Chapter 13
◎ Novice Protection Period ◎
After making a huge haul, Yu Chi immediately chose to use the backpack expansion cards. She couldn’t stand the ten-slot backpack anymore!
Although twelve slots weren’t much better…
The two backpack expansion cards turned into a stream of light and disappeared. She opened her backpack, and sure enough, it had expanded from ten slots to twelve.
Putting the excellent quality blueprint aside for now, just the backpack expansion cards and the island exploration card were eye-openers for Yu Chi. They were items she had never seen before, which proved that the strength of others was unfathomable… and it was only the second day.
Some people were struggling between life and death, just for a bottle of water and a piece of bread, while others were playing the game in style, turning a passive situation into an active one.
Yu Chi sighed and touched her ear, suddenly missing her Old Yu a little.
The sea at night was even more terrifying than during the day. The moon hung high in the sky, casting a soft silver light that only made the sea’s surface look deeper.
Yu Chi sat alone on the small wooden boat, surrounded by silence. The negative emotions that had been suppressed since she suddenly arrived in this game surfaced. She sat cross-legged, feeling her own insignificance in the face of nature.
The system chat box was opened, becoming the only source of light in the darkness. Yu Chi’s fingers slid across the screen unintentionally, but her thoughts had already drifted elsewhere.
She had always felt that her family ties were weak. Her mother had remarried when she was young, and her relationship with her father wasn’t exactly harmonious. After starting university, she rarely came back more than a few times a year.
However, now that she was truly alone, the only figure in her mind was that man. Just like when she was very young, whenever she encountered something she couldn’t handle, her first reaction was still to seek her father’s help.
The strong are not allowed to be weak, but she was a weakling.
Unfortunately, most things in this world were meaningless to ponder over.
【SurfingTheSea】: Boss Dazed, do you have any more bandages and adhesive bandages?
【GrumpyBro】: I have all kinds of materials. Can I trade for bandages and adhesive bandages?
Yu Chi’s eyes flickered. Business was here. She pulled herself together.
【DazedFish】: 15 adhesive bandages for 300 wood planks / 30 units of wood.
She sent messages to both of them at the same time and instantly gathered enough materials to upgrade her small boat to level two.
Now, the cooldown for First Aid was getting shorter and shorter. She could make 48 bandages and 96 adhesive bandages a day. Trading one by one was too much trouble. It would be great if she could open an online shop.
But putting aside whether the system could support it, being high-profile would be unavoidable if she did that.
While she was thinking, [GrumpyBro] sent another message.
【GrumpyBro】: Do you have more? I have all kinds of materials. I hope you can prioritize trading with me.
Yu Chi’s gaze fell on this sentence, and she replied, 【Are you in danger?】
【GrumpyBro】: It’s tricky.
Yu Chi looked at her inventory. She still had 31 bandages and 32 adhesive bandages left. She typed:
【How many do you need?】
【GrumpyBro】: 20 bandages? And some fish meat.
Yu Chi raised an eyebrow and saw that he had added another sentence.
【GrumpyBro】: Is that okay?
It was clear that he wasn’t used to being polite. Yu Chi recalled his usual posts in the channel and didn’t find it strange.
【DazedFish】: 4 iron ores and 20 stones for 20 bandages and 4 pieces of fish meat.
Iron ore was a relatively precious resource. She had only obtained 4 iron ores from killing a level three contaminated creature, and under normal circumstances, a level three contaminated creature was very difficult to kill.
She was actually getting a good deal by trading 200 HP for these iron ores. Each level-up only gave a few attribute points. If she put them all into Stamina, her other attributes would become weaker.
So, in many cases, even with 200 HP, one might not be able to defeat a level three contaminated creature, and level one and two contaminated creatures couldn’t possibly drop iron ore.
【GrumpyBro】: Okay.
The two of them completed the transaction.
【DazedFish】: If you need more, you can find me again.
There was no reply from the other side. She wondered if he had taken the newly acquired bandages and gone straight into a fight.
She likes it when others fight, the beautiful Dr. Yu thought.
The matter of opening a shop could wait… Hmm, she had almost become the exclusive healer for [GrumpyBro] and [SurfingTheSea].
She hadn’t used her [Lucky Match-3] for the day yet. Yu Chi tapped on the small screen and cleared another stage with three stars.
【Durian x3】
The durians looked very plump, as expected of a system product.
She had heard that people either loved or hated durian. She was somewhere in the middle, with only a normal liking for fruit.
Yu Chi currently had three apples, three watermelons, and three durians. If she put them up for auction on the trade interface, it would probably cause another commotion. And not only would she not be able to finish them all, but she also felt they were taking up space.
All 12 backpack slots were used for food, while the other materials were piled messily on the small boat, which was enough to trigger anyone’s OCD.
Wait… Her gaze lingered on the small medicine box for a moment. Her eyes lit up, and she quickly opened the system trade page… There it was!
Yu Chi traded 100 wood planks for a super-large capacity black hiking backpack. After getting it, she immediately stuffed several items into the backpack and then put the backpack into her main backpack.
It worked!
Yu Chi breathed a sigh of relief. This way, she could prepare some large-capacity storage boxes and put the materials piled on the boat into her backpack as well. Otherwise, this small, shabby boat would soon become impossible to walk on.
However, although this method could save backpack slots, when she needed to take something out, she had to take out the storage box first. She couldn’t take out the materials directly.
Now, the first four slots in her backpack were occupied by [Apple x3, Watermelon x3, Durian x3, Four-Inch Small Cake].
She stuffed [Pickled Cabbage Beef Noodles, Spicy Strips x9, Watermelon Seed x8, Small Medicine Box, Pencil Case, Sanitary Pads, Tissues, Alcohol, Sunglasses, Small Floral Umbrella, Men’s Underwear] into the hiking backpack, which occupied one slot in her main backpack.
[Lucky Match-3] occupied a slot by itself.
[Small Flowerpot, Water Purifier, Wooden Axe, Plastic Bucket] were placed in a corner of the boat. She then put the electric cooking pot, bowl and chopsticks, 6 bottles of beer, and the 2L large water bottle into the plastic bucket and stuffed it into her backpack, occupying one slot.
There were still 5 empty slots in her backpack.
The materials were piled on the other end of the small boat. There were also some useless things: [Mr. Wang’s Smelly Shoes, Human-Thrown Watermelon Rind, Five-Year Gaokao, Three-Year Simulation] were thrown into a corner of the boat by her.
This was the inconvenient part about being on the sea. There were no trash cans, so she didn’t even know where to throw her trash.
She still had one loaf of bread and one steamed bun left, occupying two slots, which she would eat for breakfast tomorrow.
After a thorough tidying up, the boat felt much cleaner. Yu Chi could finally stretch her body a little when she slept.
It was already 10 PM. With everything prepared, Yu Chi cautiously opened the small boat’s upgrade interface.
She had done so much, all for this moment of satisfaction!