When disaster struck, I became a big shot surviving in the ocean.
Chapter 174: Crow Medicine, Ship Eats Ship?

Chapter 174: Chapter 174: Crow Medicine, Ship Eats Ship?

After taking a bath, Chen Qing returned to her bedroom to sleep.

The weapons and professions of the pirates in the Ghost Moon Pirate Group were basically incompatible with her.

Therefore, aside from that fat doctor, Chen Qing didn’t waste their bodies on Decomposition Skill and fed them all to the ship.

The profession level of that fat guy known as Golden Three might not be as high as Chen Qing’s, or perhaps Chen Qing was just unlucky.

Other than a Skill Book called "Crow Medical Arts" at level E, it didn’t yield anything.

"Crow Medical Arts (E-level): A barbaric medical skill used only by unlicensed quacks, despised and forbidden to learn by the Physicians’ Alliance (in name only), recognized as dirty, rotten, evil, and cruel, but sometimes it has unique uses."

This medical skill was somewhat special, normally, as an E-level skill, "Crow Medical Arts" would have been classified among the C-level medical skills Chen Qing had mastered.

But after Chen Qing learned this skill, her C-level medical skills unexpectedly changed into "Scientific Medical Skill", with "Crow Medical Arts" listed parallel in her skill slot.

These two types of medical arts represent two different systems.

After Chen Qing assimilated the knowledge from the E-level "Crow Medical Arts", her expression became somewhat peculiar.

"..."

This medical art, being named after the crow, is truly a bit of slander to the crows—it should be named something like Sewer Medical Arts or Dirty Medical Arts.

Chen Qing hoped she would never have to use this medical technique in her lifetime, but if a time came when she really needed it, she wouldn’t refuse.

Lying on the soft and comfortable bed, Chen Qing quietly closed her eyes.

With the Mechanical Heart controlling the overall direction, it was much smarter than the Superpower Vine, so Chen Qing didn’t need to worry at all.

Ordinary pirates attempting to rob Chen Qing would end up just like those on the single-rail sailboat—devoured by her ship.

After Chen Qing fell asleep, her ship "extended its claws" towards the nearby Ghost Ship.

The gray sky hung above, the sea still deep blue, under the indifferent gaze of the moon, a vast dark red shadow covered the Ghost Ship, completely enveloping it, swallowing its glimmer, a viscous flesh paste filling every crevice of the Ghost Ship.

As a Transcendent Ship, the Ghost Ship had no power to fight back at all and could only be subjected to its actions.

...

Perhaps because she had filled her head with medical knowledge that challenged her worldview before sleeping, Chen Qing had an unusual dream filled with disgustingly filthy sewers, the kind unseen before, dim and blooming with a sinister green glow.

The first thing she did after getting up in the morning was to take a shower in the bathroom.

While brushing her teeth, through the window of the bathroom, Chen Qing saw the Ghost Ship floating next to the Mechanical Ship.

For some reason, Chen Qing suddenly felt that this Ghost Ship had undergone some change since yesterday, something she didn’t know about.

"..."

Still brushing her teeth, Chen Qing fell silent for a moment, then cast an Identification Spell on the Ghost Ship.

"Ghost Moon (name-changeable)

Captain: None

Quality: Blue Quality

Level: D-level

...

Evaluation: By the Sea God above, what on earth did this poor Ghost Ship go through last night?"

She really hadn’t felt wrong; yesterday, this ship had been a C-level Purple Quality.

Just one night had passed, and it had dropped this much.

Normally, only ships classified as Purple Quality could possess the attribute Transcendent, and only those with the attribute Transcendent could be classified as Purple Quality.

Chen Qing opened the panel of the mechanical ship, and indeed.

[Growth: 0.01%

Energy Storage: 14234

Soul Activation: 0.1%]

Before Chen Qing had gone to sleep, there had been no changes to the Soul Activation and Growth values.

As for the prime culprit behind the changes to the Ghost Ship, it was obvious without saying.

Luckily, the Ghost Ship still retained its transcendent characteristics.

Chen Qing had no intention of investigating; she glanced at the changes in the ship’s attributes and continued with her morning wash.

The fact that the Ghost Ship could promote the growth of the mechanical ship was something Chen Qing was pleased to see.

However, as the level and quality of the Ghost Ship dropped, naturally, its price would go down as well.

But fortunately, most survivors don’t come across anything good. The Ghost Ship was still a Transcendent Ship after all, and even if its value decreased, it would not be by much, at most counteracting the premium over the original price of the Ghost Ship.

Acquiring a Transcendent Ship is no easy task, especially in a place like the Deep Blue Sea.

It’s not as if an individual carrying tens or hundreds of thousands of goldfish can simply go to a shipyard and get a Transcendent Ship.

"Not going to eat the rest?"

Chen Qing sat in the dining hall, eating breakfast when she suddenly spoke up, almost as if talking to herself.

"Yes, Master."

The chef robot waiting by the side answered Chen Qing in an extremely eerie, barely intelligible voice.

The chef robot was not equipped with a voice function, but the Mechanical Heart could still control it to make sounds, accurately responding to Chen Qing’s question.

What Chen Qing meant was the Ghost Ship outside; the mechanical ship understood Chen Qing’s meaning.

"Hmm."

Since the Mechanical Heart said so, Chen Qing listed the Ghost Ship along with other auction items for sale at the auction.

Chen Qing also spent some money to buy a spot on the system’s latest feature, Hot Search, so all survivors could see it.

A spot on the Hot Search cost one thousand goldfish—an expense that survivors without some savings couldn’t afford.

After posting the Ghost Ship on the trading channel, Chen Qing didn’t bother with it anymore, as she needed to prepare a potion to treat the child named Meimei from Ming Rang’s family’s injured leg.

The materials Chen Qing was lacking were collected with the help of a survivor in the Plant Sea, who was also tasked to buy some Extraordinary Plant Seeds and food seeds.

The Extraordinary Soil and various seeds obtained from the Sky Blue Wood Chamber of Commerce had been planted by the Mechanical Heart.

However, the cultivation area was clearly understaffed. The Mechanical Heart could control the whole ship, but there were too few mechanical creations in the cultivation area, making it difficult to manage everything.

Some Extraordinary Plants were very delicate and required 24-hour care, and a single Superpower Vine was being used as if it were dozens, leaving it almost burnt out from overwork.

After preparing Meimei’s potion, Chen Qing planned to start designing mechanical blueprints for the cultivation area, with the intention of fully implementing them there.

Although the cultivation area was also a Level B mechanical cultivation area, all its structure and functions were based on the foundation built by a Mechanic hired from the One Leaf Shipyard, surely not up to Chen Qing’s standards.

The Mechanic was an Advanced Mechanic who had been stuck at that level for a long time.

However, the Mechanic did have some skills.

Chen Qing had gleaned quite a few inspirations from her designs, and with the agricultural cultivation mechanical blueprints bought from Qing Xian, she felt confident about this attempt.

When fully immersed in work, time always seems scarce and passes too quickly.

On the 27th day of Cold Month and Rainy Month in the Deep Blue Sea, just after completing one-third of the blueprint designs, Chen Qing reached the waters of the Treasure Sea.