The afternoon hours felt like a steamer basket to the other Survivors due to the heat.
But for Lin Bei, who was wearing the Adaptive Protective Suit, it was incredibly comfortable.
He had already gathered the materials needed to construct his Perfect Villa.
However, he did not immediately start construction. Instead, he decided to wait until he had expanded the island area further before choosing a Feng Shui Treasure Land to build his first villa.
"I never thought that while I'm still renting in the real world, I'm about to own a villa here."
"Such a contrast... it's both heartbreaking and funny."
The continuous high temperatures caused many Survivors who were still hoarding primal stone to abandon their stubbornness and gradually start using primal stone to trade for the various heatstroke prevention supplies Lin Bei had listed.
However, Lin Bei did not set the prices for his items ridiculously high.
After all, these people were excellent sources of productivity for him; every day they survived meant one more day of resources provided to him.
The announcement mentioned that each seasonal cycle would last seven days, and it was only the second day. There was still a long way to go.
Soon, the amount of primal stone he received gradually increased.
In just half an hour, he had received a full 6,000 primal stone!
This proved that his decision was absolutely correct!
Without hesitation, Lin Bei continued to use this primal stone to expand the island.
A large area of light appeared at the edge of the island, and the next moment, the area of his island expanded by another 3,000 square meters.
[Island Level: 3]
[Island Area: 9,000 square meters]
[Upgrade Condition: 9,000/10,000]
"I only need the final 2,000 primal stone to upgrade the island to Level 4."
Lin Bei glanced at the island upgrade condition, then looked at the heatstroke prevention supplies he had listed in the Trading Hall. The ice cubes were sold out, and the remaining items were also running low.
He couldn't expect to get 2,000 primal stone in the short term.
Therefore, he needed to think of other methods.
His gaze fell upon the pile of supply treasure chests casually stacked on the ground around him.
After most of the day, his total count of treasure chests was now about fifty, though he hadn't counted them precisely.
Most of them were superior and Fine quality supply treasure chests, followed by common quality treasure chests.
As for the excellent quality treasure chests, he still had 4 left. In addition, there was one Perfect quality treasure chest emitting an orange glow.
However, he had checked: the Perfect quality supply treasure chests required a Advanced Treasure Chest Key to open, and he only had Common Treasure Chest Keys, so opening it was clearly out of the question.
"common Keys are obtained by opening Fine treasure chests. If I'm not mistaken, High-grade Keys probably come from excellent treasure chests."
"How troublesome."
Lin Bei complained, then operated his wristband, emitting a blue light that enveloped all the supply treasure chests in that area.
After upgrading the island to Level 3, the Survival Bracelet also unlocked some convenient functions.
One of these was the function to open supply treasure chests in batches.
Lin Bei really liked this function, as it meant he didn't have to open the treasure chests one by one.
Furthermore, the wristband beam could shine from a distance, allowing him enough space after triggering a Critical Hit effect from opening the chest, preventing him from being buried alive again by mountains of supplies.
The only pity was that the treasure chests requiring a key could not be opened in batches; he had to use the key to open them personally.
Lin Bei retreated nearly twenty meters before choosing to open the supply treasure chests.
Soon, a string of prompt messages appeared.
Various Critical Hit notifications popped up.
It was disappointing, however, that none of these treasure chests triggered a hundredfold Critical Hit.
The highest was only a fiftyfold Critical Hit, which was rather underwhelming.
As for the haul, it was a huge jumble of miscellaneous items. The most useful item was the Design Blueprint for the Automatic Water Collector, Fine quality, which could automatically draw 2 to 20 liters of purified water from the air every day.
The specific yield depended on the weather; the hotter the weather, the lower the yield.
However, the minimum guarantee of 2 liters of purified water per day was enough for one person.
He opened 20 blueprints in total, which was quite good.
Lin Bei casually fabricated one and traded it directly to Bei Bei Nan Gua.
This way, the other party wouldn't lack water.
As for the other items and blueprints, most were related to keeping warm and resisting cold. Lin Bei merely glanced at them before putting them all away.
Lin Bei highly suspected that after the current Hot Season ended, the next season would likely be the Ice and Snow Season!
Otherwise, why would he, with his luck, open such irrelevant items?
Lin Bei didn't think he was a Fei Qiu.
After all, he was a Super Lucky person who had personally opened a complete set of Perfect Villa crafting materials.
Calling himself an Ou Huang was not an exaggeration at all.
Of course, besides survival tools and food materials, he also obtained some equipment and weapons.
However, these items were clearly more than one grade lower compared to Lin Bei's Frost Ice Repeating Crossbow and Adaptive Protective Suit.
He could sell them in the Trading Hall during the next Marine Creatures invasion to earn a wave of profits.
As for using them himself?
Forget about it.
They were just firearms loaded with common bullets, lacking even an Automatic Calibration Function. Lin Bei couldn't be bothered to look at them.
It could only be said that the most useful things for Lin Bei were the two Ammunition Manufacturing Blueprints opened from the superior treasure chests.
One was the Alloy Crossbow Bolt Blueprint, and the other was the Cannon Bomb Blueprint.
With these two blueprints, Lin Bei would no longer lack ammunition for his Frost Ice Repeating Crossbow and Automatic Cannon.
The manufacturing cost of Frost Ice Arrows was too high, consuming various precious materials to make only 500 bolts. Therefore, for general Combat, Lin Bei preferred to use cheaper crossbow bolts.
After all, the attributes of the Frost Ice Repeating Crossbow were already monstrous enough; even when loaded with Alloy Crossbow Bolts, the power was still astonishing!
He tested it out: while one arrow couldn't freeze the sea surface, two arrows certainly could.
Moreover, the superior quality Alloy Crossbow Bolts possessed the special effect of "Wound Penetration," allowing a single shot to pierce through the target's body and strike more enemies behind it.
Coupled with the slowing effect of the Frost Ice Repeating Crossbow, the result would definitely be explosive!
Excluding various supplies, Lin Bei obtained over a thousand primal stone from these supply treasure chests.
He was still short by more than eight hundred primal stone to upgrade the island to Level 4.
At this point, he only had four excellent quality supply treasure chests left unopened.
"I don't have many chances left."
"If I still can't gather 2,000 primal stone, I'll have to grit my teeth and use a high-grade prime stone to make up the difference."
The Trading Hall hadn't seen any primal stone income for a while, so Lin Bei could only rely on himself now.
Lin Bei muttered under his breath, then took a deep breath and gently turned the Treasure Chest Key inserted into the keyhole.
Click.
The treasure chest slowly opened.
[Prompt: You opened an excellent treasure chest!]
[Prompt: You triggered a 10,000x Critical Hit effect!]