Chapter 4: A Bird Gun Swapped for a Cannon

Space Ring!

This is actually a Space Ring!

And it's a Space Ring with a built-in space of 15 cubic meters!

Lin Yifan looked at the ring in his hand, the corners of his mouth almost blooming into a smile!

With this ring, he could go farther to search for supplies, without having to haul them back and forth to the Safe House.

Most importantly, he could store all his precious items inside the ring and carry them on his person.

Although the distant reaches of this Survival World were all shrouded in thick Mist, making it impossible to see clearly.

But who knew whether someone might pass through the Mist and come to his area?

What if, while he was out searching for supplies, someone raided his home? At least he'd still have the supplies in his ring, and wouldn't be thrown back to square one overnight.

Of course, Lin Yifan hoped all this was just needless worry on his part!

Surviving in this strange world was already hard enough; if he also had to add fratricidal conflict to that, survival would become even more grueling.

However, if such a day really came, Lin Yifan wouldn't mind getting blood on his hands.

Someone else's death was better than his own!

Lin Yifan happily slipped the ring onto his finger, then focused his mind, and immediately saw the space within the ring.

He tossed the Blueberry Tree he'd chopped down earlier, along with the straw hat he'd just swapped out, all into the space.

Only then did he turn his attention to the very last item in the Treasure Chest.

It was actually a composite bow.

Item Name: 【Eagle Hawk Composite Bow】

Grade: Fine

Appraisal: A composite bow with powerful killing power, but in the hands of someone who can't shoot, it's nothing but scrap metal.

Lin Yifan fondled the composite bow, unable to put it down, his heart surging with excitement.

If the Space Ring earlier had made his fantasy come true,

then this composite bow had made his dream come true.

Before transmigrating, he'd always loved archery, but his finances were limited, and he couldn't afford a high-precision name-brand composite bow.

He could only go to the Archery Hall and rent a composite bow to get his fix.

However, his talent for archery was actually quite good; although he only went occasionally to indulge, his accuracy was much better than many veteran players who had practiced for years.

Before he transmigrated, the Archery Hall he often visited had already approached him about working there as a part-time instructor.

And he had already agreed.

The result was that he hadn't even gone to his first class before he transmigrated here.

He had originally felt a little regret, regretting that he'd never have the chance to touch a composite bow again in this lifetime.

He never expected that he would so quickly possess a composite bow of his very own.

Lin Yifan gently stroked the composite bow in his hands, and without hesitation spent one item-upgrade opportunity to upgrade the composite bow.

Item Name: 【Wind-Chasing Cloud-Breaking Bow】

Grade: Superior

Appraisal: A traditional longbow crafted by ancient methods, with a purple-gold wood bow body and ox sinew bowstring; so long as your arm strength is sufficient, your arrows will be enough to pierce through anything.

Lin Yifan stared at the upgraded Broken Cloud Bow, completely dumbfounded!

He'd chosen to upgrade the composite bow because he wanted to have an even higher-grade composite bow.

Who would have thought that a perfectly good composite bow, after upgrading, would actually turn into a traditional longbow!

It wasn't that he disliked traditional bows; it was purely because he'd never practiced one!

A composite bow's accuracy comes from tuning, but a traditional bow's accuracy depends entirely on eyesight!

With a composite bow in hand, Lin Yifan was confident he could guarantee accuracy, but now that it had been switched to a traditional bow, what did he have left to guarantee it with?

If only he'd known, he wouldn't have upgraded it!

Lin Yifan regretted his decision, but things had already come to this, and he had no choice at all.

He could also use it for trade, but this was a Superior-grade Broken Cloud Bow!

Whenever Lin Yifan had free time, he often refreshed the Auction House and chat channel.

So far, most of the weapons sold on the Auction House were basic-version Rusty Axes, or Rusty Hammers.

The best weapon was an ordinary-grade Watermelon Knife.

Compared to his Superior-grade Broken Cloud Bow, that was simply garbage!

Asking him to trade it away to someone else—how could he bear to?

A traditional bow is a traditional bow!

Aren't they all bows and arrows?

How could he possibly not learn it?

At worst, he'd just practice more!

Lin Yifan gritted his teeth, took a Feather Arrow straight from the matching Quiver, nocked it on the Broken Cloud Bow, took aim at a Pine Tree over 20 meters away, and released.

"Whoosh!"

The Feather Arrow sliced through the air and instantly pinned itself into the Pine Tree's trunk.

Lin Yifan hurried over, saw that the Feather Arrow had struck exactly the spot on the trunk he'd aimed at, and sharply drew in a breath of cold air.

He looked down at the Broken Cloud Bow in his hands, thought for a moment, then fired two more arrows in succession.

Every single arrow still hit the spot he'd aimed at; such accuracy made Lin Yifan couldn't help secretly wonder to himself.

Could he be an archery prodigy?

Definitely!

Otherwise there's no way to explain it!

Lin Yifan calmly accepted his "genius archer" setting. After recovering the three Feather Arrows, he stopped practicing.

The matching Quiver only held a total of 20 Feather Arrows. Although they could be recovered after being shot, Feather Arrows were nowhere near as durable as the Arrows of a compound bow.

Once the feather fletching was damaged, accuracy became completely uncontrollable.

Therefore, they had to be used carefully. Until he found a stable source of Feather Arrows, these 20 arrows were his personal safety guarantee!

He hung the Quiver at his waist, slung the Broken Cloud Bow across his back, and confirmed he could nock and draw in the shortest possible time. Only then did Lin Yifan heave a sigh of relief and prepare to continue searching for new Treasure Chests!

As for that empty Bronze Treasure Chest, Lin Yifan tossed it into his Space Ring for safekeeping.

An Empty Treasure Chest could actually be broken down into raw materials, but right now he had nothing at home. Having a chest to store things in was far more cost-effective than dismantling it into a pile of raw materials.

And now he was hooked on opening Treasure Chests!

Just one Treasure Chest alone had let him trade a bird gun for a cannon.

If he could find a few more, wouldn't conquering this Survival World be as easy as a game?

Not to mention, he still had one chance to upgrade an item today.

He had already figured it out: the contents of a Treasure Chest basically matched the grade of the chest itself.

As long as he upgraded the Treasure Chest, the contents inside would be bad only at worst.

However, with the experience of his first Treasure Chest search, Lin Yifan also knew that Treasure Chests were a matter of luck, not something you could force.

So he didn't stubbornly search only for Treasure Chests; gathering supplies was given equal attention.

This forest had over a dozen kinds of trees, all common ones like Pine Trees, Cypress Trees, Camphor Trees, and Japanese Cedar Trees.

Lin Yifan chopped one of each kind of tree, and ultimately discovered that although chopping other hardwoods generated 1 extra unit of Wood per tree,

the time it took to chop one hardwood was enough to chop two Japanese Cedar Trees.

And the firewood generated by all these trees was the same quality — Basic Wood.

Naturally, chopping Japanese Cedar Wood was more cost-effective.

Lin Yifan searched for Treasure Chests while chopping the Japanese Cedar Wood he passed on the road, or the Stone Chunks he happened to bump into.

By 2 PM, he had chopped 56 units of Basic Wood and 12 units of Basic Stone.

Thank goodness he now had the Space Ring. Otherwise, he had no idea how many trips it would take to haul all this Wood and Stone back to the Safe House.

It was just a pity that Lin Yifan still hadn't found a second Treasure Chest, which made him slightly disappointed.

He still had one item upgrade chance left today, and was hoping to find another Treasure Chest to upgrade!

If he couldn't find one, he'd have to use it on Initial Materials like Wood and Stone.

Using such a heaven-defying skill to upgrade Initial Materials — just thinking about it made him unwilling.