Chapter 33: Crystal Beast Bone

“Lei, what kind of tree are you looking for?” Fuweili asked while lying on Lin Lei’s back.

Since that night, every time Lin Lei went out, Fuweili refused to stay alone in the cave, insisting on following him no matter what.

Lin Lei found it both annoying and amusing; he had never seen anyone so timid and clingy. The reason he felt safe leaving Fuweili in the cave was that there was an Epic Beast skeleton inside that could intimidate wild beasts.

A tiger retains its might even after death, let alone an Epic Beast that was heaven-defyingly power ful. Even Wild Beast Meng, when in the cave, hid far away in the corner, not daring to look straight at the skeleton.

In fact, that Meng dared to enter the cave was the result of Lin Lei’s repeated training.

However, letting her follow was fine. Lin Lei didn’t mind carrying Fuweili, who only weighed about a hundred catties. But as a result, Lin Lei’s back became Fuweili’s exclusive seat.

There was no helping it; Lin Lei thought she walked too slowly, so he simply carried her wherever he went. This burden was not troublesome at all; on the contrary, it was very sweet.

They had been out for an hour. Lin Lei kept tapping trees with his hand to judge the material, so Fuweili asked this question.

“I’m looking for a tree that is big and thick enough, with tough wood that is also water-resistant. I thought about it, building a raft might not work. We don’t have the right tools and materials, and the raft would probably fall apart as soon as big waves hit it. Several trees I was optimistic about before turned out to have flaws when I checked them during the day, so I gave up on them.”

“Oh, you want to make a canoe?” Fuweili asked.

Lin Lei didn’t stop his hand movements, tearing open the bark from time to time to check. Hearing Fuweili’s words, he just nodded.

“Then put me down, I’ll help you look too.” Fuweili twisted her body, trying to get down.

In front of Lin Lei, she was becoming more and more like a child. At least, Lin Lei generally wouldn’t stop her from doing what she wanted. For things he didn’t agree with at first, as long as she acted a bit spoiled, the situation would change immediately.

This feeling was relaxed and wonderful, something she couldn’t experience on Apocalypse Star. On Apocalypse Star, equality between men and women was emphasized. Between husband and wife, matters were generally discussed on the basis of respect and fairness; there was absolutely no such thing as one side accommodating the other.

This was the result of highly developed technology, where the impact of the physical gap between men and women on social status became insignificant. In fact, on Apocalypse Star, the relationship of “husband and wife” expressed more of a tradition than a necessity of life.

This was an inevitability of the development of a civilized society.

But Lin Lei was different. He had the dominance of a big man, but as long as it wasn’t a matter of principle, he would choose to indulge Fuweili’s slight willfulness.

He didn’t care about these small things at all. This was also one of the reasons Fuweili liked Lin Lei. She liked the feeling of being pampered, and also the feeling of having someone to rely on at critical moments.

Lin Lei put Fuweili down from his back and let her go search. Now, as long as she was within his field of vision, she was within his protection range. Fuweili was not a weak woman either; she was still wearing her Combat Suit.

Wild beasts were the most barbaric, but also the wisest. They would cautiously choose their targets of attack, instinctively calculating the gains and losses between effort and reward.

The powerful they would avoid from afar; the weak they would bully. Obviously, Lin Lei now belonged to the super powerful type. Wherever he passed, wild beasts fled at the sight of him; none even stayed to watch from the sidelines.

This made Wild Beast Meng, who was following along, stand a bit taller, its head held high looking at the sky, basically not looking at the ground. What a fox borrowing the tiger’s might.

“Lei! Come look at this tree, I think its material is very suitable for making a boat.” Fuweili shouted excitedly at Lin Lei from a hundred meters away.

Lin Lei smiled and walked forward in response: “Wei, are you sure this tree will work? Isn’t it a bit small?”

He wanted to make a canoe, but this tree was only thick enough for one person to hug with their arms. To carry two people plus some supplies, it was clearly not enough.

“Dummy, look at the material of this tree. It looks very hard and solid, and the wax content is high. Isn’t this exactly a good thing for waterproofing? We just need to find a bigger tree of this species.”

Once Fuweili said it, Lin Lei’s mind also turned. He had been so busy looking at those thick giant trees that he hadn’t paid attention to the species of the trees.

“System, use this tree as the base template and perform a screening scan within the visible range.” For this kind of search with a specific target, it was best to leave it to the System.

After a long time, Lin Lei had a rough idea of the System’s permission settings. As long as there was no life-threatening danger, the System generally wouldn’t take the initiative to tell you anything. For things Lin Lei himself didn’t have a specific concept of, even if Lin Lei asked the System, the answer would be “insufficient permissions.”

Only for things Lin Lei encountered during his adventures would the System offer explanations and be able to derive some functions. Detection was one of them.

“Starting template collection.”

“Suolo Tree, wood is hard, waterproof and crack-proof. It is a unique higher plant on Blue Rain Star.”

“Starting optical scan. It is suggested that the Host expand the visible range.”

Lin Lei didn’t say a word and immediately climbed to the top of the tree. Well, standing high allowed one to see far.

Then he felt his eyes turn into an astronomical telescope again. He turned his gaze 360 degrees and began waiting for the System’s result.

The System was very efficient and gave a dense set of scan results after one second.

Lin Lei looked at them, but the result disappointed him. There were not many trees of this kind around, only a dozen or so, and none were very tall. The thickest one had a diameter of just over one and a half meters, which was still a bit short of Lin Lei’s expected target.

He jumped directly from the tree top, which was nearly twenty meters high. He borrowed force from the branches on the way down and landed elegantly.

This process drew a scream from Fuweili. Seeing him get off the tree, she stepped forward and scolded: “Can’t you get down from the tree properly? You have to do something thrilling. What if you got hurt?” She didn’t care if the movement was elegant or not; safety was the priority. This was the difference between his own woman and a girl who just sought excitement. Hehe.

Lin Lei didn’t argue, just smiled and said: “I’ll be careful next time. I just checked, there are no trees of suitable size around here. Let’s look somewhere else.”

This sounded incredible. Just one scan and he could distinguish the species and size of trees within the visible range. What an amazing visual information collection and processing ability that would require. No wonder he could kill an Epic Beast.

Fuweili didn’t find it strange, she was just proud of her man.

“Let’s go, setting off.” Lin Lei skillfully carried Fuweili on his back and started another speeding journey through the jungle.

That day, Lin Lei ran about a thousand kilometers and performed scans more than a dozen times before finding a Suolo Tree with a diameter of five meters near the coast.

The location where this tree grew was also good. Less than two kilometers away, there was a big river flowing into the sea, which saved Lin Lei a lot of effort.

Lin Lei noted the location of the tree, then took Fuweili and rushed back to the cave to pack things up. They would bring what needed to be brought and throw away what needed to be thrown away.

The most important thing in the cave was the remains of the Epic Beast. He originally wanted to keep it intact and take it over, but this big guy took up too much space. After asking for Fuweili’s opinion, Lin Lei peeled off the skin that had silver patterns on it.

It was impossible to take this big guy away intact; it was eight meters long. He had to compromise on energy conversion efficiency.

Since the skin was peeled off, the rest was all decomposed by Lin Lei. Actually, he really did get a few good things.

The bones of the Epic Beast were actually transparent, like crystal, and the hardness was very high. They could even leave scratches on Fuweili’s protective helmet. More rarely, the texture was not brittle, and even had a slight metallic ductility.

“This is high-strength beast bone forged by pure energy. On our Apocalypse Star, this process is called ‘Crystallization’. Look at this pure and flawless light transmission, the crystallization process is almost perfect.” Fuweili also had a face full of disbelief.

Nature was truly full of miracles. One had to know that the requirements for energy purity and density in the crystallization process were extremely harsh. Generally, only a Seventh-grade Civilization could manufacture Crystallized Materials, and only up to the ninth grade could one manufacture large pieces of perfectly quality crystallized matter.

The recognized highest strength material in the Galaxy, Li-pattern Gold, could still maintain its integrity at the edge of a black hole’s Event Horizon. Li-pattern Gold is a Crystallized Material, and currently, only the three major Watcher Races in the Galaxy could manufacture Li-pattern Gold.

Lin Lei didn’t know anything about crystallization or not, but he knew this was a good thing!

Lin Lei collected all the crystal bones without leaving a single one, just because Fuweili said these things could be reprocessed and shaped.

In addition, the large tendons on the Epic Beast were also very strong. Anyway, Lin Lei couldn’t break them even with all his strength.

Damn, this guy was a treasure all over. Lin Lei couldn’t bear to give up a single thing.

There was no helping it. Lin Lei had to stay in the cave with Fuweili and eat up the largest part, the meat of the Epic Beast. This thing didn’t rot or spoil after being left for so long; no one would believe it wasn’t good stuff.

This meat was very hard to eat. The muscle fibers were as strong as iron wire. It had to be roasted on the fire for a long time before it softened, but it was still hard to get down.

Fuweili ate a small piece every time and was full. If she didn’t have to accompany Lin Lei, she wouldn’t eat this small piece. What she liked most was the tender Andalor beast meat.

Lin Lei also ate with difficulty, but as soon as this stuff entered his stomach, the System sent a reminder: “Ultra-high energy organic matter, suggest massive intake.”

Alright, Lin Lei would eat it even if he had to chew steel bars.

This eight-meter-long, 600-kilogram Epic Beast was mostly in Lin Lei’s stomach after half a month.

Lin Lei’s Level 3 Strengthening reserve also reached 3% progress. This was very considerable progress.

The half month Lin Lei delayed for this was worth it.

Of course, Fuweili had no objection to this. The two were like honey every day, and when they had nothing to do, they would do some “exercise”. She really didn’t want such a simple and happy day to end so quickly.

The Epic Beast meat was finished. Lin Lei packed his things, carried Fuweili on his back, and ran towards the giant tree he had seen half a month ago.

There was no helping it, who told him that his “No. 11 sports car” was fast? When rushing on the road, Fuweili was completely treated on the same level as luggage by Lin Lei, which left Fuweili speechless.

Now it was the dark half-month of Blue Rain Star again, but this didn’t hinder Lin Lei much, who had infrared vision. At most, his running speed dropped a little.

Fuweili lay on Lin Lei’s broad and warm back with her eyes wide open, listening to the sound of the wind whistling in her ears, feeling unusually safe in her heart.

At this time, darkness was no longer the source of fear, but became mysterious and exciting. Were those passing shadows trees, or wild beasts, or some other strange things?

This was absolutely an experience one couldn’t get on Apocalypse Star. People there were too rational and simply couldn’t find someone they could completely trust and entrust themselves to. So Fuweili thought that being able to experience this novel feeling was a rare happiness.

Slowly, the novel feeling faded. Fuweili couldn’t withstand the urging of her biological clock and slowly fell asleep.

A journey of more than a thousand li, at Lin Lei’s speed of nearly a hundred kilometers per hour, was just a matter of ten-plus hours.

When he arrived at the destination and was about to put down the things on his back to rest, he realized that Fuweili was sleeping soundly. Her beautiful and exquisite face was peaceful, her complexion as rosy as a pink rose. Her small mouth moved occasionally, mumbling softly.

Lin Lei’s heart softened, and his movements became lighter. He gently turned Fuweili into his arms and sat down leaning against the tree.

However, this slight change still woke her up. Fuweili raised her head with sleepy eyes to look at Lin Lei, but saw him staring blankly at the boundless starry sky.

Starlight reflected in his dark eyes, shining with brilliance. It was supposed to be a beautiful scene, but it made Fuweili’s heart ache.

She couldn’t hold onto this man, or rather, she couldn’t stop this man’s ambition.

He was not just refined steel that could never turn into soft fingers. At this moment, Fuweili seemed to have seen a future day when Lin Lei would leave her.

She didn’t know why, but Fuweili was particularly sensitive right now. She felt that her eyes were already filled with tears.

Of course, Lin Lei didn’t notice these worries and troubles of women; he was considering future plans.

Right, go to Apocalypse Star first. If possible, go there to learn various theoretical technologies.

Currently, it seemed that his Level 3 Strengthening was far away. Even if the energy was sufficient, permissions were still a big problem.

On Blue Rain Star, on land, he couldn’t beat an Epic Beast, and ordinary wild beasts were too weak. As for the ocean, there was no need to mention it. Since there were Epic Beasts on land, there was no reason there wouldn’t be any in the sea. Moreover, Lin Lei felt very unadapted to being in the sea anyway. He was a completely terrestrial creature.

In this way, he couldn’t find a suitable opponent to fight on Blue Rain Star. It seemed that in the future, he might have to find opponents among intelligent beings.

The starry sky was beautiful. Currently, there was no place for him to stand, but in the near future, he would rely on his own strength to obtain his own place!