"This is the lard residue left over from boiling the wild boar fat yesterday. It's very fragrant!" Xiao Yi left a message.
"I'd better not take it. It's too greasy. I've gained weight recently!" Su Wan refused immediately.
Xiao Yi smiled and said, "You were already too thin. It's better to gain some weight!"
"Do you really think so?" Su Wan asked.
"Of course. Being so thin that you're all skin and bones isn't good - looking at all!" Xiao Yi replied.
"Okay!" Su Wan made the deal decisively and accepted the lard residue.
Xiao Yi was a little surprised and thought, "Women are really fickle!"
Looking at the all - Grade - A food, Yuan Nong exclaimed again, "You must have gotten in through connections. There must be someone above pulling strings for you!"
Hearing this again, Xiao Yi's heart tightened. It was as if there really were people observing the survival situation of their group.
Xiao Yi shook his head vigorously, trying to get rid of the terrifying thought that they were being watched.
If there were watchers, they must be extremely powerful, whether in terms of physical strength or technological power!
How could those with insufficient strength design such world rules!
Facing the powerful beings who set the rules, he was probably like an ant on the roadside. It was better to focus on staying alive first!
For Jiang Yuntian's breakfast, Xiao Yi added more Grade - A milk. "There's a lot of milk. If you can't finish it, Junjun is growing, so he can drink more!"
"Okay, thank you!" Jiang Yuntian replied.
After breakfast, Xiao Yi took a bath and changed his clothes. "System, sign - in!"
"Sign - in successful. Reward obtained: Equipment Level Upgrade Card."
"Equipment Level Upgrade Card: Can upgrade any equipment by one level!"
Although the card description was simple, it made Xiao Yi extremely happy.
The question now was, which equipment should he upgrade?
Xiao Yi
"Detected that you have a 'Weapon Refinement Talisman'. Please select the item to be upgraded!"
"Grade - A Spring Water Generator!"
"The talisman takes effect. The level of the Spring Water Generator has been upgraded to S - grade!"
"Spring Water Generator (S - grade): Can turn the sea into sweet spring water. When the sea water source is sufficient, it can produce 320 milliliters of spring water every quarter of an hour. The internal sea water volume is 5000 milliliters, and the spring water volume is 4000 milliliters. It can be connected to a water channel and needs to be opened and closed manually!"
After the upgrade, the spring - producing rate and capacity of the Spring Water Generator had both doubled. Moreover, there was no need to fill it with water manually. It could be connected to a water channel, opened when water was scarce, and closed when it was full, which was much more convenient!
"I wonder how the S - grade spring water tastes?" Xiao Yi murmured to himself. He could only taste it when the spring water gushed out!
After feeding the chickens and cows and setting the target of the automatic fishing net to the supply box, Xiao Yi quickly retreated to his thatched cottage!
It was already past Chen Shi (7 - 9 am), and it was no longer suitable to stay outside.
Now everyone seemed to be used to the rhythm of hiding during the day and working after dusk.
"It's really unbearably hot!"
"Who told you to get up so early? I was fishing until the third watch last night. I still want to catch up on some sleep!"
"Wait, after fishing for so long, did you catch anything?"
"Yes, a small fish, weighing five hundred liang!"
"Wow, you're amazing! You actually caught a fish!"
"Amazing my ass. I'm almost exhausted, and this fish isn't even enough to fill my teeth!"
"Anyway, it's a harvest. I fished until midnight last night and didn't even see a fish scale!"
"Ah, let's take a break first. Let's see if we can fish up a supply box at dusk!"
Xiao Yi enjoyed the cool breeze. When he was bored, he took out the miniature sea - exploring compass. There were only a few marks of supply boxes around the small island. He slid it uninterestedly.
He didn't fish until late at night last night, so he was full of energy and not sleepy at all.
"Eh!"
Suddenly, a red dot flashed on the edge of the compass scan!
Xiao Yi immediately sat up straight. "Are there more guests coming to my side?" He enlarged the display interface of the compass. It was actually a medium - sized sailing ship. In the picture depicted by the compass, there were quite a few people on the ship!
"So many people?" Xiao Yi frowned. "But why are they wearing animal skins and feather ornaments on their heads?"
The costumes of those people were very strange and definitely not like those of people in Xiao Yi's original world!
"Could they be the aborigines here?" Xiao Yi murmured, and then he became worried. If there really were aborigines, it would be very troublesome.
There must be a lot of aborigines here. If there was a conflict, no matter how strong he was alone, it would be difficult to handle everything.
After all, this island carried a lot of Xiao Yi's efforts!
That medium - sized sailing ship was approaching his island!
"What should I do?" Xiao Yi tried his best to think of a countermeasure.
Suddenly, the red dot on the receiver screen disappeared!
"How could this be?" Xiao Yi stared at the empty screen in shock. "How is it possible!"
He had clearly seen a ship just now. How could it disappear without a trace?
At this time, Xiao Yi remembered that someone had also seen a large ship before, but no one believed it at that time.
"Could it be the same kind of ship?" Xiao Yi muttered. "It seems that this world is getting more and more complicated!"
Xiao Yi walked to the front of the island monument and sent messages to Su Wan and the other two.
"Have you seen a large ship?" Xiao Yi asked.
"Hmm? No, I haven't. Every day, there are only supply boxes around me, not even any ocean debris!" Su Wan replied.
"Not seen!" Yuan Nong answered.
"No. What's wrong?" Jiang Yuntian asked in reply.
"I saw a large ship here, but it disappeared in an instant!" Xiao Yi replied.
Jiang Yuntian was stunned and then said, "Before, there was also a survivor who said he saw a large ship. He looked down for a moment and when he looked up again, the ship was gone. At that time, everyone thought he was lying! Could the one you saw be the same ship?"
"I'm also suspecting that!" Xiao Yi replied. "And I don't think that ship was made by us survivors!"
"What do you mean?" Jiang Yuntian frowned and asked.
"I saw that the people on the ship were wearing animal skins and had feathers stuck in their heads. They are likely to be the aborigines here!" Xiao Yi explained.
"What! There are aboriginal residents here?" Jiang Yuntian was also shocked!
Xiao Yi nodded and said, "And there are quite a few of them!"
Jiang Yuntian didn't question Xiao Yi's information but frowned and said, "If we are discovered by the aborigines here, it will probably be difficult to co - exist peacefully!"
Xiao Yi responded, "That's what I'm thinking too. So now we not only have to survive, but also strengthen our defensive power!"
"It's best if we can unite!" Jiang Yuntian said.
"Exactly!" Xiao Yi replied. He was now eagerly looking forward to Su Wan and the others coming to his island as soon as possible!
"I understand!" Jiang Yuntian said. "Once I confirm your location, I will meet you as soon as possible!"
"Okay!" Xiao Yi told Su Wan and Yuan Nong about his and Jiang Yuntian's inferences.
Shocked, the two said that if they had the chance, they would meet Xiao Yi as soon as possible!
"Just got rid of the survival pressure, and now aboriginal residents have emerged!" Su Wan said helplessly. "This place really doesn't welcome us!"
Xiao Yi was equally helpless. "There's nothing we can do. Now we can only take it one step at a time."
Su Wan nodded.
At this time, Yuan Nong sent a message asking, "Both you and the previous person saw a large ship, but they disappeared instantly. Why is that?"
Logically speaking, a large ship couldn't disappear without a trace in an instant!
Xiao Yi frowned and pondered for a moment before replying, "I don't know either, but I have a guess."
Hearing this, Yuan Nong listened attentively.
"Behind the hints on the island monument, there must be powerful beings manipulating everything." Xiao Yi thought for a while and said, "As for the purpose, it's still unclear, but what they are doing is undoubtedly constantly increasing our survival difficulties!"
"So the aborigines are also one of the ways to increase the difficulty. We outsiders, in the turmoil of this world, the survivors have very different situations. Most people are still stagnant. Occasionally, a few people's physiques have improved slightly after tasting C - grade delicacies, just rising from a sickly state to an ordinary person's physique.
Su Wan and the others around Xiao Yi have had their physiques enhanced far beyond others and can already be compared with ordinary martial artists. He glanced at the communicator in his hand, confirmed that the huge ship had indeed disappeared without a trace, shook his head and sighed, and walked towards the S - grade water purifier, where clear S - grade purified water had already been filtered.