In fact, the reason why Qianyue chose the beggar profession in the first place was simply because she was lazy and wanted to obtain items with attributes of various professions without any effort.
As for the attached talent skill [Stealing], it was something she had not expected. The upright and good young man never intended to rely on such cheating and deceiving methods to prolong his life.
But in fact, history always repeats itself in a surprising way, and the gears of fate also have their own unique operating logic...
"Is it broken? I'll compensate you, that's all. But I don't have any bamboo. Can I use something else?"
The male player who had been arrogant before suddenly became timid after seeing how Qianyue knocked the man into the water in an instant.
Seeing Qianyue didn't say anything, he thought these things were not enough and hurriedly continued to take out.
"This is a special blueprint I just drew today. As long as I have iron ore, I can make a weapon!"
Qianyue glanced at it. If it was secret food, anti-inflammatory medicine, or serum, she might be more accepting. But if you can't find the materials for something like a blueprint, what good is it, no matter how powerful it is?
Besides, in the current dungeon map, isn’t her ship much more valuable than the blueprint?
Qianyue didn't answer with a cold face, so the man had to grit his teeth and continue to take things out. At first, they were normal props, but later they became a mess with all kinds of things.
Rags, fruits, and even a mess of weeds.
The male player asked hesitantly, "I've given you most of my wealth. Can you leave the backpack to me?"
Qianyue, still holding the backpack she had taken from the man before, raised an eyebrow at the words, "What do you think?"
Male player: “…”
The man was silent for a moment, and then his tone became low: "If that's the case..."
Qianyue thought he was going to use some powerful move, but as soon as the man finished speaking, he took advantage of the moment when Qianyue was not paying attention and quickly grabbed his props, then turned around and jumped directly into the water!
Qianyue wanted to speak up to remind the man that there was something underwater, but just as she took two steps forward, the man flapped even more fiercely and leaped several meters away in one breath.
Qianyue: “…”
never mind.
"Maybe there are some gentle little guys down there."
She shook her head, gathered up the props that the male players had left on the boat and had not had time to take back, and turned to figure out how to repair her bamboo house.
The other side.
After the man jumped into the water, he swam desperately, cursing in his heart.
What bad luck.
In fact, he didn't have to be so embarrassed - at least that's what he thought.
He had also expended a lot of energy and suffered some minor injuries when fighting with the other two people before.
In addition, Qianyue's last move was quite scary. After careful consideration, he made the decision to escape.
"This is to preserve our strength. As long as we have the green mountains, we will never run out of firewood!" He comforted himself in his heart.
Thinking of this, the male player looked back and found that Qianyue didn't seem to catch up, and he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
"No, even though what she has are just junk, I can't bear this. I have to get more people to take back the turmoil."
He thought so and continued to swim towards the islands. However, for some reason, the further he went back, the more strange it felt.
The feeling was very subtle, as if some danger was approaching.
But now is the time to chase the airdrop, and the various forces are probably fighting fiercely over the airdrop. Apart from those individual players, there are probably not many talents on the island.
What's more, most of the people on the archipelago are people he knows, and if there are no conflicts of interest, they would not give him this feeling.
Could it be that the woman was so angry that she saw that his backpack was not stolen but hers was, and wanted to take advantage of his surviving backpack?
The more he thought about it, the more likely it seemed. Coincidentally, the water flow behind him felt a little strange, and the male player subconsciously turned around to surprise her.
A bloody mouth suddenly broke through the water surface, and a fishy smell hit me in the face!
Before the man could see clearly what it was, the sharp teeth in his sight suddenly bit down!
He only had time to feel a pain in his waist and didn't even have time to scream. The next second, the picture went completely dark.
...
After a while, a hint of blood quietly spread in the water. The huge creature, whose full appearance had not been seen, slowly sank to the bottom of the water, and the world returned to silence again.
At this time, Qianyue was still tinkering with her boat.
Although it was damaged, fortunately the bamboo house itself did not break, it was just tilted. However, when inspecting it, Qianyue discovered that because the bamboo house was tilted, the wooden blocks originally inserted into the bamboo raft also shifted.
In order to fix the bamboo house, Qianyue used two pieces of wood to make eight wooden blocks, and then inserted them into the bottom of the four corners of the bamboo house and the corresponding four corners of the bamboo raft, with two of them forming a set of mortise and tenon joints.
The wooden block at the bottom of the bamboo house was easy to fix, just drilling a hole in the bamboo joint. But fixing the four points on the bamboo raft was much more difficult.
When drilling holes in bamboo, she not only needs to pay attention to the positional relationship between the upper and lower wooden blocks, but also needs to accurately calculate the angle - because the surface of bamboo itself is round, as long as there is a slight misalignment, the upper and lower wooden blocks may not fit perfectly.
At this moment, the wooden block was knocked crooked, and the size of the hole on the bamboo raft also changed accordingly. All four points were affected, and even a crack appeared in one place.
If you want to solve this problem perfectly, you have to replace all these bamboos - but in that case, Qianyue will have to dismantle the bamboo raft again.
“…Tsk.”
Qianyue suddenly became a little angry when she thought about all the trouble she had gotten into for no reason.
If she had known earlier, she should not have been dazzled by the strange scenery.
Qianyue is not a lazy person in the traditional sense. On the contrary, she is quite hardworking when it comes to creating a comfortable environment for herself.
But that was only when she was penniless when she first entered the dungeon. After she had the conditions to be scientifically lazy, she just wanted to lie comfortably on the boat and wait for the dungeon to end, and take a sightseeing tour by the way.
If she was given a safe shelter and a bed right at the start, she would probably be able to lie there throughout the entire dungeon.
After thinking for a long time, Qianyue finally found a compromise.
"I don't know what this guy's hobby is, picking up weeds and putting them in his bag."
It's a good deal for her.
That's right, Qianyue used all the weeds left by that person to block the gaps in the bamboo tube, which increased the friction between the wooden block and the bamboo tube and left a certain amount of space for the wooden block to move, making it more stable than before*.
After all this last night, she picked up the rag next to her.
When the male player was escaping, he was only concerned with grabbing the important items, and he left behind a lot of debris. But for Qianyue, among all the materials, only this rag was of some use.
When she unfolded it, it was about half the size of a bamboo raft. It could be used as a door curtain or a blanket, but she had no use for either of those things for the time being.
As she replenished her strength, she pondered, "Maybe I can make a sail."
This way she could move the boat forward without using a pole.
But even with the canvas, a mast is still needed - Qianyue can use bamboo to replace it, but how to make the bamboo stand upright on the raft is another problem.
After all, in Qianyue's impression, she seemed to have never seen anyone add a sail to a bamboo raft.
"Let's try it first."
She took out the bamboo and tried it on the raft, but no matter how she placed it, it felt wrong. If she stood it straight up at the front of the raft, it would probably be blown over by the wind in no time.
“There has to be support next to it.”
Qianyue suddenly thought of the trees in the city that were "on crutches." When she was studying botany, she had extracurricular activities and interacted frequently with her classmates from the Environmental Arts program.
The only difference is that Qianyue learned how to treat trees, while those classmates were responsible for beautifying and orthodontic treatment of trees.
Some trees do not grow well in the initial stage of development, and if you are not careful they will become crooked trees, which greatly affects the appearance of urban greening and is not conducive to the growth of the trees themselves.
At this time, you need to support the tree with a few wooden boards around it to straighten it. After the correction, the tree can basically maintain this posture and continue to grow upright regardless of wind and rain.
"Perhaps we could lean it against the door of the bamboo house, or place it in the middle of the bamboo house and weave it out?"
Qianyue was thinking about it, but she leaned against the bamboo house and was too lazy to move.
Although storms are terrible, they are limited in scope and cannot cover the entire sea area at once.
The dark clouds were still some distance away from her. Qianyue guessed that she must have accidentally gotten away from the storm area and there would be no more threat of storms in the short term.
After so many days of continuous rain, she finally encountered a sunny day. Now she just wanted to lie on the bamboo raft and take a nap.
"This weather is still comfortable."
There was a warm sun overhead, a gentle breeze on my face, and the fragrance of sea vine flowers lingering around me...
Just when Qianyue was about to fall asleep, she suddenly smelled an unusual smell of blood.
Qianyue suddenly opened her eyes and all sleepiness disappeared immediately!
The sea breeze was salty and fishy, so the smell of blood was made extremely faint, but Qianyue had been living in the wilderness for a long time and was very sensitive to this smell.
She stood up, leaning against the bamboo house, and squinted her eyes to gaze into the distance. Soon she noticed something reflecting light about four or five hundred meters to the right.
"That is..."
Airdrop box?
When others saw the airdrop box, they would probably be like a hungry wolf seeing meat, but Qianyue's first reaction was to turn around and run away.
The reason is simple: fear of trouble.
But halfway through the fall, she realized that there seemed to be no one around the airdrop box.
Ever since that meeting, Qianyue hadn't heard the sound of a helicopter again, so she reasonably suspected that this airdrop box should be the same one as before.
But why did this box float here?
There were so many people chasing the airdrop before, why is there no one there now?
Coupled with the faint smell of blood in the air, Qianyue instinctively felt that something was strange.
Suddenly, a strange color flashed in her vision. She looked down and recognized it at a glance: it was blood.
The blood was not thick and looked like it had been washed away, with only a few strands left.
Something is wrong.
Qianyue glanced into the distance again and saw the same thing all around. At the same time, the closer she got to the airdrop, the thicker the blood became. It was clearly coming from that direction!
Qianyue's expression suddenly changed.
Most fights between players would end when they were ahead, and wouldn't escalate to this. Only ferocious sea beasts could cause such a scene!
If the system hadn't automatically recovered the character's corpse, the sea would probably be littered with corpses by now.
"This is really a case of putting supplies before lives."
Qianyue turned around immediately.
The strong smell of blood here will soon attract other ferocious beasts to surround us. That's when the real danger comes.
Her bamboo raft had been in this area for quite some time, and it might have been stained with the smell of blood.
Qianyue didn't want the bamboo raft she had just repaired to be damaged here, so she immediately chose a direction and ran away.
However……
There is a saying: What you fear will come to you.
Qianyue was just about to poke the bamboo pole into the water when a dark shadow suddenly flashed across her sight.
Dark shadows underwater.
Qianyue suddenly stopped moving.
Don’t be fooled by the intense scenes in TV and movies. In fact, underwater actions are almost silent. But it is precisely because of the silence that it makes people feel more scared.
The creature was almost as big as Qianyue's two bamboo rafts. Judging from its shadow, its body seemed flat, and when it passed through the water, it looked like a huge fan.
A bit like a cat shark, or an electric ray.
The former is a small shark that is harmless to humans, while the latter is a "generator" in the sea. Both are flat-bodied and dark-backed marine fish.
But neither of these two species can grow so big, nor can they appear near the sea level - because they are creatures that live on the seabed all year round.
"Is it another new species?" Qianyue felt a little excited and a little nervous.
Excitement is a natural part of the profession, while nervousness is an instinctive reaction.
But the combination of the two made her miraculously calm down.
In a crisis, the most taboo thing is to lose your composure. Therefore, the closer the danger gets, the calmer Qianyue becomes.
The sea monster kept circling her bamboo raft instead of attacking it directly, which showed that it was trying to determine whether the object in front of it was edible.
The bamboo raft was indeed stained with the smell of blood, but because the boat was full of sea vines in bloom, the unique smell of the plants was even stronger.
It is estimated that like the previous shark, this sea monster was also confused by the sea vines wrapped around the bamboo raft.
Qianyue was frozen, not daring to move a muscle. But her grip on Maozhu gradually tightened.
One end of the bamboo was a blunt, solid joint, which Qianyue often used to butt up people. The other end had long been shaved into a serrated shape, used for self-defense in special circumstances.
If that giant made any unusual movement, Qianyue would stab it without hesitation. The outcome was still uncertain.
…
Time passes by minute by minute, and every moment seems to be stretched out in an extremely long time.
The sea monster circled her bamboo raft tirelessly for several times, and gradually became silent.
Who would have thought that in the next second, a ferocious big mouth suddenly appeared on the sea surface, and with a "crack", it bit a hole in Qianyue's bamboo raft like biting a biscuit!
Qianyue:!!!
She was not frightened by its sudden appearance, but because she felt sad for the bamboo raft she had just repaired!
Qianyue thought with a dull face: Now I have to replace the entire raft board.
Bamboo is naturally tough and not easy to chew, but that guy took a bite and only a row of uneven bamboos was left.
Qianyue: “…” With mixed feelings.
The sea beast had probably never tasted bamboo before, and soon after biting it, it spit it out with a "gulp" sound.
Then the wreckage floated up from the water again, just within Qianyue's sight.
After confirming that this thing was not delicious, the sea beast shook its butt and turned around to swim to another place.
Qianyue: Damn, my mood seems to be even more complicated.
According to the general routine of female-dominated novels, Qianyue should be furious at this time and fight with the sea beast directly, and finally kill it easily to vent her anger.
——After all, that’s what she did to the male player when she first learned it.
But in fact, Qianyue was not furious at this time. She wanted to take advantage of the moment when the sea beasts relaxed their vigilance and drag her boat away from this place of trouble.
because……
Another big guy is coming!
And not just one, but a group.
Qianyue looked at the silver-white dorsal fins vying for the lead and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
Although she kept talking about wanting to catch fish every day, she had never thought of catching such a big fish!
Shark School: Surprising or Unexpected?
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