Chapter 229
After dealing with the two ambushers, Qiao Sheng and his team continued to collect supplies in the forest. They took out their hoes to chop down large rocks and chopped down trees as they passed by. There
were many beasts of all sizes along the way. Last year, many beasts could avoid being attacked as long as you kept your distance, but now it is no longer possible. When you see them, they have already started to attack the players.
In addition, there are players who want to go up and take advantage of the situation from time to time, so Qiao Sheng and Li Mu have to stay alert all the time. When they return to the boat at night, they are all exhausted.
Dinner was not cooked on the spot, but food was taken from Qiao Sheng's ring space. The cassocks didn't even have hot buns to eat, and all they ate were roasted sweet potatoes and roasted corn.
"Don't look at me so aggrievedly, brother, I'm helpless too. I really don't have the energy today. When we leave this island, your food will definitely improve." Lin Haiyang held his bowl and ate the brown rice in big mouthfuls.
"Today's trip was really intense. I felt like I was going to die of exhaustion. The island was full of dangers, and there were players who messed up from time to time. Fortunately, the deadly ones only met those two. If there were more, I would have psychological problems." Xia Beibei also felt exhausted physically and mentally. Usually, he was like an electric monkey jumping up and down, but now it seemed that someone had removed the battery.
"Survival is getting more and more difficult. Many of those players want to come here to take advantage of the situation or follow us for shelter. I guess they don't have enough practical experience and it's too dangerous to fight those beasts. They can only follow other players. If they meet strong players, they follow them to collect supplies. If they meet weak players, they rely on numbers." Qiao Sheng shook his head and felt that this game was a bit bullying.
There was nothing else to do at night. Li Mu picked up the fishing rod and the other three picked up the sieve. They chatted and worked. From time to time, they could hear the sound of players returning to the boat nearby.
Some were talking and laughing. I guess this was a good harvest. Everyone returned safely.
Some came back crying or shouting for help. At first, Xia Beibei and Lin Haiyang were curious and stuck their heads out to take a look. They found that most of them came back carrying the injured, while some came back crying with empty hands. After listening carefully for a while, they realized that some teammates must have died on the island.
The next morning, when they got off the boat, they found that half of the boats parked nearby were gone. It was estimated that the situation on the island was not good, and those players chose to leave overnight.
Xia Beibei carried her small bag and walked in front with Xinxin and Baba. Today, all of them went out, even the youngest Diudiu was put in a basket and let Li Mu carry him into the woods.
The cub got off the boat, and went crazy for a while, then pulled up a tree, and saw wild boars, and they also hit one with their hands, and their fighting power was off the charts. Little Diudiu leaned on the edge of the basket and applauded its performance from time to time
. "Is this panda smarter than the bear? Such a small guy knows how to cheer and applaud." Qiao Sheng turned his head and saw it. He walked over and rubbed Diudiu's little head. The little guy had an intoxicated expression, asking for a rub.
They walked all the way into the woods, and slowly some players followed behind them at a distance. When Qiao Sheng and his team walked, they followed, and when they stopped, they stopped, they followed, just following step by step.
When they took a break for lunch at noon, these people actually came over with supplies.
"Thank you for your protection this morning. This is part of the supplies we have provided. I hope you don't mind." A male player stood up and explained on behalf of these people after putting the supplies next to Qiao Sheng and the others.
"No need. You following behind us won't have any impact on us. We won't help you much either. Just take these supplies back. We will follow our own habits. If you can keep up, then follow us. If you can't, we won't wait for you deliberately. Leaving these things behind would be a burden to us." Li Mu directly rejected the other party's supplies. It would be better to collect them by himself than to hold them, as it would be hot.
The players did not continue to pester after the supplies were rejected, because they could tell from Li Mu's words that the other party would allow them to continue to follow. As long as they could control the rhythm, the four people were leading a group of animals, and their fighting power was simply off the charts. As long as they could follow, they could collect a lot of supplies on this island.
In the afternoon, the four people still led the way, and more and more players followed behind, from a dozen at the beginning to twenty or thirty now.
Qiao Sheng and his friends moved forward at their own pace. The beasts belonged to whoever killed them, and no one dared to rob them. When they encountered large beasts, they stood in front to avoid hurting the players behind them.
After strolling around for a day, they walked through most of the island, and Qiao Sheng's space ring was filled with a lot of animal corpses.
Because they brought the monks with them, Qiao Sheng and the others had very few opportunities to fight. As soon as they went up, they launched a series of punches. Even before the beasts saw them, the monks took the lead and rushed forward.
"Sister Qiao, have these guys been cooped up on the boat for too long? Why are they like wild horses that have broken free from their reins? It's like we brought out a group of crazy dogs that bite whoever they catch." Xia Beibei didn't dare to speak too loudly. These little guys were too smart. They knew she would say something bad and they would easily plot against her.
Because they collected a lot of animal carcasses today, Qiao Sheng and his friends started to walk back when they saw that the sun was about to set. The dozen or so players who had followed them since the morning immediately followed them, but some of the people who joined later stayed to collect supplies. There
were also those who kept nagging Qiao Sheng and his friends to stay and continue to protect them, and there were those who wanted to go forward to argue. Qiao Sheng and his friends didn't even need to say anything, as the three approaching cassocks and Xin Xinbaba directly roared at them.
Not to mention that the roars of the three were really intimidating, and those people only dared to hide in the back and complain quietly, and didn't dare to come forward or speak loudly. Qiao Sheng chose to ignore such people, as long as they didn't show off in front of her, she would not see them.
Back on the boat, Li Mu took advantage of Lin Haiyang and Qiao Sheng being busy cooking in the kitchen to cut up all the animals caught today with a butcher's knife, put the fur and bones back into the backpack, and clean them in the evening.
The meat was first put into the empty refrigerators, and the three empty refrigerators were full. The remaining dirty things had to be selected by Qiao Sheng and Lin Haiyang, and those that could be cooked were selected. After cleaning tonight, they could be added to the menu tomorrow.
After dinner, Li Mu began to clean the fur of the animals, Xia Beibei held the fishing rod, wearing the fish bone bracelet to fish, and Qiao Sheng and Lin Haiyang cleaned the dirty things.
Without the hand, the four people began to discuss whether to stay on this island. After discussing it for a while, they felt that there was no need. The island could only collect more animal meat and wood planks, and there were too many people going back and forth on this island.
"In the future, we will go to this island for a day and collect them suddenly. Don't stay overnight. There is no need. We always have other players following us. If it is the same as this morning, it will be fine. It will be so annoying to meet those later. We can't rush up and slap someone in the face just because they question us." Qiao Sheng stretched out the hand that was rubbing his intestines and gestured.
Xia Beibei said that if he used this hand to slap, the gang would definitely be obedient.
Since he decided to leave, Li Mu put down the fur that he was washing half of, stood up to put away the anchor, and opened both drive devices without stopping for a moment.
Because they were at full speed, they left the island far behind in a few minutes, so they didn't hear the cries for help from the people on the shore. The players who followed Qiao Sheng back to the boat saw the people on the shore being chased by black bears, looked at the big guys who had already left, and thought they really didn't have the ability to save people, so they quietly put away the anchor and left the island.
Before going to bed at night, Li Mu also put a batch of canned food on the shelf, including meat and vegetables. Each can has a capacity of 250 grams, but the redemption rate is much more expensive than a fish weighing more than ten kilograms.
Because it was late, several players on the world channel raised questions, but it didn't cause any splashes.
When they woke up in the morning, they received many emails from their friends, all asking about the canned food. Qiao Sheng picked up a few familiar friends and said that he had entered a dungeon and collected a batch of canned food. They had enough food and drink, so they didn't need them, so they planned to exchange some supplies to continue building ships. Fang Yueyi
's email didn't even ask how it came from. She directly asked Qiao Sheng to place an order. She wanted to try various canned fruits. Canned meat and canned vegetables didn't interest her. It
's not that canned fruits can't be filled, but Qiao Sheng and Xia Beibei kept them for themselves. They didn't grow much on weekdays, just enough for them to eat.
If Fang Yueyi wanted it, he could give her some, canned peaches, canned pineapples, and even canned hawthorns. He gave her ten cans of each, and didn't take her supplies, as a gift to her sister to try something new.
Fang Yueyi did not take it for nothing, and sent several dozen hot pot bases to Qiao Sheng. It happened that they were running low on stock, and both parties were very satisfied with each other's gifts.
When Xia Beibei came over after washing up, she said that the world channel had exploded, and she was asking about the canned food. After all, some players saw it in the morning and exchanged some of it with great pain. After
getting the canned food, I realized why it was expensive. After all, the freshness of 180 days is not comparable to that of ordinary food.
Although it has entered autumn, unlike the summer when food is only fresh for one day, now the unprocessed food is at least three days, and the freshness after processing will increase to varying degrees.
But the longest one was no more than a month. Now this canned food that suddenly appeared can be regarded as a solution to everyone's urgent needs. Compared with the fish that cannot be caught and the beasts that are difficult to hunt, exchanging a large amount of supplies for canned food can be regarded as a way out for players.
For a while, everyone hoped that players would put more orders for canned food on the 18th. The more affluent players even prepared a large amount of supplies, just waiting for the canned food to be put on the shelves.
Unexpectedly, the second batch of canned food that Li Mu put on the shelves was limited! Each player was limited to one can per day.
This purchase method was supported by a group of ordinary players, but the wealthy players were annoyed because they could not exchange more canned food with their supplies and could only exchange one can per day.
Li Mu also limited the quantity, 180 cans per day, according to the time of three meals a day, every morning when the sun rises, noon when the sun is high in the sky, and evening when the sun sets, 60 cans will be put on the shelves on time, and the quick hand will be the winner.
Since then, there have been players spamming the world channel every day, begging players to put more on the 18th. Li Mu did not even look at the world channel, and put the shelves at his own pace every day.
Qiao Sheng thought that there were a lot of private requests for purchases in his friends' emails, but unexpectedly, those friends all chose to go to the trading system to grab them by themselves, and no one came to discuss, which really surprised them.