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Tao Sai glanced at his phone and saw that the time was 3:30 in the morning.
A hazy moon floated in the night sky. There was no sound around, and the river was flowing cautiously.
This is the small village where her grandfather lives and where she grew up.
The day before yesterday, the village called Tao Sai and told her that according to the village development plan, her grandfather's old house and other buildings were to be demolished. They asked her to come back and sign the agreement, and she would receive the money. She was on vacation when she received the call, so she booked a bus ticket and took a long-distance bus early yesterday morning, then a ferry, all the way back to the small village on the Yangtze River.
In fact, Tao Sai no longer has any family members. Her biological mother died in a car accident when she was eight years old, and her biological father found a woman but did not like her, so she lived with her grandfather since she was a child.
Her grandfather passed away last year due to pancreatic cancer. Currently, the only relative she has in the world is her so-called father whom she hasn't seen for many years.
This old house by the river held so many memories for her; she had spent three-quarters of her life here. But there was no point in keeping the old house. She had rarely returned since her grandfather passed away, and a house without life would only gather dust and decay, eventually collapsing quietly on a stormy night.
The key is that the village also provides subsidies.
She considered it seriously and decided not to delay the development and construction of the village.
After signing, Tao Sai received a subsidy of 60,000 yuan from the village committee.
Tao Sai was not in a hurry to return to the city. She planned to stay in the old house for one night and take pictures from all angles to keep some memories, including the black-sailed boat stranded outside the yard.
When they were young, their village was designated as part of a large scenic area. Tourists from all over the world would occasionally come here. My grandfather would row a black-sailed boat to take tourists around the river. This was one of their family's sources of income.
[Progress: 100%, matching successful!]
The flashing subtitles brought Tao Sai back to reality. In her sight, the outline of the sloop emitted a faint green light and then disappeared.
New subtitles pop up immediately.
Please name the refugee ship.
It’s time to get to this point again.
Tao Sai was a complete idiot when it came to naming games, and she just liked to type in a bunch of random codes whenever she had to. But this time, the name of the refugee ship would likely stay with her forever, and it couldn't be changed mid-stream, so she had to be very careful.
After much deliberation, Tao Sai suppressed the urge to name the refuge ship "Seier" and decided to name it "Deep Sea Fish".
——A social media nickname she has used for five or six years.
She tried to focus her vision, and the shelter ship's panel information popped up.
[Refuge Ship: Deep Sea Fish
Level: Lv1
Full load displacement: 2.1 tons
Maximum speed: Unable to calculate
Crew: 1
Refugees: 0
Early warning system: Not installed
Attack system: Not installed
Defense system: Not installed
Command system: Not installed
Special effects:
①[Captain]: You are the absolute authority on the refugee ship and all members will obey your orders.
②[Perception Blur]: All supernatural phenomena within the range of the refuge ship will not be perceived by the crew members.
③[Insect Blood Detection]: The refuge ship will automatically detect the location of insect blood, with a detection radius of 10 kilometers.
Tao Sai remembered that the second special effect was not in the game, but the newly added [Blurred Perception] buff helped her a lot, and it would save her a lot of trouble when there were new crew members on the shelter ship in the future.
The beginning was the same as in the game "Insect Tide", she had a refuge ship of her own, but she knew very well that the refuge ship was actually just an empty skeleton, just a living space for the player, and everything in the living space needed to be prepared by herself.
The logic of this game is that players continuously upgrade the refuge ship, continuously expand the hull space, continuously improve the comfort of the refuge ship, continuously absorb excellent crew members, accommodate more refugees, and finally build the refuge ship into a safe home to resist natural disasters.
Now that she is bound to the game system, the logic should be the same as the game.
Currently, the living space of the refuge ship is only the size of a sloop, so one thing she must do in the early stage is to collect materials, upgrade the refuge ship, and obtain a larger living space.
It was difficult for her to live alone on this black-sailed boat, and it had no maneuverability (the only power was a long bamboo pole), and no ability to avoid risks.
Mature insects have the ability to fly short distances, so it is not safe for the boat to stay in the river for a long time, and it must be sailed to the sea far away from the land.
But such a small pontoon boat was overturned by a wave when it went into the sea.
So she had to upgrade the shelter ship to the next level before the insect swarm arrived.
Tao Sai clicked the [Upgrade] function on the refuge ship page, and the upgrade conditions for the refuge ship popped up in front of him.
[Experience: 0/128
Gold: 0/100
Fabric: 0/100
Metal: 0/100
Bioplastics: 0/100
In the game, all objects visible to the naked eye can be automatically decomposed by the system into materials needed for upgrading, but only objects without owners can be scanned.
So based on my experience playing games, the most cost-effective and money-saving way is to go to the scrap yard to recycle it at a low price.
Moreover, she has money now. With the 60,000 yuan subsidy she just received, plus her part-time job in college and one year's salary from her formal job, she has saved 20,000 yuan.
What is slightly challenging is the experience bar and gold coins. To obtain experience and gold coins, you need to complete tasks or kill bugs.
The bug has not appeared yet, and the system's [Task] module is still in a gray lock state.
So what she needs to do now is to stock up, stock up like crazy, and spend all the 80,000 yuan!
Tao Sai went back to his room to catch up on some sleep. He slept lightly for two hours and left the old house at dawn.
Since there will be no construction work in the village for a while, it is fine for the sloop to stay here. She plans to come back in a few days when things are almost done.
Back at his rental house in Nanzhou City, Tao Sai began to pack his things.
She was seeking refuge, not moving, so she simply threw away a lot of miscellaneous things.
She didn't pack her toiletries yet, as she still had to stay in Nanzhou for a day or two. She picked out some sturdy, durable clothing, but the bright, lightweight chiffon blouses and skirts would have to be discarded for now. She then pulled out the quilts and blankets from the closet. Although it was still summer and the weather in Nanzhou was quite hot, she had to make long-term plans.
After packing all these items into suitcases and storage bags, Tao Sai began to buy some things online that she didn't have.
No matter how the refuge ship is upgraded, even if it is upgraded to the scale of a cruise ship in the later stage, it is ultimately just a skeleton, and everything inside the hull needs to be purchased and modified by oneself.
Tao Sai opened Baidu and typed in the blank box, "Essential checklist for survival in the apocalypse."
I opened several related results in succession, copied and pasted the contents into a blank document, deleted the duplicates, and compiled a long list.
She lay down on the sofa and started a large-scale purchase.
When surviving a natural disaster, Tao Sai's first concern was food. While the system panel had a built-in [Shop] function, allowing transactions with in-game coins, it could only buy in-game items. The only food item in the [Shop] was a colorless and odorless [Nutrient Solution].
Tao Sai placed orders for rice, flour, instant noodles, compressed biscuits, canned food, ham, nuts, chocolate, milk powder, and bread with a long shelf life, in boxes and boxes of different flavors, and changed the address to his hometown.
However, no matter how much food is stored, it will eventually be eaten up. It may not be a problem for a few months, but if it is measured in years, it will not last to the end.
In the game that Tao Sai cleared, her refugee ship drifted at sea for a full twenty years. While game characters can drink the colorless, tasteless [nutrient solution] for twenty years, she certainly can't; drinking it for even a week would drive her crazy.
However, there are some sustainable development options.
She bought two hundred plastic storage boxes online, planning to fill them with soil and use them specifically to grow vegetables and fruits, so that she could have a steady supply of food.
Tao Sai also wanted to raise some small livestock so that he could eat some meat occasionally, but considering that it was too troublesome to feed them and that livestock and poultry might eat more than humans, he had to give up the idea for the time being.
In addition, she ordered some fishing gear, including various styles of fishing rods and fishing nets. When drifting on the sea, if she can't eat pork or chicken, she can eat seafood.
Another crucial aspect is water. Water is the source of life and is essential. Fresh water is difficult to obtain at sea. Collecting rainwater is impractical, the boat is too small, and there are too many uncertainties. Therefore, the most reliable solution is to rely on seawater.
She searched for seawater distillation devices and found them for sale on Taobao for 4,999 yuan each. She gritted her teeth and bought two, so she could have a spare if one broke.
Life on the boat is not as convenient as at home. There is no gas for boiling water or cooking food, and electricity is essential for using electrical appliances.
According to the upgrade order of the shelter ship in the game, the next level is the fishing boat. The fishing boat has its own power, and the fuel can be purchased in the system's [Mall], so you don't have to worry about it, but you need to solve the electricity on the boat yourself.
Tao Sai gritted his teeth and placed an order for a home wind turbine, solar photovoltaic panels, and matching batteries.
Then there are the medicines.
The [Mall] sold various potions, including recovery potions and anesthetics, which were not available in the real world and were extremely effective. However, in-game characters couldn't get fevers or colds, or suffer from enteritis, stomachaches, constipation, and the like, so the corresponding medicines were naturally not available in the [Mall]. So Tao Sai bought some over-the-counter medicines as needed.
Based on the information on the list, she bought some disinfectant, gauze bandages, insect repellent, plasters for bruises and sprains, Yunnan Baiyao aerosol, and baking soda, a powerful detoxifier for insects, as they carry acidic venom.
The weather at sea is humid, so moisture is inevitable, so moisture-proofing is essential. Tao Sai bought a dehumidifier online. In addition, she plans to use some physical dehumidification methods, including dehumidification bags and moisture-absorbing boxes.
Water filtration equipment is essential. If there is fresh water on an island where the refugee ship is anchored, filtering fresh water is more efficient than distilling seawater.
Sturdy clothes, high-top tactical boots, sleeping bags, tool boxes...
She ordered everything on her list, crossing them off one by one, until her bank account ran low. Aside from a few thousand yuan in her WeChat account, she had spent all her savings and the demolition subsidy.
Tao Sai took a look at the final bill. She had spent 72,000 yuan on shopping in just one afternoon!
Tao Sai couldn't help but sigh. She never thought that the first time in her life she was willing to spend money was to purchase life supplies for the end of the world.
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