Chapter 41
After Li Mu’s talk, they finally figured out what was going on on the opposite boat.
First, Pei Hong and his five men dared to call out to stop their boat, and they had observed it in advance. The T-shirts and pants hung on the second-floor terrace by Qiao Sheng and his men were obviously one large and one small, indicating that there were probably men and women on their boat.
Li Mu, who had been busy at the bow, was quite tall, but he had been injured before, and he had just eaten and drank casually when he entered the game. Even though he had gained some weight these days and his face was not so pale, he was still a little thin. They
were outnumbered, so they had nothing to lose, and they were shouldering the main mission this time.
"Brother Li, the team we are preparing to create is already very large. Nine ships have joined, including mine, a total of ten ships, and a total of twenty people. For each ship that joins our team, my brothers who know ships will help redesign and build the ship. You can see how powerful my ship is, right? You will definitely make money if you invest in it." Pei Hong persuaded in various ways.
"Brother Pei, this game doesn't have coordinates, how do you coordinate these ships to act together? If not, there is no point in you forming a team." Li Mu asked without understanding, because he really didn't understand the other party's operation.
"There are no coordinates, but we usually move together. I came here alone because I was afraid of scaring you. The remaining nine ships are behind us. The manpower is moving this way. We are all staring at the target. As long as the ship does not drift by itself in the sea, it will not lose the target if it moves forward at a constant speed." Being honest is a killer move. Pei Hong is not afraid to tell the truth. After all, he has to let Li Mu and others see the strength of his side before they will sincerely surrender.
He said it so frankly and sincerely, but he didn't expect Li Mu to be stubborn. He had all kinds of excuses to prevaricate. He was honest, but not stupid. After being rejected twice, he understood that he originally wanted to recruit like-minded partners to resist the crisis in the game together. Since the other party was not interested, it was fine. There was no need to force it.
However, the conversation was still very pleasant, and the two exchanged friend IDs so that they could keep in touch.
After a friendly farewell, Qiao Sheng and his boat continued to drift forward, while Pei Hong's big boat turned around and headed towards his fleet.
"Why don't you join them? Do you think they are not good people?" Qiao Sheng stood aside without saying anything. After Pei Hong and his friends walked away, he turned around and asked Li Mu who continued to cut rubber.
"I don't find anything wrong with this guy. I just think there are too many people in their fleet, and it's hard to support them. An island is not big to begin with. Every time we go to the island to collect supplies, we can cut the forest on the island into pieces. With more than 20 people, it's like a swarm of locusts, leaving nothing behind." Li Mu is now quite against this kind of group behavior. "
But the other side has strong labor force. More people are better, and fewer people are safer." Qiao Sheng still agrees with this point.
"Let's talk about it after we survive the winter. The twenty or so people there are not that united. Otherwise, building a big ship would be much more powerful than each of them. Now they are scattered on small boats. To put it nicely, it's like putting eggs in one basket. To put it bluntly, they don't trust each other. So it's not wise to join them." Li Mu carefully analyzed the problems of Pei Hong's team.
Qiao Sheng agreed with this analysis. Moreover, the players who have survived until now have the most basic survival ability. The peaceful autumn, mixed with the rainy season, has passed for a month. If it is the same as the real world, then there are less than two months left in this autumn. Players who can survive the winter can talk about forming a group.
After hearing what she said, Li Mu raised a very critical question. How did she know that this group of players entered the game on the first day of autumn? If they entered when autumn was already halfway through, then it would be less than half a month away from autumn. His hypothesis also scared Qiao Sheng, and he instantly felt his courage grow heavier. Winter is just like throwing shoes upstairs in the middle of the night. If you throw one, you don’t know when to throw the other one.
[Sister Qiao, I have been feeling very uneasy recently. I don’t know why. The last time I felt so uneasy was when I had my period during the mock exam. I always felt that something bad was going to happen. In addition, I also changed to particularly good-looking fox and tiger skins in the trading system. The uneasiness in my heart has become more serious. Please help me analyze what is going on. 】
When Qiao Sheng and Li Mu were collecting supplies with a sieve, they received this email from Xia Beibei.
"Sometimes you have to believe in the attributes of this koi. We estimated the severe winter based on our experience in playing games and your brain, but Xia Beibei had sensed it in advance. In the face of absolute luck, these are not worth mentioning." Qiao Sheng looked at Xia Beibei's email and discussed it with Li Mu.
Li Mu, who was defined as the emperor of Europe by Qiao Sheng, also admitted that this koi Xia Beibei, whom he had never seen before, had inexplicable luck and intuition. The two discussed it and told Xia Beibei the results of their previous discussion. They also packed ten rabbit skins, twenty cabbages, and a pot of salted duck legs for her with the letter.
After reading the email, Xia Beibei was very moved when she opened the package. Sister Qiao was definitely the best person to her besides her parents. She would definitely repay her in the future. Now she would send her the newly exchanged tiger skin. Only this kind of majestic fur was suitable for her tall sister Qiao.
Qiao Sheng, who got the tiger skin, was confused. What was going on? Ten rabbit skins for one tiger skin? Li Mu didn't react when he saw the tiger skin appearing in the apple in her hand.
"This little girl is threatening me. If I dare to send the tiger skin back to her, she will never be friends with me again and will break off the friendship." Looking at the email, Qiao Sheng didn't know whether to laugh or cry. This girl is still a child.
"Then keep it. In the future, just think of her when you have anything. With the strength of the two of us, it's no problem to bring another mouth." At this moment, Li Mu would never have thought that the mouth he decided to bring would become the biggest stumbling block in his future relationship.
After putting away the tiger skin, the two continued to use sieves to collect supplies. A total of twelve sieves were consumed in the afternoon. There was no room for the supplies collected at the bow. Li Mu also went to the storage room to get two empty storage boxes. When the floating board was full, he stuffed them in.
The result of this collection was that Li Mu had 69 drift bottles and Qiao Sheng had 32 drift bottles. At least it was not doubled last time, but this time it was doubled and turned around.
This game obviously doesn't give you any luck points. I secretly sent an email to Xia Beibei, asking her how many drift bottles she could catch in an afternoon. The answer I got was that it was not certain, sometimes 100, sometimes 120. Even if I used six sieves in an afternoon, and removed one sieve, Xia Beibei could catch 16-20 drift bottles with a sieve. The
non-chieftain Qiao Sheng could only catch 3-5 drift bottles with a sieve, while Li Mu was better than her and could catch more than ten. Qiao Sheng, who was at the bottom of the catching world, didn't want to talk, and pushed more than a hundred drift bottles directly in front of Li Mu. He couldn't catch them, couldn't open them, and didn't want to talk. The dinner food level must be reduced to let Jinli and the European Emperor feel the anger of the non-chieftain.
While Qiao Sheng went to the second-floor kitchen to cook, Li Mu moved the storage box and more than a hundred drift bottles to the second-floor terrace to open them, uttering exclamations such as "Wow", "Yeah", and "Hey" from time to time while opening them.
After observation, Qiao Sheng confirmed that when the interjection "Wow" appeared, there was a high probability of a critical hit. This time, iron products, plastic products, and two rare metals were critically hit. The most surprising thing was that 500 pieces of coal were exploded. This was a new product that he had never seen before. Qiao Sheng even put down the kitchen knife in his hand and took a look.
The sound of "Ah" meant that the pattern was opened. There were more than a hundred drift bottles, and Li Mu opened seven patterns. It was not as many as last time, but it was also very good.
The sound of "Hey" basically meant that it was a very ordinary drop.
Qiao Sheng was busy cooking and had no time to come over to see what he had opened. After Li Mu finished arranging, he put the pattern on the dining table and took the storage box full of supplies back to the storage room to sort it out.
After he washed his hands and returned to the second floor, Qiao Sheng's dinner was ready. There were still four dishes, but the quality of the dishes was far worse than before. In the past, dinner was always three meats and one vegetable, or two meats and two vegetables, and it had to come with soup.
Today, the soup was cut directly and replaced with a glass of coconut water. This thing is fresh, so in order not to waste it, it is okay to drink more.
But now on the table, there are four dishes of cold cabbage shreds, cold potato shreds, cold radish shreds, and cold jellyfish and cabbage cores. He dared not act rashly until Qiao Sheng packed another batch of four cold dishes and gave them to Xia Beibei. He was sure that he was not the only one who suffered.
Without any objection, when picking up the chopsticks to eat, Li Mu also praised Qiao Sheng for the delicious food. He had eaten too much meat recently, so he had to eat some vegetarian food to supplement various vitamins and dietary fiber. His praise made
the black guy Qiao Sheng feel that he was a little too angry. It was obviously a game, not a human being, and she took her anger out on two honest people. Wasn't it a bit too much?
Xia Beibei received four cold salads and also praised them. She said that her sister Qiao understood her. It was too annoying to eat meat every day. It was great to eat some vegetarian food, especially the salad with jellyfish skin. It was so delicious. The dish was almost without peanuts. There was also a small package with a pound of peanuts in the letter. At
this moment, Qiao Sheng's guilt reached its peak. He must make something delicious for them tomorrow.
"Would you like to eat dumplings or hand-rolled noodles tomorrow? Can we just plant these peanuts? Plant some tonight, fry some peanuts tomorrow, and put them in the core of the jellyfish and cabbage." Qiao Sheng put the peanuts on the dining table and picked up the roasted corn to eat them one by one.
"Well, I'll take them down to plant later. You can eat anything. If you want dumplings, I'll roll the dough. If you want hand-rolled noodles, I'll help you knead the dough." When Qiao Sheng mentioned the issue of tomorrow's meals, he knew that the crisis had passed, but he still had to perform well. Xia Beibei was far away, and it was okay to offend her, but he couldn't. If Qiao Sheng got angry, his living standard would plummet, and this situation must not happen.
Qiao Sheng also asked Xia Beibei, and the answer she got was that she wanted to eat both, and it would be best if she could eat dumplings tomorrow and hand-rolled noodles the day after tomorrow. The most beautiful sister Qiao would definitely meet her small request. When this email was read to Li Mu, the message he got was: coaxing people is a science, and Xia Beibei, this little brat, is self-taught.