"Super Mall is open."
"The player's current total balance is 1023 yen. Would you like to enter the Super Mall?"
Qianyue: "Yes."
The next second, a shopping interface popped up in front of Qianyue.
What was different from what she had seen before at Duobao Merchants was that there were more than ten categories in the entire shopping interface, comparable to a certain Double Eleven shopping software.
Qianyue was amazed: "It's worthy of being called a super mall."
In addition, a lottery pool is set up on the homepage.
There was no big dial, no other miscellaneous items, just a simple button with two words written on it:
【lottery】
Selection scope: All products in the super mall.
Qianyue looked at the rules again: 198 yen for one time, 468 yen for three times, 888 yen for five times, 100% winning rate, no cheating.
“…”
There are even promotions for consecutive draws.
Although the krypton gold channel has not been opened yet, this is essentially a krypton gold scam game, right?
198 yen won't buy you any loss or cheating. Even though she knew it might be a trap, Qianyue thought about it and still couldn't help but take a sip.
Just a few quizzes, she thought silently.
A flash of white light passed by, and the lottery ended.
But unexpectedly, nothing appeared in front of Qianyue's eyes, and she was directly returned to the original lottery interface.
Isn’t it a 100% chance of winning?
System: "Congratulations to player Qianyue for winning the lottery!"
"The prizes from the Super Mall lottery will be distributed to players along with the prizes from the first day of the dungeon. Please check carefully."
Qianyue was stunned. "Wait until I enter the dungeon to send it out?"
Qianyue's head was full of questions: How could players not immediately know what they had won after the draw? How would she know whether to continue drawing?!
…But it turns out that because she can’t immediately know what she’s won, Qianyue seems to want to keep drawing_(:з」∠)_
"What if the item I won earlier was really ordinary? If I don't continue the lottery, wouldn't that be a waste of my chance?"
Despite saying this, Qianyue finally wisely withdrew her hand. She still needed to buy props, so she couldn't spend all her money on this.
Moreover, Qianyue is certain that there are definitely many people who think that way, but in fact, if they really continue to smoke, they will probably fall into a vicious cycle, and it will be difficult to get out of it then.
Just like gamblers, they will never want to stop until they lose at the last moment.
"It's really a kryptonite scam."
Qianyue said this and simply stopped caring about the lottery. She clicked on the category and started shopping.
In the previous game, she had almost used up all of her consumable items, so she needed to buy food, medicine, and inhibitors again.
Qianyue thought: "The price is the same as the first copy."
Qianyue couldn't help but let her thoughts wander: ...So she was indeed deliberately retaliated against by the Duobao merchant in the last dungeon? I should have asked Qianchi about his previous game.
Before buying, Qianyue thought about it for a while.
"Live by the sea, eat by the sea. You don't need to buy too much black bread, but you must buy flint and seasoning."
"This game is quite closed off, with few or no NPCs, so medicine is the most scarce. You must buy both basic medicine and anti-inflammatory drugs."
"Psychotropics aren't very useful to me, and they're expensive, so there's no need to buy too many. I'd rather spend the rest of my money looking for other tools that might be handy."
After thinking it through, Qianyue bought five loaves of bread, ten portions of isatis root, three doses of anti-inflammatory drugs, five doses of mental suppressants, a flint and steel, and two bottles of seasoning.
In the end, there was only a little over a hundred yen left, and Qianyue originally wanted to use it to buy tools, but she took a quick look at the mall shelves and didn't seem to have any tools that she urgently needed at that price, so she gave up.
"It's better to save this little money for use in the dungeon."
Shopping is over.
System: "The third dungeon [Ten Square Meter Island] is now open. Good luck."
When she opened her eyes again, Qianyue found herself sitting by the water.
Yes, not the beach, but the water's edge.
There was a clump of reeds on her side, a small cluster of bamboo and a large rock behind her, a triangular red flag was planted on the land in the center of the island, and the rest was all water.
The entire island looked less than half the size of her bedroom.
Qianyue: "...it is indeed ten square meters."
As soon as the words fell, Qianyue's ears rang with the system's prompt again:
"Welcome to the dungeon [Ten Square Meter Island]. This dungeon has a different gameplay than the previous ones, so we've arranged for a game guide to explain the dungeon."
"There are several islands in this water area. Players will be randomly assigned to a ten-square-meter island and automatically become the island owner. The island's flag will be red."
There is a red flag on the island behind Qianyue, symbolizing that the island has been occupied and the owner of the island is herself.
"In addition to basic greenery such as lawns, each island will randomly grow two large, harvestable plants."
“The plant’s growth cycle is uniformly one hour, and once the plant matures, the material can be harvested without the use of tools.”
"During the first three days of the game, only the island owner can harvest the mature plants on the island. Starting from the fourth day of the game, this rule becomes invalid."
"The flag of an uninhabited island is green. It can be occupied, but cannot be bound. The resources on the island can be harvested by anyone regardless of identity."
"In addition to plant resources, helicopters will randomly drop supplies to various uninhabited islands at irregular intervals every day. The quantities are limited, so seize the opportunity!"
"More fresh gameplay, supporting players to explore on their own. This explanation is over, enjoy the island scenery!"
Compared with the previous two copies, this "ten-square-meter island" is obviously closer to a real "game".
Elements such as survival, strategy, and management were mixed together. People like Qianyue, who didn't often play online games, took several minutes to understand the meaning of the rules.
She concluded, "In other words, the first three days are a period of resource expansion, while the next few days are a period of protracted defense."
During the first three days of the game, players don’t have to worry about a fire in their backyard and can safely go to the uninhabited island to plunder resources.
During this period of time, players must try their best to collect enough resources to ensure their subsequent use.
Because starting from the fourth day, other people can go to the island to collect resources - in more common terms, they can steal vegetables and energy.
By then, let alone leaving the island to go to other places, I'm afraid that before I even find the resource points, everything at home will have been harvested.
The ideal situation is to stock up on enough supplies and stay on your own island like a mountain.
But before that…
Qianyue: "We must first build a boat."
She stood up and took a look. Although the island was not big, the distance between islands was not close. It would probably take several minutes to reach the shore just by swimming.
From what Qianyue has seen so far, there are about seven or eight islands around her. The faces of the island owners are all unfamiliar, and the locations of the islands are distributed randomly.
At the same time, the crops grown on the islands vary greatly.
What reeds and coconut trees; giant lilies and apple trees; banana trees and nettles...
In comparison, Qianyue suddenly felt that the reeds and bamboos on her island were not so strange.
——Although neither of them was originally supposed to appear on the island.
A little further away was a "big" island of about 20 to 30 square meters. In the center of the island stood a green flag, marking it as an uninhabited island.
There are a patch of coconut trees and a patch of herbs planted on it - the former represents food and the latter represents medicine, both of which are urgently needed by Qianyue.
Looking at the terrain distribution in front of her, Qianyue immediately thought of the set of pictures she had released before, in which there was a picture showing the big and small islands together. The big island was located in the middle of the small islands, like a moon surrounded by stars.
"So it should be the same as what was photographed. A large uninhabited island with several small islands scattered around it."
That is to say, dozens of people may compete for resources on an uninhabited island at the same time.
In this case, whoever reaches the island first and gets the first batch of resources will have the upper hand!
Qianyue subconsciously glanced at the island owner who owned the Big Ghost Lotus.
However, the other party did not seem to know how to use the Big Ghost Lotus. At this moment, he was pondering in front of the apple tree, as if he was struggling with whether to cut down the tree to get the wood.
At this moment, there was a sudden "crash" sound in my ears.
Some people jumped into the water and swam quickly towards the uninhabited island.
The other party's island is not particularly far from the uninhabited island, but it is not particularly close either. According to Qianyue's visual observation, it is estimated that it will only take more than ten minutes for the other party to successfully land.
More than ten minutes might be a bit rushed for others, and many people were even stimulated to dive into the water!
"Fuck! How come these people are so fast!"
"What's the point of being fast? I'm closest to the ground, and the supplies belong to me!"
Players swam towards the uninhabited island one after another, and for a while there was a clattering sound all around.
The players who couldn't play could only sigh in despair, but Qianyue, who was the furthest away from the ground, was the most calm. ...
She sighed quietly, "I'm sorry, you've made this trip in vain."
In order to lie down more comfortably in the next few days, she must get the first batch of supplies from the uninhabited island!
【Name：Reed】
[Growth Status: Mature (100% remaining for collection)]
【Name：Moso bamboo】
[Growth Status: Mature (100% remaining for collection)]
The plant resources in this copy can be harvested directly without using any tools, so after Qianyue clicked "Collect", a skill reading bar appeared in front of her.
[Temporary Skill: Gathering]
[Description: Mature plants can be harvested without using any tools. The specific harvest quantity varies.]
[Note to players: If the skill is interrupted during the casting process, the skill will be invalid and must be re-collected. In addition, this skill can only be used in the dungeon "Ten Square Meter Island".]
After reading the bar for ten seconds respectively, there were ten more reeds and ten more bamboos in Qianyue's bag.
So the collection situation of the two resource points becomes——
【Name：Reed】
[Growth Status: Mature (75% remaining to be harvested)]
【Name：Moso bamboo】
[Growth Status: Mature (50% remaining to be harvested)]
Qianyue walked to the reed marsh again and read the note. This time, she harvested ten reeds, making a total of twenty.
There was also a gift box in the bag, which should be the one she won in the lottery at the super mall. Qianyue opened it and got a piece of black bread.
“…”
Qianyue stared at the "expensive 198 yen piece of bread", wanting to say something but stopping herself.
Qianyue suddenly thought: Maybe she had misunderstood Duobao Merchant. After all, compared to the lottery at the Super Mall, his price increase seemed nothing :)
"...Forget it, let's get down to business first."
Throwing the brown bread back into her backpack, she took out the props and started making the bamboo raft.
That’s right, make a bamboo raft.
Qianyue plans to build a boat by herself.
Although bamboo rafts are used for sailing in shallow waters, bamboo has grown on the islands, so it seems that nothing is impossible.
The bamboo raft is divided into two layers. One layer is the bamboo raft that people usually see floating on the water, and the other layer is the bracket used to fix the bamboo raft.
Qianyue built the two layers of frames according to the thickness, and then took out the twenty reeds.
"This reed is quite resilient. I hope it won't fall apart soon."
Qianyue quickly twisted two reeds into a rope, and used it to shuttle back and forth between several bamboos. In the blink of an eye, the prototype of a bamboo raft was formed.
Under normal circumstances, the production process of bamboo rafts is much more complicated than this, and many steps including selecting bamboo, drying bamboo, and applying oil are very particular.
But this is a game - fortunately, this is a game, Qianyue only needs to tie up reeds and bamboo to get a simple bamboo raft.
【Bamboo Raft】
Attributes: Player-made
Quality: Poor
Durability: 20/20
At the same time, Qianyue got a blueprint——
[Blueprint: Bamboo Raft]
Description: An ordinary bamboo raft, which seems not very durable because it is fixed with reeds.
Required materials: Reed x20, Bamboo x8, Synthetic Stone x1
"After exploration, player Qianyue discovered how to make a bamboo raft. As a reward, a corresponding blueprint is given."
Qianyue raised her eyebrows. She clearly remembered that in the first two copies, her homemade props did not seem to be treated like this.
“Does it encourage exploration?”
This was probably another so-called internal test optimization. Although it seemed like they were stealing ideas from players for free, Qianyue had to admit that she liked this setting very much.
The degree of freedom is high and the gaming experience is great.
"This game seems to be getting more and more interesting."
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