"Activating Doomsday Survival System…"
"Environment confirmed. User Chen Changan is currently in an ocean-like apocalypse. The difficulty of survival is high; the probability of the extinction of the human species is higher than 50%… System activated!"
"Binding successful!"
Immediately after, a grid-like green light ray shot out from Chen Changan's right hand and scanned his body, wooden raft, statue, and wooden hook like a radar.
"Achievement: Homeland I. Reward: 100 survival points."
"Scanning the user's living environment. Survival point evaluation is in progress. You have received 10 survival points today."
When the light dissipated, a hammer pattern appeared on Chen Changan's right hand.
"What… is going on?" Chen Chang'an stared blankly at his hands.
On his left hand, a scroll, circle altar, and gold coin were engraved, respectively representing the system messages, forum, and [Temporarily no updates] of the Deep Sea World.
His right hand was engraved with the pattern of a hammer.
"I have two systems?"
Chen Changan scrolled through the forum for more than half an hour, but he didn't find any mention of 'Doomsday Survival,' 'Hammer,' or 'Second System.'
This was something unique to Chen Changan. Its name was 'Doomsday Survival System,' and it was an entertainment product of a high-class civilization.
If the Deep Sea World System was a public bus that everyone had and could board, then the Doomsday Survival System was a private bus with only Chen Changan as the owner.
According to the Doomsday Survival System, one could obtain a certain amount of survival points every day.
Survival points were similar to the points in the game, but they couldn't be directly exchanged for items. Instead, it was similar to the item upgrade function in the game. It was just that the system could upgrade more comprehensively.
It could upgrade both the mystical realm and the technological realm.
Chen Changan pressed his palms together and looked between his legs…
A wooden hook!
The system immediately provided two upgrade plans: One was to use five survival points to increase the rope's length and toughness, increase the grappling hook's range, and extend the usage time.
The other method was to use ten survival points to upgrade the wooden hook to an iron hook. The success rate of the hook would be increased, and a certain attack power would be given.
Of course, in addition to relying purely on survival points to upgrade, the system could also provide materials to the user, greatly reducing the survival points needed for the upgrade plan.
For example, the consumption of survival points to upgrade the wooden hook to an iron hook would be reduced to one point if an additional 250 grams of metal and 500 grams of plant fiber were provided.
Chen Changan managed to sort out the use of the Doomsday Survival System.
In terms of specific usage, the Doomsday Survival System gave face to the law of conservation of mass. It couldn't create matter out of thin air, but it could transform existing matter. The more similar the structure, the fewer survival points it required.
Chen Changan looked at the other items on the raft.
'What can provide drinking water, and what can fill my stomach?' This was the main question that Chen Changan was concerned about.
The raft upgrade plan was to become bigger and stronger, and the usage of survival points was huge. This was not within Chen Changan's consideration for the time being.
The upgrade plan for the deity statue was more inclined toward the mystical realm. The upgrade would increase the range of divine power usage, but the increase in divine power required food or wine. Chen Changan didn't even have enough food, so how could he have offerings for the deity statue?
Chen Changan's eyes suddenly lit up when he looked at the forgotten lottery barrel.
[Ordinary lottery barrel]
[Upgrade Plan 1: Upgrades the wooden barrel's material, increases the wooden barrel's capacity, increases the sealing function, and greatly extends the duration of food and water preservation. Upgrade requires 120 survival points]
[Upgrade Plan 2: Upgrades the wooden barrel's material, increases the wooden barrel's capacity, and gains the function of obtaining clean water by purifying seawater to freshwater. Upgrade requires 180 survival points]
Chen Changan heaved a sigh of relief when he saw the second plan provided by the system. 'There's hope!'
Chen Changan began to study the lottery barrel upgrade plan carefully. If it was upgraded out of thin air, it would consume 180 survival points. It would take at least seven days to accumulate enough survival points.
By then, he would've died of thirst.
Waiting for survival points to reach the target was definitely a stupid idea!
Chen Changan smiled and thought of a solution. "I can provide materials for the upgrade plan…"
Chen Changan quickly obtained the list of materials needed for the upgrade: 12 kilograms of wood, one kilogram of rope, 20 liters of seawater, 500 grams of glass, five kilograms of metal, and one kilogram of stone.
Seeing the long list of materials, Chen Changan helplessly discovered that although the sea was vast and boundless, it was truly a 'resource desert.'
The only thing he could only provide directly was seawater.
After pouring seawater into the lottery barrel, Plan 2's survival point requirement decreased by 15 points. It was equivalent to a poor person winning the Lamborghini 90% Discount Voucher—they couldn't even afford it.
Chen Changan looked around and at the raft under his feet. Then, a bold idea suddenly flashed through his mind. 'Demolish!'
Chen Changan used to be a resident of the old district. All he wanted was for the word 'demolish' to land on his house. Unfortunately, many of the households in the old district had ruined their reputation. The open merchants would rather develop a new city than take on the hard work of renovating the old district.
But on the first day he came to the Deep Sea World, Chen Changan wanted to tear down his own home.
The raft was made of ten pieces of wood and rope. As long as one piece of wood was removed from the edge, it would satisfy the wood and rope requirements. There might even be some surplus.
"Don't blame me." Chen Changan extended his demonic claws toward the raft's edge. He felt that his current behavior was like that of a scumbag with the surname Chen.
He had just affectionately named the raft 'The Flying Henan People,' but in the blink of an eye, he had damaged it.
He even gave the treasure that belonged to it to another 'it.'
Chen Changan broke the rope at the edge, and on the basis of ensuring the raft's overall structure, he broke one of the logs and placed it in front of the round barrel.
He then said casually, "The quality of the rope is a little poor…"
With sufficient wood and rope, Plan 2's survival point requirement was greatly reduced. The number of survival points required for upgrading was reduced to 120 points.
"There are still ten more points to go!"
The drifting bottle in the corner suddenly came into view.
Chen Changan chuckled. "Isn't this glass?"
He took out the piece of paper from the bottle and stared at it: "I want to find a wife to bring back home for reunion dinner!"
'Hey! This person is single! Go to
'That was just a joke!'
"The new year is coming. I wish everyone a happy new year; I wish all of you the best of luck to find your beloved girl and go home together for reunion dinner."
Chen Changan placed the glass bottle in front of the round wooden barrel and was pleasantly surprised to find that the upgrade plan's point requirement had been reduced by 12 survival points.
'That is enough!' Chen Changan didn't hesitate at all and immediately activated the lottery barrel's second upgrade plan.
A green light shot out from his right hand, quickly covering the round barrel and the raw materials in front of him.
The green light gradually merged into one.
With a clapping sound, the brilliance dispersed, and a brand-new wooden bucket of clean water appeared in front of Chen Changan.
'It was a huge success!' Chen Changan was enjoying the new item in front of him. Next to the brand-new round wooden bucket was a sealed pot connected to a glass pipe. Under the pot was a hole to add firewood, and beside it was a fire igniter used for starting a fire. There was also a thin stone base to prevent the flames from burning through the raft.
Chen Changan beamed with joy as he checked the attributes of the wooden bucket.