"Small Soilless Cultivation Kit?"
Lin Yue was instantly attracted by the name of this item.
Things for soilless cultivation are naturally vegetables and fruits.
Lin Yue had once visited a greenhouse during a school trip in high school and still remembered the shock he felt seeing cherry tomatoes growing like trees, each bearing thousands of fruits.
So, is this small soilless cultivation kit the thing he imagined?
He glanced at the noodles about to be cooked and opened the group chat.
"This person is really funny, asking for 2 liters of water? You might as well just go and rob it."
"Indeed, it's hard enough to squeeze out a few hundred milliliters, and right away you want 2 liters? Just wait for the price to drop!"
"By the way, there's still a Copper Treasure Chest? I thought there were only Wooden Treasure Chests and Iron Treasure Chests?"
"Lucky guy, do you need any accessories on those legs?"
"Don't be silly, soilless cultivation also needs water. If it's nutrient solution, it's even less worthwhile. Where do you find nutrient solution? Even if it's just water, it's not enough to drink, let alone grow vegetables?"
"I'm from the countryside, this stuff might trick city folks, but we don't fall for that. Even if you grow bean sprouts, it takes four or five days. People would die of thirst in four or five days, what's the point of growing vegetables."
"Exactly, I'll bid 1 piece of wood, sell or not, buddy?"
Most of the group chat was full of sour grapes, mocking words, and some lamentations that this person was crazy.
But some were telling the truth: not everyone can take out 2 liters of water.
The noodles were cooked.
Lin Yue smelled the tempting aroma, knowing not everyone could resist this temptation.
Especially when faced with the dual challenges of hunger and thirst after a whole day.
Not to mention, the other person was also from Tang Country, basically having no resistance under hunger.
So, why not give it a try?
The other party was holding an auction, perfect to see how competitive his instant noodles could be.
Although bidding first would directly expose his bottom price, making him passive as the seller capitalizes on it later.
But merely watching wouldn't tell anything.
After all, for Lin Yue, making instant noodles was no challenge.
Glancing at the current bids, there weren't many yet.
Lin Yue placed his cooked instant noodles up.
[Bidder Lin Yue: A bowl of cooked Kang Shuaifu instant noodles]
And this move quickly set the entire group chat ablaze!
"What? Lin Yue has made a bid? Damn, and it's...in-instant noodles?"
"Wait, it's cooked! This means Lin Yue has enough water, noodles, and even a pot...How many treasure chests has he opened? Didn't he spend all night slaying mutant creatures yesterday? That's intense!"
"I haven't even had water yet...and he's eating noodles. Is this the gap?"
"Lin Yue add me as a friend, will ya? You cook noodles for me, I'll...wait, no innuendos, please!"
"Guys, what's so special about instant noodles? You'd be better off with Old Ba's secret mini burger, no worries for three meals a day!"
After Lin Yue placed his bid, he observed the group chat while waiting for a response from the seller, Zheng Jing.
Soon enough, he found Zheng Jing had replied!
"Boss! I really want the instant noodles, but I want water even more, one bowl of instant noodles plus 1.5 liters of water, that's my minimum price."
Lin Yue didn't reply.
The Soilless Cultivation Kit, though eye-catching in the entire trading market, wasn't a necessity.
Lin Yue had indeed considered the issue of balanced nutrition for the future, as it's related to health. Eating only bread and cooked noodles every day would take a toll on the body someday.
But even so, this thing that sounds like a water guzzler wasn't something he needed.
For someone like him who could get treasure chests from slaying small bugs and lizards, and for others too, it was the same.
Need water? Let's see who gives you that much!
Having eaten the slightly overcooked noodles, Lin Yue let out a satisfied burp.
He stood up and looked out towards the vast Desert.
There was too much to adapt and digest yesterday, and he sure went to bed early.
Which also meant he hadn't explored much of the Desert around the Shelter.
Handy with an Iron Spear, Lin Yue began meticulously searching within a 20-30 meter range centered on the Shelter.
This time, it didn't take too long before he discovered five shrimp-like bugs with red shells, busy digging around the area where huge locusts were buried.
The sharp Iron Spear took them all down in one sweep, and Lin Yue gained five Wooden Treasure Chests.
Including a treasure chest he forgot to open yesterday, he opened all six one by one.
[You obtained a 600ml bottle of Nongfu Spring mineral water!]
Four bottles of water, two one-pound loaves of bread!
If it were anyone else, achieving this many resources might mean battling dozens, even hundreds, of mutant creatures and still getting nothing.
But for Lin Yue, this was just normal operation.
After putting everything back into the inventory, Lin Yue headed to the little forest.
With the Iron Axe in hand, he turned around and started gathering wood again.
Wood seemed valuable everywhere, whether for tools, weapons, furniture, and so on; everything required some wood.
Lin Yue indeed had a lot of water, but exchanging hard currency water for the wood he could gather wasn't worthwhile.
Before cutting down this not-so-small sparse forest entirely, he decided not to consider trading water for wood for the time being.
In the barren Desert, stones didn't exist, iron mines hadn't been seen yet.
What he did have plenty of were water and food from treasure chests.
And these were just what others were severely lacking.
This is a wasteland world.
Through the group chat, Lin Yue realized that aside from a few unfortunates like him who landed in the Desert, others were either in forests, near ore deposits, or surrounded by piles of rocks.
In short, their resources were abundant.
Picking up the Iron Axe again, Lin Yue found himself more adept than yesterday, his tree-cutting efficiency increased slightly.
After a while, with the fifth small tree cut down, the wood reserve in the inventory shot to 25 units!
Finding a flat area, Lin Yue sat down, unscrewed a bottle of water, and opened the game panel again.
He also checked his current food and water supplies.
In terms of water, he drank a bottle earlier, sold 400ml, cooked noodles with a whole bottle...and with what he acquired later, there were still a bit over 4 bottles remaining.
Food-wise, he had two loaves and a packet of noodles so far, which brought it to two and a half loaves left.
Oh, and two empty plastic bottles.
Honestly speaking, it was still not a lot.
While a 100% treasure chest drop rate is impressive, the limited number of mutant creatures near the Shelter is indeed a constraint.
So, why not try expanding the range further?