Survival at Sea: I Became Number One by Growing Mushrooms

It was just past seven o'clock.

[System Notification: Congratulations to the remaining players for surviving the shark attack. The system will no longer provide protection against sea monster attacks; all responsibility rests with humanity. The system shop is now open, allowing players to trade. Chat restrictions have been lifted. The top player on each leaderboard will receive one Silver Treasure Chest. Updated weekly. Hope you're all still alive next time we meet.]

Xu Jiawei ranked first in three categories: combat power, level, and raft, thus earning three silver treasure chests.

And the European Emperor topped the wealth list here.

[The lucky one is here: I'm about to upgrade my raft to level 3 too, and soon we'll be tied for first place!]

[AAA Mushroom Fairy: Congratulations!]

Xu Jiawei had no clue how to upgrade her raft to level four; the system hadn't explained it to her.

Open the chat channel, and you'll see that nearly 20,000 people died just last night.

[Rainfall: Help! I caught a cold from being caught in the rain, what should I do?!]

[Ye Yezi: Me too, there's nowhere to shelter from the rain on a level 2 raft.]

Xu Jiawei saw a business opportunity while looking at the chat channel messages. Since the system store had just opened, she put her extra healing mushrooms on the market and exchanged them for basic materials to make raincoats, umbrellas, rain boots, and awnings. They were sold out in no time.

Xu Jiawei said to the bronze mushroom, "Little bronze mushroom, grow healing mushrooms."

Xiao Qingtong nodded from the rain, and Xu Jiawei inexplicably felt that she had gone too far.

[Wishing for legs to be 1.8 meters long: Which expert released the Healing Mushroom? I missed out, could you please re-release it?]

[Ye Yezi: What are healing mushrooms?]

Looking at the basic materials she had earned from selling mushrooms, Xu Jiawei moved her worktable into the house and began making a rain awning. The awning required 5 planks, 5 plastic sheets, and 5 nails.

After making a few, Xu Jiawei put them up for sale in the system store. The price was 10 plastic, 10 wooden boards, and 10 iron nails. They sold out immediately after being put up for sale, and Xu Jiawei continued to make more.

[Wishing for legs to be 1.8 meters long: Family, someone's selling rain shelters! Go buy them, everyone! They can be fixed to a raft to keep out the rain.]

[Ye Yezi: Anonymous master is forever a god!]

Seeing the materials arrive, Xu Jiawei continued making the awning and putting it on the shelf.

Xu Jiawei spent the entire morning making a rain shelter.

[Rideshare: I can't afford a canopy, they're too expensive.]

Upon seeing this message, Xu Jiawei thought for a moment and then made some raincoats. Each raincoat only required 3 plastics, but Xu Jiawei priced them at 6 plastics.

Xu Jiawei spent the whole morning selling things, but this can't go on.

So Xu Jiawei used spirit-binding magic to get some working mushrooms to make on the workbench, while Xu Jiawei simply put them on the shelf.

"I'm just an ordinary little genius."

Xu Jiawei's healing mushrooms were also planted. Looking at the few mushrooms that had grown, Xu Jiawei was worried. "Little Bronze, can you grow more?" A few mushrooms were simply not enough.

Little Bronze tilted its head.

Xu Jiawei continued selling in the afternoon, but was interrupted by Aotian.

[Aotian: Mushroom, aren't you the one selling awnings? Only your wealth ranking is rising. Shouldn't we be working together to get through this difficult time? Instead, you're thinking about making money off supplies.]

Xu Jiawei glanced at the rankings and realized she was already in the top ten of the wealth list. No wonder she had been discovered.

[Your Little Sweetheart: Mushroom, how can you be so heartless as to sell it for such a high price? You're profiting off the dead!]

[Your Sweetheart: I hope you can share this with everyone for free.]

[AAA Mushroom Fairy: Mind your own business. If you want to be a saint, go do it yourself.]

[Aotian: Then at least give us the right to buy. If you block us, how are we supposed to buy anything and help everyone?]

So all that going through all that trouble was just to buy an awning? Xu Jiawei looked at Aotian and the other two shamelessly trying to morally blackmail her.

[AAA Mushroom Fairy: Sure, send me the materials. I'll even send them to you even if you block me. I'll make as many as you give me for free and send them to everyone.]

Seeing that the two people stopped talking, Xu Jiawei continued making awnings and raincoats, and those who couldn't buy awnings bought raincoats instead.

Although Aotian stopped speaking, some people who couldn't even afford a raincoat continued to hurl insults, which Xu Jiawei blocked one by one.

Xu Jiawei agreed to most of the offers in exchange for other materials, since she was also short of those materials. The system shop had a negotiation function, but it was still troublesome for Xu Jiawei to go through each one.

Fortunately, with mushroom production as her job, Hsu Chia-Wei only needs to focus on selling products.

Of course, Xu Jiawei wasn't the only one on the server to get the blueprints for raincoats, rain boots, and umbrellas. People started selling raincoats one after another, some even cheaper than Xu Jiawei, so raincoat sales dropped. Xu Jiawei then had her worker focus on making awnings, which were only sold by Xu Jiawei, so demand exceeded supply.

However, that's all the materials we have. How fast can we go?

[Leader: Mushroom, are you managing? We'll sell them for you, hoping you can sell them at a lower price. Now everyone needs to work together to survive.]

Upon seeing the message from Zhang Yunting, Xu Jiawei felt that there was still hope. She just needed to produce the products and send them to them for sale, without having to negotiate prices one by one. She could simply wait to receive the materials.

[AAA Mushroom Fairy: I don't care how many materials you sell, but for each awning I need, I need 8 plastic planks, 8 planks, 8 nails, or other materials of the same quality. If you agree, just sign a contract, and I'll give each salesperson one awning as payment.]

Contracts are a new feature that comes with the opening of the system shop. Transactions are conducted under the system's witness, and the system automatically deducts the traded materials.

Zhang Yunting frowned; the price did not meet his expectations.

[Leader: Mushroom, the official team is providing some materials. For each awning, we need 7 pieces of plastic, 7 pieces of wood, and 7 pieces of nails. Does this seem okay?]

Xu Jiawei thought this was acceptable, since their relationship was quite good, so she agreed, and the two signed a contract.

[System notification: Your friend, the Guide, has sent you 500 planks, 500 nails, and 500 plastic items. Please check your inventory.]

Xu Jiawei made a few more worktables, since there's more than one worktable, but for most people, making more is unnecessary.

But this is very necessary for Xu Jiawei, since she has a job selling mushrooms and someone to help her sell them.

The house is now filled with worktables, and there's no more room, so they're being made outside. Anyway, mushrooms aren't afraid of rain, so Hsu Chia-Wei is now an evil capitalist who's exploiting mushrooms.

Xu Jiawei immediately delivered 100 to Zhang Yunting, which surprised him.

[Leader: So fast!]

[AAA Mushroom Fairy: I made a few extra worktables (grinning face)]

[Leaders: 6]

Zhang Yunting also has a work station, and of course he knows that he can have multiple work stations, but as Xu Jiawei said, it's unnecessary. One work station is just right for one person, but Xu Jiawei has her own work station.

"Wow, the spirit-binding spell is so useful! Mushrooms are so useful!" Xu Jiawei sat on the bed watching the working mushrooms methodically making a rain shelter, feeling a sense of pride.

You asked why Xu Jiawei only imbued mushrooms with spirits. Actually, Xu Jiawei had tried imbuing other things with spirits, but the effect disappeared quickly. Only the mushrooms remained, just like the bronze mushroom outside. It's probably because of her talent.