Survival at Sea: I Became Number One by Growing Mushrooms

Miracles indeed favored Xu Jiawei. The system, being a mechanical being, breathed a sigh of relief. As expected of someone who had survived from a luck value of 1 to the present, she was truly resilient.

Xu Jiawei still couldn't believe it. Maybe this was the third level. The system's voice was meant to make her believe that it was now reality, but in reality, she was still in a hallucination.

Xu Jiawei murmured, "It's all an illusion, it's all an illusion." When she opened her eyes again, the scenery around her had not changed. Could it really be reality?

Xu Jiawei decided to try again, so she embarked on a crazy path of self-destruction. The system was speechless. She stayed in the hallucination for half an hour, which damaged her brain.

What the system didn't know was that the malevolence of the illusion of the Dark God was constructed based on Xu Jiawei's thoughts and ideas, constantly adjusting to become more and more realistic. Eventually, even Xu Jiawei herself found it difficult to distinguish between them, and the illusion became more real each time she saw through it.

So Xu Jiawei thought that the hallucination had been upgraded and that she had reached the third level.

After using up her last golden body, Xu Jiawei used a mycelial regeneration technique to see if she could be resurrected.

After dying again, Xu Jiawei opened her eyes and found herself in a dark place where she couldn't see her own hand in front of her face. Where was she? Was it all just an illusion, which was why she hadn't been resurrected?

Xu Jiawei touched her surroundings; it seemed to be a secret room. Suddenly, the door to the secret room opened, and blinding light shone in, almost blinding Xu Jiawei. She immediately closed her eyes, then slowly opened them again.

She finally saw what the glowing thing was: a familiar spherical object followed by vines that writhed like maggots.

"Little Pink, Red Earthworm?" Xu Jiawei immediately realized where she was.

Now she was half convinced that she was in reality, since illusions are constructed based on one's own thoughts and ideas, and she had forgotten that she still had a resurrected spore left with the rainbow.

Instead of being resurrected near the desert as she had hoped, she was resurrected inside the rainbow's belly.

If it were a hallucination, the world would have developed according to her thoughts and expectations, but it has already exceeded her expectations.

Of course, the illusions that were initially constructed were probably made up by the Dark God himself, especially the first two illusions, which featured the Ice God, the Mushroom God, and even a temple. These were probably constructed by the Dark God based on his own memories. However, the later illusions were constructed more based on Xu Jiawei's memories and experiences.

This made it even harder for her to distinguish between them. But no matter how recklessly she acted in these illusions, without exception, even if she was resurrected, she would still be resurrected to the newly generated resurrected spores. This was because she had forgotten about the spores in Rainbow's body, and the fact that these spores had not expired even after so long was something she hadn't expected.

After babbling for a while, Xu Jiawei finally understood that the truth was the same as what Xu Jiawei had experienced in the illusion. The main difference was that the first and second illusions were probably adapted by the Dark God based on the facts.

They ran day and night all night and came directly to the snowfield area. The red earthworms, pink ones, and even rainbow ones were heavily polluted and had no choice but to enter a cave. The temperature inside the cave was so cold that even the pink ones were about to be blown out.

Rainbow could only rely on its thick skin to block the cold wind. It put the little pink and red earthworms into the space inside its belly, and then the little pink and red earthworms were trapped there.

I don't know how Rainbow is doing. It's quiet now, but it's not in any danger because its minions haven't lost any health yet.

Hsu Chia-wei: Is she really not hallucinating?

Now she's trapped inside Rainbow's belly and needs to find a way out. So, led by a group of mushroom guards, she arrived at the place they were guarding so closely and finally found the pet backpack. She wondered if she could put Rainbow inside with it.

The pet backpack can't hold people. If you put Rainbow in it, she might just spit her out.

However, just in case, Xu Jiawei first put Little Pink and Red Earthworm into the bag. Then, with a determined look in her eyes, she put Rainbow into the pet backpack. The surrounding environment immediately distorted, and she herself also distorted, yes, physically distorted.

Xu Jiawei couldn't even see her surroundings clearly before everything went black and she lost consciousness, but the last scene was enough to shock her.

The resurrection spores she had left behind came in handy; she was resurrected directly beside the desert, facing the snowfield.

Still reeling from the shock, she must still be hallucinating, otherwise how could she have seen the temple?

The pet backpack hanging from her waist was left behind at the moment of death, and now she was unsure whether it was an illusion or reality.

Could the Temple of the Ice God really exist?

To determine whether it's a hallucination, we need to determine if there's anything we don't know. "System, tell me something I don't know."

[Ding! Is the player trying to gather more information? (Don't think I can't tell.)]

Seeing the growing suspicion in Xu Jiawei's eyes, the system spoke again.

[Ding, please check your system messages.]

Xu Jiawei opened the system notification with suspicion. Was there something different about it?

As a result, Xu Jiawei's smile froze. There was indeed something different. Previously, when she was in the illusion and wanted to use the supplies in the ring because of the cold, she remembered that the system had given her a warning. However, there was no such announcement in the system messages.

But the system announcement about receiving a reward is there. What's going on? Was she already in a state of semi-half-half-real at that time?

"System, can I use the resources in the ring?"

[Ding! System assessment indicates that the difficulty level of this island exceeds expectations. Resource usage privileges are temporarily lifted. Player, please survive.]

For a moment, Xu Jiawei was even more confused. Seeing that the person was still struggling with this, the system sent another message.

[Ding! Due to the player's severe psychological trauma, the system will provide a message: The Fountain of Death is unrelated to the Fountain of Life; it is merely a product created by the Dark God based on the Fountain of Life. If the player wishes to obtain the Fountain of Life, it can be redeemed in the exchange shop after this event ends.]

The Fountain of Death and the Fountain of Life are unrelated, meaning she guessed wrong?

What's this thing for? Without thinking further, she needed to find Rainbow and the others as quickly as possible.

She took out two sets of warm clothes from the ring, one made by Bai Yu and the other a large cotton-padded coat that she could wear over it.

He then ventured into the snowstorm and retrieved some Brightness Purification Potion to remove the pollution levels.

It is nighttime, and snowflakes are falling onto the snow-covered ground following the light from the lamp. The white snowflakes are illuminated by the flashlight beam, reflecting a dazzling light.

There was no moon in the sky, since it was still snowing.

If the situation hadn't been so urgent, Xu Jiawei would have liked to enjoy the beautiful scenery.

Following the familiar route in the illusion, there was indeed a cave, the very place where Xu Jiawei had been trapped countless times.