Chapter 7: If You Want Water, Go and Rob It

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

“A small soilless culture set?”

Lin Yue was instantly attracted to the name of this thing.

The soilless culture was naturally related to vegetables and fruits.

When Lin Yue was in high school, the school had organized a visit to a greenhouse. He still remembered his shock when he saw the cherry tomato plants that looked like trees with thousands of fruits.

Then, was this small soilless culture set what he was thinking of?

He looked at the cooked instant noodles and opened the group chat.

“This person is really funny. He wants two liters of water? Why don’t you just go rob someone?”

“Indeed, it’s difficult to even offer a few hundred milliliters, and he is asking for two liters of water. Let’s wait for him to lower the price!”

“Speaking of which, there’s also a bronze treasure chest? Isn’t there only wood and iron treasure chests?”

“Lucky bro, do you need a subordinate?”

“Don’t be silly. Even soilless culture requires water. If it requires nutrient solution, then it’s even more useless. Where can we find nutrient solutions? Even if it’s just water, it’s not enough for us to drink. How can we plant vegetables?”

“I’m from the countryside. You might be able to fool city people, but not us. Even if you plant bean sprouts, it will take four to five days to grow in it. Four to five days is more than enough to make people die of thirst. What’s the point of growing vegetables?”

“That’s right, I’ll offer one piece of wood. Are you selling it, brother?”

…

It was a case of sour grapes. Some mocked, and some sighed that this person had gone crazy.

But some people were indeed telling the truth. Not everyone could take out two liters of water.

The noodles were cooked.

Lin Yue smelled the alluring fragrance and knew that not everyone could resist this thing.

Especially after being tested by hunger and thirst for an entire day.

Moreover, the other party was also from China. It could be said that he had no resistance against hunger.

Then, should he give it a try?

Since the other party was auctioning, it was a good opportunity to see how much power his instant noodles had.

Although the first bid would directly expose his base price and he would fall in a passive position in the bargaining, he had no other ideas.

To Lin Yue, instant noodles would not be rare.

Not many people were bidding.

Lin Yue placed the instant noodles on the bid.

[Bidder Lin Yue: A bowl of cooked instant noodles.]

This action quickly ignited the entire group!

“What? Boss Lin Yue is bidding? F*ck, what! It’s actually… instant noodles?”

“Wait, it’s cooked! This means that Boss Lin Yue has enough water, noodles, and a pot… How many treasure chests did he open? Did he farm mutated creatures all night yesterday? Isn’t he too fierce?!”

“I haven’t drunk water yet, while he has already eaten noodles. Is this the difference between us?”

“Boss Lin Yue, can you add me as a friend? You give me noodles, I’ll give you p*ssy.”

“Brothers, what’s there to eat in instant noodles? It’s better to eat the slider. It will be enough for three meals!”

…

After Lin Yue made the bid, he watched the group chat and waited for the seller’s answer.

Before long, Zheng Jing’s reply came!

“Boss! I really want to eat instant noodles, but I want water even more. A bowl of instant noodles and 1.5 liters of water is the lowest price.”

Lin Yue did not reply.

‘Give an inch and they will take a mile.’

Although the soilless culture set was the most eye-catching item in the entire trading center, it was not a necessity.

Lin Yue had considered the problem of nutritional balance in the future. After all, this concerned his health. His body would not be able to take it if he ate bread and noodles every day.

But even so, this thing that sounded like it consumed a lot of water was not a necessity for him.

It was like this for him, who had a 100% treasure chest drop rate, let alone others.

You need water? Then let’s see who will give you that much!

After eating the slightly overcooked instant noodles, Lin Yue burped in satisfaction.

He stood up and looked at the vast wasteland.

There were too many things to do yesterday, and he had slept early.

This caused him to not explore too much of the wasteland around the shelter.

Holding the iron spear, Lin Yue began to search carefully within twenty to thirty meters of the shelter.

This time, it did not take long for him to discover five worms with red shells that looked like prawns. They were constantly digging the place where the giant locust was buried.

The sharp iron spear swept them away, and Lin Yue obtained five wooden treasure chests.

In addition to the treasure chest he had not opened yesterday, he opened these six chests one by one.

[You have obtained 600 ml mineral water!]

[You have obtained…]

…

Four bottles of water, and two pieces of bread weighing 500 grams!

If it were anyone else, they would probably have to fight dozens or even a hundred mutated creatures to obtain so many resources.

But to Lin Yue, it was just normal.

After putting them in his inventory, Lin Yue came to the wood.

He took out the iron ax and began to gather wood.

Wood seemed to be needed everywhere. Be it tools, weapons, furniture, or anything else, they all required some wood.

Lin Yue had a lot of water, but it was too wasteful to exchange this hard currency for the wood.

Before finishing these sparse trees, he decided not to use water to exchange for wood.

There were no stones or iron ores in this wasteland.

The only thing he had a lot of was water and food.

They were something that others lacked.

Through the group chat, Lin Yue knew that other than the few unlucky people who had descended into wasteland like him, the others were either in the forest, beside ore deposits, or beside a pile of stones.

In short, they had abundant resources around them.

Picking up the iron ax again, Lin Yue cut the trees more efficiently than yesterday.

After a while, as he cut down the fifth tree, the wood reserves in his inventory increased to 25 units!

After finding a flat ground, Lin Yue sat down and opened a bottle of water.

He also checked his current food and water reserves.

In terms of water, he had drunk a bottle, sold 400 milliliters of water, and used a bottle to cook the noodles… In addition to the water he had obtained later, there were still four bottles and some more left.

In terms of food, he had obtained two pieces of bread and a bag of instant noodles yesterday. There was half a loaf of bread left from yesterday, and he had just obtained two more loaves.

Oh, and two empty plastic bottles.

It was not much actually.

A 100% chance of a treasure chest dropping was indeed impressive, but the fact that there were not many mutated creatures near the shelter was a limitation.

‘Should I expand the search range?’