Live Strong in the Wilderness-Chapter 236: Farming Points

"Holy crap, is Xu Yi thinking of farming points?"

"He’s not afraid of death at all, awesome. But if he succeeds, he’ll indeed make a big profit!"

"Is this considered exploiting a loophole? Aren’t the organizers going to address it?"

"How is this a loophole? Look at how the stones get electrocuted and blasted to powder. Try that on yourself?"

"This is courting death, not exploiting a loophole."

"If Xu Yi gets eliminated, it can only be said he’s bringing it upon himself."

"You guys are too pessimistic. I think Xu Yi and Loli Ke are going to hit it big today. Each creature is worth 50 points, casually farming can yield several thousand or tens of thousands of points."

Stone after stone thrown out turned into rock powder.

Lu Ke was initially very worried, but since the Lightning Mica didn’t move and their attack range didn’t extend further, she felt much more at ease.

Then, she even helped Xu Yi find suitable stones.

"Xu Yi, it seems like it’s not working. Want to try using our bow and arrows?" Lu Ke suggested, seeing the stones shatter one after the other.

"No need, our arrows shot out can’t be retrieved, no point in wasting them. There are stones everywhere; I don’t believe their electricity is limitless." Xu Yi felt this was an opportunity that, if missed, might not come again.

He sensed that these Lightning Micas probably had a short lifespan, maybe just a few dozen days, or a few months.

Stone after stone was thrown out, none managed to breach the electric net and harm the Lightning Mica.

After half an hour, Xu Yi’s arm was sore, yet no progress was made.

"It’s so difficult to farm points!" Xu Yi stopped, having run out of stones nearby. Lu Ke had to run over a hundred meters away to find stones and bring them back for Xu Yi.

"Xu Yi, still not working?" Lu Ke returned with stones of the right size, ready to go after another batch.

Since Xu Yi wanted to farm points, she had to help somehow. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

Her strength and accuracy paled compared to Xu Yi, but collecting stones was manageable.

"No need, if we can’t break through their defenses with these stones, we’ll leave." After almost an hour, Xu Yi figured if they still couldn’t succeed, they had to give up.

They couldn’t spend much more time here; staying longer means it would be completely dark on their way back.

Once it gets dark, these Lightning Micas would be as good as invisible, which would be very frightening.

Lu Ke nodded, picked up a stone, and handed it to Xu Yi.

Xu Yi took the stone and threw it.

It didn’t have the expected result, failing to break the electric net or tear through the Lightning Mica’s body.

The stones in the basket were dwindling, and Xu Yi’s hopes were fading.

"Xu Yi, there’s only three stones left." Lu Ke handed Xu Yi a stone, then picked up the remaining two.

"Seems like we can’t farm points, these Lightning Micas are really tough to deal with." Xu Yi increasingly felt that 50 points per creature seemed too little, given the situation; shouldn’t they be worth 100 points each?

Even with just three stones left, Xu Yi didn’t stop.

Aiming at one, Xu Yi threw the stone.

"Hit... Did it hit?" Lu Ke was startled; unexpectedly, the electric net didn’t work.

"Quick, give me a stone." Xu Yi urged, as time was limited; new Lightning Micas would emerge, creating a new electric net.

Xu Yi grabbed a stone and threw it with force.

He hoped that one stone could knock out several, since the Lightning Micas were relatively close together.

"Last one left!" Xu Yi grabbed the very last stone.

Then, he heard a notification sound.

"Killed one Lightning Mica, you earned 50 points."

The last stone in his hand also hit the Lightning Mica perfectly.

"Double kill, beautiful!" Lu Ke exclaimed cheerfully, as 50 points were awarded for each creature.

"Let’s go." Xu Yi grabbed a basket, handed it to Lu Ke, then took his own basket, and ran, pulling Lu Ke along.

As expected, 200 Lightning Micas would emerge.

"It’s crazy, so many Lightning Micas emerged, proving Xu Yi’s prediction was right!"

"Wow, a tree just got electrocuted right through, so powerful."

"Luckily Xu Yi and Lu Ke ran fast; otherwise, they might’ve been electrocuted."

"What kind of monsters did Xu Yi release? This area should be a forbidden zone for life now, right?"

"These Lightning Micas are indeed terrifying; Xu Yi spent so long and only managed to kill four, really tough."

Xu Yi and Lu Ke stopped 50 meters away, glancing towards that direction.

"We got 200 points, adding the previous 50, we’ve earned 250 points today." Xu Yi remarked happily, not caring much about the meaning of the number.

Now, their total points reached 558.

"Xu Yi, with so many Lightning Micas here, isn’t there a problem?" Lu Ke asked worriedly, confirming Xu Yi’s judgment that killing one Lightning Mica indeed leads to more emerging.

Thus, it’s truly frightening.

"Don’t worry, it’s far from our camp. Given their speed, they can’t reach our camp. Unless a storm blows them over." Xu Yi said, seemingly unconcerned.

They took half a day to get here; at the Lightning Micas’ pace, it might take a year.

With such a prolific ’reproductive’ method, their lifespan is definitely limited.

If they continued ’reproducing’ this way, the forest would be full of Lightning Micas by now.

Unless Lightning Micas had human-like intelligence, they couldn’t reproduce in billions like humans.

Therefore, Xu Yi wasn’t too worried.

"Let’s go back then. Don’t worry, nature has its own rules. If things get out of hand, there’s always the organizers." Xu Yi said, leading Lu Ke to leave.

Lu Ke nodded, feeling less uneasy as they walked away.

Xu Yi was right; worrying too much served no purpose.

No matter what, Lightning Micas’ movement was really slow. Encountering them gave plenty of time to evade.

Having earned over 200 points, Xu Yi was in high spirits, even humming several tunes on the way back.

Unfortunately, no one could identify the songs Xu Yi was humming.

After all, this world didn’t have a superstar like Zhou Dong.

Upon returning to camp, Lu Ke and Xu Yi found ’visitors’ there.