When disaster struck, I became a big shot surviving in the ocean.
Chapter 153 Leaving the Gem Sea

Chapter 153: Chapter 153 Leaving the Gem Sea

The birth of the Extraordinary Ship ensured Chen Qing’s safety.

Although it was currently just a finely furnished shell, it was more than enough to deal with most creatures of the Deep Blue Sea.

No one would want to mess with it.

Even if Chen Qing was not the Captain of this ship, she was still the actual controller of it.

The Mechanical Heart held the title of Captain, but in reality, it was the ship itself.

The ship was it, and it was the ship.

The Mechanical Heart, with its high-level authority, would free Chen Qing from many trivial matters on board, allowing her to focus more on her own affairs.

She had not named this ship, nor had she named the Mechanical Heart.

Instead, she would wait until the Mechanical Heart truly developed a soul before letting it name itself.

Chen Qing’s naming ability was in line with the kind-hearted person who had saved her initially.

Not very impressive.

She was quite unskilled at naming.

This was evident from Chen Qing’s own name and the pseudonym she had given to Daliya.

Chen Qing, Chen He, such plain and unadorned names.

She really wasn’t good at this and decided to let the Mechanical Heart make its own decision once it had developed true intelligence.

Actually, she could do it now, since Chen Qing had already handed this matter over to the Mechanical Heart, the esteemed Captain.

Having resolved her safety issue, Chen Qing did not need to worry about anything and quickly sought information on where she might find a suitable Doctor professional to help her with her condition.

Soon, Chen Qing learned of a doctor from the mouth of Mazan, the ruler of the native forces.

School Doctor—Gui Shu Zhen Windbroome.

He lived in the Elemental Sea next to the Gem Sea, and with the speed of Chen Qing’s current Extraordinary Ship, it would only take a few hours to reach the island where the doctor resided.

However, Chen Qing now faced a dilemma.

She was out of money.

After paying that huge shipbuilding fee, she was broke.

The winnings from the betting pool had cleared all her debts, leaving her debt-free and light-hearted, but...

Given that the new ship constructed by Yiye Shipyard used a large amount of Black Space Stone, each cabin space was extraordinarily spacious.

In the huge gold treasury of the new ship, there were less than one thousand goldfish, pityingly laying there.

This sum of money would be a fortune to most survivors and natives.

But to Chen Qing, it was clearly insufficient.

Not to mention anything else, she would have to spend an unknown number of goldfish on that mechanical slot machine alone.

Even if she only drew once a day, she would have to spend nearly five hundred goldfish a year.

This amount of money would not even last her two years.

And to maintain an A-grade ship like this one, she needed a large sum of money.

It’s easy to recruit soldiers, but hard to keep them.

Chen Qing suddenly became poor again.

Poverty followed her like a shadow, always by her side.

Chen Qing had long been accustomed to the fact that she was poor, so she could accept it quite calmly.

If she was out of money, she’d just have to earn it again.

If she could accept being a marginalized individual in society, why not now?

The difficulty of adapting from luxury to frugality did not exist for Chen Qing, as she had low material desires.

It was nice to have things, but she could live without them.

Having set the next destination, the Mechanical Heart immediately steered the ship to set sail, and the black cloth that had been covering the ship’s body inexplicably blew away with the wind.

In the gaze of many onlookers, the Extraordinary Ship finally revealed its true form.

"That’s it?"

A onlooker watched the departing ship with disappointment, her lips curling in distaste.

"How should I put it," they thought, "it really let us down. All that secrecy, we expected something grand and imposing."

But it turned out to be just this.

Of course, they had to admit that Chen Qing’s ship was handsome, but it fell short of what they had imagined.

It was just ordinarily handsome, not much different from other ships.

The departing Extraordinary Mechanical Ship was exceptionally large and unassuming in appearance.

Its entire body glowed with a cold metallic sheen, its structure was precision-engineered, and its lines were smooth, subtly exuding a vigorous and majestic aura.

This brisk, cold aura came with a slight stubborn greenness, the vitality of the greenhouse below the vast glass burgeoning with life.

Seemingly cold yet not heartless, much like Chen Qing herself.

But whether it was seemingly cold yet not a heartless machine, or if that was just a façade, who knew?

Chen Qing didn’t care.

She had delegated most of the ship’s business to Mechanical Heart, yet there were many things it could not do.

For instance, contacting those survivors.

Once she developed a suitable communication tool, she should be able to extricate herself from that task.

Opening the chat channel, it was full of congratulations and covert probing under a peaceful facade.

Everyone wanted to know the final whereabouts of the ranking rewards; no one said they had to use them once they got them, right?

Snatching them was probably impossible by now, but there were still those insistent forces hoping to purchase the rewards from Chen Qing.

Especially the ship upgrade scroll.

For ships of A-grade Red Quality and below, as long as you’re willing to spend the money, while not exactly abundant, it’s not too difficult to obtain.

But A-grade ships were different; they weren’t something you could simply buy with money.

The Demon Dragon Shang Jia’s ships are still B-grade, right?

And for many survivor factions, an A-grade ship’s boost is absolutely massive!

[Chen Qing: All used, no need to inquire further.]

With Chen Qing’s statement, those survivors who still wanted to secretly test her shut up.

Shutting up didn’t necessarily mean giving up, but they had to give Chen Qing some face.

[Chen Qing: Trading gemstones, Mechanical Creations for various plant seeds or breedable animals... No quality limit, no upper cap, long-term purchases.]

[Chen Qing: Selling gemstones of all grades and qualities.]

[Cheng Yansheng: Really no quality restrictions? I have two cows from our native world.]

[Yu You: Wow! Are there really cows from our native world in this world?]

Many animals in this world share certain similarities with those on Blue Star but are not exactly the same, and there are many species that are completely different.

[Ming Rang: PM.]

As always, an old acquaintance, Ming Rang, quickly contacted Chen Qing.

Ming Rang, with a large brood of children, was quite poor and often scraping by.

Fortunately, many of her children had reached an age where they could help, and they were very sensible, knowing to help Ming Rang ease the burden of survival.

Ming Rang’s home was a Deserted Island inhabited by a large number of fierce beasts and dense vegetation, abundant in resources.

Chen Qing needed what she had plenty of in her warehouse.

Collected by a group of energetic youngsters, there was a huge pile of both edible and inedible items.

Apart from a rare few lucky ones like Chen Qing, other survivors were really living seriously and strenuously.

Ming Rang was one of the lucky ones; at least she had a ship, savings, and a stockpile of resources.

In the future, she might even have an island.

The island on which Ming Rang lived was inside the Elemental Sea, and Chen Qing could conveniently make a stop there.

Mechanical Heart piloted the ship, taking Chen Qing away from the range of the Gem Sea and steering towards the unknown Elemental Sea.