After a while, Ji Xinghe finally calmed down.
Just as she was about to enter the Solo Dungeon and find a monster to test things out on, the system's voice suddenly rang in her ears again.
[ Ding! The Wandering Merchant is about to arrive on your island. Please go out and welcome him.]
At that, Ji Xinghe's fingers paused, and she looked up toward the window.
Out on the sea, a small boat was slowly making its way toward her island.
Ji Xinghe glanced back at the Wow Coins in her backpack. She only had 16,987 left, and even with the Island Output she'd just claimed, she'd only gained five more.
The merchant hadn't come earlier or later.
He'd come right after she'd spent 100,000 Wow Coins.
She sighed and hurried downstairs, stepping out of the Shelter to greet him.
Ji Xinghe knew perfectly well that, coins or no coins, players couldn't afford to offend mobile-function NPCs like Granny Pink and the Wandering Merchant.
It wasn't that good things might never come your way; it was that bad things could all land in your lap at once.
So she still had to put on a good show.
Of course, if you had real strength, none of that applied. You could even threaten or bribe them—or simply take what you wanted by force.
Ji Xinghe knew her place. Among the players, she could be considered a big shot, but to NPCs who had been in the Survival World for who knew how long, she was just a nobody.
There was always someone stronger, and she never underestimated anyone.
Even someone as insignificant as her had been reborn...
So she never went out of her way to make enemies.
But when it came to enemies who had already set themselves against