At this moment, a big "danger" character appeared in Lin Yue's mind!
He quickly turned around, just about to make a move, when he saw that giant locust leap into the air and fly straight towards him!
The wings vibrated, causing a terrifying sound.
Lin Yue gasped, quickly running to the side as fast as he could. Glancing back, he saw the giant locust land and bounce towards him again!
This time, Lin Yue sprinted directly towards the shelter, feeling a rush of anxiety.
How is this thing so fast? It's so big and can fly? It's cheating!
After darting into the house, he quickly closed the door and bolted it as fast as he could, leaning tightly against the door.
However, before he could catch his breath, he felt a strong vibration from the other side of the door!
Lin Yue pressed against the door tightly, beads of sweat running down his forehead.
Yet the persistent crashing didn't come again.
The sound of the locust bouncing didn't return either.
After a few more minutes, Lin Yue wiped off the sweat from his face, feeling puzzled.
What's going on?
Did it leave?
But at this point, Lin Yue could only guess.
After all, his shelter didn't even have a window, he had no idea what was happening outside.
While he was still puzzled, Lin Yue suddenly heard a strange sound.
And the sound was coming from overhead.
Dry grass slowly fell to the ground, and Lin Yue looked up towards the roof.
Just three to four meters above him, the huge head of a locust had already penetrated through the dry grass roof, its massive compound eyes fixed on him!
Almost instinctively, he yanked open the door and dashed outside.
Simultaneously, he heard a thud behind him as the giant locust fell to the ground.
Without thinking, Lin Yue shut the door.
The door couldn't be opened from the outside, so the locust couldn't get out for now, providing him some relative safety.
However, the crashing sound started again from another place.
If ignored, this newly rebuilt wooden house might be smashed to pieces.
If the shelter were destroyed...
He thought of the person whose shelter collapsed and whose profile picture turned gray.
No, without the shelter, death would not be far away.
Lin Yue wiped the sweat from his face, eyes fixed on the large hole in the thatched roof, and picked up the Iron Spear beside him, quickly climbing up.
This kind of activity was too easy for him, having been used to climbing trees and onto roofs in the orphanage.
Through the large hole, Lin Yue looked into the room; the giant locust was still crashing into the walls, causing constant strong vibrations.
"Hey bug, look over here!"
Lin Yue grasped the Iron Spear and shouted angrily!
The locust noticed the commotion and suddenly leaped, flying straight towards the hole!
The Iron Spear in Lin Yue's hand was instantly thrown out when the creature was at its closest distance.
Thud!
The spearhead slanted into the locust's head, and the sharp blade quickly cut through its skin, exiting its lower abdomen, heavily smashing onto the ground!
"Did it work?" Lin Yue watched as the creature jumped and struggled on the ground, cautiously refraining from going down to check.
After a while, until it only twitched slightly, Lin Yue finally felt relieved and climbed down from the roof.
[You have obtained the Iron Treasure Chest!]
Just then, the prompt finally arrived, and Lin Yue felt all his energy drain away, causing him to sit down on the ground directly.
This was too dangerous.
After resting for a moment, he finally stood up again.
Speaking of mutated creatures, this locust was more like a monster.
What locust is as big as a large dog, and can jump so high and fly so far?
If there hadn't been an Iron Spear, he might have struggled quite a bit to defeat it, or even...
been killed by it.
His first face-to-face encounter with death, Lin Yue took his time before taking a deep breath and standing up again.
At this moment, the joy of obtaining the Iron Treasure Chest washed away most of the tension.
He had only ever received Wooden Treasure Chests, this Iron Treasure Chest was a first.
He finally remembered the survival manual mentioning that the stronger the defeated mutated creature, the higher the grade of the treasure chest obtained.
Entering the house, beside the red giant locust's corpse, was indeed a metal box slightly larger than the previous wooden treasure chests.
Dragging the Iron Spear, Lin Yue hauled the heavy locust body out of the stone door and pulled out the Iron Spear.
After finishing these tasks, he felt completely exhausted.
Challenges often come with opportunities.
He opened the Iron Treasure Chest.
[You have obtained: Matches x1, a package of tin foil, a roll of toilet paper]
Matches came out!
The importance of a fire source speaks for itself.
Imagine, in this pitch-black night in the shelter, if mutated creatures attacked, without the illumination from flames, he would be in a passive position, possibly losing his life.
On the other hand, fire can also cook food, allowing him to fend off the cold.
The ratio of water and food obtained from Wooden Treasure Chests seems to be random.
As for the Iron Treasure Chest, as of now, it seems to offer some basic survival tools.
Tin foil can be used as a cooking tool on many occasions.
Lin Yue recalled some culinary videos mentioning that by wrapping food and tossing it into the fire, raw meat could be cooked in a short time.
As for toilet paper…
At least he wouldn't have to use those unknown wild grasses to wipe in certain moments, right?
Lin Yue returned outside, spent 1 wood and 1 Iron Block crafting a Shovel, and began digging a pit.
Of course, this was to bury the locust.
He had a feeling that leaving it there might attract unknown mutated creatures.
If something more powerful came, that would be a real headache.
After a while, Lin Yue used the Shovel to dig the shape of a large pit.
But then he thought of another matter.
Could he dig an underground shelter?
He looked back at the wooden house behind him.
If he hadn't let the locust out at that time, how long would the wooden walls have lasted? What if he encountered even more powerful mutated creatures?
Lin Yue felt that even if the entire house were replaced with stone, it wouldn't be so secure.
Moreover, not only mutated creatures needed to be guarded against.
There were also people.
This is a survival game, akin to an apocalyptic extreme environment.
No water, no food, even the shelter collapses with a touch.
In such an environment, the ugliest side of human nature can often be provoked.
Being from the orphanage, Lin Yue was exposed to society earlier than most people and was more accustomed to living alone, making him more cautious than his peers.
He didn't want to harm others, as long as others wouldn't come to harm him.
The pit was finally dug, and he looked up at the sunset.
Unknowingly, it had gotten this late.