novelhk Chapter 49 Crystal Vein Box Jellyfish
Chapter 49 Crystal Vein Box Jellyfish
Today, starting from some unknown time, these jellyfish with square umbrella-shaped caps and nearly transparent bodies have appeared in large numbers with the ocean currents, spreading throughout the waters around Zhang Xinlan's raft.
Forget about scavenging supplies, occasionally jellyfish would be washed directly onto the surface of the raft by the waves and lay sprawled on the rough wood!
She browsed through the chat channels and found that quite a few people had encountered this problem!
Zhang Xinlan had examined the properties of the jellyfish.
The jellyfish is the highly venomous "crystal jellyfish". After being stung by its tentacles, humans will die rapidly from the poison within 5 to 30 minutes, depending on their physical condition!
Even if a jellyfish is dead, the tentacles on its corpse can still cause poisoning for up to a week!
For most of the day, she did almost nothing else but carefully use a wooden stick to lift the jellyfish carcasses that had washed ashore onto the raft back into the sea!
Several times she almost touched the tentacles of these jellyfish!
If things were this difficult during the day, Zhang Xinlan couldn't imagine what the night would be like.
The "Eagle Eye" skill makes it easier for her to clean up the jellyfish carcasses stranded on the raft, but people need to sleep.
She can go a day without sleep, but can she go two or three days?
What if you fall asleep from extreme exhaustion and accidentally come across a dead jellyfish that was washed ashore by the waves at night?
Venom won't give her any chance to regret it!
Does anyone know when the jellyfish tide will end?
If a storm hits two days later and there are still many jellyfish in the sea, the day the waves crash down will be the day you drown!
Therefore, Zhang Xinlan made the heartfelt decision to runzhi!
She wasn't a naive and innocent girl; she knew the risks of rashly teleporting to the vicinity of a powerful, unfamiliar man.
The other person could be a good person, or they could be a hidden psychopath.
Sending someone there is tantamount to handing over your fate entirely to the other person; whether you live or die depends entirely on their decision.
It's not that Zhang Xinlan is narcissistic, but there's a saying:
After drifting at sea for a long time, it doesn't matter whether a mermaid's upper body is a fish or her lower body is a fish.
But she had no other choice!
Looking at the 444th division, out of 100,000... well, 96,000+ people.
Apart from Yu Wang, who was investigated by her using her skills out of curiosity, the other 90,000 people did not meet the requirements for activating the 'Location Teleportation Card'!
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[Location Transfer Card]
Category: Consumables
[Description: Holding the card, concentrate your mind, silently recite the identity information of the target (at least two items), and shout the incantation "Guided by true name and bond, I set off, my target!" to initiate a one-way teleportation.]
[Currently meeting the target: You're about to hit the jackpot!]
[Teleport to the area within 1 nautical mile of "You're About to Make a Fortune"?]
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The skill will have five more days to cool down.
Five days... in five days her body will be turned into fish droppings!
Zhang Xinlan stared at the 'location teleportation card' in her hand.
A mix of emotions—indecision, struggle, anticipation, and decision—churned within her for quite some time.
Between "secretly teleporting there and then immediately trying to get away to avoid being discovered" and "reporting in advance, explaining the reason, and sounding out the higher-ups before teleporting to avoid being treated like a mob and killed,"...
She wisely chose the latter.
"The big shot doesn't seem like the kind of person who's completely unreasonable. He doesn't cheat people during transactions, has warned me about the dangers of fishing at night, and often helps others in the public chat. Maybe I should try to communicate with him? It's better than staying here doing nothing and waiting to die."
She tried to convince herself,
Fortunately, she made the right bet; the big boss wasn't the kind of person who would stand by and watch someone die.
After she truthfully reported what she had encountered, the big boss actually agreed!
However, Zhang Xinlan had no idea that the message she sent had inadvertently revealed her true skill ability—her biggest trump card!
She only knew from the introduction of the "location teleportation card" that only the recipient whose real information the user knew could use the card.
Unaware of the hidden characteristic that the more information a user knows about the target object, the shorter the transmission distance.
She naturally assumed that as long as she successfully used the card, she would definitely be teleported to within 1 nautical mile of the target.
He was still silently thinking to himself, "This card is quite convenient. The distance isn't too close, so it won't be shoved directly at someone's face, but it's not too far either; I can get there by boat in a bit."
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Back inside the "Little Yellow Duck," Yu Wang immediately went to the porthole and looked out.
He had just finished reading the explanation Zhang Xinlan sent and understood:
"So this is the jellyfish swarm! Time to stock up on the antidote!"
The sour orange tree did a great job today, bearing a full 18 fruits.
The venom in the "Basic Universal Antidote" formula is extracted from the venom sacs dropped from the gallbladder of the circinate thorn, so there is no shortage of it.
Now, the amount of the cloudy gel that replaces the "algae gel" is insufficient, with only 29 portions remaining.
It will be used up in less than two days.
"It's time to kill some monsters tonight. The Little Yellow Duck has now reached level 2 and can unlock the energy-saving mode of the 'Water Arrow Cannon'."
One shot could wipe out a tenth of the pearl coins; it's simply unbearable!
Water Arrow Cannon (Lv.1)
Installation location: Bow of the ship
[Energy: 40% (1/525 pearl coins)]
[Mode: Automatic Mode (Protection Range: Entire Ship)]
[Attack range: 3 meters around the ship]
【升级需要：船只等级Lv.2、铁钉(5/74)、螺丝(5/105)、金属零件(10/212)、精密齿轮(20/235)、木材(20/3497)、金属片(30/51)、橡胶(8/142)】
Upgrade Option 1: Cheaper Ammunition (Reduced Pearl Coin Consumption, Lower Water Arrow Power, 20 Rounds Fired Per Pearl Coin)
[Upgrade Option 2: More Powerful Projectiles (Increased Pearl Coin Consumption, Enhanced Water Arrow Power, 2 Projectiles Can Be Fired Per Pearl Coin)]
With the added attributes from the buff and yesterday's bonus, Yu Wang has no shortage of basic materials.
The joy of hoarding.
The key is that no matter what strange or unusual materials are needed for building or upgrading, just rummage through the warehouse... hey, it has them all!
However, Yu Wang hesitated for a moment when it came time to finally confirm the upgrade.
The former is indeed very cost-effective, and is beneficial for clearing out monsters and obtaining materials.
But the newbie protection period is about to end, and that unknown spherical monster is still haunting us.
In layman's terms, the spherical monster is a boss-level being.
In a real-world monster-hunting game, perhaps low attack power and high attack speed would be a combat style, much like using a submachine gun in a shooting game.
But in sea survival,
With such low attack power, it's very likely that it won't even be able to break the skin of some monsters!
If you can't break through the defenses, it's all nonsense!
"What I need is a trump card! As long as I can damage that monster, we have a chance of winning!" Yu Wang made up his mind and no longer hesitated.
Ultimately, he chose "Upgrade Option Two," opting for more powerful shells.
[Ding! Sufficient materials detected, meeting upgrade requirements! Upgrading 'Water Arrow Cannon (Lv.1)' is in progress, with the upgrade direction being 'More Powerful Projectiles'...]
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Upgrade successful!
Water Rocket Cannon (Lv.2) - High-Pressure Armor-Piercing Mode
Installation location: Bow of the ship
Energy: 100% (1/525)
[Mode: Automatic Mode (Protection Range: Entire Ship)]
Effective attack range: 20m around the ship (power decreases rapidly beyond this range)
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The upgrade was complete. The shape of the cannon barrel did not change drastically; only the metal parts looked thicker and the surface had several new energy conduction patterns.
Looking at the attributes on the panel, Yu Wang nodded in satisfaction.
However, the cost is also obvious: the increased power comes at the cost of a sharp increase in energy consumption.
Currently, the energy stored in one pearl coin can only support the upgraded 'Water Rocket Cannon' to fire two armor-piercing water rockets.
To compensate for the lack of attack coverage of small monsters,
Yu Wang decided that once he obtained a new 'Primary Energy Core', he would occupy the other cannon position on the Little Yellow Duck.
With the blueprints for the "Water Rocket Cannon" and a large amount of basic materials in hand, building another level 2 turret is entirely within our budget!
"Let's see how it goes." Yu Wang excitedly switched to manual aiming mode and aimed at the empty sea in the distance.
*Whoosh—Pfft!*
After about 5 seconds of charging, accompanied by a sharp sonic boom, an even thicker, dark blue water jet shot out! Almost instantly, it covered a distance of twenty meters and accurately hit the target sea surface!
"Bang!"
With a loud bang, the seawater was forcibly pushed aside by the impact of the water jet, forming a deep, inward-curving vortex-shaped crater that slowly closed up after a while.
"The power is indeed considerable!" Yu Wang assessed the effect of the armor-piercing water arrow, a look of satisfaction flashing in his eyes.
If this shot had hit the Night Fang Wolf Eel, it would probably have turned it into a bloody mist!
"It's a pity that ships can't sail directly into the dungeon..." Yu Wang looked at the imposing turrets and thought of the densely packed ring-shaped poisonous thorns in the dungeon, and couldn't help but feel a little regretful.
Otherwise, sending the "Little Yellow Duck" into the farm would be incredibly efficient, almost like a game-changer, and the task would be completed in no time.