[Name: Wound-Healing Pearl] [Type: Treasure] [Quality: Treasured] [Description: Soak the pearl in 1 L of water for 12 hours to give the water healing properties that accelerate wound healing.]
Yang Yi's eyes lit up!
This was a real treasure!
It seemed that treasure chest clam was something very rare, capable of yielding unusual treasures!
Seeing that it was getting late, Yang Yi hauled in the fishing net, planning to call it a day.
The net had caught two things.
[Name: One-Armed Crab] [Type: Food] [Description: It has favored its right hand since childhood, and its right claw accounts for half its body weight! Nontoxic and edible, with plenty of meat in its claw.]
The other ugly thing could lower Sanity.
[Bizarre starfish. Your Sanity decreased by 3.]
At first glance, this starfish looked like a human hand, with five fingers of different lengths. It could crawl along the ground like a spider...
"What a quaint little thing. You sure look like... something!"
Yang Yi stomped it to death and picked it up. After checking its details, he suddenly felt it wasn't so ugly after all.
[Name: Palm Star] [Type: Food] [Description: A starfish twisted by abyssal contamination. Slightly toxic. After consumption, Agility +1 and Sanity -20 for one minute.]
This thing was similar to the Human-Head Octopus. Eating it could boost attributes, so perhaps it could be made into a potion.
With that thought, Yang Yi carried these bizarre fish and ran toward the cabin.
"Su Na, take a look at these."
Inside the laboratory, Su Na was still dissecting the Demon Hammerhead Shark.
Two bright, fist-sized eyeballs had been removed and were soaking in a glass tank, giving off a faint red glow.
She saw Yang Yi, as well as the strange fish and large pearl he was holding.
"Take a look at these fish, and this pearl."
Su Na took them and examined them closely.
"You caught all these?"
"That's right!"
Suddenly, inspiration struck Su Na.
She looked at the fish, then at the Devil Shark's eyeballs, and an idea formed in her mind.
"Two kinds... no, three! I'll give you a few prototypes in three days!" Su Na suddenly grew excited.
"There's no rush, is there? It's already nighttime. Go back to your room and get some sleep. Leave it until tomorrow!"
Su Na hesitated for two seconds, but in the end, she obediently returned to her room.
Her room was next to the Captain's Quarters, making it convenient for them to alert each other if anything happened at night.
Yang Yi headed to the Captain's Quarters with the Crystal Ball.
The Crystal Ball had a vibration alert function.
Whenever a player's ship appeared in the nearby waters, the Crystal Ball would vibrate in warning.
Keeping it beside his pillow would give him advance warning of danger.
Otherwise, he might not even know if other players surrounded him at night!
Once everything was ready, Yang Yi took off his coat, drank a bottle of Refreshing Coconut Juice, and lay down on the ship.
He was in the habit of checking the chat channel before bed, mainly to monitor the price trends for warm clothing and look for anyone selling fire-starting tools.
As he read, he fell asleep, his brow tightly furrowed as nightmares began.
Late that night, when all was quiet, there was movement next to the Captain's Quarters. Su Na's door opened again.
A furtive figure slipped out and headed toward the stern cabin, making for the laboratory.
Su Na planned to work overtime that night researching potions...
Three days passed without any major events.
Yang Yi fished as usual, hauled in the net in the evenings, and practiced shooting from time to time.
He didn't like using the grappling hook. Although it brought steady returns, it wasn't as interesting as fishing.
He gave all the fish he caught to Su Na, leaving her to judge whether they were useful.
They had plenty of food now anyway, and the food with short shelf lives needed to be eaten first. There was really no need to eat these strange fish raw.
His haul during this period was unremarkable. Apart from the strange fish, he fished up Wood ×28, Cloth ×25, 650 Conch Coins, and 9 L of fresh water.
He noticed that the net yielded different catches from fishing.
The net caught more shrimp, crabs, and shellfish.
During that time, he also fished up two resource chests.
The wooden resource chest gave him Wood ×20 and Cloth ×20. Better than nothing.
The bronze resource chest was much better, yielding Wood ×100, Cloth ×100, and Steel ×20.
As for fish, he caught two new species.
[Name: Eyeball Octopus] [Type: Food] [Description: An octopus contaminated by the abyss, with eyeballs at the ends of its tentacles. Slightly toxic. After consumption, Perception +1 for a short period, lasting 1 minute.] [Name: Six-Pack Lobster] [Type: Food] [Description: A lobster contaminated by the abyss, with six-pack abs. Slightly toxic. After consumption, Constitution +1 for a short period, lasting 1 minute.]
Together with the Human-Head Octopus and Palm Star, they corresponded exactly to the four main attributes other than Spirit.
He handed all these special fish over to Su Na.
That evening, after going a long time without a bite, Yang Yi began checking the chat messages.
As expected, down jacket prices continued to fall as time went on. After all, more and more people could make them.
At the current market price, one cost only 105 Cloth.
He estimated that a down jacket cost around 100 Cloth to make, so the price had probably hit bottom.
He checked his current total supplies.
Wood ×841, Cloth ×560, Stone ×408, Conch Coins ×5,700, Fresh Water ×208, Steel ×77, Crystal ×51, Sulfur ×40.
It looked like a lot, but buying cold-weather clothing alone would cost over 400 Cloth.
And upgrading the ship to level 3 still required a huge amount of supplies...
There was a long road ahead!
If he bought down jackets with Conch Coins instead, they cost around 600 Conch Coins each, but players preferred trading in Cloth because the Conch Coin exchange rate was too unstable.
The current market exchange rate between basic supplies and Conch Coins was approximately 5:1, meaning 5 Conch Coins equaled 1 unit of basic supplies, though actual trades cost slightly more.
Advanced supplies were more expensive, at around 25 Conch Coins per unit.
In short, Yang Yi looked rich now, but he was actually poor and couldn't afford to spend supplies recklessly.
Who knew how much he would have to spend to buy a fire-starting tool!
As usual, he left a message in the World Channel: "Paying high prices for fire-starting tools. If you're selling cold-weather clothing cheap, message me!"
Just after sending the message, Yang Yi noticed a private message from Su Na, sent a few minutes earlier.
Su Na: "I've made the potions to your specifications. They're on the lab table. Come get them yourself.
There are three kinds in total.
The red one boosts attributes and may have mild side effects.
The colorless one restores energy. Try it yourself.
The pink one heals injuries..."
After reading the message, Yang Yi immediately ran into the Witch Laboratory.
Such a huge investment had finally paid off!
Inside the laboratory, Su Na was slumped over the table, seemingly resting.
The table was covered in equipment, including a microscope, a test tube rack and test tubes, conical flasks, and even an alcohol lamp.
"Can this thing light a fire?"
Yang Yi picked up the alcohol lamp and found it surprisingly light. On closer inspection, it was actually empty...
[Laboratory equipment. Will disappear immediately if taken out of the laboratory. Fuel must be supplied separately.]
Yang Yi: "..."
He really had no idea why Su Na had bought this piece of equipment!
Could she have been unaware that it was empty too, only finding out after buying it?
Yang Yi put down the alcohol lamp, his gaze drawn to the three tubes of differently colored potions on the table.
Although they were all named Unknown Potion, Yang Yi had experience now. As long as he drank them, he would learn their specific effects and details...
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