Return to Floating Island
On the Floating Island, Chen Xinyu asked Yuqi, "Yuqi, is it because my strength is too low that the Captain didn't want to take me?"
Yuqi comforted her. "Don't think too much about it. Didn't Sister Yun and Mina also stay? There are many people in the team now, and we only need to send a select group at a time." Chen Xinyu nodded slightly, realizing it made sense, especially with everyone's strength being so high.
Yuto Saito used his Teleportation talent to bring the team back.
"Captain's back!" Yuqi said happily.
Yuto Saito smiled. "The wolves were quite active this time; we almost missed a few."
Ni Shuang smiled brightly. "Yes, there were several little wolves trying to escape the shelter, and we were madly chasing them!"
Nako smiled. "It's impossible for them to escape."
Natto added with a smile, "That's right, Brother Su and Nako have the ability to fly, and their speed is much faster than the wolves."
Ruoruo applauded. "In short, all the wolves have been wiped out!"
Yuto Saito handed the corpse of the sixth-order Wolf King to Mifen. "Everyone, give me the spar you collected; you can keep other things."
"Okay," Ni Shuang and the others responded. Everyone handed their collected items over to Yuto Saito.
"I have a fifth-grade ring on my side," Yuto Saito said to the girls. "Mina, here you go."
"Thank you, Captain!" Mina was overjoyed. Thinking of the wonderful time with Yuto Saito last night, Mina's smile brightened even more; she cherished that feeling.
"Next time I get a good ring, it'll be Juzi's turn," Yuto Saito added.
Juzi smiled. "I'm not in a hurry. A third-grade ring is enough for now."
Yun Yun asked, "Xiaotu, how many crystals did you get this time?"
Yuto Saito replied, "One green spar, more than two hundred red spar, and over seven hundred white spar."
"More than 200 red crystals?" Yun Yun said in surprise. "Doesn't that mean we can upgrade the Floating Island?"
"We now have 6 chlorites, 300 red sapphires, and 7,593 white sapphires," Yuto Saito confirmed. "It's enough to upgrade."
The girls cheered, "That's great!"
Chen Xinyu happily exclaimed, "Wow, I've gained over 900,000 experience!"
In total, they eliminated 1,009 wolves: one sixth-order Wolf King and 1,008 third-order gray wolves. The sixth-order Wolf King yielded 600 experience points. The 1,008 third-order gray wolves, at 300 experience points each, totaled 302,400 experience. This made for a grand total of 303,000 raw experience. Yuto Saito, using a 10x experience pill, gained 3.03 million experience. The girls, using triple experience pills, each gained 909,000 experience.
"Now, while the experience pills are still active, hurry up and earn more experience," Yuto Saito instructed the group. "Once the validity period of the experience pills is over, we'll upgrade the Floating Island to Level 5."
The girls nodded in agreement.
"Natto," Yuto Saito said, "check the private messages in the background, read the news, or look at the comments in our God of War Squad's comment section."
Natto opened the account's private messages and carefully reviewed the new messages.
Ni Shuang grabbed a phone and scrolled through the comments. "Look, the 8th hot comment in the comment section!" This comment, posted at 6:38 AM, read as follows:
[I found more than 200 turtles, all second-order black turtles. There are too many for me to beat. Coordinates: Jinsha River in Sichuan Province...]
Mifen said excitedly, "The black-armored turtle is a good find! It can be used to make King Kong Pills, which are like a talisman. Moreover, their shells can be used to make strengthening potions. As long as we collect these turtles, I can make two kinds of medicinal pills: King Kong Pills and strengthening potions!"
Yun Yun looked at Yuto Saito and smiled. "Xiaotu, I'll go this time."
Yuto Saito nodded. "Okay, Yun Yun will lead the team this time. Everyone who didn't go to fight the wolves just now will go."
"Great, I can finally go!" Chen Xinyu cheered. Having just gained 909,000 experience, Chen Xinyu had already leveled up to Level 5, raising her strength to 6-star combat power.
"Xinyu, choose your weapon," Yuto Saito said, taking weapons out of his ring. Chen Xinyu chose embroidery needles and a dagger.
Hu Tuan'er used her Teleportation talent and took everyone to the Jinsha River in Sichuan Province.
Sha Ying's Pursuit
Rewinding to 7 AM.
Sha Ying woke up, and after breakfast, she checked the internet for information. Knowing what had happened in the western part of the Dragon Kingdom, she felt a surge of frustration. Sha Ying wanted to see the God of War team's updates and happened to spot the news about the black turtle in the comment section. Knowing that second-order black-armored turtles were in Sichuan Province, Sha Ying immediately rushed over.
It took Sha Ying an hour to reach the Jinsha River. Looking along the riverside, Sha Ying finally spotted a group of second-order black turtles. She excitedly attacked them. Sha Ying only had four-star combat power, so her progress was slow. As soon as she killed two mysterious turtles, she detected a powerful aura. Sha Ying quickly fled and hid behind a distant stone.
Unexpected Encounter and Departure
Hu Tuan'er brought everyone, teleporting to that location.
"Attention," Yun Yun warned. "There's an Awakened person behind that stone over there, a girl."
Yuqi looked around vigilantly. "Would you like to capture her? I can fly over."
Yun Yun gestured. "No, she's not provoking us. We don't need to kill people indiscriminately. Let's collect these black turtles first."
Immediately afterward, the girls launched an attack on the second-order black turtles.
Sha Ying remained hidden behind the stone, watching the group from a distance. She clenched her right fist. "Damn it! If only I had come here earlier, I could have killed a few more black turtles." Fortunately, she had managed to kill two; at least it wasn't a wasted trip.
Sha Ying felt that the blue-haired beauty looked familiar, as if she had seen her before. Oh, right! She's very similar to the blue-haired beauty in Yuto Saito's team. But why didn't she see Yuto Saito or the red-haired beauty? Sha Ying thought that if the God of War team had all been dispatched, then logically, with the blue-haired beauty here, Yuto Saito and the red-haired beauty should also be present. Maybe it's not the same group of people, just similar blue hair? Sha Ying mused to herself.
However, in the next moment, Sha Ying was certain that the blue-haired beauty was from Yuto Saito's team, because she saw Yun Yun use thunder and lightning to electrocute a black turtle.
"Damn it!" Sha Ying cursed. "She really is a member of the Yuto Saito team. No, I have to retreat quickly. If they find out my true identity, they might eliminate me."
Sha Ying ran in the opposite direction.
Every one of her movements was observed by Yun Yun. Yun Yun didn't know that Sha Ying was Sha Long's younger sister. She simply thought she was an ordinary Awakened person who had come to hunt black turtles.
In an instant, over two hundred black turtles were killed, and the team happily returned to the Floating Island.
Floating Island Upgrade
Yun Yun and the others returned to the Floating Island.
"That was fast!" Yuto Saito praised.
Yun Yun smiled brightly. "They were only second-tier, so it was an easy fight."
Hu Tuan'er's pure face showed a bright smile. "There was one turtle that tried to escape, and I wanted to laugh when I saw how slow it was. I was a little reluctant to kill it then."
Mifen said, "It won't work if you don't kill them. We need them for refining strengthening potions and King Kong Pills."
"If you don't kill them now, when they all evolve into ninth-order basalt beasts, it won't be so easy," Yuto Saito cautioned.
"Ninth-order basalt beast?" The girls were stunned. Yuto Saito recalled his previous life. In the final battle, there were four ninth-order monsters, one of which was a mutated basalt beast. Its defense was incredibly terrifying. However, with Yuto Saito's current strength, defeating a ninth-order basalt beast was very easy, so he had no worries in this regard.
Ni Shuang asked, "Xiao Tutu, will these black turtles continue to evolve?"
"One of them will evolve, which is equivalent to our leveling up," Yuto Saito replied.
"Oh, I see," Ni Shuang nodded.
Yun Yun and the others handed the spar to Yuto Saito and the black turtles to Mifen.
Mifen happily exclaimed, "I'm going to make medicine pills, hahaha!"
This time, 207 dolomite were harvested.
"Wait a minute," Yuto Saito smiled. "I will upgrade the Floating Island to Level 5 first."
Yuto Saito thought, System, convert all the chlorite and red spar into white spar.
System: "Okay."
6 pieces of chlorite, converted into 600 pieces of dolomite.
300 red sapphire, converted into 3,000 white sapphire.
The current total number of dolomite is 11,400.
Yuto Saito: "System, upgrade the Floating Island."
System: "Ding! Consuming 10,000 white crystals to upgrade the Floating Island to Level 5. Please select the item for the host."
[Option 1]: Upgrade the main city and add a three-story annex on the right side of the villa. The first floor of the annex will be a swimming pool and a gym, the second floor a KTV and a dance hall, and the third floor a large cinema and small private boxes.
[Option 2]: Upgrade the main city and add a fourth floor to the villa, with eight bedrooms.
[Option 3]: Upgrade the outer city and build a school. Free choice of primary school, middle school, or university.
[Option 4]: Upgrade the outer city and build a hospital.
[Option 5]: Upgrade the outer city and build a high-end community that can accommodate 1,000 people.
[Option 6]: Upgrade the outer city and develop greenhouse planting: one hundred greenhouses that can grow various vegetables and fruits.
[Option 7]: Upgrade the outer city and build a commercial street with 100 shops.
[Option 8]: Upgrade the outer city and build a farm, providing chicken coops, duck coops, pig coops, and so on.
[Option 9]: Upgrade the outer city and build a high-end office building.
[Option 10]: Upgrade the outer city and build a factory.
[Option 11]: Upgrade the outer city and build an exchange.
[Option 12]: Upgrade the outer city and build a five-star hotel.
[Option 13]: Upgrade the outer city and build a hotel.
[Option 14]: Upgrade the outer city and build a large hotel.
[Option 15]: Upgrade the outer city and build a park with a small lake.
[Warm Reminder: The current Floating Island level is 5, and the host can choose 5 items. The host can select the same project multiple times; for example, if 5 communities are selected, 5 communities will be built.]
Yuto Saito considered his options. Option 1 was for entertainment, which he didn't need for the time being. They could sing and dance in the villa if they wished. Option 2, upgrading the fourth floor of the villa, was also unnecessary for now. Currently, there were two vacant rooms on the first floor, and rooms 307 and 308 on the third floor were vacant, which was enough space.
Yuto Saito thought for a while and chose: 3 schools, 7 commercial streets, 8 farms, 11 exchanges, and 12 five-star hotels.
The reason for choosing 3 schools was Yuto Saito's long-term plan to impart knowledge to the residents. For example, the damage and range of Freezing LV1, the types of spar, the various awakening talents, their effects, and so on. Opening a school was a long-term plan to facilitate the sharing of knowledge.
A commercial street was imperative. One week after the apocalypse began, the country would face a full-scale outbreak, and not many people would survive. At that time, if the Floating Island occasionally opened to the outside world, a large amount of spar could be obtained by selling food.
Choosing a farm meant they could raise chickens, ducks, pigs, cows, and other animals, which would improve their food supply. This was a must.
Choosing an exchange would facilitate easy item trading and even allow them to auction materials to acquire more spar.
As for the last option, a five-star hotel, it wasn't strictly necessary. However, considering that Yuto Saito planned to open the island to the public in the future, a hotel would be built sooner or later. Another reason was that if the floating community became full, extra people could temporarily live there. In any case, a five-star hotel would be built eventually, so choosing one in advance was a good idea.
After the selection was complete, the Floating Island began its upgrade. The entire island experienced a slight tremor, and its area continuously expanded.
The students who had just arrived at the planting area were stunned.
"Is this an earthquake?" Zhou Shuyi asked in surprise.
"My God, why do I feel that the Tree of Life is getting taller and taller, and the protective cover is getting higher and higher?" Luo Xin exclaimed.
Shu Nana: "Look over there, the lawn is getting bigger and bigger!"
Liu Yiling: "Yes, the area of the Floating Island has increased!"
[Ding! The upgrade has been completed. The current level of the Floating Island is 5, with an area of 10 million square meters.]
[The next upgrade requires 100,000 white spar. The host currently has 1,400 white spar.]