Survival at Sea: I Became Number One by Growing Mushrooms

"Brother Shi, what's wrong?" Lin Jiaqi walked over.

Lin Wenshi threw the photo onto the table with a livid face and said angrily, "It's all because of that beast Lin Huajing. They are his biological parents, how could they be so heartless?"

Lin Jiaqi picked up the photo, glanced at it, and a strange light flashed in her eyes. Then, she suddenly covered her mouth with her hand, her face filled with horror and disbelief: "How could this be? How could Hua Jing do this? Mom and Dad raised him, how could he treat them like this!"

"Hmph, you know how he targeted you back then. Isn't it normal for him to do such a beastly thing now?" Lin Wenshi felt a surge of disgust when he thought of his younger brother, even more so than Xu Jiawei.

"What should we do then, Brother Shi? He only wants to kill me anyway, so why not hand me over? They are my parents, and I can't bear to see them suffer." Lin Jiaqi wiped away non-existent tears from the corners of her eyes. She knew Lin Wenshi very well; he valued his reputation above all else, and he would never hand her over in such a humiliating way.

As expected, Lin Wenshi immediately refused. "Jiaqi, don't say things like that again. Your parents wouldn't want you to do that either. Besides, you're my woman now. I, Lin Wenshi, am not the kind of man who relies on women for support. It's good that you have this intention. Leave the rest to me. I will definitely save Mom and Dad." Lin Wenshi looked at Lin Jiaqi with a touched expression.

Lin Jiaqi curled her lips where Lin Wenshi couldn't see. Sure enough, Lin Wenshi refused. She could even play the victim and extricate herself from the matter. As for her parents, Lin Jiaqi would rather they didn't come back. After all, they were just two drags on her, and they weren't even level 10 yet.

What a joke! These two are obsessed with saving face. They'd even abandon their own daughter for the sake of their pride. What good are they? How much effort did I put in to be presentable in front of them?

Even before they discovered she wasn't their biological daughter, they were already considering marrying her off to a scumbag who had countless women. They were tired of putting on a show of maternal love and filial piety for their own benefit. Now, it was enough for her and Shi Ge to enjoy their own private world.

The reason she staged that scene was to solidify Lin Wenshi's resolve. After all, it wasn't a sure thing, and she was genuinely afraid that Lin Wenshi would act recklessly.

While Lin Jiaqi was still scheming against Lin Wenshi, Xu Jiawei got lost again. Because the underwater environment was very similar, she didn't know where she had been transported to.

She didn't even know which way to go. In the end, the system helplessly pointed out the direction, but it couldn't do anything about it. Xu Jiawei seemed to have forgotten that she didn't even open the box and just threw it into her mini space.

The system has power but nowhere to use it. If she opens the chest, the system plans to put another pathfinding device in its place to replace the compass.

It's definitely more advanced than that compass that can only find the source of pollution, but if I urge it, wouldn't that prove that I'm giving it special treatment? That's absolutely unacceptable, and the system can only watch helplessly.

So the system had no choice but to guide her. The system was very lenient with this child it had nurtured. Look at how she had transformed from a weakling into a top-ranked fighter with exceptional combat awareness through its own efforts. It must have taken countless electronic components to achieve this, and she was even a light-attribute fighter. She was too perfect. Perhaps she could even reach level 100.

With the system's guidance, Xu Jiawei quickly returned to the island, but to her surprise, the fog on the island was still very thick and showed no signs of dissipating.

"System, what's going on?" Xu Jiawei asked, because she had clearly purified all the sources of pollution.

[Ding! New mission activated. Players are tasked with preventing the temple from becoming a source of pollution. Time limit: two hours.]

Is the temple going to become a new source of pollution?

Xu Jiawei was somewhat surprised, yet also somewhat relieved. Otherwise, why would the Dark God go to such lengths to pollute the temple? This is how all pollution sources are born, right? However, without the sustaining power of the previous pollution source, Xu Jiawei alone could purify the pollution on this island. These pollutants are isolated and helpless, making them easy to resolve.

Without much thought, Xu Jiawei headed towards the temple. She hadn't been able to purify the source of pollution before, but now, facing the newly formed pollution without any support, Xu Jiawei felt confident that she could do it again.

Upon arriving at the temple, which was shrouded in darkness, she immediately used the Purification of Light to envelop the entire temple. The pollution on the island, in a final struggle, surged towards the temple.

Like moths to a flame, they rushed forward. Even after being purified, they did not give up. Xu Jiawei pondered. If the pollution was those moths, then she was the lamp that could burn them to death. Watching the moths fly towards her, courting their own destruction, she was not worried about their strength. On the contrary, she felt that the moths were overestimating themselves.

Xu Jiawei seemed to understand something; the fragments of divinity deep within her consciousness faintly emitted light, and patterns faintly appeared on the textures of those fragments.

Xu Jiawei stared blankly at the dark energies, seemingly lost in thought, knowing they were courting their own destruction.

But the realization seemed to happen in an instant, and she came back to her senses, not knowing what had just happened, only feeling that something had changed within her, and that her mind was more clear.

On the surface, there was no difference, but Xu Jiawei felt that she was different just a moment ago.

Suppressing her doubts, Xu Jiawei knew the purification was almost over. The temple shone brightly again, but a trace of darkness remained only on the edge of the island and in some nooks and crannies. Just as Xu Jiawei finished purifying, the aftershocks of the purifying spring finally arrived.

It's very weak, because if the spring water is to be purified, it still needs to purify the original place. The island is only able to benefit from the aftereffects of the purification because the pollution on this island was "infected" by the previous source of pollution, and it can only get some leftovers.

However, the aftershocks of this purification process also cleansed up the pollution hidden in the nooks and crannies.

Finally, she was able to breathe fresh "air" again.

Of course, there is no air underwater, but she just felt that the environment was fresher and the surrounding scenery was much clearer.

Now she can finally leave this oppressive seabed. After staying here for so long, Xu Jiawei felt like she had developed thalassophobia.

There wasn't anything she needed to collect on the seabed, and she wanted to get back to land as soon as possible; Rainbow must be getting impatient.

It was quite disappointed that it didn't participate in this purification. Of course, not only Rainbow, but Little Grey also didn't participate. It was still too weak. The source of pollution this time was very dangerous, and it was not something it could fight at its current level. It couldn't cause trouble.

So Little Grey could only watch helplessly from inside the pet backpack as Little Pink and Red Earthworm stole the show, feeling extremely envious.

She didn't know what the pet backpack was made of, but it was quite sturdy and couldn't be broken by attacks. Wouldn't it be very strong if it were made into defensive equipment?

Xu Jiawei didn't even ask for the 3-hour stay time, and directly told the system that she wanted to be teleported away.

A portal appeared behind her. She glanced once more at the tranquil temple and then bowed.

Goodbye, my dear water god.

She wanted to go ashore to breathe fresh air, and of course, the rainbow couldn't be missed. The system activated teleportation, sending the rainbow back to her.

Seeing the rainbow again lifted Xu Jiawei's spirits considerably.