Survival in the Mist: From a Dilapidated Wooden Hut to a Heavenly Palace in the Clouds

First, excluding all ordinary facilities, among the eight bronze items, the bronze bedroom, bronze workbench, bronze hall, and bronze bathroom are indoors. Due to limited indoor space, they can only be built selectively.

The Bronze Beast King's Palace, Bronze Stone Wall, and Bronze Warehouse are outdoors and not limited by the size of the shelter. As long as the materials are collected, they can all be built.

The bronze workbench and bronze bathroom are both small enough that you can choose both, but you can only choose one between the bronze bedroom and the bronze living room.

After thinking for a while, Mo Ming finally chose the Bronze Hall.

Although Mo Ming really wanted to sleep in the bed, the fireplace that came with the bronze palace and the accompanying design drawings were much more appealing.

With the facilities identified, the next step is prioritization.

The bronze workbench and the bronze hall are undoubtedly the top priorities; everything else should be put on hold for now.

After a moment's thought, Mo Ming decided to prioritize the construction of the bronze hall.

The fireplace attached to the bronze hall says it all.

A cold wave is coming, so a source of fire is essential.

With a fireplace, Mo Ming could burn charcoal for warmth, greatly increasing his chances of survival.

He was already feeling sleepy, but after upgrading the shelter, he just couldn't fall asleep.

It's like when everyone else is unboxing a regular product, but you unearth a hidden one. Wouldn't you be excited?

Bored out of his mind, he opened the [World Chat Channel].

Wow, look at my exquisite stone house! It's so cool!

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Wow! Wow, that's amazing! You leveled up already?

"It's much warmer now!"

"Brother is great!"

"Hey pro, can you help me out?!"

Looking at the exquisite stone house in the picture, and then comparing it to my own bronze ancient house, I couldn't help but laugh, feeling a little unkind. Is that all?

"Could you please tell me what features are unlocked after the upgrade of the shelter? I'd really appreciate that."

"Yeah, yeah! Please send me some, bro!"

Subsequently, information about the Level 2 Exquisite Stone House appeared in the chat channel.

After browsing through the list, Mo Ming discovered a crucial issue: the option to add materials was missing from the shelter upgrade requirements.

However, this item still exists here, and there are also some specific material names, such as the bronze that has been used.

Mo Ming speculated that special materials could only be used to upgrade the shelter from level 1 to level 2, and that this feature would be retained in subsequent upgrades.

Conversely, if you don't use special materials to upgrade from level 1 to level 2, this option will not be available later.

If a special upgrade is not performed during the upgrade of the shelter in the future, will this feature also disappear?

Having made up his mind, Mo Ming secretly decided that he would perform a special upgrade every time he leveled up in the future to prolong this buff.

After all, a specially upgraded shelter completely outclasses a regular shelter of the same level.

Having made up his mind, Mo Ming continued browsing the chat channels.

Suddenly, a red message started dominating the screen.

[Announcement from the World of Mist]

[The shelter rating leaderboard will be available in 48 hours.]

Ranking rewards will be distributed based on the leaderboard at that time.

[At the same time, the end of the countdown also means the end of the beginner period.]

[The countdown panel is now open and can be viewed on the survival bracelet.]

Best of luck to you all!

Shelter rating rankings?

Are there any rewards?

I turned on the bracelet. Scrolling to the bottom, sure enough, there was another section called "Countdown" after the "Overall Environment" section.

【Countdown】

Shelter rating leaderboard countdown begins: 48 hours

Time remaining: 47 hours and 56 minutes

Back in the world chat channel, after the overlay announcement disappeared, the channel erupted in excitement once again.

"What rating system? Where did it come from?"

"It will be activated in 48 hours. Excluding the nighttime hours, the remaining time is less than 24 hours."

Am I the only one who noticed that the newbie period is about to end?

"Yeah, I've never seen a game with such a short beginner period, you idiot."

"Hey you upstairs, have you ever seen a game where people die?"

"Go to sleep, go to sleep. Get up early tomorrow to cut down trees."

"Sleep my ass! What if I oversleep tomorrow? Sleeping for even a second longer is disrespectful to life. I'll masturbate until dawn."

"666"

"666"

"666"

......

The rating rewards this time are expected to be good, since the newbie protection period ends after 48 hours.

The real test is yet to come!

We need to give it our all and try to get the highest level of reward possible.

It's done!

Having made up his mind, Mo Ming went straight to sleep, preparing to greet the light of tomorrow.

Just as Mo Ming was fast asleep, in the corner of the bronze ancient house, the unknown bird egg shook slightly before returning to stillness, and the bronze ancient lamp also flickered slightly, perhaps coincidentally.

......

The night is ending, and dawn is about to break.

Mo Ming struggled to sit up from the straw mat, opened his sleepy eyes, shook his head vigorously, blinked repeatedly to wake himself up, and then looked around the room following the dim yellow light emitted by the ancient bronze lamp.

Especially those few items in the corner; after counting them carefully, I found that nothing was missing, and I was finally relieved.

Open the survival bracelet.

There was less than an hour until dawn. To be precise, there were 47 minutes left.

I habitually scroll through the various sections of the bracelet from front to back.

When Mo Ming saw Song Yufei's name in his friend list, his eyes suddenly lit up. He had thought of an excellent way to collect wood and stone that would maximize efficiency.

However, this requires Song Yufei's cooperation.

Without thinking twice, Mo Ming launched into a barrage of information.

Mo Ming: Good morning!

Mo Ming: Are you up yet?

Mo Ming: It's almost dawn, aren't you up yet?

Mo Ming: I have something to discuss with you.

......

The bracelet has a friend message notification function, which can both vibrate the wrist and make an audio alert; in the original world, it's called vibration plus ringing.

At this moment, the frequency with which Mo Ming was sending messages was practically like a human alarm clock.

Song Yufei: Ahhh! What the hell!

Song Yufei: I'm going to kill you!

Song Yufei: I finally get to sleep in, I hate it!

Mo Ming: Oh my goodness, have you forgotten where you are? Still sleeping in? Do you have a death wish?

Song Yufei: What's wrong with sleeping a little longer? What's wrong with living a long life? What's it to you?

Mo Ming: I was speechless.

Song Yufei: You need something from me?

Pshaw? Just because you have two bronze-level resource boxes, you think you can be so arrogant and domineering?

Mo Ming mentally scoffed.

Mo Ming: Uh... I do have something to say~

Song Yufei: You better tell me something that interests me, or you're dead!

Mo Ming: How about we cooperate?

Song Yufei wasn't stupid. Based on her transaction with Mo Ming yesterday, this strange boy must be up to something, especially his secretive collection of empty bronze resource boxes. Song Yufei felt that he definitely wasn't just using them to store things.

He has a secret!

People who have secrets usually have something to hide.

Hearing that Mo Ming wanted to discuss cooperation, he did not immediately refuse.

Song Yufei: Oh? Tell me more.