Doomsday Train, I went crazy by hoarding billions of items.

Chapter 74 Blue-Black Dividing Line

[The train will arrive at the station in 1 minute. Next stop: Sea of ​​Death.]

Players must survive at the site for thirty days, during which time they can obtain resource chests through fishing and catching.

[Friendly Reminder: Please do not stray more than 30 centimeters from your initial raft, especially at night. Your initial raft will not capsize in the wind or waves, nor will it fall apart due to external forces. However, what you catch may not be any fish or other supplies, so please handle each "catch" with care.]

Players can exchange for necessary supplies and items in the train's shop. The train will return in thirty days; please check the map for the specific boarding location. We wish you a safe return.

The reminder was no different from the one in her previous life, so Jiang Ran didn't pay much attention to it and quickly changed to a golden fishing rod.

Each item has 100 health points, increases resource drop rate by 10%, and is not easily damaged.

In her previous life, Jiang Ran dared not waste a single life point, and could only use 10 life points to buy a fragile bamboo pole.

Fishing for supplies with a bamboo pole wouldn't necessarily ruin her, but if she was unlucky and caught a few dangerous creatures, her only hope would be gone, and she could only pray that a rainstorm would bring down some supplies.

The monsters in the Sea of ​​Death are not only more frequent than those in the previous two dungeons, but they are also much more ferocious.

In previous dungeons, apart from dangerous creatures like fire ants and nematodes, you would only encounter the others after opening supply crates.

But in the Sea of ​​Death, those dangerous creatures can be "hooked" on the fishing rod.

Although the system prompts that the initial bamboo raft will provide a protected area, preventing it from being overturned or falling apart, it doesn't mention that once dangerous creatures are caught by the fishing rod, they will automatically become the player's "items" and can directly enter the safe area of ​​the bamboo raft.

Not to mention that if the wind and waves are too big, even if the bamboo raft doesn't capsize, the players on it could still be thrown into the sea.

The Sea of ​​Death is called the Sea of ​​Death because there are no real "living things" in the entire sea.

All the creatures inside have mutated, becoming bloodthirsty and brutal.

Jiang Ran had half of her hand bitten off by a skeleton fish as long as an arm. If she had been any slower, she probably would have collapsed in the dungeon before Zhe Zhou could even make a move.

Once players are separated from the protection of the bamboo raft and fall into the sea, they will face a constant stream of mutated marine creatures.

In her previous life, Jiang Ran initially found it difficult to sleep because of the red-glowing gazes surrounding the bamboo raft, but later she became numb to it and even occasionally had the mood to tease the fish.

Whenever this happens, the broken boat will helplessly stop them—occasionally, a small probability of overlapping events will occur in the sea, and the players who meet will either fight to the death or reach some kind of cooperation to merge the bamboo rafts.

Jiang Ran was like a child with her head full of seawater. She naturally agreed to merge the bamboo raft with Zhezhou without hesitation. She even thought she was lucky that the first time the sea overlapped, she brought her new "good friend" to her side.

However, she didn't let this cause internal conflict, after all, in her previous life she faced a perfectly developed GOD and his loyal servant Zhezhou.

No one would have thought that the top-ranked player would deliberately scheme against a player struggling in the last class, so that losing wouldn't be shameful.

But in this life, would Zhe Zhou, who has broken through all defenses, still dare to appear before her?
Jiang Ran looked at the newly made prop card in her hand and smiled slightly.

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As the countdown ended, everyone's feet suddenly found themselves on empty ground. Jiang Ran and Xiao Bai landed together on the initial bamboo raft.

The bamboo raft was only four or five square meters in size, a very simple raft without even a sail, with a bamboo oar on one side.

It's just about enough for one person, but it gets a bit crowded for two people standing on the bamboo raft.

Fortunately, it doesn't absorb water and remains steadily floating on the sea.

The surrounding sea was very calm, but the seawater was divided into two distinct areas by the player's bamboo raft.

One side of the sea was extremely dark and deep, as if no sunlight could penetrate it. The other side, however, conformed to everyone's impression of "blue sky, white clouds, and a vast sea," with its azure and clear waters giving one a sense of tranquility.

—If these black seawaters hadn't gradually swallowed up the blue seawaters.

Jiang Ran sat cross-legged in the middle of the bamboo raft. Without saying a word, Xiao Bai had already used the mechanical arm to pick up the oar and start rowing towards the blue sea.

These black waters aren't actually that fast; if you paddle a little faster, you can easily leave them behind.

However, most players, in the early stages with only oars, are unsure whether dark water will speed them up, so they have to fish for resources while also trying to travel, which inevitably makes them a bit overwhelmed.

Of course, this is not an issue for Jiang Ran.

With a novice rowing the boat, she happily pulled out her fishing rod, cast it, and started fishing!
But she didn't cast her hook into the azure sea; instead, she cast it straight into the black sea.

Many people feel that the blue water is safer because black is generally considered unlucky, and this sea is also called the "Sea of ​​Death".

Contrary to intuition, while you can indeed see things caught in the azure sea, the chances of catching dangerous creatures also increase significantly!
In particular, once you catch a fish, you catch it. Unless the player can decisively cut the fishing line before the dangerous creature leaps out of the water, once the dangerous creature comes out to sea, you can only pray that this time the sea creature is not so ferocious.

There's no indication that the Black Sea is any safer; the game wouldn't leave such an obvious bug for players to exploit.

Although the rate of dangerous creatures in the Black Sea is low, it is not like the Blue Sea where there are occasionally relatively mild shrimp and crabs. If some of them are not mutated and are only slightly poisonous, they can be used as food when necessary.

The Black Sea is full of ferocious fish. Jiang Ran once caught a three-headed electric eel that was five meters long!
If Jiang Ran's cue prop hadn't been screaming and smoking, she would have decisively cut the fishing line—even in the black seawater, Jiang Ran could already see the three slender heads and the faint electric current.

As the line was cut, one of its heads was just about to surface. After the line was cut, the electric eel still swam around the area one last time, seemingly unwilling to give up.

It wasn't until one of its heads accidentally crossed the sea boundary that Jiang Ran saw its true appearance.

Like rusted skin, pitted and showing black and red hues, and with the same rugged body occasionally surging with electric currents the thickness of chopsticks, Jiang Ran had no desire to know what the consequences would be if she caught this thing.

However, according to Jiang Ran's observation, the marine life in the Azure Sea area does indeed have a lower degree of mutation, and "big shots" like the mutated three-headed electric eel do not seem to want to stay in the Azure Sea area for long.

This may also explain why the level of danger from the creatures on both sides differs.

(End of this chapter)