Grand Voyage : Surviving on a Ghost Ship-Chapter 244 - Planting

Yang Yi tried to pull the unknown thing up.

The moment it broke the surface, he saw a swollen giant hand, pale with a faint blue tint, gripping his fishing line.

He didn’t need to see the rest of it to know what it was.

A Drowned One.

He had run into this monster right after arriving in this world. The memory was vivid.

The darkness didn’t seem to affect Drowned Ones at all.

A bloated head emerged from the black water, its pale and cloudy eyes locked onto Yang Yi with bitter malice.

The moment it saw him, it let go of the line and grabbed the Nightmare Star’s deck, trying to climb aboard.

It only managed to lift its head before noticing a dark muzzle pressed against its skull.

A shot rang, and its head burst like a melon. Its body went limp and fell back down.

Yang Yi was no longer who he used to be. Something like this couldn’t threaten him anymore.

Several vines caught the corpse and lifted it onto the deck.

【The old captain sees you’ve fished up a Drowned One, and mocks you for it.】

Yang Yi paused when the message popped up. He looked towards the bow.

The old captain had pulled off his own head and was facing Yang Yi, jaw opening and closing. No sound came out, but he was clearly laughing.

“Want me to hand your head over to Suna?”

With that one sentence, the old captain hurriedly put his head back on and remembered the value of silence.

Yang Yi walked to the corpse, stored it in his ring, climbed onto the execution rack, and checked its effect.

【Evaluation: A bloated Drowned One corpse with its head blown apart.

Effect: Ship durability +200】

As expected, avoiding its self explosion was the only real challenge. Its value was nowhere near the Spider Queen’s head.

Yang Yi went back down the mast and tossed the corpse into the vending machine.

He would probably fish up more of these later, and the first three should drop useful items.

He had already used his first try long ago, leaving two. He picked up the orb on the ground. It was a familiar reagent bottle.

【Name: Hatred of the Drowned One】

【Type: Consumable】【Quality: Rare】【Description: Filled with the hatred of a Drowned One. Pouring it into the sea will attract large numbers of its kind. The exact number depends on how many are nearby. Use with caution.】

“A lure item?”

He put it into the Scorched Worm Ring, glanced at the old captain, and kept fishing.

He fished for eight more hours. During that time, he caught three long legged sardines, but all of them had aged into elder sardines.

They were barely edible and had almost no nutritional value.

The old captain, on the other hand, brought up a skeleton creature. It barely set foot on the deck before the skeletal arms and vines tore it apart.

Its hunting effect gave 100 ship capacity, which was useless.

The corpse went into the vending machine and turned into a bone token.

【Name: Bone Token】

【Type: Relic】【Quality: Rare】【Description: Summons a skeleton to fight for you for fifteen minutes. When time runs out, it loses control and attacks the summoner. When killed, the corpse disappears.】【Cooldown: 24 hours. If you use it, make sure you can beat the skeleton.】

The effect was decent, but the quality was too low to help Yang Yi’s combat strength.

But if he upgraded it and gave it to Suna, it would boost her abilities noticeably.

Combined with stitched creatures, she would be able to command a solid army of summons and keep herself safe.

Yang Yi put the token away and prepared to buy a low tier Abyssal Soul Stone to upgrade it.

He packed up the fishing gear and ended the session. Then he made a quick summary.

He had only fished once, but the pattern was clear. In this sea, it was easy to pull up undead type monsters, and with the surrounding darkness, even live fish would age and die the moment they left the water.

On the bright side, the Nightmare Star was strong enough that weak undead creatures were dealt with automatically.

Yang Yi barely needed to lift a finger, so fishing was fairly safe as long as he didn’t cast too deep.

Yang Yi decided that from then on, the old captain would spend eight hours a day fishing, but only while Yang Yi was awake.

That way, even if something dangerous was hooked, he would still be able to deal with it.

There was no helping it. For now, this was the Nightmare Star’s only way to get supplies.

As for using nets, they would make large contact with the darkness, so before he found a way to dispel it, they were off the table.

After settling everything, Yang Yi pulled out the long stored Delicious Planter.

According to its description, it could sprout and grow anything buried inside it, whether flesh or seeds.

It looked like an ordinary white ceramic flowerpot filled with white soil. Judging from the size, it could easily fit a human head.

Yang Yi looked around, then decided to keep the pot in the captain’s cabin.

If anything went wrong, he would notice immediately.

He went down to the cargo hold, brought back a fresh Vitality Coconut, and prepared to plant it.

If he could grow more Vitality Coconuts, it could solve his shortage.

Shen Guanquan’s trees had all been destroyed during the Farmer ship incident, so the supply was gone for now.

With a dart, Yang Yi dug a hole in the planter and buried the coconut. As soon as he covered it with soil, a system notification appeared, along with a countdown next to the pot.

【Vitality Coconut successfully planted. Time until fruiting: 527 hours. Special planter used. Mutations may occur during plant growth.】

“That long?”

Yang Yi was stunned. He did the math and it amounted to over five hundred hours.

He knew coconut trees took time to grow, but even with the Delicious Planter and the Nightmare Star’s bonuses, he hadn’t expected it to take this long.

No wonder players outside the Farmer ship mostly planted vegetables. Almost no one planted trees.

Most people weren’t even sure they would survive that long. Who would grow something that matured after hundreds of days?

Yang Yi thought about digging the coconut back up. He didn’t even bother trying the Delicious Fertiliser. It felt like a waste.

It was better to eat the coconut and buy more from Shen Guanquan later.

But as he was about to remove it, another idea came to him. He remembered the dead fish he had caught.

Yang Yi brought over the five elder long legged sardines from earlier and added a fresh one.

“Hope this works.”

He dug up the planter again and buried all it them, after which another notification popped up.

【Unknown organism successfully planted. Time until sprouting: 37 hours 12 minutes.

Special planter used. When planting mixed flesh, information will remain unknown until sprouting.】

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