Chapter 218: Survival at Sea Day 4 (4) The Domination Purge Plan...
Yu Miaomiao floated in the sea water, maintaining a turtle-like state, observing the behavior of the mantis shrimp.
Their ability to cooperate does not seem to be very good, because all the mantis shrimp settings are to cut some gaps in the middle of her float.
Because of this setting, the one standing in the middle will often bump into the one in front when rubbing the bottom of the boat with the spines on its back, and the ones behind will keep squeezing in, and several of them will push each other back and forth like this.
As she floated on the water, she saw the scratches they made against each other.
Lack of organizational discipline may be the only way out.
There was a simple fishing net and a fishing net in the bag. The fishing net was made of ordinary cloth, but the simple fishing net was made of wire mesh. She took it out and looked at it. It was quite strong and could at least cover them for a while.
She had thought about how to catch fish here before, and this was the right time to use it.
After deciding on the battle plan, she kicked her legs and released her aura to attract the attention of all the shrimps.
Perhaps it was the protective shield that worked, she took a few deep breaths but they didn't notice.
The shrimps didn't follow her until she swam to the reef.
It was obvious that the big one reacted faster. It left the nine small mantis shrimps behind it and swam to the sea area where she was first, circling around the reef.
Yu Miaomiao took the time to observe their claws this time. She found that the claws of this monster were very different from those of modern ones, while the entire body structure of the mantis shrimp was similar to that of real ones, as if it were an ordinary marine creature that had been forcibly strengthened.
As a result, the limbs behind their maxillary feet are squeezed together by the huge pincers, affecting their swimming speed and direction of adjustment.
The largest pair of maxillipeds are also squeezed by the body parts behind, making it impossible to flexibly control the pair of large pincers.
Because they are not flexible, the claws can only be shaped like crab claws but cannot clamp things in different directions normally to achieve defensive and offensive effects. Therefore, the developers added a row of survival tools for attacking humans - barbs.
And because of this inflexibility, they can only use their backs to rub the bottom of the boat, and the mouth of their pincers can only face straight ahead. Even their eyes are blocked by their own pincers, and they can only find Yu Miaomiao by sensing the water flow and smell.
The largest mantis shrimp passed by a reef she had designed, and before it could react, two loose stones buried its body. Just as it bent its body to bounce off the stones, a trident came down from its head and firmly fixed one of its pincers in a crevice of the reef. No matter how it twisted its body and struggled, it could not bounce off.
Seeing that its other pincer was still working hard to clamp forward, and wave after wave of water was being shaken away by it, it would probably take some time to fight with it, so she planned to deal with the others first.
She was guarding beside another reef, and when the shrimps passed by the fishing net, she pulled the rope in her hand, and a giant metal fishing net was instantly closed. In one go, she caught six shrimps. The mantis shrimps had never seen such a situation before, and they bounced around in the net, constantly bumping into each other, and attacking their own kind with their pincers.
Yu Miaomiao still ignored it, went around to the other side, forked one of them with another trident, and stabbed the thin membrane at the mouth of the pliers with an arrow knife.
She had drunk Happy Coke in advance and was very fast, not giving the other two any time to react. Within a few seconds, she had cut the claws of the three mantis shrimps in one breath and put away the bodies.
Because the battle area was on the seabed, the sand and seaweed in the water were mixed together and directly surrounded her, blurring her vision and restricting her space for movement.
Yu Miaomiao had no choice but to take out a pair of scissors and cut around, cutting off the water plants wrapped around her waist and heading straight for the big mantis shrimp.
When she returned to the original place, there was no trace of the shrimp. Only a trident floating diagonally beside the reef remained.
The weapon was not broken, but the reefs were scattered around, and there was no dirty sand in the sea water. It seemed that it had been free from its restraints for some time.
Where did she go...Her human presence is still there, so she must have come to find her.
A stream of water came, Yu Miaomiao lifted her feet and kicked, quickly swam away, stabbed a fork with her backhand, and the huge pincers swung towards her at the same time.
After narrowly avoiding it, the water flow caused by the claws still pushed her back two meters. After landing on the ground, she stepped on the reef and used the jet device to get above the big mantis shrimp. With another thrust, she stabbed the harpoon into its claws.
At the same time, the blades of the scissors also cut the thin film.
She completed the two movements synchronously. With a snap, the shrimp's other claw, which was halfway through waving, stopped moving. It only needed to break one of the two claws.
The whole operation process was very fast, but the oxygen was consumed even faster. The oxygen in the bottle was running out, so she needed to get on the float to change a bottle and then come down again.
Just as she swam back to the float, the mantis shrimp in the net bag, carrying the net, swam towards her, bumping back and forth.
Sure enough, for humans, they are consistent.
Yu Miaomiao reached the shore by holding the float with both hands. After changing the oxygen tank in two seconds, he pulled the rope buckle of the fishing net that he had grabbed while swimming.
“Uhh—”
Yu Miaomiao shouted loudly, swung the fishing net rope and threw the net bag she had pulled back along the way out of the water and onto the float.
"Bang—"
The mantis shrimp shells made a loud noise when hitting the float, which scared out Xiaoguai who was taking a nap in the house.
The mantis shrimp that was originally jumping and wiggling in the water suddenly lost its vitality, and after struggling on the float for a few times, it stopped making any big noise.
It seems that pulling them back to the surface is indeed a solution.
Yu Miaomiao could still see them breathing out of their mouths, indicating they were not dead yet, so she gave them their final journey.
After untying the net bag, one of the mantis shrimps was freed and flew towards Yu Miaomiao's face. Its soft claws were aimed at her neck, which she chopped in half in mid-air.
The originally hard shell was split in two by her like brittle paper. The red shrimp instantly turned into a green shrimp, emitting a foul smell, and was put back into her backpack the next second.
When Xiaoguai smelled the smell, he hid back in the room in disgust, and stuck his head out to make an unhappy whimper.
Yu Miaomiao: ...
Is this what she wants?
Xiaoguai even blamed her for bringing the smelly thing up.
She helplessly cut the remaining mantis shrimp with a few cuts.
After dismembering everything, he immediately returned to the house.
It was too sunny outside. Even though she had applied sunscreen, going in and out of the water washed off a lot of the protective cream. She quickly applied another layer to relieve the discomfort on her skin.
In the cold wind, I studied the new drawing I had just received.
[System prompt: Player Meow Meow is not short of water and has unlocked the crafting of underwater catapult thrusters. Wisdom value increased by 1.]
This was obtained by decomposing the largest mantis shrimp, but it did not trigger luck, so there was only one blueprint.
Underwater speed is still a problem. The previous jet device would run out of air every time it was used. With the underwater catapult thruster, her single swimming speed can be greatly increased.
While resting and replenishing her energy, she checked a few messages.
The first one was the information she was most looking forward to, but...
"Iris: I don't want to work hard anymore. I'm too tired. It turns out that no matter how hard I try here, I can't go back."
No way to go back? Could it be that the system has set some trap for the future?
Yu Miaomiao was not sure whether the message was sent in incognito mode, so she replied tentatively.
"Meow Meow is not short of water: What happened to you? Why haven't you heard from me for so long?"
What on earth did Iris know that made her suddenly want to give up? She was so active just two days ago and even asked Yu Miaomiao to invite Hua Bie to join. She felt that if it was really as Iris said, there would be no need to go to so much trouble to hide the person. There must be other reasons for giving Iris this function.
The next one is to spend something else.
"Hua Bie: Sorry, I just woke up. Do you want to go to the adventure zone now?"
Yu Miaomiao hid the system communication and stuffed something in it. The system should be able to see it, but it may not be able to analyze what was on the note in real time.
"Meow Meow is not short of water: I don't want to go to the exploration area right now, but I want to give you a strategy map in a non-systematic way."
The other party immediately guessed that she was going to say something that the system couldn't know.
"Hanabie: I only have one expedition card. Can I invite you after noon when I'm more prepared?"
"Meow Meow: Of course, are you all right? Have you dealt with those people?"
"Hanabetsu: Solved."
So short.
"Hanabie: They also searched the body."
Search the body...that's so blunt.
"Meow Meow is not short of water: I heard that someone from another server hired someone to kill you?"
"Hua Bie: It might be. While I was fighting, I connected with some people on the leaderboards from other servers through cross-server communication. I heard that someone who dominated server 9 had a purge plan to kill everyone on the leaderboards from other servers who wanted to go home. I guess he was the one who hired the killer."
The purge plan, it turns out that the survivors have to be wary of not only the people in their own server, but also the people with bad intentions in other servers.
The system brought so many people to the apocalypse, and "kindly" provided a way to go back. It turned out that it was waiting here to watch humans kill each other.
Observers can see from different perspectives how different groups of people conflict over different interests and needs.
"Meow Meow is not short of water: If there is one, there will be another. Did those people come directly for you, or did they come here to find you?"
"Hanabie: After surviving at sea, someone must have happened to see Yingying and I building together, guessed it, and reported it to the Tiandihui. Now they have all changed the exterior walls to mine, but it's too late now. Yingying's identity has been exposed."
You can indeed know who is inside the wall through the outer wall, but someone just happened to see how to survive at sea.
Another coincidence?
"Meow Meow is not short of water: Is there such a coincidence?"
Did someone tell on...
"Huabie: At the beginning, I also asked her vaguely if she was a beautiful girl warrior. Yingying said she was definitely not, so I believed her and let her deal with the previous group chat and friends herself to prevent them from being found again."
Thinking about how the beautiful girl warrior had spoken up for her several times, Yu Miaomiao found it hard to believe that such a person would betray his friend.
"Miaomiao is not short of water: Well, everyone be careful. When you have time, let's sort out the information about the sea monster together. If possible, I would also like to make it public."
"Hua Bie: Okay, you have to be more careful when you're alone. Protect yourself and don't get hurt."
Survival at sea is different from survival in the desert, as you are completely exposed.
In the desert, there are sand dunes and loess for cover. At sea, everyone is on the same level. Through the holographic screen, you can see the nickname of the game player to whom the outer wall belongs. But if there is no outer wall, you can see the real name on the metal house. Nothing can be covered.
This is also a difficulty in survival at sea, there is no privacy and safety.
Since Meow Meow is so powerful that it can unite a small number of people, it means that there are many people who are willing to fight and obtain supplies on their own.
Sea monsters are indeed difficult to fight, whether it is the lack of oxygen underwater or the natural geographical disadvantages in the water. But if the survivors can fight sea monsters on their own and are willing to come out to share combat information and help each other, then there is no need to watch their own kind being harmed, and there will not be a dominating situation like in Area 9, where a small number of strong players reap all the benefits.
The only message left was from Chenchen. Yu Miaomiao looked through the telescope and found that Chenchen's boat had indeed drifted a little further away.
"Chenchen: Meow God, we're ready and can set off, but you'd better avoid the sea area to the north of you. We've been fighting there for too long, and it's full of seaweed, which can easily get tangled in the propeller."
As soon as Yu Miaomiao's hand rested on the information bar, she saw the familiar card drawing interface, which directly blocked all the holographic screens.
【System prompt: Please draw your gift pack card】
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