Bringing a woman back to the treehouse, only to find another woman sprawled on the sofa; this scene was truly a bit twisted.
Mimi, who was lounging by the sofa and responsible for monitoring Lou FeiāEr, saw Xu Xin return. She stood up, stretched her body, slowly sauntered to the corner of the room and lay down again, then yawned and directly closed her eyes.
Xu Xin saw that a mischievous smile was already forming on Lou FeiāErās face.
Whatās she planning now?
Xu Xin squinted, pointing to the bracelet still on his left hand, silently warning Lou FeiāEr not to speak nonsense.
Lou FeiāEr shuddered slightly at his gesture.
This guy threatening with the bracelet again! Truly detestable!
Yet she was genuinely afraid of that thing, quickly getting up from the sofa.
She stood in place respectfully, bowing her head like a maid and said, "Welcome home, Master, and welcome to your two guests visiting the Masterās treehouse."
In her view, this guy brought two women back, clearly wanting to do something, so giving him face like this couldnāt be wrong, right?
Xu Xin: "..."
He truly wanted to just put this woman into the bracelet and be done with it.
Li Wenxi blinked.
How come she seems more like the owner of the treehouse!
However, this woman is indeed just as Xu Xin described, outwardly impeccable, especially...
She looked down at her own chest, then at the otherās, feeling slightly deflated.
She already heard everything about Lou FeiāEr from Xu Xin and chose to trust Xu Xin, so she was aware of Lou FeiāErās background.
Therefore, she was only upset for a moment and then calmed down, knowing Lou FeiāEr was just acting.
"Iāve told you about her before, I wouldnāt lie to you." Xu Xin didnāt want to deal with Lou FeiāEr, turning to Li Wenxi.
"Mm, Iām aware." Li Wenxi smiled at Xu Xin, expressing indifference, then said to Lou FeiāEr, "Okay, Xu Xin has already told me everything about you. Iām a member of [Explorer], and youāll become part of Zone 188 soon, letās get along."
"Ah..." Lou FeiāEr instantly understood.
Turns out, these two women arenāt captured like her but are experts of Zone 188!
Last night, while in the Parasite Treehouse, she listened to countless survivalists in Zone 188 praising [Explorer] non-stop on the regional channel, realizing [Explorer] consists of all the top ten experts in their zone.
And clearly, she seemed to have known Xu Xin for a long time already.
...Awkward.
She wanted to hastily act pitiable, but the memory of Xu Xin just now pointing to the bracelet and the thought of that pitch-black space made her retract this idea, awkwardly waving her hand in place, "Um... hello to you all..."
Seeing Li Wenxi didnāt pay much attention, Xu Xin also relaxed, saying to the two behind, "Feel free to tour the treehouse, Keke, I have things to tend to; show them around."
"...Hm? Eh!" Keke was initially startled, then patted her little chest, indicating, leave it to me.
"Huh? Youāre going to work immediately?" Li Wenxi looked at Xu Xin.
"Yeah, itās getting dark soon; I need to enhance the treehouseās decoration and quickly create the coordinates." Xu Xin pointed at the paintings hanging on the wall.
"Ah, then I also... Uh, alright, you go ahead, coordinates are more important!" Li Wenxiās eyes lit up; she held his hand, wanting to witness his art studio and see his carving and sketching skills, but then shifted her focus, reconsidering.
Because she remembered Lou FeiāEr and Li Yajun were still in the treehouse, and Xu Xin also told her that when heās creating art, his spirit fully immerses, unaware of his surroundings.
This state is quite dangerous; she vowed to watch the other two to prevent them from bothering him, especially this Lou FeiāEr!
This woman once tried to kill Xu Xin; although bound by contract now, essentially a slave, one could consider her an ally, yet not fully trustworthy!
"Mm, I can finish the coordinates quickly." Xu Xin nodded, then directed his gaze at Lou FeiāEr, "Lou FeiāEr, has your weakness period ended?"
"Not yet," Lou FeiāEr obediently answered, "though it should only be a few dozen minutes left."
"Once your weakness period is over, return to your treehouse; donāt stay here any longer."
"...Okay." Lou FeiāEr pouted, agreeing.
She glanced at Li Wenxi.
Clearly, this woman holding Xu Xinās little panda pet has an unusual relationship with him!
This guy is visibly mindful of this womanās feelings.
To coexist smoothly, she must build good relations with her! This may determine whether she can live comfortably here in the future!
Lou FeiāEr pondered.
Li Yajun remained silent, hesitant to speak, unsure of what to say. She simply thought this treehouse is genuinely vast...
"Off I go then."
"Go ahead, itās all yours here!" Li Wenxi stood tall, puffing her chest.
"Eh!" Keke also puffed her chest, chirping in agreement.
Entering the art studio, closing the door, Xu Xin let out a long sigh of relief.
The relationships between women, he truly didnāt want to get involved; it was much simpler to find an excuse to slip away, letting the three women themselves chat.
Anyway, with Mimi and Silver King outside, he wasnāt worried about Lou FeiāEr causing trouble.
Now, itās time to focus on the real work.
He first took a flower out from his backpack; it was one of the colorful flowers he obtained at the end of the cave.
[Detected red seven-colored flower (green) *1 placed in the treehouse, decoration degree +2]
A picked seven-colored flower can increase the decoration degree of the treehouse by 2 points.
Xu Xin took out the other seven-colored flowers and placed them in various positions in the art room.
It wasnāt until the twenty-fifth flower that the notification sound told him that the decoration degree from the seven-colored flowers had reached its limit.
Using these seven-colored flowers, he increased the decoration degree of the treehouse by a total of 50 points. Plus, he had a personal 20% decoration degree boost, so the actual increase was 60 points!
Xu Xin allocated all these 60 points to the alchemy room.
At this point, the total decoration degree and boost of his treehouse also changed.
Decoration degree: 551
Bedroom: 1%
Art room: 140%
Planting room: 50%
Alchemy room: 260%
Crafting room: 100%
The alchemy room had an impressive boost of 260%, increasing the alchemy success rate by 26%, and the success rate for making coordinates also reached 76%.
Xu Xin made a voice call to Ji Chaoyang, and it rang twice before connecting.
Before Xu Xin could speak, Ji Chaoyang spoke up.
"Iām already on my way back, itāll take more than ten minutes to get to the treehouse. Then Iāll directly trade the decorations from my treehouse to you. How much decoration degree are you still lacking?" Ji Chaoyang asked.
Previously, when there were four of them, Ji Chaoyang had said he would first give his decorative items for making the coordinates, and Xu Xin didnāt inquire further at that time.
"About five green-level decorative items, you should have them, right?" Xu Xin didnāt hesitate, just getting some decorative items from Ji Chaoyang in advance. He would later make some items that only he could make to return the favor.
"Sure, wait for me to return," Ji Chaoyang agreed without thinking.
After hanging up the call, Xu Xin sat down at the carving and painting workbench and took out a piece of red wood.
Ten minutes was enough to make a green-level decorative item.
Mainly because he felt exhausted from the dayās activities, he really didnāt want to face those three women outside, let them chat by themselves.
His treehouse already had ten green-level crystal carvings, ten green-level paintings, and seven red wood carvings.
For green-level decoration, he only had three more green-level red wood carvings he could make.
Picking up the carving knife, Xu Xin immersed himself once again, sawdust flying.
Quickly, he carved out Li Wenxi, wearing a blue-level steel armor set, looking exceptionally valiant and heroic, slightly smaller than a human.
"...Iām really getting more lifelike with my carvings," Xu Xin nodded in satisfaction.
A notification sound rang in his ears as the red wood carving was completed, increasing the decoration degree, and at the same time, his watch vibrated.
Sliding open his watch, he saw a trade request from Ji Chaoyang, surprisingly trading him a full nine decorative items!
[Deer Head Trophy] [Wolf Head Trophy] [Wild Boar Trophy], among others, totaling nine.
Xu Xin welcomed them all, immediately agreeing to the trade, and suddenly, nine menacing beast heads appeared before him.
"...Can these heads really increase decoration degree..." Xu Xin twitched the corner of his eye, "Wonāt these things decrease my sanity value?"
No wonder the guy sent them all to him, fearing he couldnāt bear having so many heads hanging on his own treehouseās walls!
Xu Xin picked up a deer head and directly hung it above the art roomās door.
[Detected green deer head trophy *1 placed in the treehouse, decoration degree +10]
Sure enough, like his small carvings, green-level artworks increase the decoration degree by 10 points.
Not to mention, when these heads were lying on the ground earlier, they looked a bit grotesque, but hung on the wall, it really gave off a hunterās cabin vibe.
Having an artistās skills, Xu Xin relied heavily on technical input, naturally Ji Chaoyangās skills wouldnāt be poor either.
Each of these beast heads looked like living animals, the deer head even had its eyes open, with prominent antlers and eyes completely preserved, truly evoking a hunterās trophy feeling, full of wild nature.
Xu Xin stored the remaining eight trophies in his backpack and walked out of the art room.
Of course, he couldnāt hang all the trophies in the art roomāit would be too eerie to be surrounded by a ring of heads, and it wouldnāt be conducive to artistic creation.
Stepping out, he heard laughter from the three women in the planting room upstairs, mixed with Kekeās babbling.
He pondered for a moment, then went down to the ground floor, hanging the remaining head trophies on the outer wall of the ice cellar, arranged in two rows.
It looked quite majestic this way.
Inside, their meat was frozen, outside their heads hung, hmm, very logical.
Nine trophies, along with his recently carved red wood statue, added a total of 100 decoration points to his treehouse. With the boost, it amounted to 120 points, bringing his treehouseās decoration degree to an astonishing 671 points.
Xu Xin decisively applied the boost from these 120 decoration points all to the alchemy room, bringing its boost to a full 380%!
With this, his coordinate crafting success rate reached 50% + 38%, which matched 88%!
Coupled with the effects of the lucky charm, his actual success rate was over 90%!
Thatās enough, more than enough.
Ready to craft coordinates!