Chapter 307 - 178: Day 18 Arrives! Two Pieces of Good News! Waterfield Card and the Wild Goats’ Whereabouts

Chapter 307: Chapter 178: Day 18 Arrives! Two Pieces of Good News! Waterfield Card and the Wild Goats’ Whereabouts

Whether it was out of camaraderie with his classmates—not wanting to see them starve or work to death in this harsh environment—or for the sake of the final settlement after each transmigration, forming a team always allowed people to band together for support and increase their chances of survival.

Of course, there was another point: by creating a team, he could also use them to harvest more resources and delegate many trivial matters to them.

Meanwhile, he could focus on improving his strength, hunting Extraordinary Creatures, or searching for the most crucial resources, without having to waste time every day checking traps, tending to farmland, and feeding animals.

Of course, Chen Chong wouldn’t let others handle the animals he was raising at home. He’d just feed them himself every morning.

But once their numbers grew, he wouldn’t be able to feed them all himself and would need the help of his team members.

After all, Chen Chong’s goal wasn’t just to get by on a dozen or so wild rabbits, a dozen wild chickens and ducks, a few wild deer, a pond of fish, and the crops from a few plots of farmland.

If he transmigrated to a harsh environment where he couldn’t find food resources, he would have to consume these farmed animals.

With his current stock, these animals would only be enough to last him a month at most, or maybe even just half a month.

So, to prepare for any potential crises, he had to expand the scale of his various animal husbandry operations as much as possible.

And expanding the scale meant he would need more people.

The team served this exact purpose.

After sitting in the gymnasium for a while, Chen Chong went to the infirmary to check on Shen Xinrou, the Medicine Lady, and the injured Ning Yu.

The condition of the injured in the infirmary was much better than a few days ago.

The members who had been injured in the battle with the Blood-tooth Python had mostly stabilized under the Medicine Lady’s meticulous care.

The students who had been unconscious had all regained consciousness. Although their injuries couldn’t be healed in a short time, they could now take care of themselves.

They no longer needed help to walk or eat.

And to repay Chen Chong for saving their lives, they had willingly joined the team.

Chen Chong had no objections to this.

Although some of them had lost hands or feet, most only had superficial external injuries.

As long as they healed, they could still move around like normal people.

The team needed all the help it could get right now; there was no such thing as too many people.

Even the disabled students who had lost limbs could find work in the logistics group and contribute to the team.

Of course, the main reason was the final settlement; Chen Chong had to ensure the survival rate of the school members as much as possible.

As mentioned before, whether for this reason or out of solidarity with his schoolmates, he couldn’t just stand by and let them suffer.

Now that they had joined the team, they were his people.

Even while recovering from their injuries, they were doing their best to help the other team members.

For example, those who were recovering faster were helping Shen Xinrou and the Medicine Lady with miscellaneous tasks in the infirmary.

Those who were recovering more slowly and couldn’t move much yet had taken the initiative to handle tasks like tallying bills and organizing the supplies gathered in the infirmary.

Chen Chong was very satisfied with this.

As for Ning Yu, being a Transcendent, her body’s recovery speed was far beyond that of an ordinary person.

On top of that, he had given her hundreds of pounds of Blood-tooth Python meat, and with the help of the Extraordinary Creature’s flesh, her recovery speed had reached a whole new level.

In less than a day, the hideous wounds from the Bloodthirsty Vine had already scabbed over.

Even though she was still bandaged, it didn’t affect her daily activities.

’At this rate,’ he thought, ’it won’t be long before she’s fully recovered and can return to the combat group to carry out high-difficulty missions.’

Moreover, Chen Chong was surprised to discover that although the injured Ning Yu appeared quite weak, when he observed her with his Identification Skill, he found that the Extraordinary Power within her body was far denser than before.

If the previous Ning Yu had only barely stepped from being a Pseudo-Transcendent into the realm of Transcendents...

...then she could now be considered a true Transcendent.

Even though she was still much weaker than himself, Qi Zhen, or the Assassin Insect, she was definitely more than just a little bit stronger than her former self.

It seemed that the near-death experience in her fight against the Parasite, where she was almost killed by the Bloodthirsty Vine, wasn’t entirely a bad thing for Ning Yu.

Most likely, the battle had stimulated her body’s potential, allowing her strength to advance another step.

From this, a small guess formed in Chen Chong’s mind.

’It seems that for a Transcendent to become stronger, they can’t just rely on Cards, items, weapons, or using Extraordinary things.’

’Frequent battles that stimulate one’s inner potential can also make the Extraordinary Power in the body denser.’

’In that case, fighting... is also a viable path to becoming stronger...’

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By the time he returned home, the sky was almost completely dark.

Although Jia Wen had been busy at the gymnasium all afternoon, he also returned home at dusk.

As the head chef of the house, everyone was waiting for him to start dinner.

After all, while Wang Biao could cook, his food didn’t taste as good as Jia Wen’s.

As for Qi Zhen, it went without saying. As a martial arts fanatic who had trained ascetically in the deep mountains, having him cook would result in the plainest food imaginable—the kind without even salt.

Chen Chong and Xu Jun could cook too, but their skills weren’t refined. Everything they made turned into a single-pot stew.

Therefore, the task of cooking could only fall to Jia Wen.

Tonight’s meal was as lavish as ever: two large pots of mixed meat stew, a large basin of boiled vegetables, and a bowl of stir-fried shredded potatoes.

Of course, the Tiger Striped Dog and the Stone Claw Eagle were not forgotten.

Chen Chong had specially retrieved a large chunk of Terror Wolf King meat from the basement for them.

The eagle stood on the sofa and the dog lay on the floor, both tearing at the chunks of meat in their mouths, eating with great relish.

After finishing dinner, the group sat in the living room and chatted for a while before each returning to their rooms.

After checking on the fish in the fishpond, Chen Chong also lay down on his bed and slowly drifted off to sleep.

「In the blink of an eye, the next day arrived.」

As the settlement announcement sounded, it marked the official arrival of the 18th day since the transmigration began.

However, today’s daily settlement didn’t yield much.

It was just a B-Level Rating.

If not for Chen Chong’s inherent advantage of having a Rating one level higher than everyone else, today’s harvest would have only merited a C-Class Rating.

The rewards were a B-Level Space Card and a C-Class Resource Card.

However, Chen Chong wasn’t surprised by this.

After all, he had spent almost all of yesterday wandering around the school and hadn’t gone out, so his personal gains were minimal.

The daily settlement’s rewards were entirely dependent on the actions of his team members.

He only received a certain Rating because he was their leader.

Chen Chong was a little curious. Although being a leader granted a Rating bonus, it was clearly minuscule. Only after the number of subordinates reached a certain threshold would there be a qualitative leap.

’If I were to lead the entire school in the future, even if I did nothing, could I achieve at least a B-Level or even an A-Level Rating just by relying on the daily harvests of my subordinates?’

The daily settlement was nothing special, and even the daily intelligence was unremarkable.

All three pieces were D-level intelligence. ℯ𝓵.

They just told Chen Chong things like a large, several-pound fish would be stranded on the bank of the great river behind the back gate.

Or that an injured pheasant had fallen in a certain direction far away.

And that a python several meters long was coiled in a tree in the direction of the Sky Pit.

Chen Chong didn’t pay them much mind. His goal was to hunt large prey.

While these targets weren’t entirely worthless, they weren’t worth him making a trip himself.

After all, the three locations were in different directions. Making a special trip for them would obviously be a waste of time.

However, he could give the intel to his team members or sell it at the information exchange station, so it wouldn’t be a complete waste.

Chen Chong dozed for a little longer. As the sky began to lighten, there was a knock on his door.

The visitor was Zhang Meng.

Zhang Meng brought two pieces of good news the moment he entered, his face flushed with excitement as he said:

"Brother Chong, we’ve got news on the Waterfield Card!"

Before Chen Chong and Xu Jun could react, he added another sentence.

"And I also got a lead on the whereabouts of some wild mountain goats! The person who gave me the info said there’s a whole herd, at least a dozen of them!"

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