Chapter 14: A Giant Bird Falls from the Sky
On the fourth day since reincarnating here, Jia Zhengjin was finally free from worries about food and clothing.
He had found a safe and efficient way to obtain food, as well as a method to hunt kobolds using traps for leveling up.
The kobolds were indeed one of the low intelligence races. Despite losing many of their kind to the traps, they would still foolishly return the next day to drink water, stupidly falling into the traps and waiting for death.
The kobolds that escaped wouldn't dare to come back on the same day, but by the next day, they would have forgotten about it and they would return again!
They were stupid otherworldly creatures, but also ones that Jia Zhengjin quite liked. Because they reliably provided him with a considerable amount of experience points every day. They also had a chance to drop weapons and accessories, although their drops were all of the lowest, poor quality.
While collecting iron ore, he was also working hard to level up his tool crafting skill. With his skill level being over level 3, he could at least produce various tools of normal quality now!
Jia Zhengjin was steadily mining and hunting near his home every day, because entering the dangerous and unknown otherworldly forest could easily cost him his life if he wasn't careful!
There's a saying that goes, "Trouble falls from the sky while you sit at home!"
Despite Jia Zhengjin's cautious attitude, unexpected events could still occur around him.
Wasn't he just diligently mining today? He hadn't provoked anyone, but as he was mining, he suddenly felt the sky darken in an instant.
Looking up, he saw the golden giant bird he had encountered earlier in the forest, the one with the lightning skill, falling from the sky and crashing directly onto him.
If it weren't for his good luck and the presence of a huge rock nearby, he would have been instantly flattened into a meat paste by this giant bird.
At first, Jia Zhengjin was very scared. He quickly switched his iron pickaxe for an iron shield and stone spear, assuming a battle stance ready to fight at any moment. But he soon discovered that the golden giant bird was motionless - it had already died!
He cautiously poked it a few times with his stone spear, and indeed, there was no response. Only then did he grow bolder and approach to examine it closely.
It appeared to have been killed by fire, as its left leg was completely cooked, and half of its body was emitting a meaty aroma.
Seeing the fire damage reminded him of the giant python that had fought with the golden giant bird that day. Jia Zhengjin hastily and cautiously surveyed the surroundings, sighing in relief when he found no sign of the giant python.
Perhaps this golden giant bird had received a fatal blow from the python's flames during their battle, but had retreated, only to finally succumb to its injuries and fall from the sky when it could no longer hold on later?
Jia Zhengjin didn't know the actual circumstances, so he could only speculate.
In any case, a golden giant bird's carcass falling from the sky and nearly crushing him could be considered a misfortune. But freely obtaining such a large carcass, with all the bird meat and feathers to collect, was an enormous stroke of good luck! The only downside in this situation was the lack of a refrigerator, making it impossible to store too much meat. Even if he and his pet Little Grey ate as much as they could, a lot of meat would still spoil due to its limited shelf life.
A refrigerator, huh... The prerequisites for crafting one were too much for him. Even if he had skill points to unlock it, he couldn't craft one right now.
Regardless, resources shouldn't be wasted. If they couldn't eat it all, they could use it as bait in traps to capture more centipedes and collect poison sacs and strange silk, which would be very useful!
Thinking of this, Jia Zhengjin immediately took out his dagger and began collecting.
The large amount of bird meat, feathers, and even entrails excited him greatly! However, he also obtained a strange item called [Lightning Core]. It was a golden, faceted, block-like object. its material looked a bit like quartz, but it was clearly denser and emitted a mysterious power.
[Lightning Core Lv1] The lowest grade lightning energy core that can be fused into weapons to allow the fused weapons' attacks to gain the power of lightning.
This was something he hadn't seen before, but from the description, it seemed to be quite a good item.
Jia Zhengjin thought for a moment, then decided to take out the iron ingots he had been saving to make a crafting table.
He used twelve iron ingots and a wooden stick to craft a [Poor Quality Iron Spear], then tried placing the [Lightning Core] on the iron spear.
"Whoosh~~" Something magical happened. The Lightning Core burst into golden light, instantly enveloping the entire iron spear. Then the light gradually faded, and the Lightning Core disappeared. Only the iron spear in his hand remained, now with a distinct lightning mark on its tip.
[Lightning Spear Lv1] This spear contains the power of lightning and can release electric currents to attack enemies in battle!
Jia Zhengjin tried swinging the spear and indeed found that as he moved it, crackling electric currents appeared where the spear passed. However, this electric current didn't seem very strong. It was at least dozens of times weaker than the golden giant bird's lightning. When he reached out to touch the electric current himself, he only felt that his body was paralyzed for a few seconds, without causing much damage.
Nevertheless, this spear was still much stronger than a stone spear! In battle, this electricity-emitting spear would significantly improve his melee combat ability!
Jia Zhengjin fondly played with it for quite a while before finally storing the Lightning Spear in his backpack.
The golden giant bird's skeleton was too massive to simply bury anywhere. So he could only break it down into many bones and temporarily store them in his virtual backpack.
To be honest, he didn't want to collect bones because apart from crafting bone knives, they were only useful for making bone glue and then using the bone glue to produce standard glue.
Although glue was a very useful item, that was for the later stages! Making glue now would just waste space. The most important thing was still to mine and level up various tool, weapon, and armor crafting skills.
The item used to make the Lightning Spear was the [Lightning Core Lv1], so what would be the level of the giant python's fire core? If he could collect a core from it, it should be a fire attributed one, right? Would its power be several times stronger than this one? After all, the golden giant bird was defeated by the giant python!
Thinking about doing this was one thing, but he didn't believe he currently had the ability to defeat that fire-breathing giant python. Even if he could craft guns and cannons later, taking it on alone would still be risky! Unless he had a rocket launcher, then he might have a chance to snipe and instantly kill it from afar!
For now, it was better not to think about such unrealistic things. Crafting the iron spear had used up twelve iron ingots, which meant he would need to spend an extra day mining iron ore to be able to craft the crafting table.
Creating the crafting table sooner would allow him to craft more and better quality tools, weapons, and armors, which would undoubtedly help with surviving in this otherworld. Especially if he could successfully craft a full set of iron armor, he would be much more confident in facing kobolds head-on without using traps! After all, it would be nearly impossible for the kobolds with their wooden clubs to break through a complete set of iron armor!
Although kobolds were cowardly, they could be quite vicious when in groups and when they had an advantage. Only by showing them that resistance was futile would they scatter and flee. They were a race that bullied the weak and feared the strong!
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