After trying it out, Yang Yi has a rough grasp of the armor's characteristics and can finally use it in battle.He stores the armor in his ring and sits down with Suna to try the new canned bread he bought today. The original price was 200 Conch Coins a can, but through a combination of his connections and persistent haggling, he got it down to 180 a can and bought 500 cans at once, spending a total of 90,000 Conch Coins. He also bought 500 loaves of black bread for 20,000, bringing his total food expenditure to 110,000. It's enough to last for a long time. It may seem like a big expense, but having some delicious food on board is a great way to boost morale. It's different from simply filling one's stomach. If you can actually look forward to mealtimes, your quality of life skyrockets."You get what you pay for. Soft white bread is so much better than that hard, dry black bread!" Yang Yi says, washing it down with Vitality Coconut Juice. He devours two cans of bread in a flash, still looking for more. This is the kind of bread humans are meant to eat! Black bread is fundamentally anti-human!Suna eats much more slowly and elegantly than Yang Yi, but it's clear she also prefers the canned bread. One can contains two small loaves and can be stored for a long time, making it a pretty good delicacy at sea.After eating, Yang Yi activates the Crow's Nest to scan for islands. He isn't expecting much, since the last few scans came up empty. But this time, he unexpectedly gets a result, though the location is awkward: 1400 nautical miles to the southeast. A round trip would take about two days, not including exploration time. And the price of wood has already bottomed out at 4 coins per unit.He hesitates for a moment, then decides to jot down the coordinates to explore later; gathering intel on the Bountiful Sea is the priority right now. Since he'll have to turn back after scouting anyway, he can just explore the island then. He has no intention of charging headfirst into the Bountiful Sea.The voyage continues.At night, Yang Yi continues his training, keeping an eye on the number of players left in the Extreme Winter Region. The count has dropped to just over thirty thousand. And he hasn't seen any players from the region post in the world channel for a long time. He suspects the remaining players are all living ice sculptures, destined to be consumed by the advancing black fog.After two hours of training, his stamina nearing 30, he stops, wipes the sweat from his body with a cloth, and rinses off with fresh water."Looks like I need to buy some fresh water," he thinks, glancing at his supply. If it was just for drinking, he has more than enough, but training multiplies his consumption. Suna also uses water for her experiments, and they both need it for bathing. Their supply, which they'd replenished with snow, is now down to just over a hundred liters. Fortunately, fresh water isn't expensive, only 20 Conch Coins per liter. The awkward part is that the Nyxstar's hold capacity is only 12,000, and with his recent purchases, he has less than 200 units of space left.Yang Yi checks the chat channel, planning to buy some fresh water. In truth, it can be obtained by distilling seawater. The necessary tools can be made from crystal or metal. However, the process requires a massive amount of fuel. Even in the 21st century, almost no country uses this method to get fresh water; it's simply not profitable. The players selling fresh water must have a better way of obtaining it, like an expansion building. Since his ship has no such production facilities, it's more cost-effective to just buy it.He quickly completes a transaction, spending 10,000 Conch Coins for 500L of fresh water. With that done, he goes to rest.…………Two more peaceful days pass.That night, Yang Yi is in the middle of his usual workout when a scent stops him dead in his tracks. It's a cloyingly sweet fragrance that easily stimulates the appetite, the same one he'd smelled from the Delicious Mushroom, fish, and seaweed. It's faint, but with his enhanced sense of smell, there's no mistaking it.He immediately goes to the bow, stops the ship, and observes. It's night, and with only the faint moonlight and the drifting will-o'-the-wisps on deck for light, visibility is limited. Even as a werewolf with superior night vision, he can't see through the darkness.He switches to his third eye and scans ahead. About three nautical miles away, the sea seems to have separated into layers. A different liquid is floating on top of the seawater, and a massive number of marine creatures, including large, predatory fish, are gathered at the surface, gulping it down."Fat?" The white, greasy fat of the delicious creatures immediately comes to mind. That extra layer on the sea is almost certainly the same stuff.He stands on the deck, weighs the pros and cons, then decides to retreat a few nautical miles and wait for morning to explore. In the daylight, his vision will be much better, and he won't have to rely solely on his third eye. He informs Suna of his discovery, telling her to be ready. She's buzzing with excitement.He moves the Nyxstar back about ten nautical miles from the strange {N•o•v•e•l•i•g•h•t} area and drops anchor. The fatty liquid doesn't seem to be spreading, so stopping here should be relatively safe. Still, they decide to stand watch, with Yang Yi taking the second half of the night as usual. He downs an Appetite Potion, eats two cans of bread, two loaves of black bread, and some dried fish, then goes to sleep, planning to wake in four hours to relieve Suna.

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