novelden Chapter 7 Uncle!
Chapter 7 Uncle!
Su Jin raised an eyebrow, because this was a notification from his talent [One Piece].
He has only been in this world for a day, and yesterday he was so busy that he didn't have much time to study his talent.
His understanding of his talent was limited to the fact that he could upgrade by investing materials, and that upgrading to level 2 would allow him to build the special building called the "Guiding Star Torch".
As for this skill slot, he didn't remember it ever existing.
With these questions in mind, he opened the system to check.
After some investigation, I learned that the skill slots are only available when the ship is upgraded to level 2, and each upgrade unlocks one more skill slot.
You can obtain the corresponding skill by inserting materials into the skill slot. Of course, not just any junk material can be inserted into the skill slot.
Only materials produced by rare marine creatures like the lightning eel are acceptable; ordinary sea monsters like rock snakes, which are plentiful, are not even worth mentioning.
Upon seeing this, Su Jin was overjoyed.
His purpose in hunting the lightning eel was actually to take this great opportunity to test the strength of the sea monster and to taste what its meat was like.
Of course, the most important purpose is to extract fish oil from the lightning eel to provide energy for the [Guiding Star Torch].
Fish oil from a Tier 1 rare sea beast will greatly improve his survival.
With only two days left before the end of the newbie protection period, he needed to make ample preparations during this stable time.
But unexpectedly, there was such a pleasant surprise!
Even the usually composed Su Jin couldn't help but smile, and he owed his success to the information provided by Shen Ruying.
This silly beauty is actually quite useful!
After regaining some strength, Su Jin carried the lightning eel toward the island.
As soon as they reached the shore, the mother and daughter rushed over to greet her. Shen Ruying instinctively leaned forward and asked with concern:
"Brother Su, are you alright?"
Although she had witnessed Su Jin killing the sea monster the whole time, and even though she knew that the lightning eel couldn't actually release any electricity, she was still worried that something might go wrong.
Su Jin smiled and waved his hand, saying:
"It's nothing, I'm just a little tired."
After he finished speaking, he noticed the little girl next to Shen Ruying blinking at him. Remembering that he hadn't yet greeted Shen Qiaoqiao, he introduced himself:
"Hello, Qiaoqiao, my name is Su Jin, you can call me..."
"Uncle!" Shen Qiaoqiao interrupted Su Jin with a smile.
"Mom calls you 'Big Brother,' so it's not appropriate for me to call you 'Brother.' I'd have to call you 'Uncle,' which would make it 'Uncle Su,' which would sound weird, so..."
"I'll just call you Uncle!"
As she spoke, the little girl muttered something under her breath:
"I can't just call him stepfather now..."
Upon hearing her daughter's words, Shen Ruying frowned and immediately scolded her:
"Qiaoqiao, how can you be so rude? Brother Su is your savior!"
As she spoke, the young woman pulled her daughter and tried to apologize to Su Jin, but Su Jin stopped her.
"It's okay, I think 'uncle' is a good title. After all, my surname is Su, and I'm almost that age anyway."
Hearing Su Jin's permission, Shen Qiaoqiao felt a bit more affectionate towards him.
She had just heard part of the situation from her mother and knew that Su Jin was her savior, and now that they had gotten to know each other, he was so approachable.
This naturally made the innocent young lady feel favorably toward him, and she became less wary of this stranger.
Just then, someone's stomach growled, and everyone realized that they had been hungry for a day and a night.
Food is the most important thing for people, so Su Jin immediately arranged for the mother and daughter to go and collect some dry grass and branches to prepare for making a fire to roast fish and meat.
He then found a sharp stone and began to dismember the lightning eel's body.
As one of the more fragile sea monsters, Su Jin easily sliced open the body of the lightning eel with a stone shard, and soon the once-dominant ruler of the reef area was left with only a skeleton.
First, he removed and preserved the most important storage gland.
To the naked eye, this thing is entirely purplish-black, resembling a still-beating heart, and you can even hear a hissing sound when you get close.
Apart from the electric gland, he didn't want the other difficult-to-process internal organs, since the lightning eel had just finished eating and its body was full of marine remnants.
With their current methods, it would be difficult for them to clean these internal organs thoroughly.
Su Jin ultimately kept only the fish meat, not even the fish head, since there wasn't much meat left to eat.
He kept the belly part of the fish, which is where the fish oil is stored the most, and later he would use it to refine the unique Thunder Eel Fish Oil.
As a high-quality fish oil, its burning flame can illuminate a range twice as wide as that of ordinary fish oil, and it also has a numbing effect.
Just like the areas where lightning eels usually exist, they unconsciously emit a little static electricity to warn other marine mammals not to approach.
The burning effect of the Thunderfish Oil is similar to the existence of the simulated Thunder Eel, at which time Tier 1 sea monsters and ordinary Tier 2 sea monsters will avoid his ship.
After discarding the discarded parts and keeping the rest, the meat on the fish spine is enough for three people to have one meal.
The flesh of the electric eel is not electrified, and like other fish they usually see, its flesh is red and turns golden brown when cooked.
What makes it different from ordinary fish is that it's especially fragrant after being grilled.
Even though Su Jin had eaten countless kinds of wild game in his daily life, he had never smelled such a fragrant aroma.
In addition, he had been starving for a day and a night, which made him very hungry.
The golden-brown fish melted in his mouth, and to his surprise, even the fish spine meat was quite oily, yet it wasn't dry at all after being grilled.
Just then, he received a system notification.
【Strength +0.5】
Constitution +0.5
Goodness, is this the benefit of Tier 1 rare sea beast meat?
Su Jin felt a surge of power within his body, and he immediately realized that if he were to launch another sneak attack on the lightning eel, he wouldn't even have a chance to give it a chance to jump.
He used all his strength to press the other person hard against the reef, so that he couldn't move an inch until he died.
Seeing Su Jin start eating, Shen Ruying and Shen Qiaoqiao couldn't help but pick up a skewer of fish and start eating as well. They both felt a surge of power in their bodies, and their physical condition improved significantly.
Especially for the young girl Shen Qiaoqiao, who had just recovered from a serious illness and had been hungry for a day and a night, her originally pale complexion suddenly became much rosier.
The little girl's appetite was immediately whetted by the delicious aroma of the grilled fish.
If her mother hadn't kept stopping her and telling her to let Su Jin eat first, she would have wanted to try it herself long ago.
At the age of 14, she didn't understand so many social niceties; she only knew that she would eat when food was in front of her when she was hungry.
The young girl ate without any airs of a pampered lady, quite carefree, which made Shen Ruying a little embarrassed.
But she had no choice. Her ex-husband died young, and she also had a company to manage. Her daughter was raised by a nanny and was neglected from a young age.
She often works overtime and feels guilty towards her daughter, so she spoils Shen Qiaoqiao, which has led to the girl becoming the way she is now.
However, Shen Qiaoqiao was quite sensible. Knowing that her mother worked hard, she didn't cause much trouble. Her only behavior was that she was lively.
After half an hour, even though the fish had no seasoning and only a slight saltiness from the fish itself, the three of them, along with the coconut milk to cut through the richness, still managed to finish all the fish spine meat.
Su Jin did most of the work by himself. After all, he had done a lot of hard work on an empty stomach yesterday and today. If it were an ordinary adult, he would have collapsed from exhaustion long ago.
Now that he's eaten and drunk his fill, it's time to get down to business. His goal today is to upgrade the ship to level 2!