The situation below was about as expected. No second Bear Mom appeared. Instead, two ordinary brown bears emerged one after another.
The brown bears clearly paused for a moment upon seeing the two of them, then pounced toward Li Jianwei.
Evidently, the Bear Mom Headset had no effect on ordinary brown bears.
Of course, it was also possible that the ordinary brown bears realized the Li Jianwei wearing their mom’s head had hurt their mother, so they charged without thinking.
Bold from her superior skills, Li Jianwei directly told Shu Heng not to intervene in the fight. She grabbed her machete and began a turn-based battle with the ordinary brown bear.
Every time she dodged a pounce or bite from the brown bear, Li Jianwei swung her machete in her hand, making it howl in pain.
In less than half an hour, Li Jianwei traded the spoils of war to Shu Heng like she was showing off a treasure.
“Now we both have full sets of equipment and backpacks.” Li Jianwei was very satisfied with her achievement.
Shu Heng hesitated, wanting to speak but stopping and stopping but wanting to speak. In the end, she could only vigorously pat the big bear head on Li Jianwei’s head before accepting the traded items.
She had to admit, the bear head really took up a lot of space. It was a shame to discard it, but she couldn’t keep wearing it on her head.
With the idea that it might be tradable to others later, the bear head still occupied two inventory slots and lay in Shu Heng’s backpack.
After descending about two-thirds of the way, a cave appeared in their field of vision.
However, the cave entrance was covered by thick vines. Li Jianwei and Shu Heng worked together with their machetes for a long time before successfully cutting out a gap large enough for one person to pass through.
“Cave mushrooms!” Li Jianwei couldn’t help but whoop, then rushed forward to start harvesting. With Shu Heng behind her, Li Jianwei felt completely at ease.
Shu Heng vigilantly watched their surroundings, afraid some monster might pounce out from the darkness.
“Eight in total. Do you have empty slots left?” Li Jianwei turned her head and asked.
“Five left,” Shu Heng said.
“Alright, you take them for now. My intuition tells me there are more good things inside the cave.” Li Jianwei quickly completed the trade, then began groping along the edge.
Visibility inside the cave was very low. The best way to avoid getting lost was to pick a direction and stick to the wall.
If the cave was a closed loop with one exit, they would circle back to the starting point. If there were two exits, finding the new one was just a matter of time.
After collecting five more cave mushrooms, Li Jianwei discovered a treasure chest. Opening it yielded basic supplies along with two blueprints.
Li Jianwei: “Blueprints for a headlamp and zipline. You learn them. They seem tech-oriented.”
After forming their alliance, Li Jianwei and Shu Heng had clear divisions of labor. Li Jianwei learned blueprints for weapons, attacks, and equipment, while Shu Heng handled batteries, radars, and other tech blueprints.
As for furniture and other blueprints, whoever found them learned them—since they used them together anyway.
“This island doesn’t seem to have many places for a zipline. It’s probably for the next island,” Shu Heng said, learning the blueprints without hesitation.
Li Jianwei: “Can we make a zipline with our current resources?”
Shu Heng nodded. “Yes, just needs hinges, bolts, and some basic materials. The headlamp too—battery shards and rope will do. The radar only needs power when in use. I’ve hoarded plenty of circuit boards and batteries. We can make two when we get back.”
“Perfect. With headlamps, visibility won’t be an issue anymore.” Li Jianwei was very pleased. Spotting vines not far away, she swung her machete to work.
Five minutes later, sunlight streamed in through the new exit.
However, Li Jianwei and Shu Heng didn’t rush out. Instead, they continued exploring along the edge.
The blueprints from the treasure chest were very useful. Since starting from the right had yielded a chest, maybe starting from the left would yield something similar.
Their guess proved correct, but the chest on the left didn’t contain precious blueprints—only a recipe and a stylish pilot hat.
After stuffing the recipe and hat into her backpack, Shu Heng only had two slots left. It couldn’t hold much more.
Li Jianwei was doing better. Of her fifteen slots, only seven were filled—with food, fruit, silver seaweed, and weapons.
After backtracking to the new exit, Li Jianwei—still wearing the Bear Mom Headset—took the lead.
“There’s a house over there. Let’s check it out.” Li Jianwei charged ahead, only to be blocked by the tightly shut door.
“It looks like it needs a matching key to open,” Shu Heng said after examining the lock. She peered through the window. “There’s a note and blueprints on the desk. Something very useful inside.”
Li Jianwei circled to the back of the house, eyeing the sheer cliff opening right there. “No path backward. This must be the end of the line.”
“We haven’t checked underwater yet. Maybe the key’s down there,” Shu Heng said, coming over and pulling Li Jianwei farther from the edge.
Standing too close to the cliff was dangerous. A monster sneak attack could easily send them tumbling over.
“Alright, let’s head back to the cave first and see if there’s more path below.” Li Jianwei gripped Shu Heng’s hand in return and led her back the way they came.
After exiting the cave, they continued downward. Along the way, they encountered a swarm of honey bees. Li Jianwei looted the beehive, and they each took a share of the honey to taste immediately.
“Eating it slowly boosts status. Not sure about the health regen effect,” Li Jianwei remarked.
Both had full, healthy 100 HP, so the healing effect wasn’t noticeable.
At the very bottom, the endless sea surface appeared in their vision once more.
“It’s directly opposite the wooden raft,” Shu Heng said, looking at the sky and using the sun for orientation. “If we circle the raft around the island’s perimeter, we can land here.”
“Looks like another landing point, with a beware-of-bears sign.” Li Jianwei curled her hand and knocked on the metal warning plaque.
“It’s about four in the afternoon now. No storm today,” Shu Heng said. “Of course, we might have been in the cave if one hit, so we wouldn’t notice.”
“Two hours—should be enough to get back, right?” Li Jianwei looked at Shu Heng.
Shu Heng understood. Li Jianwei didn’t want to backtrack, so she planned to jump into the sea and swim back. “About right. Our status is good. The spare bow and arrows can handle over five pufferfish.”
“Too bad we didn’t bring flippers. We’d be faster.” Li Jianwei pulled out a watermelon and chomped into it, boosting her hunger and thirst above ninety.
Shu Heng ate a pineapple. “Wonder if sharks will spawn near us.”
“I think they will. We can collect shark meat then. No need for shark heads—our slots are limited. Better to gather some seaweed on the way.” Li Jianwei stretched, sprinted, and plunged into the water with a splash.
Watching the water nearly splash her face, Shu Heng silently gave it a five out of ten.
A failing score for diving.
Shu Heng then mimicked Li Jianwei’s sprint and dive. When she surfaced, she saw Li Jianwei—Bear Mom Headset and all—holding up a thumbs-up high.
“I’d give your dive a perfect score!”
Shu Heng couldn’t help but chuckle softly. “Spotted any sharks?”
“Nope. Probably takes time to spawn. You watch front, I’ll watch back. No sneak attacks.”
Shu Heng said nothing, just pulled out her weapon, turned her back to Li Jianwei, and swam backward.
After the shark contributed its shark meat, Li Jianwei and Shu Heng made it back to the wooden raft before nightfall.
Shu Heng sorted supplies and handcrafted headlamps and ziplines. Li Jianwei handled watering, cooking, tending animals, and other chores.
After Shu Heng finished the headlamp and zipline, Li Jianwei brought her a bowl of steaming vegetable soup.
The vegetable soup’s main ingredients were beets and potatoes—not particularly tasty, but it left the body warm and comfortable afterward.
Shu Heng traded the headlamp over while holding the vegetable soup. “The headlamp’s lighting is good. When we move together, the one in front wears it to avoid casting shadows.”
Li Jianwei nodded. Extra shadows could mislead judgments—mistaking one for a monster was minor, but the reverse was trouble.
Full and watered, Li Jianwei crafted leather boots and a backpack. Shu Heng made two sets of stone arrows. They didn’t have enough metal ingots for metal arrows—better value in metal spears and machetes.
Good status meant ample stamina. The two exchanged a glance, reached a silent agreement, and Li Jianwei wriggled into the bedcovers.
Whether from mischief or Shu Heng’s tacit approval, Li Jianwei made sure to don the ordinary brown bear head during their exertions.
The effect was quite good. The next morning, when Shu Heng got up, she needed an extra cup of water compared to Li Jianwei to fully restore her thirst.
Bad news: The Deity seemed especially irritable today. Thick clouds blocked ninety percent of the sunlight, making outdoor visibility very low.
Good news: The wind and waves outside didn’t affect the shelter area. With headlamps on, seabed work felt no different from a sunny day.
The first order underwater was still the shark, but this time Li Jianwei didn’t slack. She honestly stowed all the drops in the wooden raft’s chest before donning her headlamp to explore the seabed.
The two followed the water pipe downward. The dense metal ores scattered across the seafloor made their eyes light up.
No need for the friend channel—a simple look was enough for Li Jianwei and Shu Heng to settle their plan.
After exploring the seabed, they would mine every ore here clean—not leaving a single stone!
As expected, at a certain depth, they encountered pufferfish. A few shots from the bow and arrow easily killed them, yielding pufferfish heads and sticky explosives.
Though Li Jianwei could slap anything on her head, thinking of using the pufferfish head for soup made her quietly abandon the idea of wearing it to save slots.
There would be more than two pufferfish. Even if she and Shu Heng both took one, a third would still claim space. Besides, with backpacks equipped now, fifty slots meant no need to be so stingy.
The pipe led much deeper than expected. It wasn’t fully sealed—breaks appeared every so often.
Li Jianwei discovered lingering at the breaks restored her oxygen bar. It felt like a hint they were on the right path.
Shu Heng agreed, but as depth increased, their movements slowed, and oxygen drain sped up.
After five oxygen refills, Li Jianwei and Shu Heng reached the pipe’s end.
They realized it wasn’t a water pipe, but an oxygen line connected to an underwater cage of glass and sheet metal.
Li Jianwei brushed aside sea creatures on the glass, revealing a mermaid-like being in her view.
The ‘mermaid’ was wrapped in countless iron chains, soaked in green unidentified liquid inside the cage—different from seawater. The oxygen mask it wore showed it wasn’t a seabed native. It breathed with lungs, not gills.
Li Jianwei and Shu Heng exchanged a glance, then quickly chatted via the system.
【Li Jianwei: Should we try to get it out? I see a disc handwheel over there. Turning it should open this cage-like thing.】
【Shu Heng: Not sure if this creature is friend or foe, or its attack power as an enemy. Rash action is risky. Let’s confirm no other monsters nearby and check our status first.】
Being cautious wasn’t bad here. Li Jianwei didn’t object. They circled the cage twice, finding and killing two pufferfish hiding in the seaweed.
After refilling oxygen at a leak, Li Jianwei swam to the door, signaled Shu Heng, then strained to turn the disc handwheel.
One turn, two… five, six…
Li Jianwei turned for a long time—even refilling oxygen midway—before maxing out the disc and swinging open the heavy door.
The seawater quickly fused with the green liquid inside the cage. As the liquid within the cage diluted, the beauty that had been as still as a specimen began to react and slowly opened her eyes.
The siren’s eyes were a slightly brighter red than those of the mutated dogs, but not as dazzling as the shade Li Jianwei saw the next night.
The siren blinked, and as the green liquid vanished, her independent consciousness awakened. However, chains still bound her body.
【Ding—Congratulations, Survivor, for discovering God’s Kin – Deep Sea Siren. The Godkin is extremely grateful for your help in restoring her consciousness and requests that you cut the chains binding her.】
The system’s prompt sounded simultaneously in Li Jianwei and Shu Heng’s minds.
【Li Jianwei: Godkin, if we let her out, will we get lots of rewards?】
【Shu Heng: Probably, but Godkin doesn’t necessarily mean she’s kind. After all, when the Deity stirs, it brings us storms at sea.】
【Li Jianwei: I’ll give you all my stuff. I’ll go try cutting the chains with the machete. The system should be neutral and biased toward survivors. Otherwise, it wouldn’t give reminders every time the weather changes.】
【Shu Heng: It’s too dangerous for you to go alone. Let’s go together. If the Godkin really attacks us, better to fight as one than let her pick us off individually.】
Shu Heng’s reasoning left Li Jianwei unable to argue. After restoring their oxygen bars, the two each grabbed a machete and got to work.
The siren’s body was roughly three times the size of an ordinary human’s. The chains not only bound her limbs and torso but also pierced through her body in places. Even a slight movement caused scarlet blood to seep out.
The machetes had high attack power, but the chains were extremely sturdy and required repeated strikes in the same spot to sever even one.
Fortunately, their inventories weren’t strained, so each had brought a spare machete.
After consuming nearly three machetes apiece, they finally cut through the last chain.
【Congratulations, Survivor. You have successfully rescued the Godkin. The Godkin is overjoyed. Obtained: BlueprintsEngine, BlueprintsSteering Wheel, RecipeLuxurious Catfish, RecipeMushroom Omelet Roll… Archive Room Key1.】
After the system prompt, the siren flicked her tail and swam deeper, leaving behind only a large metal ring in place.
Li Jianwei swam over and picked it up. She discovered that the metal ring’s material was extremely similar to the Mutated Vulture’s drops, and it too bore a string of engraved codes—though fewer digits, suggesting an earlier model.
Shu Heng used the blueprints on the spot, while the recipes were naturally taken back to be posted on the kitchen wall for learning and reference during cooking.
The seabed surprisingly held few dangers. The only aggressive creatures turned out to be pufferfish. This trip felt almost too smooth for Li Jianwei and Shu Heng.
Of course, this “smoothness” was something only they could claim. For other survivors, it might have been impossible to muster the courage to dive so deep, let alone dodge the pufferfish’s varied sneak attacks.
Most of them wouldn’t have dared to turn the disc handwheel, much less hack through all those chains one by one.
Most importantly, they might not have found trustworthy allies. Without a successful alliance, exploration—whether on islands or below—would be an extremely arduous and perilous journey.
Compared to metal ores, the Archive Room hidden behind the cave was clearly more worth exploring.
After noticing it still wasn’t dark, Li Jianwei and Shu Heng made their familiar way up from Shack Island, crossed the Suspension Bridge, and arrived at the cave.
Along the way, they spotted a refreshed beehive. Shu Heng’s inventory gained two jars of honey bees and five pieces of beehive. The honey, naturally, was consumed by the pair as afternoon tea.
Honey bees couldn’t be researched, but the beehive could. Researching it unlocked the corresponding beehouse blueprint.
However, producing honey required planting flowers around the beehouse. They currently lacked soil to build planting pots.
As for the old shoes fished up earlier, while they could hold flowers, they didn’t match the height and couldn’t be arranged in a circle around a beehouse.
With the Archive Room Key successfully used, Li Jianwei pushed open the metal door. Besides blueprints and notes on the desk, there was a high-end-looking treasure chest.
“Deity bless, let me get some good stuff.” Li Jianwei offered a symbolic prayer, then lifted the lid before anyone could react.
【Obtained: BlueprintsWater Pot, BlueprintsLarge Item Storage, Metal Ingot20, Circuit Board5, Scrap50, Biofuel5, Clock1】
“Whoa, did the Deity really bless me?” Li Jianwei couldn’t help exclaiming. She then traded the items to Shu Heng. “I think this biofuel is for powering the engine.”
Shu Heng nodded in agreement, then picked up the BlueprintsMetal Detector from the desk, along with a note bearing another string of numbers.
“If nothing unexpected happens, these four digits will lead us to the next site of human activity,” Shu Heng said.
Li Jianwei glanced at the system notification. “This time, we don’t need to rush. We can stockpile more supplies, like making extra metal bow and arrows.”
“Go dig up the seabed ores first?” Shu Heng suggested. “The ore density there is high. We might get several batches.”
“Sounds good. We have the scrap hook anyway.” Li Jianwei brushed nonexistent dust from her clothes. “We’re here already. Gotta bring back more goodies.”
And so, Master Li and Master Shu, focused on mining, worked until late at night before returning fully loaded.
The engine’s main materials were metal and circuit boards. With the furnace working hard, it was built in no time.
However, the wooden raft was quite large and required three engines for smooth propulsion. Engines could be powered by biofuel from the chest or by burning wooden planks.
Considering their limited wooden plank stock, after scavenging the seabed ores, the pair set sail overnight toward the tailwind direction.
【bh77: Alliances require sufficient intimacy between parties. Haven’t found a way to dissolve them yet.】
【Guli Qinghe: Friendly reminder: After allying, both sides share all resources. If one dies, the other inherits everything.】
【Bai Ling: Sisters, keep your eyes peeled. Don’t get scammed! Especially allying with male survivors!】
【Dec: Does anyone know what the note from Sunken Ship Island is for? The one I found just says ‘help’.】
【Stir-Fry Ball: Hoard it. Might come in handy someday.】
Li Jianwei glanced at the World Channel before bed. Since the World Channel’s daily message limit refreshed at six in the morning, it was especially lively in the early hours.
Even without anything to say, survivors followed the “use it or lose it” principle, posting wild ideas.
“From the World Channel hints, we’re the fastest-progressing survivors. Lots of people haven’t even found Shack Island yet,” Li Jianwei said.
“Progressing fast has pros and cons. We get lots of resources, but face the most dangers,” Shu Heng tugged at the blanket. “Should we tip off survivors who haven’t reached Shack Island?”
Li Jianwei rubbed her chin. “A little hint is fine. After all, it’s real-name chatting.”
Shu Heng didn’t object. After a moment’s thought, she posted a message on the World Channel.
【Shu Heng: Sunken ship clues point to Shack Island. Mutated Vultures and Brown Bears there. Prepare well before heading out.】
Shu Heng wasn’t some great philanthropist, but under the premise of not harming her own interests, she didn’t mind doing a good deed.
Li Jianwei followed suit with her own World Channel post.
【Li Jianwei: Lots of pufferfish in the seabed. They hide in seaweed. Recommend bringing light sources.】
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