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

Game calendar day 13, Christmas Day, cloudy, 8 degrees Celsius

As expected, the temperature dropped a few degrees, and tomorrow's temperature will probably approach 0 degrees, or even lower.

Lin Zhaoyin sent the second fireplace she made to Lin Wanyi. Her sister spent the whole morning nailing on the plastic sheeting, but unfortunately, Lin Wanyi did not trigger any extra rewards.

Following yesterday's plan, Lin Zhaoyin placed an order for 5 fireplaces in the trading area. By paying the corresponding crafting materials and 500 gold coins, she could obtain a fireplace plus 10 pieces of coal.

Lin Zhaoyin had considered this price for a long time. Setting it too high would be impractical for her, but setting it too low would affect future transactions. 500 gold coins wasn't a small amount, but it was affordable for most people.

Coal is a consumable, and Lin Zhaoyin wasn't sure exactly how much she would need. However, coal was also sold in the system's marketplace, so Lin Zhaoyin didn't need to worry about after-sales service.

It takes 2 hours to make a fireplace and 1 hour to make coals. A maximum of 100 pieces can be made at a time.

Lin Zhaoyin first processed 100 pieces of coal at once before starting to make fireplaces. Once a fireplace was completed, she would submit it in the trading area.

By evening, Lin Zhaoyin finally submitted her fourth order.

[Ding! Congratulations to the player for achieving the achievement: transaction income reached 5000 gold coins, and obtaining the title: Capitalist. After equipping the title, you will gain the skill "I Want to Make Money".]

[I want to make money. This is my exclusive skill: receive a 10% discount on every purchase. This skill is automatically triggered passively.]

Lin Zhaoyin's eyes lit up. This was a permanent discount card! You see, the items in the system shop were really too expensive. She had spent 5888 gold coins when she bought the land. If she had been able to get a discount then, she would have saved several hundred!

Suddenly, Lin Zhaoyin had a brilliant idea. Since she had a discount card, could she start a personal shopping business?

But upon closer reflection, this achievement isn't limited; more players will gradually reach it. Instead of finding someone else to buy it for you, it's better to earn 5000 gold coins yourself sooner so you can get a 9% discount.

Furthermore, I've always maintained anonymity. If I were to engage in reselling, it would likely expose my ranking on the sales leaderboard. I don't know how much money I could make, but I'm sure I'd encounter a lot of trouble.

Lin Zhaoyin decided to give up on the idea and just keep the discount for herself.

On the last day of Christmas, everyone was trying to stock up on supplies and food, and many people were even worried about what to do with warm clothing.

Day 14 of the game calendar, Light Snow, -5 degrees Celsius.

Because the shelter is protected, the temperature inside the shelter has risen by 5 degrees. The current temperature inside the shelter is 10 degrees.

There is no data on the effect of the previous layer of plastic sheeting, apparently because no specific conditions were triggered.

Although the room temperature was 10 degrees Celsius, it felt colder than yesterday's 8 degrees Celsius.

Like the previous smog, the intensity of the natural disaster didn't reach its maximum all at once. It seems that it will get colder and colder in the next few days, and the snow will get heavier.

While having breakfast, Lin Zhaoyin put the fireplace up for sale, and as usual, all 5 orders sold out in seconds.

After Lin Zhaoyin finished breakfast, she prepared to go out fishing for treasure chests.

Upon reaching the shore, Lin Zhaoyin first checked the apple trees. Sure enough, the temperature did affect the plants.

[The amazing apple tree, in its growth stage, is 3 hours away from maturity (its growth rate has slowed by 30% due to weather conditions)]

Lin Zhaoyin put down her things and went back to the wooden house to get a plastic sheet. She wrapped the trunk of the sapling with the plastic sheet and then tied it with hemp rope from both ends.

However, after waiting for five minutes, the apple tree's condition did not change.

Lin Zhaoyin sighed. It seemed that shelters and plants were different after all. The apple tree would be growing larger in three hours, so Lin Zhaoyin took off the plastic sheeting she had painstakingly wrapped around it.

Looking at the sea again, it was truly a case of misfortunes never coming singly.

The seawater has a thin layer of ice today, but it's not a big problem. With a little force, we can break the ice.

Remembering that she still had a musket, Lin Zhaoyin took it out of her system inventory and tried it out. After adjusting it to medium power, Lin Zhaoyin started firing at the ice surface.

The ice was very thin; the musket melted it in seconds.

As expected, the ice layer will become thicker and thicker in the next few days. Without items like muskets, many people probably won't even have the chance to get 10 treasure chests a day.

The temperature outside was much colder than inside the shelter. Lin Zhaoyin wrapped her down jacket tighter, took out her fishing rod, and started fishing for the treasure chest.

It would take a little while to fish up the treasure chest, so Lin Zhaoyin simply opened the chat channel to check the messages.

Sure enough, everyone's talking about today's weather and the blizzard disaster.

[Oh my god, it's already this cold on the first day! What will we do if it really snows heavily later?]

[It's only 5 degrees Celsius warmer indoors than outdoors, I really miss the central heating at home!]

The key issue is that the sea is frozen over. Even if we can break the ice today, will we still be able to do so tomorrow?

Have you all stockpiled enough food? If we can't fish for treasure chests anymore, will we only be able to survive on the seafood dropped by monsters?

[The person upstairs is too optimistic. With a blizzard, it's not necessarily going to be a seafood monster that arrives.]

[Is there anyone who can exchange some food for me? I can't afford to starve to death at a time like this, can I?]

[Here's some information to share: you can boil snow water and drink it; it tastes pretty good. I've already tried it.]

[Oh no! I was outside for half an hour when I suddenly received a system notification saying I've developed a cold-related negative status, reducing my health and stamina regeneration rate to 5% per hour.]

Don't even mention it, I'm fully equipped, but I'm still fishing for treasure chests incredibly slowly today. It took me almost an hour to catch the first one!

It was indeed a bit slower than usual; it took me about 40 minutes.

Looking at the chat channel, Lin Zhaoyin realized that she had been fishing for treasure chests for half an hour. If the chat channel was right and the speed of fishing for treasure chests had dropped significantly, then given her unlucky streak, she would probably have to wait until the maximum time to catch a treasure chest.

Lin Zhaoyin was very worried about whether she could collect all 10 treasure chests.

Lin Zhaoyin lost all interest in browsing the chat channel. She checked the time every few minutes, becoming increasingly anxious.

More than an hour later, Lin Zhaoyin's fishing rod finally moved, and she received a wooden treasure chest.

Lin Zhaoyin sent a message to Lin Wanyi, wondering how her sister was doing.

It took me almost 70 minutes to fish up my first treasure chest today! Hey sis, how was your day?

However, Lin Wanyi scratched her head after looking at her older sister's message, but still replied truthfully.

"Sis, I'm doing pretty well. I can probably catch one treasure chest every half hour or so."

Lin Zhaoyin felt a pang of heartache upon seeing the reply; she had forgotten that her little sister Lin was an incredibly lucky person...