Survival at Sea: I Became Number One by Growing Mushrooms

This smells delicious, even better than mushrooms.

Xu Jiawei's mouth was practically watering.

The domineering mushroom was very wary: "Woman, what do you want? Let me tell you, I'm a mushroom you can never have."

Xu Jiawei swallowed hard: "Mr. CEO, could I have a bite to taste it?"

"Don't even think about it! You really are after my body, woman." The domineering CEO Mushroom clutched his chest, looking at Xu Jiawei accusingly.

......

Xu Jiawei was quite shocked by the domineering CEO's expression, and her appetite decreased significantly.

Since they were already hungry, they had no choice but to go to Si Yunming to beg for food.

When the domineering mushroom saw that Xu Jiawei had given up, he breathed a sigh of relief, then pulled out a bottle of perfume from somewhere and sprayed it all over himself.

As soon as Xu Jiawei turned around, she was overwhelmed by the pungent perfume smell and immediately moved far away from the domineering mushroom. The smell was just too strong.

As expected, CEO Mushroom is really smart; the teacher was right.

The teacher finally finished her work today and came back to her ship. Seeing that the barrier on Xu Jiawei's ship had been upgraded once, she nodded in satisfaction, "Not bad, you know how to upgrade."

"I'm planning to choose a location near the sealed rift. Although it's very dangerous, your strength will improve very quickly if you get used to it. What do you think?" Mo Feng asked Xu Jiawei for her opinion.

Xu Jiawei certainly had no objections, or rather, perhaps this was exactly what she wanted.

"Teacher, you can begin," Xu Jiawei said.

Mo Feng nodded, raised his hand, and a magic circle landed on Xu Jiawei's ship. Then, Mo Feng led Xu Jiawei directly to the vicinity of the sealed rift, a place filled with the smell of blood.

Mo Feng set up another teleportation array. This teleportation array was one-way, meaning that no matter how dangerous it was, once Xu Jiawei arrived here, she would have to wait two hours to leave.

There were absolutely no safety measures in place, because they were afraid that the mutated creatures could be teleported to the ship through the tokens and enter the interior of the continent, which would be dangerous for the entire world.

"It's too dangerous here, and the consequences would be too severe, so I won't make any tokens to send you back. If they fall into the hands of mutated creatures, the situation will be extremely dangerous," Mo Feng explained.

Xu Jiawei nodded. She naturally knew the importance of this place, so she could understand Mo Feng's actions.

"Let's go then, to your territory, I'll teach you how to make a token." After Mo Feng finished speaking, Xu Jiawei told Mo Feng the address, and Mo Feng frowned.

"Why did you open a shop in such a poor place? Who would buy from you?" Mo Feng was very puzzled, but he still teleported Xu Jiawei to the location.

"There's no other way. The location was given to me by the system god, and now I can only make money by traveling as a merchant, so I need to set up a teleportation array." Xu Jiawei also said helplessly.

Mo Feng nodded, showing respect despite not understanding.

In just a few minutes, Mo Feng had set up the magic circle at the guild entrance.

After just two performances by Mo Feng, Xu Jiawei knew just how big the gap was between her and Mo Feng.

Xu Jiawei admired him greatly and secretly hoped to become like Mo Feng.

"Teacher, you are really amazing."

"Alright, stop flattering me. Come here, I'll teach you how to make a keepsake." Mo Feng was quite pleased to hear Xu Jiawei's admiration, so the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.

Xu Jiawei went over and saw Mo Feng take out some special materials, then inscribe a small one-way magic circle on the materials and integrate it into the materials.

"Well, that's it." This magic circle is even simpler, so Xu Jiawei was able to learn it too.

"Teacher, where can I buy that material?" Xu Jiawei scratched her head a little embarrassedly.

"The Mage Guild has them, and they're not expensive," Mo Feng said.

Xu Jiawei immediately bowed and said, "Thank you, teacher. I will never forget your great kindness."

Mo Feng: ...What are you trying to do by being so serious?

After saying goodbye to Mo Feng, Xu Jiawei entered the guild, where Lin Qin greeted her.

"Boss, you're here?"

Xu Jiawei looked at Lin Qin and asked, "How is it now?"

Lin Qin shook her head. "Few people come here to buy. We've only sold two farm tools in the last few days."

Moreover, it was people with relatively good financial means who bought it. Although their farm tools are very good, the price is still a bit high. They are called farm tools, but they are actually equipment shaped like farm tools.

The fact that they were able to sell two was largely thanks to the fact that after selling one, someone saw that they were working on the farm more than twice as fast, which attracted a second person to buy.

However, this is something that ordinary farmers simply cannot afford, and wealthy people do not farm and look down on such things.

Even the wealthier farmers might give up once they see the price.

Besides, who would buy those odds and ends, potions, equipment, or even food that increases attributes in this poor little town?

Xu Jiawei had anticipated this situation, so she wasn't disappointed.

Although the town is very poor, it is located in the central part of the country, so if managed well, it may be able to prosper.

Xu Jiawei didn't understand either. The location wasn't too bad, so why was this place so poor?

"That's because natural disasters happen here frequently, as if it's cursed. Every few years, a major natural disaster occurs. Although no one dies, the harvest is very poor, so many people leave. Some people are reluctant to leave, or they don't have the means to leave."

Lin Qin explained to Xu Jiawei.

Xu Jiawei: Why do I feel like I've been scammed even more?

"But you're cursed?" Xu Jiawei asked with great interest. "Could you tell me more about the natural disasters and the curse?"

"I'm not from here, so I don't know much. I've only heard that there's something strange about that mountain to the west. People aren't allowed to go into the mountain after night, and after every natural disaster, the residents spontaneously bring offerings into the mountain. It seems like the residents are terrified of that mountain. They'll change their expression if you ask them a question."

Lin Qin told what she knew.

Xu Jiawei wondered whether she should go into the mountains to explore. She didn't know what there was to see, but maybe there would be something good.

"Thank you for telling me all this," Xu Jiawei said. She then went to the Magicians' Association to buy some materials and made some keepsakes for Lin Qin, asking her to give them to customers who had spent 50,000 or recharged 50,000.

With this, it will be much more convenient for them to come.

Lin Qin greatly admired Xu Jiawei. She never expected that Xu Jiawei could actually find a level nine mage to set up a teleportation array. When her family was still wealthy, they had spent a huge amount of money and waited a whole year to hire a level nine mage to make a teleportation array for their merchant guild shop. Unfortunately, her family went bankrupt not long after, and the merchant guild shop was mortgaged.

After returning home, Xu Jiawei felt the temperature rise again. Honestly, it hadn't even cooled down for a few hours, and the temperature was rising way too fast.

Xu Jiawei asked in the group if anyone wanted to explore the cursed mountain. Several people were so hot that they couldn't do anything else, so they all agreed.