mesbooks Chapter 2 Unbelievable Reward! Chopping down a tree yields a burly man!
Chapter 2 Unbelievable Reward! Chopping down a tree yields a burly man!
Claim your achievement rewards.
Lin Feng clicked "confirm" without hesitation.
The panel flashed white light, the text flickered twice, and then quickly returned to normal.
[Achievement rewards have been distributed.]
Lin Feng looked down at his left hand.
empty.
His right hand? He was still gripping the iron axe.
What's under your feet?
Fallen leaves, soil, and gravel.
There was nothing there.
There were no supplies, no blueprints, and no new tools.
The last achievement conjured up an iron axe, but this time? Not even a trace?
Lin Feng turned around and made sure that the area within a three-meter radius was clean and there was nothing extra.
Will the system take away his reward?
He was about to open the achievements panel to check his records when a strange noise came from the woods behind him.
Lin Feng suddenly turned around, holding the iron axe horizontally in front of his chest.
In a clearing deep in the woods, a white light suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
After the light faded, ten figures stood there in unison.
ten.
It was all men.
Each of them was a head taller than Lin Feng, with shoulders broad enough to carry a door. Their arms were bulging with muscles, and veins stretched from their forearms to the backs of their hands.
They wore matching coarse cloth short jackets and straw shoes, their skin tanned a deep brown.
Ten people, ten mountains of flesh.
Before Lin Feng could even speak, the ten mountains of flesh knelt down in unison.
Their movements were perfectly synchronized, and the dull thuds of their knees hitting the ground echoed one after another.
"Owner!"
Ten deep voices exploded at the same time, shaking the leaves on the trees overhead.
Lin Feng's hand, gripping the iron axe, froze in place.
Owner?
Who?
I?
He looked down at himself: a gray short-sleeved shirt, black sweatpants, and running shoes.
He doesn't look like the kind of owner who can support ten strong men.
Lin Feng opened his mouth, a question swirling in his mind.
I cut down a tree.
One tree.
Just one.
The tree hasn't even fallen yet, and people have already exploded?
What kind of crappy achievement system is this? Other people's achievements drop equipment and materials, but his just drop real people?
Ten?
Ten at once?
Are they all burly men?
He silently put down the iron axe, feeling his mind was a bit muddled and he needed to calm down.
Lin Feng raised his hand and turned on the public channel.
The channel is flooded with messages.
"I spent ages scooping with a plastic hook and all I got were two pieces of wood and a handful of seaweed..."
"I just crafted a wooden spear! Now I can fish! Can anyone teach me how to spear fish?"
"Stop dreaming. You can barely stand, let alone spearfish!"
……
Lin Feng stared at the last message for three seconds.
That's perfectly normal.
The core of the game Raft Survival is surviving alone on a raft.
Lin Feng silently turned off the channel and looked at the ten burly men kneeling in front of him.
They remained kneeling, motionless, their heads bowed low.
Ten people.
Three meals a day.
Thirty servings of food alone are needed.
Want some water?
Judging by their physiques, each person must drink at least two or three liters a day, so ten people would drink twenty or thirty liters.
There are freshwater streams on the island, so water is not in short supply for the time being.
But what about the food?
He only had one day's worth of food rations.
One day's food is divided among eleven mouths.
Lin Feng quickly did some mental calculations, and the result made his temples throb.
This isn't like getting ten free laborers.
This is like getting ten ancestors who feed you for free.
As he was making plans in his mind, a burly man kneeling at the front secretly raised his head, then quickly lowered it again.
Lin Feng caught that little movement.
Then he heard the big man in the front row lower his voice and mutter something in a volume that only the person next to him could hear.
"Master... are you unhappy?"
The shoulder of the burly man next to him hunched over.
"Oh no, they're definitely going to complain that we eat too much."
"I can eat less, really, I'll just have half a portion..."
"What can half a portion do? If you work all day without eating, you'll be bedridden the next day."
"What should we do then? What if our master abandons us..."
These burly men spoke one after another, their bodies trembling as they spoke, each with their heads down, not daring to look at Lin Feng.
Lin Feng stood there, his expression somewhat subtle.
These people were all taller and stronger than him, and their arms were thicker than his thighs.
As a result, they all shrank their necks, secretly looked up and then quickly lowered their heads again, like large dogs that had done something wrong.
The burly man at the front secretly glanced at Lin Feng out of the corner of his eye, and his eyes looked pitiful no matter how you looked at them.
That nearly two-meter-tall frame, even kneeling, is almost as tall as Lin Feng standing, yet that look in his eyes...
Afraid of being abandoned.
Lin Feng's lips twitched, and the scene lessened the irritation in his heart.
Fine.
He spoke.
"Get up, all of you."
The heads of the ten burly men were raised at the same time, staring at him expectantly.
"I ask you, where did you come from?"
The burly man at the front scratched the back of his head, his square face filled with confusion.
"I...I don't know."
The people behind him also shook their heads.
"I don't know either."
"I have nothing in my mind."
"I just remember opening my eyes and my master was right in front of me."
"Yes, yes, me too!"
After the ten people finished speaking, they all looked at Lin Feng, waiting for him to speak.
Lin Feng stared at them for several seconds.
Its origins and past are unknown.
Regardless of the circumstances, the facts are clear.
They are living, breathing people who need to eat and drink.
And there are ten of them.
Lin Feng's throat moved.
Ten mouths.
Even if you can't afford to raise them, you still have to.
Because each of these ten people is twice his size.
When it comes to actually getting things done, their efficiency is exceptionally high.
Besides, throw them away? Where would you throw them? This is an isolated island; you can't just drive people into the sea.
"OK."
As soon as Lin Feng uttered a single word, the eyes of the ten burly men lit up simultaneously.
"Everyone stand up, stop kneeling."
All ten people stood up at the same time.
It was even more spectacular when it stood up; a wall of flesh blocked Lin Feng's way, completely obscuring the trees behind him.
Lin Feng looked up at them.
Since you've started raising them, don't let them sit idle.
"Come with me."
Lin Feng turned and walked deeper into the woods.
Ten burly men followed in unison, their heavy footsteps rustling the fallen leaves.
He didn't go far before stopping next to the big tree where he had just piled up the materials.
There were still many pieces of wood, stones and vines scattered on the ground.
Lin Feng squatted down and began to pick them up.
Ten burly men stood at the back and watched for two seconds. The square-faced man in the front row was the first to react and squatted down without saying a word.
With a swift movement of his two large, fan-like hands, he firmly scooped up the three broken pieces of wood between his fingers.
The other nine people followed suit and started moving.
The scene of ten strong men bending over to pick up materials was truly terrifying.
Before Lin Feng could even straighten up, a small mountain had already piled up at his feet.
There were dozens of logs, more than thirty stones, and a large bundle of vines.
enough.
Lin Feng opened the crafting panel, swiped his finger across the blueprint list, and found the recipe for the stone axe.
[Stone Axe]: 2 pieces of wood + 1 piece of stone + 1 piece of vine
He dragged the materials in and clicked confirm.
A stone axe appeared out of nowhere.
Come again.
Send the materials and confirm.
The second one.
The third one.
The fourth one.
Four stone axes were neatly arranged on the ground, plus the iron axe in his hand and the old stone axe from before, making a total of six.
Lin Feng stood up and glanced at the ten people in front of him.
They stood in a row, chests out and heads held high, eyes shining, like soldiers waiting for inspection.
Six axes, ten people.
Lin Feng quickly made a mental calculation.
Six people cut down trees, while four did other things.
He pointed to six people from left to right.
"You, you, you, you, you, and you. Come here."
The six burly men who were called out took a step forward with a "whoosh," their movements perfectly synchronized, producing a muffled thud.
Lin Feng bent down, picked up the iron axe, and handed it to the square-faced man at the front.
The man was the biggest, with the widest hands, and the heavy iron axe looked rather small in his palm.
"Master, this..."
The square-faced man held the iron axe, his hands trembling, his square face flushed red.
Iron.
He looked down at the cold glint of the axe blade, then looked up at Lin Feng, too excited to speak.
Lin Feng ignored him and continued to distribute the five stone axes to the remaining five people.
The reactions of each of the burly men to receiving the axe were roughly the same.
He was stunned at first, then turned the axe over and over to look at it, and finally gripped it tightly in his hand as if he were holding some rare treasure.
Six men, six axes, each in their place.
Lin Feng raised his hand and pointed to the surrounding woods.
"Cut down trees."
"Pile the wood under this big tree."
"Cut as much as you can."
The order was simple and direct, but the six burly men listened with their eyes lighting up.
The square-faced giant was the first to rush out, swinging his iron axe in a wide arc.
"Bang!"
The tree trunk, as thick as a bowl, was split open, with more than half of it going in, and wood chips flying everywhere.
He pulled out the axe and struck again.
The trunk snapped in response, and the entire tree crashed to the ground.
From the moment the chop started to the moment the body was taken down, it took less than ten seconds.
The other five men with stone axes were not to be outdone.
Although the stone axes were blunt, the strength of these men's arms was terrifying. They could chop a tree trunk and leave a deep white stub with each strike, and they could fall a tree in just three or four strikes.
The sound of heavy felling came from six directions at the same time, and the entire forest shook.
Lin Feng stood there, watching the scene, a smile involuntarily spreading across his face.
This efficiency is simply outrageous.
He opened the system panel and switched to the resource statistics page.
The amount of timber is skyrocketing.
12...18...27...
It jumps every few seconds, producing several more at a time.
35...41...
Another loud crash came from the square-faced man's side. A tree thicker than his waist was uprooted and fell to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.
48...53...
Lin Feng stared at the fluctuating numbers, leaned back against the large tree behind him, and relaxed completely.
Comfortable.
That felt so fucking good.
Others use plastic hooks to dredge wood at sea, collecting it piece by piece.
Six strong men worked simultaneously on his side, and the timber automatically rose upwards.
This life is incomparable.
Lin Feng withdrew his gaze and looked at the remaining four burly men.
They stood there, having not received an axe, watching their companions chopping down trees with longing eyes, unsure of what to do with their hands.
The burly man on the far left secretly rubbed his fingers together, his lips moved as if he wanted to say something but then stopped himself.
Lin Feng didn't keep them waiting.
He crouched down, pulled out wood and vines from the pile of materials, and opened the crafting panel.
[Wooden Spear]: 2 pieces of wood + 1 piece of vine
Production confirmed.
A wooden spear appeared in his hand.
The head is sharpened, and the tail is wrapped with vines twice for slip prevention. The whole thing is two meters long.