Chapter 8: Upgraded Raft, Check-In Again
Editor: Henyee Translations
The deal was done!
An antique hammer appeared inside Ye Jun's Inventory.
One end was a bit like a woodworker's hammer, while the other end carried an ax's blade.
The bronze hammer had faintly engraved images and symbols. It kind of looked like a carpenter building a house upon closer inspection.
Construction Hammer: Bronze level (upgradeable), Use Condition: None. Use Effect: Permanently increases structure's attribute points by 10%.
Ye Jun held the hammer while wanting to try it out, but he had to wait for Yang Tianxing and the others to provide him with wood so he could upgrade the raft.
Ye Jun's hand sank slightly at the moment.
There was a fish on the hook!
Ye Jun frantically reeled in the line, and a strange fish with a mouth full of fine teeth landed on the raft.
There were too many fish in the sea, and Ye Jun didn't recognize what kind of fish it was. Still, this didn't stop him from knocking it to death with a hammer.
"Killed anglerfish, +2 EXP, +20 copper coins."
The fish weighed at least twenty or so catties and provided twice as much EXP as the snapper, plus more copper coins.
There seemed to be a relationship between EXP and the size of the type of prey.
A twenty-catty anglerfish provides 2 experience points. I wonder… How much experience could I gain if I could get a shark?
However, that was just a mere thought. He would get a headache if he really caught a shark, since the small raft would be unable to handle it.
After skillfully placing the fish on the grill, Ye Jun once again flung out the hook.
He caught another twenty or so fish in a short while.
The sea was rich in supplies, and the fish were in schools so the catch was good.
Those fish provided Ye Jun with an extra thirty-two in EXP.
Ye Jun's current Hunter level was level 1 (41/100). Ye Jun estimated that he would be able to rise to level 2 in another day at most, considering this rate.
While flinging out the hook, Ye Jun took off the aromatic anglerfish from the grill and took a bite.
Sure enough!
The stranger it looks, the better it tastes!
Paired with a pot of soup cooked from the mushrooms he had just traded for and a few wild fruits from Master Ed…
This taste and these days…
They were much more pleasant than his 996
Ye Jun realized he was probably the human who was having the most pleasant time right then.
Having eaten and drunk enough, Ye Jun put up the remaining few grilled fish on the trading channel.
He wasn't short on food and water for the moment. This time, all he wanted to exchange for were game items.
"Twelve grilled fish only in exchange for game supplies, copper coins and game equipment. Other rare supplies are negotiable!"
Once again, the news caused a stir.
Ye Jun had truly become a celebrity.
After all, he was the last player left in death mode.
However, seeing that Ye Jun was not only alive but also living such a prosperous life made many players feel indignant.
"This guy has just racked up another twelve grilled fish. Did he fall into a fish pit?"
"I've never even caught that many fish in commercial fishing ponds…"
"Only trading game supplies? Copper coins? What's that?" Some players were puzzled.
However, someone immediately volunteered and explained, "I killed a rabbit earlier and got three copper coins, which seems to be the same as money in games, but I don't know what use it has. Is there any big shot willing to give pointers?"
"It should be the same as killing wild monsters to get gold coins, so you can probably use it to buy equipment later."
Quite a few people had gotten copper coins when they killed their prey, and their perception of game coins was similar, with only a few willing to trade them for grilled fish.
Ye Jun didn't lower the price, either.
Many people still had bread left at the moment.
Once their food ran out in another day or two, he believed that those players would realize that grilled fish smelled better than cold copper coins.
Ye Jun could afford to wait!
Survival was the most important thing; food was in quite a short supply.
That which is rare is dear.
When people really began to starve, he was sure that those players would happily take out their equipment in exchange for a fish.
As night fell, Ye Jun put his fishing rod away and went to sleep under the starlight.
The next day, just after dawn, Ye Jun was woken up by a message from Yang Tianxing.
"Brother Ye, the wood has been cut. Please confirm!"
Ye Jun took a look at his Inventory, and there were indeed twenty cubic meters of wood inside.
These guys, trading so early in the morning, they didn't cut down trees all night last night, did they?
Ye Jun guessed correctly. Yang Tianxing and his group had taken turns to cut down trees the night prior, finally gathering twenty cubic meters of wood.
How diligent!
After learning about the situation, Ye Jun sighed and sent a message over, "Want bows and arrows? All for a friendly price of twenty cubic meters of wood!"
Yang Tianxing immediately laughed bitterly. "Brother Ye, I feel as if we've suddenly become your family's long-time workers—lumberjacks!"
"Forget it then!"
"We do want them! The wood will be given to you before it gets dark!" How could Yang Tianxing not want them? The bow and arrow was a long-range hunting weapon set that could greatly improve a hunter's efficiency.
Ye Jun was about to close the page when suddenly, a message caught his eye.
"I dug up a strange fruit tree!"
The included picture showed a one-foot-tall fruit tree with a fist-sized apple hanging on it. The attributes were also posted below. Strange fruit tree: it can keep on blossoming and bearing fruit if it absorbs enough nutrients. It can perhaps bring you surprises.
"I've tried it; I buried a loaf of bread under the tree. It produced an apple in just one night."
"A loaf of bread for an apple, you're quite the genius!" a player taunted.
"I'm out of bread. This fruit tree will be traded for food only (the apples still hanging from it are not part of the deal)."
A fruit tree that could constantly blossom and bear fruit!
Ye Jun's eyes lit up slightly.
That was clearly a game item.
If he could get that fruit tree… He wouldn't have to worry about not having fruits to eat at sea in the future.
Shortly after, Ye Jun spent thirty catties of grilled fish to trade for the strange fruit tree!
Although there were quite a few players who coveted that fruit tree, there wasn't a second person who could casually spare dozens of catties of food at the time.
Since the scarcest thing was food—and when everyone managed to stabilize their survival skills later on, that kind of game item was definitely not something that could be exchanged for food.
And then, all it cost Ye Jun was just a few grilled fish.
Ye Jun took out the strange fruit tree and planted it at the far end of the fire, burying some leftover fish guts and entrails from yesterday right under it.
Then, he took twenty cubic meters of wood out of his Inventory.
With a thought…
Hammer, ax, saw, chisel… The construction hammer in his hand took the form of a variety of tools.
Moreover, it was all done with traditional woodworking techniques; not even nails were used, and all kinds of mortise and tenon construction bolted the raft together tightly without moving it. It was more than ten times stronger than the reinforcements Ye Jun had casually tied with rattan before.
That construction hammer was no less useful than a master woodworker.
It was so worth it!
Ye Jun was in a good mood; he opened the system and started with the day's check-in!
Ding! Checked in successfully!
Received one Spirit Seed!
-- Gift
received