Chapter 7: If You Want to Eat, You Have to Work [Please Favorite and Recommend]

The three silly farmers looked at the bloody wolf carcass, their mouths practically watering.

Zong Shen frowned, ignoring their flattery. He walked behind them, raised his leg, and kicked each of them in the backside.

He sent all three of them sprawling face-first into the dirt.

"Ouch!"

"L-Lord, have mercy!"

The three silly farmers knew exactly why Zong Shen had kicked them, and they shouted back with guilty consciences.

"Hmph, you three—you’re nowhere to be found when it’s time to kill wolves, but you’re certainly eager when it’s time to eat meat."

"When you were running for your lives earlier, you even managed to drop the tools I gave you for gathering resources."

"Tell me, what use are you to me?!"

Zong Shen said in a grim tone.

In his view, these three silly farmers weren't actually stupid at all; they were experts at avoiding harm and running for their lives.

They were only "silly" when it came to working.

Slow and dim-witted.

In every other aspect, they weren't stupid in the slightest.

They were the classic type: useless at everything, but first in line for dinner.

Because of this, Zong Shen was indeed holding back a surge of anger.

Coupled with the fact that he had just killed a prairie wolf, was fully armed, and still wore a trace of ferocity on his face, the three silly farmers didn't dare look him in the eye.

They could only remain in their fallen positions, begging and pleading.

However, these three silly farmers were the only labor force he could utilize in the early stages.

Zong Shen couldn't actually drive them away.

Doing this was merely a reprimand.

As the saying goes, offer a carrot after the stick—that was the logic.

"You three tell me yourselves."

"How should I deal with you for what happened today?"

Zong Shen paced back and forth behind the three silly farmers.

He dragged his rusted one-handed sword along the ground, the tip carving through the soil and grass with a "swishing" friction sound.

"Please forgive us this once, Lord...!"

"Next time, we will definitely fight side-by-side with you!"

"I’ll go retrieve the lost tools and resources right now!"

The three silly farmers began to beg again.

It made Zong Shen’s head spin.

He felt like giving each of them a slash with his sword.

In the end, he could only let out a soft sigh.

"Sigh."

"Get up, and get to work, all of you."

"Tie Zhu, you stay here."

"Er Gou, Gou Dan, you two go find those lost tools immediately. If even one is missing, you’ll be going hungry today!"

"Once you’ve found the tools, resume gathering immediately. Wood, iron, hemp, food, water—I want all five resources, and the more, the better!"

"If you slack off again, you can all get lost and go wander the wilderness yourselves!"

Zong Shen threw his one-handed sword down hard, sticking it into the grass.

"Yes, yes... we won't dare do it again!"

"We're going to work right now, right now!"

The three silly farmers scrambled to their feet.

At the same time, three system notifications appeared in the bottom right corner.

【Due to your stern reprimand.】

【Farmer Tie Zhu's loyalty to you has increased by 3 points. Current loyalty: 78】

【Farmer Er Gou's loyalty to you has increased by 3 points. Current loyalty: 78】

【Farmer Gou Dan's loyalty to you has increased by 3 points. Current loyalty: 78】

Seeing these notifications, Zong Shen understood a few more details about the game's mechanics.

The three silly farmers stood up timidly.

Under Zong Shen's watchful eye, Er Gou and Gou Dan retraced their escape route to search.

Tie Zhu stood respectfully behind Zong Shen, not daring to move.

The place where they had been gathering resources wasn't far, only about a hundred meters from the small courtyard.

So, it wouldn't be difficult to find the lost tools.

After Zong Shen finished disciplining the three farmers and experiencing the authority of a lord, he turned his gaze to the wolf carcass on the ground and the mysterious scroll.

These were his spoils of war.

When his gaze focused entirely on the wolf carcass, a prominent option appeared before him.

【Decompose】

With a thought, he clicked 【Decompose】.

Instantly, the entire wolf carcass turned into a ball of white light.

【Decomposed Prairie Wolf carcass ×1】

【Obtained Fresh Wolf Meat ×10】

(Delicious meat that can satisfy hunger)

【Obtained Fresh Wolf Blood ×500ml】

(Hard-to-swallow fresh blood. Perhaps you can use it to set bait traps, or as a supplement to your water resources)

【Obtained Hard Prairie Wolf Skull ×1】

(A hard skull that can be used to craft a simple helmet, increasing head protection)

【Obtained Prairie Wolf Bones ×15】

(Hard bones from the wolf, one of the primitive materials that can be used to craft simple armor or weapons)

【Obtained Sharp Wolf Fangs ×2】

(These two fangs are very sharp and can easily be modified into crossbow bolts)

【Obtained Intact Prairie Wolf Pelt ×1】

(An intact prairie wolf pelt, a great material for leather. Of course, if you can sell it to those fur merchants or the minor nobles of Avalon, you can make a small profit.)

After a series of notifications, the prairie wolf carcass, which had turned into a ball of white light, scattered like fireworks.

It transformed into six different glowing items that landed on the ground.

These six glows were the six items decomposed from the wolf.

All the items had turned into small, cube-like shapes.

Even the wolf blood had become a small cube.

Zong Shen reached out and touched them, storing them all into his personal inventory grid.

It was quite convenient.

He locked his attention on the 【Sharp Wolf Fangs】 and selected to extract one.

The next moment, a wolf fang about three knuckles long appeared in his hand.

This function was very convenient and easy to use.

However, given the nature of this "Lord Survival" game, with such vague descriptions, other players without a strategy guide system would inevitably take many detours.

Although one could guess some things using common sense, there were many details that were very easy to miss or delay.

He looked at the wolf fang in his hand; it was sharper than he had imagined.

Zong Shen looked down at his tattered leather short-sleeve shirt; he feared it wouldn't be able to effectively resist the piercing power of this fang.

Zong Shen clicked his tongue in wonder.

"Does this wolf usually sharpen its teeth with an angle grinder..."

With a thought, he put the wolf fang away again.

Similar items could be stacked, so Zong Shen still had plenty of space in his inventory.

"Tie Zhu, do you want to eat roasted meat?"

Zong Shen picked up the scroll from the ground and asked suddenly.

"Yes, of course I do!"

Tie Zhu swallowed a mouthful of saliva, seemingly already imagining the wonderful experience of chewing on fragrant roasted meat.

"Very well, then I'll leave the Level 1 Stove to you."

"10 units of stone, 5 units of wood."

"Also, it will take 2 hours to build."

"You eat when it's finished. If you're diligent, you should be able to make it in time for dinner tonight."

Zong Shen patted his shoulder and pointed to the trees and stones scattered nearby.

"Oh, and tell those two idiots: if they want to eat, they have to work."

"Today, each of them must gather at least 15 units of wood, 8 units of stone, and 5 units of hemp, or they won't be eating at all!"