Chapter 67
◎ Deep Sea Shop ◎
A week had passed since then, and Yu Chi’s life was very regular every day.
She woke up at 5 in the morning and practiced her saber technique in the training ground on the boat—it had been less than two months since she had obtained this saber technique manual. She was still in the intermediate stage, but she was just a step away from the advanced stage.
Leveling up would only increase her attributes and physical strength, not her saber technique skills out of thin air.
After three hours of training, she would have breakfast at 8 o’clock on the dot.
Yu Chi steamed 10 meat buns for herself. Although she was not the richest, she was probably the happiest player on the sea now.
Not to mention the crops in the [Two-Sided Mirror] space, just the plants grown on the sea farm could make her self-sufficient and live a better life than most people.
And, the number of fish in the territorial sea that had recovered from contaminated creatures to normal creatures was also increasing. She could have whatever meat she wanted to eat, and even the upgrade conditions for the next time and the time after that were completed.
Yu Chi stuffed a huge meat bun into her mouth, thinking that it would be great if she could find a chef to cook for her.
She always had an inexplicable sense of urgency about improving her strength, which made it difficult for her to enjoy the pleasure of cooking. This could not go on!
After enjoying her breakfast, Yu Chi began to learn various magic spells. These magic spells were very awkward to pronounce and could not be used just by simply reading, writing, and memorizing.
There was no one else on the boat. She kept chanting the awkward elven language, and the progress of learning magic was much faster than at the beginning, but it still couldn’t reach the speed she wanted.
For lunch, Yu Chi wanted to eat meat in large bites. She would usually transform into a mermaid and jump into the sea to catch a fresh sea beast. After a simple cooking, it would be her lunch.
There was a very interesting thing. Yu Chi had killed many contaminated creatures before, but she had almost never cared about their species. Although the system would prompt her, when there were too many, she would directly turn off the prompt sound.
But after they were evolved into normal creatures, her attention to these creatures also increased. Then she found… these creatures were really strange.
Dolphins were fine, and sharks were also normal. But what were sea lions, sea tigers, and sea camels? Yu Chi couldn’t help but prop her chin on her hand and began to doubt her past memories of modern life.
Were there these? There should be, right?
She hammered her fist into her left palm and nodded seriously. Since there are these creatures, it must be normal, right? Yu Chi, who was being led more and more astray by this game, nodded in affirmation.
Today’s lunch was a sea rabbit, about as tall as a person. Yu Chi, who had already evolved into a big eater, finished it easily.
The meat was much more delicious than in real life. No matter how it was cooked, the taste would not be too bad. Most importantly, these sea beasts had energy that she could absorb. Eating these foods after training could help her quickly recover her energy.
After a delicious lunch, she would spend 5 hours in the alchemy workshop, researching and making various magic potions and forging various magic items.
Of course, this matter was not so simple. After all, countless people had been researching it their whole lives. Yu Chi didn’t care much. In the process of learning to refine magic potions, her control over magic became more and more precise.
As long as it was not a waste of time and was beneficial to her, she would work hard to do it.
Well, anyway, she would never use a floating fern to make a 2-cubic-meter cloth bag space again!
Yu Chi was not busy all day. Occasionally, she would want to rest, fish or enjoy the breeze on the deck, or turn into a mermaid to go to the bottom of the sea to collect resources—you must understand that this is not work. Collecting resources is a very happy thing.
In any case, even if all the resources in the entire territorial sea belonged to her, the feeling of something planted in the ground and something in her hand was completely different, and turning it into a crystal was another different thing.
Yu Chi: (o′▽`o)
Occasionally, she would think of Mu Gui in her spare time, not about love, nor about his identity as her ex-boyfriend, but just because to her, the other party was a very important person no matter what.
As expected, if you can be friends, you should never be together for a lifetime. Yu Chi lay on the sofa and turned the little fish on her tail ring.
This will make your future concern very struggling.
The players who were called scavengers were still on the 10th floor of the white tower, but from that day until now, there had been no news. Even the players in the channel seemed to have completely forgotten about these people who had suddenly disappeared.
New things happened every day, and the rankings had been updated countless times. So many people had forgotten who the world’s number one was at the beginning.
Perhaps they would have to wait until the next round of natural disaster. Yu Chi thought to herself, she felt that this was already the best result.
Yu Chi’s gaze looked at the distant sea calmly. It had only been three months since she had entered this game, but she always felt that it had been a long, long time.
Loneliness could sometimes be very enjoyable, but being lively was actually also very interesting.
Yu Chi opened the alliance’s group chat.
As the saying goes, three men make a play. She didn’t have to interrupt at all. These few people could make the group extremely lively, for example, now—
【GrumpyBro】: The charlatan has been swindling the world. He has no heart.
【MortalRealmLittleFairyGrass】: I did a divination for you. The wooden stick shows that you will have “a string of bad luck” today.
【GrumpyBro】: ? Looking for death?
【Mushroom No. 1】: Can someone explain for me? I’m really not a purifier. So why is an angel equated with a purifier?
【DazedFish】: Stop pretending.
【GrumpyBro】: Stop pretending.
【MortalRealmLittleFairyGrass】: Stop pretending.
【Mushroom No. 1】: .
It was probably like this. Although the messages inside were very boring every day, and there would be some inexplicable complaints, it would still be very interesting to look at them occasionally.
Except for Zuo He, the other members of the alliance had been very well-behaved this week. He had used some method to finally piss off the Federation.
After finding out that he belonged to the [Dazed Alliance], the Federation had directly issued an announcement in the world, offering a high bounty for the heads of the [Dazed Alliance] members.
[GrumpyBro] had questioned him, “Are you happy now? You’ve made the name of the Dazed Alliance famous throughout the world.”
[MortalRealmLittleFairyGrass] had replied, “Same to you.”
Even Yu Chi, when she saw the discussion about the [Dazed Alliance] in the world channel, would feel a little ashamed.
【A top 10 player on the ranking actually joined the Dazed Alliance. How should I put it? The word “dazed” reminds me of a woman.】
【It’s her, it’s her, it’s definitely her. The woman from the same district as the Grass Jelly top player.】
【I didn’t expect the two previously opposing factions to be together so harmoniously…】
【So the leader of the Dazed Alliance is actually DazedFish?】
Yu Chi: Not surprisingly, my identity was guessed so quickly.
Besides her, [GrumpyBro] was also nominated. After all, she was also a member of District 1, so the three of them had successfully been on the Federation’s bounty list.
Currently, only [Mushroom No. 1] was safe.
However, being on a bounty did not mean that they had become mortal enemies with the Federation. After all, the meaning of offering a bounty for the heads of other alliances sometimes was just: hey, the people in this alliance have something. They are not to be underestimated.
She had asked Zuo He what he had done, and the other party had said lightly that he had killed some people.
Probably some people related to his twin brother. Yu Chi didn’t care much.
“It’s finally time to do something big,” Yu Chi had the resources she had spent a lot of time organizing in her pocket and was about to set foot on the central island.
A week had passed. She needed to buy a plot of land on the central island again, and then sell the things she had prepared this week.
The central island square was still crowded with people. Countless players were coming and going. Yu Chi was using her silver-haired mermaid form this time. Since her strength had greatly increased, the mermaid could already transform into legs.
Li Feng and Zuo He had seen her Cinnabar Finch elf form, but no one had seen her mermaid form.
Yu Chi withdrew all the money from her shop, which added up to about five hundred million crystals.
If she was buying land, the money should be enough.
Yu Chi put on a mermaid mask she had bought from the system mall and walked to the black tower where the One land exchange was located. Her silver hair shone in the light of the central island’s magic lamps. With every step, the scale decorations on her ankles gently collided, making a crisp sound like a wind chime.
This was indeed an elegant and noble mermaid girl.
After arriving at the land exchange, Yu Chi called up the third district’s land transaction interface.
A translucent light screen unfolded before her eyes, and a three-dimensional map of the third district of the central island appeared. After a period of time, she had already understood that the third district was the most suitable area for trading.
The players living in the first district were all top players. The second district was a little worse, but also arrogant. The third district was the most suitable for ordinary players and the most affordable. The fourth district was a little more chaotic, and the fifth district was a famous black market.
The development direction of the central island had already taken shape, and now the development was getting more and more stable.
The price of land in the third district was one hundred thousand Purification Crystals per square meter. Yu Chi’s fingertips slid across a few red-marked plots of land and finally chose a rectangular plot in the southeast corner.
【Third District B-07 Plot】
Area: 1000 square meters
Price: 100 million Purification Crystals
Surcharge: Building permit 3 million/floor
After confirming the purchase, a series of system prompts popped up:
【109,000,000 Purification Crystals deducted.】
【Current balance: 397,450,000】
The items to be sold this time were relatively precious. Yu Chi did not plan to use the name of [DazedFish]. She would just let everyone think that she was just a standard elf lady who sold spirit plants and spirit fruits on a daily basis.
After all, the spirit herbs and spirit fruits she sold in those shops were not particularly precious. Even if it would arouse the jealousy of others, those jealous people were obviously small characters and could be completely dealt with.
But selling these things was different. If her identity was discovered, she wouldn’t have to think about training every day. Just dealing with those territorial sea wars would be enough to give her a headache.
After the purchase, Yu Chi immediately went to the huge plot of land in the third district and began to build her future shop.
【Please choose a building template.】
Yu Chi checked [Three-story composite commercial building] and chose “Palace of the Sea” from the hundreds of styles provided by the system—this was a building that combined wave curves and a crystal facade, which was more in line with her current mermaid form.
【Basic building material consumption: Moonstone x5000…】
The materials were directly deducted from the territorial sea warehouse. Yu Chi confirmed the shop name as [Deep Sea Shop].
The first floor of the shop sold spirit plants, but basically, they were all legendary grade crops, with the lowest being rare grade. In comparison, the previous [DazedPlant] was completely child’s play.
The second floor sold various magic items and potions, such as various magic scrolls and precious potions with various effects.
The third floor was a more private place. After spending a certain amount, you could talk business with the owner alone.
Yu Chi was very satisfied with her newly built shop. In the future, the more precious and not-so-easy-to-sell things could be placed in this shop, and the other slightly more ordinary items would continue to use the [DazedFish] brand.
【Construction countdown: 0:01:00】
The construction time was only 1 minute. Soon, the sound of the construction completion was heard.
The blue light that enveloped the plot of land dissipated, and in its place was a building like a crystal palace. The three-story wave-shaped dome refracted a rainbow of colors in the sunlight, and the shop name—[Deep Sea Shop]—composed of magic particles was suspended above the main entrance.
Yu Chi pushed open the large door inlaid with moonstones. The interior space was very large. The first floor was a circular hall with a height of ten meters. A five-meter-diameter circular aquarium automatically rose in the center.
Next to it were hundreds of shelf display stands, respectively used to display precious plants of different grades.
The second floor was designed as a special area for magic items. Yu Chi had specially set up twelve independent display cabinets, each with a different type of item.
The third floor was a completely private reception area. Yu Chi had arranged a soundproof barrier, an anti-divination formation, and many other things that would be used in a shop’s reception area—these did not require the shop owner to know, as long as she spent money.
Yu Chi stretched and began to transfer the items from her space to this huge shop.
First floor:
Rainbow Coral, 10 of each.
Iridescent Pearl, 10 of each grade and color.
Floating Fern x3
Holy Fire Stone x5
Saltbone Tree Leaf x10
Thunder Pattern Bamboo x10
Immortal Peach x10
…
Second floor:
Moonlight Healing Potion, 50 bottles.
Strength Enhancement Potion, 100 bottles.
Agility Enhancement Potion, 100 bottles.
Spirit Recovery Potion, 50 bottles.
Flight Potion, 50 bottles.
Transformation Potion, 50 bottles.
Holy Light Scroll x50
Fireball Scroll x50
Shield Scroll x50
Teleportation Scroll x10
…
After throwing all the results of her practice during this period into the shop, Yu Chi’s eyes curved. A potion only needed to be made once to be mass-produced, and magic scrolls could also be mass-produced.
Of course, she didn’t make them herself. Yu Chi didn’t have that much ability to make so many in one go.
Here, she had to praise the scroll fairy.
She had originally thought that the little fairy could only produce three magic scrolls a day, but she had not expected that if it was a blank scroll, there was no quantity limit, and it was only related to the consumption of Spirit.
So, as a matter of course, Yu Chi had produced quite a few scrolls with magic imprinted on them.
The quantity of the first batch of goods sold was not much, but after all, the grade was too high, and the things were relatively rare. She didn’t plan to take out too much to sell.
Yu Chi also caught a lot of fish from her own territorial sea and put them in the central aquarium on the first floor. These fish could also be sold directly. She believed that many players would be interested in them.
After arranging everything, she began to set the shop’s rules.
【The first and second floors are for free shopping. The third floor requires a capital verification to enter. Only those with an account balance of more than one hundred million Purification Crystals are allowed to enter.】
“Finally done,” Yu Chi yawned, and then issued three announcements to the world in one go.
【Server-wide announcement: “Deep Sea Shop” has officially landed in the third district of the central island. Legendary grade spirit plants are for sale for the first time.】
【Server-wide announcement: Rare space material “Floating Fern” is for sale in limited quantities. For details, please go to plot B-07 in the third district.】
【Server-wide announcement: Purification-type magic scrolls are now on the market, with a limited daily supply.】
She had never promoted her shop so extravagantly before. After all, when the [DazedFish] shop was open for business, it was just when the central island was just beginning to develop.
Without promotion, many curious players would still flock in. But now it was different. Countless shops had opened on the central island. If she didn’t spend some promotion fees, she might not have any customers for a week.
The world channel exploded after a few seconds of silence.
【Space material? Is it the space material that can be used to make space items?】
【Does anyone know this shop? Is the news reliable?】
【Purification-type magic scrolls. Could it be that this is the shop opened by the purifier who got the title?】
【Damn it, this person is definitely a player on the ranking. Who is it?!】
…
Yu Chi’s lips curled up as she looked at the reaction of the world channel. She had taken out a lot of good things this time.
Less than 1 minute after the announcement was issued, someone walked into the shop. Yu Chi had thought it was either the Federation or Yanhuang, but when she looked up, she was stunned on the spot.
Ah, why is it this guy, An Jin…
After An Jin walked in, he did not look around, but his gaze went straight to the woman next to the crystal counter. The other party had seaweed-like silver-white long hair, a mysterious mermaid mask on her face, and was tall, nearly 1.75 meters.
After seeing him, the red lips under the mask curled up, and a seductive and lazy voice sounded, “Ah, little brother is the first one.”
An Jin raised an eyebrow with interest: “The purifier?”
The woman who had let him take the blame for so long.
Yu Chi tilted her head, gently clapped her hands, and dozens of bionic people walked out. Of course, she was not interested in answering An Jin’s question. “Little brother, if you have any questions, just ask them.”
An Jin smiled brightly. The question he had just asked was not something these bionic people could answer, but he had also read the other party’s thoughts from the woman’s attitude.
Now, whether this person was a “purifier” or not was not important at all. What was important was the scroll that could purify contaminated creatures. Today, there would definitely be many people who were here for this.
“Sister, we’ll talk later.”
He tilted his head with a grin and followed the bionic people’s footsteps to the 2nd floor.
This kid seems to like to call everyone sister. Yu Chi blinked. An Jin was quite well-behaved in her alliance. She was a little confused about this person’s purpose.
However, she was sitting here to let people know of her existence and her specific image, especially the iconic mermaid mask. With a preconceived notion, she believed that others would not equate her with others.
So why haven’t the people from the big alliances come yet?
Yu Chi lay limply on the counter. Soon, the sound of many footsteps came from the door, and others began to arrive one after another.