Survival at Sea: I Became Number One by Growing Mushrooms

This vine looks just like a fat earthworm covered in thorns, its body wriggling merrily.

Little Bronze swayed back and forth on it, frantically trying to struggle down.

The fat earthworm seemed to have noticed the arrival of a stranger, staring at Xu Jiawei with malice, wanting to suck her dry and turn her into its own nourishment.

Before Xu Jiawei could see clearly, a red shadow flashed by, and a wound appeared on Xu Jiawei's body. The parasitic vine, smelling the blood, became even more excited and moved even faster.

Xu Jiawei could no longer even see the red shadow. Wounds kept appearing on her body. No wonder the mushrooms outside her were all missing limbs; they were too fast to catch.

Xu Jiawei released parasitic spores around herself to surround herself. The parasitic vine seemed to be very smart and immediately stopped attacking, shrinking into a corner to observe.

Xu Jiawei didn't want to confront it; she just wanted to beat the red earthworm up. So she released Little Pink, since all plants are afraid of fire, right?

She's going to burn that red earthworm to death!

Fire type counters wood type. Little Pink clung to the parasitic vine like a leech, and the parasitic vine could only keep dodging, seemingly afraid of Little Pink getting close. Little Pink split itself into countless parts, surrounding the parasitic vine tightly.

Little Pink gradually approached, tightening the encirclement, while the parasitic vine seemed to sense the heat of Little Pink's flames and instantly felt the threat of death.

It chirped softly twice, softened its vines, and disguised itself as completely harmless, as if admitting defeat.

Xu Jiawei sneered, "You've wrecked my house like this, broken my mushrooms into pieces, and now you want to beg for mercy? There's no way you'll get away with that!"

After saying that, Xu Jiawei directed Little Pink to speed up and surround the parasitic vine. The pink flames instantly engulfed the parasitic vine. The parasitic vine's body twisted desperately in the flames, and its chirping turned into a scream. The sound was very piercing, and Xu Jiawei unconsciously covered her ears.

The parasitic vine sensed the fear of death, awakening its survival instinct. No, it couldn't die; it had just been born, it was still a baby! So it used its fastest speed to rush to Xu Jiawei.

[Ding! Congratulations, player, you have successfully contracted your third pet. (You've defeated it!)]

Xu Jiawei: ??? She didn't use a contract voucher. Can this thing be used to make contracts on its own?

The parasitic vine beckoned to Xu Jiawei's finger in a fawning manner, shaking its limbs like a puppy, twisting like seaweed in the water.

She would have believed it if it hadn't just behaved so ferociously.

Just after the contract was made, Little Pink's flames could no longer harm it. Little Pink tilted its head, not knowing what had happened. After all, it was a flame, without a brain, and couldn't understand what was going on.

By the way, it seems that none of the three species she contracted with are brainless.

Even if you put all three of them together, you still wouldn't have a brain.

Seeing that it still had some sense, Xu Jiawei stopped hitting it. After all, she had already burned half of its life, which was a lesson learned. Besides, it had already eaten her eggs, so this was a way to make up for the loss.

When did this thing become parasitic? Was it in a parasitic state from the beginning? There's nothing we can do about it.

Xu Jiawei's guess was largely correct. Regardless of whether she discovered it or not, her pet egg was this red earthworm from the very beginning.

"Since you've made a contract, let's call you Red Earthworm."

The red earthworm nodded ingratiatingly, agreeing with the name.

Xu Jiawei opened the panel for the red earthworm.

Name: Red Earthworm

Species: Parasitic vine

Rating: 1

Growth Potential: SS

Talent and Aptitude: A

Blood volume: 1500

Power: 300

Defense: 100

Physical fitness: 50

Speed: 700

Skills: Parasite, Life Steal, Entangling

Intimacy: -100

(Comment: Traitor! Such low intimacy level, but this thing is very self-aware and won't betray you until it surpasses your abilities.)

Just as Xu Jiawei expected, this thing was indeed a plant, a complete opportunist, and its intimacy level was ridiculously low.

The red earthworm continued to wriggle its body ingratiatingly, completely unaware that the panel had already exposed it.

However, the three pets that Xu Jiawei contracted all had good talents.

Xu Jiawei ignored it and took out the stone she had won in the competition.

Xu Jiawei held the race advancement stone in her hand and studied it for a long time without any clue how to use it.

[…: Xiao Xu, we admire Lin Chengye.]

[AAA Mushroom Fairy: ???]

Is it possible that she searched for a long time in the world chat but couldn't find the problem because it was in the dark?

[...]: Checking the chat channel, the person he was with was exposed.

Xu Jiawei quickly opened the chat channel.

[Wishing for One Heart (enemy): Xu Jiawei, no matter what, I have to say, do you have no heart?! You actually cut off Chengye's arm, why can't it be restored?!]

[AAA Mushroom Fairy: And who are you? Are you the worst of the worst, the most despicable woman among scumbags and bitches?]

[Wishing for one true love (enemy): What are you talking about! Chengye and I are the true love, the one who isn't loved is the mistress!]

[The Queen of Luck is here: Oh, so that's an admission! Sis, you're finally back!]

[Wishing for one heart (enemy): Xu Jiawei, you're so vicious, you deserve to fall to second place on the list. Even the heavens can't stand you!]

Si Yunming hadn't spoken in the chat channel yet, so they didn't know that Si Yunming was the one who cut off Lin Chengye's arm. Right now, they just wanted to use the number one ranking to put down Xu Jiawei.

[AAA Mushroom Fairy: Why are you the only one here? Where's Lin Chengye? Is he hiding behind you so you can stand up for him? You coward!]

[The ultimate savior here: Indeed, what kind of nonsense is it to let women take the lead?]

Xu Jiawei and Li Ming worked in unison, leaving the man they longed for speechless.

Lin Chengye didn't dare to jump out at all, fearing that Xu Jiawei would discover his identity and teleport him over to kill him.

However, Xu Jiawei wasn't stupid. Since Lin Chengye went to the event, it proved that he was in the top ten of the combat power ranking. Xu Jiawei immediately locked onto him based on his name.

Xu Jiawei was almost dying of laughter. They even used couple names, as if they were afraid Xu Jiawei wouldn't find out.

[AAA Mushroom Fairy: @Never Apart, Lin Chengye, what are you hiding for? Come out and take a walk! Didn't you say before that this 'Wish for One Heart' forced you to kill me? Why aren't you saying anything now?]

[Wishing for one heart (enemy): What nonsense are you spouting! Don't try to sow discord between me and Chengye!]

[AAA Mushroom Fairy: Lin Chengye, say something!]

[Together until old age (enemy): Xu Jiawei, don't be so smug, your death is just around the corner!]

[Together until old age (enemy): Xu Jiawei, don't even think about trying to drive a wedge between me and Yueyue. Your only purpose in life is to contribute to our love!]

[Ye Yezi: What the heck? Such a touching "love story."]

[Rain Falls on Little Bear: This is the first time I've seen such sincere love that it makes me feel nauseous. Is this normal?]

[The ultimate savior: It's normal, it's just that disgusting.]

[Lin Jiaqi: @Never Apart, @Aotian, let's work together. One person's strength is very small.]

[Sister's Guardian: Sister, we've already cooperated. Dozens of us have joined now, and we're ready to kill her anytime.]

Lin Jiaqi's face lit up with ecstasy. She never expected that her silly younger brother had done something so big behind her back!

[Plum Blossom Falls: Jiaqi, Huajing, these are your family members! You can't do this! Jiawei, apologize quickly, or even Mom can't protect you!]

Xu Jiawei had absolutely no desire to talk to her, her blood mother.

[Ye Yezi: I was waiting for the big boss to sell me supplies, and you guys actually wanted to kill him!]

[Here's a message for you: These people are our enemies!]