Super Gene Hunting Ground

Chapter 158: Chapter 158 Digging Ice (Fourth update, please subscribe)

Yang Xiao and the others returned to Kongming Academy, and as soon as Xu Nanqiang saw them come back, he immediately arranged for the wolf meat and potatoes in the pot to be reheated.

Everyone began to eat their fill of the steaming hot wolf meat and potatoes.

Somebody remarked,

”Getting tired of eating wolf meat every day, let’s change it up tomorrow.”

”Xu Nanqiang, there’s a big wild boar by the entrance, have someone skin it, and we can eat boar meat tomorrow.”

”Alright, no problem.”

”It would be great if we had some rice, I’m sick of potatoes.”

”Rice? You’d need rice for that, who even has rice now?”

”At present, only supermarkets in the city areas have rice, I guess the underground mall in Star City definitely has some.”

”Cut it out, you’ve got food but you’re still picky, starve for a few days and even dog poop would taste good.”

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Yang Xiao came to the Genetic Store and handed two wild boar tusks to Gu Bo.

”What are these used for?”

Gu Bo glanced at them, a flash of light in his eyes, and a streak of light swept over the boar tusks before he handed them back to Yang Xiao.

”Take a look for yourself.”

Yang Xiao took the boar tusks and saw a line of small characters on them:

Can be embedded onto weapons, adds 1 Strength point, each weapon can only be embedded with 1 tusk.

Yang Xiao was overjoyed at a glance.

A single tusk could directly add 1 point to a weapon’s Strength attribute, which was an enormous bargain, considering weapons with +4 Strength and those with +5 Strength differ greatly in price.

”Old man, how do you set it? Can you do it?”

Gu Bo smiled and said,

”Of course, but it costs money to embed.”

”How much?”

”100 Crystal Coins.”

Crystal Coins?

Yang Xiao was stunned for a moment, that’s not cheap, is it?

Gu Bo’s beard cocked up, and he said with a laugh,

”Little guy, you think that’s expensive? You have no idea how much effort I’ve put into learning Artifact Refining skills. Besides, the embedding fee is just 100 Crystal Coins. If you were to replace your weapon, to increase 1 attribute point would cost way more than 100 Crystal Coins.”

Previously, Primary Level weapons only had 2 attributes and were very cheap.

Starting from 4 attributes, the price of weapons began to skyrocket, with generic +4 attribute weapons starting at 100 Crystal Coins.

If it’s a weapon with +5 attributes, the price starts at 200 Crystal Coins. If the weapon has dual attributes or additional magic effects, the price could be several hundred Crystal Coins.

For instance, the Snow Wolf Ice Sword in Yang Xiao’s hands, with +5 Strength and +5% frost damage, coupled with the Snow Wolf Golden Armor to form a set effect, adding an extra 3% frost damage. A sword like this, even priced at several hundred to a thousand Crystal Coins, would be priceless and impossible to find.

If Yang Xiao’s sword could gain another 1 point of Strength, it would be icing on the cake.

Yang Xiao said with a smile,

”Alright, I got it. Can my sword be embedded?”

Yang Xiao drew out the Snow Wolf Ice Sword.

Gu Bo responded,

”It can be embedded, but once it’s done, it can’t be removed. Your sword can only be embedded once, or you could wait and see if you encounter better embedding materials later on, like a +2 Strength material, wouldn’t that be even better?”

Yang Xiao nodded his head, took his leave, and was quite pleased with the idea of the wild boar tusk as an embedding material. Tomorrow, he would kill more wild boars, so most of the people could embed it onto their weapons to gain 1 point of Strength.

Back in the cave dwelling, Yang Xiao saw Xu Nanqiang and others dealing with the gigantic wild boar, preparing to cook it for tomorrow’s breakfast for everyone, as well as preparing some roasted wolf meat as dry food to take along.

”Boss, we now have over 200 Snow Wolves, each weighing over 300 pounds. Eating three Snow Wolves a day, it would take more than two months to finish them all, and now there’s no place to store them.”

Yang Xiao laughed and said, ”Are you already complaining about having too much food after just a few days of eating your fill?”

Xu Nanqiang and the others chuckled.

Yang Xiao had a thought, directly cut a large chunk of raw wild boar meat, and started chewing it in his mouth.

A trace of electricity entered his body.

Yang Xiao went to the warehouse, brought out a Snow Wolf that had been killed today, went to the entrance of the cave dwelling, and started cutting and feasting on the wolf meat.

Everyone was no longer surprised to see Yang Xiao eating raw wolf meat; they all knew that Yang Xiao could enhance his genetic evolution by consuming raw meat. Many had tried eating raw meat themselves, but the effects were not significant, and it was hard for them to get used to the bloody taste, so everyone had given up on eating raw meat.

Yang Xiao felt like his body was like a bottomless pit, swallowing down a large chunk of wolf meat, digesting it in a moment, turning it into a trace of electricity that entered his body.

After more than two hours, Yang Xiao devoured two Snow Wolf heads.

”Boss, were you a starved ghost reincarnated in your past life?”

Zhao Gang said with a laugh.

Yang Xiao wiped his mouth and rinsed it with a cup of hot tea, then said, ”Time to sleep, we need to get up early tomorrow to hunt wild boars.”

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Xia Luo, leading fifty Elite Soldiers clad in Snow Wolf Armor, started walking out of Xianan University and came to Xianghe River, several kilometers away from Xianan University.

Xianghe River had become a giant popsicle.

”Boss, why did you bring us to Xianghe River?”

Zhou Qiang asked.

Xia Luo replied, ”Zhou Qiang, what do we plan to eat after the Snow Wolf Meat runs out?”

Xianan University currently still had over a hundred Snow Wolves as food, but there were no Snow Wolves left to hunt in the vicinity of the school. Xia Luo now accepted the prediction made by Yang Xiao that the severe winter might last around 2-3 years. After this food crisis, he had also become more cautious, and it was always right to prepare food in advance.

”This?”

”Zhou Qiang, think about it, this Xianghe River, there used to be giant fish living in it before, each giant fish weighing hundreds of pounds. I estimate that these giant fish are now frozen, and if we could dig them out, would we still worry about food?”

”But how do we catch fish in this frozen river?”

”Frozen rivers make it good to catch fish.”

Xia Luo said, then took the lead and jumped onto the river bed, stepping on the ice.

The others followed Xia Luo and jumped onto the ice river.

The entire ice river became like a transparent crystal, where one could see several meters deep into the ice blocks. Xia Luo closely examined the ice under his feet, continuously moving forward. After tens of meters, Xia Luo suddenly let out a loud roar and punched the ice beneath his feet.

The crowd was startled and heard the cracking sound of ice. The ice under Xia Luo’s feet cracked open, extending towards the distance, a good dozen meters long.

Xia Luo adjusted his position and punched the ice beneath him again,

”Mountain Crossing Punch!”

With the sound of cracking ice, another crack appeared on the ice surface.

After several such punches, the ice beneath Xia Luo was cracked into dozens of long fissures.

Pointing to the ice below, Xia Luo said to Zhou Qiang and the others, ”Start digging from here.”

”Digging ice blocks?”

The crowd was astonished.