“This is just...”
Little Ka couldn't help but go wide-eyed. Seeing this in a game and actually entering it in reality were two completely different feelings.
—Not to mention that Little Ka hadn't even played the game.
That being said, the place was indeed quite beautiful. Mo Shao admired the room before her with great satisfaction.
Beyond the large floor-to-ceiling glass windows lay dense green vegetation, with sunlight casting mottled shadows on the polished floor. The interior featured dark bookshelves, old wooden crates, picture frames, scattered machinery, and various office items, with green plants clinging to the walls and ceiling. Suspended metal frames, warm yellow lights, and tangled cables intertwined, creating a cluttered yet somewhat artistic, retro atmosphere.
There were many rooms with complete functionality, enough to support the daily needs of several people. Most importantly, this was portable!
Mo Shao immediately took off the oversized hiking backpack she had been carrying; having this thing on her at all times was truly a nuisance. Now she could stuff everything that wasn't strictly necessary to carry on her person into this suitcase! She only needed to keep the things she needed at a moment's notice on her body!
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Moreover, this room was just the tip of the iceberg of the world inside the suitcase.
After wandering around the room for a while, Mo Shao found a door whose material was slightly different from the rest of the house. A distant, moist wind blew through the crack...
“I smell water and wind!” Beside Mo Shao, Little Ka twitched her nose and spoke with sudden delight.
“You have quite a sharp nose,” Mo Shao chuckled. She then pushed the door open and stepped through, arriving in a completely new place in the blink of an eye.
What met her eyes was an endless ocean and a slightly dark-toned meadow island beneath their feet.
It could be considered a special home system—the Wilderness. It could hold buildings, house people, and even produce resources.
Little Ka was already curiously exploring the area, while Mo Shao turned back to look at the entrance they had used to get here.
It was a stone archway with a green portal in the middle. It was located within stone ruins; the main wall was broken and incomplete, with exposed and missing bricks, and curved stone steps winding upward. In the center sat an arched window with green glass, vines clinging to the walls, and a bronze-colored bell hanging from it—dilapidated yet fantastical.
This was the Wilderness Hall. Upgrading this building would expand the limit of Islands the Wilderness could hold and increase the number of people who could enter.
These so-called Islands were actually hexagonal land tiles. Like puzzle pieces, they could be used to make the Wilderness larger and larger.
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However, Mo Shao didn't have a very strong need in that regard.
After all, she could use Minecraft blocks to expand the Wilderness area on top of the existing foundation just as well.
What she needed more was the Vigor provided by the Islands. If this value was high, it would increase the number of people who could enter.
Since she couldn't upgrade the Wilderness Hall for the time being—as the required upgrade material, Fertile Progeny, was hard to find—only four people could enter right now. This gave her a bit of a cramped feeling, so she had to look for other ways.
Even without upgrading the Wilderness Hall, as long as she accumulated enough Vigor, she could eventually reach a capacity of nine people.
As for the method to increase the number of Islands... a vast amount of life energy permeated the Wilderness. As long as she guided that life energy to move in one direction and condense, it would eventually form Islands.
Mo Shao could manage this. After all, she possessed the Jewel of Life and was a reborn soul; doing something like this was naturally not difficult for her.
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Mo Shao closed her eyes, and under the guidance of her power, the scattered life energy around her gradually began to move and merge. Soon, she condensed the first meadow Island, which had a few trees and scattered rocks on it.
There was a rich variety of Island types; creating a river was simple as well. Each Island was an equilateral hexagon with side lengths of about 6 meters. This meant a single tile added 93.53 square meters to the Wilderness area.
Mo Shao could feel the Vigor of the Wilderness increasing as well; it seemed this method was viable.
Furthermore, the increase in Islands made the Wilderness more vast, and this prosperity further manifested as Islands and buildings.
—In reality, it was just like the tutorial tasks in the game.
Spending a bit of time, Mo Shao completely filled the 60-Island limit for a Level 1 Hall. Including the six starting tiles, there were a total of 66 hexagonal Islands, totaling an area of 6,172.98 square meters.
—She could simply round it to six thousand square meters. This area was considerably vast, leaving plenty of room for development in the future!
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At the same time, besides those buildings and Islands—as well as the Wilderness Shells used to purchase them—she also obtained 30 Pure Raindrops.
“An extremely expensive currency in the world of arcanum, usable for recruitment and restoring cellular activity”—basically, it was gacha currency. There was even a gacha location in this suitcase world—the lake and the half-spinning wheel outside the cottage window.
She didn't know what she would pull if she actually could use the gacha... but since she didn't have enough Raindrops right now, she ignored it for the moment.
As for the subsequent rewards, she couldn't get them yet. The next task was to upgrade the Wilderness Hall to Level 2, which would likely keep her stuck for a long time.
But it didn't matter. While the number of Islands had reached its limit, the number of buildings didn't! If she couldn't get buildings here, she would just build them herself! She could even move them from the real world!
If she filled the entire Wilderness with buildings, she could definitely push the Vigor high enough to reach the nine-person capacity! That way, even if the Wilderness Hall couldn't be upgraded for a while, it wouldn't matter. Nine people were more than enough!
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After handling the expansion of the Wilderness, Mo Shao looked at the only functional building available right now—the Dust Belltower.
The belltower was a stone structure, slender and tall overall, with narrow windows in the tower body. The middle and upper sections housed a bell chamber with arched windows, topped with a conical red-tiled roof, its silhouette outlined by warm light.
It could infinitely produce Dust without her having to do anything; she just had to let it run on its own. As for Dust, the description read: “Resonances from the supreme melody”... but in practice, it was just character experience materials.
If she Dead-bound this suitcase, she would be able to use it. However, she didn't have any more Dead-binding slots for now.
After getting everything organized, Mo Shao was satisfied—the next step was obvious!
“Little Ka, let's go! Time to move some stuff!”
Without a doubt, now that she had a portable space, the natural thing to do was to move all the good things nearby into her home!
Hoarding things was something deeply ingrained in the hearts of most Chinese people!
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