[Nightmare — Level 1 | Durability: 300/300 | Capacity: 400 units | Speed: 40 knots]
Ship Skills
Nightmare:Sleeping on this ship causes nightmares. Energy recovery efficiency -75%.
Fisherman's Curse:This ship is cursed. It cannot catch normal fish.
Description:This ship has drifted across the sea for hundreds of years, and has finally welcomed its new master…
After reading the ship's information, Yang Yi's face turned unpleasant.
This ship was a ghost ship.
The outside of the hull was covered in barnacles and seaweed, clearly untouched for years.
The deck was damp as well. Every step on it produced a creaking sound.
Yang Yi had played plenty of horror games.
In scenes like this, there was a high probability that something nasty was hiding nearby.
Fortunately, after searching the ship thoroughly, he didn't find anything else that could move.
Yang Yi let out a long sigh of relief.
He really didn't want his adventure to begin with a dramatic battle against some unknown creature.
By now, he had also figured out the layout of the ship.
The vessel was about twelve meters long, consisting of the helm, captain's cabin, deck, and cargo hold.
The helm was located on a raised platform at the bow of the deck, giving a good field of view.
Behind it was the captain's cabin, which contained a bed and some simple furniture.
Further back was the central deck, where a tall mast stood upright.
At the stern was the cargo hold, which led into the interior of the ship and was meant for storing goods.
Yang Yi had already checked the cargo hold.
It was completely empty.
Not even a bug could be found—only a damp, nauseating smell of mold filled the air.
His starting supplies were zero.
After all, this ghost ship had been drifting on the sea for who knew how many years.
If there had been food or water left, that would have been the strange part.
Yang Yi opened the Sailing Log again and began browsing the world chat, hoping to see what discoveries others had made.
Most people were showing off their ships.
The majority were ordinary ships, though there were also some special vessels. Among them, several stood out.
[Gale — Level 1 | Durability: 800/800 | Capacity: 500 units | Speed: 70 knots]
Ship Skill
Ride the Wind and Waves:Ship speed increases by 100% for 5 minutes.
Description:Trust me—you won't even be able to smell its exhaust.
This was probably the fastest ship so far.
Other basic ships, depending on their size, generally had speeds between 30 and 40 knots.
Larger ships usually had higher durability but lower speed.
Yang Yi's Nightmare was slightly above average in speed.
[Sakura — Level 1 | Durability: 1000/1000 | Capacity: 1000 units | Speed: 35 knots]
Blessing Radiance:The sakura tree on the ship occasionally emits evolutionary blessings, randomly altering crew attributes and possibly triggering evolution.
Description:Hopefully the crew remain human.
When this information appeared, the world chat fell silent for several seconds—a rare occurrence.
Then someone spoke.
"HAHA! My ship is awesome! I think I'm evolving already! Wryyyyy!"
"Are you sure that's not mutation?"
"Sakura, huh? You'd better sail fast. If I run into you, I'll shove a cannon barrel straight up your—"
The message came from Steel Resolve, which had removed anonymity and displayed its ship name.
It also posted a photo using the log's screenshot feature.
It showed a steel warship, armed to the teeth.
There were twenty cannons on both sides alone.
Its firepower was absolutely terrifying.
But once everyone remembered that its speed was only five knots, the chat burst into laughter.
"Baka! Survive until tomorrow first!"
"D*mn it! Just you wait!"
The rest of the conversation quickly devolved into censored insults.
Yang Yi quietly typed a message:
"Count me in."
Then he continued scrolling through the chat and finally found something interesting.
"Has anyone tried fishing yet?"
"Quiet, I'm fishing right now!"
"Now that I know we can fish, I suddenly don't want to go home."
"I fish once a week, but each time lasts a week!"
"I just finished setting my bait spot."
"Your ship is moving. How the hell are you setting a bait spot, idiot?"
"D*mn! Why didn't you say that earlier? I wasted my black bread!"
"What do you think I caught? A bottle of Farmer's Spring water!"
Yang Yi's eyes lit up.
If fresh water could be fished up, things would become much easier.
His ship also had a fishing rod, lying on the deck.
[Name: Moldy Fishing Rod Covered in Barnacles]
Type: RelicQuality: Fine
Description:Trust me—you won't like what this thing catches.
Reduces the chance of catching normal fish, slightly increases the chance of catching unknown objects.
"Those 'unknown objects' must include fresh water," Yang Yi concluded.
But before fishing, he needed to adjust the ship's direction and speed.
He didn't have any destination yet.
So he decided to follow the default course and sail straight ahead at full speed.
At the far edge of his vision behind him, there was a faint black line in the distance.
That was probably the boundary of the black fog.
So sailing forward was definitely the right choice.
Operating the ship was surprisingly simple.
It didn't require any skill at all.
It was basically magic.
As long as he held the helm, he could easily control the ship's direction, speed, and devices—such as the grappling hook.
Overall, it felt very similar to the sailing games he had played before.
Players could use the grappling hook to grab floating objects drifting in the sea.
As for the ship's power source…
Yang Yi glanced at the mast, where only a few tattered pieces of cloth hung.
He decided not to think too deeply about it and focused on collecting floating debris instead.
[Rotten Wood +1][Rotten Wood +1][Torn Cloth +1][Rotten Wood +1]
Notifications kept appearing in the Sailing Log activity record.
The gameplay felt a bit like Gold Miner, except the targets were moving.
Once an item was hooked, it would be converted into resources and stored in the cargo hold.
Each piece of rotten wood had a chance to convert into 1 unit of lumber, while cloth scraps became 1 unit of fabric.
Yang Yi roughly estimated the probability.
It was less than 10%.
In other words, grabbing ten pieces of rotten wood would roughly produce one unit of lumber.
If he targeted better-looking driftwood, the success rate was slightly higher.
After more than one hundred attempts, Yang Yi finally gathered:
5 units of lumber
3 units of fabric
It took three hours, and the efficiency wasn't very high.
But this was a skill-based task.
With more practice, the efficiency would surely improve.
These materials could be used to upgrade the ship.
To upgrade the Nightmare to Level 2, he needed:
[Lumber ×200 | Fabric ×100 | Captain's Remains]
Yang Yi already knew what the remains referred to.
It was obviously the skeleton in the captain's cabin.
So that skeleton definitely couldn't be thrown away.
Even at a conservative estimate, gathering that much lumber and fabric would take over a week.
And this was only Level 1.
Upgrading later levels would probably be even harder.
But the fact that upgrading required a corpse…
Yang Yi suddenly realized something.
Special ships might have different upgrade requirements.
He quickly checked the chat channel.
And sure enough—he was right.
Normal ships needed far fewer materials.
They only required 100 lumber and 50 fabric, with no corpse required.
As for the Steel Resolve…
Its upgrade material was steel.
"D*mn it! Where the hell am I supposed to find steel in the ocean?!"
"Everyone knows iron sinks in water. It's all on the seabed!"
"Fishermen can catch anything! I just caught 1 unit of steel!"
"Huh?!"
"Buying steel at a high price! Whoever gives me steel can join my crew!"
"Baka! Worry about surviving tomorrow first! The black fog is almost catching up to you!"
"Sakura, huh? Stop hiding behind anonymity! Just wait till I find you!"
Yang Yi closed the log.
It seemed special ships weren't entirely advantages.
Their upgrades were harder, making it easy to fall behind in levels.
He picked up the fishing rod.
It was finally time to start fishing.