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Chapter 75, Day 15 Settlement
Together with my younger brother, we carried the remaining half of the wild boar meat home. The strong smell of wild boar meat mingled with sweat and clung to our collars.

"Brother, I want to take a shower." Qin Ziwu felt sticky all over and just didn't feel comfortable.

Qin Ziwen nodded, "Go boil some water."

Qin Ziwu was about to go over and scoop water when he paused, his brows furrowing as he hesitated and said, "Brother, haven't we given away too much meat? When we were killing the wild boar, you were the first to face it, so you faced the greatest risk, but when it comes to dividing the meat, everyone gets an equal share."

Qin Ziwen wiped the sweat from his forehead, glanced at his younger brother's tense face, and smiled slightly: "You think they don't know?"

Qin Ziwu blinked; he didn't quite understand.

Qin Ziwen smiled faintly: "You only give them what they deserve. Once the money and goods are settled, everyone is even, and it's just a pure employer-employee relationship. Give and take is how human relationships are maintained, and that's how we get closer to each other."

Qin Ziwu pondered his elder brother's words, "But what if someone only interacts with others but never reciprocates?"

"That means you can't be too close to this kind of person." Qin Ziwen patted his younger brother on the shoulder. "You can only drive them by offering them benefits. Nowadays, society doesn't follow the old ways of making empty promises. Alright, go boil some water for your shower. Boil a lot, I'll take a shower later too."

I'll carry the meat to the cellar first, to prevent it from spoiling. Tomorrow I need to find the person with the salt well and trade for more coarse salt, so it'll be easier to cure meat later.

While taking a shower, Qin Ziwen noticed several new blisters on the soles of his feet.

Today's workload was quite tiring.

After taking a shower, I drifted off to sleep. After a busy day, my body was already sending out signals of fatigue.

"You have successfully survived in the wilderness for fifteen days. Today you caught some fish, hunted an adult wild boar, and raised livestock. Overall score: 55 points"

"You have received the following rewards: [Expansion Card] Altitude Expansion Card (Micro) *1, Ground Cage *3, Mountain Animal Encyclopedia Fragment *1"

Upon waking up, Qin Ziwen first checked yesterday's daily settlement.

Remove the height expansion card.

Holding the card in my hand, I instantly understood how to use it.

The Height Expansion Card (Micro) increases the height of all spaces within your home by 0.2 meters, and from the outside, it does not affect the distance between floors. This increase is permanent, and subsequent use of other space expansion cards will result in newly acquired spaces with a height of 3 meters.

After seeing the height attribute on the homestead panel, Qin Ziwen guessed that there might be a way to increase the height of the homestead.

Now it seems his guess was indeed correct.

Choose to use cards.

The next second, light enveloped the dome.

When the light faded, Qin Ziwen looked up again and saw that the ceiling and walls were still the same.

It seems like nothing has changed.

Is it because a 20-centimeter increase is such a small change that it's not noticeable?

However, when you open your homestead, the displayed height is 3 meters.

[Jiayuan] Building 8, Unit 2, Room 5-2
Total Area: 998㎡

[Height] 3m
[Special Terrain] Desert 400㎡

【建筑】2级地窖粮仓、1级兽笼、1级卫厕、1级铁匠铺、1级农田

[Resources] Level 2 spring, Level 2 iron ore, Level 1 coal mine

[Unused] Level 1 Stable, Blank Expansion Card (Minor)

Soon he understood.

He walked into the extension area behind the restroom.

Looking back, one can see that where the house was originally, there is now a space above it.

My home has become a "box", with an extra 20 centimeters of space outside the box.

One can imagine that if the height of his home continues to expand, this place might one day truly become a small world that belongs to him, and he would be the lord of this place.

Then I took out a fragment of a mountain animal atlas. Judging from the feel of the paper, it should be the same type of paper as the fragment of the mountain plant atlas I found last time.

The paper has two sides, each depicting a different animal.

The first animal is called the dire wolf.

Below are color pictures and data: adult dire wolves have an average shoulder height of 1.1 meters, a body length of 2.4 meters, and a weight of 140-200 kilograms.

Habitat: grasslands, river valleys, plains, forests, and mountain edges.

Life habits: gregarious, carrion-eating.

Wait a minute, Qin Ziwen rubbed his temples.

If he wasn't mistaken, this thing seems to have become extinct on Earth, right?

Besides, the average individual data of a dire wolf is not that exaggerated. With its shoulder height and weight, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it a small tiger.

And if a dire wolf with such data is told that it is also a scavenger, then what would be in the higher ecological niche?

After finishing reading about the Dire Wolf, Qin Ziwen flipped the book to the back.

The second type of organism.

The average individual of the schizothorax is 2.2 meters tall at the shoulder, 3.7 meters long, and weighs 1400-1800 kilograms.

Habitat: grasslands, river valleys, plains, forests, and mountain edges.

Habitat: Lives in small groups, omnivorous, scavengers

The picture shows a creature that looks somewhat like a rhinoceros, extremely robust, covered in brown mane, with an enormous head and a mouth full of ferocious, sharp teeth.

The giant wild boar he encountered that day seemed as gentle as a little girl compared to this scaly boar.

Both the dire wolf and the direjao are even more terrifying than the male crocodile leader, and both of them are social animals. The only good news is that these two creatures seem to prefer living in open areas, and forests are not their main range of activity.

After carefully putting away the missing pages of the encyclopedia, Qin Ziwen took out three more fish traps. Including the ones he had previously kept at home, he now had a total of six intact fish traps.

Then he went out and arrived at Wei Zhaohua's house.

Upon learning of Qin Ziwen's idea, Wei Zhaohua was overjoyed and agreed without hesitation.

His parents-in-law were not young. Although they were both still in good spirits, it was definitely not feasible for them to join a hunting team. Of course, they would prefer a job where they could earn a stable income simply by guarding the traps without having to go out.

Then Qin Ziwen went to Li Yue.

When Li Yue learned that Qin Ziwen was coming, he thought he was there to "urge him to finish his manuscript".

His face flushed red, and he said repeatedly, "It'll be done soon, it'll be done soon. I've been going through my old textbooks and looking for reference materials these past two days."

Qin Ziwen noticed that there were indeed several large books on the table next to him.

He immediately smiled and waved his hand, "No rush, quality is the most important thing."

Qin Ziwen then shared his thoughts.

After hearing this, Li Yue realized he had misunderstood and quickly agreed.

The job that Brother Qin offered was a godsend for him. His legs were still recovering and he had difficulty moving around. To help him, Brother Qin specially found him this kind of job.

Thinking of this, Li Yue was deeply moved.

Who says there are no good people in this world?

After leaving Li Yue's house, Qin Ziwen was about to go find Zhang Bo, hoping to exchange some coarse salt with him.

Suddenly, a voice from the little light orb in my mind said: "[You have received a new message. Please return to your home to receive it.]"

(End of this chapter)