Chapter 62

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Chapter 62: I Feel Like I Can Still Be Saved

It took Luo Ji almost an entire afternoon to finally digest all that knowledge.

After organizing his thoughts, the next morning, he spent the entire morning teaching the farmers in the tribe’s agricultural department all the planting knowledge he had processed and organized.

For now, farming shouldn’t be a concern for a while.

However, Luo Ji still had many tasks, such as overseeing the research and development of bows and arrows, the collection of resin, and the construction of defensive fortifications.

Additionally, with the warming weather, the frozen surface of Mirror Lake was melting.

Soon, their fishing methods would have to change as well.

Slowly fishing with a rod was clearly too slow.

Fishing, in the end, was a leisure activity, while catching fish emphasized efficiency.

According to his plan, he intended to build rafts.

When the lake melted, the tribe members could bring fishing nets and go fishing on the lake by raft.

Then there were the leather armor designs.

Though not urgent, he still had to slowly start drawing them.

Besides these, the only other thing he needed to worry about was the tribe on the western edge of the forest.

Yesterday, Luo Yong and others, who were patrolling that area, had an encounter with barbarians from the other tribe.

The barbarians clearly intended to enter the forest to hunt.

After all, in those times, wild animals weren’t foolish, they preferred to hide in the forest rather than the open, snowy plains.

Thus, for people of this era, the forest was a good hunting ground.

But the problem was that the Mirror Tribe was on the other side of the forest.

In this situation, how could Luo Yong allow them to enter the forest?

Wielding twin axes and wearing a wolf-bone mask, he and several other wolf warriors stood there, making the barbarians think they had encountered ghosts, and they scrambled away in a panic.

Luo Ji, upon hearing the report later, didn’t think Luo Yong had done anything wrong.

According to his plan, he indeed had no intention of going to war with them in the short term, but this wasn’t because they couldn’t win.

It was to develop steadily.

If the other party truly didn’t know their place, then they would fight.

There was no need to back down.

To avoid future trouble, Luo Ji waved his hand, directly ordering people to build a training camp in that area and have several wolf warriors garrison there.

Originally, Luo Ji had intended to build a military camp in that area, but there were too many more important things to do temporarily, so construction hadn’t officially started yet.

This was a good opportunity to occupy the location first, and also use it to defend against the barbarian tribe outside.

It was hitting 2 birds with 1 stone.

Another day ended.

Huddled in his animal hide blanket, based on past experience, he, exhausted from a full day, should have fallen asleep quickly.

However, for some reason, he was inexplicably sleepless tonight.

“Can’t sleep…”

Luo Ji frowned, looking up at his tent.

“I feel like I’ve forgotten something, but what is it?”

As he thought, a somewhat distant memory surfaced in his mind, and Luo Ji’s expression slowly changed.

Finally…

“Ahhhhh!!”

The sudden scream from the tribal chief’s tent in the middle of the night startled the night watchman.

It also woke up people in other tents, who rushed into Luo Ji’s tent without a second thought.

The tribal warrior, mistakenly thinking it was an enemy attack, subconsciously scanned the tent but found no one else besides Luo Ji.

Looking at Luo Ji’s current state, the rushing tribal warrior was at a loss for words.

“Chief, what happened?”

“Uh, no, I’m fine. You all go back and rest.”

Luo Ji, having somewhat regained his senses, waved his hand, telling the tribal warriors, who had been startled by his scream, that he was fine.

Though his voice was weak and didn’t sound fine at all.

After everyone had left and the tribe became quiet again, Luo Ji huddled in a ball in the corner of his tent, his face filled with despair.

“Heh, heh, I’m fine, I’m fine. I just accidentally forgot to report to university and was two or three months late…”

The game called ‘Real Life’ suddenly crashed, causing someone’s mind to go a little crazy.

“Hehehehe, I give up. I want to live in this other world forever…”

Maintaining this ‘who cares’ attitude, Luo Ji shrank back into his blanket.

After lying there for about 10 minutes, he suddenly “resurrected.”

There was a lump in his heart, and he couldn’t sleep at all.

“I should still be able to be saved, right?”

“But let’s not even talk about being admitted, my guaranteed admission slot and scholarship seem to be at risk.”

Thinking of this, he felt another wave of stomach pain.

He gave two bitter laughs.

Since things had already collapsed to this extent, Luo Ji wasn’t in a hurry anymore.

Two or three months had already passed, what difference would a little more time make?

The real world had already collapsed, so the other world, at least, had to be preserved!

With this in mind, Luo Ji pulled up his friends list and decisively sent a message.

“Big boss, if I quit the game now, what will happen to this other world?”

This time, Gao Su seemed to be online, and he replied quite quickly.

“This is a bit complicated to explain.”

“There are two modes you can choose from.”

“The first mode allows you to pause the other world, similar to saving a game.”

“However, in this mode, for every day you spend in the real world, 1,000 civilization points will be deducted as a save fee.”

“Even if it’s less than a day, it’s counted as a full day.”

“After your points are depleted, you’ll be forced back online.”

“But since you’re still in the newcomer protection period, the cost is halved, only 500 points per day. Moreover, this mode is the safest.”

“The second mode is to let the other world continue to operate.”

“Your tribal people won’t notice your absence. They’ll continue to carry out the tasks you assigned them.”

“This mode is more efficient, and you can even choose the time flow rate.”

“The default state is one day in the real world equals ten days in the other world, meaning the time flow rate is 1:10. At this rate, the normal daily consumption is 500 civilization points.”

“I personally recommend it, it’s cheap, maintains efficiency, and the risk is relatively low.”

“And when you’re in the real world, if any unexpected situations occur in the other world, the system will notify you promptly. This time flow rate is also sufficient for you to react in time.”

“If you set it faster, say 100 times, in that situation, if a plague or some disaster occurs, by the time you receive the system notification, your tribal civilization would probably be finished.”

Luo Ji wasn’t stupid and quickly realized the risks involved with this time flow rate.

But his main focus now wasn’t that.

“Big boss, you just said the default state is 1:10. Does that mean not much time has passed in the real world while I’ve been in the other world?!”

“By the way, you’re a future university student, right?”

The fact that Luo Ji was a future university student wasn’t exactly a secret as he had mentioned it casually in conversations before.

Luo Ji was about to press further on Gao Su’s unrelated question when another message from him arrived.

“Congratulations, you’re right.”

“The time flow rate is 1:10.”

“That’s why I’m usually online whenever you send a message, because the time gap between your messages barely changes for me in the real world.”

Luo Ji’s heart raced as he read this message.

A glimmer of hope suddenly appeared on his almost despairing face.

However, in the next second, Gao Su’s message came again.

“But I’m afraid to tell you, calculating the time, university enrollment across the country just ended one minute ago. You truly missed it perfectly.”

“Pffft—”

Hearing this, Luo Ji almost spat out a mouthful of old blood.

The ups and downs of life came too fast, it was truly exciting!

“H-Help me up, I feel like I can still be saved!”