Chapter 95
No matter how worried they are, they still have to live day by day. Li Mu's main focus is still on the agarwood box. Xia Beibei writes several letters a day to ask questions. The reason is that a universal wrench can solve the problem of dismantling things, but it takes a lot of effort to put them back together.
Qiao Sheng doesn't understand, but Li Mu is still very good at hands-on and education. However, Xia Beibei has a strong understanding ability and average hands-on ability. Otherwise, she wouldn't have to rely on others for a meal.
During the teaching period, Xia Beibei went to Qiao Sheng to cry more than once, asking why teammates can't be mailed in the game, borrowed and returned, otherwise this set of driving equipment will never be able to make a breakthrough in her hands. If she had known, she would not have dismantled the thing so much. How embarrassing it is now.
They also tried to mail it to Li Mu to help assemble it. Facts proved that the game could not let you get stuck at any time. Mail could not be put in. It was marked as a special item and could only be used by the recipient.
In the end, they decided to give up and just float there. It was not suitable for them to sail the boat.
Li Mu finally made the key for the brass lock. Before opening the box, the two were quite nervous and sat on the sofa. Qiao Sheng even picked up the Arctic fox and unconsciously tightened her arms when unlocking it. The fox almost rolled his eyes because of her strangling.
With a click, the lock core was poked out. Li Mu's hands were shaking a little, mainly because he didn't know if the things in the wooden box were dangerous.
The box was opened, and it was not as dangerous as they imagined. There were only a few thin pieces of paper with words on them. Li Mu picked it up and read it.
Qiao Sheng stroked his fox and complained, thinking that it was a surprise Easter egg. It was just a few pieces of paper, a box made of agarwood, and a whole brass lock. He thought it was some kind of relic.
"It's really a good thing. It must be an Easter egg in the game. These three pieces of paper are three atlases! One is the set of boat driving equipment that Xia Beibei got. In the future, you can just drive a boat to go wherever you want. The second picture is the method of strengthening the boat. With this, no matter how many stones are thrown at the boat by a catapult, it won't break our boat. Before, I wanted to reinforce the first layer with iron nails when I had enough supplies. Now I don't need to. The game products are more durable." Li Mu flipped through the atlas, and his mouth couldn't help curling up.
God knows how much he envied Xia Beibei's driving equipment. With this, it would be almost impossible for anyone to catch up with them by rowing a boat.
"What's the other one? Do you think it's a treasure from the deep sea that was accidentally turned over and brought up by killer whales?" Qiao Sheng stretched his head to take a look. They were a little uncomfortable with their sudden burst of luck.
"The other one is diving equipment, but in this one, except for the diving suit, the flippers and oxygen tanks are all consumables." Li Mu frowned after reading it. After winter, they may really have to go to the sea more often: "This wooden box may not be a treasure from the deep sea. There is another possibility, is it a reward for rescuing marine animals!"
"It's possible. Do you remember the flint and magnesium rod at home? The system reminded me at that time that this was a reward for rescuing the extinct creature Great Auk. Oh, that's not right. Why is the reward not given by the system, but sent by the big fools instead?" Qiao Sheng suddenly found something wrong.
This question can only be answered by the system. After a shout, the mechanical sound of the system finally appeared.
Qiao Sheng asked the question again, and the system didn't keep her in suspense. It told her directly that this was a reward for exploring the sunken ship. It was in the captain's room of the sunken ship, and the difficulty was four stars.
When they heard it was four stars, Qiao Sheng and Li Mu were a little surprised, but then they thought it was reasonable. It was the deep sea, and no player without diving equipment would go diving there for nothing. The creatures on the seabed were unbearable for players, and the difficulty of going down was also quite high.
They were just picking up a bargain this time. Who would have thought that the big fool would give them a thank-you gift and take out the reward from the captain's room of the sunken ship when they went to catch deep-sea fish.
"Not necessarily, maybe they took it out on purpose. The IQ of these killer whales is really high, maybe even higher than the three we have." Li Mu felt that it would not be such a coincidence, maybe it was done on purpose.
After saying this, the Arctic fox, which had been lying obediently in Qiao Sheng's arms, flicked its big tail and patted Li Mu's arm. Looking down, its expression was quite unhappy, and its teeth were bared.
Qiao Sheng laughed and told him to be careful with his words in the future, otherwise these few would really teach him a lesson.
Li Mu didn't care at all. He looked at the Arctic fox with a squint and told it to close its mouth and lie down obediently. It had two meatballs for dinner, but it couldn't drink wind at night.
Facts have proved that no matter how intelligent an animal is, it cannot resist its greed and will be suppressed at the root. The Arctic fox aggrievedly threw itself into Qiao Sheng's arms for comfort.
Li Mu has learned all three atlases. Reinforcing the ship requires a large amount of rare metals and iron products. It seems that the collection of materials is still urgent.
They have enough materials to make the drive equipment, but the difficulty lies in that it is too large and may not be able to fit in the entire first floor of the ship. This means that the animals and plants at home, as well as the storage room and bathroom, will all have to move to other places. Maybe the ship will have to be expanded to make it longer, wider and higher.
Diving equipment is the easiest to make. Diving suits are made of fish skin. They really have a lot of fish skin in stock. This atlas actually has detailed markings of the grades of each type of fish skin, and shark skin is the best.
High defense value also increases the speed of underwater movement, but the specific increase will have to be seen after it is made. There is also a mark saying that there is a chance of special attribute entries.
As for flippers and oxygen cylinders, the former requires rubber and plastic, and the latter requires metal, ore and fresh leaves. These materials made the two people confused and shocked. With
three atlases, they can now only make a diving suit to satisfy their desire. Others cannot be made in a short time.
After taking out the shark skin, the task of making diving suits was handed over to Li Mu. He really lived up to
everyone's expectations. There were two diving suits. The special entry of the first one doubled the use time of the oxygen cylinder. Qiao Sheng gave a thumbs up after reading it. She was so annoyed by the word "awesome". The special entry of the second one was that the head was immune to all damage. After reading the properties, both of them were stunned. Doesn't this mean that as long as you take the medicine, you will definitely not die? As long as the head is there, it means that you will not be shot in the head.
"Ahhh, this property, can I also wear a diving suit on the shore? It's a good thing to save your life." Qiao Sheng gently stroked the diving suit, as if he was afraid of damaging it.
"It's unlikely. It's marked on it that all the properties of special entries are only effective in water." Li Mu sighed. It seems that it's not so easy to get a bargain.
After solemnly putting the two treasures into the storage room, the two of them came out happily to continue working.
Qiao Sheng still had to butcher the fish. These deep-sea fish were so large that it was really laborious to butcher them. Li Mu went to shave the shark meat. This meat was forbidden to be cooked. He had time to chop some meat fillings, roll them into balls, cook them, and then freeze them in a special mold.
All of them are removed from the mold and stored. When it is time to eat, just take a plate and put it in the pot to cook. It is really convenient and quick. Qiao Sheng also uses this method in their normal diet. The larger black fish and Spanish mackerel are all chopped into meat fillings. The former is rolled into balls and used as soup when cooking hand-rolled noodles, and the latter is used to make dumplings.
As time goes by, they are now fishing and collecting supplies more and more strenuous. If Qiao Sheng is unlucky, sometimes he can only catch one or two in half an hour. The time cost and return are completely disproportionate. It is better to make more semi-finished ingredients with this time.
Now even Li Mu can use black fish meatballs to cook hand-rolled noodles. In the morning when Qiao Sheng can't get up, the number of breakfast recipes is +1.
Li Mu can still fish and collect some supplies now. The fishing nets on the boat have changed from being collected several times a day to once a day. Supplies are becoming increasingly scarce. Even though the two of them have stored quite a lot of supplies, they are still a little nervous.
Fang Yueyi and Xia Beibei also sent emails to complain that the game is becoming more and more stingy. Fang Yueyi's fishing situation is similar to Qiao Sheng's, while Xia Beibei's is okay, at the same level as Li Mu, so she is still fishing to save food.
Fang Yueyi also made some preparations in the early stage, but now she dare not show off her wealth. When she went to the island to eat the big pot, she ate whatever ingredients she caught. When she didn't catch anything, she went back to the boat to eat by herself. When the boat approached, she no longer dared to eat hot pot and other strong-smelling foods.
Her gums hurt from chewing corn every day, and she didn't dare to feed Jinlan shark meat to it because cooked fish meat also has a smell.
The people in the fleet had been reminded to collect more food, but now everyone is very careful because Pei Hong has recruited many more people. Some of those people came late and are now short of food and clothing. Sometimes they can't eat a big pot of rice for a long time, and these people will quit.
People with good character will part ways amicably, and those with bad character will try to cheat them before leaving. Now Pei Hong is a little annoyed. If someone applies to join the team, the first thing he needs to check is the food storage situation. This condition of snooping into other people's privacy has also been rejected by many people.
Sometimes when everyone had a meal together, Pei Hong would hold his head in his hands. He didn't want to pry into other people's privacy every day, but if he really recruited people who were just looking to take advantage, the members would be the ones who would be cheated in the end. It would be better for him to be the bad guy. Fortunately, this game doesn't have a world channel, otherwise he would definitely be the leader who would be hung on the channel for years to avoid being attacked.
The middle-aged man sighed at this time. He really didn't expect that his words would come true. After the world channel was opened, he really became famous, famous for being a bad guy.
Now Pei Hong's fleet is almost maintained at around 25 members. The ships have been reduced from more than a dozen to seven. Some of them had accidents and the ships sank, so they had to team up with others.
Others are because of a good relationship, the two families become one. Pei Hong supports this situation. A fleet with more people and fewer boats is really more convenient to manage, and the most important thing is that it is faster to transfer.
Qiao Sheng asked Fang Yueyi if she had ever shared a boat with others. Fang Yueyi said that she wanted to, but no one dared to come. Jinlan has become famous in the fleet. Except for Zhengxi who often comes to play with it, other people who get close to their boats will be attacked. Even the brothers sent by Pei Hong to help build the boats were bitten by it.
Now every time someone gets on their boat, Fang Yueyi has to pick up Jinlan and lock it with her arms to prevent it from having any chance of escaping.