Qin Ziwen took out the two reward cards.
The first was a blank card, and the second was a thin gray metal card.
The two felt completely different; the former was warm and smooth like jade, while the latter had a metallic, matte texture, with a beast cage pattern drawn on it.
The former was the blank expansion card, and the latter had a standard (micro) label on it.
After receiving them, he learned the uses of the two cards.
The former could be used in any area of his homestead, expanding that area to a 10*10m expansion space. This expansion space, similar to a cellar or granary, was a folded space and wouldn't affect the building's shape.
The latter required selecting a 4*5m square area; activating it created a beast cage within that area, suitable for raising animals.
Looking at the cards, Qin Ziwen realized his house originally only had a 98㎡ interior space, the area recognized by his homestead.
After using the blank expansion card (micro), it directly increased from 98㎡ to 198㎡, becoming a large single-level apartment.
If he could obtain more blank expansion cards, wouldn't he be able to build a "building within a building," or even a city within a building?
Qin Ziwen pondered for a moment and decided to put the blank expansion card in the bathroom.
The newly built animal cage definitely needed to be placed in the expansion area; if livestock were to be kept in the cage in the future, the smell would be too strong, making it unsuitable for the bedroom.
The house had a three-bedroom, one-living room, one-kitchen
, and one-bathroom layout. He lived in the master bedroom, his younger brother in the second bedroom, and there was a guest room, which was the room where Wang Xiaoli had just hidden.
Now that the water and electricity were cut off, the bathroom was also useless. Qin Ziwen opened the bathroom door and chose to use the space at the far end of the bathroom near the window.
A flash of light.
A large blank area expanded
directly at the far end of the bathroom, and the original bathroom window disappeared. Almost simultaneously, from the outside, the window of the bathroom on the fifth floor of building 8 in the community was "erased" from the map, leaving only the exterior wall covered with tiles.
"How amazing."
Qin Ziwen exclaimed. With the wall where the bathroom window used to be the dividing line, a large area of grayish-white land appeared.
The ground was hard rock, without soil or plants, as if a piece had been cut from an enormous rock and embedded there.
The moon was not visible in the sky, but the light intensity, temperature, and humidity within the expanded area were the same as outside.
A layer of hazy mist shrouded the area overhead and at the boundaries of the expanded area, making it untouchable, like an invisible wall.
The height was similar to his own home, still 2.8 meters high.
Even so, Qin Ziwen couldn't help but marvel after seeing it with his own eyes.
He selected a 4x5 square plot of land near the left side and used a Level 1 beast cage.
The card transformed into light, enveloping the enclosed area.
When the light dissipated, a huge wire cage appeared on the spot, with thick pieces of wood embedded in the ground at the four corners. The interior was also divided into several small areas by wire mesh.
There were also food troughs and water troughs inside.
He summoned the Homestead Light Orb, and text appeared on the white light screen:
[Homestead] Building 8, Unit 2, 5-2
[Area] 198㎡
[Height] 2.8m
[Buildings] Level 1 Cellar, Granary, Level 1 Beast Cage
Qin Ziwen called his younger brother.
Qin Ziwu opened the bathroom door and was dumbfounded when he saw what was behind it.
Qin Ziwu stared at the scene in shock. "Brother, what is this?"
Qin Ziwen said in a serious tone, "I couldn't sleep last night, so I dug it up."
Qin Ziwu rolled his eyes. "Fine, I believe you. I'll believe you no matter what. Anyway, I won't ask you anymore."
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However, Qin Ziwu had a guess in his heart. This must be the mysterious power of the card his older brother had mentioned. He suspected it might have been dropped during the daytime hunt of crocodiles.
Qin Ziwen smiled. He knew his younger brother's character well, having grown up together since childhood, and besides, such a significant change couldn't be hidden.
Qin Ziwen said, "Next time we catch field mice, we can keep them in cages. We can feed them by collecting some plant roots or small insects every day. If we can get a male and a female, we might have a whole litter of field mice in no time, and then we'll have meat to eat every day."
"I don't know about field mice, but hamsters have a terrifyingly high reproductive rate. I had a roommate who kept two hamsters, a male and a female, and they had a litter of over ten babies in less than a month in their cage.
Then, less than a month later, the female hamster had another litter. He later found out that hamsters go into heat again on the day they give birth, and they can reproduce all year round."
Qin Ziwu became even more excited upon hearing this. The reproductive rate of hamsters was so terrifying; he figured field mice must be just as prolific.
For Qin Ziwen, obtaining a stable source of meat from captive animals was secondary; the main reason was for his daily scoring.
He speculated that raising livestock should also count as a bonus point in his daily scoring.
Not every day he gets to hunt crocodiles, and not every day he encounters someone like Xie Jun.
Getting such a high score today won't be easy.
Thinking about the smoked meat tomorrow, he needed to prepare tonight. Qin Ziwen went to the kitchen, cut the crocodile meat into thin strips, and then marinated them with salt and pepper.
"Brother, let me help you marinate the meat."
The two brothers worked for an hour, finally finishing processing the eighty pounds of crocodile meat. Luckily, they had received three one-pound bags of salt as a reward yesterday, otherwise they wouldn't have enough.
The next morning, just as dawn was breaking,
Qin Ziwen filled a bag with the marinated meat and met up with Old Deng's family.
Noticing that Old Deng's wife was glancing at him repeatedly as he came downstairs, Qin Ziwen couldn't help but ask, "Sister-in-law, what's wrong? Is there something on my face?"
Xiao Meixue quickly shook her head, "Nothing."
Deng Guang said, "She's probably still thinking about last night."
He glanced at his wife; after decades of marriage, he knew her personality well enough to explain for Qin Ziwen, "If you ask me, this isn't Qin's fault at all. Those Xie brothers, these cancerous growths, should have been dealt with sooner. It's fortunate they were there; otherwise, if they had targeted the others in our building, who knows what trouble they would have caused."
Xiao Meixue rolled her eyes at him, "I didn't say anything. I was just curious, weren't you scared the first time you did something like this?"
Qin Ziwen smiled nonchalantly, "Scared? Of course I was! I was terrified. But they were bullying us, we couldn't just keep backing down."
Qin Ziwu tried hard to recall if his older brother had shown any fear.
He couldn't quite remember.
Deng Wen asked curiously, "What's wrong?"
Xiao Meixue replied, "Nothing, adults should talk, kids shouldn't interrupt."
Deng Wen scoffed, raising her chin, "It's just a dead person, what's so hard to talk about? I'm seventeen, do you really think I'm a child?"
Xiao Meixue was furious, but Deng Guang interrupted her, "Alright, Xiao Wen knows, so be it. Young people of their generation have been exposed to more things than we were back then, she's a grown woman now." Deng
Wen muttered under her breath, "Last night there was such a commotion, I was asleep, but I was woken up. I immediately felt something terrible had happened!"
She didn't show any resistance to Qin Ziwen's murder; on the contrary, she admired him somewhat. He was much cooler than those "Jiahao" types at school.
As Qin Ziwen left through the south entrance, he glanced at the spot where he had dumped the bodies the night before.
His brow furrowed; the two corpses had vanished without a trace—two grown men, simply disappeared.
He walked over, stepping on the weeds. He
squatted down to examine them and found drag marks on the surrounding vegetation, along with faint traces of blood.
(End of Chapter)