Chapter 4

After the durability of the five prepared sieves was reduced to zero, Qiao Sheng turned around and was shocked to see that the supplies on the float behind her were piled up.

There were a lot of things, but she was not in a good condition either. She was thirsty and hungry, and both numbers were extremely low. She didn't care about collecting the supplies she had just brought up. She staggered back to the middle of the float, picked up the sweet potato that she had baked in the morning and started to eat it. She ate it too hard and choked and hiccuped. She drank half a bottle of fresh water before she could pull all the numbers back up.

"It seems that I have to prepare food and water at all times. I almost died just now. It was so scary. I was already swaying on the sea, and now the value is so low that I feel like the whole world is shaking." After eating and drinking and taking a rest, Qiao Sheng began to pack up the supplies he had just brought back.

There were only four drifting bottles this time, which was obviously much less than the number he had brought before, but the quality was still very high. After opening them, two of them actually contained rare metals, 1 copper and 1 steel. The remaining two were a sweet potato and a production chart.

[Name: Copper, Steel, Ways to obtain: Obtain from drifting bottles or dig from the seabed, wide range of uses, players need to explore by themselves]

"Digging from the seabed? You can't just jump down." Qiao Sheng put the rare metal aside, looked at the dark sea, gave up the idea, and was afraid of the unknown. On land, she could still jump around, but it would be better to be a quail on the sea. She would never explore blindly if she could survive.

The atlas is a medium-sized storage box. The materials needed for making it are: 5 wooden boards and 5 iron products. This is really a good thing. The storage box can perfectly solve her current problem of messy placement. It's not that she doesn't clean up properly, but there are too many things and she can't clean them up.

I took out the materials and made three storage boxes, which were placed side by side on the floating board. I didn't rush to fill them with supplies, but made five more floating boards, turning the 2*2 floating board into a 3*3 one. The nine floating boards were tied together, and the living space was much wider.

After finishing these, I started to sort out the supplies. After trying, Qiao Sheng found that these storage boxes have two forms. The first one is the common box in life, which can put things together. The other is the storage box in the game, which is a 5*5 space, that is, 25 grids. Each grid can hold the same item, and the upper limit of stacking is 99.

When taking out, the number of items is always 1, which is a little inconvenient, but it is better than piling them all on the floating board.

As for food storage, Qiao Sheng also tried it. The same type of food can still be stacked in the same grid. When taking it out, it is quite user-friendly. It is actually sorted by freshness, and the first one to be taken must be the one with the lowest freshness.

This box is so smart that as long as there is food with a freshness of less than three days in a certain grid, a red frame warning will pop up in the entire grid to remind the player to eat this part first.

After cleaning up the supplies piled on the floating board, Qiao Sheng began to clean up the dozen or so fish caught yesterday. After her observation, this fresh fish is only fresh for three days, but after being decomposed and grilled on a grill, the freshness becomes 10 days.

She also thought about whether it would be fresher if it was made into salted fish, or even dried fish after drying in the sun to increase the freshness, but these are not feasible at this stage.

Salting fish requires a lot of salt, which she doesn't have. Not to mention the lack of drying tools for dried fish, even if the drying is successful, she doesn't have a pot to cook dried fish. Obviously, seafood like dried fish is no longer suitable for the grill.

So it's better to be realistic, peel off the fish skin, roast the fish meat, scrape off the fat to make torches, and throw away the fish bones and other dirt.

The idea is good, but cleaning more than ten fish at a time is also tiring for Qiao Sheng. The fish meat has to be roasted bit by bit, and the fat still hangs on the fish skin, so she scrapes it off bit by bit. In the end, the clean fish skin is spread on the floating board, and the fish roe is soaked in a plastic box.

Feeling distressed, she put the fish heads and bones together, and forgot about chopped pepper fish heads. When she was struggling with how to deal with them, she found that the fish bones she used to make traps the day before were gone. After ruling out the possibility that they were washed away by the sea, Qiao Sheng finally concluded that they were refreshed by the system.

Since she had not been paying attention to these things, she only remembered that they were still there before dark the day before, and it seemed that she had not seen them since dawn today. In order to test it out, she put these unwanted things directly in the corner of the floating board this time, and paid attention to them whenever she had time. She wanted to see how long it would take for them to be refreshed.

After harvesting the mature potatoes and sweet potatoes and planting new ones, Qiao Sheng started her collecting career again. While collecting, she looked up and found a black dot in the distance.

"Animals? Boats? Islands? Other players' floats?" He put his hand on his brow and tried to look into the distance. After looking for a long time, he still couldn't make out what it was. Without even thinking about it, Qiao Sheng picked up the wooden board he had just picked up and started using it as a paddle, trying to change the drifting direction of the float.

No matter what the small black dot in front of her is, she can't afford to offend it now. She should run as fast as she can while it is still far away.

While stroking, she also tried to call the system. This time, the system that had been silent finally spoke.

[Player 38 has any questions? ]

"What is that black dot in front? Will I be attacked? Is my life in danger?" Qiao Sheng asked questions quickly after finally hearing the voice of the system.

The system did not reply immediately. It waited for a while before saying: [It has been detected that there is an island ahead. Player 38, do you know that there is a novice protection period? You will not be attacked in the first fifteen days of the game, including entering the range of hostile creatures. As long as you do not actively attack, you will not be harmed. ]

"Active attack? Then if I attack first, the opponent can be harmed, right? What about other players? Will there be players who actively attack me?" If you don't ask for trouble, you won't get beaten. This is fine. Just avoid it when the time comes. Hostile creatures are never as scary as players. I must ask clearly this time.

[Players cannot attack each other during the novice protection period. 】

"Can I attack at will after the protection period? Not only do I have to guard against hostile creatures, but I also have to guard against other players? This setting is a bit cruel. There will always be people who want to gain something for nothing. It will be scary after more than ten days." Qiao Sheng curled his lips. This game is getting harder and harder to play.

After answering these questions, the system was silent again. Qiao Sheng was used to this mysterious system. Anyway, if it appears, just ask a few more questions. If it doesn't appear, you can rely on yourself and survive.

Knowing that there is an island ahead, there is no need to hide. Just let the wind blow. It is a good thing to see more of the world during the novice protection period.

It looked like a black dot, but it didn't float until dark. On the second night in the game, Qiao Sheng got used to it. He lit the torches he had prepared long ago, and had a grilled fish dinner in the light. Before going to bed, he filled all the glass bottles with fresh water and planted the crops in the shoe basins. He

then found an open space in the middle of the float and fell asleep peacefully.

When he woke up the next day, the float was hitting the rocks on the shore. After Qiao Sheng woke up, he took a while to observe the animals and plants on the island from the boat. He decided to tie the float to the protruding rocks with a rope. He had to use a big stone as an anchor when he got to the island.

After rinsing his mouth with salt water and eating fish and baked potatoes for breakfast, Qiao Sheng wove a long rope, using all his strength to tie the float to the rock, and took his only weapon, the iron gun, for self-defense.

Considering that this expedition would take an unknown amount of time, and fearing that he would faint from hunger outside, he also took three pieces of fish and wrapped them in leaves, and tied two bottles of fresh water with ropes and hung them on his body. After everything was ready and he made sure that all his values ​​were correct, he got off the float.

The moment his feet touched the ground, Qiao Sheng almost cried. After drifting on the sea for two days, it felt really good to have his feet on solid ground. He calmed down and began to explore the island.

Compared to the scarcity on the sea, the resources on this island are truly rich. There are not only various trees, but also many fruits and fungi. The most important thing is that there are many herbs on the ground. Qiao Sheng doesn't know them, but the system has its own prompts. As long as you are careful, there are too many resources.

Walking and stopping on the island, Qiao Sheng even wants to set up camp here directly. This idea was abandoned when she encountered wild boars for the third time and poisonous snakes for the fourth time. Now is the novice period, these creatures will ignore her when they see her. If the protection period is over, any one of them will be eaten by her.

Especially since the name of the game is Survival at Sea, if she really moves the camp to the island, she might encounter some problems. If the island resources don't refresh, she will be in trouble. When others are working hard to upgrade their floats, she will upgrade the island camp. When the resources are scarce, she will have to use the float again to set sail. Maybe others have already turned their floats into small boats. Her nine floats will not be good enough. After

walking around the island for half an hour, Qiao Sheng prepared to cut down coconut trees first. The reason was very simple. The trunks of the trees were just planks. Coconuts were very useful. Coconut juice could be used as water, coconut meat could be used to make oil, and even its shell could be used as a container. It was a treasure.

After standing under the coconut tree and studying it for a while, Qiao Sheng first used the iron gun to tentatively poke the trunk of the coconut tree a few times, looking up while poking, for fear that the coconuts would fall and hit him. He didn't expect that the tree-cutting thing was set up very like a game. Every time he poked, something would fall. There was a chance that it was a plank, a leaf, or a coconut. Fortunately, it didn't fall directly from the tree, but appeared directly at the bottom of the tree.

After poking for more than twenty times, the tree completely disappeared from his sight, leaving only a tree trunk in its place.

Looking at the eight wooden boards, eight coconut leaves, and six coconuts at his feet, Qiao Sheng touched the iron gun head in his hand distressedly. Fortunately, the durability did not drop much.

Following the same method, she chopped down two more coconut trees, and the items they dropped were almost the same. Looking at the supplies scattered all over the ground, Qiao Sheng was in trouble again. Although she had deliberately chosen a place not too far from the floating board to chop down trees, it was still difficult to move all the things back at once. She

made a few ropes with the chopped leaves and tied the planks together. She then found two banana trees nearby and poked them with a skilled iron gun, obtaining a lot of banana leaves and bananas.