The bow of the ship is like a giant axe, mercilessly cleaving through the seawater.
Seawater surged high on both sides of the bow, forming two enormous white walls of water resembling mountain peaks.
The water walls resembled thousands of galloping horses, neighing and leaping in the water. Countless tiny water droplets scattered in the air like diamonds.
The Future is getting faster and faster.
The sea breeze it was traveling through was cut into countless turbulent air currents, which swept past the hull with a sharp whistling sound.
The stern left a long white trail of waves, sweeping across a large area of the sea it passed through.
The fish and Gu Xi on the ship were blown to pieces, but the speed of the Future showed no signs of slowing down.
Flamescale struggled to steady itself, having to cling to a nearby pillar with its fish-like paws. Its scales stood on end in the wind, and the excitement in its eyes vanished with the gale.
Ariel was startled and her fishtail emerged, swaying wildly as she tried to maintain her balance, but her long pink hair was blown straight into a flowing line.
Keima lay almost entirely on the deck, pressed tightly against the ground.
The five chubby little balls were blown to a corner, where they huddled together tightly, forming a ball to avoid rolling into the sea.
The ice crystal birds were no longer so calm. After flapping their wings failed to maintain their balance, they simply burrowed into the space.
Gu Xi's condition wasn't much better. She was standing on the third floor, where the wind was even fiercer, like countless blades whistling through the air and scraping against her.
Her hair was blown wildly through the air, lashing her cheeks, forcing her to squint to defend herself.
Just then, an unexpected notification sound reached her ears.
[Game prompt: Deploy ship's defensive shields?]
The situation left Gu Xi no time to think too much, so she quickly agreed.
In an instant, numerous nodes appeared regularly on the hull of the Future, shimmering with a ghostly blue light in the air.
Immediately afterwards, the light began to spread rapidly along the preset path, nimbly moving across the surface of the ship.
As the light flowed, a transparent energy membrane opened up from the bow of the ship.
The energy membranes collided and merged in the air, enveloping the entire ship and finally gathering above the ship to form a closed dome.
Once the protective shield is deployed, floods, ferocious beasts, and howling sea winds are all kept out.
They crashed into the defensive shield, creating visible ripples of energy, like the waves that spread when pebbles are thrown into a calm lake.
The whole world was at peace.
The fish stood up, crawled, and scattered.
"Whoosh! It's in the bag!"
"Great! I thought the boat was going to capsize."
"It was too bumpy just now."
"That's incredibly fast!"
As Gu Xi listened to everyone calming down, she suddenly remembered that the game had given a hint during the construction of the power core: the better the power core, the greater the speed increase.
But... the power core assembly made with the Abyss Crystal as its core is just too powerful!
She estimated that this speed definitely exceeded Ais's expectations.
At this rate, it would take seven or eight days to reach the abyss layer. She thought the time might need to be cut in half!
Fortunately, when she reinstalled the defense system, she replaced some materials, which greatly upgraded the Future's defense capabilities; otherwise, the ship would probably have been blown to pieces today.
Good things always come at a price.
Gu Xi opened the defense system and saw that the current defense level had decreased from the initial 100% to 99.98%, and was still declining.
The defensive shield is a consumable item, and the filling material also needs to be replaced. Following this consumption method, she realized that the speed setting was a real trap.
Previously, she would carefully select materials to put into the defense system, but now she thinks it doesn't matter what kind of garbage it is, since it will be consumed anyway, so she might as well put it in first.
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