Chapter 1280: Chapter 971: Try Dying Once? (Part 2)
He flapped his wings and flew to Bai Yunqi to seek advice, while Jiang Yuan clicked to enter the second courtyard.
"Ou~ Ou~"
Bright sunshine, a blue sky with white clouds, the sea, and the cries of flying seagulls—all gave an island vacation feel, even in winter.
"Task 1, cultivate fifty plots of farmland, and harvest seasonal plants once." He carefully read the main task, took out a hoe, and beside the previously cultivated plots, he dug out a neat long strip of 5*10 farmland.
Watering, sowing, and then clicking to use the Butterfly Demon Scale Powder on each, harvesting, the first item in task 1 showed completion;
The second item was to construct all unlocked buildings and produce and harvest ten times.
"The Floating Market will be built next to the house, the seafood house to the east, and the fishing ground must be placed on the sea..." Jiang Yuan clicked to check each one, and fortunately, the storeroom was fully stocked, with ordinary and special materials more than sufficient for any building.
Next, it was much easier, selecting a location to click build, after consuming some inventory, the progress bar completed, and a simple low-level building officially stood.
The fishing ground was similar to the main courtyard’s fish pond, capable of raising various sea fish, and since it’s on the sea, no extra feeding was needed.
The current low-level fishing ground couldn’t accommodate many types or quantities of fish, just click to buy fish seedlings and wait for the mature sea fish to harvest.
If you want to hasten the maturation of the sea fish, feed produced in the newly built Bait Workshop needs to be used for acceleration, with different grades of feed having varied effects on different types of sea fish.
The seafood house is mainly for making seafood products, such as salted fish, cured fish, shrimp paste, dried scallops, mullet roe, and various fish sashimi, which can be eaten directly or further processed on the stove.
The raw materials needed for the finished products can either be cultured in the fishing ground or collected by rowing a small boat to fish and catch at sea.
The task requires only a number, not product variety; Jiang Yuan still had a lot of sea fish stored from his last fishing trip. Clicking to make salted fish and cured fish, once harvested ten times, he could complete a small item in the task.
The sea island style buildings and products were very novel, but what attracted him most was the Floating Market.
"I wonder where this door leads to." Having built all the unlocked buildings, Jiang Yuan, curious, clicked to begin product production and pushed open the simple wooden door of the low-level market.
"Creak~"
The door closed automatically with a slight click, and the light outside the window changed slightly.
The gentle winter afternoon sunlight disappeared, replaced by a slightly cool, blurry hue, and in the small room of the Floating Market, a faint blue light was also emitted from the ceiling.
He looked up and found a large bead, somewhat like a pearl but overall slightly blue in color.
It had been a long time since he had seen such a simple shop setup, making Jiang Yuan feel nostalgic for the time he first entered the Wilderness, having struggled greatly just to build a Floating Market in the small courtyard.
On the counter were four ancient, vacant flow signs, next to a familiar platform for placing goods, but the handle beside it was a giant conch shell. Placing the items required for charitable orders on the platform and pulling down the handle completed the transfer.
"The Floating Market will automatically accept orders, completing the order within the limited time by placing the required items on the platform and pulling the handle to complete the transaction for Spirit Stones or other trade items. Orders will expire after the deadline..."
"The display window can house any idle items for automatic valuation and sale..."
"The shelf displays items to be sold, and when the Floating Market reaches Level Two, it can automatically supplement the display window with goods for sale..."
"The primary Floating Market can only enter the nearest primary market, the door pushed and pulled inward for market entry; pushed and pulled outward for home return..."
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After reading the detailed introduction, Jiang Yuan did feel a bit nostalgic for the days when everything was done manually.
Since obtaining the Courtyard Communicator through the main task in the main courtyard, he just had to click a few times to remotely control all the harvests and trades. Now, everything on the island was just starting, so to harvest products and add new tasks, he must enter the corresponding building to operate.
"The main courtyard is located in the Human World, the Floating Market can lead to the Wilderness World’s market, unknown to the market situated in the Wilderness World itself leads to where." With curiosity, he pulled open the wooden door inward.
Outside was a bustling street with diffused light, with only shadows of Demon Beasts, tall or with bizarre shapes but no human figures walking along it.
Just like when he first entered the Cyan Fish Mountain Market.
[Whale Wave Bay Primary Market Rules: No use of violent threats, no fighting or stealing, offenders will be randomly teleported out of the market and prohibited from re-entering for a certain period. Violate more than three times and you’re added to the blacklist, banned forever from this market]
Hey? The rules are identical to those established by the Demon Realm Alliance for all markets, seems like this Whale Wave Bay Market is still located in the Wilderness World.
Then how to receive public orders? The Praying World Fragment and Void Refugees have all been recycled, haven’t they?
Jiang Yuan was bewildered for two seconds and then realized—no! When they went to the Void, it was the night departing from the small courtyard.
At that time, the Wilderness descended and overlapped with the Human World, meaning the Human World has never been moved, while the Wilderness World would descend and ascend each day. So, what was recycled was the distress signals that the Human World can radiate to.
Now the officially opened Second Home is located in the Wilderness World, receiving public orders should come from where the Wilderness originally should be, where it would reach by ascending during the day, and the distress signals radiated.
When the time is ripe to search the Void for refugees again, it must start from the daytime of Conch Island.
Knowing the street ahead was still in the Wilderness, he couldn’t help but feel a little bored, but upon closer inspection, he found something different—this market was actually underwater!
"Unexpectedly in the sea?" Jiang Yuan was very surprised, thinking to himself that Du Li never mentioned the Demon Realm Alliance setting up a market in the sea either?
If he remembered right, the Moon Snail Mountain Market in Chaotic Stone Sea was targeted at Trapped Snake Island, belonging to the other most top-tier large market on the other side of Wilderness World, could this Whale Wave Bay Market belong to Moon Snail Mountain?
Curious, he wore his bronze mask and came out of the shop, closing the door behind him.
Even though the mask’s magical treasure could conceal the aura, it couldn’t hide the shape. As soon as Jiang Yuan stepped out, without yet merging into the street’s mix of large and small shadows, his appearance was spotted by sharp-eyed shadows.
"He seems to be an outsider!"
"An outsider sneaked into the market?"
"What’s the workshop chief doing not overseeing this?"
"Interesting, interesting, I wonder how an outsider managed to enter the Sea Demon Race territory..."
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Listening to the candid whispers, Jiang Yuan realized this place probably had nothing to do with the Demon Realm Alliance above the Wilderness, it was just coincidental that both used the same model to build their market.
However, managing to match all the details, it was absurdly coincidental.
Wonder who borrowed whose concept.
Despite the shadows all watching, none stepped forward to block him. They surrounded Jiang Yuan’s small shop entrance, forming an increasingly thick black shadow wall, directly blocking his path.
"Outsider, don’t be afraid, I am the Whale Wave Bay workshop chief." Soon, a tall, thin shadow emerged from the overlapping shadows, speaking with a bright voice: "Our market hasn’t seen the shadow of an outsider for a very long time, to reassure the Sea Demon clans, may I have the honor to invite you to a cup of hot tea for a good conversation?"
[Meng Tangzhou: Gathering Spirit Realm Second Layer, Low-Level Creature. Sea Horse Clan Sea Demon, Whale Wave Bay Workshop Chief, diligently maintaining the market’s operations for over five hundred years of work experience]
Jiang Yuan glanced around, finding the workshop chief’s health bar to be the thickest, yet still pitifully short, seemingly belonging to the easily handled category. Indeed, he was at some sea region’s most initial level market, and everything here clearly felt different from above the Wilderness.
He needed to gather more intel, so he readily accepted the invitation.
Traced by many shadows with curiosity and at a polite distance, they followed Meng Tangzhou into a small tea house diagonally across, and both revealed their true forms.
Meng Tangzhou was a Sea Horse Demon in human form, tall and slim with a long face, looking little different from the Demon Cultivators above the Wilderness. However, his lower body retained hooves but not quite like a full centaur, making the overall appearance somewhat odd.
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