Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

Looking at the Blood Pattern Rabbit already lying on the ground, Xu Xin gasped heavily.

He didn’t dare to relax just yet, pulling out his crossbow and shooting another arrow at the rabbit’s head, then drew his broken spear and jabbed it several more times.

[Killed a polluted mutant wild rabbit, earned points: 500 points.]

An enigmatic voice rang out, and Xu Xin breathed a sigh of relief, only to be stunned by the points.

"500 points??" Xu Xin was somewhat shocked, "That’s so many!"

Xu Xin had been busy hunting all day today, taking advantage of the map and Keke’s guidance, achieving an efficiency far from ordinary; he was either hunting or on the way to hunt. Yet, even so, he only accumulated 364 points in total, while this one mutant rabbit alone was worth 500 high points!

Judging by the intensity of the red dots, this mutant rabbit wasn’t as strong as a tiger, and its points were already ten times that of Silver King. It couldn’t be that a tiger’s points were over ten times that of a 200kg Wolf King, right?

No wonder Ji Chaoyang had sent him a message, advising against offerings. This big shot must have killed one already and, besides warning him about the danger, perhaps didn’t want him to score so many points and stay ahead.

Or maybe he was just being paranoid.

Forget it, there’s no need to think about this. Xu Xin focused his attention back on the mutant rabbit.

A polluted mutant rabbit... He offered a sacrifice at the "deity" altar and ended up creating a polluted monster?

Xu Xin suddenly thought of the soil near the underground world’s entrance, called [Polluted Soil (Gray)], which like this rabbit, bore a slight red hue, both polluted.

This event, such an animal should not have appeared, as this altar seems to randomly appear three kilometers outside the current treehouse range. For now, it seems only he and Ji Chaoyang have the ability to summon this kind of polluted animal through sacrifices at the altar.

"Killing a polluted rabbit can earn so many points, could it be... these polluted animals are what that mysterious voice truly intends for us to hunt, our true enemies on land?"

Xu Xin pondered while pulling out a boning knife, wanting to dissect the rabbit’s body to see what good things he might obtain.

However, at this moment, the pain-masking effect of the adrenaline from the intense battle wore off, and Xu Xin suddenly felt a sharp pain in his left shoulder, making him involuntarily inhale sharply and clench his teeth.

Silver King and Keke had already come to him while he was contemplating, looking at him worriedly.

Keke didn’t dare to climb onto his shoulder but instead tugged at his pant leg, looking at his shoulder pierced by rabbit ears, making weak whimpering sounds.

Currently, the rabbit ear was still embedded in Xu Xin’s shoulder, piercing through his armor and penetrating his shoulder, pressing against the back of the armor. Since it hadn’t been pulled out yet, not much blood had flowed from the wound.

But Xu Xin didn’t dare to pull it out easily. He knew that if he did, it might bleed profusely; this rabbit ear, with its nearly five centimeters of width and nearly one centimeter of thickness, was no different from being penetrated by a sword.

Xu Xin forced a smile at Keke and Silver King: "Don’t worry, I’m fine, I have a healing herb."

He fetched a hemostatic grass (blue) from his backpack. When he considered using a feint to deal with this rabbit, he knew he’d get hurt, but he never worried due to the hemostatic grass (blue) in his possession.

[Hemostatic Grass (Blue): A divine herb that can quickly heal severe injuries! Cannot regenerate limbs and organs.]

This thing wasn’t for ingestion, as the green-grade hemostatic grass was ground and applied to the wound.

Xu Xin checked the map first; due to the altar’s peculiarity, there were no beasts in the immediate vicinity, only a few tigers wandering relatively far away.

He was relieved, found two stones, and ground the hemostatic grass.

Xu Xin held the rabbit ear, gritted his teeth, took a deep breath, and forcefully pulled out the rabbit ear. He felt blood gushing inside his armor, swiftly removed it. Xu Xin was wearing the newbie two-piece under his armor, which did not hinder the exposure of the wound.

A penetrating wound, even through the bone, was quite severe and was bleeding continuously. If left untreated, it might lead to excessive blood loss.

[Mutant Rabbit’s Ear (Blue): Material for weapon crafting, can substitute metal blocks; weapons crafted from it are extremely durable and sharp!]

This rabbit ear embedded in his body turned out to be weapon material!

Xu Xin, not having time to be happy, put the rabbit ear into his backpack.

Blood began to ooze from the wound, and he quickly applied the ground hemostatic grass to it.

An intensely itchy sensation emerged from the wound, making Xu Xin’s body tense up.

He resisted the urge to scratch, as he and the panda cub and wolf stared directly at the wound on his left shoulder.

They watched as the wound healed at a rate visible to the naked eye, eventually closing up entirely.

The itching sensation completely disappeared, Xu Xin touched the wound and tried moving his arm, finding no abnormality.

"This is truly a divine herb!" Xu Xin said while rotating his arm, "This blue-grade hemostatic grass is too strong, it’s a pity I haven’t seen any after visiting so many places. I have to get some more from that guy next time."

"Yip?" Keke looked at Xu Xin’s completely healed injury, eyes full of confusion.

"Alright Keke, I’ve fully recovered, you can climb up if you want."

"Yip!" Though Keke didn’t understand why Xu Xin recovered so quickly, hearing he was fully healed made it happily chirp, climbing onto Xu Xin’s uninjured shoulder while still curiously peeking at his other shoulder.

Once the injury was treated, Xu Xin picked up the other rabbit ear he had cut off, which was also a blue-grade material.

He placed the rabbit ear into his backpack and then began to examine the rabbit’s corpse on the ground. The blood patterns on the corpse had become a deep red, like congealed blood, no longer as vibrant as when it was alive.

Drawing out the boning knife, Xu Xin proceeded to dissect the rabbit, which was as large as a small pig.

[Gained Mutant Rabbit Hide (Blue), Mutant Rabbit Tendon (Blue), Mutant Rabbit Bone (Blue), Polluted Mutant Rabbit Meat (Gray) * 40kg]

Three blue-grade materials! Including the two rabbit ears, a total of five blue-grade materials!

Xu Xin felt the wound he suffered was absolutely worth it!

But this rabbit meat, why is it gray-grade?

The rabbit meat was also covered with red patterns, the red deeply ingrained in the meat.

[Polluted Mutant Rabbit Meat (Gray): Highly toxic, fatally attractive to beasts; consumption likely leads to immediate death, and the corpse becomes unusable due to pollution, with a slight chance of mutation.]

"Hiss—!" Xu Xin gasped. This is... a source of pollution capable of creating mutant beasts? Though unlikely, but still...

Silver King and Keke, upon seeing the mutant rabbit meat cut out by Xu Xin, stared intently at it; when Xu Xin picked it up, Keke whimpered, tugging his clothes, while Silver King tilted its head, drool dribbling from its mouth.

"This absolutely cannot be eaten, it’s highly toxic! It’s meant to lure fools like you and poison you!" Seeing both Keke and Silver King drawn in, Xu Xin became alert and sternly warned the two beasts.

Hearing Xu Xin’s words, Keke and Silver King shrank their heads back, reluctantly tearing their gaze away from the blood-patterned meat.

Xu Xin even felt reluctant to put it with his other stuff in the backpack but thought about its attractiveness to beasts, resisting the discomfort and quickly stored it.

This thing might be useful someday, but unless absolutely necessary, it must not be fed to other beasts, as it would not only waste the materials but might even create stronger monsters. A single mutant rabbit was almost beyond him, let alone other mutant beasts.

Speaking of which, if other beasts eat this meat and die, will their meat also become this polluted meat?