Survival at Sea: I Became Number One by Growing Mushrooms

With her "mount," Xu Jiawei felt that she could travel much faster. She no longer needed to pay attention to the road conditions. Although Little Pink was floating in the air, she couldn't see what the ground looked like.

After walking for a long time, she could clearly feel that the air was becoming humid, and there was definitely a water source in the distance. She was slowly moving towards the water source.

As Rainbow ran, its feet landed on the ground, causing a tremor. Some players in the distance heard the tremor and immediately moved away, thinking that some large beast had appeared.

Since the fog zone isn't very large, it's easy to encounter other players.

After running for about an hour, Rainbow stopped and then bent down to put Xu Jiawei down.

Xu Jiawei heard the soft sound of flowing water, so she asked Xiao Fen to expand the range of the light. She saw a small stream flowing slowly in the distance, and the water looked very clear.

But Xu Jiawei didn't dare to drink it, and she didn't even dare to clean the dirt off her body. Who knew if the water only looked clear but was actually full of small insects?

To Xu Jiawei's surprise, there was not only water, but also many small stones in the river.

As soon as Xu Jiawei put her hand into the river, she felt a bone-chilling cold.

Xu Jiawei shuddered and fished a pebble out of the water.

[Ding! Congratulations to the player for obtaining 1 pebble. (Tsk, how big are 1000 pebbles? You think you can replace stones with pebbles? You're dreaming.)]

...The dog system doesn't give you any chance at all.

However, pebbles are also resources, and they might be useful in other ways, so why not take them? Rainbow released her henchmen to start collecting stones.

She herself began searching for medicinal herbs on the grassy banks of the river. Sure enough, the vegetation was much more lush near the river, and some medicinal herbs began to appear one after another.

The herbs that Xu Jiawei saw most often were those needed for insect repellent. Xu Jiawei looked at the herbs in her hand with suspicion. She had already picked more than a dozen plants in just a short time. She wondered if this kind of herb was naturally abundant on the mainland or if this place was special.

Xu Jiawei leaned towards the second guess: this place was special. After all, even if there were many herbs, there couldn't be as many as weeds. Sure enough, the truth that there would be an antidote within three steps was true. Although there were many insects, there were also many herbs for making potions.

But now she wants the herbs for mana potions, energy potions, and stamina potions more, because she is short of mana, energy, and stamina.

However, it's also good to prepare some deworming medicine. After all, even though we saw the bugs come out after using the Brightness Purification product last time, there might still be some residue. It's better to drink some deworming medicine.

No one understands the joy of gathering; it's like discovering treasure. After gathering a large bag of insect repellent herbs, she finally gathered the herb needed for a mana potion. Once she obtained the other two necessary herbs, she could refine an intermediate-level potion. Advanced-level potions require many additional ingredients, and Xu Jiawei felt she wouldn't be able to obtain those.

After collecting most of the materials on one side of the stream, the stream flowed directly into the ground through the cracks in the rocks. Therefore, the stream was not long and was more like a small ditch.

So she prepared to go to the other side of the river to continue gathering. Just as she circled around to the other side, she saw a player running towards her, without any torch in his hand or any protective measures, stumbling and staggering as he ran.

His eyes had an unnatural grayish-white color, like the eyes of a cooked fish, which was quite terrifying. Xu Jiawei got goosebumps just looking at them.

"I can't see it! I can't see it! I can't find the treasure chest! I'm so thirsty, so thirsty! Oh, there's water! I found water! I won't die!"

As he spoke, the man groped forward, stumbling and running towards the river. Because he couldn't see, he tripped over small stones on the road, but he ignored the fact that his hands and knees were already bleeding profusely. He seemed not to feel the pain in his body and continued to crawl towards the river.

Finally, he found his way to the riverbank. His hands trembled with excitement as he touched the icy water, and he scooped it up to drink.

Xu Jiawei couldn't help but want to remind him, but then she thought that she didn't have any extra water for him. Besides, what if the water was drinkable? She could take some back to cleanse her body.

"Water, water! This water is so sweet, it's so delicious!" The man acted as if he had never drunk water in his life, burying his head in the water and gulping it down until his stomach was bulging, but he still didn't stop, as if he couldn't get enough.

The scene became increasingly bizarre, causing Xu Jiawei's sanity to plummet.

This is so weird. Is this guy still thirsty after drinking so much water? There seems to be something wrong with this river.

As Xu Jiawei had predicted, there was something wrong with the river water. Fortunately, Xu Jiawei was very vigilant.

At this point, the man stopped drinking water, as if he could drink no more. He touched his enormous belly, which looked like he was nine months pregnant, and it was quite frightening.

He slowly raised his head, revealing a terrifying smile. Only then did Xu Jiawei notice that the man's eyes were even more grayish-white, almost devoid of any color, turning completely white, with some red blood vessels distributed in them.

"Hehe, I can't see, but I survived, hahahahaha..." The man laughed wildly, then stared blankly at Xu Jiawei's direction with his lifeless eyes. Xu Jiawei's hair stood on end, and she wanted to leave this eerie place immediately.

However, the man made no other move; instead, his laughter grew even more terrifying: "Hahaha, no, I can see it, I can see it, I see the light, hahahahaha, I see it, hahahaha..."

The man stood up, laughing loudly as he ran away at an unexpectedly fast pace. His belly swayed as he ran, like a bucket full of water.

The man's voice echoed and faded into the distance until it disappeared.

Xu Jiawei finally breathed a sigh of relief. The scene was too bizarre, making her body stiff. Fortunately, the man was gone. Xu Jiawei then wanted to hurry up and collect herbs, as this place was too strange.

But are herbs that absorb river water really usable?

Xu Jiawei was very skeptical, but decided to collect the samples first and then test them to find out.

This time, Xu Jiawei sped up because the scene she had just witnessed made her uneasy. The sunless, gloomy fog and the strange man made her think she had stumbled into a horror movie set, like Silent Hill or something.

Feeling uneasy, Xu Jiawei quickly finished collecting the materials and immediately called Rainbow to leave. Rainbow told her underlings to come back, then grew larger, placed Xu Jiawei on her head, and started running.

Xu Jiawei glanced back at the still gently flowing stream, "I'm never coming here again."

However, the harvest was quite plentiful. In addition to this large bag of herbs, there were also pebbles that the mushrooms had collected while she was gathering herbs. Xu Jiawei even suspected that these mushroom guards had hollowed out the pebbles in the stream.

There are now more than 10000 pieces, piled up into a small mountain.

This is even with most of the guards searching for treasure chests outside, and they still managed to dig up this many.

[Ding! Pebbles can be exchanged for stones at a ratio of 50:1. Exchange now?]

Xu Jiawei's face lit up with joy. She hadn't expected such a benefit. The system wasn't so bad after all. She immediately agreed and exchanged it for 200 stones.

"Rainbow, let's go back and dig out all the pebbles from the bottom of the river!" Who was it that just said they would never come back? But what are vows anyway? Aren't they meant to be broken?