Chapter 214: Survival at Sea, Day 3 (3) The Expanding Sawtooth...
The sound of the whistle rang in Yu Miaomiao's mind at the same time as the elongated lantern grass went into the sea.
This time, the warning from the ship's sensor was a few seconds late, and was not as sensitive as Xiaoguai in sensing the monster.
It seems that the next time she hears this sound, she will have to come out immediately to deal with the situation on the ship.
It was then that she thought of a question. If she entered the expedition site using an expedition card, she could use that card as a return card. But what if she found her way in by herself?
Do we have to go back the same way? If so, it would take quite a while to get out of the exploration area. Most importantly, if we were heading to the Crystal Palace, the gravity inside would be abnormal, so retracing our steps might not be that easy.
Maybe Hua Bie can give her the answer after she deals with these sea monsters.
After the lantern of the pigweed stretched out and dived into the sea, it emerged from the sea in about 4 seconds, but the impact under the float did not stop, so it seemed that there was more than one.
"Bang—bang"
One side of the float was knocked off the sea surface at an angle by the sea monster, and the entire hull was shaken violently by the waves under the influence of the "breeze".
Yu Miaomiao had already grabbed the iron pillar on the float in advance to prevent herself from falling, but Xiaoguai was not so comfortable, and was knocked to the ground by the cat.
"Meow meow, woof" Xiaoguai fell to the ground with a terrified scream, rolling to the side along the deck and about to fall into the sea, but was quickly pulled by the fixed rope on his body.
"Ouch" The zebra cat's stomach was suddenly pulled by the rope, and it made an uncomfortable whimpering sound.
The unusually swollen lantern plant was bulging inside, and its green shell was almost transparent. Under the light green plant skin, she could roughly see that it was a seahorse-like monster, but this monster seemed to have a row of serrations on its back.
Is this the sawtooth seahorse?
How can it have teeth on its back? Does it use its back to bite things?
Before she could think about it, the next second, the float was hit again. Xiaoguai just stood up, but he slipped again and rolled to the other side of the float again.
Yu Miaomiao saw that the lantern was still being digested and it would take some time for it to be completely swallowed. If Xiaoguai continued to bump into it like this, he would be injured sooner or later, and his float board could not withstand such a tossing.
Looking through the holographic screen, the floating board, which had lost 3 points of durability in 3 days, instantly lost 4 points after these collisions.
The situation underwater still cannot be seen from the rolling sea surface.
The biological sensor does not indicate how many monsters there are. Waiting is not a solution. I have to go into the sea.
This was a decision Yu Miaomiao made in less than a second.
When she came back from Nana's expedition, she had been wearing a diving suit and an oxygen mask. Now she took off her coat and jumped directly into the water.
Because she was always connected to the fixed rope, she was not so afraid of the vast ocean and felt that she could always pull the rope back.
But as soon as she jumped into the sea, she seemed to hit a hard object. Under the underwater searchlight, there was a large group of yellow saw-toothed seahorses.
Looking around, there were at least twenty or thirty of them, but none of them were as big as the one that Zhuzhucaotun had swallowed. Most of them were of normal size, and each one was only as long as her arm.
Did the pigweed choose to swallow the biggest one?
Are the rest non-threatening?
There were so many that Pigweed couldn't swallow them all. Although they were saw-tooth monsters, they didn't look very powerful, so he just killed them all.
They used their long and flat heads to support her float. After seeing Yu Miaomiao, they turned around and swam towards her backwards, biting her with the serrations on their backs.
Surrounded by a group of seahorses, the iron chain on Yu Miaomiao's back was also attacked by the seahorses.
The chain wouldn't be bitten through, she thought.
The resistance in the water was too great. Just as she was about to swing her sword towards the nearest seahorse's soft, dark yellow belly, the rope on her back was pulled.
She turned her head and saw two seahorses working together to open the serrations on their backs and bite the chain.
Feeling a tug on her back, the direction of her knife changed. She could have stabbed two, but now she only killed one.
When she got closer to them, she saw that the serrations on their backs were just rows of teeth, not a mouth. The real mouth was a long tubular mouth at the front of the head.
With one knife, a seahorse was stabbed to death, and it drifted away with the current along with its flesh.
All the seahorses that were originally attracted to her as a human were instantly attracted to the dead seahorse and swam towards the seahorse she had killed.
Yu Miaomiao was wondering, could it be that they were going to ignore her as a human being and eat their own kind first?
She held the knife and continued to stab the two slowest swimmers.
It is still too difficult to use a knife in the water. A weapon like a trident would be better. After she has dealt with these monsters, she will go out into the world to look for underwater attack weapons.
As soon as the stabbing was completed, the seahorses were seen using their long mouths to quickly suck the liquid flowing out of the dead seahorse's body.
The one that inhaled first immediately doubled in size, while the others that inhaled less became more or less larger in size.
After they finished sucking, the body of the seahorse that died first gradually became transparent and disappeared in the water, leaving only its teeth slowly falling to the bottom of the sea.
Just after she killed the two new ones, the remaining seahorses gathered around the two again and continued to suck the liquid that the dead monsters flowed into the sea.
Visible to the naked eye, all the seahorses had doubled in size, and even the serrations on their backs had grown several inches larger, shining with a cold light.
Just as she swung her knife at a new seahorse monster that was about the same size as her, her arm was hit hard by two seahorses.
Fortunately, there was an anti-slip rope tied to the horizontal sword, so the sword did not slip out of her hand. Looking at the monster's corpse floating and the sawtooth falling, it was hard to imagine that if she had not grabbed the horizontal sword, this most powerful melee weapon would probably be lost.
In this sudden change, the rope on her back was once again surrounded by more than ten seahorses, and they bit at the iron chain in unison.
Were they planning to bite off the connection between her and the float, leaving her alone in the sea?
When she held the knife horizontally to block the saw teeth, she found that things were a bit tricky.
These seahorses were twice as large as hers, and the serrations on their backs completely blocked her space to use the knife. Not only were they biting the chains, but the remaining larger ones surrounded her and kept hitting her shield with their serrations.
The durability of the advanced shield is still decreasing little by little.
The sea monsters were clearly much smarter than the desert ones, and each did their part to deal with her.
We have to open an opening. If we are always surrounded by the sea, we won’t have enough oxygen.
But if you kill one, the others will get bigger. If you kill all of them and swallow them, will they become a super big monster, just like the one that Pigweed just swallowed?
While thinking, she found an opportunity to poke the lower abdomen of the seahorse above her head. Suddenly, a warm liquid sprayed on her head, which she could feel even through the mask.
Then the seahorse monsters that had been surrounding her swarmed over and all squeezed above her head, sucking her in one after another. She could even feel her mask being pushed outwards by more than a dozen suction forces, as if they were going to take the mask off her.
"Hulala"
After taking the stimulant, Yu Miaomiao picked up the knife, aimed at the direction of the water flow, and swung the knife. The abdomens of the three saw-toothed seahorses, which had expanded four times their size, were cut open by him with one knife.
Yu Miaomiao had just been observing for half a day and found that although the backs of these seahorses looked very hard, their abdomens were very soft. The translucent abdominal cavity had expanded several times, and many small seahorse larvae could be vaguely seen inside.
She also tried to touch their backs with the blade, but with the force she was exerting in the water, there was no way to cut them open. She could only attack their chest and abdomen, which were the most vulnerable.
After the three seahorses' stomachs were broken open, this group of seahorses was attracted away again.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Yu Miaomiao swung his sword again at the group of monsters that were madly sucking seahorse fluid.
But this time she failed to successfully split open the stomach of any of them, because after swallowing the seahorse fluid, or to be more precise, the seahorse larvae, they grew bigger again. More than a dozen serrated backs bit her madly, and she had no way of using the horizontal knife to cut through the hard teeth.
I can only try the Blood Guillotine, but I don’t know if it will work in water.
As soon as she threw it out, the head of the guillotine floated lightly in the water and was unable to strangle the monster at all.
This doesn't work either, so I can only use the shield and the knife to fight my way out.
When she swam towards the smaller one with the knife in hand, she found that the resistance behind her was gone, and the fixed rope was only connected by a little wire, which could break at any time.
What's the point of killing? She has to go back and at least buy a fixed rope before coming down. Otherwise, she will be seeking death alone in this ocean full of monsters.
While they were still sucking the last bit of seahorse larvae, she swam up desperately.
The next second, her leg was hit hard from the side by a violent collision, and she completely lost connection with the fixed rope.
If all else fails, she will have to use the adventure card and leave this sea of ghosts for a short time.
The largest seahorse finished sucking first, and then it arched its body. The impact just now was caused by its head.
This one is only slightly smaller than the one that Pigweed swallowed, but there are still more than 10 seahorse monsters around. Even if she kills them all, how should she deal with the last one?
No, there is pigweed.
Now these seahorses are big, and even if she goes back, they can break her fragile wooden float.
Let’s fight!
Just as the largest seahorse was pushing hard, Yu Miaomiao turned on the jet device immediately, regardless of the impact of the underwater environment on his equipment. With the help of the gas, he swam one meter diagonally forward. In the process of surging forward, he used the strength of the air to directly rip open the belly of the largest seahorse.
After this seahorse was killed, all the seahorses went crazy, swarmed over and sucked fiercely. The surrounding water was swept up in it. Without a fixed rope, Yu Miaomiao was also swept over.
Okay, then she used the suction force to make a circle towards their stomachs.
She found that the water jet device worked, so she used the suction to add strength, held the knife steady, and swept the knife across all the seahorses along the way.
In just three seconds, she killed five seahorses. Looking at the ocean filled with seahorse larvae, it didn't seem like a big deal.
There were too many larvae, and the remaining seven or eight seahorses were in a completely crazy state. She could no longer use the jet device to swim away from this area. Although their sucking speed became faster as their body size increased, they would not adjust their body posture during the sucking process, giving her the opportunity to continue killing.
Caught in the middle of the vortex, seven or eight long-tube suction nozzles as wide as manhole covers were facing her. She could feel her entire body being pulled from all directions.
His breathing became more and more rapid, and there was very little oxygen left in the intermediate oxygen cylinder.
With a scimitar in one hand and a horizontal sword in the other, he turned on the jet device, turned around in the water, and slashed at the seahorses of different sizes.
“Huff, huff, huff.”
Two eddies formed in the sea.
After the death of five seahorses, the remaining two seahorses had expanded to the size of whales. The sea water was sucked into a vortex, and the seahorse larvae in the water were instantly sucked up by the two seahorses. They turned their heads and bit Yu Miaomiao.
She hurriedly used the jet device to try to escape from the two rows of serrations, but she was still a step too slow, and her advanced shield dropped ten points in an instant.
A feeling of squeezing came over me, and at the same time, a huge lantern grass emerged from the water.
This was the first time she clearly saw the process of the lantern grass swallowing the monster.
The entire sea area above her head turned dark, and then a huge mouth of the abyss swallowed the seahorse on her right side. The plant skin brushed past her, and then the lantern retracted upwards.
When Yu Miaomiao looked up, she saw a giant lantern ball leaving the sea and disappearing from her sight.
She calculated the time and there was almost no one left.
The seahorse on the left was not affected at all and continued to bite towards Yu Miaomiao with its teeth snapping.
She could beat and drag it at the same time. It would be best if she could pierce its stomach. If not, she would have to wait for the pigweed on its head to be digested again and then swallow the remaining one.
No, it seemed she couldn't do anything to the seahorse, at least not without piercing its stomach.
head?
In the process of negotiating with this giant seahorse, she found that if she wanted to kill it, she had to cut off the part above the neck, because its stomach was full of seahorse larvae. If she punctured its stomach, countless seahorses would flow out and she would have to repeat the previous steps.
Although she was not sure whether chopping off the head would work, if she was really forced into a desperate situation, she would have to kill him even if she didn't want to.
Flipping forward, surging backward, constantly twisting and pulling.
She gradually put several body lengths between herself and the seahorse, but the next moment, the seahorse arched its body again, pushed forward, and arched towards her, while at the same time, curling its tail towards her.
It seems there is no escape, only beheading.
Just as she swung her knife, a familiar figure appeared underwater. It was the zebra cat Xiaoguai.
How did it come here and swim straight towards me?
Are you anxious because she hasn't come up for a long time, or are you here to help?
I saw it paddling quickly in the water, its eyes wide open, it whimpered twice, and then its expression turned into an extremely painful one, as if it had swallowed water. Then it kept paddling in the water, slowly losing its strength, and the cat floated in the water without moving.
Well, I'm here to make things worse.
Yu Miaomiao had to dodge the seahorse's attack and use the jet device to quickly reach Xiaoguai and bring it back to the surface of the sea.
Before she could reach Xiaoguai, the seahorse got in front of her first, turned its head, and was about to bite her with the serrated teeth on its back like an iron blade, when a tiger's mouth appeared on the seahorse's neck.
Immediately afterwards, a bloody hole appeared in its neck. This time, there was no hippocampal fluid like before, but red blood.
The giant seahorse was a little confused, not knowing whether to attack humans or bite its monster.
In other words, shouldn't all monsters attack humans like it does? Why would they attack it first?
The giant seahorse acted decisively and swam towards Yu Miaomiao again, and then another bloody hole was bitten on its neck.
Looking sideways, Xiaoguai had a ferocious expression as he grabbed the seahorse's head with one claw and the connection between the seahorse's neck and chest with the other, and he bit open the two bloody holes with his lower mouth.
The giant seahorse realized something was wrong at this time and that it should kill the irrational zebra cat first. It then turned over and was about to bite Xiaoguai with its saw teeth.
At the same time, Yu Miaomiao appeared behind the seahorse and chopped it down with a knife, following the bite made by Xiaoguai, and cut off the entire head of the seahorse along with the long sucking tube.
She turned the jet device to full power and immediately pulled Xiaoguai, whose face was a little purple, out of the sea.
The sea water hit him layer by layer, and Xiaoguai felt a little weak. He put his hands on Miaomiao's shoulders, but this human still dragged him back to the float.
A man and a cat were lying on the float, facing the sky, breathing heavily at the same time.
It was too difficult, and her oxygen level was almost zero. If Xiaoguai hadn't come, she would probably have had to deal with the last monster by constantly going in and out of the water to breathe.
It seems that she was wrong. Xiaoguai was not here to make things worse, but to really help. He even staged a fake drowning, fooling both her and the sea monster.
“Meow—”
I'm hungry.
Just in case, Yu Miaomiao first replaced the oxygen cylinder with a new one, took out its favorite roasted wolf meat, repaired the jet device to its full durability, and then replenished himself on the spot.
She was tired, too tired, and exhausted. Even though she had eaten her fill and her stamina was full, she was still tired.
Fighting under the sea is almost double the burden, and there are 17 more days like this.
While lying down to rest, she happened to check the recent message.
"Chenchen: Meow God, I'm done digging, I can go now."
This message was sent more than an hour ago. Yu Miaomiao didn't reply, so Chenchen didn't ask for her reply.
"Meow Meow is not short of water: I just went to kill monsters, I can leave now. How about you?"
After Yu Miaomiao finished chopping it, he tried to put it back into his backpack. Unexpectedly, he got it back in an instant, and the monster corpses around him had disappeared.
After taking the seahorse out of the backpack, the whole boat sank a little, and the hull pressed down towards the seahorse float, with half of the seahorse's body exposed.
Xiaoguai, who had just finished chewing a piece of wolf meat, had his eyes light up when he saw this huge piece of meat, and he made a coquettish "meow" sound from his mouth.
Yu Miaomiao said helplessly, "I just worked hard for over an hour, and there's only one monster this big. Are you sure you ate it all? A cat ate it all, and I don't need your help to break it down?"
"Meow."
So big? A monster that two people couldn't even hug. A tiny cat was going to eat it all by itself?
Yu Miaomiao found it hard to imagine what good things would come out of it if it was decomposed.
But since Xiaoguai contributed to killing the monster, she seemed to have no reason to refuse.
Its appetite has been growing, and after eating this giant seahorse meat, it should be able to feel full for a long time.
"Then eat it, but don't eat too fast or you'll choke." Yu Miaomiao returned to the house and saw Chenchen's new message.
"Chenchen: Wow, that was scary! I just ran into two seahorses with serrated backs. I finally managed to kill them. This apocalypse is so weird! What a mess! I'm fine now, I can leave."
Chenchen also encountered the same monster.
But only 2?
She thought again of what Iris had said, that the survivors might not be able to get all the cards to restore the world order.
"Meow Meow is not short of water: Okay, let's go."
The rest of the journey was normal. The breeze turned into a tailwind, and the waves pushed the two boats forward. Before sunset, Yu Miaomiao reached the golden treasure spot, while Chenchen continued to move forward to meet up with her friends.
Chenchen didn't even ask along the way what Yu Miaomiao was doing here. She was thinking about this question when she went into the water wearing an oxygen mask.
Is the other party really not curious, or does he know how to avoid privacy risks, or does he have other purposes?
On the way, Yu Miaomiao actually wondered how it could be such a coincidence that the group leader of the group formed by Api was the first person she met while surviving at sea.
If the mastermind behind the scenes wants to hide near someone who has many cards to harm others, the timing of his appearance is just right.
Now that Api is gone, she can't find out more from Api. Lulu doesn't even know that this group was formed.
After diving nearly 10 meters, she finally saw the entrance to the treasure chest.
As she arrived, she fell into a hole.
As soon as her butt touched the ground, she pushed open the vine door, collected the gold ingots, and opened the treasure chest. Before she could hear the system sound, she heard the warning sound of the hull sensor.
what happens? ?
Because she went into the water, her personal scent would be there. As long as she didn't disappear for a long time, Xiaoguai would gradually get used to her behavior of going into the water. It has only been 2 minutes, and it should still be on the boat.
But why was the float attacked just after she left and didn't even see any monsters along the way? Could it be that her guess was right? Chenchen's arrival was too "coincidental".
Without taking time to count the goods she had just received, the moment she returned to the water, she immediately pressed the jet force of the jet device to the bottom and rushed out of the water.
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