Chapter 1 Sea Survival AAA Supplies Wholesaler Lao Shen
On the vast sea, a raft made of just a few pieces of wood looked very flimsy. A girl lay on it, with books and a pencil case scattered around her, swaying with the rhythm of the waves.
A gentle breeze stirred the waves, causing the raft to tilt in an arc, a sight that sent shivers down one's spine.
The hand hanging outside touched the cold seawater, and the fingers twitched.
As soon as he regained consciousness, a familiar and annoying mechanical voice echoed in his mind.
[Game successfully loaded. Welcome to the sea survival adventure! All functions can be accessed on your smart bracelet. Please explore on your own. The sea will provide you with all the supplies you need. Fight your way to survival!]
Her repeated experiences had instilled in her the habit of straining to hear the system's announcements clearly, no matter how weak she was. But this time, she heard them clearly and was stunned.
She...didn't she already fall into the sea, and even the boat was smashed to pieces?
Does dying at sea mean starting from scratch?
But what that announcement said, Shen Dixin will never forget, was the first announcement that pulled him into the struggle for survival a year ago.
Suddenly, Chen Dixin remembered something, his heart burning with excitement, and he murmured, "The Wheel of Fortune, fate... so that's what it means!"
The Wheel of Fortune was a reward she obtained on a confrontation island—a colorful treasure chest unlike anything she'd ever heard of in the world of sea survival! Because of it, Chen Dixin was ambushed and killed by the top-ranked players in the server, and perished in the deep sea.
Shen Dixin couldn't help but sigh, for she died because of the wheel of fate, and she also lived because of it.
She skillfully raised her hand, touched the bracelet, and brought up the chat channel.
[You have joined Channel 9 in Region 12589.]
Player 1152: My God, am I dreaming?
Black Sheep: What did everyone get from the newbie chests? Was there any food?
Player 5677: If I am guilty, please let the law punish me, instead of throwing a person with thalassophobia into the sea!!!
King of Salted Fish: Hahahaha, survival at sea! I was sea fishing before I came here! I brought my fishing rod with me, watch me catch a hundred or so fish!
Player 7665: Brother Fish, you're my own brother, can you give me a couple of bites after I catch this fish?
Player 2339: Are you kidding me...? I was recovering in the hospital before coming here. After I came in, my injuries didn't hurt anymore, but I kept losing blood!! Does anyone have any medicine? I'll pay you back double!
Shen Dixin pinched her thigh hard, almost crying out in pain. It was real! She had truly returned to the first day of her survival at sea.
The girl burst out laughing, her mouth agape, unable to contain her laughter. Her face even took on a hint of madness, her once delicate features now twisted in a horrifying way.
Fortunately, there is nothing else on the sea except for Shen Dixin and her raft.
Soon, Shen Dixin composed herself, and the slight smile on her face showed that she was in a good mood.
Shen Dixin raised an eyebrow as her attention returned to the virtual screen displayed on the bracelet. "Region 12589?"
Although I can't quite remember which server I'm in, my ID number definitely doesn't start with 1.
"They've actually been assigned to another place?" Shen Dixin shook her head regretfully, hoping that her old acquaintances from her past life could hold on a little longer, at least not die before they met her, otherwise who would she be able to settle this score with?
With some unrealistic expectations, Chen Dixin brought up the attribute panel, only to be somewhat disappointed, as it was exactly the same as her initial attributes from her previous life.
[Nickname: Player 9999 (can be changed once)]
Title: None
[Talent: S-Rank Critical Hit (Chance to obtain multiple times the amount of items when acquiring resources)]
Occupation: None
[Level: 0]
Experience points: 0/200
[HP: 130/130]
Stamina: 130/130
[Attributes: Constitution 3, Strength 3, Agility 5]
[Status: Full of energy (conserving stamina consumed during actions), well-fed (stamina recovery speed increased by 20%), no easy wins (don't worry, the sea will be calm, countdown 9 days 23 hours 57 minutes 19 seconds)]
[Ship: A dilapidated raft (Level 0), 100% durability]
[Portable Storage: Beginner Supply Box x1]
Shen Dixin sighed. He had been daydreaming. The server might change, but things like initial attributes, which were directly scanned from the body, were unlikely to change.
Constitution determines health and stamina, strength determines attack power and carrying capacity, and agility determines speed and reaction speed.
An average adult's attributes are 5, but Shen Dixin only meets the agility requirement. After all, before entering the game, she was just a naive and foolish female college student, so it's normal for her physical fitness to be poor.
Because she hadn't played many games and was easily trusting of others, she fell into many traps. If she hadn't awakened her S-level talent, she probably wouldn't have lived much longer.
One wrong step and you're behind at every step. Having missed the beginner protection period, she had to put in a tremendous amount of effort to develop her career later on.
Looking at her talent, it was [Critical Strike], which was also what she had always relied on. The familiar words reassured Shen Dixin.
Looking at the initially assigned nickname, he pondered for a moment, then waved his hand dismissively.
[Has "Player 9999" been renamed "AAA Material Wholesaler Lao Shen"?]
Shen Dixin clicked "confirm," put her hands on her hips, and chuckled. This time, it was her turn to be the trader!
As Chen Dixin awakens, the game begins. Some supplies such as planks and plastic have begun to spawn sporadically on the sea, which are key to the players' survival!
Without wasting any time, Chen Dixin took off his coat and shoes and jumped into the water without hesitation to swim towards the supplies.
Of course, her target wasn't the cheap planks, but the supply crates floating in the distance!
While swimming, I didn't forget to observe my surroundings. The good news was that two supply boxes had spawned on the sea. The bad news was that the two boxes were on the left and right sides, and unfortunately, one of the boxes spawned too far away.
Shen Dixin spent two minutes retrieving the nearby supply box. She looked at the box in the distance with longing, but swimming over would be too dangerous. She wasn't sure if she had the strength to swim back and forth, and she might accidentally drown.
Suddenly, Shen Di thought of a simple homemade item and turned her gaze to the supply box she had just retrieved.
The box was one meter long and one meter wide, made of wooden planks. Shen Dixin glanced at it and saw that it was glued together without nails.
The lowest-grade wooden supply box has no nails. Above it are black iron, silver, gold, diamonds, jade, and the most mysterious five-colored treasure box. The grade of the treasure box can be distinguished by the material of the nails on its surface.
The level of the chest represents the quality of the guaranteed item it will drop, corresponding to seven qualities: gray, white, green, blue, purple, gold, and multicolored.
Of course, if you're lucky enough, you can also get white items from wooden material boxes. You can only go up one level at most, but there's no limit to how far you can go down.
This means that even gold and diamond chests may only contain one guaranteed item, with the rest being gray or white quality.
Point the bracelet at the box, and after an automatic scan, the material stuck to the box disappears.
"Snap!"
The box, having lost its support, instantly collapsed, leaving only six planks. Chen Dixin gathered them all aside.
[Open the wooden supply crate to receive 2 experience points.]
There were no surprises inside the wooden supply box, only three gray items: a milk candy, two planks, and a pillow.
[Congratulations to player "AAA Supply Wholesaler Lao Shen" for being the first on the entire server to open a wooden supply crate. Reward: 50 experience points and 1 wooden supply crate.]
[Do players wish to hide server and region system announcements?]
"No hiding it." With such a name, the celebrity effect naturally needs to be leveraged.
Shen Dixin smiled. As expected, the server had only been open for a few minutes, and she had managed to snag a crate by having it appear on her face, knowing how to swim, and having known in advance how to open the crates.
Next... the easiest second first-time reward to obtain in the early stages - the first level up.
She scrolled through the system announcements and found that only her two announcements were broadcast across the entire server. The red ones were server-wide announcements, and the yellow ones were region-wide announcements. Only a few words had changed.
Even if someone hid the announcement, the difference in experience shouldn't be too significant. If someone has the ability to predict the future and still can't get first place, they really should probably try banging their head against a wall.
Many people were still scrolling through the chat box in a daze when they saw the system announcement, and they all went wild.
Leaf: Seriously? This is cheating? How long have you been here?
Brother Long: There are supply boxes at sea? What do they look like? Are they the same as the newbie supply boxes?
Player 3348: I'm in awe of this master! I'm rushing over to hug his leg!
Butterfly Feather: How can there be such a huge difference between people! Someone has already triggered the system broadcast. Is it a box floating at sea? It's so far away, I'm a landlubber and I don't even know how to retrieve it!
The noise in the chat channel didn't bother Shen Dixin. She piled the supplies aside. The reason Shen Dixin was in such a hurry to open the box was because of the wooden planks on its outer shell!
Although it's a game, since players have entered with their own bodies and are no different from the outside world, it means that this virtual world might actually exist in reality.
In the game, this means that even without blueprints, if you can craft the corresponding item yourself, the system will acknowledge its validity.
She picked up a plank scattered on the ground. This plank was taken from the box and was different from the salvaged planks; it could not be used for system upgrades or crafting items.
Chen Dixin placed the wooden board at an angle, gripped it tightly with both hands, and then stomped hard on the middle of the board. With a "crack", the board broke in half.
Shen Di looked with satisfaction at the long strip of wood that had been broken open. His hands, which had never done any heavy work since childhood, were red and raw from the sudden force, as if they would break if he rubbed them any more.
Shen Dixin shook off her burning hands, feeling somewhat helpless. She needed to start training quickly; her body was far too weak at sea!
She wanted to break it into a shape that was thicker at the front and thinner at the back, but without any tools, she was really at a loss with just her two hands.
When rescuing people at sea, they don't care what you were doing at the time; they'll just pull you in along with your belongings.
Some people are lucky enough to get useful items like fishing rods, knives, and food, but this doesn't include calming the mind.
Shen Dixin glanced helplessly at the things she had brought in: a thick advanced mathematics textbook, a pencil case, and notebooks.
None of them were of any use. The most dangerous thing they could find was a compass, but it would be too much of a waste to use that little point to poke a wooden board.
This equipment is great for writing a will; she wrote eight versions of her will before she was reborn.
That's all I can do. Chen Dixin picked up the plank and earnestly used the slightly wider, torn end to paddle through the water.
That's right, this is the tool she came up with: a freshly made oar!
[Congratulations... Player has successfully crafted a "wooden oar" for the first time! 10 experience points awarded!]
[Congratulations to player "AAA Supply Wholesaler Lao Shen" for being the first player on the entire server to independently learn the crafting blueprint. Reward: 50 experience points and 1 Silver Supply Box.]
[Do you want to hide your character...?]
The system broadcast froze, accompanied by a buzzing electrical sound, before finally becoming smooth again after a while.
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