Chapter 76 Brotherhood

Li Wei's face was dark.

"Six C-grade flesh cores were used, but they only filled less than a third of the tenth page? Does this mean that unlocking the tenth page requires more than twenty C-grade flesh cores? What a joke!"

He really wanted to curse. This leap was a bit too big!

But what could he do? He could only reluctantly put away the Book of All Laws and lie down on the bed, feeling very depressed.

It seemed that in the future, the advancement of the Book of All Laws would require more and more energy and life source. If he wanted to maintain a relatively high speed of strength improvement, he would have to invest more capital.

The difficulty of unlocking the pages was getting higher and higher. If his strength couldn't keep up, it was likely to cause his strength to stagnate for a long time, making it even harder to catch up with the energy gap of the Book of All Laws, and ushering in a longer period of stagnation... This would form a vicious cycle.

Of course, encountering bottlenecks as his strength grew stronger was normal, and it didn't mean that there was no way out.

He just needed to keep going.

After lying down for a while, he sat up from the bed.

He looked at the time, it was just a little after two in the afternoon. At this time, if he wanted, he could still go out to hunt some semi-mechanical monsters and earn some hunting points.

However, he still didn't plan to go out for the rest of the day. Today, he decided not to be so tense. He planned to continue using the "Steel Heart" training method in the afternoon to slowly polish his foundation.

He could also make some bullets. Although he would spend some time making new bullets when he came back at night, he always felt that he couldn't keep up with the consumption.

In one night, besides the necessary rest time, he could make at most a dozen or twenty bullets. This was only two or three magazines, which was not enough for combat.

His inventory was basically used up, so he decided to make more bullets while he had some time today.

Taking out the tools and materials, Li Wei sighed again.

Even with his super high success rate, the remaining materials were only enough for him to make another hundred bullets. If he wanted to make more, he would have to buy more materials.

Moreover, the set of tools he bought before didn't last long. Three or four energy lines had been scrapped, and the quality of the energy converter and the magic pattern knife was also average. He estimated that he would need to replace them soon.

All of these cost money.

No wonder the price of engraved bullets on the market was so high. Even for the bullets he made himself, and they were the lowest-cost secondary armor-piercing bullets, he still felt a bit overwhelmed. If he had to rely on buying them...

He really couldn't afford it.

Since he came to the Clover Branch, almost all the points he received from commissions were exchanged for things that could enhance his strength, such as flesh cores and gene fluid, and none of the commissions were actually paid in cash.

This was not common for hunters, after all, hunters also needed to eat, drink, and live.

The normal practice for most hunters was to exchange at least two-thirds of the commission rewards for money to support their lives and enjoyment, and to use one-third to enhance their strength. It was considered very hardworking and promising to be able to allocate this way. Like Li Wei, who could exchange all his income for resources to enhance his strength, was indeed very rare.

The reason why Li Wei could do this was because of the money he plundered from Zhang Xi's old nest. Five purple crystals, not too many or too few, should be enough for a normal life for a while, but he spent a lot.

This money was almost gone now.

Li Wei didn't want the issue of money to affect the speed of his strength improvement. It was too uneconomical. He really had to think of some ways to get money.

After going out and exchanging the last bit of money for some materials, Li Wei devoted himself to the great cause of making bullets, and he didn't rest for a moment until dinner time.

In the afternoon, his achievement was thirty-odd engraved bullets.

After dinner, he went to the training room to exercise the "Steel Heart" for a while. He returned to his room and workshop again, started making bullets, and continued until late at night.

This once again showed the value of the "Steel Heart."

Making bullets was a tiring task. It required long-term and continuous control of energy and precise output, which consumed a lot

of energy. According to common saying, this kind of energy came from the spiritual level of a person, belonging to the level of the will chain and the hub chain.

Although the Steel Heart did not have any enhancement effect on the will chain, which meant that it could not make Li Wei control external energy more precisely and on a larger scale, the enhancement of the hub chain still brought about an amplification of energy, which benefited him greatly.

In the past, Li Wei had judged his own limit. He estimated that if he continuously made secondary armor-piercing bullets, he could make at most thirty to forty at a time, and he would definitely be unable to continue making more bullets due to exhaustion.

But now, his limit was seventy bullets.

Late at night, when he completed the production of the seventieth bullet, he was so tired that he didn't even have the strength to wash up. He just lay on the bed and fell asleep.

...

The next day, he was awakened by a knock on the door.

Cai Yutong was outside.

She said, "You've been acting strange these past two days."

"What's strange?" Li Wei asked.

"A while ago, you were running around the Clover Community like crazy, constantly hunting monsters. But yesterday, you stayed indoors all day, and today you slept until now. It's already nine o'clock!"

What Cai Yutong said seemed to be true, and Li Wei felt it too.

"I'm fine," Li Wei reassured her. "It's just that the continuous high-intensity hunting missions made me feel a bit tired. My supplies are also running low, so I plan to rest for a few days, make some bullets, and continue to improve my strength. You don't need to worry too much about me."

"That's good," Cai Yutong was indeed relieved. "Actually, this is the normal state. You really scared me a few days ago."

Li Wei knew what she was referring to. After learning that Yasha had died, his emotions had indeed become somewhat strange, and there was always a wicked fire in his heart that urgently needed to be vented.

But now, he was much better.

Cai Yutong asked again, "Are you going out today?"

"Let's go, but if there's no particularly valuable target, we'll come back early."

"Okay."