[Song Xiaoyu: Someone on the public screen is cursing at you!]

[Song Xiaoyu: I asked around, and it seems to be people from the Hungry Tiger Alliance who want to deal with you.]

[Song Xiaoyu: I inquired further, and there are about two to three hundred people on their side. Be careful recently and don't expose your location.]

As Chen Ming read through these messages, his expression turned unusually grim.

He was being targeted by someone!

Exiting the private chat interface, he opened the regional chat and started scrolling up.

Not many people were chatting at this late hour, with over eighty percent of players exhausted from the day and already resting.

After scrolling for a while, he quickly found the messages that continuously insulted him.

The source was none other than Li Ran from last night!

The Hungry Tiger Alliance was the organization Li Ran mentioned.

"Chen Ming! You little scoundrel, how dare you refuse the invitation of our alliance? Did I give you too much face? You better not fall into my hands, or I won't be able to play with you!"

"Insulting my Hungry Tiger Alliance? You're really out of luck! Listen up, whoever can provide me with Chen Ming's whereabouts will be handsomely rewarded!"

"The Hungry Tiger Alliance? I remember it's an alliance that requires a membership fee, right? I can only say, no comment."

"Is the Hungry Tiger Alliance out of their minds? Brother Chen Ming has healing bandages in his hands, and now with the beasts outside in a frenzy, it's easy to get injured! Without the healing bandages, your alliance will find it difficult to move a step in the wild!"

"Clown Alliance, not worth mentioning!"

"Ridiculous! I refuse to believe that among so many players, only Chen Ming has healing bandages, and others can't have them? I really don't believe it! Without Chen Ming, this world won't progress!"

"....."

Chen Ming looked at these aggressive comments, unable to hide his surprise.

Was it because he didn't join that the other party became so enraged?

Was it necessary?

Unfortunately, what he didn't know was that after Li Ran was deleted by Chen Ming last night, Li Ran exaggerated the whole situation and told his own leader.

Moreover, the leader of the Hungry Tiger Alliance was accustomed to leading and commanding subordinates in the previous world where he held a high position.

Now that someone defied him, how could he tolerate it?

Thus, he directly offered a reward to all players to find Chen Ming's whereabouts.

Chen Ming did not reply in the regional chat. After a simple thank you to Song Xiaoyu, he walked to the water tank and found that he had accumulated several liters of purified water overnight.

[Ding!]

Song Xiaoyu's reply came quickly, indicating that she had been awake for a while.

[Song Xiaoyu: Have you seen the announcement? The number of wild beasts is increasing. Could you sell me some healing bandages?]

Seeing this message, Chen Ming couldn't help but admire her keen sense.

The probability of being ambushed in the wilderness was increasing, and many players would definitely get injured at night.

In this world, stopping bleeding was quite difficult, and there could be infections as well.

This was when the healing bandages became essential.

He could already predict a scene where healing bandages would sell well at night!

The selling price now was definitely much lower.

Song Xiaoyu probably saw the opportunity!

Thinking about the timely help from her twice, Chen Ming decided to trade some with her. Of course, he didn't come out empty-handed and received some wood blocks in return.

After storing 1 liter of mineral water in a bottle and trading some healing bandages, he drank a small portion himself. After finishing a loaf of bread, Chen Ming walked to the workbench.

He planned to use wood blocks to make some fences to surround the wooden hut.

After making dozens of fences in a row, the wood blocks were finally used up, with over ten of them upgraded to silver level.

Exiting through the wooden door, Chen Ming chose an empty space to the left of the hut and planted the cannibal flower seeds harvested yesterday in the soil, followed by watering them a bit.

It would take quite some time to cultivate the cannibal flowers!

Unable to hasten the process, Chen Ming buried the soil properly and then started planning the area for the fences.

By noon, Chen Ming had successfully used the fences to encircle the hut in a circle for protection.

Although these fences couldn't be used to fend off people, they could protect against wild beasts!

If the opponents destroyed the fences at night, it would definitely make a sound, giving him enough time to react.

While having lunch and wiping off the sweat from his forehead, Chen Ming felt a faint increase in temperature today, whether it was a psychological effect or as mentioned in the announcement.

In the afternoon, Chen Ming prepared to mine a portion of iron ore.

Basic resources like wood and stone would lose their value rapidly in the future. Whether it was healing bandages or water resources, they could be exchanged for wealth.

He didn't need to waste his energy on cutting trees and mining stones.

It was more beneficial to store more iron ore.

Yesterday when returning, he marked several locations on the giant trees and quickly found a small iron ore not far away from the path.

Less than twenty meters away from the iron ore, Chen Ming slowed down and scanned the ground ahead of him.

There was a familiar trace about one meter wide on the ground!

He could confirm that there was no such trace left when he left yesterday evening!

This meant that a huge snake-like creature had passed through here last night or this morning!

With just a width of two meters, the total length was probably over fifteen meters!

Such a giant beast!

And it was definitely an existence he couldn't handle at the moment!

Glancing at the small iron ore in the distance, Chen Ming decided that preserving his life was more important, so he retreated back calmly.

Only after leaving that area did he hasten his pace towards his wooden hut.

In his mind, he had already classified that area as a danger zone and wouldn't step foot there until his strength grew.

Back in the hut, Chen Ming began searching around the cabin to ensure its safety.

Soon, he encountered several relatively weak wild beasts in the surrounding woods, with occasional boxes appearing around them.

It seemed like the drop rate had indeed been adjusted!

However, all these treasure chests were common bronze level, and the items inside were limited.

Better than nothing!

"Huh?"

Upon opening the last bronze chest, Chen Ming couldn't help but widen his eyes.