When disaster struck, I became a big shot surviving in the ocean.
Chapter 45 Illiterate Daliya

Chapter 45: Chapter 45 Illiterate Daliya

"Alright."

Chen Qing nodded readily. Many supplies were unsuitable to be traded directly with survivors, and these days she needed to quickly recuperate her funds. Selling to an intermediary was also a good choice.

"Then after we get to the island, we’ll together look for Granny Swan, not in the black market."

The intermediary that Huo Hou often dealt with was named Granny Swan, who had also been a bounty hunter with notable achievements.

Lately, it was said that a rookie pirate had severely injured her, and since then she had retired to Sapphire Island to start her business as an intermediary for bounty hunters.

"Right, are you going to go out to sea later? We came on a small boat, and those corpses may attract a lot of sea beasts,"

Huo Hou suddenly remembered this and asked, as the hunters beside her all looked at her oddly.

Hunting sea beasts was one of the bounty hunters’ sources of income, and the rarer the beast, the higher the price.

"Should we invite them along as well?"

Huo Hou motioned towards Gao Yue and her group on the opposite boat. Her motive was not solely about alcohol.

It was naturally more appropriate for Chen Qing, rather than this stranger, to ask, especially since those with extraordinary abilities clearly respected Chen Qing.

Chen Qing understood what Huo Hou meant.

"I’ll ask them about it later,"

Chen Qing smiled lightly, not presumptuously promising on behalf of Gao Yue’s group.

However, it was likely that Gao Yue’s group would not refuse. They were currently in need of money and could accumulate some experience as well.

With Chen Qing’s promise, Huo Hou and her crew refrained from talking more and focused on resting.

This fight had caused them substantial injuries.

Whether pirate or hunter, both were essentially trading their lives for money.

Chen Qing returned to her room and changed into a set of light, comfortable clothes after cleaning herself.

Ever since she entered this world, there was always a lingering scent of blood on her, subtle yet persistent.

Sitting on the couch, still familiar with the movement of wiping her head, Chen Qing opened her personal panel.

This time, the earnings in Extraordinary Points were abundant, enough for Chen Qing to upgrade her spirit attribute.

However, Chen Qing wasn’t in a hurry to upgrade the spirit attribute. It wasn’t the most crucial for her presently,

Her extraordinary ability... did not rely on spirit attributes, and neither did Chen Qing’s current skills.

Chen Qing opened the skills tab. Compared to boosting her spirit attribute, having come into money, Chen Qing was more eager to create those three combat-type Mechanical Creatures.

An E-rank in Mechanical Manufacturing only required spending 100 Extraordinary Points to upgrade to D-rank.

With a D-rank in Mechanical Manufacturing, Chen Qing could tentatively attempt to assemble those three mechanical creatures.

The difficulty of crafting combat-type Mechanical Creatures was not something that could be compared to a Mechanical Spider Bomb. Chen Qing needed more advanced skills knowledge.

A gap of 14 Extraordinary Points...

Chen Qing’s fingers lightly tapped the Bounty Book.

She opened the ship’s panel; the ship could also be upgraded with Extraordinary Points, including a full ship upgrade or upgrades specific to each cabin.

Kitchen, medical room, storage, plantation area, ship’s helm,... and the mechanical factory.

Even the Superpower Vine and Mechanical Ants could be upgraded.

However, upgrading the mechanical factory needed more Extraordinary Points than upgrading her skills.

While she had enough points for the kitchen and medical room, it was not necessary to waste points now.

Chen Qing barely sighed, only the black market on Sapphire Island was a place where she could act freely.

In other places, any action would easily attract attention and likely lead to her arrest.

Chen Qing was generally someone who abided by the laws.

"Sister, may I come in?"

Daliya’s knock sounded from outside the door.

"Come in."

Chen Qing closed the panel and moderated her tone.

"Sister, are you alright?"

Daliya looked at Chen Qing worriedly. Those pirates had stabbed her so many times and made her bleed so much, it nearly scared her to death!

"It’s okay, I’m almost healed."

Chen Qing lifted her clothes to show Daliya the wound, and while Zuo Yun’s ability hadn’t allowed her to heal instantly, Chen Qing’s wound had already at least recovered by half.

Zuo Yun’s ability... when used in battle is quite... how should I put it.

The healing speed is a bit too fast, she was already beginning to heal while the knife was still stuck in her flesh... it’s somewhat torturous.

Chen Qing felt she needed to talk to Zuo Yun about her experience with it, otherwise... the next one to experience it would really be too miserable.

She, too, was miserable.

Chen Qing thought about the feeling at that time, and the corners of her mouth twitched slightly.

She couldn’t think about it anymore.

Chen Qing pulled a piece of white paper from the shelf and began to write on it with a rustling sound.

The script of this world was completely different from theirs, but when they were thrown into this world, all survivors had instinctively mastered the common language of this world.

After finishing her writing, Chen Qing handed the paper to Daliya.

Looking at the symbols that resembled earthworms on the paper, Daliya’s face suddenly turned red, and she spoke softly.

"Sister... I... can’t read."

"..."

Chen Qing had forgotten; Daliya was born on Slave Island and had grown up there.

But... Chen Qing’s eyebrows knitted together.

Daliya was supposed to go to the Scarlet Sea Domain, she was facing dangerous situations, and being illiterate... that was a big problem.

Would the remnants of the Moana Pirate Group have so much time to let her study?

Chen Qing glanced at Daliya, who looked uneasy and seemed to have thought of this problem too.

Daliya had always been clever, she just pretended to be foolish in front of Chen Qing.

"Don’t worry."

Chen Qing rubbed Daliya’s head and pulled a picture book from the shelf to give to her.

"You take a look at this picture book for now."

"Okay."

Daliya obediently nodded her head and sat next to Chen Qing, her mind obviously elsewhere as she began to read the book.

Chen Qing quickly contacted Qing Xian to see if she had any skill books related to language or second phase items.

Qing Xian was very discreet, and the distance between them was quite large, which wouldn’t affect her and Daliya.

Contacting Gao Yue would involve certain risks.

Contacting Qing Xian was indeed the right person; Qing Xian had recently been planning to shift to being a recovery merchant.

And she was the kind of scarce recovery merchant who would only open for business twice a year and make enough each time to last the remaining time.

Having such a good platform like this private chat channel and not using it would be a waste.

Qing Xian had hoarded a whole lot of odd skill books and items that seemed useless at first glance.

This was all thanks to Chen Qing.

Once Chen Qing asked, she immediately dug out the appropriate skill book.

The skill book, named "Deep Blue Sea Basic Universal Language Proficiency," was perfect for an illiterate person like Daliya.

She had stockpiled an entire hundred of them!

Considering Chen Qing was her major benefactor, Qing Xian sold them to Chen Qing at cost price of 5 Silver Crabs each.

Whether it was truly at cost price... hehehe.

Qing Xian counted the Silver Crabs in her hand, her smile so wide that her teeth gleamed, and the shimmering silver was oh so beautiful!

If only they were gold!

If it had been anyone else, Qing Xian would have definitely asked for 1 goldfish per book!

Upon receiving the skill book, Chen Qing quickly had Daliya use it.

Moana’s daughter being illiterate, what was this nonsense?