novelsite Chapter 126 A Bumper Harvest of Steel and Wood
Chapter 126 A Bumper Harvest of Steel and Wood
Chapter 126 A Bumper Harvest of Steel and Wood
The crew benefits that followed left Sun Daqing utterly dumbfounded.
The captain actually took out a Tier 3 sea beast jerky and gave it to him!
He held the dark, mushy piece of dried meat, and tears almost welled up in his eyes again.
This is meat from a Tier 3 sea beast!
Although the jerky smelled a bit like stinky tofu, it was heavenly food to him, who was starving.
He wolfed the jerky into his mouth, barely chewing it, and the jerky slid down his esophagus.
This can be considered a talent bestowed upon him—an iron stomach, which also strengthened his esophagus.
He can even eat rotten food and convert it into energy.
But mainly it was because he ate quickly. Even if the food didn't taste good, it wasn't enough to make him feel nauseous and want to vomit. In fact, he barely felt that way in his stomach.
The smelly fish, though unpleasant, is actually delicious, not to mention the stinky fish meat.
The moment Sun Daqing ate it, his gluttonous talent began to activate, rapidly distributing the energy from the meat throughout his body.
Gradually, his skinny body visibly began to fill out.
"Eat up, this is quite filling. If we weren't in such a rush, I could catch a few fish and grill them for you."
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Su Jin waved his hand casually, then looked towards the forest and asked, "Daqing, we have to get back to work after we've eaten. Have you seen any unusual trees in this forest that are the same color as the two masts on my ship?"
Sun Daqing's cheeks were bulging like a hamster's as he struggled to swallow the last bite of meat.
Hearing this, he paused for a moment, looked up into the depths of the forest, and mumbled, "Yes—yes! It's behind that big earthen mound to the west."
"Before I buried myself in there, I peed under that tree—cough cough, I mean, I rested there," he said with a look of reminiscence.
"That tree was really hard. I was trying to break off a branch to use as chopsticks, but I almost broke my front tooth."
Su Jin's eyes lit up, and he said succinctly, "Lead the way."
The three of them walked into the Black Forest one after the other. Because there was no sunlight in the area, it was particularly cold and damp after the rain.
This moisture is difficult to evaporate on its own; it will take at least three days without afternoons for it to become slightly drier.
However, the forest would still get damp in the morning, but by the time Su Jin and the others came in, the situation wasn't so bad anymore.
Halfway there, Su Jin suddenly stopped, took out a spare iron axe from his backpack, and casually tossed it to Sun Daqing, who was following behind.
"Then, you'll have to do your part later."
Sun Daqing frantically caught the heavy axe, completely dumbfounded.
He looked at the sharp weapon in his hand, then at Su Jin, who was completely defenseless and had his back exposed to him, and a surge of indescribable emotion welled up in his heart.
So they gave him a weapon?
In this cannibalistic apocalypse, even brothers have to be wary of each other. This big shot actually gave an axe to someone he had only known for less than half an hour?
What incredible trust!
Sun Daqing sniffed and secretly vowed that from now on, his life belonged to the boss, and whoever the boss told him to kill, he would do his best to keep his eyes open and be bold.
Little did Su Jin know that he wasn't worried about Sun Daqing turning against him. The fat man was so weak now, panting even when he walked, that Su Jin could twist his head off and use it as a ball before Sun Daqing even raised his axe.
However, being fat is a stable position, making him perfect for manual labor—or rather, a capable crew member.
"We're here, these are the trees!"
After passing through a dense thicket of bushes, Sun Daqing pointed to two towering trees ahead and shouted.
The two trees were exactly the same as the previous ones, all iron gray, standing out conspicuously in the dim forest.
"Very good, let's get started."
Without wasting words, Su Jin grabbed the axe and found a slightly thinner tree to start practicing.
"Clang, clang, clang!"
Sparks flew everywhere.
The hardness of this steel and wood was truly remarkable; it made Su Jin's hand go numb slightly. Despite chopping it several times, he still didn't like chopping this thing.
On the other side, Sun Daqing also followed Su Jin's example, spitting twice into his palm, shouting to embolden himself, and grabbing the axe to chop at another tree.
"I'll chop—uh-huh-huh!"
The powerful recoil not only made his hand hurt, but also spread throughout his body, causing him to tremble.
It felt like being jolted by a gong; I was completely dazed.
However, he was not discouraged. After all, he had just eaten a full meal, and the shock he had just experienced had also invigorated him.
He followed the small notch he had just cleaved and swung his axe again, this time using brute force.
"Bang!"
This loud bang was even more muffled than the one from Su Jin's side.
Su Jin turned around in surprise and saw that Sun Daqing's axe had actually cut a three-inch-deep gash in the iron-hard tree trunk!
It seems he underestimated the fat man's strength; perhaps it was because he had just eaten some third-tier sea beast meat that his strength had increased.
It wasn't that Su Jin couldn't unleash such powerful strikes, but there was no need. He used skillful force, combined with a certain rhythm, which allowed him to save energy and strike faster.
Before Sun Daqing's breach had even reached halfway down the tree, Su Jin's steel-wood tree had already fallen, even though it was a bit thinner.
Hearing the dull thud of Gangmu falling to the ground, Sun Daqing stopped what he was doing and looked at Su Jin in shock.
He didn't really have any concept of the attributes of this world, such as increasing strength or improving physique, but he didn't think about it in depth.
He had never imagined that a person could become a superman, but now he had witnessed it.
"Wow, Captain, you're a Homelander, aren't you!"
He actually had a gluttonous talent that gave him a strength boost, and he thought his strength attribute was already second to none.
Unexpectedly, Su Jin was even more like a monster than him, chopping down the tree with just a couple of quick strokes.
Su Jin smiled and said casually, "It's alright, my stats are just a little higher. You continue, I'll take a break. Don't expect me to help you."
He could have helped, but he didn't.
If you're given a task and then still need to help yourself, what kind of job is that? It's better not to give it to you in the first place.
"I don't need the captain's help, I will complete the mission," Sun Daqing said through gritted teeth.
Despite sweating profusely and expending a great deal of energy, he was determined to cut down the tree, even if it meant his death.
Lin Xuan wasn't idle either. She couldn't cut down the tree, but that didn't mean she couldn't cut the branches.
After the steel and timber collapsed, she used an axe to cut off the branches little by little, then tied them together with flax rope to take down the mountain later.
She didn't even spare the steel leaves, collecting them all as well.
Ten minutes later, Sun Daqing finally cut down the tree and collapsed on the ground, exhausted.
"Phew, phew, mission accomplished, Captain."
He shakily raised a thumb.
Su Jin nodded in satisfaction and clapped his hands: "Take a break for a while. The next task is to drag Gangmu away."
"what?"
Sun Daqing immediately wore an expression of utter despair.
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