Chapter 40 Feathers Flying Around: They'll Go to the Toilet on Your Head
Chen Dixin put on her woven straw hat and pushed open the door. These were the green blueprints she had collected a few days ago to make up the numbers.
I have quite a few rain gear items at home, including umbrellas, raincoats, and even a raincoat made of plant fibers.
After trying them all, Shen Dixin still chose the lightest straw hat, which didn't require her to hold it and wouldn't obstruct her vision or hinder her movement!
Although it looks a bit rustic, you have to admit that if you ignore the front and disregard the straw rope used to secure it to the chin, it has a certain Taoist air about it.
Cool! Shen Dixin admired his handsome figure in the water for a while and nodded in satisfaction.
Indeed, spiritual fulfillment requires material support.
When you're at your wit's end, you can purify your heart and force yourself to become devoid of desire in order to survive. Now that you can catch your breath, your suppressed emotions have resurfaced.
She scrolled through the chat channels, looking for players who wanted to share rare items, while also gazing into the distance to see if any islands appeared.
After searching through paid and free channels for a long time, Shen Dixin actually found two people.
Highbrow: Expand your backpack slots, bring your price!
It's good to be busy: selling forging stones at market price, priority given to those with equipment.
Difficult! Difficult! Difficult! Difficult! Difficult! I'm not selling these purple shoes with +2 Constitution and +1 Speed. I'll only trade them for other equipment of the same level!
...
Chen Dixin privately chatted with her in the past.
After some haggling, I got the backpack expansion slot for 1 hemostatic bandage, 1 painkiller, and 3 tonic pills. I also traded back the purple shoes for a pile of purple helmets. The remaining items had already been traded away.
Players generally won't sell valuable items to the Heart-Cleansing Shop; the system will only offer the normal price. However, it's normal for players to ask for 40-50% more for good items, or even double the price.
Chen Dixin is usually busy and only checks the chat channel in his spare time. It's not uncommon for him to find that the seller has already sold the item.
We need to find someone to help keep an eye on the channel.
Chen Dixin first asked his farmer friends, who said that farmers' time is more fragmented and they probably spend more time watching channels.
Coffee was clearly someone who scrolled through chat channels intensively; she was the first to respond as soon as Shen Dixin spoke.
Coffee or tea: Me! Me! Me! Boss, I'm all set! I start browsing channels as soon as I open my eyes; I even outsource my farming!
Coffee sent the message, a little embarrassed, and chuckled.
She's usually surrounded by friends, going out and having fun every day, and chatting happily in group chats. Suddenly being left alone at sea would make her feel so bored. She'd chat about anything and everything, and she was definitely the most attentive person on any channel.
Such a high response rate!
Shen Dixin entrusted the task to Coffee with complete peace of mind.
AAA Materials Wholesaler Lao Shen: If you see someone selling rare items, ask them the price first. Don't tell me if it's too outrageous. I'll give you ten planks for every order.
Coffee happily agreed. She was quite anxious since she couldn't farm now, but even ten planks were still income!
She was unlucky and didn't get the supply box. At that time, she was unaware that supplies were decreasing and prices were rising. Otherwise, she probably would have been supporting the business of selling those ten planks.
Even after using the expanded grid, Chenxixin still has more than a dozen kinds of medicines, especially painkillers, which are not very popular in the market. He has accumulated ten bottles of them!
Shen Dixin pondered as he looked at the unsold painkillers. At this stage, it was rare for people to suffer from serious internal injuries, and painkillers were not as cost-effective as the other two.
She decided to list some information – the wonderful uses of painkillers and the uses of herbs! Just like when she sold gems, the prices were one bottle of painkiller and four herbs!
The medical bandage made from painkillers and hemostatic bandages not only restores ten more health points, but also doubles the duration of the buff, making it a sure-fire way to deal with serious injuries.
The news about the herbs couldn't be kept secret either; even though Shen Dixin didn't say anything, it was difficult for players to find out.
But she can't possibly use up all this medicinal wine. She's far above average, and she doesn't even lose health when fighting monsters!
Once players get their hands on the medicinal wine and experiment a little, they'll understand how to make it and decide to sell a batch to get some supplies.
Today is the eighth day of spring. Shen Dixin has always been extremely sensitive to the first day of the week because there are many things in the sea survival process that are in a seven-day cycle, such as various disasters, such as... the medicinal wine she brewed!
They rummaged through some nook and cranny and found three mineral water bottles. The two bottles that Lu Mingang brought were already soaked, while the ones that Chen Dixin had made later were still a while away.
Although it looks shabby, the liquid inside has turned light green, and you can smell the fragrance of grass when you unscrew it.
It's supposed to be a medicinal wine, but Chen Dixin doesn't have the necessary ingredients right now, so he can only use water to make it.
【Item Name: (Unfinished) Crude and Poorly Made Medicated Wine】
Item Quality: Green
[Item Description: A bottle of medicinal wine with 5 hours, 36 minutes, and 21 seconds remaining in its brewing time. Hopefully, it won't poison someone.]
Drinking a bottle of medicinal wine made by soaking herbs in water can restore 20 points of health. If you are generous and willing to use wine to make it, you only need three herbs to make a genuine medicinal wine that restores 50 points of health!
With a few hours to go, Shen Dixing casually placed the bottle of medicinal wine in a conspicuous spot, waiting to collect the wine.
Unlike alcohol, water cannot disinfect or sterilize. Once the herbs are soaked in water to make medicinal wine, they must be removed immediately, otherwise the herbs will spoil and the medicinal wine will become unusable.
The other two bottles of medicinal wine were soaked for only half a day longer. After cleaning off the herbs, Chen Dixin carefully observed them and confirmed that there were no mistakes.
The wind seemed to carry the chirping of birds again, and Shen Dixin quickly looked up and looked around. Just as her eyes were about to get tired, an island appeared on her right!
The island was unusually lush with trees and foliage; the heavy rain had driven all the birds to the island to take shelter from the storm.
The chaotic chirping sent shivers down Chen Dixin's spine. The newbie protection period was over; would he be attacked by birds once he arrived on the island?
Thinking of that precise strike that came from the sky, carrying a foul odor and sticky, stringy substance, Chen Dixin's hand, which was unfurling the sail, trembled slightly.
But no matter what, are we really not going to the island?
Taking advantage of the calm weather, Chen Dixin hurriedly prepared her things to go to the island.
After taking off her straw hat, Chen Dixin put on a raincoat, since she might need to protect herself from more than just rain later, so it was best to be on the safe side and cover herself up properly.
The items were all the same old things. While checking them one by one, Lu Mingang also received a message and came over from next door.
Having not been to the island for a long time, he seemed very excited and started moving around on the boat.
Shen Dixin suddenly spoke up, "Can you shoot arrows? You can also throw shot puts or javelins."
Lu Mingang shook his head blankly, sighed deeply, and told him, as if facing a formidable enemy, that there were probably many birds on the island.
Lu Mingang: ...?
"You haven't encountered any birds here before? These guys are fierce and strong; they'll pick up stones and branches and smash them, and..."
Shen Dixin described it with some difficulty, "They will poop on your head, and it's not a problem for one to poop a whole bunch."
Lu Mingang: ...!
So another person put on the same raincoat, and the two even carefully put on disposable masks from the supply box, arming themselves from head to toe!
Quietly, two more people appeared on the beach.
Chen Dixin dug out the box that was shallowly buried in the sand. It looked the same as the supply box, only smaller in size and more worn out.
This is a gray-grade supply that has a chance to spawn on the beach, and it will randomly drop a small number of items.
[Open the lost chest to receive 1 experience point!]
[Player obtains Broken Sword x1]
【Item Name: Broken Sword】
Item Quality: Green
【Durability: 100/100】
[Equipment Attribute: Attack Power 2]
[Equipment Special Effects: None]
[Item Description: A piece of iron that has long been rusted. Having lost its tip, it has only gained more sharpness. However… perhaps it is more suitable for instigating certain diseases than for killing.]
...
[Player obtains 1 silver necklace]
【Item Name: Silver Necklace】
Item Quality: Green
[Item Description: It was supposed to be inlaid with a gemstone.]
[Player obtains 1 broken porcelain shard]
...
They opened five or six boxes and only found two seemingly useful green items.
Shen Dixin patted the dust off her face, frowned, and looked into the distance. Why were the birds on this island so active, chirping incessantly and making her head buzz?
"Cheers! Cheers—"
Then another series of piercing screams rang out. Upon calming down and listening carefully, Chen Dixin noticed something amiss; it sounded somewhat like screams of agony.
A possibility surfaced in Chen Dixin's mind: who were they fighting with?
She beckoned Lu Mingang to follow, tucking her trouser legs into her shoes to hold them in place. This island was no exaggeration to call itself a small tropical rainforest, so there were bound to be plenty of insects.
Finding them was easy. Following the bird calls, Chen Dixin walked all the way to the center of the island, and then he saw clearly that they were indeed fighting, and their opponents were dozens of monkeys.
Despite the seabirds' pitiful cries, it was the monkeys who ended up with their heads bleeding.
Three fists can't beat four hands. The monkeys are strong in fighting, but when they encounter thousands of birds fighting for territory, they can only be beaten.
They climbed up and down, nimbly dodging the stones thrown by the seabirds, and scooped up several stones with their hands and threw them into the air.
In an instant, feathers and monkey hair flew everywhere, and bird droppings danced with leaves.
Shen Dixin fanned himself by the nose, feeling a strong urge to turn around and leave.
But since we're already here, how can we not watch this spectacle?
Moreover, look at the monkeys, who are being hit every now and then, their faces ashen and on the verge of defeat.
Shen Dixin was certain that after the monkeys were driven away, the seabirds would target them.
With such a large-scale drive away, the seabirds probably wanted to use this place as a habitat, and perhaps even lay their eggs and hatch their young. They certainly wouldn't allow other creatures that could threaten their young to exist on the island.
"Go search the island now, and be quick about it. We won't need to dig up the cheap stuff."
Shen Dixin tossed the backpack into Lu Mingang's arms, lowered her voice and told him to leave quickly, while she herself hid in the grass and quietly moved towards the battlefield.
Lu Mingang nodded and slipped out quietly without disturbing any creature.
After a stealthy advance, Shen Dixin was almost at the edge of the battlefield when stones began to fall nearby.
As she got closer, she realized that the monkeys were in very poor condition. Apart from the largest one in the middle with the shiniest fur, the rest of the monkeys were weak and listless. This was why the two of them could only hear birdsong from a distance at first.
Without hesitation, Chen Dixin made a decision: to help the monkey and delay the battle for now.
She picked up two stones from the ground, found the right angle, and used her weapon to smash them into several pieces, the broken fragments showing sharp angles.
The sound of metal colliding with stone blended perfectly into the scene. Once a small pile of ammunition had accumulated at his feet, he calmly threw out stones, aiming each one at birds that were far apart from each other, so that they wouldn't notice the change in the battle for a while.
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