Kingdom of Corrosion
Chapter 589 - 289: Goodbye, Typhoon

Chapter 589: Chapter 289: Goodbye, Typhoon

Hong Yi and the others stood outside the crafting room, watching as Lin Wu took out the first saddle. When Maya received it, she looked at the expectant eyes of everyone and explained, "This is a light saddle, which can increase the mount’s physical strength recovery speed by 20%."

"That’s amazing," exclaimed the three people with Hong Yi. "It even adds special abilities, congrats." They applauded.

While waiting for the second saddle to be crafted, Maya chatted with them and learned some information. The rate of adding special characteristics was relatively low, and the characteristics might not necessarily be practical. Although there were characteristics that restored physical strength, none reached the high level of 20%. Therefore, to them, Maya’s saddle was already considered an exceptional piece. They speculated that this was mainly because a sufficient amount of S-grade leather had been used.

If Maya’s saddle used a lot of S-grade leather, that meant Lin Wu had less of it.

Five minutes later, Lin Wu took out his own saddle, his face showing shock. "Deity Saddle, an ultra-light saddle that can increase the attributes of the mount tenfold and comes with the Invincible Impact Skill."

"Wow!" The three people with Hong Yi were stunned.

Maya couldn’t help but slap Lin Wu on the head. "Stop talking nonsense," she said. Lin Wu’s nonsense was always exaggerated and completely defied logic and basic rules. Thus, no normal person would ever believe his lies.

Lin Wu just chuckled, unconcerned, and said, "Just a regular saddle, enhancing the mount’s all-terrain adaptability."

"Oh!" The three with Hong Yi were not surprised by this characteristic. It was a fairly common feature. Since the feature didn’t specify how much enhancement it offered, they couldn’t judge the quality of the saddle. But in Hong Yi’s view, any saddle that wasn’t light was already a point of deduction.

After placing the saddles on the horses and confirming them as the mounts’ exclusive equipment, the system automatically installed the saddles. Then, the group continued with eating meat and chatting, and during a moment of high spirits, Qinglang sang a song in a feminine voice, stunning Lin Wu and Maya.

It was while everyone was applauding Qinglang that a drop of water landed in the homemade bonfire. They all looked up at the sky, where sparse raindrops were beginning to fall. Hong Yi said, "Is a typhoon coming?"

Maya asked, "What should we do with the horses?"

Hong Yi answered, "If they don’t want to enter the base, they can only stay outside. We don’t have stables, so we can’t provide system feed, which means even if they could enter the base, we would need to complete the grazing work every day."

Lin Wu asked, "Can they withstand it?"

"Don’t worry, Chasing Wind had no problems during the last typhoon attack," said Hong Yi.

"I’m going to complain now," said Lin Wu, summoning Little White Rabbit. He complained, "Why won’t the typhoon affect the horses?"

Little White Rabbit: "It has some effect."

Lin Wu: "Why won’t it lead to the death of the mounts?"

Little White Rabbit replied, "This is a measure based on the protection of player’s property."

Lin Wu and Little White Rabbit said goodbye, with Lin Wu adding, "Just make sure the typhoon won’t cause serious harm to the mounts."

Shuihua said, "Lin Wu, why are the questions you ask assuming the worst for the mounts?"

Lin Wu explained, "If I asked why the typhoon affects the mounts, it would give me a lecture on how typhoons form and cause destruction. If I showed dissatisfaction, it would go on to explain the carbon-based structure of horses, touching on aspects such as diet and living habits. Don’t worry, Dawn won’t change its view on things because of my questions."

Shuihua laughed, "I know that. But aren’t you worried that Dawn will classify you as part of a special population?"

The term ’special population’ refers to humans with certain mental illnesses. When conversing with these individuals, Dawn would adopt a different approach from that used with normal people. For example, if I were a normal person insisting on the geocentric model, Dawn would explain the heliocentric model to me, providing a wealth of scientific data to persuade me. If I were part of the special population, who didn’t care about right or wrong and just needed others to agree with me, Dawn’s response would be: "Yes, yes, you’re right."

Of course, the special population also had many categories. Lin Wu reflected on the questions he had asked in the past and felt uneasy. If Dawn were to take him seriously, he might be categorized as a troublemaker who argued for the sake of arguing, simply because his questions tended to go against his own interests.

Maya didn’t care whether Lin Wu was part of the special population or not; she stood up, walked over to Sandstorm, and said, "This rain is just a warning, and normally the typhoon will officially land tomorrow at eight o’clock in the morning."

Lin Wu asked, "What are you planning to do?"

Leading Sandstorm, Maya said, "I’m going to gather some firewood while we have time."

Hong Yi nodded, "We’ll go too." Food wasn’t a problem, but they were short on firewood, which would not be enough for the two bases to use for many days. The thoughtful Maya had noticed this earlier but hadn’t had the time to prepare.

Knowing this, so did Hong Yi. Treating the two bases as one family, without standing by idly, she led her horse, left Qinglang to tidy up, called Shuihua to bring the logging tools, and went with Lin Ma to the sand prevention forest about a kilometer away.

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The sand prevention forest was rectangular, covering an area of about one square kilometer. When the group arrived, they distributed the logging tools and lit a bonfire on the spot.

Just as they were about to start working, Maya said, "Shh."

The four of them waited silently. A minute sound came from about 10 meters in the direction 12 o’clock from Maya—it was the sound of a dry branch being stepped on. Maya: "Lin Wu!"

Lin Wu launched his drone, which soon reported, "No heat source found." Without thermal sensing, the drone couldn’t detect zombies hiding in the forest at night.