224: Chapter 220 Faith Project, Boathouse Repair, and Resurrection Point

Yang Yue was silent for a second on the other end of the communication.

"Brother."

"Hmm."

"If you aren't coming... never mind."

She swallowed the words that had reached her lips.

"Did Mom and Dad ask you to call?" Yang Hang asked.

"Yeah! Mom and Dad are worried about you too! They said to see if you can come over to our side."

The screen flickered, and Yang Jianguo and Mother squeezed in from behind Yang Yue.

"Son, is it safe over there?" Mother spoke up first, her brows slightly furrowed, her eyes full of worry.

"It's safe."

"You're all alone over there—"

"Mom, don't worry. My Houseboat is considered a very high Rank among the Silver Grade, so don't worry about me. In theory, it's even safer here than where you are." Yang Hang's tone was very steady, but it carried a soothing quality. "Besides, I am one of our civilization's top Survivors, blessed with dual Gold Tier enhancements. If I'm in danger, wouldn't everyone else be finished? The Magic Sea couldn't possibly be like that!"

"Besides, I'll come over tonight to discuss future arrangements with you."

"Can't you just come here and stay for now?" Yang Jianguo asked in a muffled voice.

"My Houseboat is still here. I have to open treasure chests every day," Yang Hang said naturally.

"It doesn't matter if you miss one or two chests, does it?" Mother said anxiously.

Yang Hang didn't directly reject his Mother's words, but just gave a wry smile. "It wouldn't matter if it were just one or two, but this Acid Rain Season is going to last for thirty days. I can't miss them all. We'll encounter other disasters later, and at a time like this, missing even a fraction of an opportunity to grow stronger is taking one step closer to danger."

"Yang Yue and I are both Gold Tier now." He glanced at his sister. "The acid rain poses no threat to us. What we really need to watch out for is the mutation of sea beasts caused by the acid rain."

"I'll come over tonight and help you reinforce the outer defenses by another layer. Also—"

"Place the positioning teleportation beacon in a Houseboat you consider relatively safe. That way, whether I'm in danger or you are, I can arrive there safely and in time."

Hearing Yang Hang say this, his Mother and sister on the other end of the line didn't say anything more.

"Alright. Then come over tonight and we'll discuss it properly," Yang Jianguo decided.

"Hmm. I'll arrive before dinner."

"Be careful on the way."

"Don't worry."

The communication ended.

After dismissing his parents and sister, Yang Hang had already thought through the way to deal with the Acid Rain Season.

Survivors from other civilizations must definitely be saved.

But this rescue needs a strategy; after all, everyone is still in a competitive relationship at this stage.

He called this strategy—the Faith Plan.

He would not be a savior, a babysitter, or a selfless saint.

Instead, he wanted to transform himself into a high and mighty deity.

Mysterious, unpredictable, and unreachable.

What he wanted was not the gratitude of other civilizations.

It was worship. It was fear of his power.

It was the kind of faith where—what Fate Master says is the truth, Fate Master's gifts are miracles, and Fate Master's will is unquestionable.

Similar to the style of the deities, angels, and churches of other civilizations.

It is only natural for you to believe in me.

If I respond to your prayers, it is your honor.

If I do not respond, you should be even more fearful and self-reflect on whether you have done something wrong.

Alms, gratitude, and control—these three keywords formed Yang Hang's basic strategy toward other civilizations.

Based on this strategy, Yang Hang made two decisions.

First, the magic sea compass and the Causality Enhancement Realm would be open to Survivors from other civilizations during the Acid Rain Season.

But the price would be three times higher than for Yanhuang Civilization; what Yanhuang Civilization could do for 1 karma point would cost other civilizations 3 karma points.

Second, the Karmic Trading Realm would be open permanently, with no time limit. However, a uniform 200% transaction tax would be levied on all items traded by visitors from other civilizations. An item worth 100 karma points would cost 300 for them to buy.

Some might think that Yang Hang wants to preserve Survivors from other civilizations while setting so many obstacles for them; isn't this contradictory and struggling back and forth?

In Yang Hang's view, this was not awkward at all.

The reason was simple.

Those not of one's own race are bound to have different hearts. They are, after all, Survivors from other civilizations. Giving a handful of rice creates gratitude, but giving a bushel creates enmity!

Therefore, help cannot be unconditional. There must be a price, a threshold, and most importantly, a goal!

They must know clearly with every bit of help they receive that this is bestowed by Yanhuang Civilization, gifted by the Fate Platform, and is a ray of hope cast down by Fate Master.

Standing high above, occasionally bestowing alms, and making the other party grateful.

In the worlds of other civilizations, this set of methods involving deities, churches, and angels had been verified thousands of years ago as the most effective means of domestication. Yang Hang was simply moving it to the Magic Sea.

In this way, they wouldn't feel that everything was taken for granted.

They would be grateful, they would worship, and they would strive desperately for that little bit of grace.

Next were the specific measures for dealing with the Acid Rain Season.

The characteristics of the Acid Rain Season were very clear.

Acid rain erosion, lasting for thirty days, with intensity increasing over time. rotten wood class houseboats wouldn't last more than ten days, and even Bronze Grade Houseboats would show structural damage to their Materials in the Late Stage.

Therefore, Survivors had two greatest needs—Houseboat repairs and specific resistance enhancements against acidity.

The latter required no extra preparation.

The Causality Enhancement Realm itself could complete the corrosion resistance enhancement for equipment and Houseboats; Survivors only needed to spend karma points to imprint their Houseboats with acid-resistant properties.

But the former, Houseboat repairs, required a specialized facility.

Similar to a repair dock in the Enhancement Realm, Survivors could consume karma points to perform rapid repairs, structural reinforcement, and damage replacement on their Houseboats.

This facility couldn't just be conjured out of thin air.

It needed a core carrier, such as a wonder or item of the dock or shipyard type from a high-level civilization.

Yang Hang calculated that this might take up one of his treasure chests.

As for the sea beasts enhanced by acid rain erosion, this danger was essentially a remake of the previous Magic Sea Beast Tide.

The sea beasts became more violent and aggressive, but the means to deal with them were ready.

The existing functions of the Fate Platform were sufficient.

The magic sea compass's weather warning and sea area scanning could help Survivors avoid most dangers, the Numerical Panel guaranteed life-saving and endurance, and the Combat Assist System could improve combat efficiency and survival rates, as well as provide the ability to fight above one's Rank.

Coupled with the strength of the Yanhuang Civilization Survivors that he had forcibly raised over these days, dealing with sea beasts enhanced by the acid rain was not a problem.

The deduction results also proved this point—most deaths of Yanhuang Civilization Survivors did not occur in battles with violent sea beasts, but rather, before the sea beasts even attacked, the ship had already been corroded into a riddled mess by the acid rain. The ship was destroyed, and the person died.

Therefore, the core solution was that Houseboat maintenance and repair function.

As for the situation where some Survivors might not be able to afford Houseboat maintenance, Yang Hang had already seen the solution in his previous deductions.

The answer would be produced at the upcoming "Yanhuang Civilization Acid Rain Season Response Joint Conference" convened by the Revival Society in association with over a thousand Yanhuang Civilization organizations.

Through the operation of a banking System, insurance, mutual aid, low-interest loans, and other methods, it could basically cover the Houseboat maintenance needs of all Survivors.

Yang Hang didn't need to intervene; organizing and mobilizing was the Revival Society's specialty.

Finally, there was the issue of high-level combat power.

The deduction results showed that on the last day of the Acid Rain Season, a large batch of violent high-level sea beasts and over a dozen violent super high-level Overlord-class sea beasts would appear simultaneously. The Revival Society would lead the Gold Tier powerhouses of various organizations to intercept them, and the final result would be one death and over a dozen people seriously injured.

This point needed a supplement to high-level combat power.

Yang Hang pondered and deduced various methods, ultimately giving up on thinking of ways to directly and forcibly raise the Survivors' strength.

The method of directly raising Survivors' strength was crude and could only be used for the moment.

He turned his gaze to a common mechanism found in many online games he had played before his Transmigration.

To solve the problem of supplementing high-level combat power from another angle.

Respawn points!

Or call them spawn points!

He decided to create a resurrection mechanism to solve the death problem of all Yanhuang Survivors once and for all.

Since Yang Hang had built the Fate Platform to look more and more like a System, and with the subsequent professional System coming online, it was only natural that it was missing a respawn point from those online games before his Transmigration.

The moment Yang Hang thought of this plan, he used the Power of Causality to deduce it.

Countless white halos rippled in his eyes.

After a long while, the white light faded.

The deduction result—feasible.

Yang Hang immediately decided on this respawn point strategy.