[East side: Go another 2000 meters east and there is a gold treasure chest.]
[PS: There is a group of Tree Spirits around the gold treasure chest. If you don't have enough firearms, I don't recommend messing with them. If you think you can deal with them using just a campfire, you might really regret it.]
"..."
After seeing this prompt, Ethan shook his head and refused the temptation.
Not to mention that it would be dark in half an hour, even if he rushed to the area where the Tree Spirits were, he still might not win the fight.
The scariest thing about humans is not being able to control their own desires.
The gold treasure chest might be very tempting.
But first of all, Ethan might not make it back in time, and even if he managed to get there, he would miss the best time to return while fighting.
In the end, even if Ethan managed to win against the Tree Spirits by chance and with miserable luck.
He would be injured and still have to hurry along the night road…
Just thinking about it made Ethan feel it was dangerous.
'Let's stop here.'
After making the decision, Ethan carried Daji and quickly headed in the direction of his small hut.
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Soon, they returned to the outside of the stone house.
Ethan first put little Daji and the white eagle back inside the house, then hurried back into the grass to retrieve the beast cage.
"Gugugu~"
As soon as Ethan got close to the trap cage, he heard noisy chirping sounds.
[Ten meters ahead, three wild pheasants detected.]
"Oh ho!"
"I actually caught three wild pheasants?"
Ethan ran over quickly and saw that inside the trap cage were two hens and one rooster. They were restlessly pacing around inside the cage.
But the rooster wasn't anxious at all. It was happily riding on the hen's back, making clucking sounds.
Ethan couldn't care less what the chickens were doing. He lifted the trap cage and walked straight back to the stone house.
Just as he arrived at the stone house, the sky quickly darkened.
The originally white mist, once it lost the sunlight, instantly turned into a gray-black darkness, and there were even eerie baby cries coming from outside the house.
"Wuwuwu~"
'Creepy enough!'
Ethan quickly shut the stone house door.
Little Daji had been curled up sleeping on Ethan's bed, and the moment it saw Ethan return, it happily shrank into his arms.
It made happy gugu sounds, as if expressing its joy.
The white eagle obediently returned to its nest.
It looked a bit envious of little Daji.
When the white eagle shifted its butt and was about to come out, it was stopped by Ethan, "Stop! You stay inside. You're too big."
"Chirp! Chirp!"
The white eagle looked a bit wronged.
But there was nothing it could do. It realized as well that it really was too big. In this little house, it could only squeeze into some corner.
Forget running around, it couldn't even stretch a wing.
Ethan looked at the two pets and the four chickens nearly filling up the tiny house, and he helplessly shook his head.
Not only that, the wild pheasants he brought back were going to poop.
Because of this, Ethan felt an even stronger urge inside.
He had to hurry and upgrade the villa to expand its area.
Thinking of that, he opened the upgrade tree to see what materials he was still missing to upgrade the villa.
[Villa upgrade requirements: Advanced stone 180/200, mud 955/1000, Advanced wood 187/100, vines 528/200, glass 14/20, earth element beast core 26/10, fire element beast core 15/5, water element beast core 12/5]
Almost all collected, just missing Advanced stone, mud, and glass.
Ethan suddenly remembered the compasses he put up for sale on the trading channel this morning.
He quickly opened it to take a look and saw that out of 97 compasses, most had already been sold. Only 25 compasses remained untouched.
Actually, it wasn't that the remaining compasses had no buyers. Most people simply couldn't afford them.
A small group bought together with teammates, and some others didn't have the materials to exchange.
He opened the trade details, planning to see which exchange options were left unused, thinking about adjusting them.
After all, he had spent the whole day outside and brought back plenty of materials.
Some things he no longer needed.
[Compass -1, Advanced Wood +10]
[Compass -1, Advanced Stone +20]
[Compass -1, Mud +100]
[Compass…]
Rows of numbers flashed by.
Ethan didn't bother looking at each one in detail. He directly opened the transaction summary.
[Compass -72, Advanced wood +150, Advanced stone +700, mud +600, quartz +1000, fire type beast core +2, water type beast core +4.]
The remaining 25 were mostly beast core exchanges, plus Advanced stone and Advanced wood.
Looks like this batch of players wasn't good.
Advanced wood and stone had basically been stripped clean by Ethan.
Thinking about it, he decided to switch trading materials.
"What should I switch to?"
Ethan propped his head up and started thinking.
Today when he went out, he found plenty of treasure chests and spirit stones, probably compensation from the game.
Since the beginner protection period ended, the daytime mist made players avoid going out.
So the game increased the number of treasure chests accordingly.
That meant everyone should have opened quite a few treasure chests today.
Maybe Ethan could take the chance to scoop up a wave of treasure chest profits.
So he relisted the remaining 25 compasses.
[1 compass: exchange for 100 bronze (remaining 10)]
[1 compass: exchange for 50 silver (remaining 5)]
[1 compass: exchange for 10 spirit stones (remaining 10)]
[Comment: "Boss, are you serious! I just happened to get ten spirit stones today. You calculated it so you could take them all, right?"]
[Comment: "Boss, what misunderstanding do you have about bronze? One hundred pieces of bronze, where can I possibly… uh…"]
This person had just typed half the comment.
The bronze for compass exchange was already sold out.
And the 10 spirit stones for compass option was quickly bought out as well.
Now on the page, only the 50 silver for compass exchange was left.
"Looks like… Not many people are lucky enough to open silver treasure chests."
That was because the difficulty of finding a silver chest was many times higher than finding a bronze chest.
Of course… Ethan also couldn't rule out that the two people who traded with him might have found silver ore.
So using ore to exchange for a compass would make sense.
Otherwise, just trying to find five treasure chests would have been extremely difficult.
[Comment: "Boss, please save me! I'm outside right now and lost! But I only have 20 bronze, 10 silver, 5 spirit stones, and 1 grain of rice. Can I trade for one compass?"]
Ethan glanced at it. Seeing how scattered the items were, he guessed the guy was already running out of everything.
If he really died outside, these things would just go to waste.
After thinking a bit, he replied, ["Alright, message me privately for the trade."]
[Comment: "Thank you boss! Thank you so much!"]
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