A tea tray was placed on the coffee table, with a tea set arranged on top.
The room smelled somewhat foul, emanating from the kitchen trash can. The garbage inside hadn't been taken out for a long time and was teeming with small insects.
Qin Ziwen tied up the trash bag and removed it.
The kitchen was very clean, and the refrigerator was quite empty. Only in the top shelf was a plastic bag containing something.
He took it out - it was vacuum-packed, resembling some kind of animal's dried penis.
Qin Ziwen's expression turned strange.
However, judging by the packaging, the contents inside should still be good.
After searching around some more, he found a box of dried goji berries in the drawer under the TV cabinet.
In a drawer cabinet inside the bedroom wardrobe, he also found a black handbag containing three bundles of red bills.
The most valuable items were probably the dozen or so lighters scattered in the coffee table drawer, most of which were the kind that cost one or two yuan each.
Aside from these, there were pots, pans, bowls, and utensils in the kitchen; one kitchen knife; one fruit knife; several electrical appliances and furniture pieces; some clothes and bedding; and two main door keys.
In the master bedroom drawer, there was also a box of brand new, unopened condoms.
He put the keys in his pocket.
Casually picked up the kitchen trash bag.
As for the other items, he left them there for now without taking them.
Returning home.
Qin Ziwu laughed: "We even helped him take out the trash, he should be thanking us."
Qin Ziwen nodded: "Yeah, we can use this place as our backup base later. By the way, when you climbed over, did it feel easy from the balcony?"
Mentioning this, Qin Ziwu shook his head: "Not that easy to climb. Although the two balconies are relatively close, the middle is suspended in air, and there's no landing point nearby. If you miss your grip when jumping over, you'd fall straight down. Actually, I think compared to coming from next door, descending from upstairs might be easier."
"Upstairs?"
Qin Ziwu said: "Yes, using a rope tied around your waist, then jumping from the upstairs balcony to the downstairs one - that might actually be simpler."
Qin Ziwen walked to the balcony edge and looked toward the balcony of neighboring Unit 501. From visual distance, it wasn't too far.
This was also related to the residential complex's original geographical location. Jiangcheng's public security had always been quite good, and the Yujing Jiangcheng complex was located in the city center, with a police station diagonally across the street.
Plus, the complex's property management used facial recognition, requiring registration to enter the area, providing security guarantees. Under these conditions, the buildings placed more emphasis on aesthetics.
But now, this aesthetic focus had become a security disadvantage.
So far, the complex hadn't experienced any theft cases or break-ins.
Of course, it was possible some had already occurred, but the news just hadn't reached their ears.
Night fell, and the moon gradually rose outside the window.
The three took turns on night watch - Li Tieshan was responsible for the first half of the night, Qin Ziwen for the middle watch, and Qin Ziwu for the latter part.
At midnight, Qin Ziwen was shaken awake by Li Tieshan. "Sir, it's time."
Qin Ziwen opened his eyes. "Any movement during the first half of the night?"
Li Tieshan shook his head: "None."
Qin Ziwen sat up from the bed. "Okay, you go rest now."
After Li Tieshan left, Qin Ziwen focused his attention on the daily settlement.
"You have successfully survived safely in the wilderness for the twelfth day. You discovered a mysterious altar and obtained a card from the altar. Comprehensive score: 50 points"
"You received reward: [Expansion Card] Sand Expansion Card (Small) *1"
A new type of expansion card - Sand Expansion Card. Just from the name, its purpose could be guessed.
With a flick of his palm, a white card that was neither metal nor jade appeared between his fingers. Compared to the Blank Expansion Card, the Sand Expansion Card had a yellowish-brown desert scene in the middle.
It could expand in any area within Home, newly acquiring 20*20m units of sand terrain.
Sand terrain...
Qin Ziwen originally planned to expand directly in the area behind the bathroom, but he suddenly thought that this 400㎡ space could fully support both the coal mine and iron mine. The mining of these two mineral deposits would inevitably cause dust to fly.
This would inevitably conflict with the spring eye.
If this side was the construction area, then a mining zone should also be planned.
Thinking this, he went directly to the guest bedroom directly opposite the bathroom.
Li Tieshan had returned to the guest bedroom and was preparing to rest when he saw the sir arrive.
He quickly stood up from the bed, worried that he had done something wrong. "Sir."
"It's fine, stay there." After saying this, Qin Ziwen directly chose to use it on the guest bedroom window.
The Sand Expansion Card in his hand transformed into light and merged with the window.
The window disappeared, transforming instead into a stretch of sand extending forward.
Above the sand, moonlight shone upon the sand surface.
Both the temperature and the light were no different from the outside.
He walked into the sand area. If divided by external space, he should currently be "suspended" in mid-air of the residential complex.
Then he went to the balcony and looked from the balcony toward the neighboring guest bedroom direction. Aside from the disappeared window, nothing else was visible - that sand area was an independent folded space.
Now there were more and more secrets in the home. To prevent thieves from secretly infiltrating his home.
He planned to later use expansion cards on all three directions - the balcony, kitchen, and master bedroom - so his home could be completely "sealed" tight, and the balcony wouldn't become a vulnerability.
Only leaving the main door as the sole connection to the outside world. Not only that, he also planned to create an additional iron door behind his main door to strengthen protection.
As for whether this would reveal abnormalities - now that more and more people in the complex were obtaining cards, completely concealing everything in every aspect was almost impossible.
There weren't that many fools.
It was best to display some parts while hiding others.
Returning to the sand area, he took out two resource cards. Both the coal mine and iron mine had usage ranges of 10*10.
Going to the innermost part, facing the upper left and right corners, he used the Level 1 Coal Mine Card and Level 1 Iron Mine Card respectively.
The cards transformed into two streams of light that merged into the left and right sides.
When the light dispersed, the sand on the left had swelled up out of thin air into a nearly one-meter-high black coal seam, emitting a faint coal smoke smell. Squatting down and grabbing the ground yielded a handful of crushed coal.
This was completely an open-pit coal mine - you could just pick up coal directly from the ground.
On the right, it had transformed into a reddish-brown rock vein, looking from afar like a "red stone slab" embedded in the desert. In the middle of the rock vein, there was a semi-open-air mine shaft supported by wooden frames and stones.
Walking over, at the edge of the mine shaft, the ground was piled with some finely crushed iron-brown mineral particles. Inside the mine shaft, angular protruding ore pieces emitted a faint metallic luster.
(Picture: Iron Mine)
"Li Tieshan."
Qin Ziwen called Li Tieshan over, pointing at the two mines and asking: "How are they? Can this coal and iron be used?"
Li Tieshan went forward and examined both the coal mine and iron mine. "Sir, they can be used! Good coal, good iron - both are top-quality raw materials. The iron tools forged from them will definitely be durable."
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