Ch. 36 - Three Bottles of Magic Potion

【Name: Healing Pearl】【Type: Treasure】

【Quality: Rare】

【Description: Soak the pearl in 1L of water for 12 hours to grant the water healing properties, accelerating wound recovery.】

Yang Yi's eyes lit up!

It was a great treasure! The chest clam was probably a rare creature capable of producing rare items!

As the day was drawing to a close, Yang Yi collected the fishing nets and decided to end his day.

The fishing nets yielded two items.

【Name: One-Armed Crab】

【Type: Food】

【Description: It has always favoured its right claw since it was young, with the right claw making up half its body weight! Edible and non-toxic, with plenty of meat in the claw.】

The other ugly item lowered sanity.

【Name: Strange Starfish】

【Description: This starfish resembles a human hand with fingers of varying lengths and crawls on the ground like a spider...】

"Quite unique, looking like something from another world!"

Yang Yi stomped it to death, picked it up, and after checking the details, suddenly found it less unattractive.

【Name: Palm Star】

【Type: Food】

【Description: A starfish twisted by abyssal corruption.

Mildly toxic, increases agility by +1 for a short time, reduces sanity by 20, lasts for one minute. S~eaʀᴄh the nôvel_Fire.ηet website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

This item, similar to the head octopus, can enhance attributes when consumed and might be used to create magic potions.】

With this thought, Yang Yi carried the strange fish back to the cabin.

"Suna, take a look at these."

In the lab, Suna was still dissecting a two-horned demon shark.

Two bright, fist-sized eyeballs were removed and floating in a glass tank, emitting a faint red glow.

She noticed Yang Yi, the strange fish, and the large pearl in his hand.

"Look at these fish and the pearl."

Suna took the items and examined them closely.

"Did you catch all these?"

"Yes!"

Suddenly, Suna had an inspiration.

She looked at the fish, then at the demon shark’s eyeballs, and had an idea.

"Two...no, three! In three days, I'll give you some prototypes!" Suna said excitedly.

"Don’t rush it. It’s already night. Go back to your room and rest. We can discuss it tomorrow."

Suna hesitated for a moment but ultimately agreed and returned to her room.

Her room was next to the captain's quarters, so if there were any disturbances at night, they could easily notify each other.

Yang Yi took the crystal ball and headed to the captain’s room.

The crystal ball had a vibration alert function, warning them in case another player’s ship appeared nearby.

Placing it by the pillow allowed him to anticipate danger in advance.

Otherwise, he could be sleeping whilst surrounded by other players at night!

After preparing everything, Yang Yi took off his coat, drank a bottle of coconut juice, and lay on the ship.

He usually checked the chat channel before sleeping, mainly to monitor the price trends of warm clothing and to see if anyone was selling fire tools.

As he was doing this, he fell asleep, frowning and having nightmares.

In the dead of night, there was movement next door to the captain’s quarters. Suna's door opened.

A sneaky figure quietly emerged and headed towards the stern’s cabin, targeting the lab.

Suna planned to work late into the night researching magic potions...

Three days passed without any major events.

Yang Yi continued fishing as usual, collected the fishing nets in the evening, and occasionally practised shooting.

He didn’t like using claw hooks, even though they provided stable catches; they were not as interesting as fishing.

He gave all the fish he caught to Suna for her to evaluate their usefulness.

Since food was plentiful, it was better to consume items with shorter shelf lives first, and there was no need to eat the strange fish.

During this period, the haul was average, aside from the strange fish, with the resources collected being: Wood x28, Cloth x25, Shell Coins 650, Freshwater 9L.

He noticed there was a difference between the fishing net and fishing rod yields.

Fishing nets provided more shrimp, crabs, and shellfish.

He also caught two resource chests.

The wooden resource chest gave Wood x20, Cloth x20, which was better than nothing.

The bronze resource chest provided Wood x100, Cloth x100, Iron x20, still a significant gain.

He caught two new fish species.

【Name: Eyeball Octopus】

【Type: Food】

【Description: An abyssal-corrupted octopus with eyeballs at the tips of its tentacles.

Mildly toxic, increases perception by +1 for a short time, lasts for 1 minute.】

【Name: Big, Muscly Lobster】

【Type: Food】

【Description: An abyssal-corrupted lobster with six abdominal muscles.

Mildly toxic, increases constitution by +1 for a short time, lasts for 1 minute.】

Along with the head octopus and palm star, he had just the right mix of attributes besides sanity.

He gave all the special fish to Suna.

In the evening, seeing no fish for a long time, Yang Yi began checking the chat information.

As expected, the price of down jackets had been steadily declining over time, as more people were able to craft them.

The current market price was only 105 cloth per piece.

It seemed the cost to produce a down jacket was around 100 cloth, so the price had likely bottomed out.

He checked his current resource totals.

Wood x841, Cloth x560, Stone x408, Shell Coins x5700, Freshwater x208, Iron x77, Crystal x51, Sulphur x40.

It looked like a lot, but buying winter clothing would cost over 400 cloth.

Moreover, upgrading to a level 3 ship required a large amount of resources...

The road ahead was long!

If using Shell Coins to buy down jackets, the price would be around 600 Shell Coins, but players preferred trading with cloth because shell coin exchange rates were too unstable.

Currently, the exchange rate for basic resources to Shell Coins was about 5:1, meaning 5 Shell Coins equalled 1 unit of basic resources, though actual trades could be slightly higher.

High-level resources were more expensive, around 25 Shell Coins per unit.

In summary, Yang Yi seemed rich, but he was actually struggling financially and couldn’t afford to spend resources recklessly.

He still didn’t know how much he would need to buy fire tools!

He routinely posted in the chat channel: “High price for fire tools, private message if you’re selling cheap winter clothing!”

Just after sending the message, Yang Yi noticed a private message from Suna, sent a few minutes ago.

Suna: “The magic potions are ready as you requested, placed on the lab table. Come and get them yourself.

There are three types in total.

The red one is for attribute enhancement, with possible minor side effects.

The clear one is for restoring energy, try it yourself.

The pink one is for healing injuries...”

After reading the message, Yang Yi immediately ran to the witch's lab.

With such a high investment, it was finally yielding results!

In the lab, Suna was lying on the table, seemingly resting.

On the table were various instruments, including a microscope, a test tube rack and test tubes, a flask, and even an alcohol lamp.

“Can this thing even light up?”

Yang Yi picked up the alcohol lamp and found it surprisingly light. Upon closer inspection, it was empty...

【Lab Equipment, removing it from the lab will result in damage. Requires self-supplied fuel.】

Yang Yi: “…”

He really didn’t understand why Suna bought that instrument!

Did she not know it was empty until after she bought it?

Yang Yi put down the alcohol lamp and was drawn to the three vials of different-coloured magic potions on the table.

Although they were labelled as unknown, Yang Yi, with his experience, knew that drinking them would reveal their specific effects and information…