Qin Luo stared at the image transmitted by the drone on the floating light screen in front of her, frowning slightly.
"Michino's fleet... has stopped. In a surprisingly calm sea."
Calm? In this sea of ghosts and wolves howling, calmness itself is the biggest abnormality.
"Calm?" There was a hint of subtle surprise in Liao Qingyue's voice.
"What's his plan? Any other discoveries?"
Qin Luo shook her head, wrinkling her small nose, feeling a little helpless.
"Not yet. Lu Ye's whereabouts are always so erratic, and it's impossible to predict what he's up to. He's like a slippery loach; you never know where he'll sneak into next."
Liao Qingyue was silent for a moment, as if weighing the pros and cons, and then she spoke slowly after a moment.
"Keep watching. This guy may be unpredictable, but he always manages to get some truly impressive supplies. He might have some special channels or...an identity we don't know about. Follow him, and at least we won't starve to death."
Humph, even if he is the chosen one, he still has to see if he has the fate to enjoy it.
At this moment, the drone camera shook suddenly!
Qin Luo subconsciously adjusted the joystick to stabilize the image.
The sea surface not far from the Lu Ye fleet suddenly arched upward as if the earth's crust plates collided violently. Then, a terrifying wave far exceeding any previous one, almost connecting the sky and the sea, rose into the sky!
"Another wave..." Qin Luo muttered. At first, she didn't pay too much attention to it, thinking it was just a common sudden phenomenon in this sea area.
What kind of weird things are there in this damn game?
But the next second, her eyes suddenly widened and her mouth opened uncontrollably into an "O" shape.
In the vision transmitted back by the drone, a huge shadow slowly rose from the rolling waves. It was a giant head covered with hideous grooves and thick barnacles. One of its eyes alone was larger than Lu Ye's flagship, which had been modified several times!
A cold, bloodthirsty light flickered within it.
The giant whale of the deep sea! It's really coming!
"Oh...Oh my god!" Qin Luo sucked in a breath of cold air, feeling a chill running from her tailbone to the top of her head. The joystick in her hand almost slipped out of her hand because of the trembling of her fingertips.
Is this really something players can handle?!
What made her even more terrified was that in the picture, Lu Ye's small broken boat, which was as fragile as a toothpick in front of the giant whale, actually slowly lowered a smaller motorboat!
Lu Ye himself was sitting astride the motorboat, the engine making a low and stubborn roar, and he actually took the initiative to rush towards the giant beast that exuded a breath of destruction!
"Boat...Captain! Lu Ye...he...he...he...he drove the boat over!"
Qin Luo's voice changed in tone, filled with disbelief and extreme horror, and she couldn't even speak clearly.
On the other end of the communicator, Liao Qingyue was silent for a few seconds, then uttered a very light sneer, her tone filled with undisguised disappointment and determination.
"Crazy! This kid is completely crazy! I've always said that no matter how good your luck is, it's useless without brains! What's the difference between this and jumping into a meat grinder?!"
She seemed to have sentenced Lu Ye to death and sighed heavily.
"Qin Luo, retract the drone. We're preparing to evacuate. This lunatic who overestimates his own capabilities isn't worth wasting our precious fuel and time."
What a pity those supplies were wasted, this beast got them for nothing.
Liao Qingyue pondered in her heart.
"Wait! Captain! Something's wrong!" Qin Luo shouted sharply and quickly, her voice a little hoarse with excitement.
"That whale didn't attack Lu Ye immediately! It seemed like it was waiting for Lu Ye to get closer! Like it was responding to him?"
The more Qin Luo looked, the weirder it seemed to her. She suddenly remembered something and her face turned pale.
"Captain! This whale! I recognize it! It's the super BOSS that appeared in the last system Easter egg event! Kraken, the 'World Devourer'! Yes, that's it! How many top teams and hundreds of warships armed to the teeth were devoured by it in one gulp! Not a trace of their remains remains!"
Liao Qingyue's voice was cold and stubborn.
"Impossible! Have you forgotten the boss mechanics of survival games? They're designed to hunt us down and increase the difficulty of the game! Who wouldn't be ready to kill the players with red eyes? Don't harbor any unrealistic fantasies! That guy is dead!"
The facts are just as Qin Luo observed.
The appearance of the giant whale caused huge waves dozens of miles away, causing countless players to panic.
However, in this core area of the Lu Ye fleet, the sea surface strangely maintained a puzzling relative calm, as if there was an invisible barrier isolating the turbulence and noise of the outside world.
The giant whale just quietly floated on the sea, like a god that existed since ancient times. Its huge single eye was staring at Lu Ye who was slowly approaching, and his motorboat which was as small as a toy motorcycle in front of the giant beast.
At this moment, Xiao Yiyi, standing on the deck of Lu Ye's flagship, had her heart beating wildly, almost jumping out of her throat.
Just a few minutes ago, when Lu Ye specifically asked her to bring his secret recipe of "spicy squid tentacles" and board the flagship with several core crew members to "meet" the big guy, Xiao Yiyi's mind went blank, with only one thought lingering in her mind:
It’s over, Barbie Q is dead this time!
She had even begun to wonder in her mind whether her meager belongings would sink directly into the sea to feed the fish, or would be lucky enough to be given to some unlucky passerby.
I should have eaten those treasured chocolates earlier!
But now... the painting in front of me seems a little bit... wrong?
The expected raging waves did not directly smash their ship into pieces, and the legendary deep-sea monster that was extremely ferocious and could eat a fleet alive did not open its bloody mouth that was big enough to swallow an island like a beast that had been hungry for eight hundred years.
Xiao Yiyi secretly glanced at Shen Shu and Su Baiyue, who were standing not far away with equally solemn expressions but a strange sense of trust in their eyes. She then looked at Lu Ye, who was driving a motorboat and whose figure looked particularly small yet tall against the backdrop of the giant whale's shadow that blocked out the sun.
What on earth does this guy want? Does he really have some hidden secret?
Or... is he actually a relative of this BOSS?
Is Lu Ye planning to use the motorboat as a surfboard and dash directly into the bloody mouth of that deep-sea monster?!
In the regional channel, after a brief silence, it was instantly flooded with all kinds of incredible exclamations and question marks that frantically filled the screen.
"What the hell! What are you doing?!"
"Is this kid crazy? That's the Kraken! He thinks it's a tourist submarine and he can go in and take a look?!"
As everyone looked on in shock, the motorboat driven by Lu Ye seemed to be suddenly pulled forward by an invisible force, dragging him and Xiao Yiyi behind him forward, like a bullet shot into the bottomless abyss, straight towards the Kraken's slowly opening mouth, which was big enough to swallow the island!
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