First, he scoured the living room, then proceeded to the kitchen, and finally went to the bedroom, taking all usable supplies with him.
The system prompts kept appearing,
[Acquired: Dry Cheese*2]
[Acquired: Inferior Wine*1]
[Acquired: Chicken Oil Mushroom*5]
[Acquired: Raw Buckwheat Honey*2]
[Acquired: Linen Cotton Clothes*3]
[Acquired: Gingerbread*1]
[Acquired: Coins*723]
Although these were just some low-value supplies, Cao Xing was enjoying himself immensely.
What was this feeling, to put it simply...
It was like the whole village belonged to you, and everything inside was yours for the taking.
Moreover, the village was quite large, with hundreds of houses.
If all these supplies could be collected, it would be quite a haul.
Of course, it would take some time.
But with many people under Cao Xing's command, it wouldn't take too long.
After searching about a dozen villagers' houses,
Cao Xing arrived at a two-story building in the village.
It was the village's tavern.
Upon entering, a strong smell of blood wafted in.
It was clear that a battle had taken place here.
But in order to disguise their identity, these hunters had cleaned up the signs of the battle.
The tables and chairs in the tavern were neatly arranged together.
Cao Xing didn't pay attention to them and went straight to the tavern counter.
His eyes were fixed on the wine cabinet behind it.
The cabinet door opened.
Inside were dozens of bottles of assorted wines.
"Damn... so much red and white wine, this is a fortune!"
Cao Xing, with a look of excitement, took them all.
[Acquired: Refined Rum*24]
[Acquired: Gixsta Dry White*6]
[Acquired: Local Pepper Vodka*8]
[Acquired: Vidima Champion Liquor*6]
[Acquired: Kodwin Black Beer*7]
"Haha, what a score!"
"The tavern in my territory can stock new wines again!"
Then, he opened the bar and found a big pile of coins inside.
Cao Xing's eyes virtually sparkled with little stars!
"Take it all, take it all!"
[Acquired Coins*4724]
After looting the bar, Cao Xing moved to the second floor of the tavern.
There were just a few small rooms.
He pushed open the door to one of the rooms and found a naked female corpse lying inside, her skin white from freezing.
Cao Xing did not find anything valuable inside these small rooms.
He descended from the second floor and continued searching inside the tavern.
"Strange, why haven't I found the tavern's wine cellar?"
"Could their wine have come from elsewhere?"
Even Cao Xing himself had constructed a basement under the tavern in his territory to store wines and other items.
He didn't give up and kept searching.
At this point, Cao Xing came by a loose wooden door under the stairs.
Squinting at it, some information about the door displayed before him.
[Tavern Underground Wine Cellar Door]
Cao Xing grinned with joy, then raised his magic wand and launched an Ice Ball Skill at it.
The wine cellar door blasted open, revealing a spacious basement.
A strong aroma of wine wafted out!
"Wow! What a fragrant scent, there should be quite a bit of wine stored inside, right?"
Cao Xing jumped straight in.
Inside the basement, he saw a dozen round wooden barrels!
Glancing over them, the system prompted him.
"All these are filled with wine, each containing one hundred liters!"
"There are thirteen barrels here, that means a full 1300 liters!"
"This is really hitting the jackpot!"
Cao Xing was overjoyed and directly collected all the rum.
[Acquired: Rum*300 liters]
[Acquired: Rose Red Wine*200 liters]
[Acquired: Tequila*500 liters]
[Acquired: Wine*200 liters]
[Acquired: Ridania Beer*100 liters]
The 13 barrels took up two slots in his backpack space.
Cao Xing was completely satisfied.
And after he collected all the barrels, he noticed a storage box in the corner.
Approaching it, a system message popped up.
[Discovered Drake Tavern's Storage Box (Blue), Open?]
[Opened successfully]
[Acquired: Intermediate Underground Room Construction Blueprint]
[Acquired: Refined Rum Recipe*1]
[Acquired: Coins*27133]
[Acquired: Indenture Contract of Vicky/Anita/Beilu/Ulrika*4]
[Acquired: Drake Tavern's Ledger*1]
"Refined Rum Recipe? And an Intermediate Underground Room Blueprint?"
Cao Xing glanced at the attributes.
[Intermediate Underground Room Construction Blueprint: Expands a Basic Level Basement into a room 8 meters long *8 meters wide *5 meters high, for storing supplies or serving as a temporary shelter.]
[Durability: 4500/4500]
[Construction Materials Required: Basic Underground Room, Wood*500, Stone*300, Iron*100, Basic Elemental Crystal*5]
[Construction Time: 12 hours 54 minutes]
(A more advanced basement not only has more space but also decent defensive abilities.)
[Brewing Materials Required: Basic Brewing Workshop, Rum, Tree Liquid, Honey.]
(Note: The flavor is richer than regular rum, highly favored by warriors.)
Cao Xing mused aloud, "I need a brewery to start brewing? Seems like I need to recruit—no, find a talent in brewing to join my territory."
After he collected everything.