5 Eastern forest 1 (1/2)

The next morning, Li Wei woke up at 7:00, he used to be an early riser, doing early jogs regularly. He woke up and went downstairs for his breakfast. His fatigue went down to 5% which would be cleared out after eating his breakfast.

The game was designed so that people sleeping at least 6 hours and eating 3 meals per day could clear out their fatigue level every day.

The innkeeper was already up, sweeping the floor. When she saw Li Wei, she immediately greeted him and served him a breakfast set for 20 coppers. It consisted of bread and goat cheese with some coffee. He also ordered a take-out lunch as he would not be returning to the town before the evening.

After eating Li Wei immediately left the town. He wanted to take explore the forest and collect mushrooms while most players were still sleeping or just waking up.

The forest wasn't far from the town, only 5 minutes walking were required before Li Wei reached the edge of the forest. At the very entrance, Li Wei found some red mushrooms hidden in the shades of the trees. He was the first to come here and could enjoy the benefits. He quickly collected them and entered the forest.

According to the guide, this forest did not contain dangerous monsters, only animals, there were more commonly level 1 rabbits, level 2 foxes, and level 3 monkeys. However since they were animals, once a player entered their range, they would attempt to escape.

As soon as he entered, Li Wei started to focus, looking for the wild mushrooms but also for any sign of animals. And surely, not even 10 minutes later, he heard some movements coming from a bush to his left.

Li Wei quickly grabbed his dagger. Out of the push came two brown rabbits, above their heads, were: ”Rabbit level 1”

At that moment, the rabbits stopped playing with each other and looked at Li Wei, fear appeared in their eyes and they immediately ran back into the bush. Li Wei would obviously not let this opportunity go, he quickly chased after them.

The rabbits were not stupid, after a few seconds they separated and ran in two opposite directions. Li Wei had no choice but to chase after the closest one. They ran through the forest for a few minutes. Fortunately, it looked similar to the obstacle track in the training room. Li Wei kept running, avoiding low branches and going around bushes.

But the distance between him and the rabbit wasn't shrinking and eventually, Li Wei noticed something ahead. There was a small burrow at the bottom of a large tree, in front of the hole was another rabbit.

As the two approached, the second rabbit squeaked and quickly jumped into the hole. There was still a 6 meters difference between Li Wei and the rabbit, he knew he would not be able to catch it.

As a desperate attempt, Li Wei took the dagger, stopped running and aimed. He had seen people throw knives before, more specifically in magician's shows, he did not know if this was the correct technique but he might as well try as he had nothing to lose.

The dagger left Li Wei's hand and flew straight between the running rabbit and the burrow. He aimed at a point 10 meters away. Seeing that the trajectory would coincide with that of the rabbit, Li Wei could not help but get excited. However, the rabbit abruptly changed direction, it made a quick jump to the right, avoid the dagger and went straight into the burrow.

”F*** !”

Even though it was his first attempt to catch a rabbit, Li Wei still felt bitter about his failure. It looked that it was not so easy to catch preys. He walked forward and took back his dagger. He approached the burrow and inspected it.

He thought of ways to force the rabbits out but making a fire would take a lot of time and he would rather collect more resources from the forest.

He dejectedly resumed his exploration of the forest, collecting mushrooms whenever he found some. There were other resources he could collect such as wild herbs and medicinal plants but he ignored them due to the lack of inventory space.

Right now Li Wei could only store 10 different types of item, with 50 units per item as a maximum. He already had 6 slots occupied with his potions, lunch and the 24 mushrooms he collected. Players would obtain an additional storage slot every time they level up, additionally, they could upgrade their storage with some equipment but that required some investments. Li Wei would rather save the space in case he is able to successfully catch some preys or for the mushrooms as they were they provided a better revenue.

After a few minutes, Li Wei started seeing individual players, all looking at the roots of the trees hoping to find mushrooms.

Seeing that, Li Wei decided to go deeper into the forest, the competition for the mushrooms would get more fierce here. Even if the respawn rate was rather fast, he did not know how many players were coming here.

A few hours later, Li Wei sat down under the shade of a tree and took out his lunch. It was already 12:25. Li Wei's harvest was quite good, he collected a total of 90 mushrooms. The mushrooms were of different colors but they were all labeled ”Wild Mushroom”.

During his morning hunt, Li Wei also encountered several rabbits, but they were always able to escape his grasp. However, Li Wei got each time closer and closer to catching the rabbit. He was starting to get used to their quick movements and running through the forest became easier.

Li Wei also encountered some foxes, most of them ran away. But one of them fought back. He bit Li Wei on his legs and arm before being stabbed with the dagger. After being injured, it quickly ran away. Fortunately, the bites were shallow and did not cause bleeding, Li Wei lost 17 HP from this exchange but that was a good performance for a first fight.

After hours of running around the forest, Li Wei was not tired and decided to make a lunch break. He was leaning against a tree, eating the sandwich he bought. He recalled his experience of the day, imagined what he could have done better. After a while, a thought flashed through his mind.

Li Wei quickly finished his sandwich except for a piece of ham. He looked for some leaves and placed the ham with 5 mushrooms on them at the root of the tree. After that, Li Wei climbed the tree with the help of the dagger and sat on one of the branches.

He sat down and patiently waited. Li Wei chose the branch just above the trap and moved some branches to better camouflage him. Li Wei did not know what rabbits ate so he added some mushrooms to the bait just in case. Time flew by but Li Wei patiently waited. Eventually, as nothing was happening, he opened his menu and checked the forum.

But 5 minutes later, a small shadow appeared in a nearby bush. It observed the surroundings and after confirming that nothing was wrong, it approached steps by steps not letting its guard down. It was a level 2 fox.