Raft for All: I'm guaranteed to get a golden affix when I upgrade!

The salty, fishy smell of seawater filled my nostrils.

Xiao Zheng sat up abruptly, panting heavily.

Under the blazing sun, my skin felt hot from the heat.

Beneath them was a rough wooden plank about one square meter in size, with several wooden strips tied together with simple hemp rope, and seawater constantly seeping out from the gaps.

All around was a vast ocean, so blue it was almost black, with no land or islands in sight.

Not far away, a gray, triangular dorsal fin cut through the water, circling the wooden plank, while a huge shadow loomed beneath the surface.

Xiao Zheng reached for his hand.

There was a plastic hook with a rope on it, the edges of which were covered in burrs, and the rope was only a dozen meters long.

A semi-transparent panel suddenly popped up in my mind.

The panel is divided into three areas: [Chat Channel], [Crafting List], and [Personal Attributes].

Click on the [Chat Channel], which is displayed as [Regional Channel 996], with 100000/100000 currently online.

The text scrolled wildly at an extremely fast speed.

"What kind of place is this? I was just in a meeting in the office!"

"Help! I can't swim! Something in the water is biting my leg!"

"The plank is too small; I can't even stand up straight."

"I'll give you my entire fortune if someone gives me a sip of water!"

"Stop shouting, read the instructions! We've been pulled into a game called Raft Survival."

"To survive, we have to use that broken plastic hook to retrieve supplies from the sea!"

"I just tried, but the hook is too light and I can't throw it far at all. The wind is so strong, I threw it more than ten times, and my hands are all blistered, but I didn't even catch a piece of wood."

"Without supplies, the raft can't be expanded, and if we encounter waves at night, we'll surely die."

Xiao Zheng turned off the channel and confirmed the current situation.

Eight billion people worldwide have been thrown into this catastrophic ocean, starting with a broken plank and a broken plastic hook; if they don't retrieve supplies, they will die.

Xiao Zheng opened the [Production List].

[Construction Hammer: 0/1 Wood]

[Rope: Palm Leaf 0/3]

【普通甩钩：木材0/1，绳子0/1，塑料0/1.】

【普通钓鱼竿：木材0/1，绳子0/1，金属片0/1。】

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There are many things that can be created.

It cannot be built because there are no blueprints.

Fifty meters away, a dilapidated wooden barrel bobbed in the waves, drifting to the right with the current.

Xiao Zheng picked up the plastic hook, tied the end of the rope tightly to his left wrist, and stood up.

The sea breeze was extremely strong, making my thin clothes flutter loudly.

The plank was shaking violently, so he had to spread his legs to lower his center of gravity.

He grabbed the rope 30 centimeters above the hook with his right hand, swung it twice overhead, and then flung the hook out with a powerful swing of his arm.

The plastic hook traces a parabola in the air.

The wind suddenly changed direction, and the hook veered off course in the air and fell into the water, falling a full ten meters away from the wooden box.

Xiao Zheng quickly pulled back the rope, the wet rope digging into the skin of his palm.

Throw it again.

As the waves surged, the wooden crate was lifted by the crests, and hooks passed underneath it.

It veered off course again.

After five consecutive throws, his stamina was greatly depleted, his throat was parched and his stomach was churning.

The enormous creature underwater lost patience.

The dorsal fin suddenly accelerated, splashing water everywhere.

"Bang!"

The wooden plank shook violently, and Xiao Zheng lost his balance. He stepped into the air with his right foot and fell to the edge of the plank, with half of his body hanging over the sea.

The sea broke apart.

A gaping maw covered in serrated teeth burst out of the water, less than half a meter from his head, and a stench assaulted his skull.

Xiao Zheng was able to see the bits of flesh and debris between the great white shark's teeth.

[A deadly threat has been detected against the host.]

[Entry system successfully bound.]

[System Rules: For each level the host gains, they are guaranteed one chance to draw a gold-quality or higher affix. Affixes can be permanently attached to any non-living item.]

[New player benefits: Level automatically increased to 1. One chance to draw a gold-tier affix.]

A row of dazzling gold text completely covered the original survival panel.

Xiao Zheng braced himself on the edge of the wooden board with both hands, used his waist to quickly roll back to the center of the board.

The great white shark missed its target, its lower jaw slamming heavily against the edge of the wooden plank, snapping off a piece of wood with a crack, before its massive body crashed back into the water.

Water splashed all over his clothes, but Xiao Zheng didn't bother to wipe his face, his eyes fixed on the three golden options floating in front of him.

Option 1: Body of the Sea God (Gold)

[Effect Description: Solidified into the body, allowing free breathing underwater, ignoring water pressure at 10,000 meters, and greatly increasing underwater movement speed.]

Option 2: Endless Spring (Gold)

[Effect Description: Solidifies in a container, automatically generating 1 liter of potable purified water daily.]

Option 3: 100% Accuracy (Gold)

[Effect Description: Fixed to the tool, it guarantees a hit on the target when thrown, ignoring any physical resistance and distance limitations, and includes an adaptive extension effect.]

Choose one?

Go into the sea and fight sharks? The threats on the surface are already so deadly, there must be even more terrifying beasts lurking in the deep sea than great white sharks.

Going into the sex industry in the first place would have been suicidal. Eliminate them immediately.

Option two can immediately solve the immediate thirst crisis. In the regional channel, a sip of water can even earn someone's loyalty.

But this is like drinking poison to quench thirst. Without obtaining basic building materials, the raft cannot be expanded, and any big wave can overturn people and water containers into the sea.

Only by continuously acquiring massive amounts of resources and building a sea fortress can one completely escape danger. Production tools are the primary means of survival.

Xiao Zheng clicked on the third option.

[Extracting the term: 100% accurate.]

Please select the target to be fixed.

He picked up the tattered plastic hook, which was covered in seawater, on his right.

[Cure confirmed.]

[Consolidation complete. Note: Each item can only have one attribute added, and once an attribute is added, it cannot be reversed.]

A dazzling glint of light flashed across the surface of the plastic hook, the light seeping into the plastic.

The weight of the hook remained unchanged, but the rough burrs disappeared, and the material became denser and tougher.

Thirty meters away, an ordinary wooden box floated by.

Xiao Zheng waved his hand casually.

Without any deliberate aiming, the plastic hook slipped from my hand.

In mid-air, the hook automatically adjusted its trajectory and precisely hooked onto the netting around the wooden crate.

With a gentle pull.

The wooden crate slid down the sea surface to my feet.

Open the wooden crate.

[Received: 2 wooden planks, 1 piece of plastic.]

This extremely tedious and difficult survival task instantly turned into a simple task of picking up loot at designated locations.

Xiao Zheng continued to throw the ball.

A palm leaf fifty meters to the left, in the middle.

An empty plastic bottle, forty meters to the right.

In just three minutes, Xiao Zheng completed the resource accumulation that others might have taken several hours to accomplish, piling several planks and plastic on the raft.

Xiao Zheng stood up and turned to look ahead.

The horizon.

A hundred meters away, the waves pushed a treasure chest that emitted a faint golden light, appearing and disappearing intermittently.

Golden Treasure Chest.

Of course, items are classified into different grades.

They are: Normal, Good, Excellent, Outstanding, Perfect, Epic, Legendary, and God-level.

These correspond exactly to: white, green, yellow, blue, purple, orange, gold, and multicolored.

Just now, many people in the regional channel mentioned this special material.

"Guys! I saw a box that's glowing green! I'm going to be rich!"

"I saw a treasure chest like that too, but the one I saw was yellow, and it was about 80 meters away from me!"

"Don't go! Whatever you do, don't go in the water! I saw someone jump in and swim towards that box, and after only ten meters, they were dragged down by a sea monster with tentacles!"

"The distance is too far. The rope we have is only fifteen meters long, which is far too short to reach it! We can only watch it drift away helplessly. It's so agonizing."

The distance is too far.

It's impossible for an ordinary person to throw it 100 meters away. Wind resistance, wave fluctuations, and rope length are all insurmountable obstacles.

Xiao Zheng weighed the plastic hook in his hand.

He raised his arm and swung it in circles above his head, the rope whistling through the air.

Without any hesitation.

Slipped from hands.

The plastic hook, carrying a rope, shot out at an extremely high speed.

The sea breeze was blowing in my face with great force, but the plastic hook not only did not slow down in the air, but also automatically corrected its deviation angle.

The thin rope, which was originally only fifteen meters long, began to stretch rapidly the moment the hook flew out.

The rope became thinner, but extremely strong, and precisely crossed a distance of 100 meters above the sea.

"Click".

A crisp sound came from a hundred meters away.

The plastic hook was firmly stuck to the metal handle of the golden treasure chest.

Xiao Zheng grabbed the rope with both hands and pulled it back with all his might.

"Splash!"

The golden treasure chest was forcibly dragged out of the water and slammed heavily against the edge of the wooden plank.

Xiao Zheng's gaze fell back on the golden treasure chest in front of him.

He reached out and unlocked the latch.

The lid popped open.