Gu Mian huddled in the blankets, and after a long while, she finally got up, trembling, and put on her clothes.

She didn't sleep well last night, so she decided to make herself a hearty breakfast to make up for it.

Turn on the food processor, randomly add ingredients such as 100g*2 flour, eggs, and corn, and you will get a corn tart with egg yolk after one minute.

[Egg Yolk Corn Crisp: Increases satiety by 20 points and maximum health by 150 for 9 minutes after consumption.]

[New recipes have been added.]

Ah, this...

Since it's a food that increases maximum health, it's not suitable to eat it for breakfast casually.

However, you can make several more and keep them in your backpack for later use.

Continue to randomly add ingredients: 100g pork, 1 vegetable, and 200g rice. After one minute, you will get a serving of mixed shumai.

[Assorted Shumai: Increases satiety by 20 points after consumption, increases lumber resource critical strike chance by 10%, lasts for 9 minutes.]

A serving of assorted shumai contains 6 pieces. After finishing one serving, drinking a glass of milk will give you the perfect feeling of fullness.

"I'm so full~" Gu Mian patted her round belly and let out a long burp.

The weather is terrible today; it's been gloomy outside the whole time, and it looks like it could rain at any moment.

So, Gu Mian decided to give up fishing for boxes and instead explore Moon Island.

Before going to the island, she put the purification potions she opened yesterday on the market. She has too many in stock now, and one person can't use them all. It's better to exchange them for supplies.

The only item traded is a purification stone; one purification potion can be exchanged for one purification stone.

Although I don't know where the purification stones will come in handy, it's always good to stock up on them.

With everything prepared, Gu Mian opened her personal panel and clicked the island icon to begin teleporting.

[You have been transported to a heavily polluted area. Your pollution level increases by one point per minute.]

? ? ?

Before she even opened her eyes, she heard the system notification sound, which startled Gu Mian so much that she opened her eyes instantly.

She was standing on a steep rock, surrounded by water on three sides, with only dark earth behind her.

"This soil is such an eerie black color," Gu Mian muttered to herself as she jumped off the rock.

What's with the pollution level increasing by a little bit every minute?

Doesn't that mean she can only stay on this island for a maximum of one hour before she has to teleport away?

A thick fog blanketed the island, obscuring everything beyond a certain distance.

Gu Mian stood there, feeling a sense of unease about the island, and hesitated to explore it further.

Oh, right!

Didn't she get a purification stone yesterday?

I didn't know where I could use it before, but now it's a good time to take it out and try it out.

Gu Mian took out a purification stone from her backpack and tentatively placed it on the ground.

The next second, the system's cold, mechanical voice sounded: "Contaminated soil detected. Current status: Can be purified. Purify the current soil?"

It really works!

Gu Mian exclaimed with delight, "Purify!"

A flash of white light appeared, and the soil, which was originally eerily black, began to fade visibly, eventually turning into the dark brown that Gu Mian remembered.

"Purification complete. Current soil condition: ready for planting."

Does this mean that the soil on this island can only be used for planting after it has been purified?

Gu Mian looked at the vast expanse of land in front of her, and her vision went black for a moment. How long would it take her to collect enough purification stones to purify the entire island?

As for not purifying anymore, that's impossible.

Without purifying the entire island, she simply couldn't stay here for long with this level of pollution.

She couldn't stay adrift at sea forever; as an inlander, she was used to living on land.

Yesterday, a total of 6 purification stones were obtained, and Gu Mianquan used them to purify 6 square meters of soil.

Compared to the vast expanse of black next to it, the area of ​​brown was pitifully small, making Gu Mian shake her head in disbelief.

Just as we were halfway through shaking the machine, the black soil in front of us suddenly split open from the middle, and a strangely shaped insect, more than a person tall, crawled out of it.

[Mutant Beetle: Tier 2 Contaminant, Health 1000, Attack 100, Speed ​​30, Defense 300.]

Holy crap!

This data is absolutely insane!

As soon as the beetle emerged from the soil, it brandished its two extremely long forelegs and lunged at Gu Mian's head.

"Damn! That was fast!" Gu Mian dodged the attack in a sorry state.

Before he could catch his breath, the beetle's forelegs lunged at him again.

The attack targeted Gu Mian's eyes, but Gu Mian quickly turned to the right and narrowly avoided it again.

"Squeak squeak squeak!"

The beetle let out a nasty cry, raised its two forelegs, and plunged them downwards again.

Sweating profusely, Gu Mian retreated to the side again, her eyes fixed on the beetle as it opened its sharp mouthparts and emitted a piercing "squeak."

No, we can't keep hiding like this. If we keep dragging this out, she'll eventually run out of energy and get pierced by the beetle's forelegs. We need to find an opportunity to fight back!

While dodging the beetle's attacks, Gu Mian took out a long whip from her backpack, attempting to fight back.

It took several attempts before the whip finally struck the beetle on the back.

[Health -50]

Hit it!

It just so happened that I hit the beetle's hardest part, its back, which is why it only lost 50 health points...

The beetle became even more enraged after being attacked on its back!

"Squeak squeak squeak!"

The beetle roared angrily and, with even greater speed than before, wildly swung its forelegs at Gu Mian.

"Aww!"

Gu Mian cried out in pain, unable to dodge the attack. The beetle's foreleg pierced her shoulder, and she was then thrown heavily to the ground.

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