Before exiting "space", Liang Tian realized that the cabbage had already ripened. Oh dear, she’d wasted time for nothing.
After digging out the space’s cabbage with a shovel (which coexisted with the watering can in the space), she spent 1,500 points to buy and plant garlic seeds. It must be said, the cabbage grown in "space" really was both large and dense, and it looked delicious too.
After planting the garlic, she thought about how she couldn’t do without seasonings. Although she had brought oil, "salt", soy sauce, and vinegar from home, she hardly dared to use them because the quantity was too small. In the mall, she could buy many things, covering food, clothing, housing, and transportation. It was great, but spending money too quickly didn’t give her a sense of security.
She put on leather pants, donned leather gloves, and took a plastic bucket with her as she left "space". As for the wooden bucket, she left it on the shore to switch out when she got home.
With this equipment, Xiao Yu was much bolder among the reefs, looking into the water with eager anticipation and feeling very excited.
As it turned out, this unexplored Deserted Island was incredibly rich in natural resources.
She first saw a large blue Crab and, with long tongs in hand, carefully grabbed it, tilted the bucket, gave a strong swipe, and dropped the Crab into the plastic bucket. Xiao Yu was thrilled to catch the island’s first big Crab, and then she found many black sea urchins in the water, with spike-like protective outer layers, huddling densely in the rocky crevices, and they were particularly large. She managed to grab about a dozen before stopping, fearing that grabbing too many would lead to waste.
Then she caught five or six orchid crabs, two or three green crabs, and those sharp root-like Scallops buried in sea mud. She remembered they could live quite a long time, so she picked up quite a few. Among the crevices, there were also hiding sea snails and other types, and Xiao Yu felt that this activity was addictive because she couldn’t help but pick them up and grew more excited the more she gathered. The variety of seafood in just the rock crevices alone was enough for them to eat; she dared not even think about what the sea itself contained.
"Liang Tian, can I sell these seafood products to the Space Mall?"
Suddenly, Xiao Yu had a bold idea. If things could be bought from the inside, could things from the outside be sold in as well?
"It’s possible, but you can only use the money to buy things from the mall; you cannot exchange for points to buy seeds."
"That’s fine too. Wow, this is great! I’ll gather some more."
Previously, she had hesitated to act, but now, with Liang Tian’s tip, she gathered even more sea urchins, crabs, and those green mussels and sea snails attached to the rock walls without realizing that the tide was rising. She even spent twenty yuan in the mall to buy two shovels to get at the green mussels and sea snails.
The sea snails were particularly challenging to harvest. She squatted there for a long time to collect just about a pound, which was why she hadn’t even noticed the rising tide.
In the end, when she sold these items in the virtual Space Mall (with prices set within it, not to be equated with reality), a pound of sea snails could sell for fifty yuan, sea urchins for seventy yuan a pound, orchid crabs for three hundred fifty yuan a pound, green mussels for fifteen yuan a pound, sea snails for one hundred yuan a pound, and Scallops were priced per piece—large ones at twenty yuan each, and smaller ones at ten yuan each...
Eventually, because she had many orchid crabs and a fair amount of sea urchins, she surprisingly sold them for a high price of 2,300 yuan in one go.
Xiao Yu wanted to cry tears of joy. If she had such a harvest in the future, why would she even bother going to work? Gathering seafood would be enough!
The remaining four Crabs, six sea urchins, green mussels, sea snails, and Scallops were plenty for her and her brother to eat. She would save that 2,300 yuan to buy other things!