Farming With The In-game World - Chapter 5
Chapter 5: Chapter 5: Appearance of Attributes When Building The Wooden House
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation
Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Building a wooden house was very simple.
From An Wen’s perspective, he did not need to stay in the house anyway, so all he had to do was to simply construct it.
First, he dug a foundation for the house. It did not need to be too deep; a 30-centimeter-deep trench was sufficient.
Next, he set out a layer of wooden floor planks at the foundation, and directly stacked building blocks on top of it.
After he finished setting out the wooden floor planks, An Wen marked the ground with several strings, and then began excavating the soil using his pickaxe.
He did not need to exert much strength and simply needed to ensure that he lifted the tip of the pickaxe off the ground each stroke.
Once, twice, thrice…
When he dug into the ground with the pickaxe for the tenth time, a cube-shaped trench appeared in the ground. The trench was of the same dimensions as the wooden block, with uniform height, length, and width of 30 centimeters.
At the same time, the soil which was dug out appeared at the side as a cube-shaped soil block.
“Mmm, what a perfectly standard soil block, everything makes sense.”
An Wen curled his lips and muttered to himself when he saw the soil block. Then, he continued digging.
Very quickly, he finished excavating the area.
In the center was a rectangular open area, which was the 7.8-square-meter base of the house.
“It’s kind of small, but it will do for now. Let’s see what happens after one house has been constructed.”
To be honest, when An Wen saw the small internal area of the house, he felt that the wooden house was somewhat shabby.
An area of 7.8 square meters was even smaller than the toilet room in his home.
It was possible for An Wen to recreate the Epang Palace in-game.
However, if he had to build the house himself, it was already quite a feat to build a small wooden house.
An Wen wiped the sweat off his forehead.
He then returned home and grabbed a bottle of cola.
Gulp, gulp…
After finishing half the bottle, An Wen burped and felt extremely satisfied.
It had already been many years since he last worked under the scorching sun. Looking back, the last time he did so was on sports day when he was in junior high school.
However, the last time he stood under the scorching sun and braved the heat of over thirty degrees was four years ago, when he took part in military training in university.
However, the weather was not even as warm during the military training as it was in the game world.
“I shall go back to sleep after two more hours of work.”
An Wen looked at the time – it was almost 7 p.m.
Had it not been his hobby, An Wen would have long returned home to play games in his air-conditioned room.
He then picked up a wooden block and buried it in the trench of excavated soil.
Click!
In the instant when An Wen stuck two wood blocks together, the two blocks fused into one.
They fused together so tightly that there was not a single gap between them.
The fused blocks appeared as one entire unit – it was a single cuboid-shaped wooden block, rather than two adjoined cube-shaped wooden blocks.
“This… this is possible?!”
An Wen was stunned.
Even though he knew that he was in a game world, the scene that occurred before his eyes was still beyond his expectations.
“Alright then, that saves me the trouble of having to use nails and wooden planks to secure them in place.”
The new findings were considered good news to An Wen.
If he only needed to stack the wooden blocks and did not have to perform the additional step of securing them in place, he would be able to finish constructing the wooden house in just one night.
Click, click, click…
An Wen began piecing the blocks together, with each of the wooden blocks joining together to form a single unit.
After only 30 minutes, An Wen finished constructing the four perimeter walls of the house.
Next, he laid the wooden floor planks.
Click, click, click…
Similar to the wooden blocks, the wooden floor planks could also be joined together.
“In this case, I do not even need a crossbeam, simply a wooden plank on top would suffice.”
After realizing that the wooden planks could be joined together as well, An Wen thought of another way to be lazy.
Since he was not going to stay in the wooden house anyway, he was not the least concerned if the roof of the house would collapse.
With that, An Wen put his thoughts into action.
He kicked away the round wooden pole that was acting as the crossbeam and began joining the wooden planks together.
Previously, he was still feeling troubled over how he was going to lift the round wooden pole onto the roof of the house. However, he now no longer needed to worry about the inconvenience.
Half an hour later…
An Wen had finally fixed the door to the door frame, and the shoddy wooden house was officially complete.
Swoosh!
Just as An Wen finished fixing the door, a weak, white flash of light emerged from the wooden house.
The white flash of light appeared momentarily, and then disappeared.
If not for the fact that An Wen was hiding inside the wooden house where there was less intense sunlight, he would certainly have missed the white flash of light.
“What happened?”
An Wen frowned as he looked around the wooden house. Nothing in the wooden house had changed.
Opening the door, An Wen walked outside.
When he looked at the wooden house again, he discovered that a few virtual rows of words had appeared before his eyes.
“Building: Simple Wooden House”
“Grade: Ordinary”
“Attributes: Cold-resistance, Energy Recovery Rate +5%”
“Income: 10 Survival Points / Hour”
An Wen rubbed his eyes, then carefully scanned the wooden house again.
He then realized that the virtual rows of words which looked like projections had appeared in front of his eyes once again.
If he did not stare at the wooden house, the words would disappear.
“I see, the rule of this game world is to construct buildings to earn Survival Points.”
“Buildings have different grades, and this also means that, apart from ordinary grade buildings, there are even higher grades.”
“Buildings with higher grades would have stronger and more powerful attributes. At the same time, more Survival Points would also be earned.”
As an elite, hardcore gamer, An Wen instantly thought of many possibilities.
He then returned to his wooden house.
As he made his way inside, he instantly felt the buff of Energy Recovery Rate +5%.
However, after one minute, An Wen did not feel any significant difference.
“An increase of 5% is probably too little for me to feel anything.”
Slightly disappointed, An Wen exited the wooden house.
He then stared at the attributes of the wooden house once again.
“Survival Points? 10 Survival Points are generated every hour? Is this gold or experience points?”
After pondering for some time, An Wen made a deduction.
The 10 Survival Points which were generated were likely to be the equivalent of gold.
In such a case, if there were units equivalent to gold, then…
“System Mall?”
An Wen said out loud as he waited in anticipation.
Even after waiting for some time, nothing happened.
An Wen was extremely disappointed.
It seemed that he still needed to continue exploring in order to learn more about the purpose of Survival Points.
“Since such changes appeared to the wooden house, does that mean the rules of this game world tend towards farming?”
“That doesn’t seem right either. Cutting trees and building houses… Is this a survival game world?”
“If that is the case, what is the source of danger?”
“Zombies? Monsters? Natural disasters? Man-made disasters?”
“All of these are possible.”
“However, nothing is logical in-game worlds, as everything depends on the actual settings behind the game. Who knows what kind of dangers await?”
“I previously believed that the island was fairly safe, but that could just be because I had yet to trigger or activate certain settings.”
“Now that I have constructed the wooden house, certain settings might have been activated, which could result in danger.”
“After all, a game using ‘Survival Points’ as its currency system would certainly not allow the player to obtain these points so easily.”
“As such… I should return home to hide first.”
Without further ado, An Wen hastily gathered the tools on the ground and stored them in the wooden house, then returned back to Earth.
Upon returning home, An Wan sat in his laboratory and pondered as he drank a bottle of cola.
“This would not do. I need to research carefully, simply rushing back like this seems too cowardly of me.”
Although An Wen was afraid of dying, he also could not bear to give up on the other world due to fear.
Other matters could be easy to decide on.
However, he had discovered that buildings had attributes, and they also generated Survival Points. Such meant that the other world possessed boundless potential.
To give up on the other world simply because he was unaware of the danger that awaited was something that he could not bring himself to do, nor was he willing to do.
However, for him to remain in the other world and face the dangers head-on was also not possible.
Who knew what would happen?
What if it turned out to be a catastrophe?
Hence, after deliberating for a long time, An Wen decided to continue using his old method.
The method was to place the camera inside the wooden house and record a video.
His camera had run out of battery previously and had only been put to charge for two hours, so there would certainly not be sufficient battery for it to be used.
To solve the problem, An Wen directly removed the emergency backup power supply in his house.
Originally, the backup power supply was specially installed because An Wen was afraid that the power might be cut when he was playing games.
However, compared to the other world, what kind of games could be more enjoyable than living in a game world itself?
An Wen returned to the other world once again.
He placed the camera inside the wooden house and made a small window in the wall, so that the camera could record the situation outside the wooden house from inside.
“Oh, right, I should set up a fire pit outside, in case it is too dim at night.”
An Wen set up a fire pit on the left side of the camera.
He used three round wooden poles and more than ten wood blocks which he had left, from the construction of the house, to fill the fire pit before igniting the fire.
With such a large stack of wood, An Wen believed that the fire should be able to remain burning for a very long time.
After he was done, An Wen observed the forest in the distance that was located tens of meters away.
He somehow felt that if there was any danger present, it would definitely be from the forest.
Of course, it was merely based on speculation, and it was still too early to tell.
