5 The Crisis After Thirty Days!

The sun rose, and the moon set.

Without the stimulation of an alarm clock, Chen Changan experienced the joy of 'sleeping until you wake up naturally.'

When he woke up, he heard the good news from the system again.

The upgrading of the wooden bucket allowed Chen Changan to optimize his living environment, and he obtained an additional five survival points.

"Scanning the user's living environment. Survival point evaluation is in progress. You have received 15 survival points today."

Survival points were the hope of survival.

Chen Changan smiled and opened the forum like yesterday as he searched for useful information.

The Deep Sea World Forum was quite amazing. Although billions of humans had published in hundreds of different characters, everyone could understand the words of other countries. The effect was similar to Baidu.

Even if it was just a post written in literary terms, the people of the world could roughly understand the content. It was just that it was relatively difficult to understand.

Chen Changan's 'Newbie Survival Tips' post was collected by tens of thousands of people, and there were more than 50,000 new followers. Many people shared the information they knew, hoping to get a reply from Chen Changan.

One of the questions became a highly liked reply in his thread: "OP, the durability of my raft dropped a little when I woke up this morning. Do you know what happened? What will happen when the durability is depleted?"

Many people replied to this highly liked comment and expressed that their raft's durability had also decreased a little after they woke up.

Some even directly said the truth: "Durability will decrease at dawn!"

Another highly liked reply was: "Why is the durability of everyone's rafts 30?"

The durability meant the time of use in one day?

Chen Changan played with the rope in his hand. An idea flashed through his mind, but it disappeared in an instant.

"Gasp, what did I forget?" He frowned, feeling that things weren't simple.

It wasn't until Chen Changan looked at the new round wooden barrel that he realized the problem and quickly checked the raft's remaining durability.

[The Flying Henan People]

Quality: Gray

Durability: 24 / 50

Description: A normal 2m × 2.5m raft that can be seen everywhere, but it is your home.

Equipment: Wooden Hook, Wooden Mazu Statue, New Aqua Bucket.

Evaluation: Normal.

'The durability dropped by six points! Among them, five durability points must be because I had plundered the raft's original wood. The raft is in danger of being destroyed!' Chen Changan's expression was grave as he realized the seriousness of the problem. "I have to build a new ship within 24 days. Otherwise, I will drown in the sea!

What was even more dangerous was that Chen Changan would have to continue dismantling the raft's original wood and use it as fuel if there was no other way to obtain wood. This would cause the raft to face destruction sooner.

Chen Changan focused his attention on the raft, hoping the Doomsday Survival System would provide him with assistance.

[Upgrade Plan 1: The raft will be upgraded to a large raft. The size of the raft will be expanded to 4m × 4m, increasing the raft's durability. New sails and paddles will also be added, obtaining mobility. Upgrade costs 500 survival points.]

[Upgrade Plan 2: Transform the raft into a dark boat structure. Obtain a rowing oar and greatly increase the ability to resist the wind and waves. Upgrade costs 800 survival points.]

Chen Changan sighed. 'As a large object, the number of survival points consumed by the raft is far greater than that of the wooden bucket. According to the current accumulation rate of survival points, it will take at least a month to satisfy the survival point requirement of upgrade plan one. By then, I would've already died in a shark's stomach.'

"I still have to gather resources and reduce my survival point consumption," Chen Changan muttered to himself. But when he opened the list of upgrade materials, he revealed a helpless expression.

In his previous life on Earth, humans ruled the world. They viewed the ocean as a resource land and fought to develop oil, flammable ice, fishing, minerals, and other resources.

But when eight billion humans lived on the sea, everyone would realize that the sea was no different from a desert.

Chen Changan raised his eyes and looked around. There was nothing but seawater.

"That's not right. If even I'm having such a difficult time, what about the others on the forum? The Deep Sea World has pulled in eight billion humans and provided rafts and systems. It's impossible to watch so many people fail."

Chen Changan regained his spirit and opened the trending rankings. He found that the number of people inputting the keyword 'shark' rose to ninth place rapidly.

He clicked on the keyword and saw that the frontmost post came from a Russian that tore a shark apart by hand. Perhaps it was because the forum did machine translation of Russian, but the title of the trending post was 'Death of the Shark.'

According to the Russian, he chose to enhance his combat strength at the beginning stage and became a wandering sea warrior. He had a small boat and carried a steel saber with him.

When the shark tried to overturn the boat, the Russian beat the shark as if it were a bear.

The moment the shark died, a batch of drifting materials appeared far away on the sea surface. The quantity was far greater than yesterday.

The netizens on the forum exclaimed in unison, "The physique of humans cannot be compared!"

"Resources?! I see." Chen Changan quickly understood why the keyword 'sharks' could quickly increase in the search rankings.

Drifting resources could produce drinking water!

Hundreds of millions of unlucky people didn't have the opportunity to help the old, the weak, or the sick, nor did they have the opportunity to fish for drinking water during their first supply drift.

They only had three choices: They could hunt for sharks, gamble on the second drift's supplies coming out of the water, or die of thirst.

There was no other way.

In the torture methods of a country, the torturers would add salt to the criminal's food and only provide a small amount of water for the criminal. The criminal would have food but would be in a thirsty state for a long period of time. This torture method was more civilized than torture to force a confession, but it was much more torturous than ordinary physical torture.

It was a hydrophilic demon that emerged from limbs and bones, crawled out of one's throat, and eventually occupied one's brain.

It could drive criminals to give up mountains of gold and silver and reveal all kinds of fatal information just to drink a mouthful of water. Even if it was iced mineral water that cost a dollar, they would gladly endure it.

What they should be afraid of were sharks! What they had to face was the supreme king that had stood at the top of the food chain for millions of years—the terrifying ape.

Thousands of people were discussing how to kill a shark efficiently in the trending search.

"It's very simple. You just need to predict the direction of the shark's bite. When a person is extremely angry, their strength and evasion will be greatly enhanced. As long as I dodge the shark's attack, I can knock the shark out with a punch!"

"No way, no way. Is there really someone who can't beat a shark? When the shark swims over, I do a jump kick and kill the shark!"

"I will throw a left kick, a right kick, and a left punch…"

"The shark pounced on me. I used a Slide Shovel to swim past its body and slice its stomach with a knife!"

The corner of his mouth twitched. 'There are probably a lot of 'free people' who don't lack water amongst the netizens. They were lucky to complete the aid mission and don't have to worry about food and water for 30 days.'

In this global survival competition, people from orphanages like Chen Changan were the most unlucky.

Chen Changan quietly clicked on the next post.

The title was quite eye-catching: "In 30 days, the entire human race will face a life-and-death crisis!"