Chapter 36 Let's Set Sail, ███! [Instance Name Unlocked]...
Xue Chao immediately thought of the dungeon name.
The previous host commented that he didn't have the necessary permissions to view it, but the instance name was the same as the main quest and side quests, just "to be unlocked." Once they figured out the answer, it would be revealed naturally.
However, the Giant has been at sea for some time, but the instance name has not yet been unlocked.
Xue Chao pursed his lips. There was only one possibility then—the ship he was about to board was not the Giant.
The terminal building is tall and wide. Now, not only have several floors been added horizontally, but it has also been divided into smaller sections vertically. The walls, which have undergone "cell proliferation," are quiet and still, without even the smell of new paint, as if they were always designed this way.
The corridor remains in a European classical style, with classical paintings and sculptures moved to both sides of the new corridor. However, a fish-shaped robot is placed at intervals, mixing the antique and elegant works with the technological products of the abandoned factory, turning the long corridor into a kaleidoscope and making people's spirits fall to the edge of weightlessness.
As Xue Chao was calculating the distance and constantly moving through the new layout to find the outermost edge, the feeling of weightlessness struck again. He immediately grabbed the wall for support—it was real weightlessness, and the entire building was slowly sinking!
He quickly adapted, found the stairs and went up to a place with a wide view—and sure enough!
Even more so than he had imagined...
He thought only the right port had become a cruise ship, but now it seems that the entire Giant Port has become a cruise ship.
Originally, two teardrop-shaped floating platforms, positioned slightly off-center, gradually pieced together and merged along their respective harbor shores to form a giant floating platform, shaped like the cross-section of a ship.
The new floating platform became the main deck of the cruise ship, standing steadily on the water. The two buildings, T1 and T2, are diagonally opposite each other, like the yin and yang points of a yin-yang symbol. However, they slowly sink in the middle of the platform, and as they sink, they continue to "grow" in the direction of each other, showing a tendency to merge into one.
When the two buildings were stuck together on the twelfth floor of the platform, they had completely merged into one and stopped.
The rectangular giant roof slowly builds up a four-story ring on the left and right. On the left is a twin tower spanning a giant swimming pool on the rooftop open-air deck, connected by a long slide that runs down twelve floors. On the right is a classical theater.
This is the "superstructure" of the new cruise ship.
What about the main hull?
...the dungeon.
The dungeon is also part of Giant Harbor, so why can't it grow back?
Xue Chao quickly went down to the main deck and looked down. Under the water, there was a glittering light. He picked up Shun's binoculars and carefully examined it. He could only see a hazy shadow under the night sea, which looked like the gold and silver jewelry that Zhu Wen had sunk into the sea!
To prevent the smuggled goods in the dungeon from being retrieved, when Yan Bocheng was outside to meet them, he would cut open the prisoners' stomachs and let the gold and silver jewelry fall into the sea.
Now, these underwater fragments of light are constantly gathering together, as if... they've been caught in a giant net!
The giant ship was finally completed when all the gold and silver treasures were completely gathered below the platform on the water and could no longer be seen. The ship shook violently, creating huge waves.
"How's the view?" The officer, leaning on his cane, walked step by step to Xue Chao's side. His two "broken" eyes looked down at the waves surging in Giant Port as if he were looking down on his own empire. "Thank you very much for your help, sir."
"I didn't help much. The profits I made from those few 'small cruise ships' are nothing compared to what you guys made at sea. I pocketed it all." Xue Chao leaned lazily against the deck railing, glancing at her sideways. On his cane was a gold thumb ring, engraved only with the Giant Port logo "∞" like a family crest. But whether it was due to some kind of craftsmanship or special material, the thumb ring had faint patterns under the light, gleaming a pale, snow-white color. "There's no opposition at all... You also want to go to the New World. Going against the Voyagers is just a smokescreen... Ha, you're even more of a 'Voyagers' than the Voyagers themselves."
The officer smiled sinisterly, took out a pack of cigarettes, and offered one to Xue Chao, but Xue Chao did not take it.
She shrugged, pulled back her hand, and fumbled for her lighter. "Perhaps you've heard of the 'Ymir' Project? Their 'small sailboats' are hardly worthy of the name of the Founding Titan."
Xue Chao took out a pure gold lighter engraved with the World Tree from his pocket, lit it with a "click," and the officer paused, leaned over and lit his cigarette. The closer he got, the more he could appreciate the terrifying nature of her fish-like appearance: "Nice lighter."
"Heh, I found it. Here, it's yours." Xue Chao tossed it into her arms, returning it to its rightful owner.
"You thought you were from the Qihang family, and you wanted to use this to sneak into the venue."
Who knew you all looked so respectable?
The smugglers hid gold and silver jewelry in smuggled goods, pretending to be victims of theft. Meanwhile, the opposition leader hid his own signature treasures among the items his subordinates actually stole, thus luring out an investigator who knew neither the smugglers nor the opposition.
Xue Chao continued, "You're even more ruthless. If the goal is the same, there's no need to split into two factions and fight each other. You've put on such a convincing show, letting them set sail triumphantly. They probably have other purposes for them."
The officer shoved the lighter back into Xue Chao's hand, as if it were a gift to mark their "fateful" meeting: "I'm really glad that someone as smart as you chose us... In this new world, come and be my right-hand man?"
Xue Chao glanced away, neither refusing nor bothering to reply, and continued to use his binoculars to observe the newly formed giant ship. He found the ship's emblem in cursive script on the hull, which read "Ymir."
"No need to rush, you'll know once the ship sets sail." The officer tapped his cane and shouted in a strange voice, "Set sail, true Ymir!"
The deep, resonant sound of the flute echoed as this newborn behemoth, several times larger than the Giant, roared and set sail against the backdrop of the endless night and the sea.
[Dungeon name unlocked]
Goliath.
Zhu Wen sat on the deck railing with a sour face. The wind blew off his hood, and his brightly colored jellyfish-shaped hair flew in the wind.
If it were someone else, Yan Bocheng would have thought this person was suicidal. But when he got closer and heard him muttering, "I'm definitely going to kill that plastic bag," he breathed a sigh of relief. It was Zhu Wen, after all.
"I told you not to think about him anymore, but look at you, making yourself miserable." Yan Bocheng drank his iced beer and handed Zhu Wen a small strawberry cake. "Ruoshui's former leading lady ran into her old boss, and she was utterly humiliated. She had to curse herself like she was begging her parents, making up a hundred different stories about ingratitude. She lost face and her life. And then there's Lü Lianshan, third place. Last time he ran into 'that person,' he still got humiliated. And that sister who reached the top, needless to say, she faced more doubts and provocations than you. What can't you overcome? What, you think that pretty boy isn't famous enough? Or are you just too thin-skinned!"
"You're using them to pressure me?" Zhu Wen's tone was unfriendly, and he gave Yan Bocheng a cold look. Yan Bocheng's friendly expression froze. He was used to being the little master's nanny and really treated him like a "junior"... Usually, when they bickered, it was because Zhu Wen was in the mood and gave him some leniency. In front of a big shot, the most taboo thing is to take yourself too seriously. He immediately smiled apologetically and slapped himself twice.
Zhu Wen snorted, then took the cake and ate it in a fit of rage, treating it like Xue Chao's corpse: "Now this bastard is famous... wait, 'brother,' right? I'll definitely kill him out of his life."
He glanced at Yan Bocheng's beer glass, his anger rising: "It tastes worse than urine, disgusting."
Yan Bocheng almost spat out his drink: "...Didn't you keep saying you wanted to try it?"
Zhu Wen, in the heat of the moment, threw Yan Bocheng's wine away and refused to admit his dark history of "pretending to be an adult": "Bullshit, only disgusting adults like you would have the nerve to pretend this stuff is delicious!"
Yan Bocheng was a little annoyed, but on the surface he still represented the vast majority of disgusting adults, and lightly gave himself a slap.
Zhu Wen seemed to find his submissive behavior pointless and didn't bother to vent his anger on him anymore. Like a proud little lion, he licked his cat until it was docile, then sharpened his claws, ready to pounce: "You're right, it's just one loss. Next time, it'll be his turn to suffer!"
Yan Bocheng watched as his ancestor began to devise a new plan to make that person wish they were dead, and then, as if his mission was accomplished, he felt relieved: "Alright, ancestor, wipe your mouth."
He's a hacker, a babysitter, and a grandson all rolled into one. When will the guild give him a raise?
Once the little darling's mood had finally calmed down, Yan Bocheng returned to his work, taking out the tablet computer from his cabin to monitor the Giant's route in real time: "The Giant really is heading straight for the Fog. It's not far away; at the current speed, it should arrive in less than half an hour. As for the interior of the cruise ship, those NPCs are just eating, drinking, and having fun, living a life of utopian luxury. They're too lazy to even build any mazes, and not a single side quest has been triggered. It's eerily peaceful—so what do you think the last mission will be?"
Zhu Wen gazed at the distant mist.
At the port, it wasn't noticeable; the sky and the sea enveloped the view. Under the cover of night, the sky was dark and the sea was dark as well, and everything looked like "fog."
It wasn't until we left port that the fog cleared up. It was hazy and light, as if the wind could blow it away, yet it fell like a giant curtain between the sea and the sky, its depth unknown, which made it seem heavy and insurmountable.
Like an entrance to another world, a forest of the dead, it lingers on the edge of the world. After looking at it for a long time, one naturally gets the idea that there must be a completely different world behind the fog.
“The danger is either inside or outside. The Titanic didn’t sink because of tourists jumping on it.” Zhu Wen swung his legs. “Icebergs, tsunamis, storms, or pirates, warships, all kinds of possible obstacles. Look for them. If you don’t see them, then it’s those monsters.”
Yan Bocheng: "Indeed, Lamia disappeared when we set sail. We should be almost at the temple. So, do you think the mission's focus is on the cruise ship, the temple, or the new world beyond the mist?"
"When we get to the temple, the monsters will attack the cruise ship." Zhu Wen blurted out, still in the mood to reach for another piece of cake. "It's pretty good, I want the chocolate one!"
Yan Bocheng was shocked: "An attack on a cruise ship?!"
"What's so surprising? The Eye of God is on the Giant. Lamiai will cooperate with the Voyagers because the Voyagers promised to find the Eye of God for Lamiai. The temple is the lair of monsters. If the cruise ship goes above the temple, they will definitely take action."
"Why not just give the Divine Eye back to them?"
"Are you an idiot?" Zhu Wen glared at him. "Everything that enters the fog will disappear, as if it were forever lost in the fog. Do you think the Voyagers dared to set sail again into the unknown? What's the difference between the Giant and the returning Orlaug, and all the other ships that entered the fog before?"
Yan Bocheng understood this time: "Divine Eye!"
"That's right. The Voyagers never intended to return the Divine Eye. They were still counting on its power to break through the fog. Their ultimate mission was probably to get rid of the monsters, protect the Divine Eye, and ensure the Giant sails to the New World..."
Yan Bocheng suddenly interrupted him loudly: "Wait, a ship is following us, it's also coming from the port!"
Zhu Wen frowned: "There are still ships leaving port? Number 2 is the Giant, there's no mistake, the whole ship set sail with everyone present..."
He suddenly fell silent, realizing that he had also fallen into a misconception. The No. 2 cruise ship was indeed the Giant, and it was the ship that the Voyagers were going to take, but just like the Destiny, who said that this was the ship they should be on?
Speaking of which, isn't the dungeon name still pending...?
Just as I wished, the system notification appeared at that very moment:
[Dungeon name unlocked]
[Instance Name: Set Sail, Giant Harbor!]
All the players on the Giant were stunned. The words were in Chinese characters, but the meaning was incomprehensible—what was this? What departure? What Giant Port?
Wait, it's not the Giant, it's Giant Harbor??
...
Depend on! ! !
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