Survival at Sea: I Became Number One by Growing Mushrooms

Xu Jiawei looked around. It was still very quiet, not even the sound of breathing. It seemed like a dead place.

"Rainbow, where is the monster?" Xu Jiawei felt a deathly silence. Normally, the monster would have pounced on her long ago.

"Master, it's just one meter in front of you," Rainbow said, pointing forward.

Xu Jiawei was startled; she hadn't sensed a single breath from so close.

She took two steps forward, and the monster's tail disappeared into the insect shield, becoming visible.

It just happened to appear in her field of vision. Perhaps she could steal the box while the monster was asleep, but Xu Jiawei came here to level up.

Xu Jiawei planned to remove the insect repellent cover first. If she accidentally broke it, wouldn't that be a waste of energy stones?

As soon as she removed the insect repellent cover, her vision was instantly obscured by darkness. She couldn't see anything, not even herself.

She knew she was covered in bugs, but she didn't panic. Little Pink immediately exerted its strength, and Xu Jiawei only smelled a burnt smell.

Then a small patch of light appeared before her. Xu Jiawei took the opportunity to scan her entire body, which was completely covered in black. She glanced at Xiao Fen, who was diligently burning insects in front of her, and dared not delay any longer.

After all, insects at night are not afraid of fire, and Little Pink had a hard time burning it. In fact, these insects even had resistance to light.

She could barely make out the monster's location and began constructing a photon meteor.

Since the monster was asleep, and soundly asleep, there was no need for the red earthworm to bind it; the photon meteor struck the monster directly.

The monster roared in pain, then weakly stood up and pounced on Xu Jiawei at an extremely slow speed, so slow that Xu Jiawei could easily dodge it from her current field of vision.

Xu Jiawei seemed to be deep in thought. The monster had slowed down considerably, and Xu Jiawei suspected that it was related to the death of the worms inside it.

Perhaps most of these insects will never return to their burrows if they go out at night.

A small number of those whose lifespans did not end returned to the cave during the day, while the rest became part of the daytime mist, seeking parasites.

After these insects die, new insects enter the parasite, so it's possible that the parasites are at their weakest at night.

The insects that used to burrow into the room at night were just older insects looking for places to parasitize, while the corrosive younger insects would only attach to the surface of objects and corrode them.

So the insects that look scary at night are actually only corrosive; the older insects that are constantly looking for parasites are actually more dangerous.

Only now does Xu Jiawei understand the survival principle of this insect.

Based on her previous experience with the wormhole, she guessed that in addition to these nocturnal insects, the fog outside still existed, but it would gradually thin out, then at some point it would bottom out and rebound, becoming more and more abundant, turning back into the daytime fog.

After killing the monster, Xu Jiawei quickly activated the insect-repellent energy shield.

Then immediately release light to purify your entire body, killing all the insects on your body.

Xu Jiawei quickly examined her entire body. Because of the insects' presence, her protective suit had been corroded and faded, turning from bright yellow to pale yellow, but it still looked like it could keep her in the dark for a while.

It turns out this protective suit is for nighttime use.

Normally, wearing a gas mask and covering one's head properly during the day would be enough, but she had always been curious about what protective suits were for, and now she knew.

Xu Jiawei put the box into her backpack and continued on to the location of the next monster.

Furthermore, Rainbow has a very strong sense of perception, stronger than other mushrooms, so if it encounters other monsters on the road, Rainbow can know them and kill them along the way.

At night, visibility was only greatly obstructed, but otherwise it didn't matter. Xu Jiawei seriously suspected that Si Yunming would come to kill monsters specifically at night, because the fog treated him as nothing.

He didn't even bother to shield his vision, and she had no idea how far he had progressed under the cover of night. She felt a sense of crisis.

Sometimes Xu Jiawei was quite envious of Si Yunming.

After fighting all night, even with stamina and energy potions, Xu Jiawei was exhausted, and her protective suit was completely worn out.

She put the old one on the outside and then put a new one on underneath. The CEO had brought a lot of protective suits, enough for her to use for a long time. She also had the blueprints now. She had the plastic, and all she needed was some rubber to make it.

After killing the last monster of the night, dawn broke, but Xu Jiawei had not yet killed the other monster next to it.

As dawn broke, Xu Jiawei witnessed the white mist enter the body of the monster that had been lying on the ground. The monster immediately stood up and pounced on Xu Jiawei with great speed.

The red earthworm immediately took action and bound the monster.

Xu Jiawei constructed a photon meteor to eliminate this escaped fugitive.

[Ding! Experience points full. Player has reached level 26 and received 1 free attribute point. The player who is the first in the entire server to reach level 26 will receive in-game rewards. There are three options: 1. 1 potion of your choice; 2. 1 piece of gold equipment; 3. 3 attribute points (Although repeated, everything is for your needs)]

It's okay, she just likes to repeat things. Right now, she really needs pet breakthrough potions. Rainbow is almost level 40, and Red Earthworm and Little Pink are leveling up quite fast too. Xu Jiawei feels that in a few more days, she will need to drink pet breakthrough potions.

Fortunately, she learned about pet breakthrough potions before coming here, otherwise her pets would have been stuck at a certain level, which would have slowed down Xu Jiawei's leveling speed.

Thank you to myself for my hard work.

"Let's upgrade the rainbow to level 40 today," Xu Jiawei said to the brightly lit surroundings. "Good morning!" she said, even though she had been busy all night and was preparing to continue working during the day.

Rainbow released all its minions again to search for the treasure chest, while Xu Jiawei took the opportunity to have breakfast first.

After all, finding treasure chests of iron quality isn't easy. It's better to brew some potions so the mushrooms can find the chests and then call us.

She took out all the boxes she had found yesterday and opened them to find some basic materials and some food.

Xu Jiawei picked up a meat bun. Eating meat buns for breakfast felt quite appropriate. After eating a whole steamer of buns, she drank a bottle of water, went to the toilet, and then took out a crucible to start making medicine.

Even if we have plenty of herbs now, we should use them sparingly, since although there are many, there will be no more supplies.

She would never use stamina potions unless she was completely exhausted. The same principle applies to mental potions, but the requirements are more lenient, since it's easy to make mistakes when you're not in a good mental state.

Soon Rainbow found the first monster that Xu Jiawei needed to deal with. After finishing the last batch of cooking, she packed up her things and set off with her three pet beasts.

This is a family of three raccoons, and they are indeed quite cute. However, they should still be killed. After killing this family of three, Rainbow finally reached level 40.

Xu Jiawei handed the potion to Rainbow. After Rainbow drank the potion, it did not break through immediately as before. Instead, colorful light appeared on its body, enveloping it and turning it into a rainbow-colored ball of light.

The pink and red earthworms stared at the ball of light, seemingly very excited. Judging from their expressions, the rainbow was probably about to evolve.

Xu Jiawei was also very excited, but more than that, she was puzzled. Why was Rainbow suddenly going to evolve?

Could it be? Xu Jiawei suddenly remembered that Rainbow had soaked in the hot spring pool in the past. Rainbow had soaked for a long time. Could it be that the energy hadn't been fully digested and was now accumulating and erupting?