Level 4 Island

Ji Xinghe glanced at the bottom of the panel.

Island upgrade to Level 2 conditions: Prosperity reaches 100, 100 Wow Coins, island area expands to 100 square meters, and all upgrades are successful.

"Upgrade!"

[Wow Coins -100]

[Congratulations, Player 001, on completing the first server-wide island upgrade to Level 2 achievement. Rewards: Achievement Points +5, Raffle Ticket +5, Free Attribute Points +5.]

[Player 001, would you like to announce it? An announcement will double the rewards.]

Ji Xinghe nodded. "Announce it. Together with the last one."

[Got it ^O^]

Ji Xinghe: ??? It's alive?

[Thanks, not dead yet!]

Ji Xinghe: ... Pretty polite, huh...

The system didn't reply again, and the mechanical voice resumed.

[Congratulations, Player 001, on completing the first server-wide island upgrade to Level 3 achievement. Rewards: Achievement Points +5, Raffle Ticket +5, Free Attribute Points +5.]

[Congratulations, Player 001, on completing the first server-wide island upgrade to Level 2 achievement. Rewards: Achievement Points +5, Raffle Ticket +5, Free Attribute Points +5.]

[Level 2 Island (Area: 110 square meters)]

Prosperity: 115

Daily Output: 2 Wow Coins (claimable once per day)

Upgrade Conditions: Prosperity reaches 500, 500 Wow Coins, island area expands to 500 square meters, and all upgrades are successful.

She tapped to claim the two Wow Coins from today's output.

The materials needed from Level 2 to Level 5 were a lot; she wouldn't be able to gather them all anytime soon.

But since the island had been upgraded, the Shelter could be upgraded too.

Shelter upgrade to Level 3 Stone House materials:

Upgrade Requirements: Wood ×50, Stone ×100, Wow Coins ×50, Level 3 Island.

She tapped to upgrade, and the materials were deducted automatically.

The next moment, Ji Xinghe tapped to upgrade again.

Upgrade to Level 2 Wooden House requirements: Wood ×200, Stone ×50, Glass ×2, Wow Coins ×100, Level 2 Island.

[Server Announcement: Congratulations, Player 001, on completing the first server-wide Shelter upgrade to Level 3 achievement. Rewards...]

[Congratulations, Player 001, on completing the first server-wide Shelter upgrade to Level 2 achievement...]

Ji Xinghe triggered two more server announcements.

With the doubled rewards, she gained: Achievement Points +20, Raffle Ticket +20, Attribute Points +20.

Looking at the newly built wooden house, Ji Xinghe opened the Shelter panel.

[Small Wooden House (Level 2): 30 square meters]

Upgrade Requirements: Wood ×500, Stone ×100, Glass ×4, Gold ×10, Wow Coins ×500, Level 5 Island.

Before she could step inside to check it out, the system's mechanical voice rang out again.

[Detected that the player has upgraded the Island and Shelter multiple times within a single day, triggering a hidden achievement. Acquired trait: Construction Expert.]

[Achievement Rewards: Random Blueprint ×1, Achievement Points +3, Raffle Ticket +3, Free Attribute Points +3]

Ji Xinghe blinked. There were hidden achievements too?

"Construction Expert: Each time you upgrade an Island, Shelter, building, etc., material costs are halved."

This trait was incredibly useful. The further she went, the more materials each building upgrade would require—hundreds or thousands of basic materials would be the norm.

With this, how many materials would she save?

Closing the panel, Ji Xinghe examined the Shelter that, in her past life, she'd only managed to upgrade to Level 2 after half a year of survival.

She pushed open the wooden door. What greeted her was a small living room. To the left of the living room was a tiny kitchen with a wood-fired stove, about two square meters.

To the right was a two-square-meter dry toilet with a squat pan.

In the middle was a two-meter-wide hallway, with the living room and bedroom connected together.

A wooden sofa and a treadmill were placed horizontally in the center. Opposite the sofa were rows of Storage Boxes and a Crafting Table.

At the very back of the wooden house was a 1.5-meter wooden bed, with the mattress from the Storage Box neatly laid out on it.

A window was installed beside the bed and another by the kitchen. Sunlight streamed through the windows, lighting up the entire home.

Every breath was filled with the scent of wood and the crisp, refreshing fragrance of sunlight...

The Shelter's overall layout is 5×6 meters, arranged super reasonably by the system.

She really likes it.

After checking out the house, Ji Xinghe sat on the sofa and opened the blueprint she'd just gotten.

"Fence Blueprint"

"Materials: 2 Wood, 1×1 meter per section"

Fence? Perfect timing—she was about to start farming.

She needed to add six meters in front of the Shelter and one meter on the other three sides, making it a 12×12 meter or 8×8 meter layout.

That required 40 fence sections total.

She placed the blueprint on the Crafting Table and customized an order for 40.

[Auto-deducted Wood ×80, crafting forty fences]

[Crafting time remaining: 00:6:39]

The Crafting Table was already working.

Ji Xinghe packed the Black Earth and seeds into her backpack, turned around, and headed out.

Six 1×1 meter plots of Black Earth, placed vertically in a row against the Shelter.

That way, once the fences were done, they'd wrap around all the Black Earth perfectly.

"Black Earth (Level 1): The only way to farm on the Island world. Can grow any crop."

"Traits: +10% growth speed. Chance to obtain seeds upon harvest. Higher Black Earth levels increase seed drop rate."

"Upgrade: Black Earth ×2, Wow Coins ×2"

The upgrade method was simple and brute-force—just needed Wow Coins and Black Earth.

Two Level 1s combine into one Level 2, four into one Level 3...

Ji Xinghe only had six plots of Black Earth on hand, so she wasn't planning to upgrade for now.

The seeds in her backpack were: Watermelon Seeds ×3, Chinese Cabbage Seeds ×2, Ginger Seeds ×5, Peach Tree Seedling ×1, and one Unknown Sapling.

The Unknown Sapling and Peach Tree Seedling were must-plants. As for the rest... Ji Xinghe picked two Watermelon Seeds, one Chinese Cabbage Seed, and one Ginger Seed.

One-click planting.

"Unknown Sapling, maturity countdown: 999 days 23 hours 59 minutes"

"Peach Tree Seedling, maturity countdown: 20 days 23 hours 59 minutes"

"Watermelon, maturity countdown: 6 days 23 hours 59 minutes"

"Chinese Cabbage, Ginger, maturity countdown: 5 days 23 hours 59 minutes"