Chapter 206: Disaster Survival System (35)

Over the next few days, everyone's main task was to sit together and discuss the rules and regulations:

For instance, maintaining the cleanliness and hygiene of individual residence cabins, taking turns cleaning public cabins, and jointly maintaining the Cruise Ship's facilities, equipment, and environmental hygiene.

Another example is the solution for three meals a day: whether to manage them individually or contribute a portion of supplies to consume together. If cooking together, it would require a cooking duty roster, a kitchen cleaning duty roster, and so on.

There are so many trivial matters.

Additionally, there is the Planting Cabin on the negative first floor, which also requires a fixed labor force.

Xie Yang listed every aspect they thought of and mentioned during the discussion on paper, and after thinking about it, she simply adopted the work-point system from the 60s plane.

Every player receives basic work points as long as they complete their assigned duties with quality and quantity.

Players with special contributions, such as experts in Cruise Ship maintenance, equipment and facility inspection and repair, cooking, planting, and other areas, can earn a certain amount of extra work points.

Work points are settled every half month, and players can find Xie Yang to exchange for the items they want in order of their work point totals.

Xie Yang will post the items available for exchange on the Regional Channel in advance for players to choose from.

As long as she can mobilize the enthusiasm of her fellow players and reduce the incidence of conflicts and disputes in collective life, Xie Yang does not mind taking a small loss—contributing a portion of supplies to make everyone happy.

In any case, survival supplies are the thing she is least short of right now.

Not to mention the spoils harvested from various dungeon islands, the Material Boxes obtained from checking in at the Sub-system alone have provided her with a steady stream of survival supplies.

The largest quantities are Rice, White Flour, and Mineral Water;

Next are the condiments, vegetables, fruits, and their seeds that other players lack most in the Survival Game;

Then there are various meats, seafood, snacks, drinks, and daily necessity gift packs.

Of course, if after such measures there are still people who refuse to listen to advice, fight, or cause internal friction, Xie Yang does not mind using force to suppress them.

Not behaving? A beating will fix it!

One beating isn't enough? Then two!

The players: "..."

Understood, Boss!

We have no objections, Boss!

【Good morning, players!】

【First, congratulations to everyone for withstanding the test of the Diversity Fusion Disaster. As a reward, every surviving player receives a Player Blind Box Treasure Chest *1.】

【The second season of disasters has ended, and the third season—Drought Season has begun! The disaster level for this season is Level 1! The duration is currently impossible to estimate! Please survive flexibly according to the actual situation! Good luck to everyone!】

"Drought Season?"

"Aren't we on the sea? How can there be a drought on the sea? Could it be that the Cruise Ship is driving into a desert?"

"Are you stupid? The drought it's talking about is aimed at us players! Seawater is salty. If it doesn't rain, once our drinking water is finished, even with the whole Pacific Ocean of water, we'll be helpless!"

"Oh, that's what it means... I thought it was like the sea turning into mulberry fields, where the sea suddenly turned into a desert!"

"..."

Ming Hao and Chen Shuoyun started bickering.

Other players began to take stock of the drinking water in their respective Backpack Slots.

At this moment, Zhuang Fuda clapped his hands and laughed excitedly: "This season is a drought? I'm not afraid of a drought! I've hoarded a ton of ice!"

Thanks to Xie Yang and Fu Zhangzheng, before the Low Temperature Season ended, he had excavated "ice"—a resource that was inconspicuous in the Low Temperature Season but could save lives in the high-temperature season—on the Residence Island where supplies were scarce, and he had hoarded an unknown amount in his Backpack Slot.

However, although the second season of disasters had many types—sometimes torrential rain, thunder and lightning, sometimes earthquakes and tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions—it never lacked fresh water, to the point that he had almost forgotten he had hoarded a full slot of ice.

Prompted by Zhuang Fuda mentioning the ice hoarding, other players from the Dragon Country also began to discuss it one after another:

"Oh my! So it was you, brother, who was supplying pure ice back then! Nice to meet you!"

"Sorry, brother! When you posted the trading link for pure ice on the Regional Channel's material sharing book, I even called you a fool. Who doesn't have ice? Do I need to buy it from you... but brother! I need it now! Can you sell me some ice?"

"Hahaha! You kid are quite flexible."

"That's right, that's right! I can lose face! But I can't afford not to cling to a thigh!"

"Hey! Speaking of ice cubes, I think I hoarded some too! At the time, I thought others had endless trees to cut and endless mines to dig on their islands, while my island had nothing, so in a fit of anger, I followed the brother's example and hoarded quite a bit of ice! Hahahaha!"

"I hoarded some too, but not as much as you guys! But if I use it sparingly, it should be enough for three to five months of drinking water."

While everyone was chatting and taking stock of the supplies in their Backpack Slots, Xie Yang, accompanied by the golden monkey and Fu Zhangzheng, came to the Cockpit.

"I have two Dungeon Secret Keys for the Supply Island here; maybe we can hoard some fresh water resources." Xie Yang stroked the golden monkey's fur and mentioned the two Dungeon Secret Keys she had opened earlier.

Fu Zhangzheng nodded and said: "I have one too; let's go take a look in a while. Currently, our fresh water reserves should still be enough."

"It's enough for drinking, but don't forget, we still have an entire floor of the Red Clay Planting Area, and the daily water consumption for irrigation is quite high."

As Xie Yang spoke, she logged into the World Channel, wanting to see how players from other countries planned to cope with the Drought Season.

However, the situation on the World Channel was worse than she had imagined.

【God! Is this not planning to let us live? We barely escaped alive, and without even giving us a moment to breathe, we entered the Drought Season! There are five of us on the ship, and the water we have adds up to less than ten bottles, which means in at most five days, we will face a water shortage crisis! Whoever has extra water, save us! May the Lord be with you!】

【I have water! Whoever needs water can come to me! But you must let me merge your ships! From now on, everything will be under my command!】

【I also have water! You can come to me to merge ships! Ships with beauties have priority!】

These people...

Xie Yang retracted her smile and narrowed her eyes.

Fu Zhangzheng's expression also darkened.

"I'm going back to the Rest Cabin to take a bath, and I'll open the Treasure Chest in a while."

Xie Yang remembered there was still a Treasure Chest she hadn't opened.

She intended to use this Blind Box Treasure Chest to get the Seawater Desalination Device.

"Wait, take mine too!"

Fu Zhangzheng also gave his Treasure Chest to Xie Yang.

Xie Yang returned to her Rest Cabin carrying two Treasure Chests.

Following the merger with over twenty fellow players, her Maritime Shelter had now upgraded into a large Cruise Ship that feared no wind or waves, with ten small cruise ships trailing behind it.

No matter how strong the wind and waves were, the sea area between the large Cruise Ship and the small cruise ships remained calm and tranquil.

By placing down a Floating Board, players on the small cruise ships could come to the large Cruise Ship for activities, and simply return to their own small cruise ships to rest at night.

The large Cruise Ship currently has eleven levels in total, with the players' Rest Cabins located on levels 2-7; each level houses 4-5 players, and the independent rest area owned by each player is a sea-view apartment of over three hundred square meters.