EBE Chapter 72 The Compensation of the Humus-Generating Wet Nurse
Chapter 72 The Compensation of the Humus-Generating Wet Nurse
Chapter 72 The Compensation of the Humus-Generating Wet Nurse
[Exit confirmed. Calculating rewards — Preparing to teleport —]
The seawater around the "Little Yellow Duck" began to shimmer, and the familiar slight distortion of space returned.
The next moment, the "Little Yellow Duck" returned to its original position before entering the instance, with Zhang Xinlan's "No Insects Under Heaven" raft floating beside it. It was as if they had never left.
Zhang Xinlan returned to her job as a fish oil press worker. As a storm approached, in order to speed up the process, Yu Wang used the surplus materials on hand to make four more oil extractors to work together, making a total of five, including the first one.
Five oil extractors are not the limit for materials; space is.
If there are any more, even the space for sleeping and activities will be squeezed out.
However, Yu Wang is not worried. Once he has enjoyed the "fish oil bonus" brought by this storm, he can sell the extra machines.
He suppressed his smile and began to focus on taking stock of the biggest gains from this dungeon run.
When the system settled the score, his final score was 1427 points, which meant that he had brought out 1427 valid beans.
However, some of them had been bitten by him and Zhang Xinlan, and were "residual beans" that had lost their special effects. There were about 10 of these.
Therefore, the total number of beans with special effects is 1417.
其中肌肉豆176颗、体力豆445颗、美味豆375颗、治疗豆185颗、精神豆142
15 Fire Resistance Beans, 40 Dark Resistance Beans, and 39 Poison Resistance Beans.
It was a great harvest!
With these supplies, you won't have to worry about running out of supplies in the "Stinky Bug Dungeon"!
Even if you're on drugs and force it, you can still push it through!
After counting, Yu Wang carefully put the beans away.
The "Little Yellow Duck" continues its steady journey toward its destination, "Crescent Island".
The map showed that they had entered an area frequented by sea monsters, but now the ship had two cannons, which could deal with any sea monster, whether it was a large, heavy one or a small, agile one.
It's 2 PM now.
Yu Wang glanced at the system time; another instance he was following, "Seaweed Farm," was only a dozen hours away from being forcibly closed.
Instead of immediately teleporting into the "Seaweed Farm," he first took out the crucial [Universal Supply Ship Summoning Card (Blank)].
Enter "Guo Di Lao Hot Pot Branch No. 10" above, check repeatedly for any errors or omissions, and only submit after confirming that there are no problems.
The "Universal Supply Ship Summoning Card (Guo Di Lao Hot Pot Branch 10)" has been successfully used! The supply ship will arrive in 72 hours! Please prepare accordingly and pay attention to sea conditions!
Having dealt with this major matter, Yu Wang felt he had accomplished an important task. He ate two Stamina Beans to quickly recover the stamina he had depleted on the rocky island.
Only then did he enter the farm with his equipment and Duck B.
A familiar, slight feeling of weightlessness came over me.
The next moment, Yu Wang and Ya B appeared on the wooden platform.
However, before he could observe his surroundings, he discovered a figure standing almost face-to-face with him.
It wasn't the same dugong uncle from before, but a smaller dugong with lighter skin and a much younger appearance!
It seemed to have been waiting there the whole time, and when it saw Yu Wang appear, it was clearly startled and shrank back.
Yu Wang silently added in his mind, "A young and shy dugong."
"Hello—you," the young dugong stammered, his voice soft.
Yu Wang frowned slightly: "What is it? If it's not important, I have to go to work."
With the instance about to close, and the quest still at 55% completion, he didn't want to waste any more time. "Yes! Yes!" the young dugong hurriedly said, sounding somewhat flustered. "It's like this. My uncle, the one who received you before, is now suspected of betraying the doctrine and is under investigation. So—the farm is temporarily under my care. After you complete the quest and leave, the farm will also need to undergo a full investigation."
It paused, seemingly under immense pressure from Wang Ping's calm gaze, but still managed to finish its sentence: "I—I noticed Uncle left in a hurry, and it seems he forgot—to send you the tools for this cleanup mission beforehand. So, I thought—I'd wait here for you to come in and give you these."
As he spoke, the young dugong handed over two things: a drawing and a glass bottle containing about 50 milliliters of a slightly milky white, viscous liquid.
Yu Wang accepted it without making a sound.
[Fish Skin Soft Armor Pattern]
[Quality: White]
[Materials: 5 pieces of sharkskin, 60 pieces of fiber, 10 pieces of fabric, 5 pieces of grease]
[Description: A simple protective armor made by sewing together treated fish skin and fabric. It is relatively soft, does not hinder movement, and provides some protection against punctures and blunt force trauma. It is a good choice for underwater workers.]
Diluted milk
[Type: Consumable]
[Quality: Green]
[Description: This product is derived from the milk of the great being, the "Hydrogenating Mother," after being carefully diluted over a million times. It contains a trace of life and purifying power. It can be used to accelerate plant growth and also to neutralize some common biological toxins.]
After reading the descriptions of the two items, Yu Wang instantly understood!
Including the [Bubble Helmet] that I "scammed" out of the old dugong, wow, now I have the "three-piece set" for clearing the sea urchin dungeon!
The bubble helmet provides underwater breathing.
The Fish Skin Soft Armor blueprint provides body protection and is specifically designed to counter sea urchin spikes.
Diluted milk provides detoxification to counteract sea urchin toxins.
With these three items, the danger of cleaning those circumferential thorn gallbladders will be greatly reduced!
And that old dugong actually embezzled so many crucial mission aids?! He only gave us a breathing helmet and sent us to a farm teeming with poisonous sea urchins?!
"He actually embezzled so much?!" Yu Wang's eyes suddenly turned cold, and a surge of anger rose from the bottom of his heart.
He knows it!
Even if a level 1 dungeon set within the jurisdiction of a "Good and Lawful" deity is challenging, it shouldn't be made so insidious and deadly that one careless move could lead to poisoning and death!
It turns out that old bastard was behind it all! To steal these little things, or perhaps just to see outsiders suffer, he actually dared to withhold the purification items and protective gear bestowed by the "gods"?!
What a guy who would abandon his beliefs for profit!
The bottom line is indeed unfathomable!
If I had these three support items from the start, I would have cleared this dungeon long ago!
"What about the cleaning tools?" Yu Wang suppressed his anger, carefully put away the blueprints and milk, and calmly asked the key question.
Even with protection and detoxification, without suitable cleaning tools, efficiency will be greatly reduced.
Therefore, cleaning tools will most likely also be provided.
"Oh! The tools are here!" The young dugong quickly took out a rusty metal rake from a shed nearby.
Yu Wang took the rake; it felt heavy in his hand.
He checked it and found that this rake did not have an attribute panel like the previous items; it was just an ordinary tool. He never expected that it would be embezzled!
How come you didn't choke to death!
The young dugong completed all the guidance work for a dungeon NPC, living up to the task of "humic milk mother," and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Um—I'll stay in the shed next door. If—if you have any questions during the cleanup, you can come and ask me again."
After it finished speaking, it seemed that staying by Yu Wang's side for even a second longer would be torture. It hurriedly turned around, wagging its tail fin, and fled back to the small shed as if it were escaping, and even gently and carefully closed the door.
Yu Wang gripped the rake handle, looking in the direction where the young dugong had disappeared, then glanced at the two new items he had acquired, his eyes gleaming.
If he hadn't used the summoning card earlier, he would have already contacted an environmental organization to shut this place down!
However, on second thought, it's no longer necessary to go through that trouble.
That old man's dereliction of duty has probably been exposed long ago. Otherwise, why would his farm be temporarily taken over and even face investigation?
The respectful yet fearful attitude of the young Ruliang when he mentioned the "humic milk mother," and its hurried arrival to replenish supplies, itself indicated that the higher-ups had already noticed or received word of it and were intervening.
"He only has himself to blame," Yu Wang muttered to himself. He then returned to the "Little Yellow Duck" and used 10 units of sharkskin to make two sets of soft fish skin armor on the workbench, casually tossing one to the little cockroach.
Yu Wang returned to the instance, ready to unleash his full potential.
Now that we're fully equipped, it's time to go and meet those "ringed thorns".
In the western area, where sea urchins are not so densely distributed, they already have an efficient monster-killing process, so the cleanup work is not complicated.
However, soft armor is definitely not as protective as hard armor. Even though Yu Wang and Ya B were on high alert and had unlimited supply of "stamina beans" and "healing beans" to fight monsters, it still took them more than three hours to complete the mission.
[Disassembly yields: 4 Poisonous Thorns, 1 Poison Sac]
As a sea urchin burst open, the progress bar on the task panel finally reached 100%!
In an instant, two dazzling colored fireworks suddenly rose into Yu Wang's sight. After the fireworks dissipated, a virtual gift bag tied with a ribbon and emitting a soft white light quietly floated in front of him.
[Congratulations on clearing the "Seaweed Farm" dungeon ahead of schedule with 100% completion!]
[Rewards: 10 Empty Core Fragments, 30 Pearl Coins, and a bag of mixed seaweed seeds]
[Bonus Reward: Compensation for a humic lactating mother x1]
As the reward list popped up, Yu Wang felt the surrounding seawater begin to ripple slightly, and a gentle force enveloped him and Ya B.
The next glance, and I was teleported out of the instance.
Yu Wang noticed the extra reward in the gift pack. "Compensation?"
A thought struck him, and he raised an eyebrow slightly.
The wording is subtle. A reward is a reward, so why specifically use "compensation"?
Is this compensation for the old Confucian scholar's withholding of supplies, which led to an abnormally high level of difficulty in the mission and almost caused an accident?
"The righteous gods are great! They even offer compensation!" Yu Wang, who had always dealt with evil gods, couldn't help but mutter in admiration. "No wonder so many people have flocked to the righteous gods; their outward appearances are impeccable! I'll never call the righteous gods hypocritical again!"
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