Chapter 39 Disaster Day: Comfortable and Pleasant
She quickly adjusted; something is better than nothing! Putting everything else aside, that 10% experience was enough for her to keep her busy fishing and gathering supplies for a day or two.
At this point, the experience bar for "Chen Di Xin" is (7641/8000), meaning you can reach level 5 without waiting for the Twilight Tide!
Hmm... This is a huge gamble! Shen Dixin stared intently at the remaining experience fruit. Eat it?
With a determined heart, the fruit was already in my stomach.
[The player consumes 1 green experience fruit and gains 88 experience points.]
Shen Dixin stared with dead fish eyes. Sure enough, she couldn't be impatient. The experience fruit ripened every 24 hours, and the next one would take several more hours.
The leaderboard does not hide player and ship levels, and players ranked below tenth generally have level three ships and level four characters.
Shen Dixin was unsure whether she would be overtaken. The first reward for reaching level five was very generous, and she had to take it.
The waves had calmed down, so she activated all the leaderboard rewards.
The profession item box contains two empty boxes, and the other items are 1 hemostatic bandage, 1 herb, and 1 specially brewed agility potion (green).
[Open the Golden Supply Crate to receive 11 EXP points!]
[Start...]
[Congratulations, player! You have triggered a talent effect! You have obtained 4 supplies from the chest!]
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[The player has obtained a total of 31 planks, 18 nails, 13 copper ingots, 9 silver ingots, 7 iron plates, 5 iron wires, 7 gold ingots, 1 steel bar, 4 mints, 3 fried bread slices, 1 strawberry cake, 4 cashmere towels, 1 red round rug, 1 warm scarf, 1 powerful tonic, 1 hemostatic bandage, 4 unidentified compasses, 1 small furnace blueprint (purple), and 1 power storage device blueprint (purple)]
Although the variety of items is pitifully small, the high-level resources that are supposed to drop are still in the supply crates. This time, the two blueprints and the compass are the main attraction.
Item Name: Compass Pointing Indistinctly
Item Quality: Blue
[Item Description: No one knows where its pointer lands; go and see.]
Unlike island invitations, the compass leads to various underwater ruins, where danger and opportunity coexist.
There are four of them! I don't know if they refer to one location or four locations. If there are four, we'll be rich!
But with the storm raging outside, Chen Di wasn't bold enough to embark on a long-distance voyage at this time. He'd wait until things calmed down before going to check it out.
Shen Dixin stared at the blueprints for a while and finally remembered that she seemed to have received a blueprint for a solar charging panel a long time ago. Without the corresponding storage facilities, it had been shelved. Now it finally matched!
Open the workbench panel, select sort by quality, and Chen Dixin quickly found the solar charging panel!
These two are rare purple items and are very expensive to craft.
The charging board requires 20 iron plates, 10 iron wires, 10 silver ingots, and 10 gold ingots. The power storage device requires 50 iron plates, 30 iron nails, and 10 batteries.
Although both are purple items, the material consumption of these two and the water purifier is worlds apart. Things that involve technology cannot be compared with the purely natural creations like water purifiers.
This is also why Shen Dixin didn't rush to use the self-selected blueprints to get the power storage device; if she got it too early, she wouldn't have enough materials!
Now, using the simplified radar won't require as many batteries; just connect it to the power storage device for fully automatic power supply!
This thing can drain a battery in just two days. A regular battery is ruined once it runs out of power, which is really a shame.
I glanced at the sky; dark clouds were rolling in, and there was no sun at all!
Chen Dixin sighed and put the supplies she had found back. Instead, she built a row of ten furnaces. The alloy was made of purple material, and she didn't have much in stock, otherwise she could have built more.
[Congratulations to the player for successfully triggering item advancement: Small Furnace (Purple) → Small Furnace (Gold)!]
The advanced furnace reduces the smelting time by a full half! Unfortunately, due to the limitations of the item itself, it cannot be directly upgraded to the superior version of the small furnace—the large furnace (gold), where the speed increase would be far more significant.
The remaining furnaces offered no further surprises.
【Item Name: Small Furnace】
Item Quality: Purple
【Durability: 2000/2000】
【Required Materials: Iron Ore x20, Copper Ore x20, Alloy x2】
[Item Description: Still worried about not being able to use the ore you mined? Stuff it in, and it'll be bursting with flames!]
Chen Dixin stood with his hands on his hips, looking at the empire he had built. All the ore he had accumulated could finally be put to use!
The minerals mined on the island cannot be used directly; they must be smelted in a furnace to be transformed into the metals that can be found in supply crates.
Shen Dixin tallied the minerals she possessed, totaling 176 copper ore, 166 iron ore, 165 silver ore, 84 gold ore, and 6 gemstones.
Most players don't have furnaces, so the price of ores isn't high. She's stockpiled a lot of them. Gold, silver, iron, and copper ores are sold in sets of two, which take 18, 12, 10, and 18 hours to smelt respectively. Gemstone ores, which have a chance of producing gems, take a full 24 hours to smelt.
Ten furnaces may seem like a lot, but they are simply not enough.
A single plank of wood is only enough fuel for four hours. Burning copper and iron is not very profitable; you can only make enough to cover the fuel cost. For more substantial profits, you need to look at high-grade minerals.
Undoubtedly, Shen Dixin will not relinquish this business; she can keep the furnace for herself.
Other players who want to use raw ore either need to find the furnace blueprint themselves or trade with her for the finished product!
Add firewood to the furnace, place copper ore on each one, and a prompt will pop up when you reach out.
[Copper ore: Harvestable in 7 hours, 59 minutes, and 47 seconds.]
He carefully covered the stove with the lid so that sparks wouldn't ignite anything.
Since the upgrade to a ship, the ship's floor has acquired the same protective properties as the center of a raft, preventing players from lighting fires.
However, the wooden crates and shelves that were built later could be burned, and the furnace had a lid, so Chen Dixin was not entirely at ease and placed them at the bow and center of the ship respectively.
Shen Dixin surveyed the ship's layout, feeling that there were safety hazards everywhere. This was the only downside to starting from scratch, as everything that existed before had to be rebuilt.
This special ship modification, protective coating, can be purchased from Captain One-Eyed; even the lowest tier costs 300 white coins.
After applying it, it is not only waterproof and fireproof, but also resistant to all kinds of artillery ammunition, swords, spears, and halberds. It has no drawbacks except for being expensive.
Speak of the devil, and he appears! A red parrot flapped its wings in the distance and landed on the mailbox next to the wooden house. Its bright yellow beak picked up a letter and stuffed it into the mailbox.
He then stood on the mailbox to rest and began to speak in human language.
Your letter has been delivered. Please sign for it promptly.
Shen Dixin stared at the tuft of golden feathers on the parrot's head, her eyes somewhat dazed.
She first asked Lu Mingang for some raw ingredients, and only after seeing the parrot move its beak did she take out the letter.
[Distinguished guest, the captain cordially invites you to join us for a bonfire party at the port of call in seven days.]
The monthly bonfire party in the middle of the month is a tradition of the port. Seven days later, the storm will end, and Chen Dixin will need to start upgrading the ship. He estimates that he won't be able to spare as much food as before to exchange for white coins.
But you have to go to the party. There's a limit to how much food you can exchange for white coins. It's as if they actually eat what they get. The white-faced people won't accept too much food for a while.
Don't miss any opportunity to earn White Coins, especially since exchanging food for White Coins is incredibly cheap compared to other methods.
The whole cucumber was devoured in no time, and the parrot squawked again, "Delicious! More!"
Shen Dixin stopped being stingy this time, handed over another fish, and watched it eat with a smile.
After eating a few fish, I was finally full.
"A good person!"
[Congratulations to the player for successfully unlocking the affinity bar for the character [Hanming].]
[After a hearty meal, Hanming was very happy. (Affection +10, current affection level 10)]
Shen Dixin watched tenderly as Hanming jumped onto her arm, smoothed the little guy's feathers, and tossed him into the air. "Go back now, and remember to say hello to the captain for me before it rains!"
The fiery red figure flew away, and Chen Di breathed a long sigh of relief, his face showing nostalgia.
In her past life, she had a close relationship with the one-eyed captain, and his most favored parrot, Hanming, was also very close to her.
Immediately, Shen Dixin's gaze fell on the most inconspicuous prize—the Disaster Calendar.
【Item Name: Disaster Calendar】
Item Quality: Gold
[Item Description: Allows observation of ocean climate changes over the next seven days. Only the player ranked first in overall strength across the entire server can possess this item.]
The disaster calendar looks similar to a regular old almanac, but the writing on it is very brief. Shen Dixin curiously flipped through it.
"The first spring, January 8th, a day of disaster, was comfortable and pleasant."
"In the first spring, on January 9th, a day of disaster, it was cool and refreshing."
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"In the first spring, on the fifteenth of January, a day of rest, the weather was comfortable and pleasant."
Then, an undeniable force prevented Chen Dixin from continuing to turn over.
The text at the top is minimal, but the background image provides much more information.
For example, during the period from the 8th to the 14th of spring when storms rage, the calendar illustrations are all of players struggling to withstand the storms, hinting at the various difficulties they may encounter during this time.
Moreover… Shen Dixin observed the little figure above with great interest; it was drawn exactly like her!
She posted a screenshot of the last page to the chat channel with the caption: "The storm will end in seven days, as shown in the picture. Remember to repay in seven days."
Golden Candle: Seriously? This awful weather is taking so long to end?
Feng Sheng Shui Qi: Thank you for letting me know!
Floating Clouds yyy: Oh my god, I feel like I missed out on a fortune. Big shot, can I still borrow it now? @AAA Materials Wholesale Lao Shen
Grayscale Space: We also want it to return! I really need more supplies!
Most mid-level players actually have a certain understanding and ability of the game. They are not so desperate that they need to borrow money from Chen Dixin, nor do they have the determination to quickly surpass the pace of the game.
It wasn't until they learned that the loan would be repaid in seven days that they realized it seemed to be a pretty profitable business.
Once the pie gets bigger, even if some of it has to be repaid, it will still be more than what was received before.
Unfortunately, Shen Dixin no longer had that many materials, and no matter how much she had, she couldn't supply all the players in one area.
She thought for a moment and replied, "There will be another meeting in three days."
After a while, once Lu Mingang has dealt with all the food they have, it will be time to sell the food, turn it into supplies, and then lend it out. After the storm, they should be able to upgrade the ships!
Chen Dixin wasn't worried at all about whether the food would sell; the disaster had brought everything to a standstill.
Farmers lack stable conditions for growing crops, and fishermen's yields are halved or even more. With these two raw material-producing professions declining, cooks are facing a shortage of ingredients. Coupled with the unexpected reduction in supply crates, this will keep players struggling to survive for quite some time.
"Chirp—"
A white shadow streaked across the sky. Chen Dixin looked up and saw a puffin, a very common seabird.
Wandering outside in this weather, Chen Dixin scratched his head, wondering if there was an island nearby where it could land.
Before stepping out of the wooden house, Shen Dixin glanced at the makeshift radar and, unsurprisingly, saw a mosaic of pixels.
The simple radar could not receive signals on cloudy or rainy days, so it could only be observed manually.
There's nothing we can do about it; after all, it's a facility whose name includes "simple," so we can't expect too much from it.
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