Chapter 264: First [Deep Sea Hunting]
Just when the crew of the [Nuanxue] were talking a lot.
The gentle woman Jiya walked out of the cabin and said with a beautiful frown.
"Lucy, don't talk nonsense."
"elder sister!"
Lucy looked aggrieved and said, "I didn't say anything wrong."
"It was because the captain overestimated his capabilities that his ship became like this."
"If you had listened to my advice, you wouldn't have ended up like this."
Outsiders don’t know that [Black Swan] has the ability to repair itself.
For an average captain, such serious damage to the hull would undoubtedly be fatal.
This not only means that almost all the proceeds from this trip to sea will be invested in ship maintenance, but also that it will not be able to go to sea for a long time.
There are many captains who are completely devastated and unable to turn over because of a failure at sea.
From the perspective of Lucy and other crew members, although the captain of the [Black Swan] is not at this point, he has also learned a profound lesson.
Hearing Lucy's words, Jia Ya's attitude was still very stern: "Whether it is success or failure, that is everyone's own business."
"As outsiders, why should we make decisions for them?"
Jia Ya looked at Lucy seriously and said seriously: "Some words can be thought about in your heart, but once you say them out, it will be disaster."
"Lucy, I won't say these words again."
Seeing her sister's serious attitude, Lucy straightened her expression and nodded.
"Sister, I understand."
Lucy glanced at the [Black Swan] not far away and asked carefully: "Then do we want to help them?"
Jiya shook her head: "That captain has the communication stone I gave him."
"If there is any force majeure danger, he will take the initiative to contact us."
"Since he hasn't done this yet, it means that the situation is not that bad."
"Besides..."
Jiya looked at the expressions of the other crew members and sighed: "If you meet them now, you might be thought to be mocking them."
The crew members couldn't help but feel a little ashamed.
After making the decision, Jiya continued to do her job as if she had not seen the Black Swan.
It didn't take long.
[Black Swan] and [Diamond Star] sailed away from this sea area.
And [Nuanxue] also found the target of this rescue.
This is a small merchant ship.
The captain of the merchant ship is a slightly wealthy businessman.
As soon as he saw Lucy and others, the businessman said incoherently: "Fire! Fire... is burning!"
Lucy looked confused: "What fire? What's burning?"
"Don't be impatient. Speak slowly."
The businessman took a few deep breaths and continued: "Yesterday, a fire broke out deep in the sea."
"You don't know that at that time, the entire sea burned into a deep red color, like lava flowing on the bottom of the sea."
When he said this, the businessman still had a frightened look on his face.
Obviously, the sight of the burning sea left a deep impression on him.
The businessman said nonchalantly, as if babbling.
"I seemed to see countless tree men and a giant figure, as well as roars and wailing sounds echoing on the bottom of the sea."
"The propulsion device on my ship broke down at that time."
Upon hearing these words, Lucy's first reaction was disbelief.
"How can there be fire in the sea?"
"Could it be that you're hallucinating?"
The other sailors also looked at the merchant suspiciously.
People sailing on the sea are prone to come into contact with some indescribable things, and thus see chaotic and absurd hallucinations.
This businessman most likely encountered this situation.
But the businessman shook his head and said firmly: "It's really not an illusion!"
"Not just me, everyone else on the boat also saw the exact same scene."
On the other side, Ji Ya's heart skipped a beat: "Treant?"
"Is it [City of Giant Woods]!?"
From the merchant's words, she suddenly realized that something had definitely happened in [City of Giant Woods].
And when thinking of the [Black Swan] that had just left the [City of Giant Woods], it was difficult for Jia not to associate the two together.
So, she said immediately.
"Let's go to [City of Giant Woods] to see it."
Although the crew of the [Nuanxue] were a little surprised by Jia Ya's decision, the captain's authority was there and no one would object to her opinion.
As a search and rescue ship, the [Nuanxue] is of course also equipped with its own salvage crew.
Wow! Wow!
With splashing water, several salvagers jumped into the sea water.
Lucy is among them.
It didn't take long.
Lucy's little head emerged from the sea first.
But her face was full of shock and confusion, as if she suspected that she was hallucinating.
Seeing her expression, Jia couldn't help but ask: "Lucy, what did you see?"
Lucy said in a daze: "[City of Giant Woods]... is gone..."
"……ah?"
Ji Ya was stunned for a full second before she realized what Lucy said.
"You mean..."
"That underwater forest, that huge tree, those tree people... gone! All gone!"
The other salvagers also looked like they had seen a ghost.
What they saw in the sea was just an empty ruin.
On the muddy seabed, there was a layer of things like ash.
The tree people who had hunted ships and sailors before had disappeared completely as if they had never appeared.
Not even a single tree person was left.
It was hard to imagine that this change had taken place in just a few days.
"I know... It was, it was the [Black Swan]!"
One of the salvage workers suddenly came to his senses and murmured, "It was them who destroyed the [Giant Wood City]..."
Excluding all possibilities, no matter how incredible the remaining one was, that was the truth of the matter!
Lucy suddenly felt her face getting hot.
She thought that Shane had suffered a great hardship and was forced to leave the [Giant Wood City].
But she didn't expect that in less than three days, they had done such a big thing and razed the [Giant Wood City] to the ground.
The legend of the life restricted area of the [Giant Wood City] probably ended here.
Thinking of this, Lucy felt a little relieved.
Fortunately, she listened to her sister's advice, otherwise, who knows what the situation would have turned out to be!
Ji Ya looked in the direction where the [Black Swan] left, and a faint shock also appeared in her eyes.
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As for what happened behind her.
Shane was neither aware of nor interested.
He had already determined his next destination - the capital of the Seven Seas Federation, [Liuli Island]!
Shane was basically certain that the few words left in [Lila's Magic Notes] were hints for him.
But if he wanted to detoxify these hints, he obviously couldn't do it by himself.
And on [Liuli Island], there must be some secret pathers and scholars in the field of time and space, who might be able to answer Shane's questions.
On the other hand.
[Liuli Island] is also the place with the most complete and detailed records of history before the Great Flood.
If you want to change history, you must understand history!
Shane might be able to find some clues from those histories to confirm some of his guesses.
But at the moment, the injuries of the [Black Swan] have not healed yet, and the speed has been greatly reduced.
It will take at least a month to reach [Liuli Island].
Xia En plans to take advantage of this time to improve his strength as much as possible, preferably to the fifth level.
After all, [Liuli Island] is the most prosperous island in the Seven Seas Federation, and there are countless masters and strong men on the island.
Even the fifth-level combat power is only mediocre on [Liuli Island].
In order to avoid certain accidents, it is still necessary to improve strength as soon as possible.
Wait until the [Submerge] times are refreshed.
Xia En sat in the captain's room as usual and opened the panel.
[According to the effect of "Deep Sea Hunting", it will be projected in a random sea area! ]
[Do you want to start submerging? ]
Xia En thought without hesitation: "Submerge, start!"
As his mind fell, his consciousness suddenly felt a sense of weightlessness.
Then fell, and fell again...
A sense of dislocation that seemed to travel through endless time and space, and seemed to reach the destination in an instant passed by in an instant.
Then, the surroundings became quiet.
Shane opened his eyes, and what he saw was a dark scene.
Even with the talent of [Lightless Touch], this sea area still seemed too dark.
This "darkness" seemed not just the influence of light, but more like some kind of secret power quietly infecting the sea water.
It was as if...
a domain?
Sensing this, Shane felt awe in his heart.
The domain itself is a form of control over secret power.
In this world, if a deep-sea monster can master the power of the domain, Shane would not be surprised at all.
He calmed down and moved his limbs carefully. He suddenly felt a stagnant and blocked touch, and his body seemed particularly heavy.
This shows that the depth of this sea area is deeper than any of his previous [diving].
Even with the adaptability of the [projected body] in the deep sea, it was a little difficult to move.
Shane felt a little strange and thought to himself.
"Where did this [deep-sea hunting] send me?"
"How deep is this deep sea?"
Shane had heard of a way to divide the deep sea.
The area 100 meters below the sea surface is called the [light layer].
The area between 100 and 500 meters is called the [weak light layer].
500 to 2000 meters - [aphotic layer].
2000 to 20000 meters - [abyssal layer].
As for deeper places, there are [Moho layer] and [Gutenberg layer].
However, that is already close to the mantle and crust, and may not still belong to the scope of the ocean.
Moreover, this world is not the Earth that Shane is familiar with. It is also normal for the depth of the ocean and the center of the earth to deviate.
According to Shane's guess, this sea area is already at the depth of the [aphotic layer], approaching the [abyssal layer] below.
Buzz...
At this moment.
There was a sudden strong vibration in the sea water.
It seemed like the breath of some huge creature, and it seemed that this sea area was restless.
A strong current came from behind, approaching Shane's back.
At the critical moment, Shane twisted his body forcefully and dodged the attack at an incredible angle.
He glanced at the attacker in the dim sea water.
It was a big fish covered with strange spines.
Bone spurs that look like fish fins and scales extend from every joint of the body and float in the sea water.
At first glance, it looks a bit like a lionfish, the so-called "lionfish."
However, compared with ordinary lionfish, this deep-sea monster fish is hundreds of times larger and hundreds of times more ferocious.
Where the eye sockets should be, there is only a hollow depression with a dark red halo flashing inside.
The moment it saw Shane, the deep-sea monster fish showed extremely strong aggressiveness.
The ugly body swayed violently in the sea water, and then turned into a black shadow and rushed over.
Seeing this, Shane pushed forward with both hands, and actually wrestled with the monster fish head-on!
Boom!
In the deep sea water, a muffled sound was immediately heard, and the surging undercurrent spread out in all directions.
[Ship Soul Power -10! 】
Xia En looked at his palm and found that the bone spurs on the strange fish pierced the flesh of the [Projection Body], leaving several holes on his body.
Not only that.
There was a strange feeling of powerlessness coming from the pierced place, as if it was eroding his body.
"Is this... poison?"
Xia En was slightly stunned, and quickly determined the source of the powerlessness.
Under normal circumstances, the [Projection Body] will not be poisoned.
After all, this body does not even have real flesh and nerves, so conventional toxins naturally cannot take effect.
However, the toxin of this deep-sea monster fish is obviously extraordinary.
It is a highly toxic poison that directly acts on the secret power!
Once poisoned, the toxin will continue to consume the secret power.
Even the [Projection Body] will be greatly affected.
"I was careless."
Xia En said in his heart.
Ordinary lionfish already have strong toxins.
So he had guessed that the deep-sea fish might be poisonous, but he chose to fight head-on because of his trust in the "poison resistance" of the [Projection Body].
[Ship Soul Power -1! ]
[Ship Soul Power -2! ]
Looking at the numbers falling on the panel, Shane understood that he had to fight quickly!
Fortunately, the previous fight allowed him to roughly judge the power of the deep-sea fish.
In terms of physical fitness, he is still stronger!
So, Shane did not hesitate to directly activate the [Double Ship Soul] [Giant Wristband] and transformed into a giant with great power.
The previously huge fish looked very petite in front of him.
"Now, you are the challenger!"
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After Shane transformed, the battle ended quickly.
While the [Projection Body] had not dissipated, he decisively enjoyed this deep-sea fish feast.
This fish looks ugly, but in fact, the meat is very tender.
Even if it is eaten raw, Shane feels very comfortable.
However, since the strange fish contains an unknown toxin, [Projection Body] is not afraid of death and can eat it at will, so try not to let the crew take this risk.
[You swallowed the "Secret Poison Thornfish"! ]
[Overall quality: 6.0→6.1! ]
[Professional compatibility +5%! ]
[Talent "Swallow Evolution" activated! ]
[You can choose the direction of evolution from the following three talents. ]
[1. Bone spurs (rare)]
[2. Slippery skin (poor)]
[3. Deep sea secret poison (precious) (can be superimposed with the skill "Great Dark Sky"!)]