Ch. 342 - Expansion and Rescue
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Yang Yi quickly switched to the Expansion Building interface. Sure enough, there was a new building inside, and it required two Expansion Spaces.
【Crystal Cottage: A special building of the Astrologer. Ship models can be made inside the Crystal Cottage. The finished models can be displayed, thereby changing the appearance of the ship.
The more lifelike the statue is, the better the effect. It can even be so realistic that it is indistinguishable from the real thing.
Construction Requirements: Expansion Space *2, Wood *5,000, Stone *200, Steel *1,000, Crystal *5,000, Crystal Diamonds *80,000, Magic Stones *10,000.】
“Eighty thousand Crystal Diamonds... Are you kidding me?”
Yang Yi could hardly believe his eyes. He counted them again, but there really were four zeros. It wasn't eight thousand... It really was eighty thousand!
He had spent a fortune buying out the entire stock of Crystal Diamonds from the Golden Merchant Caravan, and had only barely managed to gather thirty thousand, which he then used to upgrade the Nightmare Star.
Who would have thought that immediately after the upgrade, another Expansion Building would appear, and this time it required even more resources!
Yang Yi fell into thought, weighing whether to choose an ordinary building or a special building and construct one of them first.
If he chose the ordinary building, the Crystal Cottage would have to be delayed until the ship reached Level Six before it could be built.
If he chose the special building, then the ship's progress toward reaching Level Six would be delayed.
No matter which one he chose, one side would inevitably be delayed.
He thought about it for several minutes before tossing the decision to Suna.
“It's up to you. Either way, there's no escaping these eighty thousand Crystal Diamonds,” she replied. “Also, I'm getting ready to sew the corpses together. I'll call you when I reach the final step. It might take a day or two. I need to work out the splicing plan...”
Suna tossed the decision right back to him.
Yang Yi simply stopped thinking about it and decided to upgrade all the other Expansion Buildings to Level Four first.
The Ancient War Room required Wood *1,500, Sulfur *1,000, and Magic Stones *500.
The Watchtower required Steel *500, Blackwood *200, and Crystal Diamonds *300.
The total required resources were Wood *3,000, Sulfur *2,000, Magic Stones *1,000, Steel *500, Blackwood *200, and Crystal Diamonds *300. (There were two Ancient War Rooms.)
Yang Yi checked his inventory.
He had just enough resources.
Yang Yi chose to upgrade all of them, and their attributes became as follows.
【Ancient War Room (Level 4): Provides four waterlogged cannons, with an effective range of 500 meters. They may fire some strange things.】
【Watchtower (Level 4): Can scan an area within 2,000 nautical miles. If there are islands on the surface of the sea, it will provide detailed maps and coordinates.】
They were all very basic upgrades, increasing the range and scanning area.
After finishing these upgrades, Yang Yi began examining the gains from this trip.
Apart from the Crystal Diamonds required for the upgrades, Yang Yi had also bought a Light Fairy, a pile of books, top-grade Enhancement Stones, spatial storage items, and some tools that Suna had requested.
The most expensive of them all was the Light Fairy, Tricia. He had to make good use of her.
Yang Yi exchanged the spoils he had hunted for a Large Dark Core, and the ship's speed immediately increased by ten knots. He then ordered the old captain to head toward Cook Island at full speed.
He had no idea what Cook Island looked like. The main reason he was going there was because it was relatively close, so he figured he might as well make the trip.
It would take roughly twenty-four sailing days. With the Nightmare Star, however, he estimated that fifteen days would be enough.
He entered the captain's cabin, took out the bag containing Tricia from his pocket, and placed it on the table.
He immediately noticed something strange.
“Why isn't she moving at all?” Yang Yi asked in confusion.
He hadn't tied the bag very tightly and had left enough room for Tricia to move around, but there was no response whatsoever from inside.
Realizing that something was wrong, Yang Yi immediately opened the bag and discovered that quite a bit of viscous, crystalline liquid was stuck inside.
That Tricia...
She was actually using her saliva to dissolve herself!
“Idiot!” Yang Yi cursed. He took the quilt from the side and, while wiping away the saliva, removed Tricia from the bag.
Unfortunately, it was already too late. Several parts of her body had already been dissolved by her own saliva, including her teeth, half of her face, patches of skin, her fingers, and her entire lower jaw, including her tongue.
She looked as if she had just been pulled out of some corrosive liquid.
Moreover, her body had already been incomplete to begin with. She was missing half of her torso, her left arm, and both legs.
With the parts that had been dissolved added to that, less than one-third of her original body remained.
Yang Yi checked Tricia's information, but there was no change whatsoever. There was no way to determine whether she was alive or dead based on her information.
But as long as there was still hope, Yang Yi would not give up.
She had probably planned to commit suicide long ago. From the moment Suna told her that she could dissolve herself, she had already begun planning her suicide.
“If I can't escape, then I'll kill myself.”
That was definitely what this girl had been thinking, and she had acted accordingly. That was why her body had become smaller earlier.
Although Yang Yi had noticed it, he hadn't thought in that direction at all. At that time, she was probably dissolving her internal organs or some other part of her body.
Yang Yi took out the Large Light Container and used brute force to twist it apart into two halves, like splitting open a watermelon, then poured out the Light Fairy fragments inside.
Instantly, the entire room was illuminated by a warm light, which was even somewhat dazzling.
However, the light was confined within the room.
From the outside, the captain's cabin still appeared pitch-black, with not even a trace of light leaking out. This was an effect of the Large Dark Core's spoils.
Several seconds passed.
Yang Yi had completed all the preparations before casting the spell and placed the scattered Light Fairy body fragments in their corresponding positions.
Fortunately, when he had bought them earlier, he had specifically requested the body parts to correspond to their original locations, so arranging them was quite easy.
Otherwise, Yang Yi would have had to forcefully cast the spell anyway.
At worst, he would just revive her first and worry about the rest later...
“I won't let you die!”
Yang Yi said to Tricia as he extended his right hand and prepared to cast the spell.
In reality, however, he was also uncertain.
After all, this move represented the gain or loss of twenty million Sea Snail Coins, and it was also related to his plans for later. He couldn't afford even the slightest carelessness!
Limb Restoration!
Yang Yi activated the magic.
Immediately, a large number of runes emerged from his right hand and transformed into tiny spiders, which leaped onto Tricia's body.
They were incredibly small, only a few nanometers in size, yet Yang Yi could still observe their movements.
After identifying the object being repaired and the surrounding environment, these spiders immediately began to work. They moved the Light Fairy fragments around them and used their webs to sew Tricia's body together like tailors.
After the restoration was complete...
Tricia's left arm had been restored. However, the skin color was somewhat different from that of her original body, appearing slightly darker because the tiny spiders had also sewn the black cloth on the table and the Light Container into her body.
Yang Yi continued casting the spell, successively attaching her left leg and right leg as well.
A total of nine points of mana were consumed, and her torso became complete as well.
At this point, Tricia's limbs and torso had more or less been restored. All that remained were the damaged parts of her face and her right hand, which was missing its fingers.
“She should have been saved, right?”
Yang Yi muttered to himself before sending Suna a private message, asking how to determine whether a Light Fairy was dead.
“You killed her? Then don't waste her. Just make her into a specimen for me.”
“I'm asking you how to tell whether she's dead or not!”
“I don't know either. I've never dissected a Light Fairy. Try checking whether she's breathing, whether she has a heartbeat, whether her pupils contract...”