[Suna, captain of the Astrologer, has used the rare item—Ship Merge Card, and is requesting to merge ships with you. The resources in both ships' holds will be combined.][Agree/Refuse][Agree!][Please vote for the new captain. If there is a tie, the merge will fail, and the card will be returned.Note: The captain has absolute jurisdiction. A new election will only be held after the ❀ Nоvеlігht ❀ (Don’t copy, read here) captain's death.]Yang Yi immediately voted for himself. Of course, Suna would vote for him too. This was something they had agreed upon before the merge. Yang Yi had to be the captain. He didn't feel safe letting Suna take the helm. Knowing her personality, she'd most likely sail the ship into some trench just to feed a sea monster and confirm if its appetite was big enough…After the merge was complete, the ship interface in both of their logs became identical, but Yang Yi held the main authority. He could assign certain permissions to Suna, including resource allocation, hull expansion, helming, and restricting access to certain rooms. The ship also got a chance to be renamed. Its default name was a combination of the two special ships' names: Nightmare Astrologer. The name was too long, so Yang Yi deleted two characters and changed it to Nyxstar.Barring any accidents, the Nyxstar should be the first merged ship among all the players. Normally, a merge required a certain amount of resources to modify the hull, but now, that cost was factored into the reconstruction.To rebuild the Nyxstar, a total of Wood x700, Cloth x300, Stone x100, Crystal x20, and Steel x10 were needed. Seeing the steel and stone requirements, Yang Yi was quite satisfied. This ship should be much sturdier. The resource gap was still in wood, with a slight shortage of stone and cloth as well. Yang Yi had been hoping that after the merge, Suna could provide some material assistance, but who knew… her ship's hold was practically empty! Wood x1, Cloth x2. She was poorer than a beggar. Was she even trying to survive?Now, the total wood in the hold was 59, a shortfall of a whopping 641. The stone count was 44, short by 56. The cloth count was 274, short by 26.On the island, stone was easy to get. You could always find plenty of rocks on the island and the nearby shoals. For cloth, he'd have to try his luck fishing, but luckily, he wasn't short by much. But the wood… he didn't know if there were enough trees on the island to cut…"Suna, how much wood have you collected?" Yang Yi asked. Before he woke up, Suna had already used the flintlock to blast down a large number of trees. The noise must have been tremendous, yet he had been completely oblivious. No wonder Suna said he slept like a dead pig…"I've collected a total of 292 wood. If we dig up the roots of these trees, we might get a little more," she replied."Counting the stock in the hold, we have a total of 351 wood. We're still quite short…" Yang Yi frowned. He couldn't trade right now; he could only rely on gathering.He looked around. Even the trees that were submerged but close by had been cut down by Suna. Only in the distance, a few hundred meters away on the sea's surface, were there some treetops still visible—trees that had been submerged before she had a chance to cut them. To get more wood, the only way was to try to swim over, blast them with the gun, and then haul them back. Luckily, the storm had stopped, the sea was calm, and the water level probably wouldn't rise any further."Give me back my gun!" Yang Yi demanded his precious flintlock back."You gather some stones on the island and the shoals. We need 56 units. Don't bother digging up the roots; you'd be better off crafting a fishing rod and trying to fish. I'll swim a bit further out and bring back some wood," Yang Yi organized."Alright!" Suna agreed at once. Yang Yi had the sharkskin swimsuit, which reduced swimming stamina consumption, so he was the most suitable person for the job.But before they started, the two of them had to fill their stomachs. Catching fish was the most convenient and quickest option. Yang Yi even had a gun that could fire underwater, making fishing effortless. In just fifteen minutes, he had caught two fat groupers. But because he'd used the gun, the fish were in pieces. The two of them made do and ate. Afterwards, Yang Yi swam off into the distance, while Suna started gathering stones and fishing.Perhaps because it was a buffer zone, there were no monsters in the sea. The whole process went very smoothly. After swimming about a hundred meters, he started seeing trees.BOOM!Sparks and a gunshot exploded underwater, scaring away the nearby fish. After another shot, a log thirty centimeters in diameter floated to the surface. It was the thickest tree in the vicinity. Yang Yi could carry two logs back at most in one trip. He tried to pick the thickest ones to get more wood.Half an hour later, Yang Yi returned with two relatively thick logs, which the system registered as 18 wood. But the combination of swimming, diving, and pushing the logs ashore was like a triathlon. One trip consumed more than 30 of his energy. He could only make two round trips at most before he had to lie down on the island to recover. Without the Vitality Coconut Refresher, his energy recovered very slowly. He only managed to complete five trips in a day, harvesting a total of 93 wood.On Suna's side, she had gathered enough stones, and then some, collecting 74 units. Gathering stones on an island was probably the easiest and most relaxing job, as long as you found an island. As for fishing, Suna's luck was exceptionally good. Maybe it was because of the newcomer protection period, but she had managed to catch two bottles of Nongfu Spring, and the 2L kind at that. The fish she caught all went into their stomachs. In addition, she had also obtained 5 wood and 8 cloth.At this rate, they would be able to rebuild their ship in four to five days at most.At night, for safety's sake, neither of them risked activities like fishing or logging. Instead, they hid in the center of the island, waiting for daylight. They also arranged a night watch, with Suna taking the first half and Yang Yi the second. Although there was no bed, Yang Yi slept soundly. It was much more comfortable than sleeping on the Nightmare. No more nightmares.In the chat channel, everyone was now guessing who the three remaining players in the storm region were and why they hadn't come out yet."I bet those three are in the belly of a giant worm, not yet fully digested!""It's better if they don't come out. That way, the game won't proceed to the next stage, and we can take the opportunity to upgrade our ships and gather resources!""Could they have found a hidden instance at sea and are on a secret mission?"In short, there were all kinds of guesses. But they could never have guessed that Yang Yi and Suna's ships had sunk and they were currently gathering materials to rebuild. As for the other person, Yang Yi had no idea what their situation was. They might be repairing their ship too, for all he knew.Some of the people who had added Yang Yi as a friend were asking if he was safe and if he had made it out. (These were some of the people who had sent him gifts back in the storm region, and he had added them as friends.)To this, Yang Yi gave a unified reply before going to sleep. It was just six words."Ship blew up, rebuilding it!""Holy crap, a pro is a pro. Even with his ship blown up, he's fine!""Awesome! Are you looking for a leg-hugging pendant?"

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