Chapter 74
◎ Don’t Know What to Name It ◎
It hadn’t been long since the last upgrade. Yu Chi had originally wanted to prepare more fully, but Mu Gui’s unexpected disappearance made her very uneasy.
It was a disappearance, not a death.
He couldn’t have died so easily and silently.
Yu Chi firmly believed this.
All the conditions for upgrading the territorial sea were met, and the ocean crystals were also provided by Yanhuang. As for combat preparations…
Yu Chi opened her character level.
【Name: DazedFish
Player Status: Official Player
Level: 35
HP: 4000 (Stamina x20)
Skills: First Aid (Excellent), Morph (Rare), Fine Forging (Common), Danger Perception (Excellent), Space Blade (Legendary)
Stats: Strength (4→62) Agility (6→83) Stamina (5→200) Spirit (11→123) Luck (8) [Fixed]】
Compared to before, the increase in her stamina was very frightening. Players of the same level had a maximum of 3000 HP. Yu Chi knew very well that this was because she had eaten the Star Mushroom.
The Star Mushroom was a spirit plant she had obtained on Giant Island, which could directly increase a player’s stamina. Except for the ones used for cultivation by the little flower fairy, she had drunk all the other Star Mushrooms in a soup.
A level two territorial sea, and even a level three territorial sea, besides the basic conditions, also required the player’s level to reach 35.
Now that all the conditions were met, Yu Chi could upgrade at any time, but thinking of the contamination tide, she still decided to make some preparations first.
It was still the four directions of east, south, west, and north, but the silver wolf had become a cub and could not fight. Yu Chi began to think about whether to buy some combat robots and directly use a human (machine) sea tactic.
Then she saw Little Seven slowly pass by, holding a cup of coffee in his hand.
Little Seven was mainly helping her refine potions now. After having a complete recipe, this was not difficult for a robot, so he had been living a very leisurely life recently.
Yu Chi narrowed her eyes. “Little Seven, can you fight?”
The handsome man with golden hair and blue eyes in front of her stopped, turned his head, and glanced at her. “I’m an all-purpose robot.”
Meaning that fighting was not a problem. Yu Chi’s eyes lit up. She immediately went over and bumped Little Seven’s arm with her shoulder. “Then, as a legendary grade robot, what level of player are you equivalent to?”
“60,” Little Seven said reservedly.
“So strong!” Yu Chi excitedly circled around him. She hadn’t expected a master to be right by her side. “I didn’t expect you to be so strong… I should have let you fight the scavenger that night.”
As she spoke, she touched her nose with some frustration. The scavenger’s level was 52, but their levels were all around thirty or forty. And the other party had that strange power. It was normal that they couldn’t beat him.
But Little Seven was actually level sixty, which meant that if Little Seven had been on the field, they wouldn’t have been in such a sorry state yesterday.
…Forget it. After all, that was also very precious combat experience, and after such a fight, everyone’s relationship had become much better.
“If the master chooses to open the combat mode, I can continue to level up,” Little Seven said.
Little Seven’s expression was always faint when he spoke, but Yu Chi, who had been with him for so many days, had long understood that although he did not express his emotions, as a legendary grade robot, he clearly had his own consciousness.
This was an existence that was more like a person than a bionic person. Basically, there was no difference in accompanying a person, which was also the reason why Yu Chi did not feel uncomfortable with him.
However, the highest command in Little Seven’s mind was still to obey her orders, so he was a very reliable and trustworthy partner.
“You help me fight, and today I’ll allow you to eat 10 ice creams. How about it?” Yu Chi said seductively.
Little Seven had his own personal hobbies, such as his sweet tooth, and for another, he would drink a cup of afternoon tea at three in the afternoon every day—it was best not to disturb him during this period, otherwise he would become very low-spirited.
It would make all the little robots tremble with fear. Ah, actually, Yu Chi was also a little scared.
Hearing Yu Chi’s words, Little Seven’s blue eyes obviously lit up. He nodded calmly and began to answer his master’s questions about the combat mode.
Little Seven: “In normal mode, the EXP from killing monsters will be superimposed on the master. In combat mode, it will be superimposed on myself.”
Concise and clear. Yu Chi immediately opened the combat mode.
The sale of bandages and adhesive bandages worldwide could completely make up for the EXP Little Seven gained from injuring contaminated creatures. Of course, she would not be greedy for such a small amount.
With Little Seven here, Yu Chi immediately began to arrange the defense. She was still in charge of the south, the treant was in charge of the west, the small boat was in charge of the north, and Little Seven was in charge of the east.
“If you have any spare energy, please help your little boat partner,” Yu Chi held Little Seven’s hand and asked seriously.
Little Seven: “I won’t let it die.”
Yu Chi gave a thumbs up.
In addition, Yu Chi stood on the deck and called up the holographic territorial sea map, and began to adjust the position of the defense towers. Originally, after the territorial sea was upgraded to level 2, she had gotten 4 defense towers. During this time, she had also bought three more defense towers from the reputation value mall one after another.
【Sea Defense Tower
Attack range: 1000-meter radius
Attack power: Equivalent to a full-strength attack of a level 20 player
Energy source: Contamination Crystals】
The defense towers bought from the reputation value mall were obviously of a higher grade than the ones given by the system. Yu Chi took out a defense tower upgrade stone and upgraded all the other 4 lower-grade defense towers by one level.
The upgrade stones from level one to level two were relatively easy to buy, but the upgrade stones for later levels were rarer.
There were 7 defense towers, and the diameter of each was 2km. Although it was a bit insignificant for her 110km territorial sea.
Yu Chi focused these 7 defense towers on the north, which was the responsibility of the small boat. The purification towers were still in charge of purifying the creatures in the four directions of east, south, west, and north.
She had no clue about the upgrading of the purification towers, so she could still only purify creatures below level 10.
Next was the elf’s domain. The little flower fairy flew out of the [Two-Sided Mirror space and at the same time, took out a handful of seeds. This was the [Iron Thorn] that could be planted on the sea.
Or to put it another way, she was not planting it on the sea, but it could float on the sea. The Iron Thorn not only had a strong attack power, but was also corrosion-resistant, which was very effective against contaminated creatures.
She had the silver wolf cub accompany the little flower fairy and planted the seeds of the [Iron Thorn] in every corner of the territorial sea border. In fact, she had quite a few seeds with strong attack power, but most of them could not float on the sea, which made it difficult for them to play a role in the territorial sea contamination tide.
Thinking of this, Yu Chi suddenly moved her gaze to the boat. Since she couldn’t plant it on the sea, it shouldn’t be a problem to plant it on the deck, right?
Her eyes lit up. The little flower fairy had gone to do her work. She went directly to the Two-Sided Mirror to look for attack seeds.
All the attack-type seeds were placed in the same place by the little flower fairy. Besides special cultivation, the Two-Sided Mirror space did not need the planting of attack-type seeds.
And most of the attack-type seeds would grow extremely fast as long as they entered the soil, which was also to match their attack characteristics.
“Let’s start with the most basic…” Yu Chi took down a transparent jar labeled [Exploding Flame Flower] from the cabinet. Through the glass, she could see twenty crimson, fire-like seeds inside. She had experienced the power of this seed. One could blow up a level twenty contaminated creature.
The level of the jellyfish last time was basically between five and eight. She predicted that the level of the first wave of contamination tide this time would not be too high either. This Exploding Flame Flower seed was very suitable for clearing small monsters.
Yu Chi placed a small flowerpot in all directions of the small boat. After detecting a contaminated creature approaching, the Exploding Flame Flower would directly explode.
As for the small boat, with the protective shield, this bit of explosion should not cause any overall damage to the boat… right?
Let’s apologize first, my boat partner!
Next was the [Ice Thorn Vine] seed. These seeds were as crystal clear as ice cubes. After being planted on the deck, the air temperature instantly dropped by more than ten degrees, and the area around the planting point even began to freeze.
Yu Chi rubbed her arms and put on a furry cloak.
The Ice Thorn Vine could directly freeze a contaminated creature, but its freezing was not ordinary freezing, but a slow freezing from the inside out. These frozen contaminated creatures would die directly in the internal freezing.
The attack power was very strong, but the disadvantage was that it took too long. It might be hit by a contaminated creature’s punch and not have time to freeze it. This was not a problem in a group battle.
The last one was the [Thunderlight Dandelion] found on Giant Island.
These golden seeds looked very beautiful and were packed in an anti-static transparent jar. Yu Chi had to wear insulated gloves to take them out—there were tiny electric arcs on the surface of the seeds, and they would make a crackling sound with a light touch.
Dandelion seeds were very suitable for long-range attacks. They would automatically fly to the vicinity of a contaminated creature and strike with a bolt of lightning. Basically, each hair was a bolt of lightning. One could imagine how much damage these dandelions could do.
As soon as Yu Chi planted it, a wisp of golden light broke through the soil, and it quickly grew into a huge dandelion as tall as two people. She moved a little farther away—after all, when she had gotten the Thunderlight Dandelion at that time, she had suffered a lot.
There were actually quite a few attack seeds in the space. She had harvested a lot of spirit plants from the Elf King and Giant Island. If it weren’t for the little flower fairy, just sorting out these plants would have taken her all day.
Even she didn’t quite know what was in the Two-Sided Mirror. For example, the [Almost Fruit] had been directly forgotten by her in a corner. This couldn’t be helped. Even a rich person couldn’t remember every single one of their treasures.
Yu Chi put her hands on her hips!
In the end, she only took out the above three plants. These three were the most convenient for group attacks, and too many types were not necessarily a good thing.
After arranging everything, Yu Chi nervously filled the defense towers and purification towers with energy. It was not until everything was ready that she slowly breathed a sigh of relief.
The sea was very calm now. It wouldn’t be long before a dark cloud appeared. It was hard to say what the attack power would be, but the scene was indeed very stressful.
Yu Chi stood on the edge of the deck, the sea breeze blowing her hair into a mess. She checked the system interface again. After confirming that all the upgrade conditions were met, she directly clicked on the territorial sea upgrade.
【Do you want to upgrade your territorial sea to level 3?】
【Warning: A contamination tide will be triggered during the upgrade process.】
Yu Chi clicked “Confirm” without hesitation. In an instant, the entire sea surface trembled violently.
They never give me any preparation time. She pouted, spread her elf wings, and flew to the south.
On the distant sea level, dark clouds were gathering at a visible rate. A black line appeared and quickly turned into tens of thousands of contaminated creatures.
【Contaminated Sea Frog】
Countless sea frogs suddenly jumped out of the sea. Their skin was a strange mottled color, with various colors mixed together, and their heads were covered with pustules. Even their eyes had become strange and misshapen, cloudy and white, but covered with a layer of gloom.
“Ugh…” Yu Chi couldn’t bear to look and turned her eyes away, feeling that she had been hurt again.
She directly swung a space blade, and in the blink of an eye, thirty or forty sea frogs were all cut in half.
This move is so cool.
Yu Chi’s lips curled. After the battle with the scavenger, she had gained a lot of insight into fighting. She transformed into a Cinnabar Finch and flew into the air, constantly spitting flames at the sea surface.
Although the Cinnabar Finch’s attack would be greatly discounted on the sea, she also found that these undersea creatures were very afraid of fire. After clearing all the level 10 or so sea frogs in the air, Yu Chi went to the other directions to take a look.
The silver wolf cub had slipped out at some point and was squatting on the treant, howling. It was probably commanding. Yu Chi smiled and did not force it to go back.
The small boat on the other side was also completely fine. The continuous attacks of the 7 defense towers and the three attack plants almost left no room for the boat to play… Yu Chi was worried about being affected, so she took a look from a distance and then went to Little Seven’s side.
Wow, this side was the real fierce one.
Little Seven stood leisurely on the speedboat, and there was not a single sea frog alive around.
“Master,” he nodded at her as a greeting. Yu Chi showed a subtle smile, so strong that she was a little jealous of his leisure at this moment.
The contaminated sea frogs were very numerous and were constantly rushing towards the sea level. The battle lasted for more than two hours before it ended. However, during this period, not a single barrier was damaged. Compared to the last contamination tide, this time there was indeed a significant improvement.
After observing the losses in all directions, Yu Chi became extremely relieved and decided to focus on her own battlefield.
After resting for a few minutes, the second wave of contaminated creatures came again.
Yu Chi looked up, and a dozen or so huge water bags suddenly bulged on the sea surface. With a series of muffled sounds, the water bags exploded, revealing the twisted creatures inside—they were a dozen or so half-fish, half-human monsters. Their upper bodies were covered in scales, but their lower bodies were like human legs, but their knees were bent backwards, and their feet had become webbed.
【Deep Sea Hunter lv25】
What made Yu Chi’s scalp tingle the most was that these monsters were actually holding rusty fish harpoons and tridents, and suspicious green liquid was dripping from them.
What the hell is this… Yu Chi let out a breath. This is a long time coming.
“Isn’t it the master’s kinsman?” Little Seven said with a blank expression from behind.
They had already returned to the deck during the break. Yu Chi’s face was ferocious as she looked at Little Seven. “Impossible, absolutely impossible!”
It’s too much to say that these monsters are mermaids!
A mermaid is clearly the upper body, and the lower body is a human tail. These guys are the other way around, okay?
“Oh, so they’re fishmen,” Little Seven said as if he had understood something.
Yu Chi didn’t care what he had understood. She secretly rolled her eyes at him and flapped her wings to fly to her south.
The second wave of contaminated creatures was not as easy to deal with as the first wave. After all, they were fishmen who could even use weapons.
The iron thorns on the edge of the barrier were useless against these fishmen. Yu Chi had long expected this. She held her bow and arrow, narrowed her eyes, and rushed towards the group of fishmen. Soon, she found that these monsters not only could use weapons, but also could emit a piercing sound wave attack.
Every time the sound wave came, her head would hurt as if it had been hit by a heavy hammer.
“Tsk,” Yu Chi moved a little farther away, stood in the air, drew her bowstring, and directly shot three fishmen. Their bodies exploded on the sea, and black blood spurted out.
At the same time, she swung three thunder pattern bamboos with her other hand, blowing up the other three fishmen next to her.
These fishmen were indeed quite interesting, but as long as she didn’t get close, it wasn’t a big problem. Yu Chi thought to herself and directly put on a pair of earplugs to completely block the sound waves.
These sound waves, in the end, only worked on her and the silver wolf. Needless to say, the small boat, Little Seven was a robot, and the treant was not sensitive to this at all.
It was a relatively powerful move, but it was a pity.
Yu Chi swung her space blade, and at the same time, she held her Frost Blade and swooped down to cut a fishman’s neck. Her speed was extremely fast, and when the other fishmen attacked, she flew into the air again.
With the last swing of her space blade, a silver-white light blade cut across the sea, killing all the remaining fishmen.
Actually, besides the blade and the explosion, there were some special ways to use the space blade. When Yu Chi was practicing this skill, she found that it could directly form a vacuum environment and wrap a person’s head in it.
It was not very effective against these contaminated creatures, but all players had to breathe. Yu Chi decided to practice the vacuum ball well.
Of course, if the strength difference between her and another player was too great, it wouldn’t work either. For example, the scavenger from that day, she had no chance to wrap his head in a vacuum ball at all.
The third wave of contamination tide was a huge boss, the Abyssal Sea Serpent, level 45, 5 levels higher than last time.
“Don’t attack. Let me do it,” Yu Chi stopped Little Seven, who was about to attack. Every battle, whether it was clearing small monsters or fighting a boss, would give her some harvest.
When clearing small monsters, it could make her use of skills very smooth. She could seamlessly switch between various forms and use the abilities of various forms very smoothly. And this aspect of her ability was also used by her when she was fighting a boss.
Not to mention fighting a boss. Fighting a creature with a higher level than herself was a challenge in itself. Yu Chi occasionally felt that she was getting farther and farther away from a life-skill player, but this game itself did not have a pure life-skill player.
She had no idea what the system would do. For example, the scavenger who had broken her peaceful life yesterday… she had to become stronger and stronger.
Yu Chi took a deep breath and spread her elf wings, hovering in the air above the sea. She held her Frost Blade tightly in both hands, and a faint blue light appeared on the blade. The Abyssal Sea Serpent raised its huge head, and its purple vertical pupils stared at this tiny elf.
“Come on, ugly guy,” Yu Chi was full of fighting spirit. She dived down. The sea serpent opened its bloody maw and spat out a cloud of dark green poisonous fog. Yu Chi was prepared. She instantly switched to her mermaid form and nimbly dived into the sea.
The poisonous fog condensed into a strange green cloud on the sea, but Yu Chi had already swum to the sea serpent’s abdomen and directly stabbed at the lighter-colored scale with her Frost Blade.
She had fought with many sea serpents before. Although this sea serpent had become bigger and its level had become higher, its weakness had not changed.
“Hiss—” The sea serpent let out a painful hiss, and its huge body twisted frantically. Yu Chi was sent flying, and she rolled a few times in the air before she stabilized herself.
Little Seven stood on the deck and frowned. He saw that the sea serpent’s tail was whipping towards his master at an astonishing speed. At the critical moment, Yu Chi instantly switched forms and activated her space blade.
The silver-white light blade accurately chopped on the snake’s tail, but only left a shallow wound. The impact of the snake’s tail still sent her into the sea.
She spat out a mouthful of bloody foam and surfaced, just in time to see the sea serpent open its giant mouth to bite her.
“Shield!” Yu Chi hastily cast a spell, forming a shield in front of her. The sea serpent’s fangs hit the shield, making a piercing sound of friction.
The shield soon cracked. Yu Chi knew that it wouldn’t last long. She gritted her teeth, and her eyes suddenly flashed—since a frontal attack was useless, then she would break through from the inside!
The shield spell dissipated in the air. The moment the sea serpent was about to bite her, she directly returned to her elf form and flew into the sea serpent’s mouth!
Little Seven on the deck watched this scene silently. Thinking of what Yu Chi had said before, he restrained his urge to go forward and save his master.
The inside of the sea serpent was pitch black and filled with corrosive slime. Yu Chi’s skin began to burn with pain. She endured the discomfort and fumbled forward in the snake’s belly.
Worried about being corroded in advance, she cast two Holy Lights on herself, but just as the light of the Holy Light shone, the scene in the snake’s belly was presented to her.
Yu Chi narrowed her eyes, steadied herself, and went straight towards his target. After walking for a while, she finally touched a beating organ—this was the sea serpent’s heart.
She raised her Frost Blade without hesitation and activated her space blade at the same time.
“Boom!”
A violent explosion erupted from inside the sea serpent. Yu Chi was sent flying by the shockwave and was spat out of the snake’s mouth. She rolled in the air and was steadily caught by Little Seven.
“Reckless,” Little Seven looked down at his master. His blue eyes showed no emotion, but the faint reproach in his words made Yu Chi stunned for two seconds.
“Aiya,” she grinned, raised her hand, and rubbed Little Seven’s golden hair. “It’s okay. With you here, there’s no danger.”
For a level 60 Little Seven, dealing with this boss was really easy.
Little Seven nodded reservedly, looked back at the exploded sea serpent, and carried his master back to the deck.
After a battle, her HP had dropped by about 2000 points. Yu Chi lamented how worthless HP was and used Holy Light to heal the wounds on her body.
She found that as long as she didn’t encounter an enemy that was too much stronger, with the support of Holy Light and a spirit recovery potion, she could wear down the other party.
【Territorial sea upgrade complete!】
Yu Chi happily waited for the settlement. She hadn’t forgotten Li Feng’s milk tea shop in his territorial sea. She didn’t know what kind of building her territorial sea would add this time.