Yang Yi barely slept in the latter half of the night.
As dawn broke, he simply got out of bed and tossed a few rotten bones from under the mattress to the floor.
It's been so long, the captain's skeleton should be completely dead by now.
After a night, Yang Yi seemed like a different person.
His face was pale, with deep dark circles under his eyes, and his eyes were bloodshot.
As soon as he stepped out of the captain's cabin, Yang Yi noticed a new... statue on the deck?
It was a cartoonish octopus monster, with wings on its back, squatting on a rock.
"What is this...?"
At the same time, the logbook popped up with an announcement.
"Last night, thirteen thousand people successfully killed aberrations, and one person even achieved an astonishing double kill!"
"The system will grant you a special talent based on your battle achievements."
"Additionally, the Monster Gacha Machine is now open. You can deposit monster body parts into the Gacha Machine to receive gacha rewards. The bodies will be forcibly recycled. But please note, do not throw trash into the Gacha Machine, and definitely do not throw in live creatures, as this will anger the Gacha Machine!"
The World Channel exploded with chatter.
"There are monsters in this world? What do they look like? Has anyone seen them?"
"Let me go back, I'll give you anything!"
"There are talent rewards? I missed out! Last night a skeleton monster knocked on my door, I didn't open it. If I had known, I would have taken the chance."
"If you had opened it, you might have been dead."
"Monster Gacha Machine? Have you found this thing?"
"I found it, it's on the deck, a big-faced cat, quite cute."
"Mine's in the cabin, a cartoon robot!"
"Damn, mine's a clown... scared the hell out of me, and it's in the captain's cabin!"
"Does everyone have a different one?"
Yang Yi turned his head to look at his own Gacha Machine, a cartoon version of an octopus monster, with its mouth wide open, waiting to be fed, its mouth covered in tentacles...
"Reward issued, you have received a talent:????"
"Unlock condition:????, Attempts 0/3."
What is this?
It needs to be unlocked?
This is such a scam!
Yang Yi opened the Chat Channel.
Others were also asking why the gifted talent needed to be unlocked.
Everyone's unlock conditions were different, with varying numbers of attempts required, some needing tens of thousands or even millions, while others needed only a few dozen.
He only needed 3 attempts, which was particularly few.
Soon, someone discovered the talent unlock conditions, which were all simple tasks.
"My unlock condition is to walk, I need to walk 100,000 steps, such a scam!"
"Yours isn't bad, mine is to breathe 3 million times, just let it happen naturally..."
"At least you have a target, mine is 0/100, no clue at all."
"Maybe it's to survive 100 days..."
Yang Yi looked at his 0/3, shook his head, and decided to let it be for now.
He went into the cabin, intending to exchange the monster corpses inside for gacha.
The captain's skeleton couldn't be used for gacha, there was only one.
So he only took the severed hand of the Drowned One and put it into the octopus Gacha Machine...
As soon as he inserted it, the eyes of the octopus Gacha Machine lit up, emitting a red glow, and the tentacles under its chin changed colors like ribbons.
Yang Yi turned the dial on its chest, and the sound of gacha balls colliding came from inside.
The atmosphere was intense...
"What a twisted sense of humor!" Yang Yi remarked.
Before long, a glowing orb rolled out.
Yang Yi picked it up, and it transformed into a bottle of deep blue potion.
"Name: Drowned One's Resentment"
"Type: Consumable"
"Quality: Fine"
"Description: After consumption, Sanity -20, and for one minute, you will be perceived as a Drowned One, avoiding active attacks from low-grade aberrations."
Yang Yi's eyes lit up.
This thing was a decent lifesaving tool.
In a survival game, such an item could be quite valuable.
The World Channel was also buzzing, with many people showing off their prizes.
"I drew a token!"
"Name: White Bone Token"
"Type: Relic"
"Quality: Excellent"
"Description: Can summon a skeleton to fight for you, lasting 15 minutes. After the time is up, it will lose control and attack the summoner. The body disappears upon death. Cooldown time is 24 hours. It's best to ensure you can defeat the skeleton before using it."
"So powerful, sell it to me, I'll offer a billion!"
"A billion is useless, you need Conch Coins here, and there's no way to trade, unless you meet in person."
"How about my dagger?"
"Name: Serrated Dagger"
"Type: Treasure"
"Quality: Excellent"
"Description: A sharp dagger with a comfortable grip, capable of inflicting minor damage. Its only drawback is its short length!"
"Alright, we all know you're short."
"I wouldn't buy this weapon from you, it's too embarrassing!"
"......"
Many people showed off their gacha spoils, but excellent items were rare, only these two were seen, the rest were fine quality.
Overall, relics had better effects than treasures, but they carried the risk of reducing sanity and could have side effects.
Yang Yi's rusted flintlock pistol could inflict moderate damage, while other excellent weapons mostly dealt minor damage.
It was significantly more powerful. Read this novel at g.com for the best experience.
But it had limitations, one shot per minute, and it could misfire, reducing sanity...
It's a kind of balancing act, I suppose.
Yang Yi withdrew his gaze and swallowed half a long-legged sardine.
He was too hungry, and after last night's battle, his concerns had lessened considerably.
To survive, these were not issues.
"Consuming raw long-legged sardine, your sanity decreases by 2 points."
The fish was slightly off, but fortunately not rotten.
It provided energy and a small amount of hydration.
Yang Yi ate the entire sardine, finally feeling a bit full, then checked his status.
After resting last night, his stamina and sanity had recovered, but due to nightmares and insomnia, the recovery was poor.
His wounds hadn't healed well, and he wasn't sure if they would get infected...
Yang Yi
Status: Injured (A large human figure icon, wounds marked in yellow)
Sanity: 74/100
Stamina: 52/100
Health: 83/100
He entered the cabin.
Today's priority was to create noise traps.
These aberrations weren't very intelligent, so the traps didn't need to be too hidden.
He just needed to use the simple synthesis function to make some long ropes, then drill large holes in thin wooden pieces and string them together.
Wood was easy to get, just take it directly.
In this game, wood could be shaped into any cubic form, one unit roughly equaled a cubic decimeter of wood block.
After stringing the wooden pieces, he tied knots to separate them and hung them in the corridor in front of the captain's cabin and on the door.
Yang Yi tested it, and the sound difference between wind and human collision was significant, providing some warning effect.
After finishing these, the morning had passed, and the wood and cloth he had previously gathered were all used up.
Yang Yi wasn't in a hurry to gather these resources.
The immediate priority was fresh water, he needed to fish more and keep an eye on drifting supplies to see if there were any chests.
As he was thinking, Yang Yi suddenly felt something wrong with his body, he seemed a bit hot, his face was flushed, and his stomach hurt.
He immediately became alert and checked his status again.
Yang Yi
Status: Injured/Corpse Poison Infection (Mild)/Food Poisoning (Mild, Diarrhea) (The entire body turned yellow, with deeper color at the wound sites)
"Damn it!"
The situation Yang Yi least wanted to encounter had happened.
The Drowned One had corpse poison, and he was infected!
But he was at sea, without any medicine...