vrcanaries Chapter 35 Hu Hu
Chapter 35 Hu Hu
The first item was a bottle of green liquid in a narrow-necked glass bottle.
[Monster Essence]
[Type: Material]
[Description: A thick, dark green gel with a faint fishy odor. Suitable for both external and internal use.]
[External Use: Dilute with water and apply to the whole body to somewhat obscure your scent, reducing the probability of being targeted by ordinary monsters; it can also provide brief (approximately 10 minutes) cover for underwater activities at night. Internal Use: After drinking, Spirit -10, Sanity -30, immediately gain a buff of Strength +1 and Speed +1 for 2 minutes. (Multiple uses may lead to irreversible mutation tendencies. Do you want to grow Cantonese twin tails?)]
Rotten black bread
[Type: Food]
[Description: A piece of bread as hard as a rock, covered in green mold. Barely edible, restoring a small amount of satiety, but likely to cause abdominal pain, diarrhea, and mild poisoning.]
Contaminated mineral water
[Type: Food]
[Description: A bottle of murky, flocculent fresh water can severely pollute the ocean. Drinking it may quench thirst, but it is more likely to cause vomiting or infection with unknown pathogens.]
[Temporary Pass to Sea Bedbug Nest]
[Type: 1-5 player dungeon]
[Level: 1]
[Description: The nest of a sea stink bug father, seven sea stink bug mothers, and their 1337 adorable babies. It is recommended to be well-prepared before visiting, especially mentally. May the ocean purify all cuckoos.]
[Effect: After use, you will gain access to the 'Sea Bug Nest' dungeon for 48 hours. There may be risks within the dungeon; please proceed with caution.]
[Expiration time: 29 days and 23 hours]
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To avoid taking up space in the cabin, Yu Wang casually tossed the moldy bread and contaminated bottled water into a corner of the cockpit.
It's tasteless to eat but a pity to throw away, and the key is that you can't just throw it into the sea!
"Let's leave it like this for now. We can hide it in a treasure chest later to indirectly ambush people."
Afterwards, Yu Wang focused on studying what, in a sense, was the most precious item in the treasure chest.
The more he read the description, the brighter his eyes became, even showing a hint of barely suppressed excitement.
This is no bedbug nest!
This is clearly the factory for "Kangfuxin Liquid Pro"!!
I just killed a regular sea bug and got a 30ml bottle of [Recovery Liquid Pro Spray]!
Its remarkable ability to treat sprains and bruises and promote bone healing is like a second life in critical moments!
If he can destroy this nest, even if he only kills some of the cubs, the amount of [Recovery Fluid Pro] he can obtain will be enough to support him in dealing with the risk of injury for a considerable period of time in the future!
You can sell any leftovers!
In marine survival, the demand for immediate medications for treating external injuries is even greater than that for some oral medications. They are considered the most valuable of all, and there is never any worry about finding a market for them!
The only downside is that the time allowed for free entry and exit after using the pass is too short.
Dealing with a lone juvenile was quite dangerous; I fractured my wrist.
If I use a pass to directly storm the enemy's lair, facing a potentially swarming sea bug horde, how many can I kill within 48 hours? And how many resources can I safely acquire?
If you're unlucky enough to get entangled by that elite monster of "father" or "mother" level,
Forget about returning with a full load; you might even lose everything, which would truly mean losing everything.
Yu Wang sighed and carefully put away the pass.
Exploration is necessary, but it must never be blind.
"Fortunately, this is a multiplayer dungeon, so I can find some teammates to explore together."
In his previous life, Yu Wang would never have considered the option of "teaming up".
They're only thinking about how to solo this dungeon or sell the pass for the resources they need.
But since I've already made up my mind to make changes in this life, I might as well start with the 'sea stink bug nest'.
Of course, finding teammates requires having sufficient strength and leverage; otherwise, cooperation may turn into being swallowed up.
In this game, trust is an extremely rare commodity.
The most urgent task is to improve our strength as soon as possible, at least to raise all our attributes to 6 or above.
The primary task now remains tonight: to convert the meat we have into real capital for survival.
Only with sufficient pearl coins and materials can one arm oneself.
He turned around, his gaze falling on the piles of fish meat with various attributes in the cabin, and his mind began to rapidly calculate the potential for buying and selling.
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After inspecting the spoils, Yu Wang relit the campfire on the roof of the ship. By the time he returned to the cabin with the empty box, it was almost 10:30.
Sleepiness surged up in waves.
However, contrary to Yu Wang's current mental state, the chat and trading areas are gradually recovering.
The transaction volume and chat pop-up speed were significantly higher than during the day.
Although his schedule is the opposite of the general public's, Yu Wang does not intend to adjust his biological clock to fit this rhythm.
Firstly, not only supply ships, but also many special maritime events and certain rare drifting objects tend to spawn during the day.
Even if it appears at night, it's most likely already "contaminated," and there must be monsters inside.
If you shift your main activities to the late night and spend your days sleeping, you might miss these crucial opportunities.
Secondly, getting too close to darkness is not good news.
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As if to confirm his vigilance, just as Wang Qiang was forcing himself to start processing the fish, a semi-transparent system notification quietly appeared in the upper part of the panel:
Darkness envelops you; nighttime activities may lower your sanity...
The prompt was not fully displayed before it was dispelled by another line of golden text:
[The talent "If you can't beat them, join them" is active; this Dark Corruption has been exempted.]
The notification was displayed in very small font, disappeared extremely quickly, and was located in a rather remote area.
Unless you're constantly watching the panel or someone like Yu Wang who knows the pattern of its appearance beforehand, it's difficult to spot the game prompts.
Often, it's only when one's rationality is critically low and hallucinations have already begun that one realizes the truth.
Yu Wang's gaze did not linger on these prompts, but instead fell on his own cabin storage space.
A 300-gram red-tailed tuna that cannot be moved and has a +1 effect on all attributes is a truly top-tier strategic resource that is priceless and unavailable to ordinary players.
Yu Wang would never use it to exchange for ordinary materials or pearl coins.
This level of treasure can only be used for barter, exchanging it for items of equal value.
However, 67 units of Night Fang Wolf Eel Meat and 17 units of Demon Lion Fish Meat can be traded.
Both of these are rare ingredients that can permanently increase attributes, and their value is far beyond that of ordinary basic materials.
One unit of meat weighs a full 5 jin (1 catties), and because their meat is of a higher quality, they don't need to be eaten for three days like the giant lobster. Instead, you only need to eat one-fifth of a unit (about 1 jin) to gain attribute bonuses.
This advantage allows each unit of meat to be sold separately.
Since both types of fish meat improve physical condition, Yu Wang simply mixed the two types of meat together, mashed them into a paste, added compressed biscuit crumbs, and chopped up the "vitality seaweed" he had caught from the sea a couple of days ago.
After a series of actions, the game panel changed from "Premium Night Fang Wolf Eel Meat" to "Pure Paste Containing Special Energy (Constitution)".
Even the mothers who tasted it couldn't recognize it as their own child's flesh.
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[A paste containing special energy (physical constitution)]
[Effect: Permanently increases Constitution attribute by 0.1 points upon consumption. Also provides a large amount of energy and satiety, accelerating stamina recovery.]
[Description: The texture is hard to describe; it has a slightly astringent and grainy feel. It can improve the speed of physical recovery after consumption, but it is recommended to swallow while holding your breath.]
The giant lobster meat was prepared in the same way, resulting in a paste (power) containing special energy.
According to statistics, a total of 84 units of meat can increase physical fitness, which can be divided into 420 portions of paste.
Shrimp are not very big to begin with, and there are even fewer after the shells are removed.
The shrimp meat from the two shrimps, plus what Yu Wang ate, all added together only made up 1 unit, which is 5 portions of paste.
Strictly speaking, giant lobsters are much easier to obtain than wolf eel or lionfish meat, given their different size and danger levels.
But... scarcity makes things valuable.
Moreover, the strength attribute often provides a more direct and sought-after boost to combat and survivability than the constitution attribute.
Therefore, Yu Wang priced the shrimp paste much higher than the fish paste.
In the midst of the busy work, fog suddenly rose on the sea surface.
The fog arrived without warning, engulfing the entire sea surface almost in the blink of an eye.
Yu Wang was still sifting through the fish paste when he looked up and all he could see was churning gray-white mist.
A damp, cold air enveloped him, and a night breeze blew by, causing him to shiver. He felt a chill that didn't belong to this season.