Chapter 202: Survival System for Natural Disasters (31)

The post had been up for only a few seconds when the trading link indicated it was sold out.

Players who were still hesitating over whether to spend 2 units of High-purity Quartz Ore to buy a portion of vegetables to supplement their vitamins were left dumbfounded:

"No way? Who is so crazy, buying up all these vegetables?"

Actually, no one bought them all up.

To be precise, even if they wanted to, they wouldn't have the chance.

After all, there are still several thousand players on the World Channel.

After upgrading to small villas, there was no shortage of players with high Luck Value who had opened Vegetable Seeds from Blind Box Treasure Chests, but none had as many varieties of vegetables as Xie Yang put up for trade!

Not to mention anything else, at the very least, fungi like mushrooms and shiitake mushrooms were things they didn't have.

The less they could eat, the more they wanted to taste them.

Consequently, however much Xie Yang put up, it was snatched up in an instant.

Players who didn't manage to grab any were about to cry:

【Can't you consider us retail players with quartz ore? Just leave us a single Bok Choy!】

【God! Someone spare me a spinach! I'm going crazy wanting it!】

【There are even mushrooms? Ah! I miss the mushroom soup my wife makes so much!】

Just like that, Xie Yang and Fu Zhangzheng used fungi as bait, managing to trade for a batch of quartz ore every day.

Days went by in a dull, unremarkable fashion.

She had too many things to be busy with during this period!

Every morning, she would get up and first go to the small vegetable garden on the negative first floor to harvest and plant vegetables, incidentally watering the plots and loosening the soil.

Then she would go out for a morning run, heading to the beach to set up a nest and cast a net.

Returning to the Shelter, she would wash up, eat a little something, and then prepare the vegetables needed for that day's trading.

Fu Zhangzheng had been responsible for the roasted meat last time, but this time, after trying to cook the stir-fried seasonal vegetables and seafood once and feeling like he was wasting the ingredients, he decided to let Xie Yang take the helm.

He was responsible for prepping the ingredients—for instance, washing the vegetables and seafood Xie Yang sent over and processing them into categories.

Xie Yang would turn the ingredients he processed into delicacies and put them on the trading link, only then heading out to chop wood with the fur monkey in tow and her self-made Refined Iron Axe in hand.

She planned to chop down every tree on the island that could be chopped before the Residence Island was submerged by seawater.

For those that couldn't be chopped, such as saplings that hadn't matured yet, she would pack them up roots and all with the soil.

The Sub-system's Storage Space had recently expanded by another 10 cubic meters, which was just right for holding saplings; who knows, they might come in handy later!

Even if they couldn't be used in the game, couldn't they still be taken to the real world?

If she couldn't use them herself, donating them to desert areas for afforestation would be nice too.

After hearing about this plan from Xie Yang, other players on the Regional Channel who had trees on their Residence Islands didn't stop their logging pace, even though the wood obtained from chopping trees was already enough for them to upgrade their Shelters.

As long as it wasn't severe weather with gale-force winds and torrential rain, players would still find time to chop trees, and they wouldn't bypass saplings either; they would dig them up, wrap the roots in withered grass, and send them to Xie Yang.

They didn't need these saplings, and if they kept them themselves, it would waste a Backpack Slot, so it was better to just give them all to Xie Yang.

Of course, they assumed Xie Yang was using one Backpack Slot to hold the saplings, since there was no upper limit for storing the same type of material, so she could fit as many saplings as she wanted.

This left Xie Yang between laughter and tears.

But she didn't refuse everyone's kindness; she accepted the trees and gifted back a bucket of deep-sea seafood she had salvaged, leaving both sides happy.

This made players on islands without trees to chop express their dissatisfaction:

【No way! You can't leave me out!】

【Right! My island doesn't have many trees, but I have rocks!】

【I have Bird Guano Stone that can make Red Clay more fertile!】

【Charge, comrades! We can't be lazy just because the weather has been good lately! Let's dig for stones together!】

【I don't have enough Backpack Slots! Does anyone have extra? How about we pool our resources for one?】

【I can clear out a slot, just put all the stones in my inventory!】

【Then put the sand in mine! It's building material after all, how can we waste it!】

【I have sand on my island too! I'm going to dig for sand right now!】

【I don't have trees, ore, or sand here, what can I dig?】

Xie Yang couldn't bear to see this compatriot left out, so she thought for a moment and said: 【Then you can dry Salt! Seawater doesn't cost money, dry a bit more salt; once you survive the natural disaster, you can sell it for some money when you go back!】

【Haha! Thanks for the great suggestion, boss! Comrades, I'm going to dry salt! I'll cover everyone's salt from now on!】

【Same here! When you all go home to build houses later, I'll cover the sand!】

【I'll cover the Limestone!】

Survival Game System: 【……】

These Dragon Country players, damn it, they're about to dig three feet into their Residence Islands and strip them bare!

For a System that has traveled through countless planes and possesses extensive knowledge, honestly, it has never seen such bizarre players!

……

In the blink of an eye, another forty-some days passed.

The water level had gradually risen from the outer edge of the beach to the inner edge, less than ten meters from the Shelter at the foot of the mountain.

Xie Yang finally finished chopping and digging up the trees on the Residence Island, putting the obtained wood into her Backpack Slots and the dug-up saplings into her Storage Space.

Her Storage Space had expanded twice during this period, totaling 40 cubic meters.

After finishing the trees, she finally cleared out the entire small underground forest connected to the Golden Phoebe Wood tree hole.

Like the saplings, the fruit trees were dug up roots and all with the soil and put into the Storage Space. She had a separate Backpack Slot for Red Clay, so she could fit as much as there was.

After finishing her work, looking at the bare, bald hill, Xie Yang was lost in thought.

Sub-system: 【The Host isn't regretting emptying out the Residence Island, is she?】

Main System: 【It is truly rare to see a Host who fleeces the system like this.】

Survival Game System sneered: 【Heh! Not calling it basic operations this time?】

The next second, Xie Yang was heard talking to herself: There is still a tiny bit of room left in the Storage Space, should I collect some more soil?

【...】

Speechless!

At this moment, a player on the World Channel suddenly posted a shaking message:

【Help—there is actually a volcano on my island, it, it, it is smoking!】

【Aren't you the player who sold Volcanic Rock? If there is Volcanic Rock, there must be a volcano! But smoking isn't normal, could it be an active volcano?】

【Ahhhhh! There is a volcano on my island too! It just seemed to sneeze, spat out a small mouthful of flame, and then went out. What do I do, what do I do!】

Xie Yang: "..."

She quickly logged into the Sub-system; the free uses of the Prediction Function for this month had been exhausted, and to continue using it, she needed to spend points to purchase more.

Xie Yang decisively spent 100 points to purchase three uses and clicked "Predict".

【Ding! Most severe natural disaster in the next three days: Volcanic Eruption】

"!!!"

The natural disasters for this season did not specify a clear type, but they hinted at a fusion.

Moreover, there had previously been rainstorms, earthquakes, and ground fissures; she had even envisioned the possibility of typhoons, tsunamis, and tornadoes, eventually leading to the submersion of the island.

She never expected there would also be a Volcanic Eruption!

How is one supposed to play this?

One might be able to hide in the Shelter during a typhoon or tsunami, and the seawater submerging the island would be a gradual process, not leaving players with nowhere to go overnight.

But once a volcano erupts, it is an indiscriminate bombardment.

Let alone mortal humans, even a Shelter that fears no level-twenty rainstorm could potentially be swallowed instantly by the erupting high-temperature flames and turned into a pinch of volcanic ash.

The only way to escape—use a Shelter Upgrade Card to upgrade the Shelter into a ship and quickly flee the island area!