Chapter 197: Desert Island Survival 21

’Might as well give it a try. Worst case, I can just hide in my space.’

As they say, fortune favors the bold.

’It’s a gamble, but a small bet could lead to a huge win.’

Moira Lynch knew she was getting ahead of herself. Even though she was well aware she was no match for Shirley Blackwood, she still wanted to give it a shot.

The next day, Moira Lynch prepared the beggar’s chicken and roasted mushrooms she had promised it. After telling Black Wolf how to process the Heavenly Dream Sea Snail, it went off on its own to find Shirley Blackwood.

Left on her own, Moira Lynch began to process the Heavenly Dream Sea Snail according to Black Wolf’s instructions.

The first step was to separate the Heavenly Dream Sea Snail’s flesh from its shell. During this process, she had to ensure the snail remained alive.

This meant she couldn’t just boil it.

Fortunately, Moira Lynch had spiritual power, so separating the flesh from the shell wasn’t difficult for her. Otherwise, she would have had to resort to brute force.

She watched the separated snail meat. In just a few seconds, it turned a bluish-black, proof that it was poisonous.

Moira Lynch was about to throw it away, but then an idea struck her. She took out the Tetanus Blade.

She minced the snail meat with the Tetanus Blade, spread it evenly over the blade, and let it sit for an hour.

And just like that, an enhanced, even more poisonous Tetanus Blade was born.

Then, she had the Universal Gloves replicate it.

When the Universal Gloves indicated that the replication was successful, Moira Lynch knew her guess had been correct.

The Universal Gloves couldn’t replicate the same item twice, but after being coated with the snail meat, the Tetanus Blade had clearly been altered.

Moira Lynch smashed the snail shell with a rock, then heated it indirectly and ground it into a powder. After mixing it with water to form a thick paste, she spread it evenly over a bear hide.

Next, all she had to do was wait for the bear hide to dry, and the job would be done.

While waiting for the bear hide to dry and for Black Wolf to return, Moira Lynch didn’t stay idle. She began exploring the surrounding waters, collecting various plants and fish.

At dawn today, Moira Lynch heard a gunshot from deep within the island.

Upon hearing the shot, the people she’d seen before sprinted toward the sound.

Seeing them leave, Moira Lynch breathed a sigh of relief. With them around, she was genuinely afraid of being discovered.

’Discovery is probably inevitable, but I still don’t want to get involved with too many people.’

’Not only would it be restricting, but they might even hold me back.’

Moira Lynch walked into the sea. Once the water was chest-deep, she took a deep breath and dove in.

Although her goal was to enrich the marine life in her space, Moira Lynch wasn’t going to take just anything.

’After all, what if they can’t survive in a new environment after I take them? All my effort would be for nothing.’

Therefore, Moira Lynch’s first requirement for any species she chose was that it couldn’t be too demanding about its environment.

Second, it needed to have a strong reproductive ability, but not *too* strong, or it would become an invasive species.

Finally, it had to be edible—and ideally, both nutritious and delicious.

Moira Lynch listed the conditions in her mind, wondering if she could find anything suitable here.

Thanks to her long-term consumption of the Yoyo Fruit, Moira Lynch could now hold her breath underwater for about half an hour.

Seeing the colorful coral reefs below, Moira Lynch collected a portion of them as well.

As she swam on, a green forest appeared before her.

A closer look revealed that it was actually a forest of giant kelp.

She estimated that each frond was taller than she was and as thick as her fist.

What surprised Moira Lynch even more was the description from Patience.

[Knotweed Kelp: Crispy and refreshing in texture, rich in nutrients. Can survive in any water quality. A favorite food of all fish.]

’This kelp is practically tailor-made for me.’

Entering the forest of Knotweed Kelp, she saw, just as she’d expected, numerous small fish darting about.

Without a second thought, Moira Lynch began collecting the kelp, gathering up the small fish that lived there along with it.

Moira Lynch took a full half of the entire forest. If she hadn’t felt her time running out and her oxygen getting low, she wouldn’t have been willing to leave.

On her way back to the surface, a pink fish with a very dazed and cute expression slowly swam by.

Even after seeing Moira Lynch, the fish showed no intention of fleeing, continuing to leisurely flap its two tiny fins.

Moira Lynch took one look and thought, ’Why does this thing look so much like a sunfish from Caelus?’

[Meat Fish: Males are blue, females are pink. Enjoys sunbathing. Known as the "ocean’s all-you-can-eat buffet." It is not a picky eater and puts on flesh extremely quickly. Because it eats so much, its swimming speed is exceptionally slow, leaving it helpless against predators. Due to its high body fat content, excessive consumption is not recommended.]

It looked like a sunfish, but thankfully, its body wasn’t all gelatinous like one.

She casually collected it into her space.

As she neared the surface, she suddenly noticed something on the water blocking her view.

When she swam closer, she saw it was a blue Meat Fish. It was floating on its side, sunbathing.

Looking around, she saw many more Meat Fish doing the exact same thing.

Moira Lynch, who had just been worrying about finding a male Meat Fish, showed no mercy and collected all of them upon seeing this scene.

’Since you love sunbathing so much, I’ll take you somewhere even better to sunbathe all you want.’

Just as Moira Lynch took a deep breath of fresh air and prepared to dive again, her spiritual power was suddenly triggered.

’It feels like something is drifting toward me.’

It was still quite far away, so Moira Lynch could only make out a dark shadow at the moment.

She conjured a pair of binoculars to get a better look.

"That’s... a whale?"

The thing slowly drifting toward her was none other than a massive whale.

The death of a whale is called a whale fall. "One whale falls, ten thousand things are born." This was more than just a saying.

Moreover, it looked like the whale had only just died; its carcass hadn’t even begun to sink yet.

After a moment of thought, Moira Lynch collected it into her space, temporarily storing it in her miniature ocean.

As the whale carcass entered, the water level in the miniature ocean instantly rose by a considerable amount.

Just then, the water around Moira Lynch began to boil. A red shrimp, only about the size of her pinky finger’s top joint, leaped out of the water and landed right on her face.

[sea hair shrimp: Small size, short growth cycle, strong reproductive ability, and rich in nutrients.]

Immediately after, more and more sea hair shrimp began to leap from the water’s surface.

Moira Lynch collected them into her space, thinking as she did so, ’I seem to be a little too lucky today. I’m getting whatever I want, and a lot of it is practically being delivered to my doorstep.’

’First the Knotweed Kelp, then the dead whale, and now the sea hair shrimp.’

’No, that’s not right. To be precise, I’ve been pretty lucky this whole time.’

’I wanted to find Soul Resurrection Grass, and it just so happened that Black Wolf grew up eating it. I wanted to find a purple sea snail, and soon after, the Heavenly Dream Sea Snail delivered itself to me. It was even the same with Shirley Blackwood.’