Instead of letting Yu Ling actively seek out other players, it's better for her to build her own little nest first.
Finally, the NPC quests and the side quests on our player panel don't conflict. He's going to stay here for seven days, so he'll make a little nest where he can live comfortably. Once he's prepared with good food and drink, other players will definitely come running.
Those players selected from the modern world have no wilderness survival skills whatsoever. If they don't use their points to buy a lot of food and drink in advance, and also have space to store their equipment, then they can only gamble on how long their physical condition can withstand hunger.
As an NPC whose physical strength is comparable to that of the Ice Crystal Tree itself, Yu Ling is not afraid of any danger on the island. It can be said that this map, like all the previous beginner maps, is just for him to play around with.
Between lighting a campfire on the beach and building a small nest in the woods on the island, Yu Ling, fearless of any poisonous insects or ferocious beasts, chose the latter.
The uninhabited island is shaped like the shell of a giant sea turtle, and its terrain is relatively flat. One can imagine how big the abyssal beast that could swallow this giant sea turtle must be.
Only by completing the seven-day mission and immediately setting off to escape the deserted island map and being teleported out can those players survive.
Fortunately, these novice players are unaware of this information at present.
Since she only had seven days to stay, Yu Ling didn't plan to find a nice place to stay. She simply found a few sturdy saplings and used their branches to build a small platform in mid-air. Unless you deliberately looked up, almost no one could find much of it, making it quite secluded.
To prevent rainy weather from coming, Yu Ling installed a canopy directly above the small platform that served as her bed. The branches and leaves hanging down from it acted as a natural curtain. Although it could block out anything except people, Yu Ling only needed to be wary of people when she was resting (watching the excitement).
With everything prepared, Yu Ling returned to the beach. On the deserted island where resources were scarce, the fish, shrimp, crabs and snails in the sea were more suitable as food. Of course, Yu Ling also wanted to be lazy. The fish in the sea were not very intelligent, so she could just freeze them and catch them.
Yu Ling harvested a number of small fish and shrimp from the beach in a very short time. It wasn't that he couldn't catch big fish; these things were too big and slippery to handle, and it wouldn't be good if he scared the other players.
I wanted to stay undercover a little longer.
With food in hand, it was time to start a fire. Once the smoke rose, Yuling skewered fish and shrimp onto peeled branches and began to roast them.
The food that Yu Ling used to fool people was naturally not very delicious, but it could still provide protein. Yu Ling flipped it over, and it began to smell like roasted meat.
Soon, a few scattered people in the distance saw the fire that Yu Ling had lit and began to approach.
The players who had just teleported here weren't very hungry yet, but some of them hadn't eaten and were starting to crave the aroma of the grilled fish and shrimp in Yu Ling's hands.
The first to approach was a tall, strong man who looked like a bodybuilder. He was wearing a T-shirt and carrying a thick jacket with many pockets. When he saw Yu Ling, who was thin and small, his eyes lit up.
"Wow, you're already cooking at the very beginning? How can you be so uncivilized!"
With his handsome features, well-defined muscles, and a charmingly friendly smile, coupled with his deliberate and polite gesture of standing three meters away from Yu Ling without getting too close, any naive person would surely have a good first impression of him.
Yu Ling readily agreed, offering a completely unguarded retort:
"Yeah, I grew up by the sea, and I'm best at catching small fish and shrimp, so I plan to spend these seven days by the sea to at least avoid starving. But... I've already used up all my points on the supernatural map to survive, and I didn't stock up on any items or water. What am I going to do?"
As we all know, seawater is not drinkable.
By openly sharing one's strengths and current struggles, the conversation has already been made public. Even a seasoned socially anxious person could engage in the conversation, let alone someone who has taken the initiative to approach.
"You're right, the lack of water is indeed a problem. But it's okay, it's only seven days. If you're really thirsty, just find some juicy plants to quench your thirst. If you're lucky, you might even find a coconut!"
The bodybuilder, without any hesitation, sat on the other side of the fire.
"By the way, my name is Du Wencheng. Before coming to this godforsaken place, I was a food delivery driver. What about you? You don't look very old. Are you still in college?"
In survival maps, the most important thing is to find a simple-minded teammate who is easy to fool, reliable, and capable of backstabbing you in crucial moments. Plus, this guy is handsome, just looking at him is a pleasure, and he can fish—perfect!
Well... he doesn't even have a pimple on his face, yet he dyes his hair and wears colored contact lenses. Could it be that he's invested all his points into his appearance?
Faced with Du Wencheng's question, Yu Ling, who had never attended school, felt very guilty... However, he had lived a long time and had a wealth of knowledge, so he was not flustered.
“I’ve been working for a while now, doing live streaming, making a living off my looks,” Yu Ling said. “Brother Du is the legendary all-powerful mysterious food delivery guy. Sigh, I’m not in good health, so I haven’t been going out much. I don’t know how many days I can survive in this crappy game.”
Now that things had come to this point, although Du Wencheng felt that such a lack of vigilance was not something a player would do, he was too confident in his image management, so he put that last bit of strange feeling out of his mind.
"This is your second time doing a mission, right? It's okay. It's fate that you and I were matched together this time. I can definitely protect you. Of course, you'll have to take care of the food."
"No problem, then I'll be counting on you, Brother Du." Yu Ling's eyes sparkled, and she even handed over the two largest grilled fish in her hand.
Soon, through this mutual effort, Du Wencheng and Yu Ling became close friends.
The other staff members were probably not in good physical condition. By the time they arrived, the fish was reduced to bones, and the shrimp had all been eaten by the two of them. Only the aroma of the grilled meat was still lingering in the air.
"Hey guys, we came here because we saw a fire!" A guy with a buzz cut stopped in front of the two men, panting, and plopped down on the ground. "I... I just wanted to get some fire, how about we team up?"
The others had probably already formed their own teams, and in the end only three people came over. Two of them were girls, one with short hair and a dashing look, the other with a high ponytail, and the last one was a guy with a buzz cut.
The three of them didn't know each other. They just had poor life skills and weren't confident that they could survive for seven days on their own, so they wanted to find a player who knew how to start a fire to team up with.
On a deserted island with large temperature differences, the nights are bound to be difficult to endure. Given the nature of the map, it's not impossible for someone to freeze to death.
At this point, Du Wencheng, who already considered himself the leader, spoke up: "You guys want to form a team? What skills do you have?"
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