** Chapter 7 **
◎ Novice Protection Period ◎
She had already used the All-Purpose Fishing Rod three times today. In her backpack, there were still 4 pieces of fish meat and one fish head left, which could be used to trade for supplies with [SurfingTheSea].
The remaining uses could be used for more fishing. Yu Chi was quite curious about the things that could be fished up from this ocean.
The sea breeze gently brushed against her cheeks. Yu Chi set up the small floral umbrella she had fished up yesterday, opened a pack of spicy strips, and leisurely scrolled through the chat channel and trade interface, occasionally glancing at the sea’s surface.
Most of the discussions in the chat channel were about the novice quest. Up until now, there had been a total of 4 “marine debris tides.” Many people had already gathered enough wood planks and were now trading with other players for metal scraps and stone.
Stone could not be found in the marine debris tides and was the rarest resource. Metal scraps were available, but also relatively scarce, leaving many people stuck.
【MostBrutalBoss】: Oh my god! I just discovered that this isn’t Earth!
【GrumpyBro】: ? What a cute little brain.
【ILoveBlueSkies】: …What else could it be? If so many of us were on Earth, our boats would have bumped into each other long ago.
【ColdTossedNoseHair】: Who? Who upgraded to a boat?
【GrumpyBro】: Told you to eat less nose hair, but you wouldn’t listen. It’s affecting your vision now.
【ThreeThousandKills】: Buying metal scraps.
【ChestClipCookie】: Isn’t someone selling Dumb Dumb Fish in the trade section? I already knew this wasn’t Earth.
【FruitSis】: It’s not called Dumb Dumb Fish.
【ChestClipCookie】: My apologies, I misremembered.
【ChestClipCookie】: They’re selling DazedFish.
Yu Chi: ?
【SurfingTheSea】: ?
【ColaFromAllDirections】: ?
【ZhangSanAskedMeOut】: You’re done for. I’m blacklisting you from now on. No more selling you meat.
【SexyCockroachLongLegHair】: Who? Who’s selling meat?
【ZhangSanAskedMeOut】: …I meant fish meat.
【SexyCockroachLongLegHair】: Oh, I meant fish meat too.
【GrumpyBro】: What a disappointed tone.
She was selling Long-Headed Fish and Big Dumb Fish…
The topic naturally started to drift. Yu Chi hesitated for two seconds, marveling at how everyone remained so optimistic even in a sea survival game.
There were quite a few useful things on the player trade interface. Yu Chi used wood planks to trade for a set of a bowl and chopsticks. She guessed that the other party probably had a blueprint and could mass-produce them, which was why the price for the set wasn’t high.
She also traded for a plastic bucket to store the purified water from the water purifier.
About half an hour later, the fishing rod moved. Yu Chi pulled it up and saw a small medicine box.
Besides food and water, the scarcest resource in sea survival should be medicine. Bandages and adhesive bandages could only increase HP, but if one had a fever or other illnesses, they couldn’t be cured by simply increasing HP.
Yu Chi breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the medicine box and eagerly opened it.
【Item: Painkillers (10 tablets)
Grade: Common
Description: Can relieve common pain.】
【Item: Cold Medicine (10 pills)
Grade: Common
Description: Can treat a basic cold.】
【Item: Fever Reducer (10 pills)
Grade: Common
Description: Can treat a common fever.】
【Item: Adhesive Bandages (10 pieces)
Grade: Common
Description: Can treat minor wounds, HP +5.】
【Item: Bandages (10 rolls)
Grade: Common
Description: Can treat major wounds, HP +10.】
Inside were three common types of medicine. The adhesive bandages and bandages weren’t important to her, since she could make them herself.
Yu Chi put the medicine box away and rubbed her chin. The adhesive bandages and bandages, however, could be sold to others.
This world was fraught with countless dangers, as was clear from the flickering numbers in the top-right corner of the screen. Surely no one would turn down healing items.
However, this matter required careful consideration. Selling some food was one thing, but if she could produce healing items, the entire channel would probably explode.
Speaking of which, there should still be many players who haven’t awakened their official player status, right? Do they even know what increasing HP means?
—Of course, they could understand it literally, but without specific numerical values appearing, many people would be at a loss as to how to proceed.
However, as more and more people completed the novice quest, the topic of official players began to be discussed. This created a sense of urgency for other players who had been taking their time, thinking they still had plenty of it. As a result, the prices of stone and metal scraps on the trade interface were now soaring.
Yu Chi had no intention of profiting from this. She wanted to upgrade her small boat to level 2 and would naturally need these materials as well, but buying them now would be a bad deal.
【LittleTexas】: Has anyone become an official player?
【OneThousandAndThreeNights】: …Tsk.
【YoYoIsSlick】: Are the two of you above official players?
【DayDoesntKnowNightsMadness】: Well, well. I was secretly pleased with myself here, but it turns out it’s already common.
【Sleeping】: …Not really. So what is an official player?
【Visitor54088】: I have a bad feeling. Are you guys playing the same game as me?
【GrumpyBro】: Just high-end players and ordinary players.
【ColdTossedNoseHair】: Can some kind soul explain what an official player is?
【IWantTheWorldToBeBeautiful】: You can become an official player after completing the novice quest.
【Sleeping】: …So you guys have even completed the novice quest? Isn’t this still the first day of survival?
【IWantTheWorldToBeBeautiful】: My friend completed it. I became an official player by killing monsters. These are the only two methods known so far.
【PasserbyC】: Awesome. I’m still struggling for a piece of bread here, and you guys have already become official players.
【TeacherHuang】: Besides the two methods above, there’s another way, which is to obtain a special skill, similar to skills in games.
【DumplingOfHeaven】: …What’s killing monsters? And what are skills? Isn’t this just a simple survival game?
【IWantTheWorldToBeBeautiful】: This is a fantasy world. The creatures in the ocean are divided into contaminated and purified creatures. Killing contaminated creatures can yield materials.
【IWantTheWorldToBeBeautiful】: I haven’t heard of special skills. The method to obtain them might be quite demanding.
【IWantTheWorldToBeBeautiful】: Everyone, don’t be too nervous. The monsters aren’t hard to kill. A level one monster can be killed with just a weapon in hand. When you’re bored, you can exercise on your raft. After becoming an official player, you’ll get a panel with your body’s stats. The data is different for everyone. My companion and I guess that the panel stats can be slowly improved through exercise.
When Yu Chi opened the chat interface again, other chat content had basically disappeared. Everything revolved around “official players.” Some people were frantically posting anxious comments in the channel, while others were trying hard to educate everyone else.
There were also those who were disbelieving and sarcastic, but this was a survival game, after all. Most people held the attitude of learning what they could and were constantly asking the knowledgeable players in the chat interface.
It seemed that there was indeed more than one way to become an official player. After scrolling up and down through the chat content, Yu Chi once again felt grateful for her good luck.
Otherwise, she could only give up and wait for death, becoming a very dazed, dazed fish.
Because of the sudden discussion about “official players,” a bunch of top players emerged in the chat channel. They usually kept a low profile, but now, a casual piece of information from them was a chasm that ordinary players could hardly cross.
The attention she had received for selling fish meat was quickly pushed down, which was a relief.
Her luck was indeed quite good, but the luck of others was probably no worse than hers. Just looking at the player [SurfingTheSea] made it clear. She could never have obtained so many materials.
Speak of the devil, and he shall appear. The private message icon lit up again.
【SurfingTheSea】: Boss Dazed, do you have any more fish meat? I need a large amount of fish meat and can trade for it with stone.