Survival at Sea: I Became Number One by Growing Mushrooms

[Back to the Future (China Server 78): Boss, I want to see! Come out now!]

[Ma Zi (Sakura Kingdom Server 34): Actually, I'd like to see that too. Our highest level is only level 3, how come people in China are already at level 6?]

[Hua Li (Huaguo Server 245): Actually, I'm only level 3, and the pros are already level 6. I'm so envious.]

[Dongfang Qiubai (China Server 367): Wow, you're a pro too! Wow, your avatar even has stars, that mushroom must be even more awesome.]

Xu Jiawei silently closed the chat channel, looked at the front desk staff, and handed over the badges to be destroyed.

"Master Xu, the new badge is much more powerful than the previous one. Please don't lose it and take good care of yourself," the receptionist said earnestly.

Xu Jiawei nodded, preparing to return home. She had been out all day and was quite tired.

She then left the association and teleported back to the ship. After Xu Jiawei returned to the ship, she clearly felt a change in temperature. She looked at the thermometer mushroom and saw that it read 23 degrees Celsius. Xu Jiawei was very alert. 23 degrees Celsius.

Normally, the barrier would maintain a temperature of 22 degrees Celsius. Now that it has risen to 23 degrees Celsius, it means that the outside temperature has reached 43 degrees Celsius, but it's already nighttime.

[Instant noodles: Help! I have heatstroke! Boss, bring me some mushrooms!]

[My clothes are dirty: My dad is about to faint. Judging from his current condition, it's developing into heatstroke.]

[Everyone was overjoyed: "Please help my mother! She fainted from heatstroke."]

[Several numbers: We're at the beach, why is it so hot? It's so stuffy and hot.]

[I'm expensive: I'm almost ripe.]

Xu Jiawei planted several batches of healing mushrooms and put them on the shelves, and also planted a lot of ice mushrooms.

But it's not even the middle of the month yet, and it's already this severe. These natural disasters are getting worse with each one.

Xu Jiawei couldn't help but question the possibility of human extinction.

[I Love My Home: Has anyone considered writing a history outline? I feel like humanity is really going to go extinct.]

[Purification: I'm so sad. I can't even get used to this temperature anymore. What am I going to do?]

[Akagi: Keep going, try to survive, humanity will win one day.]

Sighing softly, Xu Jiawei wanted to practice the barrier and see if she could upgrade it again before the temperature rose.

Oh right, I passed the CET-6 exam. Xu Jiawei hasn't reported to her teachers yet. Xu Jiawei first opened Grace's communicator. Grace was very satisfied after seeing Xu Jiawei's badge, and then handed Xu Jiawei a formula.

"Apprentice, learn this first. I think it's what you need most right now."

[Ding! Congratulations, player, you have obtained the recipe for the Frost Pill. Frost Pill: After consuming this pill, your body temperature will automatically decrease until your blood and body are frozen solid, resulting in death.]

This Frost Pill is more like poison, deadly, but thinking about the future natural disasters, Xu Jiawei felt that this thing would be of great use, perhaps the strongest trump card to survive the natural disasters.

"Apprentice, the making of pills is different from that of potions. I personally researched this pill, so you must learn it well." Grace became serious.

Xu Jiawei nodded vigorously and turned on the recording function. Pills are different from medicine. Medicine requires a lot of water, but pills only need a very small amount of water. Boil the herbs into a paste, and then let it cool and harden before kneading it by hand. Xu Jiawei remembered that traditional Chinese medicine practitioners have tools for kneading pills. She would collect one to use for kneading pills and also collect one for her teacher.

The ingredients for the Frost Pill are very simple. Just break the Frost Pearl, add the Frost Grass, and some other miscellaneous herbs to make it.

After saying goodbye to Grace, Xu Jiawei first checked her herbs. She did have some Frostbite Herbs, but in very small quantities, and she didn't know when she could buy more. So she contacted Jin Jian and asked him to send her some Frostbite Herbs.

"Master Xu, if you need anything else, please let me know in advance and I'll send more. This should be the last time the courier can get through; the temperature will be too high to survive in a few days," Jin Jian said.

Xu Jiawei had him send over a huge pile of all the herbs, fearing it wouldn't be enough. If it wasn't enough, she could personally go to the Pharmacist Association to buy more.

However, the Pharmacists Association also acquired the pharmacy from the Chamber of Commerce, and the discounts were not significant; it wasn't as cheap as what Xu Jiawei got from the Chamber of Commerce.

Xu Jiawei then contacted Mo Feng again via communicator, telling him that she had reached level six. Mo Feng then gave Xu Jiawei a book on magic array diagrams and told her to practice using the book.

Because the goal of a level seven mage is to learn most magic circles.

After explaining everything, Xu Jiawei practiced making pills step by step according to the method taught by Teacher Grace. In the end, the pills that Xu Jiawei made were rough and tasteless, as if they had been chewed by a dog, and even the color was different from the normal Cold Ice Pills.

The color seems a bit darker.

[Ding! Congratulations to the player for creating a flawed Ice Pill. It has some strange side effects.]

Something was definitely wrong; it was a defective product. Xu Jiawei didn't want to test the medicine on herself, but since the red earthworm had been acting up lately, she decided to let it test the medicine.

Recently, the red earthworms have stopped obeying Xu Jiawei's commands.

The ugly pill was tossed to the red earthworm, which circled it, sniffed it (it's unclear where its nose came from), and then made a hole in the branch and swallowed the pill.

Xu Jiawei saw that the red earthworm was perfectly fine, jumping around and even came to her side begging for pills. Xu Jiawei threw it a few more, which it swallowed.

[Ding! Pet intimacy increased by 10. Please keep up the good work.]

The red earthworm was still lively and energetic. Could it be that her Ice Pill had no effect at all? It actually liked eating this so much.

Suddenly, the red earthworm trembled, and then its body was encased in ice from top to bottom. The red earthworm struggled desperately and shattered the ice. Soon, a large white flower grew on the top of the red earthworm's head, bigger than the earthworm's head itself.

The red earthworm sensed it too, and came straight to the mirror, extremely excited.

"Chirp!"

Xu Jiawei understood; it was saying, "I'm so beautiful. Is the red earthworm a woman?"

As if it had heard Xu Jiawei's thoughts, the red earthworm chirped twice more.

He's a real man, you jerk!

The message conveyed gave Xu Jiawei goosebumps. Was this the true nature of the Red Earthworm?

Xu Jiawei couldn't bear to look at it; the flower growing on the red earthworm's head looked like a tumor, extremely incongruous.

Xu Jiawei ignored it and continued practicing.

It wasn't until Xu Jiawei finished making the next batch of Frost Pills that the Red Earthworm arrived beside her, anxiously pointing to the top of its head. It turned out that the flower on its head had disappeared, and the Red Earthworm was very anxious.

Xu Jiawei scooped out the pot of food she had made, rubbed it casually, and threw it to the red earthworms.

The red earthworm was overjoyed and swallowed all the pills, waiting for the flowers to bloom on its head.

[Ding! Pet intimacy increased by 20. Please keep up the good work.]