The male supporting character was actually myself.

That's why the original owner, who had struggled to survive with nothing, went to the island to search for supplies, and dared not let go of any resources, even though they were scarce.

After all, sometimes even just storing one extra plank of wood can save your life in a critical moment.

For example, right now.

All the resources in the system space were marked "to be unlocked". He only had a low-level construction hammer and a low-level plastic hook given to him by the system, which were placed in the system's backpack.

The raft survival system gives you two backpack slots at the start, and expanding each additional slot requires a lot of resources. Currently, no one, including the protagonist Jiang Yuan, has been willing to expand their backpacks.

All the original owner's supplies were on his own ship, except for the construction hammer and plastic hook, which he kept in his backpack as spares.

While the protagonist's ship was being upgraded, the little white cat jumped in and swept away everything that could fit in the space, and now it has laid everything out for the host to choose from.

After a moment of exploration, Jiang Chen figured out the entire operating mechanism of the raft survival game based on his memory.

Resources belonging to the game world can be stored in the system space and retrieved for use at any time. However, apart from the food maker, the other stored resources need to be unlocked.

Only after successfully unlocking the blueprint can Jiang Chen take it out and use it directly.

"Luckily there are two small trees on the island, otherwise we would have had to eat and drink our fill and wait for supplies to drift in from the sea." He opened the epic toolbox he had snatched from the protagonist, and inside was a sharp axe.

With a few quick chops, the sapling was felled, leaving several planks on the ground.

Due to the special bonuses of epic-level tools, their quantity is relatively large.

Jiang Chen put the axe back, took out a construction hammer, and hammered a few planks of wood a few times. A simple 2x2 meter raft was completed, exactly the same as the equipment he had when he first entered the game.

"Host, the resources in the system space have been automatically converted to suit the mission world, and the wood has been unlocked!" The little white cat said happily, "I remember this was the building material we stockpiled in the post-apocalyptic world."

Sure enough, people will try their best to stockpile resources whenever possible.

"Who knows when it might come in handy."

Jiang Chen took out a pile of wood from his spatial storage, pushed the raft into the water, jumped on it, and began to expand and upgrade it.

He laughed as he smashed things, saying, "If the protagonist is ruthless, don't blame me for being ruthless too. He stole all my savings and tried to kill me, so we'll take his tools. For now, we're barely even."

"The protagonist is going to kill you!" the little white cat said indignantly, hands on its hips. "How can this be considered even?"

If it weren't for the trees that provide wood to unlock items in the space;

If I hadn't brought these tools and supplies, we wouldn't even have an axe, we wouldn't be able to cut down trees, and we wouldn't have any timber to build a ship.

While staying on a small island means you won't have to worry about food and drink, you could die at any time if you encounter a storm or severe weather!

The protagonist should be thankful that we had nothing to use when we first arrived.

Otherwise, I would definitely puncture a hole in his ship!

Jiang Chen banged on the cat with a hammer, and while the little white cat was grumbling, he asked, "Little White, do you still remember that you're the support system for the best supporting male character?"

"Huh?" The fluffy dumpling was stunned, its expression changing from indignation to bewilderment to confusion.

It plopped down on the deck, scratching its paws with a hint of doubt.

"Right, we got the Best Supporting Actor script, we should be supporting the lead and contributing our own strengths..."

It muttered to itself, its brain racing, causing its deep blue eyes to dart around in circles.

After a long while, Little White Claw clenched his fist and said confidently, "That's not right!"

Host, my goal is definitely not to be some scumbag protagonist who's just a support character.

I want results, not to be destroyed;

The host has a positive outlook and is a good person. What's wrong with just trying to survive?

As long as we complete the tasks issued by the main system, we will receive performance awards and badges, and that's enough!

My host works diligently and completes tasks quickly and well. Isn't that enough?

"Main system, don't go too far! What more could you want?!"

Jiang Chen chuckled, took a bottle of cola from the food maker, and took a few sips. "Little Bai, you're almost done with your apprenticeship."

The fluffy little ball stood with its hands on its hips, smugly dreaming, "Host, I've thought it all out."

In the future, when I change jobs, I might consider choosing the "Scumbag Crushing System," so I can rightfully lead my host to crush those scumbags!

"Good idea, we can consider it." Jiang Chen finished his cola and continued working.

Using the epic-level construction hammer to build ships was much more efficient; in just half an hour, his simple raft was upgraded into a sturdy wooden boat.

To upgrade further, you'll need to unlock new materials—canvas and nails.

These items can be exchanged for the most basic resources salvaged from the manufacturing page. Jiang Chen took out a generous roast chicken from the food manufacturing machine and opened the trading hall.

Chapter 4 System Data Faults?

The exchange of goods has now basically stabilized.

The days when the protagonist could use a tiny bit of food to cause a frenzy and exchange it for a large amount of supplies are gone forever. Unless it's a rare resource, the price is within everyone's acceptable range.

A quick glance at the goods hanging in the trading hall revealed that one fish could be exchanged for fifty palm leaves or twenty plastic.

The food sold is mostly various kinds of fish, and occasionally you can see fruits such as oranges and apples. The prices are very high and you need to exchange them, and most of the time you have to trade with blueprints.

Besides food, the most popular items were various blueprints.

Within three months of entering the game, those without any survival skills have been eliminated.

Most of the survivors had just solved their basic needs for food and clothing, and not many had any surplus food or supplies. Therefore, even the trading information posted in the global trading hall only had a dozen or so pages.

The original owner was quite lucky; while salvaging supplies, they also found several blueprints in the wooden barrels that had already been used and were displayed on the crafting page.

"Once we gather enough basic materials to craft level 2 materials, we can unlock a large portion of our inventory, such as cloth and rope. A little later, we can probably upgrade the sturdy wooden boat into a yacht," Jiang Chen said while flipping through the crafting page.

The little white cat lay on the roof of the sturdy wooden boat, looking at the roast chicken that had already transformed into the mission world's universal mode, and licked its paws happily, saying, "Host, keep it up! Let's strive to surpass the protagonist and build a medium-sized yacht."

That would allow us to dominate the top of the global development rankings.

There might even be some special rewards!

And it'll also give the protagonist a good thrashing, hehe..."

Jiang Chen listed the roast chicken in the trading hall, set it to custom, and then submitted all the necessary basic materials at once.

"Twenty palm leaves, ten plastic sheets, ten metal sheets..."

There aren't many types of basic materials, but other players need a lot of them.

After all, all kinds of items in the crafting page need to be synthesized from basic materials into secondary materials, then into tertiary materials, and so on.

Like Jiang Chen, who has a built-in system space, once the level 2 materials are unlocked, there's no need to rely on trading to obtain them. As long as he's diligent enough, unlocking the mecha is just around the corner!

Just as he put the ship up for sale, the protagonist Jiang Yuan finally managed to patch up the hole in the bottom of the ship with a low-level upgrade hammer.

"Damn this crappy game!" He looked at the lowest-level hammer with disdain, cursing for a while but couldn't find anything like a complaint or feedback in the game system.

Losing the epic toolbox and trying to repair the small yacht with the built-in low-level construction hammer is like a level 1 alt fighting a max-level boss—it's too difficult!

So much so that he was able to repair the yacht just before it sank.

Looking at the more than one-meter-deep water in the cabin, Jiang Yuan could only suppress his anger and take out a plastic hook from his backpack. He planned to salvage some basic materials when the supplies floated by, and then build a wooden basin to scoop out the water.

While waiting, he opened the chat channel to vent his frustrations.

"Damn it, I upgraded my ship and lost all my supplies! Have any of you guys ever encountered this situation?"

When the top-ranked player speaks, their voice comes with a gold-rimmed chat box effect, making it hard for others to miss.

"Holy crap! It's Jiang Yuan, let's take a picture together!"

"The newbie doesn't understand what the expert is saying. I just upgraded the simple raft to a sturdy raft."

Upgrading lost items? Is it that scary?

"Is the system subtly forcing us to expand our backpacks? If we have enough backpack space for valuables, we shouldn't have to worry, right?"

……

Seeing the adulation from others made Jiang Yuan feel much better.

When he saw someone mention backpacks, his heart ached.

If only I had known earlier, I wouldn't have used all the basic materials to upgrade the ship. I could have at least expanded my inventory to store the epic toolbox.

Alternatively, after using it, put the toolbox back in your backpack, and just throw away the plastic hooks and such.

Unfortunately, there's no going back.

The toolbox is too useful; it's too much trouble to keep taking it out of the backpack and putting it back.

He was confident he could protect his property. So after using it, he casually left it on the boat, never even considering that upgrading the boat might result in the loss of items!

The problem is that the upgraded boat is leaking!

Is this deliberately making it more difficult?

Jiang Yuan guessed in his heart, and once again cursed the damn game's ancestors for eighteen generations in his mind, even though he couldn't complain about it.

"Could it be a system data malfunction?" someone suggested in the chat channel. "Jiang Yuan, you can wait a bit and see. Maybe it will refresh soon."

When I woke up this morning and checked the rankings, I found that Jiang Chen, who was ranked twelfth globally, had disappeared.

I even checked the regional rankings, but I couldn't find his profile picture anywhere.

But I just saw that Jiang Chen has climbed to eleventh place on the global rankings!

"As expected, there must be a data error."

"I knew it! How could someone as kind and charitable as Jiang Chen just disappear without asking for help? There must be something wrong with the system data..."

……

A message exploded the chat, and the topic quickly shifted to Jiang Chen.

Jiang Yuan was slightly taken aback. "Jiang Chen? How could that be!"

He hurriedly opened the leaderboard and saw that Jiang Chen's familiar yet hateful avatar had risen from eleventh to tenth place, and the ship he owned had changed from a sturdy wooden boat to a small sailboat!

"This is unbelievable!" Jiang Yuan rubbed his face vigorously.

He pulled out the nautical logbook in the system, which detailed all the progress from entering the raft to the present, including the materials and specific quantities obtained from salvaging supplies each day.

Major events such as the acquisition and upgrading of ships were naturally recorded in detail.