Chapter 15 Three Times the Surprise
“I’m going to work out later, you can come with me, and then we can practice together after we’re done,” Shen Dixin said dryly.
She was a complete self-taught individual, relying entirely on her own insights gained from life-and-death experiences; it was truly impossible for anyone to explain her in any way.
It was only after entering the arena that Shen Dixin discovered that he had a decent talent in this area.
Shen Dixin glanced at the time; it was almost time. "It's coming. The next wave will be stronger, so be careful."
Lu Mingang nodded vigorously. Dixin was so kind, caring about him so much! Little did he know that Shen Dixin was only concerned about her medicine.
The commotion was similar to the first wave, with the second wave being slightly more intense, though the proportion of level two was about 10-20% higher. However, the purification of the mind also gained some strength, making it easier to handle.
I only managed to cut down two before I received a notification.
[Congratulations on reaching level 2! You are rewarded with 2 free attribute points!]
[Congratulations, player! You have triggered a talent effect! Gain 3 points!]
Shen Dixin was stunned for a moment. Six free attribute points! She smiled and her eyes narrowed. What a pleasant surprise!
She drew her dagger, took a few steps back, and quickly added her attribute points: one point to Constitution and five points to Strength.
[Congratulations, player! You have reached a Constitution level of 10 and have unlocked the passive skill [Robust: You will only experience exhaustion when your Stamina drops below 10%]]
The changes in her body were so great that Shen Dixin felt sore in all her muscles and her limbs were not under her control.
She rubbed her arms and excitedly rushed towards the sea monster—this was the feeling!
Shen Dixing's combat efficiency increased significantly. Lu Mingang didn't even need to help her kill the sea monsters she couldn't kill in time. The spawning sea monsters couldn't keep up with Shen Dixing's monster-killing speed at all.
He could only stand awkwardly on the raft, glancing around at the shops nearby to help with some transactions.
Final stats: Experience bar (619/2500), a significant step towards reaching level three, Green slime x13, Frog Eye x5, Polluted Ocean Heart x1.
In the latter half of the game, Lu Mingang watched Shen Dixin slaughter everyone with almost fear, wondering if his own mentor might have some kind of talent for killing monsters and becoming stronger.
At the same time, the panic in the chat channel made him realize that it wasn't that the sea monster was too weak, but that Shen Dixin was too strong.
Feng Sheng Shui Qi: Does anyone know why so many people have suddenly disappeared? The channel only has 9331 people online now, compared to 9900 an hour ago.
Sea Breeze: Didn't all those who didn't want to live jump yesterday?
Asahi: You chose Monster Hunter and haven't done it yet? I almost died just now, my health bar was almost empty. Just thinking about having to fight monsters every day makes me want to die. Don't choose this if you haven't changed jobs yet!
Liu Ergou: Is this game even meant to let people live?! Is it even fun?!
Reincarnated as a corporate slave: I'm alive again! I was so exhausted from fighting monsters that I had to lie down for half an hour before I could get up.
Lu Mingang sighed, feeling a little sad, even though it was only the second day.
There are many others who have been infected like him. If one of them is gone, the other might be next.
Suddenly, everyone was on edge, and the shops were overwhelmed with orders for armor and weapons. Transactions were processed at breakneck speed, and Chen Qingxin was experiencing both joy and pain.
I had no choice but to reluctantly allocate another 5% of the revenue to the system and enable the automatic sales function, so that I only need to replenish the goods from time to time.
Early-game equipment can be crafted using blueprints, so there's no need to hoard it; everyone will eventually have one.
Equipment of purple quality or higher will be much more valuable. They cannot be crafted; they can only be purchased or obtained from chests. Collecting a complete set will not be as easy as it is now.
With a full 14 points of Shen Dixin's physique, the double buff rhythm wouldn't be interrupted due to excessive stamina expenditure from fighting monsters, and Lu Mingang's stamina was only consumed by one point.
After resting for just over half an hour, I was back full of energy.
After Shen Dixin led Lu Mingang through a few sets, he tentatively suggested, "Why don't you try the exercises I do at the gym, Dixin? They're quite effective."
Shen Dixin felt completely unoffended. He slapped his forehead and realized, "Good heavens, I forgot he's a professional."
Lu Mingang has some experience in training, but he really lacks practical combat experience. He can only rely on his physical advantages to hold his own against Shen Dixing.
After only three moves, Lu Mingang was hit on the head with a wooden stick again. Although it didn't hurt, he lost.
Again! "Bang!" He was thrown to the ground with an over-the-shoulder throw. Shen Dixin looked down at him with a nonchalant expression.
Lu Mingang was inspired to fight, and after leaping up, he continued, only to be knocked down by Chen Dixin in various ways.
This guy was a bit weak, but he was quite resilient. Even when Shen Dixin was pinning him to the ground and grinding him down, he didn't say much. Instead, he focused on her every move, analyzing and learning at lightning speed.
Shen Dixin clenched her fists. After stretching her muscles and bones, she finally fully adapted to the huge changes in her body.
Specifically, she was more measured and faster in her actions. Injuring Lu Mingang was definitely out of the question; this guy needed to take medicine for any injury, and it was very precious. A small bruise wouldn't cause him to lose blood according to the system's assessment.
Knocked down once again, Lu Mingang lay on his back on the raft, feeling an urge to close his eyes and just pass out.
Chen Dixin finally took pity on him and let him rest, while he started exercising to use up his energy before midnight.
The shop's goods were emptied again. Chen Dixin put a new batch on the shelves and looked at his backpack full of wood and plastic, feeling a sense of satisfaction.
With my mind at rest, I began to calmly consider what to do next.
There are no system broadcasts for levels 2-4, making it difficult to determine which level the current first tier is.
After all, scavengers gain experience much more easily in the early game, even faster than monster hunters, making them a perfect early-game class. Even with a lot of blueprints in hand, Shen Dixin wasn't entirely confident that he could get the level 5 reward.
These are all free attribute points! The most valuable resource in the game!
The ship's first reward comes every three levels, but Shen Dixin isn't worried about someone else taking it away. As the owner of her exclusive shop, she can absorb a large amount of resources flowing through the channel.
With two S-rank talents, both related to resources, it would be difficult for other players to surpass her even if they formed an alliance with her.
Since we've just entered the game, many players haven't realized what's happening yet. Those who team up are most likely friends and family, so they naturally won't hand over all their resources.
Moreover, when Shen Dixin checked the ship upgrade requirements, the materials were ridiculously expensive, making it hard to say whether she could upgrade to level three before the end of the beginner period.
[Materials required for ship upgrade: Planks (1440/3000), Plastic (766/3000), Rope (50/50), Nails (57/50), Wire (28/50), Wire (13/50), Iron Plate (43/100), Gold Nuggets (11/30), Silver Nuggets (23/50), Copper Nuggets (15/50), Electronic Components (4/15), Alloy (2/5), Battery (7/5), Steel Reinforcing Bars (2/1), Concrete (0/1)]
To Shen Dixin's surprise, Lu Mingang's income today was actually quite good.
Those turtle eggs were exchanged for nearly a thousand basic ingredients, and chefs can improve very quickly when they have enough ingredients.
After the turtle eggs stopped appearing, they continued buying and selling, but in the same amount of time, they only harvested less than a quarter of the resources and a large amount of ingredients to be prepared.
It's true that you really need a cook to survive at sea!
"By the way, Dixin, there are so many chefs now, it's hard for me to collect the ingredients this afternoon." Lu Mingang closed his eyes peacefully.
"Don't worry, I'll handle it."
Shen Dixin opened the chat channel and happened to see several private messages that coincided with what she wanted to do.
Nightfall: Can I pre-order the planters from your store? I don't have that many supplies, only seeds.
The Meng Po soup must have been diluted: Hey boss, my tomatoes are ripe! Try them and see how they taste. [Attachment]
Buying on credit? It seems possible. Nightfall said this not because she wanted to get something for free, but simply because the farmer was notoriously poor in the early stages.
The boxes I opened were full of seeds, but I had very few other resources, and I didn't have enough planting pots to grow them.
A small basin requires six iron nails, and you can only exchange one or two items you find in a day at most.
Moreover, it's really small-scale; you can only plant one crop seed. You can harvest twice a day, and you need to keep planting the crop for at least three days to break even.
They're practically brothers in misfortune with the cook; they both have to hold back in the early stages until they've accumulated a certain number of planting pots before they can turn things around.
AAA Materials Wholesaler Lao Shen: It can be rented out, but you will have to pay the contract fee yourself. It will be listed in the shop later. The commission is not cheap, so please place an order only if you can accept it.
Nightfall: Thank you so much!! I don't mind the commission, as long as it's faster than accumulating it myself.
Small planting pots require 10 wooden boards, 1 piece of soil, and 6 nails or 3 iron plates. Medium planting pots require 20 wooden boards, 2 pieces of soil, and 10 nails or 4 iron plates.
Using iron plates would be a waste; if I used my own iron nails to make planting pots, I wouldn't be able to make many.
After thinking it over, Chen Dixin set it up so that paying half of the production materials would allow her to buy a planting pot on credit, and she could then pay for double the amount of ingredients within the next seven days.
This means that the materials originally used to make one basin can be used to make two. Although the payback period is longer, you can quickly accumulate twice the number of basins and earn more money after the payback period!
Shen Dixin also opened a special window for acquiring iron nails and raised the priority of iron nails in other businesses.
Iron nails are not rare; their drop rate is second only to basic materials like wood and plastic. Everyone except farmers has them in stock, and they can be exchanged for eight pieces of wood.
Soil doesn't fetch a good price either. On the island, you can pry it open with a wooden pickaxe and get seven or eight portions in no time. Once you're on the island, you can have all kinds of this stuff.
Aside from farming, it's not very useful. Chen Dixin directly exchanged it for five hundred, which will last for quite a while.
In this way, she filled the five compartments of her backpack with planks, plastic, plant leaves, and soil.
After thinking for a moment, Shen Dixin stuffed the soil and plant leaves into Lu Mingang's hands.
The business of growing pots is easy to start in the early stages, and besides, the amount of food returned from growing pots that are not produced on a large scale is not much.
The chef I employ at home is probably enough for a whole morning, and every dish he prepares is a valuable resource!
It's such a waste to let them rest; we need to raise a few more to farm.
She accepted the tomato from the Meng Po soup. This person was a decent person; she had previously made her first fortune using his water purifier blueprints, so he couldn't possibly be unaware of such a prosperous scene.
Unlike those unreasonable people who demanded more supplies from Shen Dixing after she earned the materials, he did not disregard the fact that the transaction price was already very fair.
Since Chen Dixin's OEM business became increasingly successful, many people who had sold her blueprints came knocking on her door, shamelessly wanting a share of the profits.
She even rallied a group of people in the chat channel to stir up trouble, saying she was heartless and that they should boycott her consumption.
That group of people, Shen Dixin had blocked several pages of them, which made people miss the team card.
Although the team card sounds ordinary, it is actually a great tool for murder and robbery.
While everyone is adrift at sea, the probability of encountering an enemy is almost zero. However, it's a different story if you use a team card to pull people to an island where players can hurt each other.
Shen Dixin's fate in her past life was exactly like this: being ganged up on by the top ten players from six different channels. Even with three heads and six arms, she would have had a hard time resisting.
If there were team cards, making an example of them would make them behave. Shen Dixin wouldn't kill someone, but breaking parts would be easy.
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