CHAPTER 80: CHAPTER 61: SALVAGING THE SUNKEN SHIP

Chun arrived at the dock, bringing with him a portion of the earlier food and fresh water, and also dragged the small boat given by Piku. He confirmed the approximate location on the world map and then started the Autonomous Driving using Expert-level Sailing Technique.

He himself began lighting the navigation lamp, raised the small sail, and paddled his way into the vast darkness of the ocean.

Holy shit, why auto-light the lamp? A target for pirates in the dark!

Chun forcibly controlled himself to turn the lamp off.

—System Prompt: According to the sailing convention, night sailing vessels must keep their lamps lit to avoid collisions, reefing, or being mistaken as hostile. Turning off the lamp cannot initiate Autonomous Driving.

Holy shit! Fine, lights on then.

Aside from this annoying point, the feeling of automatic hook-up is indeed pleasant! But precisely because of this, all players worldwide who aspire to set sail will definitely exhaust their life efforts to rush to Expert level, so his advantage cannot be considered substantial, he must continue to ascend to Grandmaster.

And after witnessing the matter of the Advanced Mechanician, Chun also understood that this big skill with a small skill embedded within is likely the prototype of a profession. Therefore, Sailing Technique might very well advance into a profession, like a real captain?

In any case, return quickly, infuse with Tuna Sea Soul!

As for whether to summon the whale as a bodyguard? No way, as Sariel is not only a super player but also a founding developer, any abnormal movement of the whale would arouse suspicion. Can’t take any risks.

The following time is outside the game now, uploading photos of the Chifanda design sketches taken with his phone to the tablet, then opening the drawing software to start 3D analysis and improvement.

But this is ultimately not his forte; it’s quite likely he won’t be able to solve it, mostly needing to go out to the internet café to find an expert to handle it. But even finding an expert can’t involve using the original game images shot with a phone; otherwise, won’t it be exposed and leaked? At the very least, he must first create an original work.

But soon, Chun’s head became dizzy, feeling continuously sleepy, not to mention he hadn’t slept much this night. Just the forced original work in this unfamiliar domain was really challenging...

While deep in thought, Chun saw a light moving in the far ocean.

Holy shit, pirates?!

Chun’s first reaction was to prepare to turn off the lamp, but soon became alert; he can’t see far due to the plague, and the other side had already discovered him but didn’t come over anyway. Perhaps not turning off the lamp made them indifferent; turning off the lamp would surely arouse their vigilance, looking for trouble, wouldn’t it?

Then simulate a mutual non-interference and gamble that the other side won’t make things difficult for the small boat! But it is necessary to retrieve the Tuna Sea Soul to prevent them from seeing the unusually fast speed of the small boat. Also, he can’t row normally, just randomly pull the canvas, not letting the other side see the Expert-level Sailing Technique’s special effects, especially not letting players see — although it’s unlikely any players could be on such a big ship...

But just as he thought that way, he saw a light from the other side flashing strongly as if suddenly turning towards him, speeding up and rushing over. Holy shit, coming with ill intent!!

...

Divine Presence Command Center was waiting anxiously.

The attendant deployed eight experts along with a mysterious expert this time yet still didn’t capture the Crystal Bat, really beyond expectations. What’s more frustrating was that players were sent to the dungeon’s upper level this time, not allowed to watch. Could it be that this mysterious expert was the legendary hidden NPC with the demonic power, not allowed to be seen? But the more it possesses demonic power, the quicker it should be captured...

Several supervisors found the team players: "Don’t idle, just mine on the fourth layer."

The players were shocked: "How long will we mine?"

The supervisor was impatient: "Probably a few days, stop talking and hurry!"

The Young Master was anxious: "If they can’t capture it in days, does that mean our team has to be delayed for days?"

Sakamaru said: "The group of miners from the Tata Battle Team who besieged the Count’s Mansion are about to be released from prison, if it’s going to be delayed for so long, let them go again to besiege the Count’s Mansion, forcing the Count to summon these experts back."

The Young Master was discontented: "Their team is useless, can’t depend on them at all!"

"Young Master, the more useless they are, the better!"

Indeed!

The Young Master came to his senses, began to call Tata Manager to discuss actions.

While bickering, the team heading to Plague Island reported back: "Young Master, we’ve found Chun! He’s on a small boat..."

The Young Master froze: "Give me a live feed..."

The live feed switched to a telescope view, and clearly in the telescope was the red-named Chun marked with a rat plague symbol and an unknown crow symbol in the midst of black smoke!

The Young Master was astonished: "He has two kinds of plagues? Trying to escape again?"

The team member replied: "Treasure Hunting Captain’s report has been triggered, should we report?"

The Young Master’s discontent finally found a vent: "Report, and eliminate him! Last time he escaped in the sewer, let’s see if he can escape this time?"

"Understood, I’ll notify the captain right away."

The Young Master was somewhat intrigued now: "Describe the discovery process specifically."

The team member replied: "We were just heading towards the light on Plague Island, initially didn’t notice him, thinking it was the island’s light flow, then realized that light was moving; it was a small boat! This is the ocean area near Plague Island, an ordinary NPC small boat fisherman is unlikely to come to such an unfortunate place so far; it was highly likely Chun, so I told the captain to take notice, used this telescope enhanced with the far-sight skill..."

—System Announcement: Wanted! Treasure Hunter reports Plague Exile Chun’s escape.

At the next moment, the live feed went completely dark.

"Young Master, he turned off the lamp!"

The Young Master sneered: "Will it work? Watch the prowess of this Count’s Treasure Hunting Ship."

"Got it!"

...

Chun was nervous when he saw the system announcement, and just in front of him, a red light exploded — System Prompt: Warning! Your escape has been publicly reported, your reputation -30,000.

Holy shit, reported again!

Extinguish the lights! Four Sea Souls infusion, the opponents also just turned, completely have the chance to escape!

The small boat behind clearly dragged us down, painfully letting go of the rope and giving up!

At this moment, Aileen’s voice echoed: "What’s the situation now?"

Chun had no time to explain: "Aileen, quickly turn on the radar!"

The opponent’s firelight exploded, a row of light dots on the radar bombarded the position where Chun just was!

Tuna Wind Tide Barrier at full speed!

Sea Emperor Crab Shift Barrier activated!

—— System notification: Warning! You have encountered an attack from player team Mist Island!

Holy shit, it’s actually players! If I had known players could get onto big ships this fast, I would’ve turned off the lights earlier!

Feeling the sea wind shooting in his face, the giant waves stirred up around, and the explosion of the small boat being hit, Chun’s heart leapt into his throat!

Luckily the first round of shelling was endured! Surviving the first round means a great chance.

Soon, the second round of shelling rained down again on the area of the rear small boat, while Chun’s small boat raced like a speedboat several hundred meters in the dark, the escape was secure!

Chun even suspected that the opponent’s telescope only saw him ahead with lights on, not the small boat trailing behind, thus mistaking the rear boat as him and bombarding it?

Finally, he couldn’t hear the third round of shelling, the lights of the big ship grew farther away.

Chun heaved a sigh of relief: "Escaped!"

Aileen spoke gravely: "It seems someone has set their sights on Plague Island again."

Undoubtedly, this team called Mist Island must be a consortium, otherwise their progress wouldn’t be this swift.

Chun sighed: "So we must grow stronger, this voyage is to salvage gems from the sunken ship for you to make a Magic Mirror, the island has the talent to craft Magic Mirrors."

Aileen immediately got eager: "Quickly! A lot of the Count’s henchmen have come to my side, including a powerful guy I’ve never seen before who can turn into a shadow and move through gaps, I suspect it’s the legendary Shadow Demon! Once caught by its shadow, there’s no escape, so I can only let the Crystal Bat go into Invisibility and drill into the sand to avoid his tracking, but not sure how long I can evade!"

Chun was shocked: "That powerful?"

Aileen replied solemnly: "Not just powerful, but specifically countering the Crystal Bat’s mirror image. Once the black shadow completely covers the Crystal Bat, I can’t transmit skills to it. But I think as long as I’m stronger, I have a great chance to counteract this Shadow Demon, and once I can take him down, I’ll achieve great improvement!"

Turns out it’s a mutual heaven counter! Like angels and demons, as long as an angel is slightly stronger than a demon, it counters the demon, and vice versa.

Aileen added: "But the opponents have too many people, those Magic Stones you dropped, it’s hard to say if they can be kept."

Holy shit! Chun steeled his heart: "No matter, as long as we can divert the enemy’s attention and buy time, losing these items is worth it. You shouldn’t care about those things, focus fully on dealing with the Shadow Demon."

"Then I’ll handle it and stop talking over there..."

...

The Treasure Hunting Ship of Mist Island arrived near the shattered small boat.

"Young Master, though the small boat was destroyed, there’s no direct kill notification, he likely jumped into the sea instantly, in this vast ocean jumping into the sea is hard to escape death."

The Young Master was unsatisfied: "When we land on Plague Island, if we find him, continue to kill!"

"Understood."

At this moment, the Treasure Hunting Captain ordered the whole ship to extinguish lights and forbid speaking, adjusting course to stealthily advance towards the glow of Plague Island.

The Young Master was pleased with the Captain’s caution, growing increasingly intrigued: "Did Chun’s two escapes happen because he couldn’t handle Ghost City?"

"Young Master, it’s not surprising he couldn’t handle, the key is how Ghost City is triggered. From Sariel’s questioning attitude towards City Flower Fafnir during the celebration, his exile likely involved Fafnir, he probably has special task items, so Young Master must keep a close eye on Fafnir’s movements."

The Young Master held a deep expression: "Being able to contact someone at Fafnir’s level is unforgivable!"

Immediately, he inquired with the surveillance group: "Has Woman Number 2 still not emerged from Fafnir’s Mansion?"

"Reporting to Young Master, she hasn’t appeared."

The Young Master felt deeply puzzled.

Just then, a flash of fire in the darkness, a burst of cannon sound, and the violent water waves shook the live-streaming interface!

"Nani?"

"Young Master, our ship is ambushed! Two enemy ships have us in a crossfire..."

...

Chun manually rowed the boat, the lights of Plague Island blurred at the sea and sky horizon.

Suddenly the flashing fire behind, even faintly hearing the sound of explosions.

Chun was stunned, another battle has begun! Could it be the two ships of Piku? Based on the acting conjecture, underlings of the Great Evil Spirit must be more than just Piku, to preserve the secret of Plague Island’s Magic Gold they’ll definitely have ships patrolling nearby long-term, so this player team was likely ambushed?

Alright, this time should praise the ambush, hope they’re strong enough to avenge.

As for now, it’s completely certain the danger is eliminated, continuing autonomous driving to research 3D components...