Chapter 21
◎ A Big Investment ◎
【There is a risk of failure in skill fusion. Failure will cause the skill to disappear. Please choose carefully.】
Yu Chi blinked. During skill fusion, she needed to choose one skill as the main skill. The main skill would retain its characteristics and absorb the effects of the secondary skill. If the skill fusion failed, the main skill would remain unchanged while the other skill would disappear.
Seeing this, she no longer had any hesitation. First Aid was very important to her. If there was a risk of it disappearing, she would never take the risk while her strength was still weak. But now, even if it failed, the one to disappear would be Heal…
Without hesitation, Yu Chi directly chose “Yes.”
The skill fusion was instantaneous. A white light flashed, and a prompt immediately appeared before her eyes.
【Skill fusion successful.】
Yu Chi breathed a sigh of relief. Although she knew she was lucky, she couldn’t help but feel a little nervous in this situation.
She opened her First Aid interface to check.
【Skill: First Aid
Grade: Excellent
Description: Can produce one bandage and two adhesive bandages every ten minutes. The properties of the bandages and adhesive bandages have changed—bandages restore +30 HP, adhesive bandages restore +15 HP.
Can produce one First Aid Pill every three days. The First Aid Pill can instantly restore a player to full health.】
Hiss— Now this was truly worthy of the name First Aid.
Right now, everyone’s HP was relatively low, so bandages and adhesive bandages were sufficient. In the future, when everyone’s HP was high, a single First Aid Pill could restore them to full health… Tsk tsk.
Yu Chi remembered the system prompt from before, that skills usually couldn’t be upgraded. She hadn’t expected that as long as she obtained a skill of the same category, she could fuse them to upgrade the skill—as long as she was willing to part with it and bear the risk.
She opened her system panel to check. After killing a bunch of contaminated creatures last night, she had already leveled up from 4 to 5, and each of her skills had changed slightly. This time, she also received five free attribute points. She added three points to Stamina and two to Spirit.
【Name: DazedFish
Player Status: Official Player
Level: 5 (3563/5000)
HP: 220 (Stamina x20)
Skills: First Aid (Excellent), Morph (Rare), Fine Forging (Common)
Stats: Strength (4→5) Agility (6→8) Stamina (5→11) Spirit (11→24) Luck (8) [Fixed]】
Yu Chi rubbed her chin and sighed. She didn’t know what the level cap was. Her HP was only 220 so far. When would it ever reach the thousands? This made her, who was used to the inflated stats of real-world online games, feel a little insecure.
New bandages and adhesive bandages were produced. Yu Chi put them back up in her shop. The price of a bandage was set at 5 Purification Crystals, and the price of an adhesive bandage was set at 2 Purification Crystals. If you only looked at the amount of HP restored, buying adhesive bandages was more cost-effective than bandages.
But there were also time costs and urgency to consider. Bandages and adhesive bandages were not items that could instantly restore HP upon use. It took a few seconds for them to take effect. In an emergency, bandages were definitely more convenient than adhesive bandages.
Originally, Yu Chi had wanted to set the price based on the amount of HP restored. Now that the HP restored by bandages had tripled, the price should naturally triple as well. But since she was running a shop now, a little discount might not be a bad idea.
After all, bandages and adhesive bandages had no production cost, and when they were sold and used by others, they would also increase her EXP…
She could now produce 144 bandages and 288 adhesive bandages a day without stopping. Excluding 8 hours for sleep or forgetting, she could produce about a hundred bandages and two hundred adhesive bandages a day. If all of these were sold and used, she could gain 6000 EXP in a single day!
This was truly leveling up just by lying down.
She also didn’t have to worry about making more and more bandages that no one would use. Items related to HP would always be in short supply. After all, this was a world fraught with danger. As long as you fought with contaminated creatures, injuries were inevitable.
Being a healer is so awesome—
Yu Chi was shocked. Was there anything more awesome than being able to both make money and level up?
The small boat sailed slowly on the calm sea. Yu Chi leaned lazily in her chair, the fishing rod in her hand not moving for half an hour. She yawned lazily, her eyes looking hazily into the distance.
The compass pointed steadfastly towards the island. She didn’t know when she would find it.
She had been bored earlier and had taken out [Lucky Match-3] to play a round, getting three mangoes. She had already eaten two of them. The mango peels were placed on the deck to one side. Under the scorching sun, they quickly became a little dry.
It was leisurely and comfortable, but unfortunately, time was limited.
In the afternoon, Yu Chi took stock of the materials she had acquired from her player shop.
Compared to materials, there were fewer seeds acquired, only eight types in total. Among them, six were tree seeds, and the other two were a pack of rice seeds and a pack of potato seeds.
Yu Chi wasn’t disappointed with this result. After all, the Sea Survival game had just begun.
Although it was called a pack of seeds, each pack actually only had ten seeds.
When she only had one small flowerpot, she didn’t think much of it. It took time for seeds to grow and sprout, and she didn’t need that many seeds. However, she now had a large area for planting.
Yu Chi’s expression was subtle: …The system is a bit stingy.
Planting rice and potatoes was a troublesome matter, especially rice. As a water-loving crop, it needed to maintain a certain water level during its growth and had high requirements for water sources.
Yu Chi first planted a rice seed in the flowerpot.
Under normal planting conditions, it couldn’t be done so casually. A series of steps like soaking and sprouting the seeds were needed. But the flowerpot and seeds produced by the system didn’t require these steps.
After an ordinary player planted a seed in a flowerpot, they only needed to pay attention to it occasionally and could wait for it to sprout with peace of mind. At most, they would just water it a little, which was very convenient.
But Yu Chi’s [Two-Sided Mirror] space was not so cheap. The flowerpot was an item specifically for planting, but the [Two-Sided Mirror] did not have this characteristic.
Therefore, planting in it was much more troublesome than in a flowerpot.
However, with Yu Chi’s elf characteristic, these troubles could be easily avoided. Although the land in the Two-Sided Mirror was just ordinary land, an elf could bestow blessings on the land and plants, making the soil more fertile and providing nutrients for the plants’ growth.
Don’t ask, just call it fantasy.
Yu Chi was very happy, thinking that elves were indeed natural farming experts.
—Elves had two abilities: bestowing blessings and controlling plants.
The former was not only effective on land and plants but could also be used on people. However, Yu Chi currently had no test subjects. She tilted her head, thinking that she could try it on herself in the future.
The latter could not only control plants for attack and combat but also promote their growth. She had used it to grow that watermelon seed earlier.
After planting the rice in the flowerpot, Yu Chi immediately used the [Morph] skill in her mind. Although she was still in the same simple clothes, her originally straight, black hair turned into golden, seaweed-like hair, and her eyes turned a brilliant emerald green.
Her expression didn’t change, but it carried a lofty divinity. If others saw her, they would probably sigh in admiration, as expected of a legendary species.
With a detached expression, Yu Chi controlled the growth and sprouting of the rice seed, watching it grow rapidly from a seed to a seedling, then shoot up, until finally, the grains on the ear of rice all turned golden yellow.
These golden grains, after being harvested and dried, and then threshed, could be used as seeds for the next planting.
But now, it wasn’t so troublesome. She bestowed an elven blessing on the grains in her hand. The life force coming from these new seeds told her that they could now be planted directly.
Yu Chi had 10 rice seeds. She repeated this 10 times, put the newly collected seeds in a small bag, and then entered the [Two-Sided Mirror] space.
She had divided the space in the Two-Sided Mirror into five parts, each occupying 20 square meters, for planting rice, potatoes, watermelons, trees, and storing items respectively.
The time she could be an elf was limited. Without any delay, Yu Chi immediately bestowed an elven blessing on the 10 square meters of land. The area was a bit large. After bestowing the blessing, she felt a stabbing pain in her head, and her body swayed.
Yu Chi steadied herself. The original 10 rice seeds, after being repeatedly nurtured, had produced over a thousand seeds. She planted these seeds in the soil, which only took up 10 square meters of space.
She didn’t have to rush with the remaining 10 square meters. She could wait for these crops to mature next time.
The planting of potatoes was completely different from rice.
Yu Chi took out the potato and cut it into small pieces with the metal knife. Each piece had one or two eyes and weighed about twenty to thirty grams. She also bestowed an elven blessing on them, then buried these small potatoes in the potato area of the [Two-Sided Mirror].
After doing these two things, she finally breathed a sigh of relief. She casually planted the blessed watermelon seeds and tree seeds in the other two areas, then with a flicker, she immediately deactivated her elf form.
Doing these things consumed a lot of Spirit. Even with her Spirit as high as 24, it was difficult to sustain.
Yu Chi sat on a chair to rest for a while, deciding that she could go to the player trade section to buy a deck chair or a sofa when she had the chance. Her body had become much stronger after being modified by the system, but sitting so straight was not as comfortable as a sofa or a deck chair.
The other three types of materials acquired from the shop had all been gathered. Out of 40,000 players, she was currently the only one with a shop, so it was not difficult to gather these materials.
2000 wood planks, 1000 pieces of plastic, 400 metal scraps. Two metal scraps equaled one nail. She first crafted all the metal scraps and got 200 nails.
Then she used all these acquired materials, plus the ones she had left over, to make water purifiers, getting a total of 70 water purifiers.
She listed these 70 water purifiers in her player shop at a price of 80 Purification Crystals each, restocked the bandages and adhesive bandages, and finally clapped her hands in accomplishment.
Just these water purifiers could earn her more than 5,000 Purification Crystals!
Yu Chi continued to acquire wood planks, plastic, and metal scraps. She had to make and sell as many water purifiers as possible before others got the blueprint. Otherwise, in a while—no, not even a while, just in a few days—the water purifiers wouldn’t sell for such a high price.
Not counting the restocked water purifiers, bandages, and adhesive bandages, she currently had about 1000 Purification Crystals.
…It felt like she had done a lot, but in the end, her money was getting less and less.
Yu Chi touched her nose, pretending not to have noticed this.
After finishing her serious business, Yu Chi continued to sit on the chair and fish. Except for the first three times, the items she got the other times were just ordinary, but she was already very satisfied.
It was just that her home had a few more shabby things.
What’s that…?
Yu Chi suddenly stood up. A behemoth seemed to have appeared on the sea surface in the distance, blocking her path forward.