Save my man, why does he always turn out to be the savior?

Chapter 283 Live Broadcast of National Fortune: The Male Lead's Fiancée Who Was Rejected VS. Hu

On her way back, Su Jinyue collected spiritual plants while checking the system map of the national fortune live broadcast.

When Su Jinyue arrived at the mine, she discovered that the path she had taken from the cave to the mine had been highlighted on the system map.

Does this mean that the paths I walk are recorded in the system map?

Su Jinyue became interested, so when she went back, she deliberately chose a different route than the one she had taken on the way there. As a result, the route she had taken was indeed recorded in the system map.

Su Jinyue felt that this was somewhat like playing a large-scale online game. Not only was the system map similar, but the system interface of the national fortune live broadcast was also similar to the system panel in the game.

I don't know if the national fortune live broadcast has always been set up this way, or if these changes only occurred after it was integrated with Earth.

Having figured out the map function, and with time running out, Su Jinyue went straight back to the cave.

Over at the cave, Chen Zhengyuan and three others were digging a trench, but progress was slow due to limited tools.

Seeing this, Su Jinyue seemed to be deep in thought. It seemed that what she was most anxious about was not making weapons, but rather making some tools.

Without further ado, Su Jinyue used the soil she had dug out while digging trenches to build a blast furnace for iron smelting on an open space not far away.

After the first day was completed, it was air-dried, but in reality, Su Jinyue had already secretly removed the moisture from the blast furnace. On the second day, she got up early and dried the furnace with wood that had been cut down in advance from the mountains, and then the blast furnace was ready to use.

Wood doesn't actually burn as hot as coal, but Su Jinyue didn't have time to find coal. Anyway, she had spiritual fire, which was enough to melt iron ore, so she could just make do with wood.

A morning was enough time for Su Jinyue to forge several shovel heads, and then she made a few suitable wooden sticks, which she then fitted together to complete the shovel.

With the tools, Chen Zhengyuan and his group were able to dig trenches and build walls much faster. If they needed any tools, they could just tell Su Jinyue, and she would make them quickly.

Moreover, Su Jinyue not only crafted these tools, but also bows, arrows, crossbows, and other weapons.

Su Jinyue had killed so many magical beasts before, and she collected all the useful materials from them. For example, she used the tendons from the magical beasts to make bowstrings, which were very useful.

Moreover, Su Jinyue has a wood spirit root, so she is more adept at handling wooden materials than others, and the weapons she makes are more powerful. This is something that even Chen Zhengyuan, whose cultivation is higher than hers, cannot match.

Su Jinyue didn't waste the waste left over from iron smelting. She crushed the waste and mixed it with yellow mud, put it into molds to make bricks, dried them in the shade, and then fired them in a blast furnace. Because there was still residual iron in the waste, the bricks made were particularly strong and were perfect for building walls.

Sun Siqi worked herself to the bone every day practicing martial arts with Chen Zhengyuan. Afterwards, she had to dig trenches and build walls with the men. Although others were considerate of her being a girl and gave her simple tasks, the workload was still enormous for Sun Siqi.

Even if she wanted to quit, she couldn't even take a break, because Chen Zhengyuan was keeping an eye on her the whole time.

Whenever Sun Siqi stopped to rest, Chen Zhengyuan would have her practice her movements or train her endurance, making her keep running.

Compared to being watched by Chen Zhengyuan while practicing martial arts, Sun Siqi preferred to work, since she could at least take a break between tasks.

Sun Siqi's life was so hard that her resentment towards Su Jinyue, who was always neatly dressed and clean-cut and didn't work with her, deepened.

But before she could even complain, Sun Siqi was speechless when she saw the weapons that Su Jinyue had forged.

Seeing how capable Su Jinyue was, the reactions of the remaining people were quite interesting, something Chen Zhengyuan had anticipated.

Pei Chuyuan admired Su Jinyue even more.

As for Qi Yaoting, his reaction was quite interesting. Whenever he had free time, he would try to get close to Su Jinyue and talk to her.

Su Jinyue usually ignored him. She had been busy these past few days, so she pretended to be forging weapons and didn't want to talk to him.

Even so, Qi Yaoting persisted in coming to find Su Jinyue.

At first, when Sun Siqi noticed Qi Yaoting coming to see Su Jinyue, she would nervously follow and try to stop him. Later, after something was said between Qi Yaoting and Sun Siqi, Sun Siqi stopped trying to stop him.

Su Jinyue checked Qi Yaoting's favorability rating, the target of 009's romance strategy, and it had actually increased again, now reaching 50!

Su Jinyue was both amused and exasperated. Honestly, she had no intention of trying to win over Qi Yaoting. She hadn't given him a friendly look when he tried to get close to her lately, so why had her favorability rating increased?

What Su Jinyue didn't know was that Qi Yaoting valued family background and ability first, and then appearance.

Qi Yaoting abandoned Su Jinyue and chose Sun Siqi because he believed that Sun Siqi's value was higher than Su Jinyue's, and even higher than the Su family's.

But now that Su Jinyue has risen to prominence, Sun Siqi has been reduced to nothing in comparison.

The more outstanding Su Jinyue's performance and the stronger her abilities, the more Qi Yaoting regretted it and the more he wanted to make amends.

Su Jinyue had no idea what Qi Yaoting was thinking, and even if she did, she would only scoff and ignore it.

Qi Yaoting wants to win her back, so Su Jinyue has to agree?

Dream on! What's done is done. Su Jinyue isn't someone who recycles trash.

Su Jinyue was actually grateful to Qi Yaoting for proposing the annulment of the engagement first; otherwise, she would have had to go through the trouble of breaking off the engagement in order to be with Chen Zhengyuan.

Five busy days finally passed, and the defensive fortifications near the cave were completed.

The outermost part was a five-meter-wide and three-meter-deep trench dug around the cave, with iron spikes made by Su Jinyue stuck upside down at the bottom of the trench.

Next to the moat was a wall more than two meters high and half a meter thick. There were steps built inside the wall, making it easy to climb up and check the situation outside at any time.

The watchtower was not built because they discovered in the past few days that the system map could detect beast tides.

Over the past few days, they have illuminated the map within a ten-mile radius of the cave. They discovered that beasts appeared on the illuminated map, indicated by red dots.

In the system map, each of them is displayed in gold as a bound player. Now that the five of them have formed a team, the team members' locations are displayed in green, so red represents beasts or monsters.

Since the beast tide situation can be monitored through the system map, the watchtower is no longer needed.

Moreover, Chen Zhengyuan and Su Jinyue are both cultivators, and their divine sense is more useful than the system map, so the watchtower is really useless.

Su Jinyue forged a large number of weapons, most of which were used for ranged attacks.

Each person had at least two bows and arrows and crossbows. The arrows and crossbow bolts were kept in bundles under the wall for easy access.