When disaster struck, I became a big shot surviving in the ocean. Chapter 4 The First Mechanical Creation

chanics and the ocean always seem a bit mismatched.

Speaking of chanics... the first impression for most people might still be the cosmic sea of stars, right?

Chen Qing closed her eyes, and the exquisitely detailed blueprints imdiately appeared in her mind, as if they were ingrained in her heart.

All three blueprints belonged to the basic category of chanical blueprints, but due to the oceanic environnt, they were ultra-rare within the basics, consumable bestsellers.

Her luck was good.

If Chen Qing could produce them, the boost to her strength would be trendous.

If Chen Qing were greedy enough, she could make a fortune just by selling water.

But there was a problem right now, a skilled housewife can't cook without rice.

Chen Qing didn't have any materials at hand.

Regardless of the blueprint, they all required an extrely crucial component, the "Power Core".

This was the source of energy for automation.

Chen Qing might have been able to substitute other materials, as her woodworking was quite good.

She must find a way to get a Power Core! A determined glint flashed in Chen Qing's eyes.

She quickly opened the other two supply boxes, the smaller supply box was quite ordinary, containing bread.

But the large supply box gave Chen Qing an absolute surprise.

A full box, heavy with all tal parts, among which there was no shortage of damaged Power Cores.

Although these parts and cores were rusty and damaged, seeming unusable, this was not a problem for Chen Qing!

The mont she opened the box, the entire ship sank a bit.

Chen Qing stared at the box, her lips slightly curving upward. The Skills and knowledge from that beginner's guide for chanics were enough for her to repair these parts to a usable condition.

Just at a glance, Chen Qing imdiately knew which parts could be fixed and which were truly junk.

This box gave her an idea, at the start of the ga survivors wouldn't have many good things on hand, but things like these damaged parts and chanics would definitely be plentiful.

These things were like ocean trash.

The imdiate priority was to obtain a set of tools specifically for chanics.

[Chen Qing: Bounty—A set of tools specifically for a chanic, Reward: Sea Water Purifier, Automatic Fishing Net, or Automatic Fishing Rod, any one of your choice]

After posting the bounty on the chat channel and trading platform, Chen Qing quickly began working on these parts and the core.

Her bounty also caused a stir among the survivors, spreading quickly from one to ten, ten to a hundred, like a quickly spreading flu.

Each of the items was sufficiently topical, especially the Sea Water Purifier.

On the ocean, what you most need is fresh water.

So survivors with a stable source of fresh water had already made a fortune.

Chen Qing's attention was all on the Power Cores, with their palm-sized dinsions and craftsmanship completely different from the other parts, they were easy to identify.

After a few minutes of selection, there were forty-one cores in total.

She roughly checked them, and figured these cores pieced together should be able to be repaired into three or four usable cores.

Most of the parts were completely corroded and unusable, re-forging was their only way out.

So could barely hold together after repair—enough for Chen Qing, a chanical beginner, and for the other survivors, at least.

After cleaning up all the parts in less than half an hour, Chen Qing's private ssages were already overcrowded.

Fortunately, the system has an automatic filtering function, but even after filtering, there were still a total of one hundred thirty-two private ssages in Chen Qing's inbox.

Among Blue Star's ten billion survivors, just these few ssages were indeed too few.

Chen Qing browsed through the ssages at the fastest speed, discarding over ninety percent of the private ssages. The so-called chanic-specific tools offered by these survivors were the most basic and didn't even et the entry-level standards.

In simple terms, they were just ordinary household toolboxes that one could buy at any hardware store.

They hardly qualified as chanic-specific tools.

She simply couldn't use these tools to repair parts.

Chen Qing took an interest in a few tools.

[Portable Machine Tool (Green)], [chanical Arm-Tool Type 172 (Dark Green)], [chanic Apprentice Foldable Toolbox (Light Green)], [X18-Repair chanical Ant (Deep Blue)]

After weighing the pros and cons, Chen Qing finally contacted the survivor Qiao Zhiyu, who owned the toolbox—it was the only item she could afford.

Although Chen Qing's reward was to pick one out of three, the other survivors wanted more than just one out of three.

Chen Qing couldn't even produce one at the mont.

[Chen Qing: I'll temporarily trade you the Devil Fish's electric sac and poison sack for the toolbox. I'll trade them back after I've made the Water Purifier.]

Yes, Chen Qing was literally trying to make sothing out of nothing.

[Qiao Zhiyu: ...Sis, this...]

[Chen Qing: Sorry.]

Chen Qing knew her request wasn't exactly ethical, but right now, this was her only option.

If she were to trade directly using the electric sac and poison sack, she feared no one would even consider dealing with her.

[Qiao Zhiyu: Alright, but don't you cheat .]

Qiao Zhiyu was surprisingly agreeable, much like Chen Qing, she was willing to take a gamble, betting Chen Qing wouldn't deceive her.

After all, it was just a toolbox that was of no use to her anyway.

The trade went smoothly and, upon receiving the toolbox, Chen Qing wasted no ti starting to repair the core and parts.

The blueprint for the Water Purifier had long been imprinted in her mind. Selecting the necessary parts, Chen Qing devoted all her heart power to it.

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Discarded parts were strewn all over the ground, chunks of tal clung to Chen Qing's body, and although the temperature all around her was quite low, her forehead was covered in fine, dense sweat.

Chen Qing looked at her creation with satisfaction. The appearance of the Sea Water Purifier was odd, with wood inlaid with tal and gears exposed and rust-stained.

When it was running, one could hear clunky clashing and buzzing sounds, giving off a primitive vibe.

It didn't look like a Sea Water Purifier at all, but indeed it was.

[Sea Water Purifier (Improved Version)

Quality: Light Green

Rating: E

Service Life: Estimated 30 Ocean Days

Description: A machine capable of purifying sea water, able to purify over 50L of sea water each Ocean Day.

Evaluation: Looks ugly but is surprisingly practical]

The mont the Sea Water Purifier was completed, the system's prompt sounded in Chen Qing's ears.

This ti, the reward was significantly more substantial than the one for killing the Deep Blue Devil Fish.

[Survivor has completed their first independent E-grade chanical Creation, reward points 10.]

[Survivor has beco the first in the ga to create a chanical Creation, rewarded with the passive skill: chanical Perception.]

[Passive - chanical Perception: Through transcendent perception, a chanic can easily grasp the internal structure, energy flow, and operation status of chanics, having everything about them at their fingertips.]

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