Chapter 170 Leisurely Vacation
The sky is blue and clear, without a single cloud.
Under the blue sky is the blue sea. The originally clear ocean color has become even purer after the planet has changed. There is no wind today, and the sea in front of us is as quiet as a huge mirror.
This is a water area near the coast. Youxi is wearing a loose ice silk long T-shirt, a pair of cool hot pants, and a pair of hollow beach shoes.
She is sitting on a folding lounge chair. On her left hand side is a small round coffee table with a glass of pineapple juice with ice on it.
Wearing sunglasses, she sat there in a comfortable posture, occasionally checking the sea fishing rod on her right, turning her head to drink a sip of iced pineapple juice, and then continued to wait.
What placed and stably supported these things was a piece of ice layer about ten centimeters thick and three square meters in size, which was directly transformed from sea water.
Because the freezing points of sea water and fresh water are different, she wanted to freeze the sea water and control it to stably support herself and the tables and chairs, and she had to disperse her energy to control it every moment.
A week ago, when she first tried to freeze the sea water, it took a lot of energy and consumed a lot of her supernatural power. The thickness of the ice layer was limited and it would break if stepped on.
But now, she can control the ice while enjoying the fun of fishing on the sea ice without changing her expression.
With the buoyancy of the seawater, the ice layer can control its direction at will, just like a small boat, carrying her on the sea.
She felt that with time, when her ability to control ice is improved, the ice layer that needs buoyancy to stably carry her weight may be able to truly float, just like an aircraft moving freely at low altitude.
When the pineapple juice was about to be finished, the fishing rod finally responded. She stood up, quickly reeled in and released the fishing line, and pulled the fish that wanted to escape towards her little by little.
A moment later, a 40-centimeter-long sea fish jumped out of the water, opened its pectoral fins on both sides of its body, stared at her with its inorganic black eyes, and swooped down at her like a bird.
Youxi sighed, and the table and chairs behind her disappeared. A Tang sword appeared in her other hand. As she dodged the fatal blow from the flying fish, a layer of cold and hard ice attached to the blade.
The mutated flying fish has a protective film containing toxins on its pectoral fins and body. Ordinary sharp blades cannot deal with it. If the toxins touch the skin, it will cause rot.
The blade of the flying fish was split into two after being blessed. Youxi looked at the flying fish that fell on the ice. The fish meat was contaminated with the toxins on the protective film and could no longer be eaten.
She sighed again, scraped off a layer of ice that was stained with toxins and fish meat, put away the Tang sword and fishing rod, took out the folding recliner again, leaned back and lay down on it to start playing.
It was not easy to eat seafood. She had been out for a long time. Her ice control ability had improved a lot, but she didn't get any seafood.
**
That day, the three of them caught an octopus in the hotel. Because of the reminder of the survivors nearby, they took two pieces of octopus back.
She had to carry out a mission that night so she didn't eat it. The next day after she came back, Fan Qi sliced one piece and stir-fried it with onions. After slicing the other piece, she put it on the electric grill and grilled it directly. I
thought that even if the mutated octopus was edible, the meat would become a little older - after all, the meat of the octopus that had not mutated was also older. As a result, it was chewy and tender, and it was delicious.
Seeing her parents enjoying the meal, she thought about getting some more exotic seafood, but they were new here and didn't know much about the changes in marine creatures. She didn't know what to eat and what not to eat, and what characteristics and precautions to take.
Fortunately, a day later, she met the survivors who had picked up her octopus tentacles on the beach.
They came to find her. That day, they took back almost all of the tentacles of such a large mutated octopus. The old and young in the same team had the most satisfying meal in recent times and were very happy. The captain of the
other team, Sister Wei, thought about the fighting power of Youxi and the other three, and remembered the generosity of the other party. She always felt that she couldn't just stop taking the benefits of the other party.
They thought that Youxi and the other two would stay at the cliff, but after waiting for two days, they didn't see anyone, so they walked along the beach towards the hotel, hoping to try their luck. Unexpectedly, they bumped into them.
"Are you staying in the same hotel as last time?"
"Well, my parents like quietness, and the mutant octopus is gone, so we stayed in the hotel directly."
Youxi didn't intend to hide it. After all, in the native world, there was the protection of the Star House, and outsiders would never be able to enter the Star House. Even if they opened the door of the room where the Star House was located, they would only appear in the original room space.
And everything in the Star House, not only could they not touch it, but they could not see it either.
Sister Wei didn't ask any more questions, and directly asked the people behind her to drag a large net bag in front of them, which contained a dozen fresh green coconuts, as a token of appreciation, hoping that they would accept it.
"It's okay, you can keep it for yourself." Youxi didn't want to take the other party's food, and she also bought coconuts in her spare time. Although the quantity was not large, on the South China Sea Island, fresh water resources, especially drinkable fresh water resources, were in short supply, and these coconuts could be used to replenish water when thirsty.
"Take them. They are worthless. The coconut trees have changed. Coconuts hang there in bunches like grapes. If you cut them today, they will grow again in a few days. It is not difficult to pick them except that someone needs to climb up the tree to cut them."
The other party felt that climbing coconut trees still required some skills. If they came from other places, they might not know how to climb trees.
But there were several locals in their team who were good at climbing trees. These coconuts were just as she said, worthless. They were just fresh.
"Please accept it. Don't be polite to us. We took so many octopus tentacles from you last time. Actually, we are sorry. If you take those octopus tentacles to the shelter to sell, you can exchange them for a lot of other things." Sister Wei didn't like this kind of unilateral taking. Last time, she was too surprised to see them kill the mutant octopus.
If she was the kind of person who took advantage of others and didn't return the favor, she wouldn't be the captain of this team.
At this point in the conversation, Youxi didn't refuse anymore. She directly reached out and took the net bag that they had to drag. When she looked up and saw the other party looking at her in surprise, she remembered the seafood and asked them about it.
"Many things in the sea have changed. Some are poisonous, some have grown very large, and some can sneak up on people..."
When Youxi heard this, she realized that the other party had misunderstood her meaning: "No, I mainly want to know which seafood can still be eaten? Among the edible ones, which ones are particularly delicious?"
Sister Wei: ...
After confirming that she was not joking, the other party told her that generally, as long as the seafood that has grown in size is not poisonous, it can be eaten, but when it comes to which ones are delicious, she has actually not eaten many types because their abilities are limited...
Youxi thought that the other party had simply said it and that was the answer. However, the next morning, Fan Qi, who was doing morning exercises in front of the French window in the living room facing the boundless sea, called her loudly, saying that someone had come to the beach outside the hotel and seemed to be looking for her.
Youxi looked and found that the other party was indeed a member of Sister Wei's team, a young man in his twenties - the one who asked her shyly that day whether she would eat octopus tentacles. It was not known whether he was afraid to enter the hotel with dense vegetation alone or for some other reason, so he kept wandering back and forth on the beach.
After Youxi appeared, the other party happily ran towards her and handed her a booklet, saying that this was a complete record of known mutated seafood that Sister Wei had asked someone to collect.
There were not only hand-drawn pictures, but also text descriptions, which tried to write down the characteristics of all the currently known mutated marine life in a simple and clear manner.
Youxi was a little surprised. She didn't expect that Wei Jie, who was tall and strong, was so meticulous.
The other party could see her surprise and couldn't help showing off a little in her heart: "Isn't it a good painting? Our Wei Jie studied painting and is a freelance painter. She originally came to Nanhai Island to find inspiration, but... she was trapped here..."
People from other places want to go home. It may be a little difficult, dangerous, and take some time, but they can always reach their destination.
But the people stranded on Nanhai Island were initially because of the sudden increase in oxygen content in other parts of the country and the mutation of various insects. Everyone was afraid and temporarily postponed their stay.
Later, after all the animals and plants mutated, they couldn't go back even if they wanted to.
Several large airports on the South China Sea Island have become paradises for mutant plants. There is no telling how many dangerous mutant creatures are hidden inside. Airplanes have been entangled by various vines and turned into scrap metal. Only one or two small airports have been spared, but they are currently being guarded by official teams for the flow of supplies. Only a very small number of people with special missions can use the aircraft.
However, the air is not safe either. Previously, a transport helicopter encountered a group of giant flying birds halfway, and the whole helicopter crashed and no one was spared...
The sea route is even more unsafe. It's okay in the shallow sea area, but in the deep sea area, it's full of various large and mutated creatures. A few of them can drag people and boats into the sea...
The tourists stranded on Nanhai Island gradually gave up the idea of going home and settled down here temporarily. Fortunately, although the network signal is poor now, it can be connected intermittently, so everyone can contact their families to some extent.
But there are also problems with the power supply of Nanhai Island. Now everyone relies on the solar panels of hotels and RVs to survive, and no one knows what will happen in the future.
The other party seemed to be a chatterbox. He kept talking about the current situation. Fortunately, what he said was also the information that Youxi wanted to know.
When she heard almost everything, she asked him to wait. She went into the hotel and came out with two large shopping bags, which contained some instant noodles, vacuum-packed meat, compressed biscuits and self-heating rice.
"This is a return gift for your sister Wei. Don't be polite. Take it. I also study painting."
When the other party was carrying things back, he walked so fast that he almost flew all the way.
He was so happy. They had been trapped in this area for a long time. There were many hotels here. At first, the supplies were abundant, but there were also the most tourists here. Everyone needed food and drink. At first, they spent money to buy them. Later, money was useless, so they just "took" them. Anyway, whoever had the ability to "take" them would own them.
Then they started to rob. Whenever they found a supermarket, a group of people would rush in and it would be emptied out soon...
Because a single individual would always suffer a loss, a team was gradually formed.
Sister Wei was quite capable, but she was honest and disdained to do things that bullied the weak and feared the strong, so the team was not rich, especially recently, they had basically been eating one meal a day and had no next meal. Sometimes they would bring some special products from the seaside and walk a long way to the official shelter to exchange with people.
But the shelter was short of supplies, so at most they could exchange some staple foods such as compressed biscuits and steamed buns, as long as they could fill their stomachs.
This was the most food he had seen in such a long time!
Instant noodles!
Self-heating rice!
There were also many vacuum-packed sausages, hams and beef!
He became more and more excited as he ran, but he was afraid that someone would see him and rob him, so he ran all the way up the cliff with all his might, and only fell to his knees with a plop when he safely returned to the floor where the team was, panting heavily...
"Hey, what's the matter? You're kneeling down to your sister Wei so early in the morning?" The other people in the team couldn't help but tease him when they saw him.
Xiaozhi took a long breath before he came to his senses: "No, no... We, we this time... It seems like we hugged, hugged a... huge, huge, huge thigh!"
The other party:...
**
Youxi was unaware of what happened after the young boy brought the food back. She was obsessed with sea fishing and practicing ice control in the following days. She always looked for places where there were not many people. She never met Weijie and her group again.
Youxi fiddled on the ice floe lounge chair for a while. The transparent cell phone on her wrist brought a message from her mother, calling her home for lunch.
She was too lazy to pretend, and too lazy to be alert to her surroundings. She disappeared on the ice floe with the chair - mainly because her five senses were strengthened to such an extent that she could know the situation around her even if she was not alert or looking.
Without her ability to control ice, the ice layer on the sea surface quickly melted at such a temperature and merged with the sea again.
Youxi appeared on the first floor of the simulated apartment. Fan Qi and You Feng had already put lunch on the dining table.
Now their dining table has been moved to the window of the living room. After all, there is such a large and invincible sea view outside the floor-to-ceiling window. Who would still want to eat facing the wall?
The weather was hot, and Fan Qi prepared stir-fried mixed vegetables cold noodles, winter melon shrimp rice soup, a pot of steamed tiger shrimp, and a box of salmon sashimi, indicating that they would have a simple lunch at noon.
Youxi: ...
Her mother really learned the essence of "simple" to the extreme.
After a perfect sea view lunch, Youxi helped wash the dishes and decided to give up sea fishing for the time being and start the plan that came up when she was stockpiling goods in the last apocalypse.
After the third upgrade of the Star House, which cost 800 star coins, the size of the Star House warehouse increased from 512 cubic meters to 888 cubic meters, which successfully stored all the supplies she left in the simulated apartment before traveling through the world.
At the same time, the transportation space increased by one position, which can store three items.
Correspondingly, the fuel space also increased by one, which is also 10 cubic meters, which means that she can collect two different types of fuel in the future, such as gasoline and diesel.
Of course, what surprised her most about the third upgrade was another new function, but she couldn't use it for the time being.
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