Natural Disasters Strikes: I stockpiled like crazy!-Chapter 258: Spoils of a Tier 4 Beasts

Nanzhi glanced at her personal interface.

[Player Name: Lu Nanzhi]

[Level: 25 (20,600 / 50,000)]

[Status: Tier 4 Early-Stage Telekinesis]

[Strength: 52]

[Agility: 49]

[Stamina: 60]

[Mental Power: 1,200 / 1,200]

After upgrading to Tier 4, she began testing her skills.

Her mental power had grown denser, transforming from a smoke-like substance to a more solid, jelly-like state. Nanzhi experimented with it. Her control of the objects and weapons became more efficient because of the stronger grip. The speed and attack power of the projectiles improved.

She then tried molding a glass out of her metal power and then filling it with water. The glass held the water, but the structure was unstable, causing the liquid inside to shift and swirl unpredictably.

She tried a different shape—a sphere—but the water inside continued to move erratically. Thinking of spinning water blades the parasitic vine frog made, she let the edges of the mental sphere rotate like a wheel, and the water inside began spinning as well.

After a few seconds, she released it. The spinning water ball shot forward, struck the wall, and exploded into a fine mist. She repeated the test several times before moving on to mental exploration.

With her mental power now more solid, the feedback speed of her mental exploration skill had improved. The effects and damage of her pure offensive skills had increased, while their energy costs decreased.

[Mental Power: 680 / 1,200]

Even after an hour had passed, Weihao still sat in the same spot where she had disappeared, patiently waiting.

The moment she stepped out of the Game Lobby, Weihao felt the air around her ripple, an unexplainable pressure pressing down as she approached. He immediately realized she had successfully advanced to Tier 4.

It had only been an hour since she vanished. In the past, it had taken him three hours to reach Tier 4 because most of that time was spent subduing and refining the energy. Still, he was not surprised.

If he had known she accomplished it in less than half an hour, spend the rest of the time testing her mental power, and there’s a time difference between the space she disappeared to and the real world, he would have been truly more stunned.

The weight pressing on his mind lifted. "How was it?" he asked.

"Not bad," Nanzhi replied, describing the changes in her mental power.

Weihao smiled, relieved, but his concern for her health remained. "Do you feel anything strange in your body?"

Nanzhi shook her head. Far from feeling anything unusual, she was brimming with energy.

Only then did Weihao relax. Thank goodness.

Still full of energy, Nanzhi laid out tarpaulins inside the Game Lobby and brought out the corpse of the Tier 4 Parasitic Vine Frog.

Sales from the vending machine had steadily increased. With the jades she had earned over the past few weeks, she had expanded her space to one thousand square meters and increased the time ratio. Once the guild function opened, she could assign each person a separate room, ensuring privacy for everyone.

Although the giant frog had been abused beyond recognition, several parts were still salvageable. An ordinary knife couldn’t cut through its hide, so she coated her bolo with mental energy, sharpening it enough to slice through.

The skin under its chin, on its underbelly, and across its limbs remained intact. This can be made into a lightweight protective armor. As she skinned it, she noticed a different texture beneath the surface. The blade emerged coated in green mucus, a few drops landing on her palm. Even with her mask and white-flower ointment, the stench lingered—foul, like the pools she had encountered, but less intense than the decay in those waters.

She widened her cut and found small, green, round sacs scattered under the epidermis. Using her appraisal skill, she confirmed they were mucus glands, which kept the frog’s skin moist and assisted in respiration. She stored them in an empty drum for potential future use.

Beyond the glands, she extracted the acid gland, bones, tendons, tongue, and meat. The acid glands could be useful against more formidable alien beasts in the future, as she had been fortunate earlier that terrain gave her an advantage. The bones could be reforged into weapons or used to reinforce structures. The tendons were as strong as Little Snowball’s threads, while the tongue could be processed into a durable whip. The meat of a Tier 4 alien beast provided a significant power boost. With the system’s safety check, it could be sold to survivors at the Military or Longmen Base. For her own group, whose strength had already been improved by Bingdi Lotus Tea, the meat offered little benefit, but it still held value for trade. She kept the innards and leftovers as bait.

Processing the enormous frog took considerable time, but the Game Lobby operated on a different timescale from the outside world. Under her face mask, Nanzhi hummed softly while working. "Money, money, money..."

After dismantling the frog, she entered the Misty Land Dungeon, planning a quick bath.

The moment she stepped inside, the bees in the small garden became restless, scattering, some even flying toward the protective barrier. At first, Nanzhi suspected the other animals were attacking them, but she quickly dismissed the thought—the animals were minding their own business.

As she moved through the garden, the bees grew increasingly agitated. Even those inside the honeycomb emerged, heading straight for the barrier. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

"What’s going on?"

It was the first time the bees had behaved this way. Could it be because of her? Nanzhi pondered as she removed her protective suit, temporarily storing the frog-slimed suit in her inventory.

As expected, the bees ceased their frantic attacks on the barrier and gradually returned to the honeycomb.

Nanzhi didn’t bathe immediately. Curiosity got the better of her. She brought out each of the extracted frog parts one by one. The bees reacted most strongly to the drum containing the mucus glands, scattering as if chased by predators.

She thought deeply before returning the glands to her inventory.