Chapter 227

Qiao Sheng thought that the system upgrade might be done on the same day, or at most the next day. He didn’t expect that the four of them had been busy on the boat for three days, but there was still no news.

During these three days, they were really active and diligent. Li Mu and Lin Haiyang first untied the two boats that were originally moving side by side, and then moved them one in front and one behind, with Qiao Sheng’s boat in front and Xia Beibei’s boat in the back.

Originally, their boat was much larger than others, and now this boat was directly doubled in length.

They used a construction hammer to connect the bow and the stern, and then replanned the area of ​​the boat. Qiao Sheng’s small kitchen was just a random stove, and all the stone mills and simple grills were stuffed inside.

Now this area has been re-divided and moved to the second-floor terrace where Xia Beibei and her family originally lived. A roof was added to the terrace and railings were added on both sides, which is both ventilated and rainproof.

Xia Beibei's bedroom is still the second-floor cabin on her side, and a cabin door was rebuilt at the rear of Qiao Sheng's second-floor cabin, which means that both cabins can enter the kitchen.

Because of the cabin door, Qiao Sheng and Li Mu also moved the storage cabinets to both sides. There were too many goods stored on the ship, and the back half of the cabin was not very convenient to pass through.

After all, the location of their greenhouse had to be changed. After all, the stove had been moved to a new location, and it was really inconvenient to put it at the bow.

Because of the tight schedule, the greenhouse was left untouched as it was not needed for the time being, and everything was packed up immediately after what was needed on a daily basis.

The third-floor cabin on Xia Beibei's boat was Lin Haiyang's bedroom, so it could not be connected to Qiao Sheng's third-floor cabin. The roof of the terrace was still added with fences on both sides, but a door was also added to the tail of Qiao Sheng's third-floor cabin.

This made it convenient for Lin Haiyang to arrange food and drink for the livestock every morning. The livestock that were originally in Xia Beibei's fourth-floor cabin were also moved to Qiao Sheng's side because she had a good stock there, and it was convenient to manage them together. It would be inconvenient to spread them too far apart.

The fourth floor is used to store sundries. All the things that are rarely used are moved to the top and piled up. The silkworm room is also placed here. They raise silkworms in batches. Some of them are too big and troublesome, but the silkworm cocoons they produce are really enough. It’s just that they are busy now, so they put the silkworm cocoons in the storage box and have no time to clean them up.

The first floor is now completely connected. There are two driving devices in front and behind, and there are cannons on both sides. There are twenty furnaces neatly stacked in the middle, and they are still smelting non-stop.

They didn't need to watch the planting pots at all. As long as Lin Haiyang woke up every morning, added seeds to the storage box, and brought the crops and Chinese medicine harvested by the robot back to the second floor and put them in the storage cabinet, he didn't have to go up again that day.

During this period, Qiao Sheng and Xia Beibei took turns fishing and collecting supplies without stopping for a moment. Just when the four of them had just packed up, the season suddenly entered autumn.

The day before, I felt like I was going to be evaporated when I left the cabin. The next day, it became autumn. There were too many ice cubes in the cabin and it felt a little cold. The sudden change of seasons made Qiao Sheng and the others a little uncomfortable.

When they woke up in the morning, all four of them had blocked noses, so they quickly went to find the team doctor of Pei Hong's fleet. They provided medicinal materials and skills, and with their cooperation, they finally cured the players who were in the early stages of a cold and had blocked noses on both sides.

Li Mu also asked for prescriptions for colds and fevers, one for driving away the cold and the other for reducing fever. Although they were not tasty, they worked very quickly.

The team doctor also said that the prescriptions for this digitized body were simple, and there was no need to consider too much dosage. Their digitized bodies could withstand a slightly larger dosage, and there were no other diseases that would be affected by the medication. It was really impossible to make a mistake in prescribing a prescription for the debuff on the body. As long as the dosage was large enough, the disease would heal quickly.

After the temperature finally reached a suitable level and everyone's initial cold debuff disappeared, the game screen was flooded with announcements again. This time it was to inform players that the game had been successfully upgraded. Congratulations to the players for having survived a year. In the following year, the island will no longer refresh resources. Even if you collect and replant, it will take a year for them to mature.

This means that the probability of players getting food from the wild is getting lower and lower. Those who are lucky enough to encounter an island first can only collect that batch of supplies on the island. If they want more, they will be gone.

Including trees, they have become non-recyclable resources. After all, the growth cycle of trees is quite long. It takes ten years for a tree to grow and a hundred years for a person to grow. Otherwise, how can we say that the predecessors plant trees and the next generation will enjoy the coolness.

Passive attacking small animals such as rabbits, chickens, and ducks no longer spawn on the island. It cannot be said that there is no meat to eat on the island. The smallest one must be an attacking wild boar, so there is a crisis from the moment you go to the island.

It is difficult to survive on land, and it is not easy to drift in the sea. Fishing is becoming difficult, similar to last winter. Qiao Sheng and his friends can only rely on wearing fish bone bracelets to catch fish. It is almost impossible for players without special equipment to catch fish.

It is equivalent to the simplest way of eating being cut off. The once safe sea is no longer safe. Various creatures in the sea can attack the player's ship at will. Unless the ship is reinforced, it will be attacked by fierce sea creatures such as sharks and killer whales passing by.

"Too cruel, we agreed that the boat is a safe house, but now it's not safe anywhere." Xia Beibei stopped the colander she was using and couldn't help complaining.

"Why are you in such a hurry? Those little players should be in a hurry. Our entire boat has been reinforced. The sharks are here to give meat-filled buns to the cassock cubs. I'm looking forward to their arrival, otherwise there won't be much shark meat left at home." Lin Haiyang followed Li Mu to clean up the odds and ends in the cabin, and turned around to reply to her.

"Not much shark meat left? That can't be possible. How could they finish eating such a big shark meat?" Qiao Sheng was busy fishing and hadn't opened the refrigerator for a long time. She didn't know the amount of food stored at home.

"Sister Qiao, look at them, they are fat and strong now, and their appetite is incomparable to before. Before, they could be fed with a few buns, but now Jiashazi, Xinxin and Baba have to eat twenty buns as the base, plus two kilograms of boiled shark meat, and they still have nothing to do but pick your legs and eat and drink. Is the shark meat you stored before put in the two refrigerators at the entrance of the cabin? There is really not much left. I estimate that they can only eat for a while, and then we will have to switch to fresh fish for them." Lin Haiyang pouted, wanting to let them see the fighting power of these foodies at home.

But looking at the cassock cubs standing in front of her and helping to push things, it seemed that eating a little more would not be a big deal. After all, they were really working and not idle. Their fighting ability was not low when they went out. With Su and Ah Dai, they could be considered half scouts.

Qiao Sheng thought about it and asked Lin Haiyang to look through the refrigerators at the door of the bathroom. Some shark meat had been placed there before. There was too much meat at that time and the consumption was very low. She also gave away a lot of it. It seems that she has to save some in the future and can't give things away casually.

Lin Haiyang put down the things in his hands and quickly went upstairs to look around. Sure enough, there was still a refrigerator full of shark meat. He should not have to worry about the food of the cassock cubs for the whole autumn.

There were also a lot of fish and wild animal meat stuffed in several other refrigerators. When Lin Haiyang came back, he said that he had some hidden supplies at home. He had been a little worried about the dwindling food supplies these days, so he wanted to trick everyone into collecting more food.

"Are you stupid? Don't keep problems to yourself in the future, as if you can save humanity. If you speak them out, they will all be solved. Not only does Sister Qiao have stock, but if you go to our ship, the refrigerators on the fourth floor are also full of fish meat. You are just lazy and don't like to look for things. Just look at the one or two refrigerators in front of you. If you open your eyes, you will find that your three teammates are nicknamed hoarders, and you are the only idiot in the family who doesn't know how to hoard!" Xia Beibei glanced at him and continued to collect supplies with a colander.

The game also issued the last announcement, and the number of drifting bottles for collecting supplies in the future will drop sharply, and even if you collect them, there will be no more patterns, so the possibility that the patterns that did not appear in the early stage may not be available in the future.

Xia Beibei looked at a drifting bottle she had just picked up and felt that the sudden disaster had not yet happened to her. As for whether there would be a pattern inside, it didn't matter. They had opened almost all the ones they should have opened, and they didn't have any other players.

Qiao Sheng also said that the duplicate patterns they had opened before might become valuable in the future, and they could then post them in the trading system to exchange for supplies, but they didn't need anything now, so it was okay to keep some.

"I understand. It has become difficult to get food and supplies from the game. Over the past year, the game hopes that all players can rely on their own abilities to be self-sufficient, but has it really reached the level of universal self-sufficiency now?" Qiao Sheng frowned, feeling that the one-size-fits-all approach of the game might kill many players.

Xia Beibei opened the world channel, and sure enough, there were complaints on it, saying that the game was not a human being. Some players had bad luck and could barely eat and drink enough every day, and had no ability to stock up. Now that the food they could get from the game was gone, they didn't know how they would live in the future.

Another player said that when he was trying to collect supplies just now, he was hit by a shark. If he hadn't retreated quickly enough, he would have only his legs left on the boat. The players

below were all joking and telling him not to worry, because it would just turn into a white light and disappear, and there would be no dismemberment.

Then the players were discussing how to avoid the shark's attack. Only a small number of players, because they had sufficient supplies and reinforced boats, had not been harassed by the shark. Most of the players had a close encounter with the shark.

The shark didn't have any special skills, it just opened its mouth and bit the floating board, and would not let go until the floating board was bitten off. Players could use a machete to chop the shark's head, so that it would feel pain and let go, but it would come back to bite the board again after a while.

Everyone concluded that it is inconvenient to have a big boat or a small boat. During the day, if the boat is big, the sharks will bite the float board at the bow and then at the stern. Because players generally surround the boat with a wooden wall, they cannot see it most of the time. They rely on listening to the sound to locate the position. Sometimes they react a little slowly, and when they run over, the float board, the wooden wall and the things on the float board will all disappear, and the loss is extremely serious. If

the boat is small, they are worried that they will not be able to hear the sound at night, and the sharks will bite off the float board piece by piece. It is possible that they will die in the middle of the night. For a while, people are panicked.