Chapter 163: Space Pouch

Inside the copper chests, Su You found some copper ore, marble, cotton, and some copper ore slag.

From the two iron chests, Su You got some iron ore, glass, clay, wooden planks, stone slabs, fabric, and some iron ore slag.

Just as Su You had expected, all the items from these first three types of chests were basic materials—nothing worth mentioning.

Since there were quite a lot of materials, Su You could only carry these along with the remaining three chests to the warehouse.

She planned to open the last two silver chests and the one gold chest inside the warehouse.

Silver chests were at least the second-best kind, so when Su You opened the first silver chest, she finally saw something that wasn’t just a basic material.

[Intermediate Blacksmith Skill Book]

Category: Skill Book

Quality: Blue

Description: After learning, instantly raises blacksmithing skill to intermediate level.

Looking at the skill book, Su You nodded in satisfaction. She rummaged through the now-opened silver chest and found that, aside from a pile of miscellaneous basic materials, there was nothing else inside.

“…So what’s the point of having so many different chests? Aren’t the contents basically the same?” Su You was genuinely speechless.

She’d thought the silver chest would have something good, but in the end, it was just this one skill book—and only an intermediate one at that. And then… nothing?

After confirming there was nothing else in the chest, Su You opened the second silver chest.

Her luck was a bit better with the second silver chest: it also contained skill books, but this time there were two.

One was an intermediate farming skill book, which would be perfect for Yousen; the other was a beginner fishing skill book—not particularly useful, but better than nothing.

Besides the two skill books, Su You also got a non-duplicate building card: a Quarry card.

[Quarry] (Can be fully dismantled and recovered)

Category: Resource Building

Cost: Unknown (Unlocks after learning the “Quarry” blueprint)

Description: The quarry can automatically link to the territory warehouse. Stone (including regular stone, marble, sandstone, etc.) and ore stored in the quarry will be automatically transferred to the territory warehouse. This feature can be toggled on or off. If the warehouse is full, resources will be temporarily stored in the quarry’s own storage, which has 100 slots and a stack limit of 100 per slot, and only accepts stone-type resources.

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Previously, there was a lumber mill, and now there’s a quarry. With these two buildings, the territory’s resource collection speed will only get faster and faster… Su You was even more satisfied with the quarry than she was with the intermediate farming skill book.

Compared to the previous chests, Su You would rate this one an 85 out of 100.

“The last one… the gold chest.” Before opening it, Su You hesitated, because this gold chest looked… pretty valuable.

Here’s the thing: wooden chests are made of pure wood, copper chests are pure copper, so naturally, gold chests are made of pure gold.

But once a chest is opened, it disappears instantly, so she wouldn’t have a chance to do anything with it. Su You was now debating whether to melt the gold chest down to make gold coins, or to try her luck opening it.

You have to understand, even though the chest isn’t that big, gold coins aren’t that big either—about the size of an old one-yuan coin. This one gold chest could be melted down into at least several hundred gold coins!

If an NPC with a high blacksmithing skill did the smelting, maybe they could extract even more gold!

That’s the beauty of a high-freedom game—if you can think of it, you can do it.

Of course, the gold chest could also contain something really valuable, maybe even worth more than a few hundred gold coins, but Su You really didn’t trust her luck…

Just as Su You was struggling with her decision, someone appeared at the warehouse door, holding a bundle of things, and knocked.

“Is the Lord here? I’d like to show you something.”

The only one who called Su You “my lord” was Dolly.

Su You didn’t know what she wanted, but she put the chest aside and went to open the door.

The moment she opened the door, Su You saw Dolly holding a big pile of things that looked like waist pouches. If she guessed right, this must be what Dolly wanted to show her.

Before Su You could get a good look, Dolly started explaining: “This is a pouch that can hold things, but not in the ordinary way—it’s more like a wooden cart…”

A wooden cart?

Su You immediately understood what she meant, and picked up one of the pouches to check its information.

[Level 1 Space Pouch] (Can be upgraded with materials)

Category: Item

Quality: Green

Description: A backpack made from space stones, usable by anyone. Has three slots. Except for tools and special items, all items have a stack limit of 10. (Note: No carrying limit, but only one space pouch per person can benefit from the weightless effect. Items in extra pouches will still add significant weight, and the weight increase is not 1:1. Use with caution.)

Usable by anyone… doesn’t that mean even NPCs can use it?

Three slots might be a bit small, but that doesn’t diminish how powerful this space pouch is—especially since it can be upgraded!

The only drawback is that basically everyone can only carry one; carrying more makes them too heavy to lift.

Extra pouches can still store items, but the weight remains, and it’s not a simple 1:1 increase… meaning you might put in a single stone, but when you pick it up, it feels as heavy as a mountain.

This is probably to prevent people from exploiting loopholes, and Su You could understand the reasoning.

Still, what she cared about most was where this space pouch came from.

“Did you make this?” Su You couldn’t think of any other explanation.

But she’d never heard of a space pouch before, so it was probably a newly added item.

Hearing Su You’s question, Dolly nodded. “Yes… here’s what happened: you asked me to help organize the chests, and yesterday while I was sorting, I found a few recipes pressed under some stones in the corner.”

And one of those recipes was for the “Space Pouch.”

Recipes for special items like this are usually extremely rare, but somehow this precious thing had been left forgotten in a corner. If Dolly hadn’t been so careful, it probably would have been thrown out as trash.

(End of chapter)"