Kingdom of Corrosion
Chapter 595 - 291 Special Training

Chapter 595: Chapter 291 Special Training

Maya took out the corpse of the mutated knife, the two broken pieces, and said to Lin Wu, "It’s broken."

Such is fate, jealousy of the talented by the heavens, and the short life of a beauty. This knife, much like Phantom, had extremely outstanding features yet also very prominent drawbacks.

Lin Wu reached out to take it, but Maya drew it back, "It can be repaired in the workshop. The mutated broken knife can be repaired in the workshop. Each repair can either increase or decrease certain attributes, while also raising the durability limit. The materials required are a bit troublesome; we need iron ore."

"Iron ore?" That stuff is pretty nasty. There’s no shortage of iron ore, and like many games, you can find piles of stones in the wild, where hitting them with a pickaxe gives a chance to get iron ore. In the workshop, iron ore can be refined using charcoal to get scrap iron.

The resource conversion rate is very low. How low? Iron ore mined with an iron pickaxe could only forge half of an iron pickaxe. This was the first time Lin Wu heard that iron ore could be directly used.

Lin Wu asked, "How much do we need?"

Maya answered, "20 kilograms."

Lin Wu did some calculations and said, "You need 10 pieces of iron and 5 logs to make 5 iron pickaxes." Logs are easy to come by, even a thicker straight branch can be processed into a log, but iron is harder. It takes 10 pieces of scrap iron to synthesize one piece of iron. The entire world has been corroded, and you can’t get a single piece of iron from dismantling a car.

Lin Wu said, "The only way is to find a car." Scrapped cars won’t do, but ordinary vehicles will. However, to dismantle cars, you need a dismantling crowbar, which requires two pieces of iron.

Seeing Lin Wu’s look of distress, Maya couldn’t help but laugh with tears, "Let’s just keep it for now, we can discuss it later. If we can meet other players, we can exchange some iron with them." Night Moon Base only had a few iron pieces in stock, and the items they processed in their workshop were mostly stone axes, stone knives, and wooden sticks.

It seemed they were back to Shadow, with the diligent Maya working very hard, and the lazy Lin Wu continuing to slack off, until the sun began to set in the west, when they finally returned to the place where they tied up the horses. Phantom hadn’t eaten, with its hunger level already raised to 30%. Lin Wu didn’t say anything, just patted the horse’s head, mounted up with Maya, and took the same route they came by to leave the county town.

On their way back, they first went to the small grassland and cut 10 kilograms of deer meat before returning to the base. Hong Yi was preparing dinner, Qinglang and Shuihua were building a homemade stable. Since the typhoon had passed, it was time to build a shelter for the three horses to protect them from wind and rain. Although Chasing Wind was rather ordinary, Hong Yi treated it quite well.

After dismounting, Lin Wu didn’t bother to tie up the horse; he casually dropped the reins and sat by the campfire, taking the tea passed to him by Hong Yi and answered some of Hong Yi’s trivial questions, like if everything went smoothly. Then, Lin Wu brought up his own issue, which was about Phantom.

"It’s not your fault," said Shuihua as she came to sit down, "According to its conditions, unless someone lives near North Lake, no one can keep it alive." Tech City’s terrain was mainly desert, with resources concentrated around freshwater lakes.

Hong Yi looked at Phantom, "It’s a pity to lose a Divine Steed."

Qinglang said, "She is a mare, Lin Wu, you should be more patient. As long as she knows you insist on feeding her inferior fodder, if she loves you enough, she will accept it."

Everyone looked at Qinglang, who explained, "Because of love, anything is possible. I think it should be the same in the animal world."

Then everyone looked at Lin Wu, who reflected and felt that he indeed lacked patience. Alright, he would try again tomorrow.

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The next morning, Maya and Lin Wu went back to the Royal Cinema and took the familiar route to reach the artificial grassland. After tying up the horses, Sandstorm started eating leisurely. Although not hungry, eating grass was also a form of enjoyment for it. As per their original agreement, Lin Wu paid no attention to Phantom, letting it feel hungry for a while as they went into the cinema to level up and scavenge.

At noon, after eating something simple, Lin Wu went to where the horses were tied up. Ten minutes later, Lin Wu returned, and Maya asked, "How did it go?" She couldn’t read Lin Wu’s expression.

Lin Wu replied, "I’m not very happy with the result."

Maya asked, "Still not eating?"

"It ate," said Lin Wu. "But it indirectly proves Qinglang was right. It’s not the grass’s fault it didn’t eat; it’s my fault as the owner for not being patient. Wai, do you think I’m patient?"

Wai looked at Lin Wu, who said, "Shake your head."

Wai shook its head. Lin Wu petted the dog’s head as a reward, "You’re the best."

Maya ignored Lin Wu’s attitude and said, "That’s a good thing."

"I suppose it is good, dealing with such a picky horse," Lin Wu said. "You’re also a girl, so why don’t you require patience? Shana, Little Knife, Emerald Feather, Cotton, you’re all girls, so why don’t you require patience?" A call for dinner and they would come. A call for a fight and they’d show up, rifles in hand and ready for action.

"It’s completely different, okay? It is your exclusive mount, while we are your friends," Maya stood up, "I’m off to level up."

"Let’s play," Lin Wu reached out for a hug, and Wai jumped into his embrace. See, who needs patience? But as Maya said, the result is good.

Objectively speaking, it’s not because Lin Wu is a bad person or a fool; in real life, he would surely understand this principle. Whether it’s training dogs, horses, or other animals, patience is needed. It’s just that Lin Wu never took the creatures in the game seriously, whether NPCs or Phantom.

Only Wai, after a long companionship and plenty of interactions, providing emotional comfort, did Lin Wu treat it like a real dog.

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