CHAPTER 135: CHAPTER 136: THE FIRST TO EAT WATERMELON IN THE OTHERWORLD AGAIN?

The night is deep.

In the desert, long howls occasionally echo, and countless birds and insects that don’t appear during the day sweep across the sky in flocks.

Animals sprinting in all directions roam around, while countless insects and lizards crawl across the ground, searching for corpses of mutant creatures or survivors...

At this moment, Lin Yue, Bai, and the little ice lizards are enjoying an extraordinary night.

"Watermelon, it’s simply a god in this Otherworld!" Lin Yue took a big bite out of a large slice of iced watermelon, saying contentedly.

Red flesh, green rind, refreshing coldness - one bite is sweet to the heart, with a fresh special scent that he felt no one could resist.

The little ice lizards also swallowed the plump juicy deliciousness in big mouthfuls, even gnawing the rind clean after finishing the flesh.

However, for the much bigger Bai, a slice of watermelon wasn’t enough at all. To reward it for saving him, Lin Yue directly gave Bai a whole watermelon.

But the little ice lizards seemed unsatisfied and focused on Bai’s watermelon, their twenty pairs of eyes staring so intently that it made Bai anxious.

"Ga-wu!" "Puchi puchi!"

While Bai and the little ice lizards fought over the watermelon, Lin Yue returned to the bedside and sat down.

At that moment, he felt incredibly strange about his body’s recovery.

Clearly, in the morning, he was unconscious, with a fever that wouldn’t subside. He was saved and brought back to the shelter by the evolved Bai.

When he woke up, it was already afternoon, and he felt groggy and weak.

However, by that evening, not only had the fever subsided, but after eating a slice of watermelon, he felt his energy was nearly completely restored, almost back to normal.

Naturally, things like a runny nose, sore throat, aching limbs flew away to the nine heavens.

What kind of fever was this? What sort of cold did he get?

Lin Yue increasingly felt this illness was unexpected, even too bizarre.

"Let’s see if anyone else is like this?" Lin Yue opened the system panel, went straight to the group, searching keywords like "fever" and "cold."

There were indeed entries, but Lin Yue found that those who posted these keywords had profiles that were almost all dark gray.

In this Otherworld, a minor illness can take a life, which is all too common.

No hospitals, no doctors, and even medicine is extremely scarce.

Forget anything else, a small cut, diarrhea, or even simple fever and cold can weaken a strong person immensely.

Then, the lack of food and water, along with the dangerous and pervasive mutant creatures, would easily carry off a weakened survivor.

Lin Yue searched carefully, flipping through pages.

Eventually, he actually found two survivors in the group who had once had a fever and survived.

Lin Yue tentatively sent private messages to both.

These two people described their fever and cold experiences very similar to his, recovering within just one day as if nothing had happened.

But oddly enough, these two people only recently had this experience.

"Until they reply, I’ll just do something else, then..."

Lin Yue opened the trade panel, not forgetting that he had put up goods before entering the Ancient Secret Realm Gate and requested various supplies he wanted.

"Strawberries... Hmm? Quite a few inquiries."

He hadn’t specified whether strawberries were priced per piece or per pound, so the private messages were full of inquiries about this, though some did offer alloys as payment.

"Stainless steel? That’s nice, deal!" Lin Yue quickly found a suitable offer.

Exchanging 5 pieces of stainless steel for 1 pound of strawberries, the kind of absurd bartering that wouldn’t appear in reality, frequently occurring in this Otherworld.

Lin Yue even felt the other party got a bargain.

After all, providing plenty of water to grow strawberries is indeed much harder than acquiring stainless steel with good luck in the Secret Realm.

The thing most scarce in this world is, ironically, water.

[You lost 500g of strawberries]

[You gained X5 stainless steel]

Other offers Lin Yue found lacking, such as bronze or lead-tin alloys, he didn’t even bother looking at.

These materials used as Alloy Shelter building materials, thinking about it felt so fragile.

However, the zinc alloy, hard aluminum alloy, and stainless steel in his hand, as far as he was concerned, couldn’t be used to build that "Alloy Shelter."

"Is there no titanium alloy?" Lin Yue shook his head, recalling those piles of iron titanium ore in the yard.

Does he need to build a furnace to turn those ores into what he wants?

Looking at toilet paper next, Lin Yue discovered this seemed more in demand!

The previous buyer of strawberries even proposed exchanging 10 pieces of stainless steel for 5 rolls of toilet paper!

Wow, starting to seek material enjoyment, are we?

Tired of using branches and leaves?

But the other party, aside from the offer, said nothing else.

This is actually Lin Yue’s favorite laid-back buyer—seeing what they like, they offer a price directly, no haggling, no fussing, and no other requests because of the trading.

Straight exchange, Lin Yue was very satisfied.

He deliberately checked the buyer’s name.

"Xing Lingfeng... Wait, Xing Lingfeng? This name sounds familiar, like I’ve heard it somewhere?"

Lin Yue looked at the person’s profile, trying to recall, suddenly remembering.

Isn’t this the famous top survival expert from the Tang Country?

Before arriving in this Otherworld, he’d watched this person’s videos, reportedly surviving in Death Valley, Desperate Cliff, Celestial Pit, Wood and Bamboo Forest Sea, Black Flood Dragon River Grand Canyon. He was quite well-known.

"He’s quite a big shot, and certainly low-key."

Lin Yue found that those truly skilled often spoke the least, and quietly watched screens, only bidding when they saw something appropriate...

"Hmm? I seem to be like this too?" Lin Yue realized he indeed behaved this way.

However, this was shaped by personality and experience, having nothing to do with being a big shot.

With no suitable bids, Lin Yue removed the strawberries and toilet paper, having kept them up for over a day. The 10,000 people in the group—no, 92,334 people should all know he had these things by now.

Finally, looking at the mustard greens, this was an old fishing technique.

Using the most scarce vegetables to attract everyone’s attention, then telling them he had other better things. And these things, naturally, were to exchange for what he needed more.

"Lin Yue, I have three sensors, five motors, two reducers, two metal shaft arms, three sets of gears and gearboxes, three multifunction adapters. I want vegetables and water. 20L of water, other vegetables at your discretion."

In a private message, Xing Lingfeng’s profile appeared again, bringing quite a few items he wanted!

And these are the most crucial parts for building that robot!