Volume One, Chapter Four: Trading a Shotgun for a Cannon

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A spatial ring!
It was actually a spatial ring!
And not just any spatial ring, but one with an internal storage capacity of 15 cubic meters!
Lin Yifan looked at the ring in his hand, a broad smile blossoming on his lips!
With this ring, he could venture farther to gather supplies without having to shuttle back and forth to the safe house.
Most importantly, he could store all precious items inside the ring and carry them with him at all times.
Although the distant parts of this survival world were shrouded in thick mist, obscuring clear vision,
who knew if someone might traverse the fog and come near his area?
If his home were raided while he was out scavenging, at least he’d have the items in the ring for backup, preventing a total loss.
Of course, Lin Yifan hoped all these concerns were needless worries.
Surviving in this strange world was already difficult enough; if his own kind turned on each other, survival would become even more dire.
Still, if such a day truly came, Lin Yifan wouldn’t hesitate to get his hands dirty.
Better others die than him.
Lin Yifan joyfully slipped the ring onto his finger, then focused his mind and peered into the ring’s interior space.
He tossed in the blueberry tree he had chopped down earlier and the straw hat he had just taken off.
Then, he turned his attention to the last item in the treasure chest.
It was a compound bow.
Name: “Hawk Falcon Compound Bow”
Grade: Fine
Description: A compound bow with powerful lethality, but in the hands of an unskilled archer, it’s just scrap metal.
Lin Yifan fondled the compound bow, his heart pounding with excitement.
If the spatial ring was the fulfillment of a fantasy,
then this compound bow was the realization of a dream.
Before crossing over, he had always enjoyed archery, but his financial situation limited him from buying a high-precision branded compound bow.
He could only rent one at the archery range for occasional practice.
Yet, his talent for archery was quite remarkable; his accuracy often surpassed many veterans who had trained for years.
The archery range he frequented had even approached him to work part-time as a coach.
He had agreed, but before his first class, he was transported here.
He had felt some regret that he might never again handle a compound bow in his life.
Unexpectedly, he now had one of his own so soon.

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Lin Yifan gently stroked the compound bow and without hesitation used an item upgrade opportunity to enhance it.
Name: “Windchaser Cloudbreaker Bow”
Grade: Superior
Description: A traditionally crafted longbow made from purple-gold wood with sinew strings; with enough arm strength, your arrows can pierce anything.
Lin Yifan was stunned when he saw the upgraded bow!
He had upgraded the compound bow hoping to get a higher-grade compound bow,
never expecting it to transform into a traditional longbow!
It wasn’t that he disliked traditional bows, but simply because he had never trained with one!
Compound bows rely on mechanical adjustments for accuracy, but traditional bows depend entirely on the archer’s skill and eyesight!
With the compound bow, Lin Yifan was confident in his precision, but now with a traditional bow, what could he rely on?
If he had known earlier, he wouldn’t have upgraded it!
Regret filled him, but the situation was irreversible.
He could use it for trading, but this superior-grade Cloudbreaker Bow was too valuable to part with easily.
Traditional bow or not, they were all bows,
how hard could it be to learn?
He just needed to practice more!
Lin Yifan clenched his teeth, took an arrow from the matching quiver, nocked it on the Cloudbreaker Bow, aimed at a pine tree twenty meters away, and released.
“Whoosh!”
The feathered arrow sliced through the air and instantly embedded itself in the tree trunk.
He hurried over and saw the arrow exactly where he had aimed, drawing a sharp breath.
He looked down at the Cloudbreaker Bow in his hands, thought for a moment, and shot two more arrows consecutively.
Each arrow landed precisely on target.
Such accuracy made Lin Yifan secretly question himself:
Could he be an archery prodigy?
He must be!
Otherwise, there was no explanation.

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Lin Yifan calmly accepted his newfound identity as a genius archer. After retrieving the three arrows, he stopped practicing for the time being.
The matched quiver contained only twenty feathered arrows. Although they could be retrieved after shooting, the arrows weren’t as durable as those for the compound bow.
If the feather fletching was damaged, accuracy would be completely lost.
So he had to use them carefully; until he found a steady supply of arrows, these twenty were his personal safety guarantee!
He hung the quiver at his waist, slung the Cloudbreaker Bow on his back, and confirmed he could quickly nock and draw.
He exhaled in relief and prepared to continue searching for new treasure chests!
As for the empty bronze chest, Lin Yifan also stored it inside the spatial ring.
An empty chest could be dismantled for materials, but since he was penniless, having a container was more practical than breaking it down.
He had grown fond of opening treasure chests!
Just a single chest had already vastly upgraded his equipment.
If he could find a few more, conquering this survival world would be a breeze.
Not to mention, he still had one more item upgrade chance today.
He had also realized that the contents of the chest generally matched the chest’s grade.
If he upgraded the chest itself, even the worst items inside would improve.
However, having experienced the first chest, Lin Yifan knew treasure chests were rare finds.
So he didn’t focus solely on hunting chests; gathering supplies still took priority.
This forest contained a dozen kinds of trees, including common pines, cypresses, camphor trees, and dawn redwoods.
Lin Yifan chopped one of each, discovering that while hardwood trees yielded one more unit of wood per tree,
it took as long to fell one hardwood tree as it did to cut down two dawn redwoods.
All the wood was of the same basic quality.
Thus, cutting dawn redwood was more cost-effective.
While searching for treasure chests, Lin Yifan also chopped down dawn redwoods he encountered and picked up random stones.
By 2 p.m., he had gathered 56 units of basic wood and 12 units of basic stone.
Thanks to the spatial ring, he didn’t have to make countless trips carrying all this back to the safe house.
Unfortunately, he still hadn’t found a second treasure chest, which left him slightly disappointed.
With one last upgrade chance remaining today, he hoped to find another chest to enhance.
If not, he would settle for upgrading basic materials like wood and stone.
Such an extraordinary skill used just to upgrade basic materials—it was a bitter thought indeed.