Post-apocalyptic game: I survive at sea by scavenging for trash.

Most players have chosen to stay home for the time being, since going out to fight monsters guarantees a seafood drop, at least ensuring they won't starve. Water resources are also not as scarce as they were at the beginning, and some players have now unlocked water purification items, so they sell excess water in the trading area to exchange for other resources.

Today is only the fourth day of natural disasters and smog. What should we do if the situation remains the same for the next few days?

However, the crisis is not just that.

New types of monsters have appeared on various islands; they are no longer just seafood monsters.

[Mist Skeleton, Level 2, Undead Race, Attack 9, Defense 9, Agility 7]

[Mist Zombie, Level 2, Race: Undead, Attack 13, Defense 6, Agility 8]

【Mist Ghost, Level 2, Race: Undead, Attack 7, Defense 4, Agility 14】

Waves of level 2 undead soldiers landed on the island, always in groups of two or three. Although both were level 2, the undead's stats were significantly higher than the seafood.

The most troublesome one is the Mist Ghost. Its agility is too high. Since most players can't see the monsters due to the fog and can only rely on the system to lock the coordinates, the Mist Ghost is very difficult to fight.

Even against someone like Lin Zhaoyin, whose vision is unimpeded and whose agility surpasses that of the Mist Ghost, fighting her is extremely difficult, as she often misses her attacks. This means Lin Zhaoyin's attack power is very high, and she can kill the Mist Ghost with just a little time.

But players with low agility are in trouble. Nine out of ten attacks will miss, and even if the Mist Ghost is fragile, it will take a long time to defeat it.

With the added negative effect of the poisonous fog today, players dare not linger in battle. If they can't defeat the enemy in one go, they would rather fight halfway and go back to rest than die from losing health.

Lin Zhaoyin was thus even more certain that every attribute was extremely important, and she must never make the foolish mistake of having a weak attribute when leveling up and allocating points in the future.

What frustrates players the most is that when they used to hunt seafood, they could at least get a certain amount of crab meat and octopus meat, but these undead can't get any food.

You have defeated a level 2 Mist Skeleton, gaining 20 experience points, 5 bones, and 40 gold coins.

[You have killed a level 2 Mist Zombie, gaining 20 experience points, 2 pieces of Rotten Flesh, and 50 gold coins.]

[You have defeated a level 2 Mist Ghost, gaining 20 experience points, 1 Soul Core, and 80 Gold Coins.]

What is a spirit core? What are bones for? And what kind of garbage is rotten flesh?

To be fair, these undead are incredibly wealthy. Fishing for seafood only yields a maximum of 10 or 20 gold coins, while the undead's gold coin drop rate is several times higher.

These undead also love to drop equipment. If they don't drop gold, they'll usually get a D-grade piece of equipment or weapon.

Soon everyone remembered that the system also had a shop. If they had enough gold coins, they could directly use them to buy food and drinks, and even save up to upgrade their attributes and equipment.

Lin Zhaoyin was much more optimistic than the others, because her glasses told her that even rotten flesh, which everyone despised, could decompose.

After the rotten flesh decomposes, you can get a piece of exotic beast meat, but Lin Zhaoyin doesn't know exactly what kind of meat it is or whether it's edible.

So she decided to give her garbage purification skills a try.

The meat of an unknown beast is edible after cooking, but it tastes terrible.

How bad could it be? Unconvinced, Lin Zhaoyin decided to grill the meat, and then almost threw up…

Looking at the remaining roasted meat in her hand, she decided to put it up for sale in the trading area, offering it for only 15 gold coins per serving. She even thoughtfully added a note: "Very awful. Don't buy unless you're starving!"

However, without the seafood monster and unable to go out fishing for treasure chests, many players were running out of food. The exceptionally unpalatable roasted meat was quickly sold out.

Soon, the player who bought the barbecue went to the chat channel to complain.

[Family, I just bought a roasted meat in the trading area for only 15 gold coins. But it was so awful, I had to hold it in for ages to keep from throwing up...]

[Dude upstairs, even if you're trying to save money, is this really necessary?]

But it's really cheap. I was unlucky; I had no food left. I had to eat it even though it tasted bad, at least it would fill my stomach and give me some energy!

【I'm out of food too. Does that guy still have any of that barbecue? I can accept it even if it's bad!】

Lin Zhaoyin wouldn't eat those pieces of meat even if she kept them, so she might as well help these people as much as possible, since she wouldn't lose too much anyway.

They also took the rotten flesh from Lin Wanyi's side, so Lin Zhaoyin now has 16 portions. However, with over 9 players in the entire server, this is definitely not enough.

Lin Zhaoyin then had a flash of inspiration and set up a trade, exchanging one portion of good meat for two portions of rotten meat. The rotten meat had to be submitted first, and she would complete the delivery in one hour. The trade quantity was set at 100 portions, and the note was also added: "Ingredients for unpalatable roasted meat."

In this way, players who want to trade will know that the roasted meat was made from rotten flesh dropped by zombies, and only those who really have nothing to eat would trade for that unpalatable meat.

Of the 200 portions of rotten flesh I acquired, I exchanged 100 portions for other items and sold the remaining 100 portions directly for 10 gold coins each.

Lin Zhaoyin's garbage purification has a limit on the number of uses; she can only purify 100 of the same type of items at a time. However, this does not count against her guaranteed number of uses and can earn her 1000 gold coins, making it very worthwhile.

If she didn't want to attract the attention of other players, she could have exchanged even more and made a fortune from it.

Because of Lin Zhaoyin's anonymous listing for trades, other players also stepped forward. Some players also had items that could purify toxins, and after trying them, they found that they could turn rotten flesh into normal flesh, so they also started trading.

Using props wasn't as fast as Lin Zhaoyin directly using her skill. Lin Zhaoyin received the 200 pieces of rotten flesh in no time and completed the skill operation in less than 2 minutes. However, she was still worried about attracting too much attention, so she deliberately delayed submitting the request for almost an hour.

Those players who received the normal meat were extremely grateful, and many hoped that Lin Zhaoyin could continue to help them exchange meat tomorrow.

Players who didn't lack food didn't feel it was a pity. Rotten flesh appeared as a monster drop, so it must have other uses, just like other monster drops. They just hadn't discovered the use of these items yet.

Lin Zhaoyin was aware of this, but the items dropped by these monsters might not be useful to everyone. Compared to the unknown possibilities, she felt that surviving was more important.

Having earned 1000 gold coins, Lin Zhaoyin also planned to browse the system shop to see what she could afford to buy.

Soon, she discovered something she had been thinking about for a long time, which cost exactly 1000 gold coins.