Chapter 8: Purchasing Materials

Because in the chat channel at this moment, what was scrolling was actually a large amount of begging messages.

"Hey brothers and sisters, please help, give me something to eat! I haven't eaten anything all day!"

"I'm the internet celebrity Sexy Little Sheep; if any brother is willing to give me something to eat, I'll send you my black silk long leg photo!"

"What's a black silk long leg photo? Any brother willing to give me food, I'll send him nude photos, that's fine!"

"Guys, I'm Lin Jiājie of the Space-Time Youth Team; I'm about to starve to death, please guys give me something to eat! I'll show you my abs……"

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Seeing all kinds of creative begging messages, Lin Yifan frowned.

He originally hoped to learn a bit about other survivors' information from the chat channel.

Who would have thought that even in the Survival Realm, there are still so many online beggars.

After he painstakingly blocked those online beggars, he finally managed to see normal survivors' chat messages.

"Ah! I chopped trees all day, I'm exhausted! If I hadn't found a treasure chest that dropped bread, I'd probably be starving by now!"

"Don't mention it, I've been hammering stones all day, now I can't straighten my waist, my stomach is growling with hunger; whoever has food, I'll trade stones for it."

"I also chopped trees all day, barely managing to cut a dozen or so units of wood; this is too hard! When will I ever gather enough materials to upgrade my shelter?"

"Hahaha! I didn't chop trees or hammer stones today; I spent all my time looking for treasure chests, and I found three of them—I'm now full and feeling great!"

"Hey upstairs, don't be excessive; we're all starving, you're just full and showing off what?"

"Exactly, what's there to show off? I also got a big white steamed bun from a treasure chest, and I didn't even show it off……"

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Lin Yifan carefully examined the comment section and discovered that the most scarce commodity on the market is still food.

As for stone and wood, most people who went out to gather supplies during the day have at least some.

If we trade food for stone and wood, it shouldn't be difficult!

Lin Yifan is not lacking food now; he has six or seven catties of snake meat he hunted today, and still a large handful of wild blueberries.

After subtracting his own food needs, at least three or four catties of snake meat and wild blueberries remain.

If he keeps these snake meat and wild blueberries, they can at least guarantee three days of food and warmth.

But Lin Yifan doesn't want to keep them!

Food can be found again if it runs out, but the terrifying mosquito swarm not far away can really take lives!

Even though he currently has a 1.5‑grade shelter, he still feels no sense of safety.

He must urgently upgrade his shelter to level 2 and then craft the 【Super Mosquito Repellent】; only then can he feel at ease.

Thinking this through, Lin Yifan set aside the meat he intended to eat tonight and tomorrow morning.

He then chopped the remaining meat into egg‑sized chunks with an axe, and divided the blueberries into portions of ten each.

This gave him 45 meat chunks and 32 portions of blueberries.

He then began checking the shelter's information, calculating the materials needed for the upgrade.

【Brand‑new Thatched Hut (5 sqm)】

Grade: 1.5

(Overall assessment: This is a brand‑new thatched hut just completed; although its defensive capability remains weak, it is sufficient to block wind and rain!)

Next level: 【Level 2 Safe House: Rough Wood House】

Upgrade conditions:

【Black Iron Grade Wood House Blueprint: 1/0】

【Basic Wood 50/63】 (already satisfied)

【Primary Stone 50/12】

【Clay 30/0】

(Friendly tip: If you can find a higher‑quality safe house blueprint, you can also build according to that higher‑quality blueprint, thereby obtaining a higher‑quality safe house!)

Lin Yifan looked at the missing materials and felt a slight headache.

Stone is fine; he just carefully observed the auction house, where there are plenty of stones for sale.

However, the amount of clay is not large, which actually makes sense.

While gathering supplies today, he also continuously collected materials for upgrading his shelter.

His shelter is surrounded by forest, so wood is the least lacking, and stone is also not scarce.

However, the stone nearby is either in large cliffs that must be broken with tools,

or he can only pick up scattered stones in the forest.

Although Lin Yifan has an ordinary‑grade axe, using it to smash stone would be a waste.

So today he only picked up some scattered stone chunks and did not specifically go collect stone.

As for clay, Lin Yifan originally thought that digging up any dirt would count as clay, but unfortunately the dirt he dug from many places does not qualify as clay.

Thus he didn't find a single unit of clay today, and the amount of clay listed on the auction house is also similarly low.

But these basic materials can still be obtained through trade; what truly gives Lin Yifan a headache is the shelter's blueprint.

On the entire auction house, there isn't even a single shelter blueprint listed for sale.

In the comment section, however, someone has bragged about obtaining a blueprint from a treasure chest, but they never put it up for auction.

Obviously, most people who get a blueprint want to keep it for themselves and have no intention of selling it.

It seems that if you want to upgrade the shelter, the bottleneck is this blueprint!

But no matter what, since Lin Yifan wants to upgrade the shelter, the materials must first be gathered.

Thus, Lin Yifan put up 10 meat chunks on the auction house, exchanging one meat chunk for five units of wood.

This exchange rate is neither high nor low, because other food items listed on the auction house have exchange rates that are actually more expensive than his meat.

For example, an oat bread the size of a fist actually requires exchanging six units of wood.

A quarter of a packet of instant noodles, meanwhile, needs to be exchanged for ten units of wood.

Compared like this, his exchange rate can be considered fair.

After all, although the meat pieces he divides are small, meat inherently staves off hunger better than other foods and is nutritious.

Of course, the taste is definitely not as good as other foods.

In this world where survival depends on desperate effort, energy is surely the most important.

As expected, his snake meat had just been put up for sale when it was instantly snapped up, and fifty units of stone were immediately credited to his account.

Meanwhile, the comment section had already exploded.

"Everyone, hurry to the Auction House, a big shot is exchanging cobra meat for stone!"

"It's actually meat? That's great, I'll go exchange too!"

"Five units of stone can get a piece of meat, that big shot is awesome!"

"Oh no! It's gone so fast, I haven't even managed to exchange for any!"

"Big shot Lin Yifan, could you list a few more? I'm willing to offer six units of stone in exchange for a piece of snake meat……"

"Hey, what's wrong with you? Why are you starting to raise the price? Are you treating the big shot like some kind of person?"

"Exactly, the big shot is upright and unbending; how could he trade the meat for you just because you offered one more unit of stone? If it's to be traded, it should go to me! I'm also offering six units of stone……"

"Tch! Just now you said you wouldn't raise the price, but you ended up raising it yourself—disgusting!"

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