Grand Voyage : Surviving on a Ghost Ship-Chapter 242 - Information exchange
By the time it reached twenty three hundred hours, the world chat channel came back online.
A flood of messages poured out like water from a burst dam, overwhelming to look at.
Everyone had been waiting for this moment to exchange intel and trade supplies.
The system granted a kind of speed reading ability that felt almost like quantum reading, letting players process information and chat at high frequency.
“Finally we can talk again. My area only has a few dozen people, and none of them like to speak. I was about to suffocate!”
“Has anyone seen any natives? I’m desperate over here. There’s nothing around me!”
“I ran into them, but they were all pirates. Damn it, more than a dozen ships surrounded me alone!”
“Damn, did you win?”
“Win my ass. I’m sitting in a jail cell right now. They took my ship and tore it apart.
This pirate crew plans to sell me to the Golden Trading Guild. If any of you run into them, please save me.”
“You’re taking it well.”
“No worries. My boss is already on the way. I’ll tell you the truth. I’m with the Iron Brotherhood!”
“..........”
The channel was full of scattered messages mixed with snippets of information.
Only a few players had run into natives. Most had been sent to empty stretches of ocean with nothing around them, basically the same as the safe zones.
On top of that, the world map was almost entirely black. Players had to explore on their own, and the system didn’t even give coordinates.
This left most players lost without any sense of direction.
Yang Yi scanned quickly, trying to find someone in the same situation as him, but after a few minutes he still found nothing.
“Am I really the only one who got dropped into the Lightless Sea?”
Time was running out, so instead he posted a question himself, using his Cyclops title.
“What’s shown on your weather interface? Is anyone in the Lightless Sea?”
“Holy crap, the one eyed big guy. I got you!”
“Hello big guy. Goodbye big guy!”
Thanks to his photo, Yang Yi had picked up the nickname “big guy.” Luckily, it didn’t appear on his title interface.
But judging by how often people said it, it could end up turning into a title sooner or later.
Ignoring the jokers who loved to poke fun, he eventually received some useful replies.
“My weather interface says Miracle Sea. Daylight lasts eight hours. But I haven’t seen the sun. No moon either. It’s pitch black at night. Pretty weird.”
“Huh. I didn’t notice that until you said it. I haven’t seen the sun either.”
“That’s the one eyed big guy for you. Even his starting point is unique!”
“I’ve got twelve hours of daylight. Everything else is the same.”
“Mine says twenty hours. It’s still bright here…”
This one was from Zhou Dai. Yang Yi had added her as a friend, so her real name appeared. Her title stood out too: Pilgrim.
Yang Yi felt he might really be the only player stuck in the Lightless Sea, all thanks to that glitchy teleport.
“I descended in the Lightless Sea too.”
Yang Yi received a private message. It was from Righteous Knight.
His attention turned immediately.
“Do you also have that moving black mist drifting over the water? The one that climbs up the side of the ship?” Yang Yi asked.
“Yeah, but shining light on it makes it retreat.”
“What? What did you use for light?”
“The armour of the Radiant Holy Order. It started glowing after I upgraded it to Rare.”
“...”
Yang Yi was speechless for a moment.
“Want to sell the armour? Name a price.”
“And wear what? This is my only set, and it only glows when worn as a full set!”
Yang Yi stayed quiet for a few seconds.
They chatted for a bit more and added each other as friends.
Righteous Knight’s real name was Qin Ming. He also had a special type of ship, called the Hunter.
And he shared a very important piece of information.
In his regional channel, the player count had started at seventy two, but it had already dropped to three.
So it wasn’t that everyone had spawned in the Miracle Sea. It was simply survivor bias. Most of the players in the Lightless Sea had already died.
Later, Yang Yi received a few more private messages from unfamiliar players. They were also in the Lightless Sea and were looking for ways to deal with the darkness.
Yang Yi shared what he had learned. High temperatures, low temperatures, and holy light could all suppress the darkness.
But how far they could take that information depended on them.
Soon after, he received another private message, though it was clearly a mass send. It came from Big Times Press.
“Due to the system update and teleportation effects, the weekly paper will be paused for two to three weeks.
The price will increase afterwards to eleven hundred Shell Coins. There is a one thousand Shell Coin transaction fee, so we have no choice but to raise prices.
Players selling back issues will also need to pay the one thousand Shell Coin fee, so please make sure your funds are sufficient.
VIP clients are exempt, but still need to pay the one thousand Shell Coin fee to the system.
Information on native factions and map intel will be released together with future issues.”
This message appeared not only in his inbox but also in the world channel.
When they saw the price jump, many players wailed. Newspapers were no longer going to be cheap.
“Selling a coupon that gives fifty points off a thousand. Message me if you want it. Limited stock.”
“Where did you get that coupon?”
“Don’t ask!”
“It’s from the blind boxes. You didn’t buy any?”
“I only have a bit under twelve hundred points. Didn’t want to spend them.”
“Don’t buy them. They’re cursed. Your first ten pull gives you a voucher for the next tier, but from the second batch onward you only get trash.”
“I feel drained.”
“Heh, I got a special ship voucher for a hundred points. I’m a special ship now!”
“Damn!”
After gathering a bit of intel, Yang Yi focused on trading.
In batches, he bought five thousand units of wood, five thousand of cloth, two thousand of stone, and one thousand each of steel and crystal from other players.
He bought food from Shen Guanquan.
Shen’s New World fleet had a lot of people. He hadn’t regrouped with them yet, but trading still worked.
Yang Yi also bought three hundred loaves of black bread. If Shen hadn’t said his stock was tight and production hadn’t resumed, Yang Yi would have bought more.
That alone cost a lot of Shell Coins.
Every transaction came with a one thousand coin fee, and the buyer had to pay it.
Yang Yi only contacted sellers who could provide large quantities. Buying a few hundred at a time was a huge loss.
Just purchasing basic materials cost him a hundred seventy thousand Shell Coins, even more than upgrading the Nightmare Star or building the execution rack, because of the fees.
“If I’d known, I would’ve bought everything in advance…”
He hadn’t expected the system to charge transaction fees, or that it would leave him behind during teleportation.
His original plan was to wait for prices to stabilise after teleporting, then buy materials. That would have saved him a good amount.
But since the situation was urgent and trading had delays, he had no choice but to stock up early.
Because of the fees, he spent about twenty thousand more since he dealt with several sellers.
Food cost Shell Coins as well. Shen Guanquan covered the one thousand fee on his end, but the bread hadn’t dropped in price. It was still three hundred each.
In total, he spent two hundred sixty thousand Shell Coins, leaving him with one million two hundred twenty thousand.
It looked like a lot, but Yang Yi had no way of earning money at the moment unless he sold equipment.
Just after buying food, he received another private message from Shen Guanquan.
“Do you have any blind box vouchers? I can trade canned apples for them.”
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