Doomsday Sequence Convoy: I can upgrade supplies

Chapter 338 Catching a Black Tortoise

"A fishhook?!"

Upon hearing this, Xingzi stared wide-eyed at Lin Chaoyuan in disbelief, "You mean that fishing hook?!"

"Yes." Lin Chaoyuan nodded and said with a wry smile, "Although it sounds absurd, it really is that fishhook."

"To be honest, I can't understand your Sequence's extraordinary abilities. I've tried my best to adapt, but seeing that fishhook still makes it a bit hard to accept."

"A fishing line as thin as a hair, plus a fishhook the size of a fingernail, can actually pull such a large Xuanwu in a fixed direction."

Let alone him, even Chu Sheng, a sequence ability user who is quite knowledgeable about sequences, finds it somewhat incomprehensible.

Is it a bit too outrageous to be able to catch a black tortoise by combining a fishing line as thin as a hair and a hook the size of a fingernail?

Looking at Lin Chaoyuan, Captain Hui sighed and said, "It seems we still have to make way."

As he spoke, he looked at Chu Sheng. Feeling his gaze, Chu Sheng nodded and said, "We should make way."

Neither Hui nor he had doubted the terror of Xuanwu. Putting aside everything else, just its enormous size colliding with the floating island was enough to give them a run for their money.

Although Chu Sheng knew that the floating island's defenses were actually very strong, he dared not gamble on whether the Xuanwu could smash the floating island.

Thinking it over, Chu Sheng said to Qingqing who was standing to the side, "Qingqing, could you please go back and tell Youming to avoid the Xuanwu in front of her?"

Qingqing, who looked somewhat tired due to the significant drain on her mental energy, nodded immediately upon hearing his words, "I understand!"

After Qingqing left, Chu Sheng looked at Lin Chaoyuan again and said, "It's fate that we met. Shall we talk about a deal?"

"What deal?"

"The trade of sacrificial offerings and medicines." Chu Sheng didn't stand on ceremony and directly laid out the items for trade.

At this point, he paused, looking at Lin Chaoyuan, and then, remembering that Lin Chaoyuan was from the official Fire Seed Base, continued, "Of course, we also have food to trade. In addition to food, we also have these contract papers that allow both parties to sign agreements."

As he spoke, he handed the contract paper on the table to Lin Chaoyuan.

Upon receiving the contract paper, Lin Chaoyuan sensed the information about the sacrificial offering, and all the information about the contract paper appeared in his mind.

"We don't need this paper for now, but we do need food. What kind of food do you have?"

"What kind of offerings do you make?"

"What kind of transaction do we need to make?" Lin Chaoyuan asked about the transaction.

Upon hearing his words, Chu Sheng smiled.

"We have most of the crops that are common before the apocalypse, such as rice, potatoes, sweet potatoes, cucumbers, and soybeans. If you don't have them, you can place an order in advance and we can plant them." It was Team Leader Hui who spoke, picking up where Chu Sheng left off.

"In addition, there are extraordinary plants, which have different effects. They can be eaten and used to defend against strange things."

"As for offerings, we have ready-made offerings, and we can also accept your custom orders. Ready-made offerings require 2-10 pieces of extraordinary materials of the same level to exchange for them. For custom orders, a minimum of five extraordinary materials are required."

"In addition, I can also help you create sacrificial offerings. The materials are three extraordinary materials of the same level, two of which are a reward."

"Besides food and offerings, there are also medical supplies, such as bandages that can quickly stop bleeding, cold medicine that works instantly, adrenaline that can improve survival rates, and so on. These pseudo-supernatural or supernatural supplies are all things created by the healer sequence."

Hui listed all the items they could trade.

Hearing his words, Lin Chaoyuan was not outwardly shocked, but inwardly he was deeply moved.

Just by hearing about the things that could be traded, he could imagine how powerful the other party was.

In this apocalypse, abundant supplies symbolize powerful military force, because without military force, you couldn't possibly possess so many supplies.

Not to mention that these are tradable goods; how important are those non-tradable goods?

He didn't believe the other party would put everything out there for the transaction.

It could even be said that what Guang Chusheng and his group demonstrated was comparable only to what their Xuanwu Fire Seed Base could achieve if they hadn't suffered significant personnel losses.

Even so, it was only after the people inside the base risked their lives to rescue him from the towns they encountered.

While Hui and Lin Chaoyuan were discussing the transaction, a giant flying fish with six eyes and a pair of wings on each side was gliding across the endless sea.

On the back of the six-eyed flying fish, seven or eight extremely tiny people stood.

The six-eyed flying fish is extremely large. If someone with a sense of size were here, they could estimate that this fish is at least two thousand meters long from head to tail.

"Captain, Old Wang has been like this for several days now. Should we interrupt him?"

Hearing this, Ling Yun glanced at the fish's tail, her gaze spanning over a thousand meters. There sat a middle-aged man, pulling on his fishing rod with a frenzied expression, the bottom of the rod pressing against his belly, muttering to himself.

"A huge catch! A huge catch! This is the biggest catch I've ever made in my life!"

"We must catch it!"

Seeing him like this, Ling Yun shook her head. "Don't interrupt him."

"This is Old Wang's second time fishing after advancing to Sequence Seven. Judging from his appearance, it must be a big catch."

The man in the black quick-drying shirt was still a little worried when he heard this, saying, "But he's been doing this for several days now. He only took one day to catch this six-eyed flying fish before."

"I suspect he might not have caught anything of value."

"Otherwise, if a fish over 2,000 meters long could be caught in just one day, how big must the hook be for this fishing trip that took so long?"

Upon hearing this, Ling Yun fell silent for a moment.

Indeed, although she believed that Lao Wang had caught a big fish, this time it was a bit strange.

Eight days ago, Lao Wang advanced to Sequence Seven, and on his first fishing trip at Sequence Seven, he caught this six-eyed flying fish, the biggest fish they had ever seen. To help Lao Wang successfully control the fish, they all pitched in.

And just like that, the survivors they brought were also wiped out by the six-eyed flying fish with a single swipe of its tail.

Their original fish were also wiped out by this tail.

They had gone to great lengths to tame the fish, and then this happened on their second fishing trip.

This situation looks even more terrifying than that of the six-eyed flying fish.

Ling Yun was somewhat conflicted, but she thought that if there was another six-eyed flying fish in the team, their safety would be guaranteed by an extra layer.

Thinking of this, Ling Yun shook her head. "Let him try again. If it still doesn't work by tomorrow, then let him give up."

"Alright, let's not talk about that anymore. We still need to find some survivors. Can you sense where there are survivors?"

Upon hearing this, the man in the quick-drying clothes shook his head, "I can't feel it; it's not within a thousand kilometers around."

"The world is too big; finding a survivor is like finding a needle in a haystack."

"It all depends on our luck."

Upon hearing this, Ling Yun nodded, not too disappointed. She had only asked with the intention of giving it a try. If it was true, that would be great, but if it wasn't, it wouldn't be a big deal.

Given their strength, the survivors are not of much help to them, but they become useful in dangerous situations, such as when they are targeted by a supernatural being they cannot defeat.

Just two or three survivors are enough to draw the strange gazes and attention of those who are looking at them, giving them time to escape.

That's why she wanted to find survivors.

It's fine to leave the survivors alive; there's plenty of food in the ocean, and they never lack food.

They lack fresh water, but they do have reliable fresh water extraction equipment; it's just that they can only produce a limited amount of fresh water.

"I wonder how long this will last," Ling Yun sighed as she looked at the boundless sea.

Before the apocalypse, she was just an ordinary office worker. After the apocalypse, she ran to the sea with someone in her company who had awakened a sequence. They formed a team after several gatherings among the survivors.

It wasn't until a few months ago that the sequence awakened. It hid itself away by leveraging the uniqueness of its own sequence, and finally found an opportunity to control another sequence, thereby controlling the entire team.

"Survivors, a stable life is really hard to come by," Ling Yun thought to herself.

Her current goal is to find a stable place, or something that can provide them with stability, and then find a group of survivors to live a peaceful life with.

Her order needs subjects, and only with stability can her order function to its fullest potential.

The more subjects she has, the stronger she becomes; and the stronger her subjects are, the stronger she becomes.

Ling Yun stood on the fish's head, gazing at the sea before her, deep in thought. But before she could ponder for long, she spotted a strange, Sequence Seven creature floating on the surface.

Seeing this, Ling Yun remained calm, clenched her right fist and unleashed a brilliant golden dragon that struck the Sequence Seven Weird being directly.

The dragon was merely an illusion, passing through the strange creature without any hindrance. However, within the dragon's illusion, it dissipated into black mist and vanished into the world, leaving only a square stone that fell into the water.

At that moment, Ling Yun unleashed the golden dragon phantom with her right hand, which transformed from a fist into a claw and grabbed at the extraordinary material. The extraordinary material, which was about to fall into the sea, changed direction and flew directly towards Ling Yun, finally landing in her hand.

Holding the extraordinary material, Ling Yun frowned, then tossed it behind her, and it landed in a large bucket.

This bucket is very large, three meters high and four meters in diameter. It's more like a storage space than a bucket.

Seeing Ling Yun's fluid movements, the man in the quick-drying clothes glanced at the large bucket and muttered, "I don't know what these things are for. Every weirdo drops something, and I don't know what they do with it."

Although they didn't know what these things were for, since every strange creature dropped them, they still collected all the extraordinary materials that fell.

Just because I don't understand it now doesn't mean I won't understand it later.

Since the strange creature drops this thing, it means there must be a way to use it.

This is something that everyone in their team believes.

Time passed peacefully, and the six-eyed flying fish maintained a steady speed, as it glided across the sea surface with the help of the sea breeze.

Just after they had traveled more than 340 kilometers, the man in the quick-drying clothes lying on the back of the six-eyed flying fish suddenly turned over and stood up, calling out to Ling Yun, who was sitting cross-legged at the fish's head:
"Captain, there's a situation a thousand kilometers ahead!"

Upon hearing his words, apart from Old Wang who was fishing for the Black Tortoise near the tail of the fish, the other four people rushed over and asked, "What's going on?!"

"Another strange thing ahead?!"

“Neither.” The man in the quick-drying clothes shook his head, then his expression became somewhat strange. “It’s not a monster, but it’s not a person either.”

"They're a bunch of jelly-like things, like... um... slime?"

"Slime?" Upon hearing this, Ling Yun turned her head to look at him.

"Yes! A slime!"

"There are probably seven or eight hundred slimes in this group. Most of them are wriggling on a wooden board, but a small portion of them are in the water. The slimes in the water are very fast."

He paused, glanced at the people around him, and continued, "I can sense that they have spiritual power."

"Captain, should we avoid it or not?"

Upon hearing this, Ling Yun began to ponder.

The Heavenly Emperor's hierarchy requires subjects, but it has never been said that these subjects can only be human.

If the other party is not strange but exhibits mental energy fluctuations, it means that the other party is intelligent.

Mental strength represents everything.

The eerie beings have no spiritual power; they only emit endless black energy.

Mental power can only exist in intelligent beings.

Take humans, for example.

Beings like the six-eyed flying fish, which are not eerie but still possess vitality, are considered 'ordinary' creatures because they lack spiritual power and intelligence, possessing only the instinct for survival.

She can't find any survivors now, but she has encountered a group of slimes with fluctuations in mental energy. It seems that she can try to control them and see if she can increase her strength.

Thinking of this, Ling Yun looked at the others and said, "No need to avoid them! Go towards them!"

"Since they're not weird, let's see what they are!"

Having drifted at sea for so long without encountering any alien races, they were unaware that there were other intelligent races in the world besides humans, strange creatures, and 'ordinary' beings.

Just as they were heading towards the slime, on the other side, Chu Sheng and the others had already finalized the deal.

Lin Chaoyuan exchanged three pieces of Sequence 8 extraordinary materials for 30,000 jin of rice, and two pieces of Sequence 9 extraordinary materials for some extraordinary plants.

Five pieces of Sequence 8 extraordinary materials were exchanged for all of Apricot's accumulated bandages, cold medicine, adrenaline, and even ten Healing Leaves.

In addition, he also presented three extraordinary materials of Sequence 7 to Chu Sheng to forge a sacrificial automatic rifle.

All of the above transactions were signed in the transaction space using contract paper.

In addition to these transactions, the contract also included a clause stipulating that the parties signing the contract within one month could not harm each other.

This was Lin Chaoyuan's request.

When they heard his request, Hui and Chu agreed without hesitation, since they had no intention of doing anything bad to him.

Even when Lin Chaoyuan made this request, the two of them thought he was quite considerate. But when they carried the supplies to Xuanwu and saw the several people of all ages on it, they realized that the request was just Lin Chaoyuan's little scheme.

It was to prevent Chu Sheng and his group from taking action against them.

"Old Lin, you really are something else..." Team Leader Hui looked at Lin Chaoyuan with some helplessness.

Hearing his words, Chaoyuan showed no embarrassment whatsoever, "Having a guarantee is good for everyone."

"That's true." Captain Hui sighed, but still said, "Even if you only have a few dozen people, you still have Xuanwu. With such a large size, who would dare to attack you?"

Lin Chaoyuan didn't answer, but pointed upwards, "Let's go take a look at that fishing line and hook first."

As the two were talking, An Xi flew down from the sky carrying Chu Sheng and said, "No need to look anymore."

He said he had a way to solve the problem.

Upon hearing this, Lin Chaoyuan immediately became excited, as did Wang Er and the others standing beside him.

Since Tengshe got hooked on a fishhook a few days ago, they had been on the verge of a slow death. Now that they know Chu Sheng has a way to solve the problem, it's like being given a new lease on life in despair.

Upon seeing their appearance, Chu Sheng waved his hand.

"There is a solution, but it requires a transaction between you."

"One of my extraordinary materials can solve this problem."

“The fishing line above is a solid object, while the concept of my extraordinary material is separation, and its property is shearing.”

"Using this extraordinary material to create a scissors offering would basically solve your problem."

"But then again, if this extraordinary material of mine were Sequence 9, I would give it to you for free as a bonus in the transaction. Unfortunately, this extraordinary material of mine is only Sequence 8."

Hearing his words, Lin Chaoyuan and Wang Er fell silent.

The others in the team didn't know, but these two didn't?
The extraordinary materials they used for the previous trade were almost all of their inventory.

This is the wealth they have accumulated since the end of the world.

There are a total of three Sequence 7 extraordinary materials, nine Sequence 8 extraordinary materials, and fifteen Sequence 9 extraordinary materials.

Three of the Sequence 7 extraordinary materials are used to create the sacrificial offering. This must not be touched. Only with this sacrificial offering can they fight against the strange beings again.

Of the nine Sequence 8 extraordinary materials that were traded, only one remains. As for the Sequence 9 extraordinary materials, after removing the two traded items, there are still eleven items left.

One piece of Sequence 8 extraordinary material and eleven pieces of Sequence 9 extraordinary material were their last remaining possessions.

But now it seems that this wealth is not enough to justify the price.

Lin Chaoyuan glanced at Team Leader Hui, then at Chu Sheng, let out a deep breath, and then said to Wang Er, "Xiao Wang, go and bring out all our extraordinary materials."

"Yes!" Wang Er saluted, then led his men to retrieve the extraordinary materials.

At this moment, Lin Chaoyuan looked at Chu Sheng and said, "Comrade Chu, to be honest, we don't have that many extraordinary materials left."

"There are one Sequence 8 and eleven Sequence 9 extraordinary materials left."

He didn't try to pressure Chu Sheng with grand principles, but instead wanted to discuss the matter through negotiation.

"How about this? You take a loss and we'll trade at this price. We'll pay you back within a month. If it exceeds a month, we'll give you an extra Sequence 8 material. If you still can't pay it back, we'll give you interest based on one Sequence 8 material per month."

"The maximum repayment period is six months. If you can't pay it back in six months, I'll give you my life!"

(End of this chapter)