Survival at Sea: I Became Number One by Growing Mushrooms

Xu Jiawei looked back and saw that what lay behind her had turned into a deep pit hundreds of meters deep, with collapsed sand at the bottom. She had been walking for so long that she hadn't noticed that the route the system had given her was to slowly ascend.

So even if Xu Jiawei is slow and gets trapped underneath, she will at most be trapped for more than ten meters before she can climb out.

She first looked up at the sky; the moon was hanging in the sky, and it was still midnight.

The desert behind her had completely collapsed, turning a large area into a deep pit and disappearing entirely.

Before her, the sky had turned into a blanket of white snow. A gust of cold wind swept over her, and Xu Jiawei rubbed her arms and curled up into a ball.

We need to find the rainbow quickly, because Little Pink, the source of heat, left with the rainbow, so she is very vulnerable now.

She never expected that an island could have three different types of weather. This level of weather is similar to that of China on Earth. In China, during winter, the northernmost and southernmost parts of the country also experience two extreme weather conditions: winter and summer. But how big is China? How big is this island?

Unexpectedly, when she emerged from underground, she not only crossed the desert, but the weather had also changed. The white snow was illuminated by the moonlight, shimmering with a silvery-white light. The light reflected off the surroundings, making it as bright as day, even comparable to the brightness at five in the morning, or rather, the evening when the sun had completely set, leaving only a sliver of light.

Although the scenery was beautiful, Xu Jiawei was freezing cold. Before being pulled underground, she was so hot that she took off her clothes.

Now that she had no clothes left, she was only wearing a thin outer garment.

Xu Jiawei sensed the location of the rainbow, which seemed to be not too far away from her, but its location had not changed since yesterday. Had she encountered some kind of trouble?

Under normal circumstances, Rainbow should have come to pick her up by now.

Xu Jiawei immediately ran towards the rainbow. If she didn't run faster, she would be frozen into an ice block. This island was too eerie. Not only were the creatures strange and malevolent, but even the climate was so bizarre. No, she had to purify this place and leave quickly.

Xu Jiawei was about to take out some warm clothes from the ring, but as soon as she put her hand on the ring, she immediately heard a warning from the system.

[WARNING! Players are not allowed to use the resources in the Mushroom Ring; doing so will result in the deduction of all points.]

"Didn't I just use it? If I was going to deduct it, I should have done so already," Xu Jiawei said, rubbing her arms.

[Ding, the player was previously in a critical situation, so the Mushroom Ring was temporarily unlocked. The crisis has passed, but it cannot be used again.]

Alright, the system just gave me a shortcut and didn't deduct my points, which is good news. Since I can't use the resources in the ring, Xu Jiawei can only go and find the rainbow.

In order to find the rainbow as soon as possible, Xu Jiawei had no choice but to run. After running for about 10 minutes, the system notification sounded again.

[Ding! Congratulations on defeating the Death Tree! You have obtained the Spring of Death, a fragment of the Death Tree, and 10000000 experience points.]

Xu Jiawei was stunned. The Spring of Death? What is that? Could it be that black river? What is its connection to the Spring of Life?

Why are their names so similar?

[Fountain of Death: A special spring of water transformed by the Dark God, now contaminated and unusable.]

Xu Jiawei looked at the large bottle of black spring water and thought of the Dark God's final, unwilling roar. The Dark God didn't want her to have this thing, so perhaps it was related to the Spring of Life? She'd try purifying it.

As for the fragments of the Death Tree, they looked quite ordinary, no different from ordinary trees, so they were purified together with the Spring of Death and put away.

Soon Xu Jiawei arrived at the coordinates where the rainbow was located. A narrow cave appeared in front of her. The entrance was so narrow that only one person could pass through at a time, and a biting cold wind blew out from inside the cave.

Xu Jiawei immediately felt her body freeze, but Rainbow's position hadn't moved all day, so it must have encountered some trouble, and she had to go in.

However, she had to take precautions before going in, as the temperature inside was even lower than outside, and she didn't know what was going on.

Perhaps it would be best for her to go in tomorrow when it's warmer; she's afraid that if she goes in now, she'll freeze into an ice cube.

But the temperature outside isn't high right now, and Xu Jiawei is freezing, it's just a matter of one freezing faster than the other.

She cleared her stiff mind. Nighttime was when mutated creatures were most active. She would find a few furry mutated creatures, skin them, and wrap herself in their skin to keep warm tonight.

However, animals are scarce in the snowy region, and finding living creatures is not an easy task for her. She could only hope that luck would help her, so Xu Jiawei used her wish directly.

"I hope to get some fur to keep warm." After saying that, Xu Jiawei left the vicinity of the cave and began to wander aimlessly in the snowfield, looking around. Half an hour later, when Xu Jiawei was about to freeze, she heard a bear roar, and the snow on the ground trembled.

Here it comes, is it a bear that lives in the snowfield?

The only bears that come out to play in winter are polar bears, so their fur must be very thick.

The bear is large enough to make itself a bearskin coat and completely cover itself.

Xu Jiawei's eyes were red from the cold, and she wished she could immediately peel off the bear's skin and put it on herself.

She ran quickly toward the bear.

The black bear originally intended to rush over and attack Xu Jiawei, but unexpectedly, Xu Jiawei ran over first. The black bear was still a little stunned. How arrogant! It didn't go looking for its prey, but the prey delivered itself to its doorstep. How despicable!

The black bear roared and stood up like a human. Xu Jiawei was stunned and remembered an urban legend about a human-bear hybrid. She couldn't remember the details, but she remembered that they would imitate humans by waving and calling for help to lure humans over before killing them.

This giant bear is only a little over two meters tall when it stands up, about the same size as a bear on Earth.

Its fur was so thick that Xu Jiawei's eyes turned red with envy. She quickly took it off and gave it to her!

The black bear roared and pounced. Xu Jiawei dodged backward. In order not to damage the precious fur, Xu Jiawei could not use Photon Meteor, but could only use Light Spores to slowly grind it down. However, she did not know whether the mushrooms growing from her body would damage the fur, but she had no other means of attack. Even if it would damage the fur, she had to use it.

She quickly retreated, continuously casting Light Spores. The shimmering powder flew from Xu Jiawei's hand onto the black bear, slowing it down considerably. Xu Jiawei then began her kite-flying attack.

The black bear clumsily chased after Xu Jiawei from behind, but couldn't catch up no matter what it did. It became even more furious, not expecting such a small prey to be so fast. The black bear wished it could just bite off the neck of the prey in front of it.