Chapter 197
As for why Qiao Sheng had been in a coma for seven consecutive days, it was unknown because there was no doctor.
But the good news was that she finally woke up. The two talked for a while, and Li Mu asked her to lie down and rest for a while. After all, with brain damage, no one could predict what would happen, so she could only rest as much as possible.
Qiao Sheng did not fall asleep even after lying down, but opened her emails. Fang Yueyi and Xia Beibei sent her several emails almost every day, asking if she had woken up.
When she saw Xia Beibei's email, her first reaction was that the Sea Monster Heart was still on her, so she quickly took it out and sent it to Beibei. She searched her body for a long time but could not find it. After asking Li Mu, she found out that when he settled her down, he took the Sea Monster Heart off her neck and sent it to Xia Beibei.
"I thought the first thing you would do when you woke up would be to return the things to the owner, so I changed them for you first." Li Mu made ice cubes as he used them these days, after all, Qiao Sheng's ring space was only for her.
Qiao Sheng gave him a thumbs up. He was indeed a close teammate and knew her well enough. He simply reported to Xia Beibei and Fang Yueyi that he was safe.
After closing the email system, he heard someone shouting outside the boat.
Li Mu explained that it was Goudan who came to ask him to help teach them planting. He had been teaching them this recently. As for the beast attacks, they had not appeared since they dismantled the altar. Cao Hanmo and his friends had been wandering around the mountain, and only some small animals were left.
"I also gave them four piglets, eight pairs of rabbits, four ducks, and four chickens. I didn't give them any sheep because we didn't have enough. I've been raising them for several days. I went to see that they were all fine. The chickens and ducks were all free-range, and the rabbits and pigs were fed with pig grass that the children picked up in the mountains. There was no waste of food, and they were all fine." Li Mu told her everything she wanted to know, mainly to reassure her and not to think too much, which would be detrimental to her response.
Qiao Sheng put all the coarse food that he had exchanged in the space ring on the deck and asked Li Mu to take it to Cao Hanmo and the others. These coarse food were definitely enough for them to eat for a while if they were eaten sparingly. When the food in the field was harvested, they could be connected.
It is said that Li Mu also arranged for them to get winter wheat seeds, so that they could have a continuous supply of food. As for the pork, Li Mu did not know how to make it, but he had seen Qiao Sheng making it many times, so he said he could still make it. The operation was done by Ke Junhua and Cao Hanshuang, and it was said that they could make it in a similar way.
They took the children to work on the meat of dozens of wild boars, including bacon, bacon, and smoked meat. They had not finished working on it for several days, and now it was all thanks to Li Mu putting ice in the storage room to keep the meat from spoiling.
Li Mu asked the monks to accompany Qiao Sheng obediently, and even wiped their paws clean so that she could hug them at any time.
After everything was arranged, she got off the boat and left with Goudan.
Qiao Sheng played with Su's furry tail for a while and then fell asleep again. She was still tired when she woke up.
It was dark when she opened her eyes again. The oil lamp had been lit in the cabin. She could smell the faint smell of wormwood and mint. Li Mu was not in the cabin. Although she could not smell anything, she could hear the sound of his spatula hitting the iron pot in the kitchen.
Qiao Sheng got up from the bed, moved her hands and feet, and checked her health bar to make sure it was full. Then she went into the bathroom to wash up. When she came out, Li Mu had already come in with the fried noodles he had prepared.
Walking to the dining table, he saw that during the days when she was unconscious, Li Mu's cooking skills had improved a lot. The noodles were really good, and he also added several kinds of vegetables. The whole thing was really good.
However, he knew that the fried sauce was not made by him after tasting it. After asking, he found out that it was Grandma Chu who knew from Fang Yueyi that she was sick, and knew that Li Mu could not cook, so she fried a pot of sauce for him.
"Why are you so hungry when there is fried sauce?" Qiao Sheng thought that he was thin because he had no food to eat in the past few days, but it didn't make sense when he thought about it. He shouldn't be left without food when he was watching over Ke Junhua and other NPCs, not to mention that Grandma Chu fried sauce for him.
"I put the fried sauce in the refrigerator as soon as I got it, and I couldn't eat it. You are in a critical condition, so I can't eat as much as you want." Li Mu said lightly.
Qiao Sheng held the bowl of noodles, always feeling that there was something else behind his words, something that he hadn't expressed, but she also felt that she was overthinking.
After dinner, she wanted to wash the dishes. After all, they had always had the habit of one cooking and the other washing the dishes, and they couldn't change it just because they changed the chef.
Li Mu didn't let her move. Qiao Sheng smiled and said that he treated himself as a porcelain doll and wouldn't be so fragile. He didn't listen and insisted on washing the dishes.
Qiao Sheng took some fruits from the ring space, gave some to the monks, and put the rest in a small iron basin, placed it on the dining table, and took out some iced sour plum soup to help digestion.
After eating the fruit after dinner, she remembered to ask the system about the progress. Sure enough, after clearing all the beasts, their progress reached 100%. However, the nagging system still reminded her not to think that these NPCs can live for long. They are NPCs abandoned by the game and will be cleared sooner or later.
Qiao Sheng directly said that they don’t care about what happens in the future. For the time being, it is their mission to help them overcome difficulties and keep their lives. They have done everything they can think of. If they still can’t survive, they can only say that it is their fate. They have fought as much as they can, and they have no regrets even if they die.
The system made her lose her temper at all and could only remind her, because the original intention of this copy was to let them know that the result of fighting against the game is a dead end, so that they can accept their fate and get the system reward.
However, if they did this, not only would the damned NPC not die, it might even cause players to despise the game, so they were judged to not receive the system reward.
Qiao Sheng repeated the system's words to Li Mu.
"It doesn't matter. We are also following our hearts. If everyone is evil, we can certainly turn a blind eye. But this island is full of children who have not grown up. Just because they were abandoned or sacrificed, they have to endure the pain they shouldn't have to endure. This is very unfair to them. It doesn't matter whether they are rewarded or not. Just think of it as saving a life and do what you can. When we leave, just accept your fate." Li Mu advised her to think more positively.
They slept quite late at night, all because Qiao Sheng slept almost the whole day. In the morning, she got up quite early and made some egg pancakes for breakfast.
After breakfast, the two went to the village to say goodbye to Cao Hanmo and his friends. They gave them everything they could and taught them everything they could. Before leaving, they sent them a hundred or so deep-sea fish, which they had stored before. Cao Hanmo and his friends were very experienced in how to store seafood, so they didn't have to worry about it.
Knowing that they were leaving, Ke Junhua and her friends were reluctant to let them go. They advised Qiao Sheng, who had just woken up, to rest on the island for a while and not to leave in such a hurry.
"Don't worry, Sister Junhua. I'm completely fine now that I'm awake. I came to let you see me because I was afraid you might be worried. Otherwise, let Li Mu come and resign by himself. He can have a good rest at sea." Qiao Sheng was pulled aside by Ke Junhua's hand to whisper.
"Xiao Qiao, you really need to take good care of yourself. You can't do such dangerous things in the future. Didn't you see how scared Xiao Li was? When he brought you back from the mountains, he almost went crazy and held you tightly. It was the head of the family and Han He who pulled him away. Only then could Han Shuang and I help you wash and change your clothes. Later, we applied medicine and bandaged you without asking anyone else. For three consecutive days, he didn't even get off the boat and stayed by your side without taking off his clothes. Later, we were afraid that he would starve to death, so we found an excuse to farm and called him off the boat. But he only stayed by your side for two hours a day, and he still had to stay by your side. It's hard to find a man like him." Ke Junhua patted Qiao Sheng's hand with an expression that you know what he means.
"Ah, yes, he's good." This expression made Qiao Sheng really not know how to respond, so he could only smile.
Finally, Li Mu was able to escape after he finished talking to Cao Hanmo and the others and came to find her.
On the way back, Li Mu was still curious about what she had just said to Ke Junhua in the corner, and why her face was so red, could it be that she had a heat stroke.
Qiao Sheng turned his head to look at Li Mu who was walking beside him, although he was a little thin, but still very handsome, and waved his hand to say that he did not have a heat stroke, and his blushing face was to cooperate with Ke Junhua's compliments. As for who he praised and what he praised, let him think about it.
Back on the boat, the two of them collected the anchor and set sail, continuing their life on the sea.
As the boat drifted, the sea breeze blew salty, although the wind was quite hot, but he was in a good mood, and even the scorching sun felt very comfortable.
Qiao Sheng was standing at the bow, enjoying the sea breeze and the sun, when a mechanical sound suddenly came from the system. Knowing that there would be no rewards, she assumed that there would be no system sound. This sudden sound startled her.
[The player successfully rescued the abandoned island and the islanders. The system store is now open to player No. 38.]
This prompt startled her, and she grabbed Li Mu's arm and started slapping him.
After searching on the panel for a long time, she finally found the system store button in the corner. When she clicked it, she was poured with a basin of water, which chilled her to the bone.
There were quite a few things in the system store, but they were all gray. Qiao Sheng swiped a few times, and there was nothing to buy on the entire screen.
As soon as she told Li Mu, he asked her to see if it was a level problem or a currency problem.
After searching for a while, they were sure that it had nothing to do with the level, but they couldn't find the currency either. After searching carefully up and down, they finally figured out what was going on.
In this system store, the first page is for sale items, and the second page is for purchase items. They have to go to the purchase page of the system store first, sell some items, save points, and finally use the points to redeem the items on the sale page.
The two of them returned to the cabin first. Li Mu went to the locker to get the mulberry paper and charcoal pencil that he had prepared before. Qiao Sheng read out those materials that could be redeemed for points, and then began to make records on the mulberry paper.
As he read and picked at the items, Qiao Sheng soon discovered something was wrong. The deep-sea fish, coarse grains, wooden boards, plastics, etc. in front of him were all lit up, and there was a number next to each icon. For example, the number for deep-sea fish was 50, and each fish earned 1 point. The number for coarse grains such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn was 35, and each earned 2 points. The wooden boards and plastics were 100 and 80, and the points earned were 1 and 2, respectively.
Because he was uncertain, Qiao Sheng took a fish from the refrigerator and sold it directly to the store. Then the number next to the icon changed to 49. It seemed that this purchase was also limited, but he didn't know when this limited purchase would be refreshed. It seemed that he had to keep an eye on this store and study the rules carefully during this period of time.