Soon, the night turned into day…
The early morning chills slowly swept over Chen Feng along with the tiredness from yesterday as he opened his eyes. He stood up, refreshed and as light as a swallow.
The huge scab on his back had also fallen off quite a bit and had almost fully recovered.
Zhou Lingrui, on the other hand, stood up shakily. Her face was pale, and she could not even straighten her back.
Please do not jump to conclusions because nothing happened last night. Zhou Lingrui’s pale face was due to her weak body and the cold.
Last night, Gina was on watch duty. She could enter a state of light sleep to recover her physical strength and still maintain a certain vigilance level. Therefore, Chen Feng slept so soundly, knowing Gina had been keeping watch all night.
Although Zhou Lingrui’s ‘ability’ from yesterday had tempted Chen Feng, Chen Feng still refused at the end.
Zhou Lingrui was very beautiful. If he could rate her out of ten, she would be at least a nine. Such a beautiful girl had practically taken the initiative to approach him. It would be impossible for him not to be tempted.
Last night, Chen Feng could have agreed to it and left her to rot when it was over. However, if they had done it, he could not be able to ignore her.
Now that they were in the apocalypse, people’s actions can be unpredictable. He remembered the saying, “The more beautiful a woman was, the more she would lie to get her way!”
Chen Feng would not trust someone this easily.
Chen Feng’s repeated rejection finally broke her self-esteem that no one could help with except herself.
Because of Gina’s presents, Zhou Lingrui had not dared to get too close to Chen Feng. However, she was afraid of the terror in the depths of the fog. Therefore, she slept under a tree for the night.
Tang Yucheng and his son had swindled all the resources from her warehouse. Now, there were no valuable resources at all left. Zhou Lingrui had nowhere else to go. She could only silently look at Chen Feng, like a kitten in the rain, begging for shelter.
Chen Feng, who had just woken up, suddenly heard a notification. It was the system’s daily calculation of survival points.
[Yesterday’s material acquisition evaluation]
[Yesterday’s vehicle upgrade evaluation]
[Material acquisition survival points: 983]
[Level obtained survival points: 90]
[Total survival points: 291+983+90=1364]
After hearing the notification, Chen Feng was pleasantly surprised. He could not believe that his survival points had increased by more than a thousand overnight.
Previously, it had only been 100 points, but it had doubled over itself a few times today.
However, on second thought, the number of resources he had obtained yesterday was indeed terrifying.
He obtained wood and plant fibers from cutting down trees, and he also obtained a refined iron bow, arrows, and a long sword from the mall after upgrading his raft to the highest level.
He also obtained rice and 250KG of pork from the black and bronze treasure chests he had gotten from killing the aquatic monsters.
These items gave him a little over 1,000 survival points.
After obtaining the survival points, Chen Feng hurriedly opened the [Mall] option in the game interface.
In the current level 2 mall, he could buy the [Level 1 red potion] and [Level 1 strengthening potion].
The special item [Long sword] had disappeared, leaving only the [Sailboat upgrade blueprint (1,000 survival points)].
[Level 1 strengthening potion] was useless because he had already drunk it once. There was no need to repurchase it.
The red potion was a good and cheap item that only cost 20 survival points. He had relied on it to survive a few injuries.
With enough survival points, Chen Feng spent 100 survival points to buy five bottles of [Level 1 red potion], and placed them in the warehouse.
As for [Sailboat upgrade blueprint], it was a necessity. Chen Feng had not dared to forget that there were still 26 days before the first major disaster at sea. The raft would still be his only choice when the Treasure Island sank in more than ten days; therefore, he had to upgrade it.
Chen Feng immediately clicked to confirm the purchase. The sooner he bought it and activated the blueprint, the sooner he knew the materials needed to upgrade the raft to a sailboat.
A sailboat was unlike a raft. Although the primary materials should still be wood and plant fiber, other materials might also be needed.
[Purchase successful. Deducting 1,000 survival points, one copy of Sailboat upgrade blueprint obtained. Currently, 264 survival points remaining.]
Chen Feng confirmed the use of the blueprint that appeared out of thin air in his hand. The blueprint transformed into a ray of white light that shot into Chen Feng’s body. The raft in Chen Feng’s warehouse also flashed, and a slight change occurred.
Information about the raft.
[Top-grade raft]
Level: 10
Area: 15 *20
Upgrade: Wood (remaining 23, requires 199), plant fiber (remaining 16, requires 200), iron (remaining 64, requires 20), Heart of the Raft (remaining 1, requires 3)
Evaluation: Unlocked the raft to upgrade the sailboat. Collect the required materials as soon as possible
Once he had used the sailboat blueprint, it is allowed to continue upgrading it and the new material needed.
Wood and plant fibers were easy to obtain. Although Chen Feng had almost used all of them, their surroundings were filled with trees. Therefore it was very easy to obtain these materials. Moreover, if he found it troublesome, he could purchase them from the [Trade]. After just one night, the prices of these materials had plummeted.
Previously it was easy to obtain iron by using the novice fishing rod in the sea. However, now that it is gone, it is no longer a way to obtain iron easily.
One of the ways to obtain iron was to kill a low-level aquatic monster and turn the iron treasure chest into iron. Fortunately, Chen Feng had enough iron currently.
However, what is the Heart of the Raft? Upgrade conditions showed that he had one! However, there was no material similar to it in the warehouse.
Chen Feng frowned in confusion. However, he hurriedly clicked on it when he saw an option ‘click to expand’ that shown an explanation behind this [Heart of the Raft].
[Heart of the Raft: Every player’s initial vehicle in the game is a raft, and the Heart of the Raft is the core of the raft. You would also have a Heart of the Raft. If you wish to obtain more of it, you can destroy other people’s rafts and obtain theirs.]
[Note: Even if the raft is destroyed, with the Heart of the Raft, you can still restore it by leveling it back up to level one. However, once you lose the Heart of the Raft, you will not be able to level up your raft, let alone use a blueprint to upgrade it.]
After reading these explanations, Chen Feng suddenly understood.
It turned out that everyone had a Heart of the Raft. To upgrade the raft into a sailboat, it required three Heart of the Raft to do so.
This had shown the cruelty of this game. If a player wanted to level up, they could only destroy someone else’s raft to do so. However, no one was a fool.
If a raft was destroyed in the vast sea, how would they make a new one? If they could not level it up, they could only wait for death when the great catastrophe came. No one would be foolish enough to allow one to destroy their own raft.
If someone refused to comply and hid their raft in their warehouse, they could always kill them, making them drop everything from their warehouse and then destroying the raft.
Just as he was about to complain about this cruelness of the game, Chen Feng gave it more thought.
Perhaps the game’s system forcing players to use the Heart of the Raft from other players had another purpose. Players could cooperate and take the initiative to destroy their own raft and contribute it to upgrade it into a sailboat.
It was believed that a normal-sized sailboat could accommodate three people.
However, in the future, the ownership of the sailboat could only be in the hands of one of them. If they said to put it in the warehouse, there is nothing someone can do about it as it was understood that one player’s item could not be placed in another player’s warehouse.
Even if they could live on the boat, they would not feel safe.
You will need a very trusting team for this.