Chapter 6 Good Guy Card x1 You're such a nice person!
When islands appear at sea, a common scenario occurs where you can vaguely see the islands in the distance, but the wind direction is opposite to the current direction.
Even with sails, there was no way to drift against the sea breeze to the island; they could only watch helplessly as it disappeared.
With a navigation card, things are different. You can select anything within your field of vision, not to mention some troublesome challenge islands that only provide coordinates and directions.
Besides holding the course card to select the direction of travel on the spot, you can also silently recite the direction of travel, and it will automatically adjust the ship.
It can even be used to determine direction when there is no compass, but of course, no one would use a heading card just to determine direction.
Unaffected by wind and waves, and free from the influence of luck, it will safely and steadily transport you to the island.
In addition, many cards with different functions are produced by astronomers, and there is a chance to find them in the supply box after changing jobs.
Even if you're unlucky and don't get anything good, there's a guaranteed drop system for the exclusive items from your secondary profession. Every three days, you'll get a profession item box that can contain items related to your secondary profession.
This is why side jobs are often jokingly referred to as "rich jobs".
Aside from the job supply boxes that secondary jobs provide, the only difference between them is that the main job grants twice the experience after job advancement, while the secondary job grants no increase or decrease.
Therefore, activities like astronomers, which are difficult and impractical to gain experience, are well-suited as secondary professions. Primary professions are generally chosen from those that are easy to gain experience, such as scavengers or monster hunters.
Shen Dixin struggled to retrieve a piece of wood, tossed it aside, and glanced at her bracelet. There was a message from ten minutes ago.
She was delighted when she saw the person's name. You only get one chance to name yourself when you're trying to survive at sea, so it must be fate that you bumped into this person.
Xiaoming, a wholesaler at AAA Building Materials: Do you have any medicine? I can exchange it for blueprints or materials.
Below is a photo. After careful examination, I identified it as gasoline, batteries, gold, silver, copper, iron, and other materials that were considered rare in the early stages.
He really has some good stuff! Shen Di felt itchy inside, wishing he could take them all back to his raft, and immediately replied.
AAA Materials Wholesaler Lao Shen: Should I exchange one for six? I'll choose myself.
Shen Dixin was blunt, saying that the medicines available in the early stages were unique! Who has a lot of blue-grade items these days? Not many people even get them through talent.
Moreover, medicine is a strategic resource. If Shen Dixin hadn't already decided to choose Monster Hunter as her main profession, she wouldn't have agreed to switch.
Monster Hunter's supply crates provide bonuses to medicine and equipment, and with her critical hit talent, she generally won't lack these.
He replied almost instantly, but unfortunately, he also replied to others very quickly.
AAA Building Materials Wholesaler Xiaoming: ...QAQ
AAA Building Materials Wholesaler Xiaoming: I'm sorry, I just went out to exchange everything, and only got back a bottle of painkillers and two herbs.
Shen Dixin was taken aback, realizing for the first time that she had such a strong possessive desire for other people's things.
No, that whole pile, at least a dozen rare materials, were exchanged for this little bit?
This amount of medicine could be exchanged for wooden boards or plastic, right? She was never cheated like this during her most innocent period.
After exchanging a few words, I learned that not only were the materials mentioned above provided, but a green blueprint was also given away. Shen Dixin fell silent. What kind of foolish child from a wealthy family came from?
Shen Dixin rarely saw such an innocent person, as if he saw his younger self. Moved by compassion, he kindly explained the current prices to him and told him to ask more questions in the channel if he was unsure.
Although not everyone is kind-hearted, there is one truth to it: it is more painful to see others take advantage than to suffer a loss yourself!
Finding a bargain is impossible under everyone's watchful eyes! At most, they'll just keep quiet and then scramble to negotiate the price with the buyer.
Xiaoming from AAA Building Materials Wholesale: You're so kind, thank you! I'll come to you first next time to exchange.
Shen Dixin received a notification that Xiaoming had made a deal with her—five planks of wood. She refused, feeling embarrassed to take advantage of him; he was already in a terrible situation.
However, Shen Dixin believed Xiaoming when he said he would come to see her again.
To be able to produce so much on the first day is not something that can be achieved with just good luck; it's more likely that she has a strong talent for acquiring resources, just like her.
If he can produce the first one, I believe the second one will come soon.
She regained her composure, calmed her mind, and continued hooking for supplies. She would rest when she was exhausted, and then continue hooking for supplies until the sun was high in the sky.
The cycle of day and night in the sea remains unchanged: sunrise at six o'clock and sunset at six o'clock. It's already noon now.
Shen Dixin kept an eye on her buffs. As soon as the buff from her full meal disappeared, she took out the steamed buns she had saved for herself. She drooled over the buns until she regained her full meal.
Actually, during this time she retrieved three wooden supply boxes, which contained new food and the osmanthus cake she had previously traded for.
But Chen Dixin was used to keeping the good stuff because it could be sold for a higher price than steamed buns, and he wouldn't suffer from malnutrition while surviving at sea anyway.
She changed into the ready-made suit she received on the spot. Even though the sun was shining, her clothes, which had been soaked in water, were still wet. Now she had a solution.
Otherwise, the temperature will drop at night, and you might catch a cold.
They also got a sun umbrella, which Chen Dixin placed next to the tent at the stern of the boat. He stood underneath it to hook supplies, and it was much easier to work without the direct sunlight!
The remaining meat buns, seaweed and pork floss rice balls, apples, gold nuggets, ropes, and large pieces of wood and plastic were all packed away by Chen Dixin and placed in boxes. She even made three extra boxes for this purpose.
One is for food, one for miscellaneous items, one for palm leaves, and the other for valuables, such as tiger tooth daggers and medicine.
She was incredibly productive in those three or four hours, fishing up at a rate of over thirty materials per hour, only needing to rest for ten minutes or so in between. And when you include the items in the supply box and the occasional critical hits, the amount she collected was even greater.
Other players either lack the awareness to manage their stamina, or they don't have a grappling hook or don't know how to use it.
This thing is indeed easier to use than by hand, but it's not easy to control a soft and weak rope.
Some were thrown inaccurately, while others were thrown with too much force, knocking over the materials and sinking the grappling hook into the water. The cries of anguish in the chat could fill a modern encyclopedia of human grappling hook taming.
Let alone someone like Chen Dixin who can cast a hook with ease, anyone who can out-fish faster than you can be considered to have good comprehension.
This thing is okay for hooking supply crates, but hooking other materials is a real skill. Back then, Chen Dixin spent three months honing his skills by collecting supplies whenever he had free time.
Most people only manage to catch something once or twice out of ten casts, meaning they spend five minutes trying to catch it but two hours casting.
For those who can't swim, the hook rope is a lifeline, extremely useful!
Surprisingly, there were also people who couldn't learn it in a short time, and who, feeling frustrated, asked Chen Dixin for a refund. It's true that there are all sorts of birds in a big forest.
Not to mention that hooks and ropes are durable, can you really return the materials used in a contract manufacturing process?
Shen Dixin blocked a few ringleaders, and the world returned to peace. If you had to pick the most useful feature in this chat channel, it would be the blacklist, which Shen Dixin officially named.
She wasn't just a passive observer; she also kept an eye on the trading information on the channel and did some door-to-door business as a side job.
King of Salted Fish: Oh no, the fishing rod I brought in from outside is no good! It broke after only a few catches. What a shoddy product.
AAA Materials Wholesaler Lao Shen: I have fishing rod blueprints and can process them for you. Processing fees can be discussed privately.
If you promote her a lot in the early stages and build her reputation, even if you don't post any information later, people will keep coming to her to do business.
Especially for high-end items, when selling them, people always prioritize those they can afford the price for.
There were also various materials that could not be synthesized, which Shen Dixin bought up. He prioritized collecting the materials to upgrade his ship to level two, and even managed to snag a blueprint for a lightning rod.
The materials needed for Level 2 are not many, and Chen Dixin took stock of them.
[Materials required for ship upgrade: Planks (196/350), Plastic (129/350), Rope (10/10), Nails (17/10), Iron Plate (11/8), Gold Ingots (4/2), Silver Ingots (3/2), Copper Ingots (5/2), Wire (8/2), Electronic Components (3/1)]
We don't know why it would need such strange materials to simply increase the area, when it only looks like it has wooden boards and plastic to provide buoyancy.
But that's how the system is labeled, so Shen Dixin followed the instructions. They were already being dragged into the sea to survive, so what logic did they need?
There are still more than five hours until it gets dark. After dark, the supply boxes will not respawn, and there will only be ordinary materials with half the quantity.
If there were a light source, she could pick up the nearby materials, but the problem was that Shen Dixin had neither light nor fire. She had been squatting for a long time and had even posted a message, but she had not found any trace of a fire-starting tool.
Now, Chen Dixin is not the only one with a workbench. There are far fewer OEM businesses now, and most of them are making water purifiers. The availability of materials is not as plentiful as before.
She could barely collect all the materials before dark if she tried to do it herself; she'd never heard of any channel reaching level two on the first day in her previous life.
Unless you exchange it for extra materials, exchanging an electronic component for a dozen or so wooden boards would be a bargain, not to mention the gasoline and batteries that Chen Dixin has on hand. But unless it's an emergency, no one would do that.
Shen Dixin couldn't remember when she had her first level-two ship in her previous life. She estimated in her mind how much she could embezzle. She was determined to get the first reward, and she would exchange as few unsynthesized materials as possible.
Or perhaps we could expand our business?
Unfortunately, ever since everyone learned that the workbench could be unlocked at level 2, they have kept the blueprints tightly under wraps. If you really want to buy it, it's impossible without spending a lot of money. In the early stages, there aren't many blueprints available that are on par with the water purifier.
He regained his composure and focused on salvaging the supplies, checking the news only every half hour, and his work became much faster.
The sun shifted a few positions, and the bracelet vibrated—it was a notification from a friend.
Players who have traded with them and are deemed to have good character have been given friend slots by the "Chen Di Xin" (a player's name), and there are currently four or five such players on the list.
A note from the author:
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[Lop-eared Rabbit Head] There will be another chapter tonight, double update! We need to apply for the rankings on Thursday, so I'll be updating more frequently these next few days.
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