Chapter 112 Monster Hunter: If not bankrupt, then certainly starving and freezing...
They thought they would take action once they had gathered intelligence, but they ended up waiting for six whole days.
During this period, the players enjoyed a rare period of peace and tranquility, but this was limited to those on ships with roofs over their heads.
As we all know, the size of a raft can be freely customized; as long as you have the materials, unlimited expansion is not a problem.
Although only three or four of the people Shen Dixin knew chose the raft, it wasn't a lot.
Looking at the entire channel, the ratio of ships to rafts is actually about 60/40, and nearly 4,000 people have chosen the raft route, many of whom are players who are attracted by the large area and the convenience of using collection nets to salvage resources.
They expanded their rafts without hesitation, even going so far as to run out of money for food for a time.
When thunderstorms come, such a big thing will suffer. The lightning doesn't actually target the player's ship, but is evenly distributed across each area.
This means the larger the area, the more lightning it receives.
This made Shen Dixin so rich that her hands were sore from collecting money, and in the end, the supplies she received were 50% to 60% more than she had expected!
She quickly realized that she had calculated the usage based on the number of boat users, while those using rafts would only consume more lightning rods.
"17w6 wood panels, 15w9 plastic..."
As the rain pattered on her face, Chen Dixin contentedly scanned the rows of supplies. After more than a week of accumulation, her supplies had reached a new high.
"Why……"
Touching the remaining few days of the strange tide, she sighed, never expecting that she would one day be troubled by this.
I've gathered all the materials and successfully leveled up to level 12 yesterday, but I still have to fight through 115 waves of monsters. The earliest I can do that is March 3rd, which is the third day after the disaster ends.
The system probably didn't expect that a monster hunter could gather enough upgrade materials so quickly, it's only the end of February!
In her previous life, she didn't upgrade her ship to level seven until the end of March, and she never upgraded it again after that.
That's the speed of a Monster Hunter! Monster Hunters are like sword cultivators in the world of immortal cultivation! If not nine out of ten, at least half of them are dirt poor!
It's no exaggeration to say that the average Monster Hunter is in a worse situation than Shen Dixin was in his previous life.
She just couldn't bear to spend money on herself, and when she wanted to eat her fill, she would just stuff herself with steamed buns. But the monster hunters had reached the point where they could only eat steamed buns until they were seven or eight tenths full, and they didn't even have the means to spend money on themselves.
Players already have limited resources at sea, so who would bother doing business like Shen Dixin?
They barely make ends meet with the meager salary they receive every day, and most of their time on the island is spent earning meager wages through hard work.
Each week-long disaster was enough to make them miserable, but having survived until now, they have managed to save up some supplies.
Monster Hunter is different; taking even a few extra injuries during a monster horde can bankrupt you in no time.
What can we do? We only have a little over a hundred health points left, and the monster tide is only halfway through. Tell me, is life more important or supplies?
After the appearance of Bloodworms, almost every Monster Hunter stocked up on them, especially those who usually use a lot of potions when fighting sea monsters. If they were lucky, they could save a lot of potions!
Unfortunately, it was just a fleeting moment. After the fish plague, Shen Dixin never sold bloodworms again. She kept the rest to breed!
Many monster hunters are afraid to fight two waves a day to make the monsters level up too quickly, so they just fight one wave to get by. They work hard, get injured and fight monsters, but the experience they get is not much different from other classes!
A monster hunter who only fought one wave didn't even get as much experience as a sailor who lay down all day! Where can you go to complain?
It's not just medicine that gets consumed; weapons and equipment always wear out the fastest when a fight breaks out, so you have to buy new ones when they break.
Not everyone is as skilled and daring as Shen Dixin, who dared to confront the sea monster with a green knife and a wooden suit.
Yes, they are getting stronger, but the sea monster is no pushover either!
Most players wouldn't dare show themselves unless they were fully armed from head to toe, and besides, they really need these extra attributes to fight enemies.
Repairing good equipment is expensive; it can leave you financially destitute, if not bankrupt.
Those who usually chase after Chen Dixin, begging her to open loan businesses, are probably monster hunters—they're poor!
Although the surviving monster hunters are guaranteed to have at least 10 more attribute points than other players, those who progressed quickly, like Chen Dixin, have already obtained 13 points.
However, their average ship level is at least one level lower than the majority of the fleet. The few ships on the leaderboard with low ship levels but strong overall strength are all Monster Hunters, which just goes to show how high the risk of this profession is.
This is also why the character of Chef Shen Dixin is so deeply ingrained in people's minds. She is so incompatible with the words "impoverished and destitute" that people subconsciously deny any connection between them.
Or perhaps, subconsciously, they simply couldn't believe it. She was already so rich, and she even had extra attribute points, completely crushing other players. It was just too much of a cheat!
For most people, believing that others' lives aren't as good as they seem beneath their glamorous exteriors is a great comfort.
Perhaps it's the nature of the profession that makes the requirement for monster wave counts so high, because generally speaking, even after completing a hundred monster waves, leveling up is still a long way off!
Generally speaking, apart from resources, other upgrade requirements are not particularly difficult for players.
Shen Dixin didn't understand why these two easily achievable upgrade requirements were specially added. It was probably to prevent those who cheated!
Otherwise, if the entire server supported one player, they could easily level up their ships to level 10 or higher in no time!
The three conditions for upgrading a ship are character level, profession level, and required materials.
Since the experience bottle's durability was reduced to only one, the experience points gained from the Cleansing Heart skill dropped rapidly every day, allowing only steady progress. This resulted in a much slower rate of leveling up to level 12, or rather, a return to normal levels.
She kept the empty bottle; items aren't equipment, so you can't repair their durability with forging stones, but maybe such items exist? Anyway, she'll always keep the Cleansing Heart.
As for Lu Mingang, he had already completed the professional level requirement of making ten purple dishes long ago. However, he had been supplying experience to Chen Dixin, so his level was a bit too low.
Shen Dixin estimated that the two of them would be able to upgrade the ship to level seven in a few days.
On the seventh night, Shen Dixin opened the door and lay down on the rocking chair in the driver's seat. The coffee had been delivered to her a few days earlier.
It has to be said that there's a reason why some retired elderly people love to fan themselves with bamboo fans and lie in rocking chairs—it's so comfortable!
She takes so much rest to maintain her physical strength so she can be ready to face the enemy at any time.
Even with all his magical abilities, Spider Toast couldn't figure out when the escort agency would launch its attack, or even whether they would target Shen Dixing.
Just a few days ago she was very confident, and things were going smoothly, but she was starting to have doubts!
Perhaps the escort agency actually had a way to find the victim's ship and was preparing to take action after arriving on the island?
After all, a thunderstorm came and all the islands were submerged.
Shen Dixin had only been to Yuebai's place for a day, and it would be a long time before she could go again. However, this time she informed Yuebai in advance, but Yuebai became even more ruthless during the sparring session, and after a long time, she was beaten down.
Although I had this deduction in my mind, I did not relax my vigilance at all, even on the last day, in the last few hours of the thunderstorm.
Seemingly realizing that their time for reckless behavior was running out, the thunderclouds roared violently and unleashed bolts of lightning, each one thicker than the last, the light illuminating the entire sea surface!
Shen Dixin narrowed his eyes. A ship was approaching in the distance, and judging from its appearance, it was undoubtedly a level 6 ship. It was coming!
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