Doomsday: Gain experience by hunting

"……The fourth move, sweeping across the battlefield, no enemy can escape!"

Swish, swish, swish!

Indeed, as Li Daniu said, this saber technique is very simple and practical.

Each move has several variations. For example, this 'Sweeping Across the Battlefield' can sweep from the left, sweep from the right, or sweep in a continuous left-right motion, focusing on speed and ferocity.

Tang Wen carefully watched every movement.

After Li Daniu finished practicing once, he clapped and praised, "Brother Li is truly too modest! With this saber technique, even if seven, eight, or ten scavengers from outside came at you together, they couldn't get close!"

"Hehe, it's not that powerful. Maybe if I put on armor, it would be closer to the truth."

Li Daniu was embarrassed by the praise and found Tang Wen even more pleasing to the eye. This little brother can not only shoot birds and hunt, but he also has such a way with words!

"Come on, Little Tang, I'll teach you the first move."

One taught, and the other practiced, both very engrossed.

Soon, after teaching three times, Tang Wen practiced based on his memory, with Li Daniu correcting his movements and filling in any gaps.

After practicing several times, he was covered in sweat, but no new skill appeared on the experience panel.

Tang Wen wasn't in a hurry. When he was in school, it took him two weeks to learn a set of 'Eaglet Takes Flight'.

Although this saber technique was simple, he had no foundation, so learning it wasn't that easy.

Three days passed, and Tang Wen could perform the entire saber technique without Li Daniu's reminders.

[Skill: Wind-Breaking Saber, Entry Level (1/500)]

The skill appeared, and he had entered the saber technique.

"You're practicing well, kid. Tell me the truth, haven't you been eating a lot of meat lately?"

Li Daniu looked simple-minded, but he wasn't foolish.

In the cold early winter, everyone in the camp was huddled at home, not even daring to go out, afraid that they wouldn't have enough food to last until spring.

Except for the guards, who else would be like Tang Wen, practicing his saber every day, and so intensely!

Even he himself didn't practice every day.

"I inevitably eat a couple of the birds I can't sell."

"You小子……"

On the seventh day of practicing the saber, Tang Wen brought two pheasants and more than thirty red-billed finches to Li Daniu.

He also brought two daggers and a long saber back home.

He gave one dagger to Tang Tang for self-defense.

He carried the other one as a throwing knife.

"Open the door! Pay the rent!"

In a flash, the end of the month arrived.

"Brother Li, I'm ready and waiting for you. Thanks for being lenient last month." Tang Wen carried a bag of millet, containing 30 pounds of grain. He planned to pay for 3 months.

"You小子, you seem to be doing well. You've gotten taller and stronger."

"Thanks to you. This is three months' worth of millet."

"Good!"

A guard took the bag of rice and got busy.

Brother Li glanced at the mud-covered shack and said casually, "This place is too close to the camp entrance. If you have a lot of food, you can ask someone about trading your place for a residence inside, and let someone else live in this shack."

"Thank you for the reminder, Brother Li." Tang Wen was a little puzzled.

"Boss, 30 pounds of millet, not a bit less," a guard said.

Brother Li took out something: "Take this tag."

Tang Wen took it. It was an iron tag with the character "Winter" written on it.

He grabbed Tang Wen's wrist, stamped it with a red mark, and left with the words, "Show the tag and get a stamp at the end of each month." Then he took his men to the next house.

"Sister, besides the cold and hunger, is there anything special about winter?"

Tang Tang wasn't sure: "I'll ask around today."

"Okay."

In the evening, Tang Wen returned from hunting and went to the blacksmith shop to deliver his prey.

"Brother Li, today—" His words stopped abruptly: "We have a guest."

A strange man was selecting weapons.

Hearing the noise, he turned around and sized Tang Wen up. When he saw Tang Wen's youthful face, his eyes narrowed slightly.

Tang Wen also saw his appearance clearly: a long, thin face, triangular eyes, and a hooked nose. He was wearing several layers of linen clothes, but the styles and sizes were all different.

"Brother, take the firewood to the backyard first." Li Daniu winked at Tang Wen, then turned to the guest and said, "He's a brother of mine."

"Oh."

The triangular-eyed man revealed a mouthful of yellow teeth and took a deep look at Tang Wen's back.

The first move, a fierce frontal chop with the Wind-Breaking Saber.

Tang Wen practiced the saber twice in the backyard before Li Daniu came in with a few fish.

"Brother, that guy wasn't a good person. Be careful if you run into him."

As he spoke, he lifted the fish in his hand and shook them.

Tang Wen clearly saw that three of the five fish had teeth marks on them.

This reminded him of the scene on his first day of transmigrating, where scavengers fought over a fish, resulting in a fatality.

"Okay." He agreed and then said, "Brother Li, you have a wide network. Help me keep an eye out for a residence closer to the inside of the camp, if there are any vacancies."

Li Daqiang's smile faded, and he frowned, asking, "What? Little Tang, you're still living on the outskirts of the camp?"

"Yes!" Tang Wen nodded, thinking that it wasn't just the outskirts, but the very edge.

"Then you need to move quickly, or it will be too late when the mutated beasts attack the city in the dead of winter."

"This? Please enlighten me, Brother Li."

Li Daqiang processed the fish in his hands and said, "Mutated beasts are very ferocious! They're sure to eat people in the winter. The scavengers outside will either hide or run to our camp. The mutated beasts follow them, and when the guards attack, the mutated beasts pounce on the walls. If they encounter strong ones, the guards can't defend against them, and a few might slip in. This happens every year…"

Tang Wen's expression became serious.

The mutated beasts that slip in will definitely prey on the people on the edge of the camp first!

Then, either experts from the inner city will come out to kill them, or the mutated beasts will eat their fill and escape.

"Indeed, in this world, there is no worst, only worse."

Tang Wen, who had originally planned to huddle in his shack for the winter, discussed countermeasures with his sister as soon as he got home.

They had to move, definitely had to move.

But moving required capital.

Some families who didn't have enough food for the winter might be willing to trade their residences with them if they were given enough food. After all, living on the outskirts of the camp wasn't necessarily a death sentence.

As long as they hid well, they could still survive, for example, by digging a hole and sleeping underground.

Rather than giving the millet to others, Tang Tang preferred to dig a hole and sleep.

Tang Wen disagreed. What if the mutated beasts that came were good at burrowing?

Besides, in front of the mutated beasts, their shack's defensive capabilities were, to say the least, non-existent.

In the dead of winter, even if people were okay, if the house was knocked down, rebuilding it would be a huge project.

In the following days, Tang Tang reinforced the shack with wooden sticks and hemp rope every day and dug a pit at home with a shovel.

Tang Wen took a pound of roasted millet out of the camp every day and gained a lot.

A large amount of millet was scattered, and pheasants were attracted every time, with at least thirty or more red-billed finches also being caught.

Tang Wen had Tang Tang process the pheasants and store them temporarily.

It was getting cold, and the chicken meat could be stored.

The red-billed finches were exchanged for grain at various rice shops. As the weather got colder and colder, Tang Wen broke the rule of not going to the same rice shop for three days.

Almost every day, he had to go to several rice shops to exchange grain.

Several days passed, and there was still no news from Li Daniu.

Tang Wen brought two processed pheasants to the guard camp.

"Kid, who are you looking for?"

"Brother Li, I'm looking for Brother Li. Please inform him that I'm here to deliver something."

"Wait."

"Okay, okay…"