Chapter 25
◎ Two-in-one ◎
【A day’s worth of information or a one-time rare item, choose one.】
Yu Chi stared at this sentence with a strange expression. Three seconds later, her expression turned indignant. Damn it! This guy was even colder than her.
But an item and information?
Information that could be compared to a rare item must be of high value.
Yu Chi thought for a while and finally replied: 【What do you want to know?】
The other party replied quickly this time, 【What’s on the island? How did you get there?】
Yu Chi raised an eyebrow. These two questions were not surprising. Probably everyone wanted to know right now.
【DazedFish】: Do you think your information and mine are of equal value?
【MortalRealmLittleFairyGrass】: Yes.
Yu Chi: “…”
I hate people who reply with “yes,” a thousand times over.
DazedFish: 【Fine, do you want to go first or should I?】
If it were someone else, Yu Chi might not have given the choice to the other party… so, things like rankings themselves represent a certain authority and direction.
She was also an ordinary person, so it was inevitable that she would have a filter.
But she was number one on the wealth ranking. Yu Chi proudly puffed out her chest. There should be quite a few people who had a filter for her!
【MortalRealmLittleFairyGrass】: One week after the official game starts, there will be a major natural disaster.
Yu Chi: ???
Huh?
Yu Chi’s eyes widened, staring at this sentence. She wasn’t fully prepared yet. Was it this explosive?
Her heart began to pound violently, and all sorts of bad associations began to form because of this message.
【DazedFish】: Do you know what type of natural disaster it is?
【MortalRealmLittleFairyGrass】: No.
【DazedFish】: I have a lot of good things.
In short, they could trade again.
However, [MortalRealmLittleFairyGrass] still replied with a “no.”
Yu Chi frowned in displeasure. This feeling of knowing that there would be a major disaster in the future but not being able to take accurate precautions because she didn’t know the type was really terrible!
[MortalRealmLittleFairyGrass], bad review!
Yu Chi told the other party the answers to his questions.
【DazedFish】: There are no contaminated creatures on the island, but there are many rare materials and dangerous animals.
【DazedFish】: I went there with a special item. I don’t know the normal method.
The person on the other side of the screen looked at these two messages thoughtfully. Since there were a lot of good things, it seemed that this trip was a must.
He played with the item in his hand. It was a rare-grade bound item, also a one-time use item, that could instantly transport him to a designated person’s side—the positioning item that had been mentioned in the channel before.
Now there were two choices. The first was to transport to this [DazedFish]’s side, kill him, and take the special item to go to the island.
The second was to wait until the other party entered the island next time and transport directly to the island. However, if the other party didn’t cooperate, it would be a bit troublesome.
The man lowered his eyes, a dark glint flashing in them.
Seeing no message from the other party for a long time, Yu Chi was just about to close the chat box when she saw another one pop up.
【MortalRealmLittleFairyGrass】: What good things do you have?
Is this person sick? Yu Chi wasn’t stupid. How could she tell him?
【DazedFish】: Nothing, I was just bluffing.
As for whether the other party believed this sentence… Yu Chi had already closed the chat box and naturally didn’t care.
A natural disaster.
Yu Chi sighed. Extreme cold and extreme heat were both natural disasters. However, with an automatic air conditioner in hand, these two were the ones she was least afraid of.
She turned to look at the sea, calm, vast, and endless.
But what if a tsunami came one day?
She couldn’t let this good thing trouble her alone. So Yu Chi generously opened her private message interface and sent a message to the top ten on the strength ranking and the top ten on the wealth ranking respectively.
【DazedFish】: Explosive news! Equal exchange! The offer won’t last!
As for whether the number one player had told others about the natural disaster… it wasn’t important. If you cast a wide net, you’ll always catch some fish.
Oh, this fish wasn’t referring to herself.
…
It was about nine in the evening. Yu Chi sat on a chair, fishing slowly, and saw a black shadow emerge in front of her again.
She stood up and stretched her body. To be honest, after a trip to the island, she was now very disgusted with these contaminated creatures.
Look how beautiful and appetizing they are!
And then look at yourselves. How can you sleep at night, being so ugly!
Yu Chi stretched, and a thought suddenly flashed through her mind—could it be that only the ocean in this world was polluted, and the land was still clean?
The contaminated creatures were getting closer and closer, gradually baring their fangs at her small boat.
Yu Chi’s strength was no longer what it used to be. A brilliant smile appeared on her face. She directly transformed into a mermaid and jumped into the sea, sending three monsters flying with a single whip of her tail, then put her hands on her hips and let out a silent, wild laugh (mermaids can’t speak).
【Killed Contaminated Dolphin x3】
These contaminated dolphins were level two creatures. They dropped two Contamination Crystals and a pile of miscellaneous materials.
Yu Chi was not a combat player. After seeing the other dolphins flee in panic, she swam directly back to the boat.
Fighting was far less interesting than doing business. The speed at which she obtained Contamination Crystals and EXP was too slow for her now.
However, a long period of inactivity was detrimental to her health. Yu Chi decided to treat these contaminated creatures’ attacks as her daily fixed exercise.
A healthy day starts with slaying contaminants.
At ten in the evening, Yu Chi fished up a few more interesting little items. Their levels were not high, but their effects were very satisfactory to her.
【Item: Infinite Capacity Bottle
Grade: Common
Description: Can hold an endless amount of liquid.】
【Item: Retractable Tent
Grade: Common
Description: Still worried about spending the night in the wild? Automatic retractable tent, portable and easy to carry, a good companion for home and travel.】
Yu Chi had long known that some items would come with strange ad slogans, but she still wanted to complain. This ad slogan completely failed to target the shoppers’ thoughts!
For survivors like them who were drifting on the sea, the only time they would spend the night in the wild was when they were on an island. Who would suddenly take out a tent and sleep for a night when time was so limited?
Did they think sleeping on the drifting sea was uncomfortable?
Yu Chi put the automatic tent at the bottom of her chest.
She also fished up a cute little horn!
【Item: All-Purpose Little Horn
Grade: Excellent
Description: For every question the little horn asks that you answer, you can get a piece of information, of various types, with 50% accuracy.】
Yu Chi narrowed her eyes, her interest piqued.
【Little Horn】: Who is the smartest horn in the sea?
Yu Chi: “…”
She decisively boomed: “The All-Purpose Little Horn!”
【Little Horn】: Correct.
【Little Horn】: DazedFish is about to face a life-threatening danger, but she has no idea!
Yu Chi: “?”
Okay, now she couldn’t laugh.
The little horn’s information had a 50% accuracy rate, but this kind of information couldn’t be casually dismissed as false.
Yu Chi chewed on her fingers anxiously, felt it was unhygienic, and slapped herself.
She thought back on everything that had happened since she returned from the island. The sources of danger were only two: the sea and her fellow compatriots.
She ruled out a natural disaster. After all, the message said “she has no idea.” If the danger was from a natural disaster, it wouldn’t fit with “no idea.”
Yu Chi ground her teeth and answered another question from the little horn.
【Little Horn】: How often does DazedFish take a bath at sea?
Yu Chi: “…”
Do you really have to do this at such a critical moment?
“Two days!” she replied somewhat angrily, thinking viciously in her heart, you’ve asked the wrong person. I’m not the kind of person who doesn’t like to be clean!
Most importantly, she had never lacked water (proudly).
【Little Horn】: Correct.
【Little Horn】: 20% of the people in District 1 secretly curse Yu Chi every day.
Hmm, this message should be false. Yu Chi’s expression was calm.
Next, she answered several more questions, including but not limited to—”What’s DazedFish’s favorite fruit?”, “Is DazedFish secretly very jealous of the Grass Jelly Cult’s leader?”… and other baffling questions that made her teeth itch with hatred.
Then it spat out answers like “Today’s highest temperature is 23 degrees,” “DazedFish’s strength is built on money”… and other meaningless answers that were completely irrelevant to the information she wanted to know.
Yu Chi’s mouth twitched. You’re not an All-Purpose Little Horn, you’re a Useless Little Horn!
But she also knew in her heart that it was good enough if this horn could spit out a useful piece of information occasionally. It was impossible to place all her hopes on it.
Life-threatening danger… could it be from her good compatriots?
Yu Chi narrowed her eyes. No matter what, she had to increase her strength as soon as possible.
A little later, a few level 3 contaminated creatures surrounded her small boat.
Yu Chi didn’t move at first. She wanted to see how effective the protective shield was.
The contaminated creatures rammed the small boat violently with their heads, but under the protection of the shield, the small boat was not affected at all, which made her breathe a sigh of relief.
She just didn’t know what was the highest level of contaminated creature attack the protective shield could currently withstand.
Yu Chi was not in a good mood because of what had just happened.
She quickly killed these few contaminated creatures, slowly washed her hands, and continued to fish.
She had slept all day and was not sleepy at all now. It was a good time to sort out what she needed to do next.
First was the business of her player shop, and second was upgrading her small boat. Both of these were closely related to the improvement of her own strength.
Except for the Ice Crystal Fruit Tree, the other plants in the [Two-Sided Mirror] were thriving. Yu Chi went to bestow a dozen more blessings and decided to sell a portion of the plants she had collected from Cold Moon Island.
【Moonlight Grass】: Crushing it can quickly heal wounds. Soaking the leaves in water and drinking it can relieve frostbite.
【Frostflame Flower】: Increases Spirit recovery speed by 20%.
The former’s buyback price in the system mall was 20 crystals per plant, and the latter’s was 50 per flower. The price she sold them for was naturally more expensive.
The buyback prices in the system mall would change at different times according to human needs.
After reading the description, Yu Chi had a plan. [Moonlight Grass] was not suitable for selling now. It was best to sell it during extremely cold weather to maximize the profit.
And [Frostflame Flower] was a crop that was in high demand at all times, so the price wouldn’t fluctuate too much.
Right now, there were no items for Spirit recovery on the market. Yu Chi directly set the price of [Frostflame Flower] at 1000 crystals per flower, with a purchase limit of 10.
The water purifier business she had started before had stopped after she went to the island. However, other player shops had also opened one after another in these two days. After her shop suspended business, a few other shops started selling water purifiers.
Compared to her price of 80 crystals, others were much better at doing business. They sold them at the same price as the system mall: 120 crystals—the water purifiers in the system mall were of worse quality, so players would choose to buy from the shops.
Yu Chi was not surprised by this result. Players as rich as her were a minority after all. More people would try their best to seek benefits for themselves. However, the main point of a player shop was long-term operation. If others sold them for a higher price, she could also get a lot of hidden benefits.
For example, in the future, if people wanted to buy something, and the [DazedFish] shop had it for sale, most players’ first choice would be her.
Some who were jealous, short of water, and couldn’t bear it had to curse and buy the ones that were 40 crystals more expensive. But more people chose to endure and wait for the [DazedFish] shop to start selling again.
There were more than forty thousand people, and only so few water purifiers, so these shops had also made a lot of money.
After a glance at the other players’ shops, Yu Chi refocused her attention on her own shop. Most players were selling some small gadgets, which wouldn’t affect her big business.
She put [Frostflame Flower] at the top of her sales list, then put up 100 water purifiers and all the adhesive bandages and bandages in her inventory.
She wanted to level up quickly, so she hadn’t stopped producing bandages and adhesive bandages for these few hours.
She made a set every three minutes. Now, more than four hours had passed, and she had produced another 92 bandages and 184 adhesive bandages.
She had always gone for small profits and quick turnover with these two items… well, maybe not small profits. In short, she had never set the price high. After all, they were items closely related to her own level-up EXP, so the more she sold, the better.
If all three of these items in her player shop were sold, she would earn a total of 18,824 crystals.
Plus her previous savings, she now had a total of 26,324 crystals!
After seeing the crystals in her backpack, Yu Chi’s first reaction was to open the system mall and buy the Water Repelling Pearl that she couldn’t afford before.
As the saying goes, don’t bully a young man for being poor. She had now returned in glory… this idiom didn’t seem quite right. Ignore it.
Yu Chi happily held the [Water Repelling Pearl] in her hand. It was a crystal-clear little ball that looked like a small water droplet. It would be used automatically after being crushed.
She admired the item she had been longing for in the system mall for a while, then crushed the [Water Repelling Pearl] with her fingertips.
Her body didn’t change at all. Relying on the fact that she could activate her mermaid form at any time, Yu Chi took off her clothes and jumped directly into the sea.
She subconsciously held her breath at first, then, after reacting, she tentatively breathed with her nose and found that it was unobstructed, just like breathing normally.
She could breathe in the water!
Yu Chi squinted her eyes happily. After swimming around the small boat for a while, she climbed onto the deck, dripping wet.
Breathing in the water was no less charming to her than discovering her skills for the first time. This was different from transforming into a mermaid; she was using her own body.
Speaking of which… Yu Chi wrung out her hair while drying her body with a towel and putting on her clothes. On Cold Moon Island, in an emergency, she could even directly use the skills of other forms with her human body, although the effect wasn’t as good.
However, after returning to the boat, she found that this ability had disappeared.
She just didn’t know what it was related to.
The messages she had sent to the top ten players on the rankings now had replies. Some were asking her if it was related to Cold Moon Island. After she replied that it wasn’t, they asked if she would sell information about Cold Moon Island.
Since the information had already been sold, it probably wouldn’t be long before it spread widely. It would be a waste not to earn this money.
Yu Chi traded the same information for a lot of items and crystals.
The people on the wealth ranking were rich and naturally more generous. But although everyone on the strength ranking was super strong, there were one or two top-tier poor ghosts. Just haggling with them took up a lot of her time.
【DazedFish】: If you haggle any more, I’m not selling!
【GrumpyBro】: I was just thinking we’re old acquaintances, right? Just kidding, I’ll pay now.
That’s right, this big brother who often traded with her was one of the top poor ghosts… wait, he didn’t haggle like this before.
Yu Chi suspiciously opened the wealth ranking and found his name at 18th place.
How poor could the 18th on the wealth ranking be—huh? You tell me how poor you can be?!
【GrumpyBro】: My luck isn’t very good. I just broke my boat and have to repair it later…
The other party rarely sent an explanation with some emotional intelligence. Yu Chi tutted. If his luck was really that bad, and he could still rank in the top twenty of the wealth ranking… one could imagine how strong he was.
Yu Chi reluctantly forgave him, mainly because he was an old customer. Although the transaction was voluntary on both sides, it had helped her a lot in the early stages.
Besides information about Cold Moon Island, she also traded information about the natural disaster for a lot of good things.
None of the top ten players on the rankings were short-sighted, which disappointed Yu Chi a little. She had thought she would see the plot of being looked down upon in a novel, and then she would slap their faces like crazy, ahem.
As expected, those who could reach this level were all smart people.
This time, Yu Chi mainly traded for daily necessities that couldn’t be bought from the system, such as tissues, sanitary pads, firewood, rice, oil, salt, toothpaste, toothbrushes, and some ordinary electrical appliances and furniture.
These things were no less expensive than those items on the market now.
【RedHair】: Top player, you can come to my shop to buy things in the future. I’ll be in the business of sanitary pads and tissues for a long time.
This player was now fifth on the wealth ranking. Yu Chi hadn’t seen him in the player shops just now. She didn’t know why he hadn’t opened one yet.
It was he who had just traded sanitary pads and tissues with her for these two pieces of information.
These two were definitely daily necessities. Even if humans now had skills and their strength had taken a qualitative leap compared to ordinary times, they had not yet escaped the state of being human, and they would not in the future.
Is my number one spot on the wealth ranking going to be taken away? Yu Chi suddenly became vigilant.
But she quickly relaxed. Sanitary pads and tissues could be hoarded, but bandages and adhesive bandages were used with extremely high frequency. Hmm… it couldn’t shake the position of her Dazed Cult.
Yu Chi’s expression instantly became friendly.
【DazedFish】: Okay.
Although the reply was equally noble and cold.
Yes, she had already learned the posture of the number one on the strength ranking, the leader of the Grass Jelly Cult.
Everyone’s skills were really strange. Now, even sanitary pads and tissues were being produced by someone… everything was waiting to be rebuilt. It seemed that everything was slowly developing.
Yu Chi couldn’t wait to live the life she had in the modern world.
The small boat now had all the normal daily necessities, and she no longer needed to refine sea salt from seawater to supplement her nutrition for the time being.
This feeling of starting from nothing and slowly developing was really wonderful!
Yu Chi squinted her eyes happily, revealing the beautiful dimples at the corners of her mouth.
She decided to upgrade her small boat at 12 o’clock, heralding the arrival of a new day.
And now, it was an hour away from 12 o’clock.
【FiveStarSurvivor】: Thank you for the information. Can I spread it?
Yu Chi had always been quite familiar with this ID. However, although he had entered the top 100 of both the strength and wealth rankings, his rankings were relatively low.
She had specifically found this player and sold him the information about the natural disaster for not much money.
Although she wasn’t a great saint and was occasionally a little black-hearted, she wasn’t a devil either!
This information wasn’t of much value anyway—the reason she had told this player was that she knew that with his personality, he would most likely post it on the forum.
She just hadn’t expected him to specifically ask her.
Telling the players this information might not have much effect and might even cause panic, but she believed that in these few days, the players would also quickly hoard materials and strive to grind monsters and level up… which might also reduce the death rate to a certain extent.
Yu Chi looked at the top right of the system screen. From the initial 50,000 people, it had now been reduced to 41,288, and was about to drop to 3.
【DazedFish】: Whatever.
The other party sent another “thank you.” Yu Chi didn’t bother with it.
After the items in her shop were released, they were quickly sold out and received countless positive reviews.
Many players left messages saying, 【We’ve finally been waiting for you, big brother!】
And [Frostflame Flower] was a high-end sale. Ordinary players couldn’t afford it, but at least they could afford to discuss it.
After the description above was marked out, many people were asking what Spirit was for. After scrolling through the channel and forum for a while, Yu Chi found that she was indeed far ahead of most people now.
There were also many kind-hearted people who posted the information linking Spirit to skills, which once again caused a stir in the channel.
After all, until now, most players had not obtained any skills and could only struggle to survive on the sea like ordinary people.
For them, this sea survival was not happy at all, only suffering.
A few players with ulterior motives incited trouble in the middle, and a trend of implicit opposition between ordinary players and high-level players seemed to be forming.
Yu Chi closed the chat channel and rubbed her temples.
She looked up at the night sky. There were no stars in the night in this world. Although it had only been 5 days since she had transmigrated, it always felt like a long time since she had seen the stars.
Just as Yu Chi was about to return to the cabin from the deck, she suddenly felt that the air around her seemed a little off.
The sound of the wind had changed.
She stopped in her tracks, her vigilance raised to the highest level.
The system suddenly made a “ding” sound, which was extremely clear in the silence.
【MortalRealmLittleFairyGrass】: When are you planning to go to the island next?
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【Author’s Note】
Don’t misunderstand, when it’s not hot, the fish takes a bath once a day. She washes repeatedly after going into the sea and fighting monsters (this happens after she has no shortage of water).
The fish loves to be clean, the fish is good [Pat head]