Jiang Lai had long since realized that in this game, fruit was a rare commodity.
The fact that she now had so much fruit in her backpack wasn’t just because of her own good luck—it was also thanks to Haibao’s help.
Now that she was eager to trade for glass, she didn’t feel bad about taking out two oranges.
“Oh my god, how are we supposed to survive like this? I’m still starving, and someone’s already eating oranges!”
“I haven’t had any fresh veggies or fruit in days. My lips are so dry they’re cracking and bleeding.”
“They look so fresh, so sweet, so delicious…”
There were quite a few lucky players, and plenty of people liked to post pictures of their food in the group chat.
Everyone was already used to drooling over photos.
But while there was a lot of discussion, no one actually came forward to trade.
Jiang Lai thought about it and decided that just one photo wasn’t enough—she hadn’t shown off quite thoroughly enough.
So she zoomed in and took a few close-up shots of the orange, each juicy, glistening segment on full display, and posted them in the channel.
“Ahhh! Jiang Lai, you’re too much!!!”
“Whoever has glass, just trade it to her already, okay? Stop torturing us!”
The consensus among the online crowd: utterly heartless.
But heartless or not, it worked.
Very soon, someone DM’d Jiang Lai, wanting to trade glass.
“I have forty pieces of glass. Can you take them all?”
The person wanting to trade was a girl named Li Xue.
Li Xue was a bona fide lucky player—she’d already upgraded to a Level 2 residence a few days ago.
Her favorite thing was fruit, and since coming to this wretched game, she hadn’t had any for almost a week.
Only heaven knew how miserable she was—she’d been wilting away.
Li Xue had been listlessly sunbathing, not paying attention to the chat, when her good friend Turing called her and told her to check the channel.
And that’s how this all happened.
One orange for one piece of glass? That was a steal!
Li Xue couldn’t wait to trade away all forty pieces of glass she had.
“Sure,” Jiang Lai agreed after a moment’s thought.
She knew that upgrading required glass to add windows to the house.
And for future upgrades or building houses, she’d probably need more glass—no harm in stockpiling some.
“Um, do you have any other fruit besides oranges? It’s fine if it’s just a little! I just really love fruit. If I could try something else, I’d be so happy!” Li Xue asked tentatively.
After all, she knew Jiang Lai wasn’t ordinary—maybe she had other kinds of fruit, too.
“Alright,” Jiang Lai replied, imagining the girl on the other side saying “so happy” in this precarious game, and couldn’t help but smile.
“Thank you! Thank you!!” Li Xue was so excited at Jiang Lai’s agreement that she jumped up and down on her raft and immediately traded all forty pieces of glass to Jiang Lai.
Jiang Lai didn’t delay after receiving the glass.
She traded over the two sliced oranges on her table first.
Then she took a big apple and three strawberries from her backpack and traded those as well.
Li Xue hadn’t expected that Jiang Lai’s “other fruit” would include strawberries—her absolute favorite—so she showered Jiang Lai with thanks.
Both of them were delighted.
“Alright, time to upgrade.”
From Jiang Lai’s experience with the last two upgrades, the upgrade wasn’t tied to how many times she’d used her fishing rod.
So she wasn’t in a rush to use up her remaining treasure chest fishing attempts.
She opened up her Ginger account info.
This time, the upgrade button was finally lit up.
Jiang Lai didn’t hesitate and confirmed the upgrade.
Once again, she was enveloped in that familiar white light. This time, she calmly sat on the chair outside her house, closed her eyes, and waited for the sound to end.
To be able to build at this speed—was this place home to a more advanced civilization, or was there a creator who could conjure things at will?
Was the system the master, or just a tool?
With her eyes closed, listening to the magical sounds of construction, Jiang Lai’s mind wandered.
But her thoughts were a jumble—she couldn’t make sense of anything.
She didn’t know how much time had passed, only that it was longer than before, when the sound finally stopped.
Jiang Lai slowly opened her eyes and looked around.
Her raft was bigger, with railings now on all four sides—taller, sturdier, and more refined.
The previously open side now had a railing, plus a two-meter-tall arched wrought-iron gate.
The gate had an artistic design and looked beautiful—Jiang Lai really liked it.
Yep, those 1,000 iron nails were well spent.
Perfect.
Looking toward the center of the raft, the original two wooden cabins had become four.
Even though the raft was bigger, the addition of two more rooms kept it from feeling empty.
The four rooms were arranged in a grid, and Jiang Lai checked each one.
The two in front were bedrooms—one was her original room, and the other was new.
The two rooms were identical. Jiang Lai opened her own room to take a look.
Aside from a new, bright window that gave her a direct view of the gate, there wasn’t much change—the size was the same.
After the last upgrade, Jiang Lai had already thought her bedroom was too big and empty.
Luckily, this time, the space hadn’t gotten any bigger.
Of the two rooms in the back, the smaller one was a bathroom.
Unlike before, this bathroom now had, in addition to a toilet, a shower with a wet-dry partition, and a ceramic sink.
The biggest surprise for Jiang Lai was that when she turned on the shower and sink faucets, there was actually water!
She sniffed it carefully—it wasn’t seawater.
It was a bit murkier than the water from her purifier, so not drinkable, but fine for daily use.
What did this mean? It meant Jiang Lai could finally take a shower at sea!
She didn’t consider herself a clean freak, but she hadn’t bathed in five days.
It was only bearable because the weather had been cold—if it were hot, she couldn’t imagine how miserable she’d be.
Turns out this game was pretty humane after all.
Jiang Lai couldn’t help thinking.
But as soon as the thought crossed her mind, she shook her head.
Close call! She’d almost let the game gaslight her.
If it weren’t for this game dragging her in, she’d be soaking in her big bathtub at home—nothing here could compare.
The last new room was a bit bigger than the bathroom.
Even before she opened the door, Jiang Lai knew it was the kitchen.
After all, there was a chimney on the roof—it was hard to mistake.
In the center of the kitchen was a uniquely designed stove. It was clearly for cooking with fire, but unlike any stove Jiang Lai had seen before—more refined, more distinctive.
Well, it made sense. After all, cooking with fire on a wooden raft in the middle of the sea would require a special design.
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