BXBX NOVEL Chapter 383: Unfortunate Descenders
Several hundred miles away from Cloud Island where Li Yunmu waited was Zheng Quan and his group. By then, their hardships could no longer be described with words. As the old saying went, they had crossed many mountains just to find a tiger.
The luck of Zheng Quan’s group was not good. It was the first time they set out to sea, and in the brief period of ten days, they had faced endless troubles.
First, they encountered the most famous and frequent ocean current fluctuations. They were created by the level of water at different depths flowing backwards and giving rise to strong winds such as those from tsunamis.
In North Blue, they would happen from twice to ten times a month. There was no regular pattern to their appearance, so fishermen who couldn’t build large and sturdy ships wouldn’t go a nautical mile away from their island.
Zheng Quan’s financial situation was quite good. Although he was a newcomer to Blue Moon Island, he was able to buy a large cruise ship, which caused many people to pay attention to him. Relying on that ship, he didn’t need to fear the ocean currents.
Yet during the ten days, he had encountered five attacks from ocean currents in succession. Everyone on the ship couldn’t believe how abysmal was their luck.
In the last two days, the ocean currents had finally subsided.
But Zheng Quan and his group didn’t have any time to rejoice, because they had encountered another matter which was even more terrifying than the ocean currents. They had attracted the attention of a enormous beast.
Their luck was truly rotten.
Under normal circumstance, the old and powerful enormous beasts weren’t fond of finding trouble with humans. After all, history had repeatedly hammered them with the fact that they weren’t species with which one could trifle. If the beasts were careless, they might attracted the attention of some formidable humans it couldn’t face.
Because of that, the older the enormous beast was, the more they would avoid provoking humanity.
But since old enormous beasts existed, young enormous beasts also existed. There were also those who had just become enormous beasts. The one which had focused its attention on Zheng Quan’s group of course belonged to the latter group. Besides, only the young enormous beasts would leave the deep sea region and come to the surface to have fun or breathe fresh air.
The ship had tried to pull away from it, but the young enormous beast was powerful and unwilling to let them go.
When the young enormous beast which was a clawed octopus and barely the length of a hundred meters saw the ship pull away, it was enraged. Its main body was surprisingly thirty-six meters long and each of its eight tentacles reached a hundred meters and were as thick as pillars.
The enormous clawed octopus was extremely excited to play with the cruise ship and would occasionally use two of its tentacles to heavily slam it.
Fortunately, the cruise was created from iron pistil wood. Moreover, Zheng Quan had paid great attention to ensuring their safety. The planks of the cruise ship were extra thick, because of which the defense of the ship surpassed that of other ships by 50%.
Naturally, the price of the ship had also been double because of that. But Zheng Quan hadn’t been petty when dealing with their safety, or else they would’ve been finished long ago.
However, although they weren’t in danger for the time being, the ship would collapse if it was battered by the enormous beast for a long period of time.
There are still a few hundred kilometers left. Please last a bit longer so we can reach Cloud Island.
Everyone was just hoping for that one thing.
Zheng Quan, Wang Yan, and Luo Honghua—the three descenders—finally gained some first hand experience of the dangers of the Origin World. It weren’t just the humans that were frightening; in fact, all the living creatures in that world were far more terrifying than those from their original plane.
Although the enormous beasts couldn’t use human speech, they wouldn’t be any inferior to humans once their intellect matured. Zheng Quan and the others held onto the hope that the octopus would think better of it and leave them alone.
But how could the enormous clawed octopus know about this?
The only thing on its mind was that it wasn’t willing to let go of this prey which it had chased for so long. Soon, the ship in front of its eyes would shatter.
Thus, it began to attack even more fiercely. It wanted to catch its prey before it could reach its target.
Humans, ahh delicious refreshments.
The enormous clawed beast slammed its tentacles against the ship once more.
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"How many days has it been?" Li Yunmu asked with creased brows while gazing in the direction of Blue Moon Island.
"It’s the seventeenth day,] the system answered.
With the ordinary navigation and cruise ship’s speed, it should’ve taken thirteen to fifteen days to reach the island.
Yet it was already the seventeenth day. Li Yunmu could guess that the other party had met with some sort of mishap. He only hoped that it was nothing major, since otherwise his scheme to enter Zhen Quang’s group would have been in vain.
Li Yunmu hadn’t dealt with that man not because he felt benevolent, but only because he wanted to learn about the secret with which Zheng Quan had come to the Origin World.
The knowledge he held might help him quickly achieve his aims. This was Li Yunmu’s true goal.
"Elder brother, are you very fond of the ocean?"
While Li Yunmu was pondering about his matters, a shy voice came from behind. He didn’t need to turn around to know that it was the lass whom he had run into frequently in the past few days. She feared and revered him at the same time.
It would only be right to say that all of the ten households acted in that way.
They were afraid of Li Yunmu, but also carried a hint of gratefulness for this man which had come from the ocean.
But for the most part it was just fear. After all, they didn’t know from where the outsider had come, and what sort of changes he brought with him. They were just aware that he was a physical flux expert.
These kind of cultivators were part of the lowest level on Blue Moon Island, but on the small isle, they were no different from gods.
Thus, no one dared to provoke him.
Even if the natives had innate strength reaching a couple oxen, with the most powerful reaching nine oxen, the difference between learning physical battle skills and simply using brute force to attack was extremely vast. Not to mention, who knew how much physical strength Li Yunmu possessed.
"Yes, I like the ocean very much, I like its boundlessness..." When Li Yunmu heard the voice behind him, it was as if cold snow had melted from his wrinkled brows. "Tutu, all the others are afraid of me, so how are you not?"
Li Yunmu turned around and smiled toward the lass. He could sense that she was afraid of him, but despite that she had come to his side.