Yun Luohe thought it over and decided to join the senior group of the Mutual Aid Association.This group was only formed in autumn and had a little over a hundred members.Most inside were founding veterans who had stayed with the Mutual Aid Association from the beginning to now. Some were high-level talents. They weren’t as spotlighted as the trainees’ group, but their current development was solid.By joining this group, Yun Luohe was publicly acknowledging herself as the power behind the Mutual Aid Association.The timing wasn’t ideal, but she judged it was time.With the whole game about to merge districts, the Association needed stronger cohesion. Her going public would be like a shot of adrenaline for members, giving them confidence to keep surviving.She would also do everything she could to help—not just by putting some exchangeable supplies into the Association like before, but by leading everyone to develop better, to live better alongside survival.Mu Zitang was over the moon when he learned Yun Luohe was about to join the main Association chat.In the senior group he fired off several messages in a row, teasing that a major figure was about to enter.He whetted everyone’s appetite.Of course, plenty of players could guess that the “major figure” was likely Yun Luohe.But when Yun Luohe made a dazzling entrance, the whole crowd still exploded in squeals.—Very soon, under Yun Luohe’s organization, over a hundred people signed up for the diving team—nearly everyone in the group wanted in.However, slots for the diving team were limited; anyone wanting in still had to pass an assessment.This diving team was, in essence, a private team Yun Luohe built for herself.She wanted a squad strong enough to unleash maximum combat power underwater and work for her.In total, there would be twenty people.First, she would equip each person with a set of Pearl Scale Armor.In addition, High-Grade Diving Suits, Diatom Filtration Respirators, Night Vision Potions… all of these would be fully issued.Beyond that, Yun Luohe would also provide the food and drinks.In other words, she would supply everything, offering maximum support, sending them below to explore, guaranteeing each team member’s safety—so long as they did their best to find the materials on her list and explore more of the seafloor ruins.Members could keep one quarter of whatever they found; the rest would be handed over to Yun Luohe.Anything not on the list they could keep for themselves, or use to trade with Yun Luohe for supplies they needed.At the same time, players had to sign an agreement with Yun Luohe. If they breached it, they would have to pay her an equivalent value in upgrade materials; otherwise, the system would directly deduct equivalent materials from their backpacks, and if backpack materials were insufficient, their Reef Level would be reduced.So once they signed the agreement, players wouldn’t dare breach it lightly.Yun Luohe delegated the assessment of diving-team members to Cheng Xuening.Over a hundred applicants—every single one had to sit for an interview assessment.Requirements for team members: strong swimming, quick reactions, awakened with a Trait, Luck ≥ 60…On Luck alone, half the applicants were eliminated.[Unlimited good reads, all at Jinjiang Literature City.]Yun Luohe’s own Luck was poor, so her seafloor hauls were often modest; compared to those luck-blessed emperors, most of her resources came from trades, system rewards, and trash-bin recycling.Since the point of forming a diving team was to find materials, of course the ones with good Luck should go.Cheng Xuening took a full day to finally pick out the right candidates.To thank her, Yun Luohe gave Cheng Xuening two portions of gold-tier anti-radiation cuisine.With those dishes, Cheng Xuening felt she could land an island with confidence tomorrow.Like Yun Luohe, she planned to spend the next two days exploring an island.Given the large intake of new players entering the game, Cheng Xuening’s leveling speed was already very fast.In a short time she’d climbed to the tail end of the top twenty on the Comprehensive Rating leaderboard; among new players, she was a name everyone knew.For this island trip, she had another objective: to find upgrade materials for her pet tree monkey.Tree monkeys were extremely intelligent and relatively hard to level. But Cheng Xuening had obtained a field guide describing how to help simian pets level quickly; one rare material it called for was the Emerald Tree Heart.She had collected two, but still needed two more.The last time Yun Luohe met Yu Chenjin, she’d seen him take out this material. Unfortunately, Yun never obtained any herself.According to intel held by the Tianji Pavilion:Emerald Tree Hearts currently only appeared on Rainforest Isle and Ancient Tree Isle.Rainforest Isle was one of spring’s four major islands.If players got lucky and found a millennial banyan, felling it had a chance to drop an Emerald Tree Heart.As for Ancient Tree Isle,to get a higher drop chance, more than 100 portions of resin had to be offered at the ancient altar before an Emerald Tree Heart could drop.This intel had come to the Tianji Pavilion via a family contact.Its reliability still needed to be verified.Even so, Cheng Xuening could only try to find some—she was willing to burn a Designated Island Entry Card for it.Yun Luohe had planned to wait until others in their district went to Ancient Tree Isle to verify the intel before going.But after hearing that feeding the tree monkey just four Emerald Tree Hearts would immediately level it and grant two special skills, she changed her stance.Self-Heal Speed +50%, and the ability to summon Tree Vines to bind enemies—once unlocked, those two skills would massively boost the tree monkey’s combat power. No wonder Cheng Xuening didn’t want to wait; if it were Yun Luohe, she’d be in just as much of a hurry.Roubao and Yuntun hadn’t leveled in a long time.Yuntun had gone up a few levels before, but Roubao was hard to level.Perhaps she still didn’t know the right method.—Back to business: once the diving team was organized, Yun Luohe spent half a day issuing supplies to all twenty members.Just crafting the Pearl Scale Armor sets consumed huge amounts of her time, effort, and materials.Fortunately, her pearl reserves were substantial. The cultured pearl oysters she’d raised had been producing continuously; even after finishing these twenty sets of Pearl Scale Armor, she still had over a thousand pearls left in her chests.For anti-radiation food, she gave them Sandworm Skewers and regular Starlight Kelp Bisque.Regular Starlight Kelp could be made into anti-radiation bisque; the effect wasn’t as strong as the variant made with Golden Starlight Kelp, but it still provided about half the potency.On top of that, Yun Luohe gave them full intel on several seafloor ruins and the Seafloor Map, so these twenty could locate materials underwater with ease.Over one night, the haul was truly substantial.Early the next morning, Yun Luohe got up and checked the diving-team group chat.【Seafloor Squad-21】Xu Haiyue: “Captain Yun, materials found: Mother-of-Pearl ×1, Starlight Kelp ×14, Red Mushroom ×4, Golden Starlight Kelp ×2, Mutant Seagrass ×2, Mutant Coral ×4…”Meng Xiaoyuan: “Found Mother-of-Pearl ×2, Merman Tear Crystal ×1, Black Conch ×1, Golden Seahorse ×1, Squid Ink Sac ×1…”Zhai Rui: “Umbral Black Serpent Hide ×2, Blue Crystal Fragments ×2, Starlight Kelp ×4, Black Conch ×2…”Li Jiayan: “I only obtained one Giant Jellyfish Umbrella Membrane.”…………Everyone had found quite a bit. They kept a quarter for themselves; the rest was handed over via the group, designated for Yun Luohe to claim.Yun Luohe clicked to receive them one by one, then spent ten minutes sorting everything.You can’t snare a wolf without sacrificing the lamb—she’d spent heavily yesterday, and today she had at least made back half.Taking in so many high-grade seafloor materials in one breath—There was a lot she could craft now.Without minding anything else, Yun Luohe hurriedly pulled out the stored blueprints.[Damaged Merman Luminous Coronet: After repair, increases underwater vision by 50 meters and grants night vision.][Repair Materials: Mother-of-Pearl ×20, Obsidian ×10, Phosphorescent Squid Ink Sac ×5]She had finally saved up enough Mother-of-Pearl; Yun fed in the materials and repaired the coronet in one go.The freshly repaired Merman Luminous Coronet flickered with a ghostly blue light. The inlaid Mother-of-Pearl glowed with a gentle luster; it felt cool to the touch in her hand.She tried it on.No special sensation—probably only effective in water or at night.She then took out: [Damaged Pearl Blue-Sea Belt: After repair, can hold up to 80 kg of goods and has a preservation function.][Repair Materials: Giant Jellyfish Umbrella Membrane ×1, Blood Crystal ×10, Crystal ×5]The repaired belt had a fist-sized Blood Crystal set in the center—most likely the preservation energy core.The Pearl Blue-Sea Belt’s use case was similar to the portable preservation ring Yun had gotten before, but the belt didn’t occupy inventory slots; it calculated by weight.Which meant she could stash a lot of food. When heading out, she only needed to put raw ingredients in here,and keep finished dishes in the portable preservation ring—sorted separately for easy access.[Unlimited good reads, all at Jinjiang Literature City.]She could also now craft the Conch Communicator per its blueprint.[Conch Communicator: Links a pair of conches for one-to-one calls. Usable 3 times per day; each call lasts up to 30 minutes. Each call consumes 10 Deep-Sea Flint.][Crafting Materials: Black Conch ×2, Copper Ingot ×2, Electric Wire ×2, Mother-of-Pearl ×1]Yun Luohe had obtained several Black Conches, and Mother-of-Pearl was no longer scarce, so she crafted two sets of communicators at once, using four conches total.When she lifted one conch in each hand at the same time, they suddenly thrummed, then trilled like little bells.Blue light flashed from the lip of each shell, and a handset icon appeared on the light screen.Haha—pretty clever, just like making a phone call.Since one set was a one-to-one link, each conch was exclusive to its paired mate.She kept two for herself and gave the other two to Mu Zitang and Cheng Xuening.From now on, they could call her anytime.She would craft more communicators later; when the diving-team members explored underwater, they could stay connected at all times, greatly improving safety and exploration efficiency.At present the Black Conch had no other use anyway, so any she obtained could go straight into communicators.Mu Zitang and Cheng Xuening were delighted upon receiving their Conch Communicators. Mu Zitang immediately placed a call.“Boss Yun! This thing is amazing—too bad we can only use it three times a day.”“How many times were you planning to call? I’m busy; I can’t sit here gossiping with you all day.”“Haha, I know. I mean if you need anything, just conch-call me. I can act immediately—in case I miss a text.”“Three times is enough. Under normal circumstances nothing’s that urgent.”Right after finishing with Mu Zitang, Cheng Xuening called.“Luohe, I’m heading out to Ancient Tree Isle. Want to come? The resources there are solid—you interested?”Yun Luohe hesitated but declined. She truly was curious about Ancient Tree Isle—intel said it was very mysterious and resource-rich, and with good Luck you could find rare tree species—but she’d decided to make another run to Spider Island.And no matter how rare the tree species, they couldn’t outclass the Starwish Tree.She already had a Starwish Tree; going to Ancient Tree Isle now wouldn’t mean much.And she had a Spider Island Treasure Cave Map—a Spider Island run would undoubtedly yield the most.Spider Island was Yuntun’s old home. Bringing it back might even help Yuntun level.There were many places on Spider Island she hadn’t fully explored before.A High-Grade Designated Island Token would allow her to revisit spring-limited and summer-limited islands.Conveniently, she still had some spring materials left uncollected—such as recipes from the Picnic Recipe Book she’d obtained earlier.[Picnic Recipe Book: A complete field guide to wild-vegetable picnic dishes; uses only common edible wild plants to produce delicious food.Effects rival high-grade cuisine. Each new dish crafted from the book grants +200 Cooking Skill.]Those recipes called for wild greens, and spring had the most wild greens.If she wanted to level Cooking quickly, she needed to clear more dishes from the Picnic Recipe Book and the Dark Cuisine compendium.“I’ve got other plans. You go ahead. Call me anytime if something comes up—I’ll keep the conch on me.”It was still early.Yun Luohe first watered the Starwish Tree with Golden Nutrient Solution, then fed Roubao some anti-radiation food and left it on the Reef to handle chores.What she gave would protect it from radiation for about an hour and a half—enough for odd ★ 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 ★ jobs, but not for shell-fishing.The radiation fog at the reef’s edge was the densest. She couldn’t let Roubao risk wading for shells. Since she wouldn’t be home, if anything happened to Roubao, the loss would outweigh the gain. Better to skip the shelling.—After finishing preparations, Yun Luohe took out a High-Grade Designated Island Token and tapped “Use.”At the island selection prompt, she entered three characters: Spider Island.Soon she was riding a skiff toward Spider Island.This time she was carrying a lot.Thinking back, her last visit to Spider Island had been in the first few days of spring.Back then, her gear and supplies were nowhere near as complete as they were now, and Spider Island had still been fairly dangerous to her.This time, she also had Yuntun—the high-grade Mutated Silverback Wolf Spider—to assist. She figured she could sweep the whole of Spider Island with ease.Before long, Spider Island—long absent—reappeared before her eyes.It was a spring-limited island.But nothing had frozen in springtime.Not as Yun Luohe had imagined.[Welcome to Spider Island…]Where the island had once been filled with pale violet mist, all of it had turned into dense green fog.Clearly, radiation had blanketed it—and severely.Yun Luohe’s face changed; a bad premonition rose in her chest.She frowned, hesitating over whether to release Yuntun now.Even if this was its old home, the fog would still harm it.Stepping into the forest—the towering trees had taken on strange colors; brown trunks had turned black, and the leaves shed a purple fluorescence.The canopies were still thick with webs, but the webs had turned green—like viscous, disgusting mucus strung over the branches.

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