"Benefit effect?" Lu Ye raised his eyebrows and became interested.
"What kind of gain? For example, eating your braised pork will make me stronger?"
This little girl has such an unexpected surprise?
Xiao Yiyi quickly shook her head. "It's not that powerful, Brother Lu! For example, drinking hot soup can temporarily dispel a bit of the chill, and eating certain fish can slightly increase the duration of underwater breath-holding... The effects are very weak and short-lived. It also depends on the ingredients themselves..."
"That's pretty good too!" Lu Ye interrupted her with an affirmative tone.
"At a critical moment, even the slightest advantage can mean the difference between life and death. If you use this ability well, it can become a divine skill!"
He looked at his companions who had been "transformed", but he did not feel much relief in his heart.
Shen Shu's medical skills, Su Baiyue's physical skills, Shen Hebei's water creation, Xiao Yiyi's food enhancement... the emergence and strengthening of these abilities all point to a disturbing possibility.
Is the system screening or catalyzing?
That "raging sea" was obviously not just a natural disaster.
It is like a watershed, dividing the survivors into different levels.
Ordinary people are still struggling to survive, while people like them with "special identities" are given stronger abilities, but it also inevitably means... they will face more severe challenges.
The second "system easter egg" will probably be more cruel than anyone imagined.
Lu Ye's eyes sank slightly, and the pressure of survival once again weighed heavily on him.
At this moment, Shen Hebei seemed to remember something, slapped his thigh, and approached Lu Ye mysteriously:
"Oh right, Ye Zi! I have something to tell you! When we separated, I got lucky and came across a floating golden supply box. Besides food, there was also this thing inside!"
As he spoke, he took out a drawing with a metallic luster and a strange texture from his pocket and handed it to Lu Ye carefully.
The drawing contained complex structural diagrams and dense data, and the title was clearly - [Portable Energy Shield Generator Drawing]!
"High-tech!" Shen Hebei lowered his voice, unable to hide his excitement.
"I read the instructions. Once this thing is built, it can generate an energy shield that covers the entire ship! It can withstand physical impact and energy attacks! It's a life-saving artifact!"
Lu Ye took the drawing, glanced at it quickly, and was shocked.
Energy shield? This is definitely top-level equipment in the current survival environment!
However, his eyes quickly fell on the list of materials below the drawing, and his brows instantly frowned.
[Required Materials: High-purity Crystallized Energy Core x1, Titanium Alloy Frame x5, Energy Conducting Circuit Board x10, Micro Repulsion Generator x2, Composite Bio-Armor Plate x20...]
Among the more than ten materials listed on the list, Lu Ye had never heard of half of them, and the remaining ones were obviously extraordinary just by looking at their names.
“…but this material,” Shen Hebei also saw Lu Ye’s expression, scratched his head, and added awkwardly.
"It's really fucking hard! I've been thinking about it for a long time, but I only know about titanium alloy. I've never heard of the others."
Sure enough, good things don’t come for free.
Lu Ye thought to himself.
This protective shield is indeed powerful, but the manufacturing threshold is also ridiculously high.
"It's okay. As long as we have the blueprints, we have hope." Lu Ye carefully put the blueprints away and patted Shen Hebei's shoulder. "We are a team now. Your things are everyone's things."
He remembered an unopened silver metal box that the system had delivered to him before. It was said to be a reward for completing a hidden achievement for the first time.
"Bai Yue, help me get that silver box."
Su Baiyue quickly retrieved the box. Lu Ye took a deep breath and selected [Open].
[System prompt: Opening the first achievement reward box...]
[Obtained: General Parts x100, Refined Fuel x20L, Compressed Biscuits x50, Fresh Water x30L, Energy Conductive Circuit Boards x3, Titanium Alloy Ingot x1!]
There were a lot of things in the box, even materials needed for two types of protective shields!
Although the number is not large, it is at least a good start!
"I have three circuit boards, but only one ingot of titanium alloy... I need to figure out how to process it into a frame."
Lu Ye quickly took stock of the harvest and the gaps.
"We still need the energy core, repulsion generator, and bio-armor pieces... I don't know how long it will take to get these things just by opening boxes."
His eyes swept over the calm sea and he quickly made a decision in his heart.
"No more waiting, let's find it ourselves!"
He immediately opened the regional channel of the survival system, edited a message and sent it out:
Lost and Found Notice: We are purchasing the following materials at a high price: High-purity Crystallized Energy Cores, Micro-Repulsion Generators, Composite Bio-Armor Plates, and various rare metal ores. These materials can be exchanged for food, fresh water, fuel, weapons and ammunition, or treatment slots.
As soon as this message was sent out, the originally calm regional channel instantly exploded.
[Oh my god! What kind of plane is this boss doing again?]
[Crystallized energy core? Repulsion generator? What the hell is this? I've never heard of it!]
[This is hilarious! This game has only been around for a few days? And you're already wanting high-tech? Maybe you've been watching too many sci-fi movies?]
"That's right! We're lucky to be alive now, but you're still thinking about building a Gundam? Aren't you being too pessimistic, sir?"
[I think he just had too much supplies and didn't know where to use them, so he posted it to show off, right?]
[Agree with the above, at this stage, the best thing to do is to honestly collect basic supplies! ]
When most of the survivors were still struggling for a bite to eat and a drop of fresh water, Lu Ye's public acquisition of these "high-tech" materials that sounded incredible was nothing but a pipe dream.
Lu Ye scoffed at these comments and ignored them.
A bunch of idiots, they don’t even know they are about to die.
The system strengthens our capabilities, but won't it also strengthen the dangers in this sea area?
He had a strong premonition that the calm was only temporary and a greater crisis was brewing.
The protective shield must be built as soon as possible!
Time passed slowly and night fell completely.
The sea breeze became bitterly cold, and the previously calm sea surface began to surge with uneasy undercurrents.
“Gudong…Gudong…”
Strange sounds came from underwater, becoming more and more frequent.
The first things to show signs of abnormality were the dilapidated electric boats that were a little further away from Lu Ye's fishing boat.
The ship began to shake violently without any warning, with the amplitude increasing, as if something was ramming wildly under the water!
"What's going on?!"
"The boat! The boat is rocking!"
"Down there! There's something under the water!"
Screams of terror cut through the night air.
Lu Ye's face changed, and he immediately grabbed a spare torch, lit it, and threw it hard towards the water near the swaying boat!
"puff!"
The torch fell into the water, and the orange-red flames instantly illuminated the sea area around the bottom of the ship!
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