Chapter 211 - 139: Rearing a Wild Deer! Earth Core Crystal Forged! A+ Class Extraordinary Artifact

Chapter 211: Chapter 139: Rearing a Wild Deer! Earth Core Crystal Forged! A+ Class Extraordinary Artifact

The founding principle of the team wasn’t for one person to support everyone on their own. It was to lead everyone to band together, relying on the power of cooperation to survive in this land...

Besides, you shouldn’t put all your eggs in one basket. In an environment like this, disaster could strike at any moment.

If all their resources were stored at the gymnasium and it was destroyed by some accident, wouldn’t everything be lost?

Therefore, Chen Chong wouldn’t stop himself or any other team member from building their own private domains, as long as they were also contributing to the team...

Chen Chong had a set of principles in mind for the team’s rules.

Every member had to complete their daily tasks and contribute a set amount of resources, but he wouldn’t skim off their earnings, nor would he ever force them to hand over their Cards.

They were free to use any Cards they received from the daily payout or found by chance out in the wild.

As long as members completed their set tasks and contributed their set resources, it would be more than enough to keep the team warehouse overflowing.

As for acquiring more Building Cards and other Cards that fit the supply chain to strengthen the gymnasium’s role as a logistics base, the team would also post "bounties," offering to trade supplies for specific Cards members might have.

These supplies could be food, meat from Extraordinary Creatures, or even Extraordinary Artifacts and Ability Cards.

Everything was based on the intrinsic value of the Card itself!

And it was all dependent on whether the members were willing to trade; nothing was mandatory.

Besides this method, members could also voluntarily contribute Cards to earn "points," which could increase their share of distributable resources or improve their standing within the team.

These policies were just a small part of the team’s overall rulebook, not the entirety of it.

Chen Chong was still thinking about the more specific and detailed aspects.

After all, the larger the team grew, the more restrictive rules would be needed. It would all require constant trial and error, improvement, until a final system took shape...

Chen Chong planned to raise this Sika Deer at home, as the private property of just his small group.

But as the team’s leader, he couldn’t neglect the development of the gymnasium, their logistics base.

In the future, if team members captured any Sika Deer, they could certainly be raised at the gymnasium.

Alternatively, once this doe gave birth to fawns and they were bred until the population reached a certain size, a few could be sent to the gymnasium to start a new breeding program there, bolstering their long-term resources...

But for now, the priority was to build up their own home’s reserves.

Seeing that the doe was adapting reasonably well to the enclosure, Chen Chong and the others went to check on the wild ducks, pheasants, and wild rabbits.

To their utter surprise, good news came one after another.

"Brother Chong, I found some more eggs! Some are big, some are small. I think we’ve got pheasant eggs and duck eggs!"

As Chen Chong took the six eggs from Xu Jun, who was climbing out of the enclosure, Wang Biao’s voice called out from another direction.

"Sir, these two does are pregnant. Barring any accidents, they should be giving birth to kits in a little while."

Huh!?

Chen Chong, Xu Jun, and the others all turned to look.

Inside the cage, the wild rabbits were contentedly munching on the fresh grass that had just been tossed in, completely unafraid of people.

A wild rabbit’s pregnancy isn’t as obvious as other animals’, but Wang Biao knew exactly what to look for and had spotted it at a glance.

"Great!"

A smile spread across Chen Chong’s face.

’No matter how hard it is out there, no matter how much we have to fight, as long as our resources at home are growing, it’s all worth it...’

...

After coming out of the bathroom, everyone began to process the game caught in the traps set by the creek.

They hadn’t checked the traps in a few days, so there was a lot of game. Both the fish traps and bird nets yielded an unprecedented haul.

The latter was more than half full, while the former was what you’d truly call a massive haul, even more staggering than their first fishing haul.

Fish and shrimp were crammed from the tail of the traps all the way to the opening. To put it dramatically, you couldn’t have squeezed a single one more in.

Unfortunately, there were no wild ducks or pheasants in the nets, just various birds about the size of a hand. About a third of them were already dead and stiff, but most were still alive—the only difference among them being their energy levels, from listless to vigorous.

Even though they had plenty of food at home now, Chen Chong wasn’t one to waste anything, so he had them collect all the birds.

They might not eat the birds themselves, but they could be smoked along with the snake meat and stored in the logistics warehouse to be used as rewards for team members.

As for the fish, since they had been in the water, there were almost no losses over the two days. The mortality rate was less than ten percent!

After they picked out suitable fish to transfer to their fishpond and mud pond, they planned to put the rest in the logistics warehouse.

While the bird nets and fish traps had yielded a bountiful harvest, the ten or so traps Wang Biao had set in the overgrown fields were, unfortunately, disappointing.

Perhaps it was because they hadn’t been checked for too long, or perhaps too many wild rabbits had been caught there already, making the rest wary.

Over the two days, only half of the ten traps had been triggered, and of those, three had been escaped from.

The remaining two traps did have catches, but one was a scrawny mountain rat with barely any meat, and the other was a wild rabbit that was already dead and stiff, rendering it inedible.

In light of this, Wang Biao concluded that he needed to research new types of traps for that area, or else move his trapping operations to a new location to catch wild rabbits there....

Xu Jun moved the supplies they had brought back from the gymnasium into the cellar.

These items included food, drinks, toiletries, and various other daily sundries.

This was all the good stuff, hand-picked from the gymnasium’s stores. Chen Chong and Xu Jun had brought a portion back without a second thought to fill their own private coffers.