As for the Orichalcum, it was "allocated" from Tarot Villa.
Don't doubt it—it was indeed an allocation.
After his previous agreement with Chu Yuan, who represented the Supreme Council, Shang Chuan had integrated the entire Villa's resources.
He recorded everything produced in everyone's areas, whether it was ores, herbs, or even monsters.
In Shang Chuan's words, if anyone needed anything in the future, they could just talk to him directly.
Then, he would coordinate the flow of materials between regions.
This way, everyone just had to say the word, and he would handle the rest.
Everyone wholeheartedly approved of this.
After all, everyone's time was precious.
Who wouldn't like something that saved a lot of acquisition time and spared them from asking around in the group chat?
This also demonstrated Shang Chuan's value within the Villa.
While Chu Yuan wasn't without merchants and there were people who could do what Shang Chuan did...
To be honest, Chu Yuan personally didn't want to involve the merchants from the Council.
Or rather, he didn't want Tarot Villa to be exposed to the Council too early.
He had his own plans.
Whether the people in the Villa knew his identity, guessed it, or were completely unaware, they all maintained an indifferent attitude.
Like Lan Qingyou, they just went about their business.
For them, the primary task was to quickly absorb the magical knowledge of this other world and survive.
Although they had lived through two mana turbulences and one mana tide and were doing better than most...
Precisely because they knew more than others, they were even more certain that the Kalim continent was definitely not a place for leisure.
One could even say they felt more "anxious" than most people.
Mana turbulences? Mana tides?
To them, these were just appetizers. In the words of Wheel of Fortune, these were merely the most common "natural phenomena" of this world.
Just like how Blue Star occasionally had destructive typhoons, rainstorms, and tsunamis.
As long as the proper methods were used, one could avoid them without injury.
They didn't even count as a "crisis".
For example, right now.
Having obtained enough materials, someone couldn't wait to throw them into the upgrade slot.
【Do you wish to upgrade to a Level 5 shelter?】
Once all the materials were gathered, this familiar dialog box popped up on the magic desk.
【Yes】【No】
The choice was obviously "Yes"!
With a hint of excitement, Lan Qingyou reached out to press it.
But when her finger was just 0.1 centimeters from the screen, her eyes caught the herb field nearby.
"Wait!"
Lan Qingyou immediately pulled her hand back, moving so fast she nearly dislocated her shoulder!
"That was close! Too close!"
Lan Qingyou felt a wave of lingering fear, and a cold sweat broke out on her back.
It was nothing else; seeing the herb field had reminded her of something.
She had plenty of other things, but she didn't have much sludge left.
When she upgraded, the herb field would likely expand, wouldn't it?
In fact, based on the previous pattern, expansion was a certainty.
She couldn't choose to expand without enough sludge, and she doubted she could buy any.
Despite the abundance of sludge monsters, she hadn't seen anyone else fighting them.
Even if someone did, they would at most take the monster cores. No one would bother digging up sludge just to clutter their inventory.
Fine!
In the end, she had to go herself.
So she picked up her dagger and herb bag and flew out.
However, when she reached the marsh, she found that the sludge monsters that usually crawled everywhere were nowhere to be seen.
"That's not right! Did the mutation cause these sludge monsters to evolve into something higher and run away?"
Lan Qingyou flew a couple of circles around the marsh, her face freezing, feeling a bit depressed.
She scratched her head and rubbed her face.
Only then did she pull a Tarot card from her herb bag.
In the past, she might have been at a loss in this situation, but now that she had the Tarot cards, she wasn't afraid.
With a single scan, everything would be clear.
Lan Qingyou had asked in the group before; the Tarot cards were jointly developed by Magician, High Priestess, and Wheel of Fortune.
The scanning function used the card as the origin, combined with the "Mana Sensing" spell and "Mana Theory" to form a sensing sphere with a five-hundred-meter radius.
Everything within it that possessed mana could be detected.
Whether it was people, monsters, plants, or anything else.
But because everything in this world was filled with mana, Wheel of Fortune had added a "threshold" on top of that.
Only things with mana greater than "Level 1" would be displayed.
This so-called "Level 1" wasn't a judgment from the world consciousness, but a theory proposed by the people of the Villa.
That was the "Mana Theory" mentioned earlier.
To put it simply, it was a set of standards established by the Villa members themselves.
Since no one could say for sure what the world consciousness's standards were, they needed such a theory to fill the gap.
Anything below Level 1 consisted of "harmless" things like trees, weeds, stones, and streams.
Anything above Level 1 was something that could potentially cause harm.
In other words, the green dot Lan Qingyou had seen that day wasn't actually a card; it indicated that a person was there.
However, because The Fool had the blue color representing the card, the yellow representing a human was overlaid, appearing as a green dot.
It was a theory that was both complex and simple.
The papers regarding this theory were on the forum, but Lan Qingyou hadn't read that far yet.
This was also why there were the 【Monster Encyclopedia】 and 【Plant Encyclopedia】.
Their purpose was to distinguish monsters and mark them with red dots.
In short, Lan Qingyou felt that the scanning function alone proved the people in the Villa really knew their stuff.
"I might as well test the card's scanning function again to see if I can find any nearby shelters, so I don't get spotted later."
Flying in the sky, Lan Qingyou watched the Tarot card interface in her hand.
She discovered countless red dots beneath the frozen, snow-covered marsh below her.
And at the very edge of the scanning range, there was a single gray dot.
She wasn't sure what it was, but her priority right now was to get some sludge.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Having a mobile terminal was truly convenient; throwing down Explosion Potions one by one made things much easier.
This was only possible because of the card's slots.
If she had used her herb bag, everything inside would have spilled out, which was why Lan Qingyou hadn't dared to do this before.
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