Chapter 13: Selling Sea Monster Meat, Installing a Whole-House Smart System

Wen Mingyue checked the toilet’s description—its water could be reused through a recycling system.

Each cycle had minimal loss, and it also had an automatic flushing function with absolutely no odor. As expected of something produced by the system.

She looked at the advanced wooden house blueprint—perfect. It seemed she’d be able to build a house very soon.

Following the system’s prompt, Wen Mingyue quickly went to retrieve a treasure chest.

A level 4 monster had dropped a bronze treasure chest.

【Open the treasure chest?】

【Opening…】

【Shark meat being processed…】

Resources obtained:

Advanced turret blueprint

Special first-kill reward for sea monster: Shark Meat ×500 (with attribute bonuses)

Shark skin ×1

Shark fins ×5

Shark teeth ×2

Wen Mingyue immediately opened the turret blueprint. It came with gunpowder crafting instructions.

【Turret: Iron Blocks ×150, Refined Iron ×50】
【Gunpowder: Charcoal ×5, Sulfur ×1】

Dismantling the bronze chest gave her 5 pieces of refined iron, and together with the 1 she had left, that made only 6—far from enough.

As for sulfur, she had no way of obtaining it at the moment.

Though the items were great, she had no choice but to set them aside for now.

【Shark Skin: Can be made into clothing. Keeps warm, waterproof, and provides speed bonus】

She then clicked on the shark teeth.

【Shark Teeth: Enhances penetration power when used】

【Fusion-compatible with Arrow Blueprint detected. Proceed with fusion?】

Overjoyed, she nodded repeatedly.

She immediately crafted three arrows and compared them with the old ones. The shark tooth-fused arrows gleamed with a cold light at the tip.

Then she pulled out the shark meat.

【Shark Meat: Each portion is 200g. Eating one portion increases Strength by 1 point. Non-stackable】

Wen Mingyue: !!!

A money-making opportunity had arrived.

She kept six portions—one for herself to eat shortly, and the rest to reserve for her family. She stored them in preservation cards. The remaining meat, she listed for trade through the system.

She then ran to the regional chat to advertise.

There was no way she’d pay extra again. She needed to save her gold coins—they were vital for future interstellar settlement registration and couldn’t be spent carelessly anymore. Last time she had burned through coins just to compete for the grand prize and ended up with a fancy crown, which was useless.

Wen Mingyue: “Good evening, players! My store just listed 494 portions of shark meat. Consuming one increases your Strength by 1 point. Limited quantity, first come, first served!”

“Holy crap, who are you?!”

“Yueyue, look over here! Need a little brother?”

“Welcome, Sister Yue!”

“Good evening, boss!”

…

As soon as Wen Mingyue appeared, the chat group exploded. It took quite a while before someone finally realized the real highlight.

Sour Cabbage Sister from the Northeast: “Guys, hurry and grab the shark meat! One piece adds 1 Strength point—this stuff is gold!”

“One piece of shark meat costs 20 wooden planks + 40 iron nails, or 8 iron blocks. I can’t afford that.”

“Can’t afford it +1.”

“Damn, this stuff tastes terrible—sour and fishy!”

“Here’s a tip for everyone: pinch your nose and down it in one gulp.”

“Tested and confirmed. It really does increase Strength by 1 point. I even feel less tired.”

“Agree with the one above +1.”

The gossip group’s admin: “Big thanks to the boss—now we can boost our Strength effortlessly.”

“Thanks to the boss +1.”

Then came a wave of gratitude from the rest of the players.

After posting her message, Wen Mingyue didn’t bother checking the chat anymore.

All 494 portions of shark meat were snapped up in under five minutes. Quite a few people even sent her private messages, offering high prices to buy more.

Most of them were very polite. Her achievements spoke for themselves—no one dared to openly express dissatisfaction.

Here’s the breakdown of what she received:

300 portions were exchanged for 20 wooden planks + 40 iron nails each

100 portions for 8 iron blocks each

10 portions for regular soil

25 portions for 2 packs of random seeds

15 portions for 2 glass panels

20 portions for 2 plastic units

5 portions for 2 refined iron

19 portions for various scarce materials

Final Gains:

Wood ×6000

Iron Nails ×12000

Iron Blocks ×800

Regular Soil ×10

Random Seeds ×50

Plastic ×40

Glass ×30

Refined Iron ×10

Tungsten Filament ×6

Passion Fruit Seedling

Watermelon Seedling

Socks ×2 pairs

Black Boots

Slippers

Sweater

Flashlight

Windproof Lighter

Hot Water Bottle

Thermos Cup

Sanitary Pads ×2

Nail Clipper Set

Women’s Sportswear

Juicer

Rocking Chair Blueprint

Plastic Bucket Blueprint

Wooden Bed Blueprint

Listening to 069 recite the data, Wen Mingyue was over the moon with joy.

She finished her portion of shark meat in just a few bites—not finding the taste strange at all. In fact, she felt like she could eat another piece.

Afterward, she checked her personal status panel:

Strength: 21

Agility: 20

Mental Power: 23

Well then, she’s officially a strong girl now.

After closing the panel, she quickly cooked a bowl of seafood noodles. She had originally planned to make seafood porridge, but now she just wanted to get things done quickly so she could expand her territory and build a house.

After eating and drinking her fill, she began upgrading the fishing boat and constructing a house—tonight, she wouldn’t have to sleep on the deck.

[Please enter the expanded area of the fishing boat]

After thinking for a moment, she entered: [400 sqm]

[Required materials: Wood x2000, Nails x600, Iron blocks x600]
[Under construction…]

Ten minutes later—

[Construction complete]
[Fishing boat area: 510 sqm]

Under the light from the control room, the previously visible land was now out of sight.

Wen Mingyue opened her personal panel to check the newly expanded fishing boat layout. The central width of the boat had reached 12 meters, and the boat itself was about 50 meters long.

The control room had expanded to 25 sqm. A thick new deck had been added beneath it, elevating the control room for better navigation and visibility. The fish hold had also expanded, and the sails had been upgraded again—now taller than before.

Next, she learned the Advanced House Building Card, and input the house size:
[100 sqm (no shared space; default layout: 3 bedrooms, 1 kitchen, 2 living rooms, 2 bathrooms)]

[Required materials for single-story wooden house: Wood x800, Nails x400]

[Note: Reaching 200 sqm unlocks the option for a two-story villa]

[Please choose a placement location]

Looking at the outline of the fishing boat on the control panel, she chose to build the wooden house in the middle area between the control room and the stern.

[Under construction…]

About 10 minutes later—

[Construction complete]

[Power system detected. Install?]
[Bath system detected. Install?]
[Electric card 1 detected. Use?]
[Energy trash bins 2 detected. Connect and use?]

Wen Mingyue selected [Yes] for all.

[Installing…]

Installation complete.

Then another round of system prompts came in.

[Lightbulb blueprint detected. Learn it?]

Wen Mingyue nodded enthusiastically: [Learn, learn!]

Her dear system treasure was just getting better and better—she really wanted to pull it out and give it a big smooch.

[Lightbulb construction materials: ¼ piece of glass, ¼ tungsten filament per bulb]

She then input [16 lightbulbs], using up only 4 pieces of glass and 4 tungsten filaments.

She planned to install the rest around the fishing boat. The electricity system rewarded on the deserted island differed from the house’s built-in system—this one allowed her to install power throughout the entire boat. She had checked: the awarded system could be bound to the entire vessel.

[Installing…]

Once the installation was complete, Wen Mingyue dashed out of the control room and ran toward the glowing little house in front of her.

Inside the consciousness space, Panda Dumpling saw its host enter the wooden house and promptly turned off the control room’s light.