Chapter 31: pattern on treasure chest

While Xu Xin was checking the craftable items in the "Tree House Renovation" section, Li Wenxi sent him a message.

"Xu Xin, are you back?"

It seemed she was not in any trouble.

Xu Xin had many things he wanted to ask her, so he directly made a video call.

The call was answered immediately, and when Xu Xin saw Li Wenxi's appearance in the video, his eyelids twitched.

At this moment, the young beauty in the video looked very disheveled. There were scratch marks on her exposed arms and legs, and even her beginner's two-piece outfit had become somewhat tattered, with some skin inadvertently showing.

However, the young beauty didn't seem to notice this. Her expression was very excited, and as soon as the call connected, she immediately said, "Xu Xin, I found the bronze treasure chest! Ah, hi, hello little panda!"

"Enh!" The coco perched on Xu Xin's shoulder also greeted the young beauty in the video.

"How did you get those injuries? Were you attacked by monsters near the treasure chest?"

"Yes, yes, how did you know? Oh, you must have found a treasure chest too, right?" The young beauty reacted, suddenly realizing, "I knew you could find one too. Did you see the regional channel? There aren't many people who could find treasure chests! We're both pretty amazing!"

Xu Xin glanced at the regional channel. The remaining number of people had now reached 7,568, with several hundred more losing their lives during this daytime.

"There should be many people who encountered treasure chests, but they were all…"

Xu Xin didn't finish, but Li Wenxi understood, nodding in agreement: "Indeed. By the way, what kind of monster did you encounter? My treasure chest was actually inside the roots of a vine!"

Huh?

Was it the same as his?

"I also found it in vine roots. That vine suddenly emerged from the ground, attacked me twice, and then died."

"Eh? That's the same as me! The vine suddenly emerged from under my feet! If I hadn't been constantly alert, I might have died instantly! I saw in the regional channel that others who obtained treasure chests didn't encounter vines. I thought everyone faced different dangers."

Xu Xin was also browsing the regional channel at this time. There were several people who had obtained bronze treasure chests and were very active, including the person who had just come down from the tree house at noon and was suddenly attacked by a snake.

Some were entwined by snakes as thick as bowls, some were chased and gnawed by dozens of rat-sized mice, some had bugs the size of southern cockroaches burrowing into their bodies, some were entangled by suddenly growing thorns, but without exception, all these monsters suddenly emerged from the ground.

Did he and Li Wenxi happen to encounter the same thing?

"I'm not sure either, maybe it's a coincidence," Xu Xin shook his head, unable to understand the reason, and asked, "How did you find the bronze treasure chest?"

"I don't know either. I just walked around for a day based on my intuition, and just when I was about to give up, I was ambushed by the vine," Li Wenxi honestly confessed.

Well, well, the goddess of luck herself, huh? Finding a treasure chest within a three-kilometer radius by sheer luck.

"Did you also get fertilizer and two bags of seeds from your treasure chest?"

"Yes," Li Wenxi nodded, "The seeds are also what they mentioned in the channel, birch and pine tree seeds. Everyone seems to have the same. It's just not clear what the round wood and fine wood are for. I checked the crafting list, and there's nothing that requires round wood or fine wood."

Xu Xin's mouth opened and closed, deciding not to tell Li Wenxi about obtaining the silver treasure chest for now. After all, he didn't know how to explain the giant crocodile in the river even to himself. He could only say, "Maybe it's related to what's in the later treasure chests."

"Oh well, never mind, I'm taking it easy now. I'm not going out at night. It's already so dangerous during the day, it would be too unsafe to go out at night! Ouch, ouch, ouch…" Li Wenxi's injured arm hit the table beside her, and she quickly withdrew her hand, gently rubbing it.

Xu Xin traded some of the medicinal herbs he had found earlier to Li Wenxi: "Use this, it's medicinal herbs. There should be quite a few around your house too, but they look almost the same as ordinary grass, so they're not easy to recognize."

"Really?" Li Wenxi looked at the medicinal herbs in her hand, which looked exactly the same as the weeds downstairs, but the description she saw was [Hemostatic Grass: A special type of grass.]

Without Xu Xin's item identification ability, Li Wenxi's item descriptions were not as detailed as Xu Xin's, but simply a single sentence.

"You could even discover this?" Usually, item descriptions could only be seen when held in hand or touched. It sounded simple, but who would be bored enough to fiddle with weeds? And you'd have to happen to pull out the hemostatic grass to discover it.

So far, no such medicinal herbs with healing abilities had appeared on the trading platform.

"I discovered it by chance." Xu Xin naturally wouldn't reveal his ability. "Alright, if you're not going out, then rest well. I won't be staying in the tree house tonight."

"Oh, okay. Um, you've given me so many things, I should give them back to you!" Li Wenxi was clearly a bit embarrassed about her slacking behavior.

"No need, keep them. Just don't forget about me if you find something good in the future."

After hanging up the video call, Xu Xin took out the golden compass.

Only the last golden treasure chest remained. Who knows what kind of resources would be in this golden treasure chest.

The bronze treasure chest was in the roots of the killer vine, the silver treasure chest was in the mouth of the giant crocodile, where would this golden treasure chest be?

[Golden Treasure Chest Compass: Rotate the pointer to determine the general direction of the golden treasure chest once, with a 5-hour usage interval.]

The usage interval of this compass was much longer than that of the silver treasure chest compass, which undoubtedly increased the difficulty of finding the golden treasure chest.

Rotating the compass, the pointer spun and finally stopped in the northwest direction.

"Is it in that direction…"

That hilly area full of red dots was in the northwest direction, but fortunately, that area was outside the three-kilometer range, so the golden treasure chest definitely wasn't within that dangerous area.

Xu Xin didn't rush to leave. Instead, he roasted a few more jin of bear meat, paired with the mushrooms he had collected earlier, and had a hearty dinner. This search for the golden treasure chest could potentially be a fierce battle, so how could he not eat and drink his fill?

Placing the silver treasure chest from his backpack next to the bronze treasure chest, Xu Xin was about to get up and leave when his gaze suddenly focused, and he began to examine the two chests placed side by side.

Xu Xin had thought that these two chests should be completely identical in style, but now that they were placed together, he noticed the differences.

Before, when looking at them individually, nothing stood out. But now, with the two chests side by side, the patterns on the silver and bronze chests seemed to form a picture, an incomplete picture.

It was the body of a beast viewed from the side. The pattern on the left bronze chest was the tail and hind legs of the beast, while the right silver chest showed the middle body and front legs. The head part was missing. Looking at it this way, the head pattern should be on the body of the golden chest.

Just from the body, this pattern looked a bit like the body of the mythical beast Qilin, with a body like a musk deer, a tail like a dragon's, and covered in scales.

Xu Xin had already encountered two extraordinary giant beasts in this world, the giant anaconda in the lake and the giant crocodile in the creek. Each of them could break through his imagination, so even if he were to see a Qilin in this world, he wouldn't be too surprised.

It's unclear what the pattern on the chest represents. Well, no need to think too much about it now. Once the golden treasure chest is found, the meaning of this pattern will naturally become clear.