Grand Voyage : Surviving on a Ghost Ship-Chapter 199 - First Collaboration

Yang Yi was worrying about not being able to find a suitably sized rotwhale, but unexpectedly, Shen Guanquan brought him a surprise.

“Are you sure that’s a rotwhale?”

“I’m sure.”

Shen Guanquan shared the Farmer’s ship information and interface with Yang Yi.

【Farmer (rotwhale), Level 4, Durability: ????, Capacity: -, Sailing Speed: 40 knots】

【Skills: ???? 】【Expanded Facilities: Food Storage Warehouse, Food Processing Workshop, Sunlight Breeding Room, Super Compost Chamber】【Description: This ship has gained freedom. It no longer needs a human to steer it and will go wherever it pleases. The captain has lost control of this vessel but can still see its coordinates on the world map.】

From the information provided, it was clear that the ship had indeed become a rotwhale.

The ship interface was flashing red all over, with many structures damaged. From the Farmer’s top-deck Sunlight Breeding Room, massive vines extended outwards, wrapping around the entire ship.

Judging by the status image alone, it was hard to even connect the Farmer with the concept of a ship anymore. It looked more like a dense mass of plants, vines wrapping the whole hull, piercing the deck, sprouting stems and leaves…

【Ship length: 964 meters, width (at widest point): 722 meters…】

The ship’s interface recorded its size and other parametres.

But these clearly weren’t the Farmer’s original dimensions, they had to be the rotwhale’s.

The Farmer was inside the rotwhale, and the Fruit of Bounty was most likely in the Sunlight Breeding Room.

Yang Yi deduced as much from the ship’s data and interface.

From the numbers, this rotwhale was quite small, probably the miniature rotwhale Yang Yi had been searching for all along. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

And Shen Guanquan was offering a very generous reward, a Mid-grade Abyssal Soul Stone.

Yang Yi was inclined to accept, but for safety’s sake, he asked a few more questions, especially about the Sunlight Breeding Room.

“How did the Farmer turn into a rot whale? And what’s inside the Sunlight Breeding Room?”

Yang Yi asked, unwilling to believe that room had become the rotwhale’s core for no reason.

After receiving the private message, Shen Guanquan went silent for over ten seconds, probably thinking. Then he replied, “Because of that rain…”

The Farmer was a special ship, growing large amounts of crops and equipped with skills that boosted plant growth.

When those crops encountered rain laced with Delicious Cells, and were further influenced by the Farmer’s abilities, something strange happened… the crops came to life, and turned on the players.

Many people died on that ship.

When Shen Guanquan finally gathered a team to suppress the plants, they destroyed the Sunlight Breeding Room…

“I suspect these plants were being controlled. They deliberately destroyed the breeding room,” Shen Guanquan said, a trace of regret in his tone.

“Perhaps I should never have kept that egg. At the very least, I shouldn’t have let it stay alive…”

He sent over the item’s details:

【Name: Forest Egg】

【Description: An egg that is extremely difficult to hatch and requires extraordinarily strict conditions, it is also a seed. If buried in soil under suitable conditions, it will hatch into a Forest Fairy. Forest Fairies are special plant beings, beloved children of the forest. They possess considerable intelligence and are born gardeners.】

He had obtained it from an island.

On that island, there were man-eating blood-sucking trees, but they feared fire and were mostly burned away.

Inside the hollow of the largest ancient tree was an unhatched Forest Egg.

At the time, the egg was near death, but in the breeding room, it slowly regained vitality.

That ancient tree’s “loot draw” even yielded a top-tier item…

Shen Guanquan recounted it casually, but Yang Yi, having fought extraordinary creatures himself, understood just how troublesome this must have been.

To conquer that island, Shen Guanquan must have paid a high price. It certainly wasn’t as simple as “just set it on fire.”

And he had provided full item details.

Even if there were some omissions, it seemed unlikely he was setting a trap with the destruction of the Farmer.

Yang Yi thought it over.

Truth be told, he didn’t need Shen Guanquan’s coordinates, since with the Nightmare Star’s scrying ability, he could track the ship easily…

From the moment he knew it was a miniature rotwhale, he could have acted alone.

But Yang Yi really wanted that Mid-grade Abyssal Soul Stone. It was something you couldn’t even buy at that moment…

After weighing the pros and cons, Yang Yi decided to accept Shen Guanquan’s offer, but with two conditions.

“I need a large amount of sea salt, to deal with the rotwhale.”

“No problem.”

“I also need you to give me the Mid-grade Abyssal Soul Stone in advance, so I can increase my strength. That way, I’ll be more confident.”

“Uh…”

Shen Guanquan hesitated.

Even though the One-Eyed was a big name, practically a household legend, asking for full advance payment of the reward… that was pushing it.

Yang Yi didn’t expect him to agree outright, so he offered a compromise.

“I’ll give you 1 million Shell Coins as collateral. You can return it to me later in the form of the reward. Of course, if I die, you’ll have to swallow that loss,” Yang Yi sent in a private message.

His plan was quickly accepted by Shen Guanquan, though the latter added a condition: he wanted to add Yang Yi as a friend.

Yang Yi smiled, didn’t hesitate, and agreed.

“It’s really hard to add you as a friend!” Shen Guanquan complained.

It couldn’t be helped, Yang Yi himself could use a “name scrying” ability to track others, and there was no guarantee other players didn’t have similar skills.

So, he didn’t want too many people knowing his name.

For the first time, the two, or rather, the two factions, had reached a formal cooperation.

“But don’t you need manpower?” Shen Guanquan asked.

“I’m not short on manpower.”

Yang Yi replied instantly, glancing at the skeletal arms busily working behind him. They were repairing the hull of the Nightmare Star and re-salting the deck.

Shen Guanquan was puzzled…

Could it be that the One-Eyed commanded a large, low-profile fleet? A major organisation?

But he didn't guess the answer, as it wasn’t appropriate to pry.

Since the other side didn’t want men, Shen Guanquan didn’t insist. He himself was short on people anyway.

“Contact me when you get near the Farmer. I’ll arrange for someone to deliver the salt.”

Rather than simply sending the salt as a trade, Shen Guanquan wanted someone to meet Yang Yi in person, and incidentally, to see him. After that, he sent Yang Yi the Farmer’s coordinates.

“Someone will regularly provide you with the Farmer’s coordinates and movements. Most of the time, it sails between 30 and 40 knots. If possible, I hope you act quickly. Otherwise… a lot of people will starve,” Shen Guanquan added.

The Farmer’s food storage warehouse contained a massive amount of food, kept in a special space safe from environmental contamination.

…

Yang Yi ended his conversation with Shen Guanquan, and at the same time completed the trade, retrieving the Mid-grade Abyssal Soul Stone from the vending machine’s mouth.

The person assigned to give him coordinates also reached out, the Farmer’s captain, named Geng Qiu.

Probably following Shen Guanquan’s orders, he didn’t try to add Yang Yi as a friend.

He just acted like a tool, feeding Yang Yi the Farmer’s coordinates and movements.

Not that Yang Yi actually needed them.

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