Chapter 533

Chapter 533: This is Interesting

[System Announcement: Congratulations to Chosen One number 46754358 for being the first to upgrade to a medium-sized ship. You have been rewarded with a low-grade spirit artifact, the Xuan Guang Sword.]

In the next moment, the game announcement echoed throughout the entire chat channel.

“Hmm? A low-grade spirit artifact? Not five hundred spirit stones?”

He Miaomiao felt confused and began to fret.

Since it wasn’t five hundred spirit stones, this was going to be tricky.

She had borrowed wood from over forty people, thinking she would have five hundred spirit stones to share with everyone.

Now, the system’s reward was a spirit artifact. How could she handle that?

While the system was broadcasting, many people also saw this announcement.

Soon, numerous people who had lent wood to He Miaomiao began to contact her.

“I didn’t expect this situation either. Don’t worry, I will definitely repay your wood.”

He Miaomiao explained to each person one by one.

Then, by the tenth response, He Miaomiao realized there was a limit on private chats.

It turned out she could only chat with one person each day.

After hearing He Miaomiao’s explanation, even if others regretted lending her wood, it was too late now.

So, everyone had to accept He Miaomiao’s promise.

On the other side, the middle-aged man, who thought about crowdfunding first, faced a dilemma.

After He Miaomiao upgraded to a medium-sized ship, many people who had given him wood suddenly wanted to get their items back.

They had lent wood to him expecting spirit stones.

Now, since the reward was a spirit artifact, and there was only one, it definitely wouldn’t be enough to share.

So, many people immediately wanted their money back from the middle-aged man.

However, the middle-aged man completely ignored the requests for refunds.

At this moment, he had gathered over nine hundred pieces of wood and was just about to upgrade. There was no way he could return the wood.

“Damn it, why wasn’t I the first?” the middle-aged man felt frustrated.

He ignored everyone contacting him about refunds.

Private chat was limited to ten messages, so after sending a maximum of ten messages to each person, they would quiet down.

What troubled the middle-aged man was that he still needed dozens of pieces of wood to upgrade, and now many people knew that the next upgrade wouldn’t award spirit stones, so he couldn’t fool anyone anymore.

“Damn it!”

“It seems I have no choice but to slowly search for treasure chests myself.” The middle-aged man scratched his head.

Fortunately, his raft upgraded to a small ship, and its sailing speed was several times faster than the small raft.

Under these circumstances, he could search for treasure chests much faster than others.

So he believed that even if he couldn’t gather any wood right now, he would definitely be the second person to upgrade.

…

On the sea, He Miaomiao looked at her medium-sized ship, which had doubled in length and width, and laughed joyfully.

After upgrading from a small ship to a medium-sized ship, He Miaomiao gained a new ability: she no longer needed to paddle the boat herself. She could give verbal commands for the ship to move automatically, including going forward, backward, turning left, and right.

What made He Miaomiao happiest was that this medium-sized ship was not only four times larger than the small ship, but also much faster.

Whereas the small ship used to take several minutes to cover a certain distance, now the medium-sized ship could reach the same distance in just a few minutes.

In addition, the ship’s sides rose more than a meter above the water’s surface, making it harder for enemies to easily climb aboard even after the safety period ended in three days.

“Set sail!”

After upgrading her ship, He Miaomiao quickly took control and steered it toward the nearest resource point.

About three minutes later, He Miaomiao found a Small Wooden Box.

When she opened it, she felt disappointed to find only water and food inside.

However, since water and food were essential for survival, even if they were just that, she accepted it.

After obtaining her first Small Wooden Box, less than five minutes later, He Miaomiao found another one.

From then on, she was able to find a treasure chest almost every five minutes.

Even when night fell, He Miaomiao did not stop searching for treasure chests.

On Huayang Star, many people were amazed to see that He Miaomiao could find a treasure chest nearly every five minutes.

Videos of He Miaomiao quickly appeared online, sparking much discussion.

“This little girl is incredible! While others are still using small rafts, she has already upgraded to a medium-sized ship.”

“Another person gathered over nine hundred pieces of wood, but unfortunately, he was still one step behind He Miaomiao; otherwise, the low-grade spiritual energy would have been his.”

“He seems to be catching up. He should be the second one; I wonder if he will get spirit stones or spirit artifacts…”

Across the outside world, countless people watched the livestream.

Some of the impressive streams were also broadcasted by many Online Streamers using cameras.

For instance, during He Miaomiao’s livestream, there were at least dozens of Online Streamers broadcasting it online.

At this time, the number of viewers watching He Miaomiao’s livestream reached nearly ten million.

He Miaomiao’s livestream was so popular mainly because she was so extraordinary.

In other Areas, many people were still using rafts, with only a few on small boats, and there wasn’t even a single small ship.

But in the Area where He Miaomiao was, she had already reached the level of a medium-sized ship.

Moreover, what was even more astonishing was her speed in finding treasure chests.

The person who found the most treasure chests among others didn’t exceed ten.

This was mostly because treasure chests appeared randomly on the sea surface, and if they were too far away, they could hardly be seen, leading many people to spend hours rowing without encountering a single treasure chest if luck wasn’t on their side.

However, He Miaomiao was different; it seemed like she knew the locations of the treasure chests, finding one every five minutes on average.

This led many people to speculate that after upgrading from a small ship to a medium-sized ship, she could sense the locations of the treasure chests.

After He Miaomiao upgraded her small ship to a medium-sized ship, she wasted no time.

For several hours, He Miaomiao continued her search for treasure chests.

With an average of one chest found every five minutes, she could uncover 12 chests in an hour.

In just over four hours, He Miaomiao had obtained almost fifty chests.

These fifty chests rewarded her with 70 pieces of wood from opening them, and another 50 pieces from dismantling them.

He Miaomiao immediately traded this wood with the people who supported her through crowdfunding.

Those people previously gave her 5 pieces of wood, and now, He Miaomiao directly returned 7 pieces of wood.

From the fifty chests, He Miaomiao also found over eighty pieces of food and more than eighty bottles of water.

With this food and water, she exchanged for over two hundred pieces of wood, which she then distributed to others.

After completing all of this, He Miaomiao finally paid off all her debts.

Of course, many people initially did not want wood in return; they desired spirit stones instead.

However, He Miaomiao explained that she did not have any spirit stones at the moment, and even if she did, she couldn’t say when she could repay them, so in the end, everyone accepted her offer of 7 pieces of wood.

“Phew!”

Having cleared all her debts, He Miaomiao breathed a huge sigh of relief.

She was the type of person who felt uncomfortable if she owed money, so she preferred to open more treasure chests to repay what she owed rather than become a deadbeat.

“Claim Xuanlight Sword.”

In the next moment, a long sword, 1.2 meters long and shimmering with cold light, appeared in He Miaomiao’s hand.

Standing on the deck of the ship, He Miaomiao swung the sword a few times with her right hand, but it was nothing special.

She didn’t know any sword techniques and didn’t understand what the game reward of a sword was for; for an ordinary person, a sword was not as good as a knife.

After playing with the Xuanlight Sword for a while, He Miaomiao quickly lost interest.

She listed the sword at the trading market for the price of ten thousand bottles of water and food, putting it in her "warehouse," before setting out on her treasure hunting journey again.

A few hours passed quickly.

In the blink of an eye, it was early morning.

“Hmm? What is that?”

Suddenly, He Miaomiao noticed a blue marker appearing on the system map.

Previously, the Small Wooden Boxes were marked in green.

This blue marker was something He Miaomiao had never seen before.

She saw that the blue marker was a bit distant; reaching it would take nearly half an hour by ship.

After thinking for a moment, He Miaomiao decided to go and check it out.

After about forty minutes and acquiring two more wooden boxes along the way, He Miaomiao finally arrived near the blue marker.

“Hmm?”

Soon, He Miaomiao saw that the blue marker was actually a blue chest.

Quickly, He Miaomiao brought the blue chest onto her medium-sized ship.

After upgrading from a small ship to a medium-sized ship, not only did it gain an automatic driving function, but it also acquired an automatic pickup feature.

As long as He Miaomiao’s ship was within five meters of a treasure chest, she could directly use the automatic pickup function to collect it.

Before long, a chest appeared on the deck of her ship.

He Miaomiao examined the chest closely and discovered that this blue chest seemed to be made of bronze, looking like it had weathered the passage of time, turning entirely blue.

She opened the chest.

Almost immediately, He Miaomiao saw what was inside.

Upon seeing the contents of the chest, He Miaomiao was filled with joy.

Because she found that there were actually 5 spirit stones in the Bronze Chest.

…

On Huayang Star, in an Internet café, Li Xiaojun was playing an online game.

In the game, he was rampaging, demonstrating such remarkable skills that even the wealthy big spenders couldn’t handle him.

“Hmm?”

Suddenly, Li Xiaojun showed a look of surprise.

He was not surprised by the game itself.

Instead, it was because within his divine sense perception, suddenly a group of beast tribe beings appeared in this star system.

“One Integration stage beast, accompanied by 16 Transformation stage beasts. Interesting. It seems this star field should belong to the beast tribe.”

In the next moment, Li Xiaojun’s figure vanished.

Instantly, he appeared in front of the group of beasts.

Soul Searching!

Without any hesitation, Li Xiaojun directly chose to perform Soul Searching.

“Sure enough, this really is a world of beasts, not a single Human Race member in sight.”

Li Xiaojun first expressed surprise, then he smiled.

“I was planning to summon some monsters to attack the Chosen Ones, but it seems I won’t need to do that anytime soon! This is even more interesting.”

“Clones, go…”

In the next moment, several clones separated from Li Xiaojun and swiftly shot out into outer space.