Chapter 36
◎ Rapid Leveling Up ◎
After returning to the boat, Yu Chi slept for a full 20-plus hours.
When she sat up from the bed, her head was still dizzy. Most of the wounds on her body had already healed, leaving only faint marks. This made her a little dazed for a moment, almost thinking that the previous Cold Moon Island was just a dream.
However, the changes in her body told her that this exploration trip was real.
Before she went to Cold Moon Island, she was only level 7, but now she had leveled up to 10.
Level 10 was a qualitative leap. Yu Chi found that not only had all her attributes on her personal panel doubled, but even her various skills had undergone great changes.
Yu Chi opened her personal panel.
【Name: DazedFish
Player Status: Official Player
Level: 10
HP: 1040 (Stamina x20)
Skills: First Aid (Excellent), Morph (Rare), Fine Forging (Common)
Stats: Strength (4→30) Agility (6→38) Stamina (5→52) Spirit (11→60) Luck (8) [Fixed]】
No wonder the strength gap between her and the number one and number two on the ranking was so obvious. At each stage, one’s strength would undergo a qualitative leap. They were completely in two different stages before.
Yu Chi took out her talent item, the All-Purpose Fishing Rod. The 24 hours of exploration and the 20 hours of sleep after returning—she had had no time to use the All-Purpose Fishing Rod for these two days.
The thought of how many good things she had missed made Yu Chi’s heart ache.
The All-Purpose Fishing Rod had also undergone considerable changes after she reached level 10.
【Item: All-Purpose Fishing Rod
Quality: Talent Item
Description: All things can be fished. What do you think you’ll catch? Can be used to fish 3 times a day. Number of uses can be accumulated. Each catch is guaranteed to be an excellent-grade item or above.】
The number of daily refreshes had been reduced from 10 to 3, but the items fished up had been upgraded, with common and ungraded items eliminated, making them more precious. Most importantly, the uses could be accumulated!
If she encountered a situation where she lacked time again, she wouldn’t have to worry about wasting the uses of the All-Purpose Fishing Rod.
Yu Chi’s eyes curved happily. This trip had been very fruitful. Just the changes to her personal panel and talent item made her feel it was worth it.
But the surprises were far from over. Her abilities had also changed greatly.
【Skill: Morph
Quality: Rare (Evolution interrupted, can be upgraded to Legendary)
Description: Can morph into three forms: Mermaid, Elf, and Cinnabar Finch. Limited by the master’s level, each form lasts for 30 minutes.】
First was the most important [Morph]. The panel description only mentioned that the duration had increased to 30 minutes, but in fact, each form had undergone considerable changes.
The elf form no longer only had the abilities of plant manipulation and elven blessing, but also a new one, Light of Healing, which could heal her own or others’ injuries and restore vitality.
For Yu Chi, who had First Aid, Light of Healing was indeed not a necessary ability, but thinking of the scene on Cold Moon Island where she had plastered Li Feng and Zuo He’s entire bodies with bandages and adhesive bandages, she felt that this ability was still quite useful.
Let bandages and adhesive bandages exist as commodities. Healing wounds should still rely on natural healing abilities.
Another advantage was that bandages and adhesive bandages could only restore HP, while Light of Healing could restore wounds while also restoring vitality. And the number of uses was also related to her Spirit. The more Spirit she had, the more times she could use it.
However, it didn’t show how much HP could be restored with each use. Perhaps it depended on different situations.
Originally, in her mermaid form, she only had a very strong body and the ability to barely control the nearby seawater. Now, she had an additional ability, controlling aquatic creatures.
Yu Chi’s teeth ached as she looked at the calm and waveless sea—this sea was full of contaminated creatures. There was no way to get her a controllable aquatic creature to experiment on!
Do I have to go to other islands to catch them in the future? Can ordinary underwater creatures adapt to the environment of the sea?
There were still many places that needed research and exploration. Yu Chi shook her head and looked at the last form.
The Cinnabar Finch form had undergone the greatest change this time.
She could actually transform into a human form in her Cinnabar Finch form!
Yu Chi immediately tried it. This time, she was no longer in the image of a large red bird, but a human form of a Cinnabar Finch. If she wanted to return to the form of a large red bird, she just needed to think about it.
She took out the Two-Sided Mirror to look. It reflected the face of a red-haired girl.
When she smiled, her teeth were sharp, looking a little evil and not to be trifled with.
Yu Chi was teary-eyed: Finally, the Cinnabar Finch form can speak.
Her height was also different in different forms.
Not to mention the bonus of having a tail as a mermaid, but she probably wouldn’t be short when she turned into a human. Yu Chi’s original height was 163cm, but in her elf form, she was 172cm, looking tall and slender.
But now, as a Cinnabar Finch…
Yu Chi gestured in front of the mirror and quickly became serious.
Hmm… is it an illusion that I’ve gotten shorter?
After a scientific verification, Yu Chi found that her Cinnabar Finch form was only about 1.5 meters tall, but she was incredibly strong—from the chair she had easily bent.
It seems she’s a short, strong player!
Yu Chi was not dissatisfied. It was not bad to experience every height.
After studying the [Morph] skill, she chose to check the [Nature’s Guardian] skill.
【Skill: Nature’s Guardian
Quality: Rare
Description: The friends of the elves will protect them.
Can summon two guardians composed of natural elements. Their strength is equivalent to the master’s.】
The number of guardians she could summon had changed from one to two. Yu Chi chose to summon. The air fluctuated again, and a palm-sized little fairy suddenly appeared before her eyes.
Yu Chi’s eyes lit up: So cute~
The little fairy looked around nervously after appearing. When it saw Yu Chi, it immediately flew over and gently rubbed against her cheek, very well-behaved.
【Guardian: Flower Fairy
Level: 10
Description: Not good at fighting. Can help the master take care of plants. Loves all kinds of nectar (The flower fairy can’t speak, please be patient with it).】
“Hello,” Yu Chi said softly, afraid of scaring it.
The flower fairy looked very happy and flew around her. After a while, it landed on her palm.
Yu Chi didn’t know how to communicate with her, so she said, “I have a… spirit plant garden. Can I ask you to help me take care of it?”
The flower fairy nodded slightly and flew around her again, looking very happy.
Yu Chi’s lips curled. She felt that this flower fairy had come at the right time. Although the plants in the [Two-Sided Mirror] space didn’t require much of her time to look after, she couldn’t completely ignore them.
Now with the flower fairy, it seemed that she could really be a hands-off boss in the future!
But nectar… when she went to other islands in the future, she had to get a lot of flowers for it.
Yu Chi didn’t know if it could collect nectar from the spirit plant flowers in the [Two-Sided Mirror] space.
After looking at these two key abilities, Yu Chi slowly opened the other two skills to check.
The higher the level of the ability, the greater the change. And the lower the level of the ability, the greater the limitation, so the change was smaller.
【Skill: First Aid
Grade: Excellent
Description: Can automatically produce bandages and adhesive bandages every minute.
Can produce one First Aid Pill every day. The First Aid Pill can instantly restore a player to full health.】
Yu Chi was a little surprised. She hadn’t expected much, but not only was the time for First Aid shortened, it had actually become automatic!
You see, what had troubled her the most in the past was having to manually make bandages and adhesive bandages at all times. Not only did it delay her a lot of time, but the main thing was that she was forgetful…
But now that it was automated, she could completely ignore it!
The First Aid skill showed that a fixed place needed to be designated for the bandages and adhesive bandages. If the container was full, it could not be automatically produced.
Yu Chi raised an eyebrow at this sentence and directly designated the player shop as the container. She had just been trying it, but she hadn’t expected it to succeed.
【Setup complete. Only one chance to change. Please use it with caution.】
The player shop had no quantity limit. This way, she didn’t even need to list the items. She could truly achieve automated production and sales!
…If I had known it would be so awesome to level up to 10, I would have rolled up my sleeves and worked hard.
The First Aid Pill had also changed from three days to one day. Now she only had two in her hand. This thing was very precious. She had wanted to use it several times on Cold Moon Island but had held back.
Now that the time was shortened to one day, it wouldn’t be so painful to use it.
The last skill, Fine Forging, did not change much. Its common quality determined its upper limit. It only increased the forging probability from 80% to 100%. It would probably be difficult for it to change in the future.
Yu Chi put Fine Forging aside and was not disappointed.
After studying the changes in her body, Yu Chi began to take stock of the materials she had obtained from the island, starting with the most precious. First was the iceberg snow lotus they had finally obtained.
【Item: Iceberg Snow Lotus
Grade: Legendary
Description: Unique to Cold Moon Island. Can solidify the soul, cleanse the marrow, and regenerate limbs (The effect is too strong. Only one petal can be consumed within three days).】
Yu Chi’s heart pounded as she read the description, even better than the effect of Zuo He playing the suona. This was the first Legendary grade spirit plant she had obtained, and its effect was indeed terrifyingly good.
She suppressed her inner excitement and carefully counted. This iceberg snow lotus had a total of 12 petals. Divided equally, each person could get four petals.
Yu Chi did not consider who had contributed more or less. Before they entered the snow mountain to look for materials, they had agreed that no matter what, all the materials they found would be divided equally, which directly avoided a lot of trouble.
Li Feng and Zuo He also did not seem like greedy and ungrateful people.
And… all the materials were in her pocket now.
Yu Chi carefully tore off the two people’s petals and put them in a box carefully.
She took out two larger boxes to hold the other materials.
Another relatively rare material was the Almost Fruit, but there were only two left. Yu Chi and the other two had each eaten one. Although this spirit fruit could increase one’s lifespan, they didn’t know if their lifespans had changed.
After asking for the opinions of the two of them, Yu Chi was temporarily in charge of cultivating this Almost Fruit. This spirit fruit was naturally seedless. She wanted to try planting the whole fruit in the ground first.
Next was the Thunder Pattern Bamboo. She had only gotten a small section of this. Following Zuo He’s reminder, Yu Chi carefully planted it in a relatively remote area and directly applied 10 elven blessings, hoping it would grow strong.
Now with the flower fairy, the probability of it growing should be even greater.
The last relatively rare spirit plant was called Spring Cold Flower.
【Item: Spring Cold Flower
Grade: Rare
Description: Each flower consumed can increase Spirit by one point.】
This thing was particularly rare, but it was not difficult to obtain. The few of them had collected it without much trouble, but they had searched the nearby area and only found 18. Divided equally, each person could get 6.
Yu Chi divided them one by one.
The effects of the remaining spirit plants were not so outstanding, such as having a good dream or temporarily increasing speed. Yu Chi divided them all according to the quantity. If a certain spirit plant could not be divided equally among the three of them, another one would be used as a substitute.
After nearly two hours of work, she had finally finished dividing them all.
The Dragon Ice Grass was collected by her and Li Feng together, and there were some other forest spirit plants. This part only needed to be divided equally between her and Li Feng.
Yu Chi didn’t plan to take advantage of the two of them in this aspect. After dividing everything according to the rules, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.
She didn’t know if those two had woken up. She sent the box containing the spirit plants directly as a gift and then came to the [Two-Sided Mirror] space.
She had said to the flower fairy before that she had a spirit plant garden, and it was not just a casual remark. The two times she went to Cold Moon Island, she had almost emptied the spirit plants there, leaving only some places in the depths of the snow mountain that she hadn’t had time to go to.
And after the [Two-Sided Mirror] had added a lot more spirit plants, it had directly expanded to two thousand square meters. It was full of all kinds of plants. At a glance, it really looked like a vibrant spirit plant garden.
One of the reasons Yu Chi didn’t care about those spirit plants was that she could plant them directly. Why bother with the quantity?
Both the [Flower Fairy] and the [Treant Guardian] liked the [Two-Sided Mirror]. Yu Chi let them play here and went out to prepare a meal first.
Yu Chi temporarily did not give Li Feng the demonic beast meat he had deposited with her. After all, that guy’s backpack was already full. In any case, it was not a problem to put it here.
She took out a piece of [Frostfeather Bird meat] and broke off 2 grains of rice from the space. The meat was roasted on the barbecue grill, and the rice was steamed in a pot.
Yu Chi swallowed countless times while waiting. Since her strength had become stronger, her appetite had also become larger. In the past, she was also respectfully called a person with a small bird’s stomach. Now, she could probably get the top few places in a big-eater competition.
The time on the light screen showed 11:32. It was just lunchtime. Yu Chi brought the roasted meat and rice to the table and opened the chat channel.
But the moment she opened it, her eyes were glued to the number in the top right corner.
When she had looked at it two days ago, there were still more than 38,000 people. Now, there were only more than 29,000 people left?!
Of course, this was partly because she hadn’t sold bandages, adhesive bandages, and other items these two days, but this change was still unusual, at least not to this extent.
Nearly 10,000 people had died!
Yu Chi’s heart sank to the bottom. She took a big bite of the rice, and suddenly it didn’t taste so delicious anymore.
However, the atmosphere in the channel was much better than she had imagined. They had probably adapted to the difficult survival environment and had begun to entertain themselves.
【I can see the end of my life…】
【Life is so tiring. I wanted to cover myself with a blanket and have a good cry, but I fell asleep, haha.】
【I’m so envious that you can fall asleep in such hot weather.】
【I just spent all my crystals. I’m looking forward to how I’ll die tomorrow~】
【I hope everyone doesn’t just talk about it. Please remember to give up.】
…
Yu Chi scrolled down casually. It seemed that everyone was depressed, but the forum, which was full of hostility, was not like this at all. Not many people were really complaining. Some were playing with memes for self-entertainment, and many were actively solving their difficulties. The atmosphere in the channel was also much more harmonious.
She opened the forum and found that in the two days she and the number one and number two on the ranking had been on the island, a player war had broken out.
The initial reason for the conflict was that the DazedFish shop was not open for business, so other life-skill players took the opportunity to raise their prices.
The players who didn’t lack these crystals swallowed their anger and bought them, but more players, who were already full of hostility because of the extreme heat natural disaster, began to curse and boycott them in various places in the channel and on the forum.
A few life-skill players in the shops, for some reason, directly united with other life-skill players and closed their shops. In any case, they were living well and wouldn’t starve to death for the time being.
This time, all the players in the channel were affected. The players’ shops were closed, so they could only go to the player trade section to look for things. But after being used to the good days of buying whatever they wanted, it was not so simple to look for things.
For a time, all kinds of disputes broke out. In this situation, no life-skill player dared to open a business alone. Under the influence of the extreme heat natural disaster, the players’ lives became more and more painful.
【SurfingTheSea】: I heard that killing people doesn’t drop skills. What a pity.
Yu Chi stared at this sentence for a long time before she slowly continued to read.
Many players were inspired by this sentence and thought that although killing people didn’t drop skills, they could threaten or intimidate other life-skill players.
At the same time, a large number of cheap teleportation items suddenly appeared on the market, as if a pillow had been sent when one was sleepy.
These teleportation items were only of the common grade. They were not stable to use, and the duration was short. The effect could be said to be very poor, but unexpectedly, many players bought them.
Yu Chi pursed her lips. She didn’t continue to read, but she could guess the general result.
No one was a winner in this player battle. Both ordinary players and players on the rankings had suffered heavy losses. Even if the effect of the teleportation items was poor, one or two ordinary players had successfully killed life-skill players.
The players on the rankings were reshuffled. The more hostile players were either dead or injured, and the rest were some relatively peaceful and Buddhist players.
They all tacitly chose to selectively forget the experiences of these two days. Their only thought was to live a good life.
In these two days, all kinds of revenge and assassinations were common. Yu Chi didn’t know why the number nine on the ranking had come to her, but the other party didn’t need to buy these cheap teleportation items.
She looked through the player trade section. These cheap teleportation items had disappeared at some point, but…
Yu Chi glanced at her ranking on the leaderboard. After reaching level 10, she had jumped from sixth to fourth.
Guessing around will kill my brain cells quickly. Yu Chi suddenly didn’t want to bother thinking about it.
She directly opened her private chat with [SurfingTheSea].
【DazedFish】: That teleportation item of yours… do you still have any?
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【Author’s Note】
Sailing Log 11:
So many, so many people have died. The fish is scared [Sobbing].
The fish is good, the wave is bad [Cat paw].