Chapter 41: Chapter 41

[Desires: Bread, Chicken Feathers, Pork]

She ignored the bow and arrows—what caught her eye was the “Crosshair.” What was that?

[Trade: Exchange 100 Bread for Skill Book: Crosshair?]

A skill? You could actually learn skills in this world!

She wasn’t sure what it did, but she’d never seen a skill book before. She wanted to trade for it and see what it could do.

She checked her backpack—she’d eaten a few from her stack of bread, so she was still a bit short for the trade.

Wait, there were wheat fields outside the village! These villagers were even more NPC-like than the shopkeeper at her camp. Surely it was fine to take some wheat?

Mu Ying ran out to the fields. No one was there. She harvested the wheat, then thoughtfully replanted the seeds.

Back in the village, nothing seemed amiss.

She went to the hunter and traded for the Crosshair skill book. It turned out to be a skill that assisted with aiming.

After learning it, whenever she used a ranged weapon to aim, a crosshair would appear in her view to mark where her shot would land.

Mu Ying had crafted bows before, but her arrows never flew true. So you actually needed to learn a skill for this?

Wait—a conversion option?

Mu Ying tapped the skill book and saw the familiar conversion info.

[Crosshair]

[Effect: After learning, a crosshair appears in your field of vision to assist with aiming.]

[Physical Conversion: 100 Origin Power per use]

[Physical Description: Universal skill Crosshair. Effect is the same as the original skill.]

[Origin Power Conversion: Not available]

“!”

100 Origin Power per use?

100 Origin Power was one thing, but the key was “per use.” Unlike the backpack, which required both Origin Power and a backpack to convert, this skill could be copied out as many times as she wanted, as long as she paid the Origin Power.

That meant that after her Trial character learned the skill, she could still make another copy for the real world.

In that case, Mu Ying decided to learn it right away.

She didn’t have a bow, so she crafted some stones.

Sure enough, when she threw the stones, a tiny crosshair appeared in her vision, shifting as she adjusted her aim.

As long as the target wasn’t too far, she could hit it every time using the crosshair—though it was a bit slow.

Once converted into a physical item, the skill’s effect wouldn’t change. Outside the Trial World, it would definitely improve her accuracy.

After all, many ranged spells required aiming too.

She could also make herself a bow as a backup attack method besides spells.

The more she thought about it, the more feasible it seemed. Mu Ying was itching to get back to the mountains to mine and save up enough Origin Power for the exchange.

But since coming here took quite a bit of time, she decided to finish exploring the village first—maybe there were other villagers with good stuff?

Soon, Mu Ying found two more special villagers.

[Librarian]

[Possession: Enchanted Book]

[Desires: Gold Ingot, Diamond]

[Village Chief]

[Possession: Villager Contract]

[Desires: Broken Dungeon Core]

These two were clearly higher-level than the hunter, but Mu Ying didn’t have what they wanted.

She could guess that the gold ingot and diamond the librarian wanted could be mined, but she had no idea what a dungeon core was.

As for the enchanted book, she’d never seen one, but she knew the crafting recipe for an enchantment table, which was used to enchant tools.

Clearly, the enchanted book was related.

She had no clue about the villager contract either. Contracts usually proved ownership—if it involved people, it was probably for slaves, servants, or hired help?

Mu Ying made a mental note of these things, planning to come back and check once she’d gathered the required items.

Now it was getting dark again. She left the village before nightfall and lay down on her single bed.

Just as the trial time ended, Mu Ying woke up in the real world."

"On the third consecutive day of rain, besides tending to the plants in the plantation, Mu Ying had also taken on the task of managing the small vegetable gardens around the camp.

Fortunately, her affinity with nature had improved, so she could use her natural vision to scan everything first, making the job much easier.

After just one night, many of the vegetable seedlings had grown and even started to bloom.

“Mu Ying, thanks for your hard work!”

“Thanks, Mu girl!”

Clearly, Mu Ying wasn’t the only one keeping an eye on the little gardens. Today, quite a few people got up earlier than usual, coming over specifically to check on the vegetables they’d planted yesterday.

The thriving seedlings lifted everyone’s spirits.

No one knew exactly when the rain would stop, but many people with little savings decided to brave the weather and go out to hunt zombies.

But every time someone passed by the vegetable plots, they couldn’t help but stop and take a look. This was the result of everyone’s hard work, and soon they’d be able to harvest the crops.

Yesterday’s camp-wide planting activity had brought Mu Ying much closer to the others. Now, many more people greeted her when they saw her.

There were many whose names Mu Ying couldn’t even recall—at most, their faces looked familiar.

All she could do was try her best to return their greetings with a smile.