Survival at Sea: I Became Number One by Growing Mushrooms

"Do you have any pens?" Xu Jiawei asked.

Bai Yu scratched her head. "Is lipstick okay?" She had just unpacked it.

"Okay." Xu Jiawei took the lipstick and drew a circle on the pillar.

The group continued on and came to the next pillar. There was no mark. Xu Jiawei breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that she had been overthinking things.

However, when they reached the next pillar, Xu Jiawei's mark appeared.

"What's wrong? Are we trapped in a maze?" Dong Long was only now starting to get scared; this was too eerie.

Zhang Yunting suggested, "Let's keep walking forward."

Xu Jiawei nodded, but after walking two pillars forward, she still didn't see the marker. She walked forward again before finally seeing it.

"This time there are two pillars in between," Li Ming said immediately.

Continue forward, and the next pillar is the marker. Keep walking forward, and you'll walk past seven pillars before reaching the marker.

Bai Yu scratched his head: "There's absolutely no pattern to it."

Si Yunming's voice was very calm: "The system won't give us a dead end; there must be something we haven't discovered."

"Mr. Si is right. We'll take a closer look around this time." Zhang Yunting was a reliable middle-aged man, and he quickly calmed down as well.

The group divided the work: Xu Jiawei counted the pillars, Zhang Yunting and Bai Yu looked at the left side, Li Ming and Si Yunming looked at the right side, and as for Dong Long, they did whatever they wanted.

The group continued forward, this time to five pillars, then eight, nine, six...

After several attempts, finding absolutely no pattern, Dong Long began to get frustrated. "What the hell is this place?!"

"I've got it!" Si Yunming's voice was filled with excitement.

"Sister, look! There's a new flower here. We haven't seen this red flower before." Li Ming was also very excited and almost jumped up.

Dong Long poured cold water on the idea, saying, "You must be mistaken, are you hallucinating?"

"Hey, what do you mean? You do nothing and yet you have the nerve to criticize others? I've been fed up with you for a long time. Who are you trying to fool with that sour face?" Li Ming was already a bit annoyed by the repetition, and Dong Long's words made him explode.

Dong Long, enraged, blurted out, "How dare you talk to me like that! The supplies I have are more than you could ever get in a lifetime of opening crates!"

"Let me tell you, I'm incredibly lucky. I don't even need your pathetic supplies. Get the hell out of here!"

Li Ming regained the arrogance he had when he first entered the survival game, thinking that he was the most important person in the world.

Let alone Dong Long, who else has the energy to take care of their hair while playing survival games? That head of red hair showed no signs of fading, clearly indicating that it was dyed frequently.

Dong Long was so angry that his face turned red. "You, you, I am Dong Long, the chairman of Suzhong Group. Who are you?"

Li Ming looked down on people: "I'm the heir of the Xiwan Group. What is the Suzhong Group? It can't be some third-rate little factory, can it?"

Seeing that Li Ming was about to start acting crazy again, Xu Jiawei pulled him back.

"Don't talk to him anymore. If this red flower is newly appeared, let's go count how many pillars there are." Xu Jiawei walked forward.

"Okay, sis." Li Ming dutifully followed Xu Jiawei, acting as her little follower.

This time, there were ten pillars between them and the next marker. The group walked back and returned to the location of the red flower. Could it be that this flower only appears when there are ten pillars?

Although she already knew the difference, Xu Jiawei couldn't decide what to do.

The group came to the side. "What do you think we should do? Should we pull the flower out, or water it? Should we use a gentle approach or a harsh one?" Xu Jiawei asked.

"Sis, why don't we water it? I feel like something bad will happen if we pull it out." Li Ming scratched his head.

Xu Jiawei immediately chose to believe in the lucky star and voted in favor. Zhang Yunting also voted in favor when he saw that Xu Jiawei agreed. Si Yunming and Bai Yu also agreed.

The group looked towards the red flower and their expressions changed. They saw Dong Long squatting in front of the red flower, poking at it repeatedly.

Dong Long mocked the group, "You guys are such cowards, afraid of just one flower."

Bai Yu looked at Dong Long in fear: "Stop! Your hands are really wicked."

However, Bai Yu spoke too late; a red petal drifted down.

Silence fell instantly. Dong Long stiffly turned his head: "I order you, save me now!"

Countless thick vines shot up from Honghua's body, and before the group could even react, Honghua opened her mouth wide and dragged Dong Long into it.

A giant flower monster stood up, with a giant red flower serving as its head. In the center of the red flower was a huge mouth covered with dense teeth. The rest of its body was made of vines, twisted and intertwined, and covered with barbs.

A thorny vine lunged at them, leaving them no choice but to fight.

Very good, the group doesn't need to make a decision anymore; someone else has done it for them.

Xu Jiawei took out her bow and arrow and shot an arrow. The flames stuck in the vines seemed to be suppressed and were instantly extinguished.

The bow and arrow were basically useless. Xu Jiawei suspected that the thing had maxed out its "magic resistance". Xu Jiawei could only take out her longsword and try to cut it down. However, the thing had a strong regenerative ability. As soon as Xu Jiawei cut off one, it immediately regenerated.

"That fat pig, he risked his life just to cause us trouble, it's infuriating!" Bai Yu became more and more agitated as he hit him.

Si Yunming didn't speak. Instead, he somehow appeared behind the flower monster, drew his giant sword, and slashed down. The flower monster howled in pain, its wound failing to heal, as if it had been seriously injured.

Everyone was stunned. Was this guy cheating? While everyone else was scraping their skin, he was scraping their bones.

For some reason, Si Yunming's face was somewhat pale at this moment.

Seeing the flower monster turn its head to attack Si Yunming, Li Ming used his talent again. The flower monster turned its head but got stuck in its own vines. It took a step to the left but tripped over its own vines.

Xu Jiawei drank several bottles of medicine that temporarily increased her attributes. At this moment, the rainbow grew larger and held back the flower monster, but she herself was also tightly entangled by the vines. Xu Jiawei took this opportunity to use parasitic spores, and small mushrooms grew on the vines. Xu Jiawei carefully noticed that the vines' recovery speed had slowed down.

Si Yunming slashed with his sword again. This time, Si Yunming's face was even paler. He took out a bottle of recovery potion, drank it, and his complexion improved.

The damage from this attack doesn't seem to be as great as the last one.

Bai Yu's talent wasn't in combat, but fortunately, his own combat strength wasn't weak either. He struck the flower monster with his hammer, and the flower monster retreated. Seeing the vines coming at it, Bai Yu swung his hammer a few more times, and was then whipped away by the vines, falling to the ground and spitting out a mouthful of blood.

Bai Yu stood up and drank a bottle of medicine.

Si Yunming struck the flower monster with his sword again, and as Xu Jiawei had indeed mistaken it, the damage was even lower.

Rainbow was covered in wounds from being pricked by the vines. When it opened its mouth, all the little mushrooms crawled out and surrounded the flower monster, causing it to panic.

Xu Jiawei took the opportunity to throw the snake meat into the flower monster's mouth. Bai Yu also spat and said, "I can beat iron, I don't believe I can't beat you."

Zhang Yunting also unleashed his talent, and the group attacked together.