Chapter 5 The water purifier speaks in a strangely pleasant tone.

Automatically skipping over some of the annoying ones, Chen Dixin saw familiar IDs and replied to a few of them.

AAA Materials Wholesaler Lao Shen: @A loud bang in the sky, to directly turn materials into items you need to repair the workbench, which will be available when upgrading a ship to level one.

AAA Materials Wholesaler Lao Shen: @Did you dilute the Meng Po soup? Are you selling the blueprints? I'll sell you one first once it's made.

As soon as Shen Dixin offered his guidance, the chat messages instantly jumped from sporadic to a flurry of messages, some thanking the expert, others asking for more tips—a mixed bag.

However, Shen Dixing was already used to all of this. She switched directly to the private chat interface, and Meng Po soup had already sent her several messages.

The Meng Po soup must have been diluted: Hey boss, how much are you offering for the blueprints? I can't make it right now, so can you give me a fair price and I'll sell it to you?

The attached blueprint description is also included. It is of blue quality and requires 4 charcoal, 4 planks, 2 plastic, 2 stones, and 1 rope.

The Meng Po soup must have been diluted: Boss, if you make me one, I can ask for a smaller amount if you don't charge a handling fee.

Sure enough, with just one basic attack from the opponent, Meng Po Tang hurriedly used up all her ultimate skills.

After all, for players these days, it takes two or three days to gather materials to level up!

By the time the workbench is finished, the daylily buds will be cold!

Meng Po Tang had a clear idea: if she had a water purifier, she wouldn't need to make one herself; it was no different from having the blueprints in her hand.

Apart from Chen Dixin, probably not many people could make the hook rope. When people were collecting materials, they either used wooden planks as oars to paddle around and only picked up materials that floated near the raft, or they went into the water to retrieve them themselves. Neither method was very efficient.

Shen Dixin took the initiative to tag this guy because of the water purifier blueprints he had.

Many of the players who were just brought in hadn't experienced the harsh realities of life and talked about everything without any regard for the other people in the chat channel. Meng Po Tang had just mentioned without any warning that she had obtained the water purifier blueprint.

Exposing himself to others like this could easily make him a target for a trap or a scam, but luckily he encountered Shen Dixin, who was genuinely ready to make a deal.

AAA Materials Wholesaler Lao Shen: How about I trade you a grappling hook, a stick, and any green blueprint?

The Meng Po soup must have been diluted: What is the hook rope used for?

After Shen Dixin explained, Meng Po Tang readily agreed.

After all, the workbench for cleansing the mind is currently unique, and it will take a long time to upgrade it to level two and unlock the grappling hook.

Meng Po Tang happily accepted the gifts and asked Chen Dixin if he wanted charcoal. He had obtained the water purifier blueprints from the beginning, so he had intentionally exchanged them with someone.

So Shen Dixin traded another random green drawing with him, and in return received five pieces of charcoal and a packet of osmanthus cake.

The collaboration was very pleasant, and when Meng Po Tang asked Shen Dixin for a friend spot, she readily gave it to him.

My past experiences have shown that going it alone at sea won't work, and uniting with more players of good character is something I'm determined to do.

We can't make a water purifier blueprint yet, as this is a crucial way to obtain water in the early stages, and opening it from a box is ultimately too unreliable.

After the exchange, she had far fewer supplies, so there was no point in exchanging any more. Therefore, she decided to start a new business.

AAA Materials Wholesaler Lao Shen: We offer custom manufacturing services for oars (2 planks), armor (6 planks), and grappling hooks (1 plank, 1 iron plate, 3 palm leaves). Cash on delivery, honest and transparent transactions. Custom designs are available upon request. We also manufacture water purifiers; a deposit is required in advance.

She also attached the attributes of the wooden armor and a video of her using a grappling hook to hook materials. She did not expose any parts of her body; all that could be seen was the smooth motion of hooking and pulling back.

The sight of a piece of material being prepared in just a few minutes attracted a lot of attention, and everyone was drooling over the hook rope.

Early Winter: What's the use of physical constitution? Is it related to physical strength?

Player 4796: Oh my god, there's such a thing? What was the point of me spending an hour soaking in the sea?

Forty-year-old divorced woman with two kids: You must love swimming, God of Wealth, check my private message!!

Spider Toast: I also have the blueprint for the hook, but isn't it a bit much to take three extra palm leaves? Everyone is trying to survive, why can't we help each other out?

Brown sugar roasted milk: It's arrived! Much faster than waiting for the ingredients to float over! [Image] [Image]

What can I do about your arrogance?: You're absolutely right. Only a kind person like you can warm my broken heart on this cold sea. I'm just missing a palm leaf. Please help me out, @SpiderToast.

Forty-year-old divorced woman with two kids: I'm missing a nail, please help me out @SpiderToast.

Wild Yellow Hair: Help me out, @SpiderToast, let me think what I'm missing, how about I get some of everything?

Everyone chimed in with their own words, leaving Spider Toast speechless, afraid of angering Shen Dixin and losing his hook.

After finishing a few transactions, Shen Dixin looked up and couldn't help but chuckle. "These guys are all talented! They speak so eloquently!"

Then they kept processing a constant stream of messages. Transaction for survival at sea required both parties to put their items away and confirm each other's transactions before the transaction could be successful.

As long as you're not foolish enough to believe the other party's lies and give things away for free, you're unlikely to be scammed in normal transactions, so everyone makes transactions very decisively.

Many people have heard that the grappling hook can unlock itself, but they are reluctant to spend extra materials. Iron plates are not something everyone can have, but there are still quite a few people who come to Chen Dixin to trade.

After exchanging enough palm leaves, she also collected a lot of other materials.

The order for the water purifier was very risky because Shen Dixin didn't have the materials herself, so she had to send the materials over first.

With Shen Dixing's reputation, several orders came in with complete materials and asked her to process them.

Shen Dixin dared not slack off, because she remembered that on the first day at noon, the first batch of players began to level up to level two one after another. If they wanted to do OEM business with the workbench, they would probably only be able to rely on water purifiers.

On the surface, it's not easy to collect materials, but privately everyone has their own trump cards and opportunities, just like Chen Qingxin who has acquired a lot of food and experience.

After working for more than an hour, Shen Dixin finally finished her last transaction. The market was nearly saturated and no one would be coming to her for a while, so she breathed a sigh of relief.

For every wooden paddle processed, one plank is earned; for every wooden armor, two planks are earned; and for every hook and rope, three palm leaves are earned.

The hook rope was the most popular, but when there were enough palm leaves, Chen Dixin changed it to two wooden boards or plastic to make one.

Water purifier blueprints are scarce, and the processing fees for solidification are even higher.

After this, she acquired a large quantity of materials. After making her own water purifier, she stored a total of 124 wooden boards, 132 palm leaves, 38 plastics, 2 iron plates, 1 gasoline, 1 toothpaste, 2 stones, rope, and blueprints.

Now you can directly synthesize a rope from two plant fibers at the workbench. One rope requires four palm leaves, which makes one realize just how much leaf is consumed.

This thing is used a lot, but you can get even more of it on the island. It's not very valuable, so even if the price goes up a bit, you'll still lose a little money if you exchange for it in the early stages.

The islands began to appear the next day, so Chen Dixin only exchanged a little more palm leaves than needed.

Doing so many things at the workbench all at once, regardless of luck, the chances of triggering an advancement are not small if you respect probability.

Shen Dixin's face wasn't that dark, but all she produced was a blue wooden oar with the "Efficiency" attribute, which saved her a little effort.

Something is better than nothing, so she chose to keep it for herself.

I placed the three newly made water purifiers at the bow of the boat, calmed my mind, and filled them with seawater. Watching the water droplets slowly drip down, I felt very happy.

A water purifier produces 250ml of water per day, and she can reliably get 750ml of water every day just by relying on the water purifier!

No wonder I had so many lucky encounters later on, but I could never catch up with the top player on the channel leaderboard. Being one step ahead in the early game and snowballing like that is something most people can't even imagine.

Thankfully, working on the workbench doesn't require much physical exertion, otherwise Chen Qingxin would have been completely exhausted.

My stamina has almost recovered, and I can do some things that require physical exertion now.

Chen Dixin leisurely hooked the materials. Using a hook and line to hook materials did not consume much physical strength. He would only need to hook one or two pieces at a time.

Including the buffs of being full of energy and well-fed, as well as the small amount of stamina that regenerates naturally every five minutes, if Chenxi only focuses on gathering resources, this stamina can maintain the buff of being full of energy for about two to three hours.

Otherwise, why would Chen Dixin always pay attention to his physical strength? Having plenty of energy and not having it are like two completely different worlds.

Some algae were floating on the sea. Shen Dixin's eyes lit up. He hooked it up and shook the water. Hey, a lot of small shrimp fell down!

[Collect 2 red algae, reward 2 experience points.]

[Collect 93g of shrimp and 17g of crab, reward 4 experience points.]

[Congratulations, player! You have collected twice the amount of seafood!]

[Congratulations to the player for obtaining the unique title "Grand Slam," unlocked by catching 30 or more fish and shrimp in a single catch. Wearing this title grants a 50% bonus to your catch.]

Small items weighing more than 5g are counted separately, and after the critical hit, Chen Dixin managed to snag a bargain!

The Grand Slam would probably require fishermen to use fishing nets to catch fish, which just goes to show how good the red algae ecosystem is!

Although they look similar, their experience actually belongs to different professions: the experience of shrimp and crab is given by the fisherman, and the experience of red algae is given by the farmer.

These shrimp and crabs are so small that even if they were a single item, they wouldn't fill you up if you ate them directly, just like the portion sizes you would eat in real life.

They can only be used with a pot. Once cooked, the pancakes and seafood pancakes are on a completely different level!

Shen Dixin found a piece of plastic that looked like a gasoline bottle cut in half, scooped up some seawater, and kept the small shrimp and crabs inside.

After gathering materials and a wooden resource box for several tens of minutes, her experience bar had risen to (225/500). Shen Dixin's leveling progress was not slow, but she still felt it was not enough.

She wanted to level up to level 5 quickly to unlock her profession; she had already decided on her profession and secondary profession after reaching level 5.

Main job: Monster Hunter; Secondary job: Astronomer.

Monster hunter is a very powerful class. In her previous life, Shen Dixin chose to be a scavenger and an astronomer. Later, she heard that monster hunter is the only class that snowballs very quickly.

After changing jobs, sea monsters will attack every night at dusk. The experience gained from defeating these sea monsters is very generous. As long as you don't die at the hands of the increasingly powerful sea monsters, the rewards will definitely be more plentiful than those of other jobs.

It's a pure monster-raising profession with a high attrition rate and high returns. Most of the players who die before the newbie protection period is those who chose Monster Hunter but couldn't beat the monsters.

Shen Dixin's initial attributes were very low, and even with the skills he had honed through life and death, he dared not joke around at this time.

With her initial attribute of 3 strength, even if she survives the sea monster attack, she might not be able to kill many, and the experience she gains through other means will only be 25%.

Each level up grants 2 free attribute points, and Chen Dixin plans to increase her Constitution to 10 before transferring them to Strength.

Astronomers are a very useful profession in the early stages of the game, but it is difficult to gain experience. You need to build an astronomical telescope to observe the stars. However, the difficulty of upgrading the profession is often linked to your own strength. There is an item for astronomers that is known as an early-game artifact.

Course card: Specifies a course for a vessel, unaffected by wind or waves.

A note from the author:

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