Chapter 203: Disaster Survival System (32)

With things like this, Xie Yang had no time to worry about the soil; she barely had time to run for her life.

She quickly edited a post on the Regional Channel, listing all the Golden Phoebe Wood, Iron Ore, Copper Ore, Titanium Ore, and Palladium Ore that she had stockpiled in large quantities and were essential for Shelter upgrades, attaching trading links and allowing fellow players to buy on credit or trade using common materials from their islands.

Fu Zhangzheng also put up the Quartz Ore he had traded for on the World Channel during this time.

Afterwards, the two of them seized the time to upgrade their Shelters.

【Detected that the player meets the conditions for a Shelter upgrade. Confirm whether to use the Shelter Upgrade Card immediately?】

"Confirm!"

【Shelter upgrading, please wait!】

【Shelter upgrade successful! Reward: 5,000 Gold Coins, 500 points, 3 personal Attribute Points. Attribute Points can be distributed freely!】

Accompanied by a series of electronic sounds ringing in her ears, Xie Yang hugged the little monkey, quickly went down the mountain, and ran back to the Shelter.

She discovered that her small villa had already become a small cruise ship with five levels in total, parked on the rising tide and swaying gently with the waves.

She rushed onto the deck in two or three steps and roughly checked the ship's interior, discovering there were five levels in total: three levels below the deck and two levels above.

Three of these levels evolved from the original small villa: the deck level for living, the second level above the deck for resting, and the level below the deck for planting.

In addition, there were two more levels for material storage, located at the negative second and negative third levels below the deck, respectively.

"Squeak squeak!"

Seeing the familiar Red Clay on the negative first level, the golden monkey tugged at Xie Yang's sleeve and squeaked non-stop.

"Want me to plant some fruit trees you like? Fine, fine, fine, I'll plant them once I've planned it out."

Xie Yang soothingly stuffed a fruit into its hands and let it go off to gnaw on it.

After finishing her inspection, she returned to the Cockpit; there was no common steering wheel, but rather a row of control buttons. One only needed to press "Automatic Navigation," and the ship would move forward on the sea by itself, bypassing obstacles when encountered—which is to say, there was no need for a person to stay at the wheel at all times to control the direction.

【Detected that the player possesses Merge Cards and several Towing Slots. Confirm whether to merge with other players' Maritime Shelters? Or tow other players' Shelters?】

【Merging can enhance Shelter defense.】

【Towing cannot enhance defense, but can expand the defensive range.】

"???"

Xie Yang suddenly realized.

So that's how Merge Cards and Towing Slots are used!

That is to say, if a player has upgraded their Shelter like her, she can use a Merge Card to merge the other party's Shelter with her own.

The merged Shelter has stronger defense.

But if there aren't enough Merge Cards, one can only tow.

Towing cannot enhance defense, but the space between the two towed ships is also included in the defensive range.

Looking at it this way, if one has a Merge Card, it is definitely better to merge; the safety factor is higher after merging.

If one cannot merge for the time being, one can only tow first, and then merge in time once a Merge Card is obtained.

If it was a personal war where players were each fighting for themselves before, then it seems now it is time for players to team up and fight a group war.

Xie Yang counted the Merge Cards and Towing Slots in her hands: 3 Merge Cards, 4 Towing Slots.

Fu Zhangzheng sent a message in time: "I have 4 Merge Cards and 6 Towing Slots. Shall we two merge first?"

Xie Yang didn't waste time hesitating: "Fine!"

"You merge me."

"Good!"

The two of them met in person for the first time outside of a dungeon!

Unfortunately, time was tight, and there was no time to chat at all; they only hurriedly scanned the cruise ship after the merge:

The original two small five-level cruise ships had upgraded into a medium-sized cruise ship with six levels, a longer length, and a larger tonnage.

Except for each person having an independent resting area of a decent size, everything else was shared, only the area was more than doubled.

After Xie Yang and Fu Zhangzheng met in the Cockpit, they logged into the Regional Channel to assist other fellow players in upgrading.

Players who had already upgraded and had Merge Cards came to find Xie Yang one after another to merge.

Those without Merge Cards towed first; those who had neither Merge Cards nor Towing Slots waited a while.

After all fellow players had finished upgrading, Xie Yang tallied how many people didn't have Merge Cards or Towing Slots and found that a total of 19 people were missing both types of cards.

Xie Yang took out the remaining Merge Cards and Towing Slots she had and sent them to the Regional Channel in the form of red envelopes.

Fu Zhangzheng and others also followed her method and contributed their own extra cards.

Of those 19 people, some grabbed Merge Cards, some grabbed Towing Slots, but there were also some who grabbed nothing at all.

Because the cards in the hands of Xie Yang and the others added up to less than 19.

"Waaaah! What kind of rotten luck do I have! I originally wanted to merge and team up with the big boss, but in the end... can you please be a little more capable!"

Ming Hao looked at his own hands and was practically angered into laughter.

Ever since he entered this crappy game, his luck hadn't been good at all.

The few times he had good luck, such as the upgrade at a critical moment, it was also because he hugged the leg of big boss Wanyi and was able to pass through narrowly thanks to her.

He had already learned from the big boss to add all his Attribute Points to Luck Value, and also learned from the big boss to brush his teeth, wash his face, bathe, burn incense, and spray perfume before opening every box, yet his luck was still this bad!

Every time, the Attribute Points opened were 1.

1 point, 1 point, and another 1 point; he had added Attribute Points 3 times, and his Luck Value was still lower than the player average, and his luck was still this rotten!

Coughing up blood!

Damn it, who exactly pulled the average Luck Value so high?

It made it look like he was possessed by the God of Misfortune.

Chen Shuoyun sent him a message: "You are not alone."

Ming Hao: "..."

Xie Yang also noticed that those two rich kids were not in the merged or towing teams, and she couldn't help but twitch the corner of her mouth: these two guys really are brothers in misfortune!

Besides Ming Hao and Chen Shuoyun, there was one other person who hadn't managed to grab a Merge Card or a Towing Slot, and that was Feng Hongmei.

Her luck was sometimes good and sometimes bad, making it hard to predict. For instance, the last time she opened a Treasure Chest, she got a Dungeon Secret Key, went to Nameless Island, and gathered enough ore for this upgrade.

She thought her luck had finally turned, but then she ran into bad luck again while grabbing red envelopes this time.

Xie Yang sent a voice message to the three of them to comfort them: "Don't panic! I'll send you my route, try your best not to fall behind. Once you open some cards later, there will still be a chance to team up."

"..."

Ming Hao and the other two were on the verge of tears.

What could they do?

If their hands were unlucky, were they supposed to chop them off or what?

They were their own hands; no matter how unlucky they were, they just had to endure it!

【Congratulations to player GY for being the first to form a sea survival team of over 10 people! Reward: Blind Box Treasure Chest *1】

【Congratulations to player GY for being the first to form a sea survival team of over 20 people! Reward: Blind Box Treasure Chest *1】

【Congratulations to player GY for being the first to form a sea survival team of over 30 people! Reward: Blind Box Treasure Chest *1】

Xie Yang was just about to leave the Cockpit to see what the cruise ship had become after merging with thirty players, but as soon as she lifted her foot, she received three Blind Box Treasure Chests in a row.

She hurriedly sent a message to Ming Hao and the others: "Wait a moment! I just got some Treasure Chest rewards. I'm going to wash my hands and open them now; if I'm lucky, I might be able to open a Merge Card or a Towing Slot."