Chapter 9: First Mate Einstein

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

“Ou, ou! Ou, ou!”

That morning, Bick was awakened by Einstein’s call.

He opened his eyes and saw that the orange morning sun had just emerged from the sea. It was very beautiful.

“Not bad! Einstein, from now on, you will be in charge of waking me up!”

“Ou, ou!”

Einstein nodded as if he understood what he was saying. He even stretched out his wings and made a difficult gesture similar to saluting.

“Oh? Are you saluting the captain?” Bick was a little excited.

“Ou ou!” Einstein replied seriously.

After thinking for a while, Bick smiled. “If I were Captain Bick, you would be my first mate Einstein. You’ve been promoted!”

Hearing that he had been promoted, Einstein jumped around excitedly. Then, he excitedly pointed in the direction of the fishing net with his head, as if he wanted to eat something.

“As usual, work first, then eat!”

Einstein made another salutation, indicating that he approved of his order.

Bick nodded in satisfaction and praised Einstein, “You really look like a first mate!”

Bick pointed at the sea surface.

“Well, you go to the sea surface and fetch some light goods, but don’t force it. Don’t bother with those that can’t be carried.”

“Ou, ou!”

Einstein nodded. He flapped his wings and flew to the sea surface, searching for the scattered items.

On the raft, Bick picked up the stone slab and prepared to open the trading interface.

He had hung up a delicious roasted kelp yesterday. The transaction should have been successful by now.

Sure enough, just as he opened the trading interface, he saw a trading notification.

[Trade]

[You have a successful trade and obtained wooden board x8! ]

“Great, I have all the wooden boards!”

Yesterday afternoon, Bick planned to build a miniature farm, but all the wooden boards were used to build the floor.

Now with these eight wooden boards, it was just enough to build a miniature farm.

Just do it!

Bick opened the principle interface.

It took him one minute to build five nails.

At this moment, all the materials were sufficient.

[Miniature farm: Metal (4/4), planks (10/10), nails (5/5), culture soil (1/1)]

Build!

As Bick operated, a wooden box of one meter square gradually appeared on the raft.

Then, the flat wooden box was filled with fertile soil.

Finally, there was a green banana tree sapling in the soil.

By the time he finished, more than 30 minutes had passed. Bick was filled with satisfaction as he looked at the miniature farm that he had painstakingly built.

As long as he waited patiently for another seven days, his banana tree sapling would ripen. Then, after another half a month, he would be able to harvest a bunch of yellow and orange bananas.

No, he did not need to wait that long!

Bick suddenly remembered that he did not need to wait that long because he still had a watering bottle that could also be used to fertilize.

“That’s right, don’t be idle for now. Create a nourishing watering bottle!”

Thinking of this, Bick opened the principle interface again.

[Principle]

[Nourishing watering bottle: Wooden board (1/1), plastic sheet (1/1), iron nail (0/1)]

“This is too easy!”

Bick built an iron nail and filled it with other materials into the schematic diagram. In less than three minutes, a wooden watering bottle appeared in Bick’s hand.

He turned around and took out a cup of fresh water from the highly efficient seawater purifier and poured it directly into the nourishing watering bottle. Bick began to water the banana sapling.

As the water flowed out from watering bottle and poured on the banana sapling, its branches and leaves seemed to be more straighten. Although he could not see it sprout directly, Bick believed that in just one day, it would grow a lot taller.

However, he suddenly realized a problem.

It seemed that he needed a water storage tank. Like now, drinking the purified water directly, or using it directly for watering, was a waste of the efficiency of the water purifier.

He needed the water purifier to work continuously, so he needed a water tank to store the purified fresh water.

Thinking of this, Bick started to check the principle interface.

After checking it, he found the principle diagram of how to make a plastic tank.

In addition, he also found the principle of how to make a big wooden bowl in the principle interface. He wanted to make it together so that he could have something to contain food when he ate in the future.

[Plastic jar: Plastic (2/5)]

[Big wooden bowl: Wooden board (0/2)]

“Cough cough… looks like I need to collect materials!”

Because he had built too many things just now, there were not many basic materials left. Bick shook his head gloomily. Suddenly, he heard Einstein’s call from behind him.

“Ou ou! Ou ou ou ou!”

Bick looked up at Einstein and saw that he had just landed on the raft with a plastic bottle in his mouth. At that moment, he was using his head to nod toward a certain direction on the sea surface.

“The supplies are here?”

Bic turned his head and looked at the sea surface.

As expected, a large amount of supplies appeared on the sea surface not far away.

“Einstein, you are definitely the most competent first mate I have ever seen!”

Bick excitedly handed the plastic hook to Einstein’s mouth. “Now, let’s clean up that area of supplies!”

Einstein nodded, flapping his wings with the plastic hook in his mouth as he flew towards that area of supplies.

In a short while, Bick had collected a large amount of supplies, especially the wooden boards and plastic sheets. There were more than twenty of them.

But today’s supplies weren’t right. Why wasn’t there a lucky small wooden bucket?

Bick was puzzled, so he called out to Einstein, “Einstein, go and see if there are any small wooden buckets.”

Einstein flew out, circled twice, and landed back on the raft. He shook his head at Bick, indicating that he didn’t find anything.

“Strange… Don’t we have small wooden buckets every day?”

Bick was a little disappointed, so he decided to make the plastic jar and large wooden bowls first.

With sufficient materials, it was very easy to make them.

In just a moment, he had finished making the plastic jar and the two big wooden bowls.

The capacity of the plastic jar was not small. Bick estimated that it could hold more than ten cups of water. This way, he could sell the fresh water he had in reserve and not delay his usage.

When necessary, he could take the fresh water elsewhere with this plastic jar.

“Not bad, it’s really good stuff!”

Bick sighed and put the two big wooden bowls on the raft. He said to Einstein, “We each have one. We’ll use it to eat in the future!”

Einstein nodded and walked around the big wooden bowl a few times. He seemed to be very satisfied.

Finally, he finished the work at hand. Bick stretched his body and breathed in the sea breeze with a faint fishy smell. Suddenly, something sounded.

“Right!”

“I haven’t signed in today?”

“I actually forgot about this!”

Bick quickly called for system signing in to complete today’s daily signing.