Although Bai Ling's condition was worrying, Lin Yuan could do nothing before the next summoning of the Nether River.
He could only set that worry aside for now and return to his previous work.
This time, after absorbing Lin Yuan's life aura and summoning the Nether River, the Death Seed had truly quieted down.
The newly summoned Skeleton Sailors obediently gathered resources on the various uninhabited islands and transported them to the Lin Yuan.
However, after putting them to work for a while, Lin Yuan discovered that these Skeleton Sailors were not without shortcomings.
Their greatest shortcoming was their lack of a will of their own, which left them unable to learn anything new.
The Skeleton Sailors' movements were all instincts etched into their bones during their lives.
Most of them could handle miscellaneous chores aboard a ship, such as swabbing the deck and tidying the cabins.
Some skeletons also had skills such as logging and mining.
But those that lacked a skill simply could not do it.
This dashed Lin Yuan's hopes of using the skeletons as production-line workers.
Industrialization would still have to fall to the residents of Shattered Island.
At the same time, the skeletons could not stray too far from the Death Seed, or they would lose the ability to move and become ordinary skeletal remains.
Lin Yuan tested this limit and found it was about two kilometers.
This also prevented him from staying on the Main Island while directing the skeletons to gather resources on the other islands by themselves.
Fortunately, apart from those two shortcomings, the skeletons had nothing but advantages.
They were obedient and well-behaved, needed neither rest nor food, and even their deaths would not hurt.
Labor this useful could not be found anywhere else.
With the skeletons' help, the Phantom Lin