Chapter 5: Chapter 5: My Turn, Draw!
Now her panel had completely turned into the Lord template, but the original player panel hadn't disappeared. She just needed to click on the name of the Lord panel to switch over.
In the top right corner of the panel, there were several icons, which seemed to represent the so-called Free Market and chat channels.
However, Bai Yi didn't hurry to click into them but first opened the warehouse.
The panel's warehouse wasn't like a bug-form space warehouse, it seemed to just compile resources within the territory.
The First-tier beast bones and wood stored inside came from the fallen branches and the remains of creatures once killed by the giant banyan within the territory's range.
"This actually makes sense now..."
Bai Yi muttered, her gaze moving downward before she clicked open the warehouse.
Inside the warehouse lay two small travel bags, one with a rose pattern, golden-edged, looking extremely luxurious, while the other bore a ladybug pattern, made of black leather with no excessive decoration.
It seemed these were the so-called soldier packages.
"Let's open them along with the Newbie Gift Package!"
The Newbie Gift Package differed from the soldier packages. It was a flat square gift box, unable to be opened simultaneously with the soldier packages, so Bai Yi first clicked open this gift pack.
[You've opened the Newbie Gift Package, and you've obtained Iron Small Knife*1, Whole Rice*1 (unit), Bloodthirsty Beetle Insect Nest Blueprint*1]
[Iron Small Knife (White): An ordinary fruit knife, but in necessary times it is also a lifesaving weapon, Attack Power coefficient 1.1, Attack Power +10.]
[Note: Different weapons have different Attack Power coefficients, and final damage is proportional to the Strength used.]
[Bloodthirsty Beetle Insect Nest Blueprint (Green): After learning, you can consume materials to create [Bloodthirsty Beetle Insect Nest], required materials: Wood*20, Stone*20, Fresh Blood Flesh*30]
[Bloodthirsty Beetle Insect Nest (Green): Can consume fresh blood flesh to recruit (breed) units [Bloodthirsty Beetle], the nest comes with 5 initial units, recruitment consumption: Fresh Blood Flesh*1]
This was all the information Bai Yi could see, and when she intended to continue checking the detailed information of Bloodthirsty Beetle, she was prompted to build it first.
The construction cost wasn't much. For others, fresh blood flesh might be difficult to obtain, but Bai Yi was different; there were still 647 units of Giant Boar Pork lying in the warehouse!
Uh, wait, now there were only 644 units.
Bai Yi noticed a small tree root from the giant banyan was still stuck into the corpse of the giant boar, sneakily absorbing the blood flesh.
Seeing Bai Yi seemed to have caught its action, the giant banyan reluctantly withdrew its root, looking pitiful.
"Forget it, it was the giant banyan that killed it, after all, let it eat a little if it must."
With Bai Yi having ample food supply, she didn't mind this slight consumption, also acknowledging she had no way to process the giant boar's corpse for now.
But what excited Bai Yi more was those rice grains lying wrapped up in the small cloth on the panel!
The kind without the shell!
If given to others, this indeed might be troublesome as they would have to find a way to dehusk it to eat, but Bai Yi was different; she didn't plan to waste them as food.
With her superpower, she could directly start her farming endeavor!
Putting her focus back on the panel, she continued to open the two soldier packages.
Like the Newbie Gift Package, these two packages also materialized from the panel, each with an extra floating wooden table compared to the former.
Once both travel bags were opened, a pile of cards flew out, stacking on the two tables respectively.
Both piles of cards bore the same pattern as the soldier packages; the left had a rose back, and the right had a ladybug back.
Seeing this scene, Bai Yi suddenly grew excited.
"Oh wow, card draw!"
Bai Yi had played a few card draw games before, having experienced double gold in ten draws and also hitting the big guaranteed reward, maintaining an average luck.
But this meant every card draw was unknown to her, she never knew if she'd get lucky or not.
"How could drawing cards possibly be bad? Let's just draw!"
Bai Yi swiped both hands across the two card piles, scattering them. With quick eyes and hands, she picked two cards from each stack.
"(Pray Words)! This determines whether or not I can survive later! It must produce results!"
Bai Yi closed her eyes, whispering a prayer, then opened them to a narrow slit.
She placed her hand on the two cards, slightly lifting a corner.
Bang!
Bai Yi had just lifted the cards and could already glimpse the results; she couldn't believe it and slapped the two cards back on the table.
"No way..."
Holding onto the last bit of hope that she misread, Bai Yi widened her eyes and gently lifted a corner again.
The light under the cards shone brightly without any obstruction, directly reflecting in Bai Yi's eyes.
"Hiss!"
Blue sky and white clouds!
"Damn!"
Bai Yi cursed, pressing the cards back again.
"Forget it, what the eyes don't see, the heart doesn't grieve over! Better first check what that chat channel mentioned in the announcement is about."
Irritated by the card draw, Bai Yi didn't even bother to see the result, directly clicked onto the panel, and entered the chat channel.
[Please set a nickname]
Seeing this feature, Bai Yi's eyes lit up.
In the previous announcement, my real name was revealed. Now, there is such a feature that can hide my identity again, and it facilitates keeping a low profile!
With this thought, Bai Yi decisively entered a name.
"Green."
[This nickname is already taken]
"Tree Queen."
[This nickname is already taken]
Bai Yi's head suddenly showed a question mark. She couldn't help but curse:
"All the good names are taken by dogs!"
[Please confirm nickname "All the good names are taken by dogs"]
"Ugh..."
[This nickname is already taken]
For a moment, Bai Yi felt like she was going to be angered to death by this system. She reached out to click no and randomly muttered a word:
"Fan Mao."
[Please confirm nickname "Fan Mao"]
"Confirm."
[The world chatroom is not yet open, welcome to World 9805 Zone 33 chatroom]
As soon as she entered the chat channel, Bai Yi felt as though she had entered a lively chat group from before, very bustling.
At this time, the channel was still engrossed in the previous first kill announcement.
Shuishui: "What's the use of getting another good soldier now? Advanced troops require much more resources! Mine is just a Purple Soldier, and it needs a full 100 units of ordinary food to be built!"
A Plant: "Brother Shui actually has Purple Soldiers! Brother Shui is awesome!"
Nanshan: "What exactly is the reward for the first kill?"
Light Special Soldier: "Even knowing won't matter, Brother Shui, please put more Water on the shelves! Just one bottle! I'm about to die of thirst!"
Corpse King: "So what about the Purple Soldier? What's most important is the Lord Talent!"
[Corpse King shared an image]
[Talent: Zombie Dominator (Gold)]
Nanshan: "Oh damn"
Light Special Soldier: "Oh damn"
A Plant: "What about Zombie Dominator! Brother Shui occupied a warehouse as a territory! When food is needed, won't we have to ask Brother Shui!"
Corpse King: "Sorry, my controlled zombies have already hit quite a few treasure boxes, don't worry about food and drink, now I can sell some; who wants?"
Light Special Soldier: "Me! I want Water! I can exchange it with wood!"
Corpse King: "Private chat"
…
Upon entering, she witnessed a bigwig showing off, making Bai Yi want to screenshot her talent to show off too.
Hand raised and then lowered, she eventually gave up.
"No, I must stay low-key!"
Suppressing her competitive spirit, Bai Yi started scrolling up to read historical messages, trying to analyze the current situation.
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