Immediately after Ye Jun’s Bloodline Fruit trade post was sent out, it drew the attention of countless people.
“Silver-grade equipment? It’s that expensive?”
“It’s only been a little over 10 days since the game had started and there’s already silver-grade equipment? I don’t even have a bronze-grade equipment!”
“Not to mention a bronze-grade equipment, I don’t even have a normal dagger. Picking mushrooms every day, eating fresh and dried mushrooms, I’m becoming a mushroom…”
“I saw in the in-game store, a silver-grade equipment costs 1000 silver coins, that is 100,000 copper coins. Almighty Ye is still that Almighty Ye, too black-hearted… might as well change his name to Ye Black!”
“Even 1000 silver coins would be a good deal if I could change my aptitudes and level up easier, but unfortunately I don’t have it…”
There were lots of discussions, some complaining that Ye Jun was asking for too much, some complaining that it was hard to survive, and some having other thoughts.
Ye Jun casually browsed through some of the comments, not taking those who complained to heart. He was sure that someone would be moved.
Silver-grade equipment was rare, but there were so many survival experts all over the world, and if there was one Zhuang Xiaoqiang, there were definitely more Zhuang Xiaoqiang.
Besides, Ye Jun’s main purpose was to collect rare items.
Right now, many players were still unaware of the preciousness of exotic items, so Ye Jun took this opportunity to collect more.
When everyone was at a higher level in the future, ordinary equipment and copper coins wouldn’t be worth anything anymore, and that would be when the preciousness of exotic items would be reflected.
With its growth accelerated by the Strange Soil, the Strange Blood Tree could produce a Bloodline Fruit every day.
This stuff came very easily for Ye Jun.
But, he couldn’t let other players know that this stuff came to him easily..
After all, things were precious when they were scarce, so Ye Jun and Yang Tianxing schemed in this way.
For example, Zhuang Xiaoqiang had spent a piece of silver-grade equipment for a Bloodline Fruit, and he was still especially grateful to Ye Jun.
As for whether this scheme would be exposed, Ye Jun wasn’t worried in the slightest.
The other players who chose Death Mode were most probably dead.
Even if someone else found the Strange Blood Tree one day and obtained the Bloodline Fruits, by that time, Ye Jun would have already earned a lot of money.
He poured a bucket of fresh fish blood to the Strange Blood Tree, which was now the most valuable thing to Ye Jun. It had to be served well with enough blood.
Afterward, Ye Jun made another trip to the stern and fed the Electric Ray Boss.
Ye Jun also treated this guy well. After all, it was a Boss-level monster and a living charger. Ye Jun was still counting on it to level up.
Casually throwing a Magical Pet Ration to the electric ray, it instantly wagged its head and tail at Ye Jun like a dog, no longer having any no majesty like that of a Boss.
Ye Jun kicked it, and it crackle… He charged himself once in passing.
“+5 Electrical Energy.”
“Good-for-nothing!”
It probably recognized Ye Jun, who fed it every day and became familiar with him. It discharged less and less electricity.
If the day came when it stopped discharging, Ye Jun would slaughter it and catch another one.
The poor ray didn’t know that it was going to get itself killed trying to please its master, and it was still wagging its tail!
Ye Jun saw the sun going down in the west, stopped striking iron, and made arrangements for the doll to start working.
It had been a few days since the doll had gone down to the sea in search of supplies.
It wasn’t that Ye Jun didn’t want to, but he was really too distracted and had no energy to do so.
He was exhausted from forging iron everyday, so how could he have time to play with the doll?
Holding the glowing pearl, the doll dove familiarly to the bottom of the sea.
The hundreds of meters deep seabed were dark all year round. Many creatures here never saw light in their lives, and some fish swam curiously around the doll, totally unafraid, some even used their mouths to chase the bright pearl in the doll’s hand.
With a backhanded snatch, the doll squeezed an oddly shaped fish.
Watching the fish struggle in terror in its hand, the doll released it!
It wasn’t a big fish, not even half a catty of meat, and it was weird-looking—who knew if it was even edible?
Ye Jun controlled the doll to walk on the bottom of the sea, alerting many creatures hiding in the mud and sand.
A lobster jumped out of the sand in terror and fled into the distance.
Ye Jun ignored it as the doll reached into a rock crevice and fished out a sea cucumber, wiping the mud and sand off the thing.
It was a good one, at least an arm’s length, wrist-thick, and covered in black with spikes.
This was something good that could only be found in the deep sea.
Shoving the sea cucumber into the net on his back, he continued to search through this rocky mess.
An arm-length lobster.
+2 fist-sized sea urchins.
Another lobster, too bad it was too small—go get your dad.
Ye Jun casually dropped the small palm-length lobster.
“Ding! Ancient ambergris found! Would you like to collect it?”
Ye Jun looked at the thing in front of him that was as big as a washbowl and seemed like a rock with some purple algae growing on it.
‘This is the famous ambergris, the raw material that is said to be used to make fine perfumes?’
‘Except, it’s not like this is the modern world, so what good could this do?’
‘But what’s the difference between ancient ambergris and regular ambergris?’
‘What the hell! Collect it first.’
Collected successfully!
Ye Jun looked at the properties of the ambergris.
Strange Ambergris: a special liquid that has been solidified, produced by ancient dragon whales during an indescribable process. Functions: benefits essence, aids virility… when lit, induces estrus, and promotes reproduction…
In short, an aphrodisiac made from whales!
He wondered whether it worked on people.
Ye Jun casually put it away.
He searched the sea bed for a while longer, but apart from a few crabs, there were no other resources to be found.
Although the bottom of the sea was rich in resources, the sea was so vast that to search for them on foot was like finding a needle in a haystack; it was all based on luck.
Ye Jun controlled the doll to go back onto the ship.
It wasn’t a completely unproductive trip, at least dinner was settled.
Small arm-length sea cucumbers, arm-length lobsters, fist-sized sea urchins, and a side of shark fins that had been drying for the past two days.
A rich seafood meal was complete.
He took a picture before he ate!
Ye Jun posted the seafood feast to the chat channel with the accompanying text, “Does it look good? If it looks good, it also tastes good. Death Mode is delicious…”
“F**k you…”
“You can eat so well in Death Mode? I want to die too… just so I can be a full dead man before I die!”
“Can’t you tell? Almighty Ye is obviously showing off, a veteran humble bragger. Other Death Mode players would have died long ago! He’s the only one living more comfortably than anyone else.”
“Humble Bragger Ye…”
With a full stomach, Ye Jun took out the piece of ancient ambergris and looked at it. However, he didn’t dare to light it. If this thing truly had an effect on people, who would he seek help from in this vast body of water?
He placed the box in a corner. This thing would come in handy sooner or later.
Lying back on the bed, Ye Jun took a bite of the apple that the Strange Fruit Tree had produced while turning his side to open the chat channel as he scrolled through today’s posts.
There were many interesting people online, and now all of them in the world had gathered in this game. Now, all kinds of interesting replies were coming out. Reading the posts every day had become Ye Jun’s habit before going to bed.