Because of the two whimpers at the end of the humanoid whale Fugui's sentence, the originally powerful sentence inexplicably changed its meaning.
It's not quite mockery, but it lacks the force to be considered a threat...
So after a silent pause, everyone abruptly changed the subject. The skinny man, of course, couldn't possibly perform a handstand while defecating; his face dark red, he silently shrank to the farthest corner of the lifeboat, trying to hide himself from everyone.
Although the wealthy beauty wanted to say a few more words to the thin man, she was afraid that if she opened her mouth, she would just whimper. So she could only proudly raise her chin and lower her eyes to show her noble, aloof and powerful nature in every way.
With both of them shut up, it became easier to talk about the other topics.
"Thank you both so much for bringing the machine up here. I will report back truthfully when I get back and make sure your hard work is not in vain," the mission officer said first, his face beaming with undisguised joy.
Regardless of how many more survival spheres these two raw material synthesis machines could produce and how many lives they could save, as the guide for this mission, he was also honored to receive a reward for his team's successful completion of the mission.
only……
Thinking about this, the mission guy glanced at the aloof and elegant Whale Rich and felt a little embarrassed. He'd initially thought it was just some arrogant piece of junk, but who would have thought it would turn out to be a diving master?
Our ancestors were right; you can't judge a book by its cover.
While the young man on the mission was simply overjoyed by the result, the others on the lifeboat were more concerned about the method and process of the salvage operation.
"Why did you two bring machines up here? Wasn't there only one machine at the machine factory? Are you sure there are two machines?"
"Are you stupid?! These two machines are definitely not the ones in the machine factory! Have you forgotten about the two machines in the underground warehouse?"
The person asking the questions hadn't forgotten the two machines in the underground warehouse. When he learned of their existence, he even fantasized about how he could be incredibly skilled enough to infiltrate the warehouse, find the machines, and become a winner in life.
But isn't that just wishful thinking? Diving down into a machine factory in such dark, deep, and icy water is already incredibly difficult, so how could anyone possibly sneak into an underground warehouse and get those two machines?
Some people refuse to believe that others can do things just because they themselves cannot.
Moreover, he had a reason to convince himself: "Wait a minute, wasn't the underground warehouse locked? It was flooded by seawater and there's no electricity there, so how did you two get in? Did you break it open?!"
This reason was clearly very compelling, and the person asking the question felt they had a trump card. The onlookers, who were listening intently, also felt this was a difficult problem to solve.
Upon hearing this question, Xie Tianlang raised his handsome eyebrows and chuckled, but did not offer any explanation.
Fu Gui, the humanoid whale who was trying to keep quiet, felt he couldn't take it anymore.
Haha, to be honest, I really did break down that door. Do you believe I could slap you so hard you'd be dreaming?
"We didn't break down the door, but you saw that orca, right?"
"You're not saying the door was smashed open by that orca, are you?!"
"Besides that killer whale, who else could break open two alloy doors underwater?" Whale Beauty said, then turned to Xie Tianlang, "Didn't you see it? Waaah! Say something, waaah!"
After saying three more sentences, Fugui, the humanoid whale, who tried to control himself but to no avail, shut his mouth tightly.
He even closed his eyes, refusing to look at the strange looks from the people around him.
Then he heard the werewolf, who was clearly gloating and laughing, say, "The door was indeed smashed open by that orca. It was as if it came specifically to help me, and it even got itself stuck in the doorway for it."
"If we look at it again next time, we can still see those two deformed doors."
Upon hearing this, everyone wore expressions of shock and disbelief.
The orca first helped Zhou Hai and his group drive away the great white shark, and then it helped Xie Tianlang and the long-haired guy break down the door of the underground warehouse. It was almost like...
"Is this a fairy tale world? Could that orca be... a legendary mermaid?"
"Have you ever seen a mermaid whose true form is a powerful orca?! Rather than a mermaid, I think it's more likely to be an orca girl!"
"Keep dreaming! The Snail Fairy can clean your house, do your laundry, and cook for you, but Orca Girl, do you want him to bang on the door for you?!"
"Maybe I saved a baby killer whale in the ocean many years ago, and now it's grown up and coming to repay my kindness!!"
So the bored people on the lifeboat started arguing about whether the orca was a fairy or a mermaid, or a product of Western fairy tales or Eastern legends.
The orca itself, the pure-blooded human being being discussed, gave a polite but awkward fake smile, forcibly shut his mouth, and sat down to rest with his eyes closed.
Haha, a bunch of delusional fools.
Do you think you can even covet Dad?!
Xie Tianlang then walked over with a smile and sat down next to the wealthy and beautiful woman, concluding decisively: "I think they're all wrong."
The wealthy beauty raised her eyebrows, but did not open her eyes.
"It might be a hybrid demon, its true form being a sea otter, but it has mastered the Seventy-Two Transformations!"
The mixed-blood demon king Gou Fugui: "..."
From fairy to hybrid monster, this werewolf has really gone to great lengths and used his imagination to give a reasonable explanation for his multiple transformations.
Even the wealthy and beautiful woman couldn't help but smile slightly at this thought. In a sense, she had guessed half of it?
After the incident of searching for the machine in the underground warehouse, Gou Fugui and Xie Tianlang had actually developed a tacit understanding about his ability to transform into an animal.
After all, that guy had been watching him from the very beginning with excessive attention to detail and keen observation. Traveling with him and probing him along the way, it was impossible for him not to discover something.
Even so, after Xie Tianlang called Gou Fugui "Yuanyuan" and Gou Fugui denied it, Xie Tianlang stopped pursuing the matter.
The wealthy and beautiful woman gave this perceptive and capable fellow a high score for not getting to the bottom of things.
With Xie Tianlang's abilities, he could easily create an opportunity to force him to transform or find evidence that he is one of the animals.
But whether it was the talking sea otter, the badger Fugui who suddenly had a patch of white hair, or the orca that broke down a door to save people, he doubted them all, but in the end he accepted them with a smile and remained silent.
Gou Fugui thought that this sense of "propriety," or even "inclusiveness," was probably the reason why he was willing to travel with them and did not decide to leave alone.
Putting aside his occasional madness and cunning, Xie Tianlang possesses a reliability and trustworthiness that is hard for anyone to refuse.
He is powerful, calm and perceptive, capable of both advancing and retreating, and can be both righteous and evil.
"Tsk."
No wonder the country treated him like a small team.
There must be someone like that, and he would be invincible. Well, that's not what a person is.
"Why do I feel like you're cursing me in your heart?" Xie Tianlang's slightly raised voice rang in my ears.
The wealthy and beautiful woman leaned against the edge of the boat, letting the rain fall on his head, sliding down his phoenix eyes, high nose, and thin lips.
He closed his eyes and slightly curled the corners of his mouth: "No, this time I really am praising you."
"Eek".
Xie Tianlang laughed again when he heard the last "ooh".
"If someone were to whine in front of me, I could slap them so hard they wouldn't recognize their own mother."
The wealthy beauty's smile faded and her brows furrowed, but then she heard the werewolf continue, "But if you make a sound, I'll want to give you something."
Then Xie Tianlang took the necklace of various gemstones that Old Master Jin had treasured from his pocket and placed it on the head of the wealthy beauty who was resting with her eyes closed.
Even on a cloudy day, the tiny gemstones, shimmering with brilliant colors, looked like a beautiful jeweled crown against the backdrop of black hair.
"Please give this to Yuanyuan. It's a necklace that her father gave her."
Fu Guiyuan relaxed her brows and chuckled again, but what she said was quite sarcastic:
"You call this Yuanyuan and that Yuanyuan, the sea otter is Yuanyuan, the killer whale is Yuanyuan, there's only one necklace, so which Yuanyuan is it for?"
Xie Tianlang lowered his head, looking at the handsome young man beside him who had his eyes closed but a sly smile on his face, and finally laughed out loud.
He thought about it carefully: "As long as it's round and full of wealth, it's fine."
Feeling the slightly hot breath and deep voice in her ear, Fu Guiyuan turned her head and moved to the side.
He continued shaking his head with his eyes closed: "That won't work, Otter Round Round and Whale Round Round won't be happy. The favorability rating won't go up."
Xie Tianlang chuckled twice and then shook his head as well: "What can we do? Dad can only try harder and give Otter Yuanyuan and Whale Yuanyuan a necklace each."
Fu Guiyuan finally opened her eyes, her bright, upturned phoenix eyes full of laughter and a hint of smugness: "Very good, then you can prepare to collect more necklaces!"
"Otherwise, Dad is afraid your favorability rating will never go up!"
Xie Tianlang's heart skipped a beat when he saw Gou Fugui's smile. The feeling of inexplicable crisis that had just appeared was broken by the sound of the ship stopping.
"Everyone! We've arrived at the cruise ship! You've all worked hard today, so get some rest. Those of you who aren't planning to go out to sea tomorrow can browse the personal market on the cruise ship. If all goes well, a specially built ship will pass by here tomorrow afternoon on its way back to Qingchuan. Those who want to go back can take that ship."
The people on the lifeboats nodded and boarded the cruise ship one after another. However, Gou Fugui and Xie Tianlang were left behind by the mission officer, who led them, along with the two machines that were towed behind the lifeboats, towards the cruise ship's mission registration point.
After registration, these two machines will be carefully protected, and then they will take the fastest ship back to Qingchuan tomorrow afternoon.
"So you two can go with the machine. There will be special vehicles picking you up from the port. You can go directly to the Qingchuan Research Institute to collect your mission rewards, and then you can go home."
The mission officer's face showed a hint of envy as he said this. After all, having a survival sphere was like having the most powerful life-saving charm; as long as one's luck wasn't extremely bad, one could survive in this apocalypse of the ocean.
Gou Fugui and Xie Tianlang nodded to indicate that they understood, and then returned to their respective cruise ship cabins.
They certainly saw the envious look in the mission officer's eyes, but faced with survival, they could neither offer comfort nor show generosity.
The next morning, the mission officer led the pearl diver and the Tibetan man back towards the research institute. Clearly, the pearl diver and the Tibetan man were not going to abandon the machine at the factory.
After strolling around the market in the morning and exchanging the fish he caught for some snacks, Gou Fugui waited with the other sixty-odd people who had come with him for the afternoon to board the specially built cruise ship to return to Qingchuan.
However, what was somewhat unsettling was that the specially designed ship did not arrive at the cruise ship in Sichuan Province on time.
Gou Fugui and his group waited all afternoon and all night, but to no avail.
On the third day, the pearl diver and the man from Sichuan and Tibet finally managed to find the machine from the machinery factory. They couldn't have dragged the machine to the surface by themselves, and since they both found the location almost at the same time, they decided to split the reward equally.
A single survival orb can protect up to four people. Two people can each use one survival orb to protect the person they want to protect. The remaining survival orb can be used to exchange for supplies or something more important.
At this point, all three special material synthesis machines in Sichuan Province have been located. However, the ship that was supposed to arrive still has not yet come.
An atmosphere of panic began to spread across the cruise ship from Sichuan Province.
"What exactly happened? Why hasn't that specially made ship arrived yet? Did something happen on the way? But aren't specially made ships supposed to be able to withstand strong winds and waves?"
"But there's a limit to how strong the waves can be, right? What if we encounter a particularly large storm or tsunami?"
"Pah, pah, pah! Don't say such unlucky things! Couldn't there have been some delays on the way? The sea route is difficult to navigate now, maybe the ship will come tomorrow."
"Does our cruise ship have any special satellite phones we can use to contact each other? Can't we at least ask what happened?"
They waited until the third night, but the cruise ship from Sichuan Province still hadn't received a large ship that could take them back.
As a result, everyone became restless and couldn't sleep properly. Even until the early hours of the morning, Gou Fugui could hear people running around and talking on the boat.
His mood wasn't actually that stable, otherwise he wouldn't have been in the orca bloodline transformation all the time.
But because of the added benefit of his orca bloodline, at three in the morning, Gou Fugui was awakened by the ultrasonic waves that represented terror and death transmitted to his ears.
That was the mournful cry and roar of the sea's overlord, accompanied by the distant sound of the earth shaking... and the sound of giant ships sounding their horns as a warning!
Gou Fugui suddenly opened his eyes.
Without almost any hesitation, he rushed out of his room and headed for the captain's cabin.
As Gou Fugui passed through the cruise ship's corridor, he glanced at the distant sea, which was dark and unusually calm.
The watchman in the captain's cabin was boredly watching TV on his phone without internet when he was interrupted by Gou Fugui bursting in at a crucial moment.
"Sound the horns! A massive tsunami is coming... and a specially designed ship is also on its way! But they shouldn't stay long! We need to prepare to board immediately!!"
The young man on duty was completely bewildered and then suspicious when the wealthy and beautiful woman barged in and berated him: "What tsunami? How come we didn't receive a signal when the specially made ship came? Are you sleepwalking in the middle of the night?"
Gou Fugui was getting increasingly anxious about the little guy's lack of focus and was about to force the horn on when he realized he didn't recognize any of the buttons on the ship.
At that moment, a long, strong hand with slightly calloused fingertips firmly pressed a button on the captain's control panel.
Then, the piercing siren alarm sounded throughout the cruise ship.
"Hey, what's wrong with you?! You can't just press the alarm button like that!!"
The janitor on duty was in a panic this time. But when he turned and saw Xie Tianlang's sharp, dark eyes, he swallowed the rest of the words he was about to say—
This person's eyes are terrifying, waaaaah, they remind me of my elementary school headmaster and my training instructor when I was in the army!
"Now shut up and listen to him." Xie Tianlang's voice was icy: "Do exactly what he says, understand?"
The young man on duty was startled and nodded instinctively.
Then he informed the entire group that a massive tsunami and a giant ship were approaching, and that everyone should pack their bare essentials and prepare to board the ship quickly.
The cruise ship's captain and his company commander arrived just as he finished his first broadcast.
However, his company commander did not stand up for him. Instead, he asked the young man with long hair and a ponytail a few questions with a serious expression, and then made him broadcast the warning twice.
The young soldier on duty thought that his company commander might also be intimidated by that particularly fierce-looking man.
However, at this moment, their cruise ship received urgent, intermittent radar messages—
[A magnitude 8.1 earthquake struck the mountainous region of your province...mountain peaks collapsed into the sea...a massive tsunami is moving towards Sichuan Province...stop for twenty minutes...board the ship immediately!]
Even without receiving the complete message, the message was enough to send chills down the spines of everyone in the captain's cabin.
The young soldier on duty looked at Gou Fugui in disbelief, but Gou Fugui didn't even glance at him: "What are you standing there for? Go pack your things!! Take the most important things you need to bring back to the ship! Don't worry about the rest!"
The company commander was a decisive man, and he immediately issued the order: "All soldiers of the Eighth Company, listen up! Make sure to bring all mission items from the mission room onto the ship! This order takes precedence over everything else! Do you understand?!"
The five soldiers in the captain's cabin listened to the order in unison, while the soldiers of the Eighth Company, who were already guarding the mission room and other positions on the cruise ship, ran towards the mission item storage room the moment they heard the broadcast order.
But the company commander did not leave. He calmly directed and reassured the nearly one thousand people on the cruise ship through the loudspeaker, bringing order to the tense and disorderly procession.
Eight minutes later, the horn of the specially made giant ship roared in amidst the rain, and the dazzling lights dispelled the darkness, illuminating the eyes of the people who had been waiting by the cruise ship.
Twelve minutes later, the excessively calm waves began to slowly grow larger, the two ships were joined together, and the passengers on the pre-arranged cruise ship began to board quickly and orderly.
This news brought both surprise and disbelief to the soldiers waiting on the giant ship! Because they couldn't contact the cruise ship and the predicted tsunami was progressing too rapidly, the giant ship could only stay there for a maximum of twenty minutes. After twenty minutes, regardless of how many people on the cruise ship were able to board, they would have to leave.
Therefore, the people on the giant ship had already prepared for the worst, that perhaps only a few hundred or even a few dozen people could be saved.
But to their surprise, the people on the cruise ship seemed to have anticipated the danger of the tsunami and the urgency of their stay. The docking of the two ships took almost no time, and the people on board did not waste a single second. They all boarded within twenty minutes!
When the last fishmonger came aboard carrying a large, meowing cat, the soldiers on the giant ship couldn't help but cheer in unison!
After the ordinary people boarded the ship, the soldiers of the Eighth Company on the cruise ship began to board with various mission supplies, materials, and equipment.
By this time, the waves were already quite strong, and walking on the connecting steps required all your strength to avoid slipping and falling.
The company commander of the Eighth Company and three other soldiers carried the last survival ball machine forward. The first two soldiers had already stepped onto the deck of the giant ship, and the machine was mostly on the ground. But at that moment, a huge wave crashed in, and the giant ship suddenly shook violently. The young soldier who was carrying the lower right corner of the machine at the back slipped and fell straight backward!
"Dongzi!" The company commander, carrying the machine on the lower left, shouted and lunged at the young soldier. He then used the lunge to throw the soldier onto the boat, while he himself fell downwards uncontrollably.
"Company Commander!!"
The young soldier, his eyes red, was about to jump when his comrades pulled him back tightly.
But at that moment, two figures rushed out faster and more powerfully than him!
Under everyone's utterly shocked gaze, they saw the long-haired youth leap to the company commander's side like a fish swimming into the sea, then grab his arm and throw him up hard!
The company commander, who was originally prepared to die a heroic death, was just thrown onto the ship by him?!
Meanwhile, another tall figure who rushed out immediately after the long-haired youth kicked the company commander again in mid-air, accelerating the company commander's ascent and descent. As the company commander was grabbed by the soldiers on the side of the boat, the tall figure also grabbed the long-haired youth at the same time.
The two fell through the torrential rain and wind. Gou Fugui stared blankly for a moment as Xie Tianlang grabbed him and pulled him into his arms, before letting out an incomprehensible roar:
"Are you out of your mind?!"
Don't you know Dad can transform and doesn't die?! What kind of hero are you trying to be?!
The man, however, still held him protectively in his arms, and said something that sounded almost like a sigh:
"...What if?"
What if his adorable Yuan Yuan suddenly runs out of magic and can't transform? What if Yuan Yuan fails to transform into an orca or sea otter and ends up as that grumpy little white creature?
If he successfully transforms but doesn't have the strength to escape from the tsunami, wouldn't he lose his little darling?
"Don't worry, Dad is strong and powerful enough to protect you."
Hearing the calm and firm voice in her ear, the wealthy and beautiful woman closed her eyes tightly.
Then, as the rapid descent reached its end, as the icy seawater crashed against them, engulfing them—
Xie Tianlang was suddenly turned upside down by the person in his arms, and then a golden light seemed to flash before his eyes, dazzlingly bright in the dark sea.
After that, he was saved by the beautiful black and white fairy.
"Waaaaah, you son of a bitch! Don't even think about asking your dad to save your life next time!!"
Then, amidst the wind and rain, came a burst of extremely joyful laughter that even the wind and rain could not suppress.
"Yuanyuan! Daddy loves you~"
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