Chapter 20

He continued walking deep into the mountain forest along the mountain path.

The deeper he went, the more Su Li felt something was off.

The indigenous people in such deep, old mountain forests were either savages or...

About half an hour passed.

Su Li climbed over a hill that was obstructing his view.

Looking into the distance, there was actually a structure built of earth and stone.

"That is... a stronghold?"

Su Li already had a faint guess in his heart.

He began to hide his figure, sneaking closer along the nearby grass.

When he was less than a thousand meters away.

He narrowed his eyes, observing the stronghold carefully.

This stronghold occupied an area of several mu.

It was built on the mountainside.

Both sides were cliffs, and only one mountain path led to the stronghold.

At the entrance of the stronghold, there was a thick wooden gate.

At this moment, the stronghold's gate was completely shut, and there were two sentry posts on the left and right, each with a sentry holding a bow, patrolling the surroundings.

He couldn't see what the situation was like inside.

However……

At this moment, a prompt popped up before Su Li's eyes.

"You have discovered a wild bandit stronghold; if you break through it, you will receive huge rewards."

Su Li was stunned; this was actually a bandit stronghold.

"Interesting!"

Then, instead of being nervous, he was filled with joy.

Upon learning that this was a bandit stronghold.

Su Li didn't first think about how the stronghold was too close to his territory, Bai Yun Village, and that the bandits inside might attack Bai Yun Village.

Instead, he thought about how he should improve his strength next!

His Blade Arts skill had already reached the Advanced level.

The beasts in the nearby mountain forest no longer satisfied his upgrade requirements.

The next upgrade naturally became a problem.

The appearance of this stronghold was exactly the answer to his problem.

If he could attack this stronghold.

Killing the powerful bandits inside should be able to improve his Advanced Blade Arts proficiency.

Even if it couldn't be improved, the rewards for taking down a stronghold could greatly enhance the overall strength of Bai Yun Village!

It was just that...

For the time being, his strength was still lacking; he was no match for the entire stronghold, let alone the higher-tier enemies inside.

He still had to wait for an opportunity.

After lurking near the stronghold for a full hour or two,

and having generally figured out the entire terrain of the stronghold, Su Li quietly left the stronghold and returned to his territory.

After one day.

Bai Yun Village already had 10 farmers.

Under the effect of 【Hundredfold Growth】, their professional skills had also been greatly improved.

Consequently, their speed of gathering resources was far beyond that of ordinary farmers.

But even so.

Without iron blocks, he still couldn't upgrade the territory.

"Right, why am I so stupid? Why do I have to find iron ore myself!"

Su Li thought for a while, then suddenly slapped his forehead, remembering something.

"Doesn't this Three Kingdoms survival game have a trading system?"

"If I need materials, can't I just go and trade with others?"

Perhaps his luck was bad, and there was no iron ore near his territory, making it inconvenient to gather iron blocks.

But there were so many players in the world; surely not every territory lacked iron ore nearby?

If that were the case, no one would be able to upgrade their territory; they would just guard their level 1 villages and wait to be eliminated.

Once he thought of this, Su Li immediately opened the trading system.

At this moment, quite a few people were already seeking trades on it.

"Stone for wood. Damn it, my territory is on a barren slope; I have to run very far to log!"

"5 units of wood for 1 unit of food. Wuwu, the recruited farmers consume so much food; one person eats 2 units of food every day!"

"I grinded a farmer with the Hunting skill in two days, but I can't feed ten people at all. Seeking a kind person to trade."

"Exactly, farmers with the Hunting skill are indeed too rare. I'm almost unable to feed them either; so hungry!"

"Seeking food trade +1"

"Seeking food trade +10086!"

……

All kinds of trading information filled the trading area.

However, the most demanded item among them was food units.

As for why this situation occurred.

It was entirely because the farmland cultivated in the early stages had no yield; players wanting to obtain food could only rely on farmers with the Hunting skill to go out and hunt.

But farmers possessing the Hunting skill all had high base Might, making them relatively rare.

In two days, one could at most grind out one or two.

Actually, grinding out two was fine; by having other farmers do less work, they could reduce food consumption and barely get by.

But if only one farmer with the Hunting skill was grinded out, that was very unlucky.

Even if they worked eight hours a day, the food units obtained wouldn't be enough for everyone's consumption.

Su Li was actually such an unlucky person.

In two days, he had only grinded out one farmer with the Hunting skill.

However, he had the ability to enter the mountains alone to grind monsters.

Even if he encountered a pack of gray wolves, he could protect himself.

After entering the mountains twice, yesterday and today, he had instead harvested a large number of food units.

This was something ordinary players simply couldn't compare to.

Once they entered the mountains, without the Hunting skill, they might struggle even to catch a wild rabbit.

So Su Li thought about it, and in order to obtain iron blocks as quickly as possible, he directly used food units as trading chips to exchange for iron blocks.

The new book sets sail, seeking flowers, seeking reviews!!! ===== CHAPTER 22 =====