A Profitable Deal and Floating Island Upgrades
Yuto Saito used teleportation to return to the Floating Island. Seeing him, Natto shouted excitedly, "Brother Su is back!"
Yun Yun smiled. "Little Tu, everyone is guessing how much spar you earned this time."
Yuto Saito didn't answer immediately. "How much do you all guess?"
Ni Shuang said excitedly, "I guess 210,000 spar." Natto: "I guess 260,000." Mina: "I guess 190,000." Juzi: "I guess 170,000." Ruoruo: "I guess 220,000." Yun Yun: "I guess 300,000."
All the girls shared their guesses. Yuto Saito smiled slightly. "Yun Yun's guess was the closest. This time, I earned a total of 500,000 spar!"
The girls were stunned. "Did you say 500,000?"
Ni Shuang asked curiously, "Little Tu, how many rings and strengthening potions did you sell? Tell us everything."
Yuto Saito recounted his transaction with Song Yi: "2,400 ordinary rings, 600 first-grade rings, and over 600 bottles of strengthening potions."
Yun Yun smiled. "I didn't expect the strengthening potion to sell for such a high price."
Ni Shuang agreed. "Yeah, it was beyond my expectations. I thought 100 spar per bottle would be enough."
Yuto Saito explained to the girls, "Today is only the fourth day of the apocalypse. Materials for strengthening potions are hard to find. My team has strong mobility and high combat power, so we can gather materials relatively easily. How could other pharmacists do the same? For example, can they beat a sixth-order giant bear?"
Ruoruo smiled. "That's right. It's likely we're the only ones in the world who have refined the potion. We have a monopoly, so the price is naturally high."
Yuto Saito looked at Mifen and Ye Chuchu, praising them. "I want to specifically commend Xianxian and Chuchu this time. The strengthening potions you made were a great success."
Mifen said happily, "This is what we should do. I'm happy to be able to contribute to the team."
Ye Chuchu smiled sweetly. "Yes, I'm really happy to be able to refine pills to help the team!"
Yuto Saito then asked, "How many strengthening potions can we make with the remaining herbs?"
Ye Chuchu replied, "There's still a lot of bear blood, enough chicken blood, and hundreds of tortoises, but not enough snake blood. We need pure snake blood, not like the pig-headed snakes. We only have enough snake blood for about eight more batches. Each batch can make 1,000 drops of potion."
Yuto Saito: "So, the current materials can still make 8,000 drops. That's great. Xianxian and Chuchu, you can bring your friends over this afternoon and then focus on refining the potions."
"Okay," Mifen and Ye Chuchu promised.
Nako said, "I'll go find some. There should be a lot of snakes nearby. It's my fault—I killed a python earlier and didn't know we'd need its blood. Otherwise, I would have put it in the ring." A single giant python could provide a lot of snake blood. Not collecting it was a big loss.
Yuto Saito comforted her. "It's not your fault. I didn't even know the formula for the strengthening potion at the time. We didn't learn the formula until Mifen joined the team."
Nako felt much more at ease after hearing this.
Natto then said, "Brother Su, we can upgrade the Floating Island now."
Yuto Saito smiled. "Of course. To upgrade the Floating Island to Level 6, we need to consume 100,000 spar, and we have over 400,000 spar left."
Ruoruo said happily, "That's great! It won't be long before we can upgrade to Level 7. The Floating Island can become very big then."
Ye Chuchu looked at Yuto Saito with her bright eyes and said softly, "Captain, when the Floating Island gets bigger, we can save so many people."
Yuto Saito replied, "Currently, we can only accommodate a maximum of 1,000 people in the Floating Community. That's too many."
Ye Chuchu asked, "Why?"
Mifen explained, "Chu Chu, if there are too many people, our food will be limited."
"Oh," Ye Chuchu realized. Food was a major issue, and it would be a while before the newly planted seeds could be harvested.
Yuto Saito said to the girls, "I'll upgrade the Floating Island now."
"Mhmm," the girls all said, full of anticipation.
Upgrading the Floating Island
Yuto Saito thought to himself, "System, upgrade the Floating Island."
System: "Ding! Consume 100,000 white crystals to upgrade the Floating Island to Level 6. Please choose items for the host."
The system presented 20 different options, including new buildings for the main city and the outer city. Yuto Saito carefully considered the choices, noting that he could now pick six items and that the main city now had a new barrier option. Given the large amount of spar he had, he decided to focus on the main city first and expand the outer city with the next upgrade.
He made his choices quickly. "I choose options 1, 2, and 3. All three main city options. And I'll also take options 6, 16, and 17."
The system repeated his choices: "The host has selected options 1, 2, 3, 6, 16, and 17. Are you sure?"
Yuto Saito confirmed, "Yes."
System: "Please choose the location of the large warehouse and the public toilets."
Yuto Saito placed the large warehouse in the middle of the exchange and the farm. He then built the public toilets in the middle of the greenhouse planting area and the farm, making them convenient for the residents.
System: "Ding! Upgrading."