“Torrential Rain Season?! Gale Season?! Nooooo!!! I’m still soaking in my foot basin! System, are you messing with me?!”
“No way, Jiaopen Jie is still soaking in her foot basin? Didn’t she collect materials to expand these past two days?”
“How do you know her expanded vehicle isn’t just a bigger foot basin?”
“Calm down! My yacht has a sealed cabin! Wind and rain protection are minor issues! It’s just that the main engine’s lubricant is almost oxidized. Does anyone have spare marine lubricant? When the Trading House opens, I’ll trade ice-cold cola for it!”
“Seriously, cola for lubricant? How many peanuts did you have to drink that much?”
“Everyone! The cycle season might be accompanied by extreme temperature changes! When stockpiling supplies, remember to include items for keeping warm, staying cool, and most importantly, freshwater! Freshwater is always the most crucial!”
“I strongly suspect you might have some kind of freshwater filtration device, which is why you’re creating anxiety here, trying to drive up the price of freshwater!”
“What device do you need for freshwater filtration? Just make a crude one manually once you find a fire source or a lighter.”
“I’m sorry to tell you, manually filtered freshwater will have various negative debuffs. At best, it might just be a stomach ache; at worst, it will lead to diarrhea and dehydration. Dehydration at sea, I don’t need to tell you the consequences.”
“Actually, any manually made tech item comes with debuffs. I built a campfire using professional wilderness survival techniques before, and it never went wrong, but this time I almost burned the boat down.”
“That’s so messed up?! Won’t the price of freshwater skyrocket once the Trading House opens?!”
“Is that true or false? You guys aren’t trying to trick us honest folks, are you?”
“Hahaha! It’s time for me, the Chosen One, to make my appearance! Today I killed another sea snake, and it dropped a coral stone for me, directly unlocking the freshwater filtration device tech! Tomorrow, I’ll mass-produce freshwater and make a huge fortune!”
“No, Chongfeng Ge, no one knew about it before, but now that you’ve said it, everyone knows coral stone can unlock the freshwater filtration device. Who’s going to buy your freshwater then?”
“Didn’t the item description for coral stone say it only spawns in coral reefs? It didn’t say sea snakes could drop it 【coral stone】.”
“Ah! My spawn point is in a coral reef area! It’s so big, I’ve been sailing for almost two days and haven’t seen the end of it! I thought it was everywhere and couldn’t be anything good, so I didn’t want to waste stamina digging for it. I didn’t expect it to be a good thing! Brothers, wait for me, tomorrow I’ll get one for each of you!”
“Ooh yeah! Shanhu Ge, long live!”
“Shanhu Ge, long live!”
“Shanhu Ge, awesome!!! (Voice cracking)”
The regional channel’s comments weren’t as panicked and mournful as expected, or perhaps the fear of the unknown future was largely dispelled by the talented remarks in the chat area.
When it comes to resilience, optimism, and unyielding tenacity, few countries’ people can probably compare to China.
Following Chongfeng Ge and Shanhu Ge, others in the chat area also shared various pieces of information. Although none were as significant as the freshwater filter, Chen Mo still diligently noted down the most useful ones.
He didn’t waste his time tonight either, swinging his fishing net and loudly scooping up trash from the sea.
His luck was average today; the novice supply box only dropped three expired small bread rolls and a bottle of not-so-clean mineral water. With plenty of food, he didn’t plan on eating them.
After fishing until his stamina was almost depleted, Chen Mo returned to the palm leaf bed on the driftwood platform and fell into a deep sleep.
The sun rose in the east.
Dawn broke.
【Regional Weather Report】
Time: Standard Time 06:00
Temperature: 20°C
Today’s Recommendation: Calm seas, suitable for sailing, salvaging, and fishing.
Because he was thinking about the Trading House opening at eight o’clock today, Chen Mo got up early to reserve enough time for fishing.
Little Turtle was still sailing at a steady pace, paddling with his front flippers at the yellow rubber duck in front of him, having a great time.
“Good morning, Little Turtle!”
“Ow-ow!”
Chen Mo gnawed on the unappetizing but life-sustaining last piece of compressed biscuit and brought up the system interface.
The chat area scrolled slowly, indicating that most people were still asleep.
Scrolling further down, the system, which originally had only five pages, now had a sixth and seventh page.
The sixth page was still loading, presumably corresponding to the Trading House function opening at eight.
The seventh page was a newly opened function.
【Quest Module】
【Daily Quests:
1. Clean the deck (Reward: 2 shell coins; Refresh cost: 1 coin)
2. Accumulate 5 messages in the regional channel (Reward: 2 shell coins; Refresh cost: 1 coin)
3. Accumulate 30 salvaged items (Reward: 2 shell coins; Refresh cost: 1 coin)
4. Accumulate 10 fishing attempts (Reward: 4 shell coins; Refresh cost: 2 coins)
5. Special Quest: Salvage trash from the shallow sea area at a depth of 30-150 meters. Everyone is responsible for protecting the marine environment. (Reward: 100 shell coins; Refresh cost: 20 coins)】
Daily quests?
Isn’t this a typical routine for domestic mobile games to maintain daily activity?
Completing all daily quests would yield 110 coins, and shell coins were probably the common currency in this world.
Chen Mo opened the regional chat and took a look:
“What the heck!! If you don’t want us to get full rewards, just say so! What’s with that special quest? Do you want me to dive with a wooden plank?!”
“Does any big shot know what shell coins are?”
“Ee-ee-ee-ah-ah-woo.”
“!@#$%...&**”
“Damn it! The reward for Quest 5 is ten times the previous rewards! Is this reasonable? Can any big shot dive at this stage?”
“Don’t even mention it. My vehicle can unlock the diving function, but the materials required are a fantasy at this stage! I estimate this special quest can only be completed by someone in the mid-game or even late-mid-game.”
“Usagi! Here!”
“Woo-ee-ee-ah-ee-woo-ee-ee-ah”
“Seriously, you guys who are spamming quests, can you at least post something useful! Constantly sending garbled text really affects normal communication!”
“Useful stuff.”
“I’m really fed up!”
Chen Mo quickly scanned it and then closed the entire interface.
Immediately after.
His mouth curved into a grin.
His face instantly showed wild joy!
He didn’t know how many people could use Gui Xu Submersible at this stage, but Little Turtle could!
He was wondering what the Gui Xu Submersible was for, and now it had come!
Yesterday, Little Turtle’s hunger was 88%. After one night, it probably rose to 96%. Today, if he fishes a bit more and then activates Gui Xu Submersible, his hunger will at most return to 99% tomorrow.
That’s enough!
If not, he could fish more today and even feed Bull shark meat!
While most people could only get 6 coins a day, he could get a full 110 coins a day!
Directly leading by more than ten times!
Chen Mo stopped wasting time, swallowed the compressed biscuit in two bites, pulled out his fishing rod, and started fishing immediately.
Fortunately, he was farsighted and went to bed two hours early yesterday, otherwise, waking up today with everything piled up would have been really hard to deal with.
Chen Mo no longer looked at the chat area, his eyes fixed on the fishing line, afraid of missing any bite.
The krill he caught on the first day were all put into a 750ml empty fruit can to be raised. There were still a dozen or so broken seaweeds without krill in the fresh-keeping storage box. He was not short of bait at all now, and he strung three krill directly onto one hook.
The speed of catching fish was even faster than yesterday.
On the tenth cast, he even caught a fish as big as Little Turtle’s shell!
【Obtained: Sunfish that flipped over (Green Quality)】
【Description: It’s a bit ugly, but the meat yield is absolutely guaranteed. However, the texture is said to be very much like snot?】
Little Turtle showed considerable disdain for this incredibly ugly fish, but in the face of hunger, taste could only take a back seat.
He extended the sharp claws hidden in his front flippers, hooked the sunfish, and in two or three bites, gnawed the fish down to just bones. During this, he didn’t even dare to chew, swallowing it all whole. After eating, he even gagged for a while.
Chen Mo watched with a heavy heart, quickly pulled out a can of herring from the food box, and handed it over to Little Turtle to help with the taste.
Little Turtle sniffed it closely.
“Ow-ow-ow!!!”
Murdering turtles!!!
Chen Mo laughed so hard he almost couldn’t hold his fishing rod.
“Just kidding, how could I feed you poop?”
He reeled in his line again.
“Catch!”
The apple-shaped fish arced beautifully through the air and was steadily caught in Little Turtle’s mouth.
“Ow~”
【Xuanwu (Juvenile Stage) Hunger: 90.2% → 90%】
“That’s enough.”
Chen Mo reeled in his line and checked the time.
07:50.
He took off the sunglasses on his nose and put on the Bull Shark helmet that dropped from the Bull Shark.
Gripping the fishing net with one hand.
“Gui Xu Submersible.”
“Activate!”