Grand Voyage : Surviving on a Ghost Ship-Chapter 235 - Major Version Update
【System Announcement】
All current players have left the Fertile Sea. Remaining player count: -
You’ve all done very well!
You will be shortly transported into the true open sea, where new opportunities and challenges await you...
The version update will include the following changes:
For detailed information, please check your Captain’s Log.
Everyone was staring at the newly popped-up system announcement.
Even if they didn’t look, the message still echoed in their ears, the voice strange, neither male nor female.
Sleeping players were no exception; the system forcibly woke them to make them listen.
“Did well?”
Yang Yi read that line and felt something was off.
Because doing well implies comparison, or at least a standard of measure. Once you surpass that standard, it counts as good.
If the system judged the players’ performance as good, that meant it had a reference point, or a reference group.
Most likely... another batch of players.
“Don’t tell me... we’re not the first group?” A bad thought crossed Yang Yi’s mind.
If that was true, then the fate of the previous players was easy to imagine.
They were probably wiped out, and that’s why this new batch existed.
Of course, it might just be Yang Yi’s nerves making him overthink.
He went on reading, his eyes pausing on the main quest section.
【Main Quest Unlocked: Find and Liberate Player Islands. Current Progress: 0/10.
You are outsiders, foreigners, challengers to the existing order of this sea.
No one welcomes your arrival. No one will cheer for you.
You are destined to have no home, forever adrift...
Unless... you find an island of your own!
That island will be your only home. Find it. Liberate it.
The glory of the Player Islands will unfold before your eyes!】
As soon as Yang Yi finished reading, his vision flared with blinding light from ahead.
He looked up and froze.
It was like a city suddenly coming back to life after a blackout, everything lit up at once.
A vast, breathtakingly beautiful modern metropolis rose before all the players.
There wasn’t a single person in sight, yet its grandeur was undeniable.
And it was a city built on the water. Even from a distance, the rows of harbors were visible.
At the centre of the island, the tallest and largest building bore the number “07”, likely marking it as Island No. 7.
The glowing “stars” they’d seen earlier were actually the lights on top of those buildings. They only looked like stars because the structures were tall and far away.
And the dark outline they had seen before, that was the Player Island itself.
“Suna, you should come up to the deck and see this,” Yang Yi sent her a private message.
“I don’t need to. I can see it… this must be some kind of magic.”
Suna was in the witch’s laboratory. Her newly developed mental potion was at a critical stage. But the walls of the lab had vanished, or rather, turned transparent.
The view outside the ship passed straight through the hull and appeared before her eyes.
Yang Yi switched to his third eye just in time and saw nothing at all, only the still, lifeless sea.
So this so-called Player Island was nothing more than an illusion. But the projection was far too vivid, more real than any film, so lifelike it felt as if he were actually there.
Yang Yi took out the giant anglerfish lantern and tested it. The island’s image didn’t waver in the slightest. Maybe it was too far away, or maybe the illusion was simply too advanced.
Either way, the lantern had no effect.
【Player Island clues will be unlocked later. Current progress: 42%. Any act of exploration, investigation, or understanding of this sea will advance this progress and earn player points. Points will be distributed periodically and can be used at vending machines…】
Yang Yi was familiar with games and recognised it right away: this was a world-type main quest, broad and open-ended, not forcing players to do any one thing.
But still… why wouldn’t the system just reveal the answer and let them head straight for the islands?
He thought for a moment and came up with one possibility.
Maybe the system didn’t know where the islands were either, it needed the players to explore the sea and gather clues.
Each player was like a moving camera, unknowingly collecting information for the system.
And that, indirectly, proved that the system’s control over this ocean was limited.
The version update made that clear too.
With the map expanding, world chat and world trading were now limited to specific hours.
Even the sea chart had become player-made, though how that worked would only be clear once they tried it.
Yang Yi opened the Captain’s Log and saw that much of it had changed. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞
His personal panel now displayed a point counter in the corner.
Then he checked the fleet interface. His current fleet status read: None.
Players could spend 100,000 Shell Coins to create a fleet and recruit up to 1,000 members, with room for expansion. Each additional 1,000 members required another 100,000 Shell Coins.
Right now, the big fleets were probably scrambling to claim names, anyone too slow might end up having to rename later.
According to the description, fleets had an internal chat system and showed members’ coordinates on the world map (coordinates could be hidden, and both visibility and chat range were limited to 10,000 nautical miles).
Yang Yi skimmed through it and moved on.
He had no fleet, and he wasn’t about to waste money starting one alone.
When he opened the chat channels, he saw that the world channel was closed, only allowing access to past logs.
The regional channel, however, was still active.
There were plenty of players chatting there.
“That city looks amazing. Why can’t we just go there?”
“Do you even have to ask? It’s bait. Standard developer trick. Classic CG scam.”
“I’m not looking for it, that’s for sure. Once we’re free, I’m finding a quiet place to hole up and live out my days in peace.”
“No chance. Didn’t you read the rules? The system’s not going to let you rest.”
Yang Yi was just about to open the rules panel when he noticed something strange happening to the Nightmare Star.
The ship’s hull was fragmenting into streams of code.
And not just the ship, Yang Yi himself was breaking into data symbols.
【Teleportation initiated. Countdown: 60 minutes. Players may continue normal activity during this time, but do not leave your vessel to avoid teleportation errors.】
“So it’s teleportation,” Yang Yi breathed out in relief and opened the Captain’s Log to check the new rules.
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