Chapter 61: Teleportation Gate

Chapter 61: Chapter 61: Teleportation Gate

’First, I’ll trade for two portions of beef. Then I’ll trade the remaining three treasure chests for three portions of corn.’

At twelve noon, the System promptly pinned a message.

[Survival Tip: System upgrade complete. The character panel has been updated. All new rules and attributes will now officially take effect. Please open your character panel to view the specific details.

The new rules will remain pinned at the top of the chat page after this message. All players are advised to read, memorize, and abide by these rules.]

Soon after, another message was pinned.

[Due to the overly frequent triggering of dungeons in Server 1, the random chance to trigger them has been permanently disabled. Instead, the merged Servers 1–3 will have one scheduled dungeon open each month.

Rules: 1. To ensure players have a better chance of survival, all players must go out to sea at least once every seven days, for a duration of no less than 5 hours each time.

2. The daily limit for material exchanges per player is 10. Unused trades can be accumulated. If your accumulated count exceeds 10, that total becomes your new limit.

3. The System will remove the tether between rafts and islands. Meaning: A raft’s speed is unchanged, and it can now travel infinitely far from its home island using oars or auto-navigation.

4. The System will no longer reclaim the materials of deceased players. Meaning: For every player killed, the killer will obtain all of their materials.

All players, please remember the rules. Killing is the path to riches~]

There were four rules in total. After reading them, the chat channel completely exploded.

[Old Man Le: The System is twisted. Is it trying to make us all kill each other? Is it raising us like pigs for slaughter?]

[Sun Ci: We players on the leaderboards are now prime targets for everyone. Is anyone coming to rob me? If so, form a line and make an appointment. I’ll greet each of you personally.]

[Wei Hui: HAHAHAHA, you leaderboard players deserve to be targeted! Anyone want to team up to rob Contentment Brings Happiness? If so, DM me. Let’s do it together.]

This guy was part of Jiang Yaozu’s crew. When Jiang Yaozu was alive, Wei Hui was always the one verbally backing him up.

The two were cut from the same cloth, equally foolish.

Similarly, quite a few players echoed Wei Hui’s sentiment—all of them were thugs and scoundrels.

[Chuyi: Others hoard food, I hoard guns. Others are my granary. [Image] [Image].]

He posted two pictures of a handgun and bullets, successfully making any players who wanted to rob him have second thoughts.

His safety meant others were less safe—for example, the top-ranked Shi Zhile and the second-ranked Jiang Yuxing.

The two were tagged again. As the top-ranked player, it would have been improper for her not to say something at this point.

But she wasn’t here to put out the fire; she was here to add fuel to it.

[Contentment Brings Happiness (Regional Rank 1): Sacrifice your allies for ultimate power. If you rob them, you can’t rob me. Anyone who wants to rob other players on the leaderboard, DM me. I can provide supplies~]

Her plan was to infiltrate their ranks, first gathering intelligence on which players were preparing to kill and seize islands, and then sell it at a high price to their intended targets.

Even if she didn’t sell the information, she could still trade it with other players.

[Wei Hui: @Contentment Brings Happiness, for real? I’m not afraid to tell you the truth, our alliance against you already has over two hundred people. As long as you give us supplies, we can spare you. We can even give you a cut of what we plunder. If you agree, say so in the chat channel.]

Shi Zhile ignored him because Jiang Yuxing had sent her a video call request.

The call connected, and the first thing she saw was Jiang Yuxing’s fair collarbones and chest. His skin was dotted with water, and his wet hair was dripping. He had clearly just gotten out of the shower.

Shi Zhile pointed at his deliberately exposed skin. "Aren’t you cold?"

Jiang Yuxing emotionlessly pulled his collar closed. "I’m not cold! Stop staring. I called you about something important."

Shi Zhile, who was opening a treasure chest, said, "Go on."

"A player opened a Teleportation Gate that connects islands. I want to trade for it."

Shi Zhile sat up. "A Teleportation Gate that connects islands? Is it fixed to one island, or can the destination be changed at will?"

"Right now, it’s a fixed destination. But who knows if the Teleportation Gate can be upgraded to a variable destination later? Once someone else gets their hands on it, it won’t just be you and me—every player on the leaderboard will be in danger.

This news hasn’t spread yet. Once it does, a ton of people will be fighting for it. The owner has stated their condition: they want the Healing Spring you have."

Shi Zhile’s brow furrowed slightly. The Healing Spring was incredibly rare; she wasn’t sure she could ever get another one if she traded it away.

But the Teleportation Gate was also rare. If that person bound it to her island, it would be far too dangerous for her.

"If he wants the Spring, why didn’t he contact me directly?"

Jiang Yuxing asked, "Do you ever check your private messages?"

Shi Zhile: "..."

’Right. I have way too many private messages in my inbox. I only look at them when I have absolutely nothing better to do.’

"He did contact you. You ignored him, so he came to me. What do you think?"

Shi Zhile thought for a moment. "The Healing Spring is just as important. What I want to know is, if we make this trade, will this person become our enemy?"

She had no intention of handing over a vital resource to an enemy.

Jiang Yuxing shook his head. "It’s hard to say. For now, we could sign an agreement with him."

She hadn’t used her Wish Drifting Bottle for the day yet. Shi Zhile decided to first see if she could replicate the Healing Spring.

"I’ll get back to you in two minutes."

She hung up the video call and took out today’s Wish Drifting Bottle.

"Today’s wish: Duplicate the Healing Spring."

The Golden Card floated inside the bottle, completely still.

[Duplication failed~]

"What’s the reason?"

[Please explore on your own~]

The System’s energetic and sassy attitude was a clear sign that it had been fully recharged.

Shi Zhile rubbed her forehead, analyzing it step by step.

’My previous wishes have always been to double materials obtained on the same day. The Healing Spring wasn’t obtained today, so it can’t be duplicated?’

The System hadn’t expected her to guess correctly on the first try. It felt gratified by its host’s intelligence but also started to get scared.

It silently clutched its metaphorical underwear, terrified she might use that brain of hers to strip it bare.

"Looks like I guessed right."

She started a new video call with Jiang Yuxing. "I’m going to send the Spring to you, and then you send it right back to me. Don’t ask why. If you have to ask, it’s because I just want to use up one of my trades."

Jiang Yuxing laughed. "Did I offend you somehow? Not satisfied with using up your own trades, you have to use up mine too?"

Shi Zhile said without a hint of a blush, "You deliberately seduced me. Does my being sexually frustrated count as me offending you?"

Through the screen, Jiang Yuxing was visibly flustered.

He turned his head and coughed a couple of times, his face growing redder. "Alright, send it over."

Shi Zhile sent the Healing Spring over. After Jiang Yuxing accepted it, he asked her, "Should I send it back to you now?"

"Wait!"

She hugged the Wish Drifting Bottle tightly and chanted in her mind: ’Today’s wish: triple the materials received from a trade.’

[Failure!]

"Double it!"

[Failure~]

"Duplicate the Healing Spring obtained today."

With a flash of golden light, the bottle in her hand was empty.

Shi Zhile breathed a sigh of relief. "Okay, send it over!"

After she accepted it, the Healing Spring had indeed become two.

She kept the original and took out the duplicated one, ready for the trade.