Survival at Sea: I Became Number One by Growing Mushrooms

"Mr. CEO, don't make me laugh anymore, you're just asking for trouble," Xu Jiawei said seriously, but she couldn't hold back her laughter when she saw the CEO's mushroom-shaped face.

"Woman, it seems I've spoiled you too much." The domineering CEO narrowed his beady eyes again.

"Pfft, it was my fault. Mr. CEO, get back to work." Xu Jiawei didn't dare look at the CEO's face anymore and quickly turned her face away.

"That's more like it." The CEO nodded in satisfaction with the mushroom-shaped haircut.

With the arrival of the domineering CEO, Xu Jiawei's originally depressed mood due to the natural disaster has been greatly relieved. Perhaps it's not bad to have an abstract and funny character on the ship.

After refining 10 batches, Xu Jiawei finally produced the first batch of successful Frost Pills. This batch of Frost Pills had a faint purple hue and was not completely black.

Xu Jiawei made the domineering CEO put away the pot of Frost Pills separately.

"Woman, you're not allowed to order me around!" the domineering CEO Mushroom said, clearly displeased.

"Then, my wise and mighty CEO, please keep this one separate, please." Xu Jiawei immediately changed her tone.

The domineering CEO snorted coldly and quickly packaged the pot of Frost Pills into individual glass bottles.

As for that pile of defective products, the CEO has already piled them up into a small mountain; let's keep them for the red earthworms to eat as snacks.

Speaking of red earthworms, where did it go? There's been no sign of it at all.

Xu Jiawei turned her head and saw an ice sculpture that looked very much like a red earthworm standing there, even maintaining the posture of burping, which was very lifelike.

"Woman, this ice sculpture on your boat is really ugly, throw it away quickly." The domineering mushroom frowned and looked at the red earthworm ice sculpture with disdain.

Xu Jiawei: ......

"Is it dead?" Xu Jiawei took out a stick and poked it. With a few rustling sounds, the ice on the red earthworm fell off like peeling skin. The red earthworm shook its body and chirped twice to express its dissatisfaction, looking at the domineering mushroom with hatred.

"Woman, you have terrible taste, leaving behind something like this." The domineering mushroom said coldly.

"Chirp, chirp chirp!"

"What, did I say something wrong? Your appearance can't compare to my face. Although your body is a little better than mine, your face is too ugly." The domineering mushroom said disdainfully, then looked at his own body with some dissatisfaction.

Xu Jiawei was about to take a sip of water to calm herself down when she heard what the domineering CEO Mushroom said and choked on her own.

"Woman, are you also infatuated with my handsome face? You can even choke on your water. Luckily I'm here, otherwise how could you have survived?"

If the domineering mushroom keeps talking, Xu Jiawei is about to unlock a new bizarre way to die. She was already feeling nauseous from choking, and now she even wants to laugh.

Xu Jiawei struggled to squeeze out a sentence: "Please stop talking, cough cough cough."

That was close! I almost choked to death.

The domineering CEO, Mushroom, rebelled, shouting, "Ha, woman, what gives you the right to order me around!"

"Brother, you're my brother, I'm begging you, I don't want to die like this, hahaha, cough cough cough cough."

The domineering mushroom couldn't bear to hit Xu Jiawei, so he vented all his anger on the red earthworm, slapping it so hard that the red earthworm spun around twice.

"You're so ugly, how dare you come out and scare people? Get out of here right now."

"Chirp chirp!" The red earthworm was furious. Who the hell is this?

The two started fighting, each slapping the other, and the battle was fierce.

Ignoring the battle behind her, Xu Jiawei continued making things, taking advantage of the present moment to prepare as much as possible.

Of course, the barrier can't be neglected either; it needs to be upgraded before I'm completely cooked.

[Ding! Player "National Prosperity and Peace" has used a special item on you.]

Xu Jiawei was startled by the sudden system pop-up. What was that? How could it pop up like that?

She opened the chat channel.

Sure enough, I saw the friend request from "Peace and Prosperity," and it was even from a cross-server server.

After Xu Jiawei agreed, Guotai Min'an immediately sent a long message.

[Peace and Prosperity: Greetings, I am the leader of the Chinese nation, and also the head of various departments of the official organization. I heard that you have reached the level of a Level 6 alchemist. There is something I need your help with, which concerns the survival of the players. I sincerely implore you to help humanity overcome this crisis.]

[AAA Mushroom Fairy: What is it? I don't know if I can help.]

[Peace and Prosperity: We paid a heavy price of three thousand lives to obtain a fragment of a formula, used to identify whether players have signs of dark corruption. With this, we can easily find traitors among humanity. However, because it's a fragment, our apothecaries' levels are too low to restore it. Do you have any solutions?]

In fact, some of the indigenous pharmacists among them were considered advanced pharmacists, some even reaching level seven. However, they couldn't figure out anything from the prescription. They simply said that the prescription was missing the most important element and couldn't be restored, making it useless. They glanced at it and threw it back.

But Xu Jiawei reached level six in less than three months, which was something they couldn't compare to. Maybe she knew something, or maybe her master knew something. After all, someone who could teach such a genius was definitely not an ordinary person.

They will not give up hope.

This is also why the authorities approached Xu Jiawei, hoping to use her or someone behind her to repair the prescription.

[AAA Mushroom Fairy: I'll try my best, but don't get your hopes up too high. So many of you haven't figured it out yet, I doubt I can do it alone.]

[National Prosperity and Peace: It's alright, just do your best. I'll send you the original; please accept it. Whether your research succeeds or fails, you can dispose of this incomplete prescription as you see fit.]

[AAA Mushroom Fairy: Is it okay to go public?]

[Peace and Prosperity: Yes, that's what we originally planned to do. If you don't succeed, we'll make the remaining formula public so everyone can study it; eventually, someone will succeed.]

[AAA Mushroom Fairy: I understand.]

[System notification: Your friend Guotai Min'an has sent you a test potion recipe fragment*1. You need to pay 1 basic material*1 to claim it.]

Xu Jiawei picked up the prescription and glanced at it, a strange look appearing on her face. These herbs all seemed to be used to enhance the effects, which meant that the main ingredient was missing. No wonder it was so difficult to handle.

Since it's for identifying traces of dark erosion, that means the main herb can make those traces of darkness impossible to hide, and her light attribute can do that. Is it that what she's missing is a light attribute herb?

Xu Jiawei took out her magic communicator and dialed Grace's communicator.

Grace was engrossed in studying the formula Xu Jiawei had sent her when she saw Xu Jiawei calling. She asked, "What's wrong, apprentice?"

"Teacher, I just obtained a fragment of a prescription. This fragment is used to identify traces of dark erosion. However, the entire fragment consists of herbs that enhance the effects, and I believe it is missing one or more main herbs."

"The main herb's effect is to make the traces of dark erosion visible. I know that the light attribute can identify the traces of dark erosion, so is the missing main herb a light attribute one?"