**Chapter 25: The Adventure at Sea Eleven**
After taking two or three deep breaths in succession, the captain of the Killer Whale barely suppressed the urge to make intimate contact with Lu Yibei’s expressionless deadpan face with his fist, squeezing out the words through clenched teeth, “Guest, perhaps you do not know, but the Killer Whale does not have flight capabilities…”
“Huh? That can’t be right, could it be that your piloting experience is insufficient, and you haven’t fully mastered its functions?” A hint of surprise flashed in Lu Yibei’s eyes as he raised his hand and pointed outside the window. “If you don’t believe me, look! It’s indeed flying!”
“If I’m not mistaken, it seems to be flying even higher than before, doesn’t it?”
While speaking, Lu Yibei carefully confirmed the scene outside the window again and nodded.
Indeed, it was flying higher.
A few seconds ago, he could still vaguely see the turbulent waves on the sea surface, feeling like it was flying low over the ocean; now it was completely out of sight.
The captain thought, “You™ are the one lacking piloting experience and unable to grasp all the functions!”
He thought angrily, subconsciously following the direction Lu Yibei pointed to look outside the window, only to quickly be struck by disbelief as his brows furrowed from professional skepticism turning into shock.
The view outside had been replaced by what seemed like endless dark blue and mist.
It was the mist hovering over the sea surface.
The Killer Whale seemed to have completely left the ocean, gradually passing through the mist, charging toward the sky, where the leaden rain clouds seemed within reach.
The Killer Whale had truly “taken flight.”
“Guest, I can assure you that the Killer Whale absolutely does not have flight capabilities,” the captain said gravely.
At this, Lu Yibei’s eyelid twitched slightly as he probed, “Is there a possibility, I mean a possibility, that this Killer Whale has some hidden mode that allows for short-term flight?”
“There is.” The captain looked at Lu Yibei, expressionless, “If you activate the self-destruct program in the ship’s bottom spirit energy circuit, it could possibly send the ship into the sky through a violent explosion.”
“Is… is it that serious?” Lu Yibei said weakly.
He began to feel a bit anxious, his demeanor resembling that of a mischievous child messing around with a relative’s computer, inadvertently causing a system crash that destroys cherished files.
A controlled calamity capable of drought, with poor swimming ability, which wouldn’t fly, crashing into the ocean from several hundred or even over a thousand meters in a storm is just, thinking about it feels very dangerous.
He wondered if he should summon Zhang Yu’s powers to call forth a Killer Whale 2.0 before getting swept away by the waves.
“It’s very serious!” The captain stated firmly. “So, guest, you’d better tell me what you just did, maybe it’s still possible to salvage the situation.”
“Actually, I didn’t do much… I just turned the steering wheel all the way to the left, immediately followed by turning it all the way to the right, pushed the throttle to the max and then pulled it all the way back, flipped up those three levers, flipped down these four levers, and finally pressed all the green buttons from left to right…” Lu Yibei explained.
If you’re going to operate it, of course you should try to interact with all the controls as much as possible!
Otherwise, if it turns out he can’t summon the alchemical ship, who will be responsible?
“By the way, let me clarify, I didn’t touch a single one of those red buttons! That shouldn’t be a problem, right? If I’m not mistaken, only those red buttons are dangerous, right?”
Nanling Yaohua, floating beside Lu Yibei, nodded vigorously.
Though the captain couldn’t see her, she could confirm that Lu Yibei had absolutely not touched those obviously dangerous red buttons.
The captain’s expression shifted dramatically.
After hearing Lu Yibei, his bl**d pressure and the tension in his fists spiked.
In less than a minute, he had fiddled with everything that could be operated other than the launch buttons for the alchemical cannon and the spirit energy charge missile, yet you™ still dare to say “that’s all”?
If I had been with the girl you like, drunk, holding hands, hugging, kissing, sleeping together… doing all sorts of messy things, then said, “Don’t worry! I didn’t penetrate; that should be fine, right?”
Could you accept that? the captain thought.
Although his daily job was to pilot the Killer Whale, he was also a member of the Mafia, a tough character who had done plenty of “dirty work” before becoming the captain of the Killer Whale, with hands stained in bl**d.
If the man before him were not a guest sent by Mr. Constantin, with a powerful spirit energy fluctuation he couldn’t comprehend, he might have already demonstrated his past prowess, chopped this guy into pieces, and fed him to the fish.
He glared fiercely at Lu Yibei, opened his mouth to say something, when suddenly, a sharp alarm blared, piercing his eardrums.
“Beep—Beep—Beep—!”
A violent turbulence seemed ready to shake the Killer Whale apart.
Lu Yibei stumbled a bit, steadied himself by leaning on the control panel, and saw the screen in front of him glowing a bright red, furrowing his brow.
“Captain, why is this device lit up? Do you have any idea?”
The captain, just regaining his grip on the ship’s wheel, turned to look at the screen, his face draining of color, his voice trembling, “That, that’s the spirit energy detection device of the Killer Whale. Normally, it can capture the vast majority of spirit energy fluctuations within five nautical miles and provide a simple imaging…”
“Like radar?” Lu Yibei furrowed his brow a little, “You mean this ship’s radar has detected something?”
“That’s right.” The captain’s expression turned numb, as if he had given up resisting, “When the spirit energy monitoring device of the Killer Whale captures a spirit energy fluctuation, it usually displays a red outline on that screen…”
Upon hearing this, Lu Yibei leaned in closer to observe the screen for a couple of seconds, “Wait! There’s nothing on it! This thing can’t be…”
As he spoke halfway, he suddenly came to his senses, a chill rising from behind.
After capturing the spirit energy fluctuations, it would display a red outline, and now the entire screen was red…
Doesn’t that mean that the entire detection range is covered by some unidentified spiritual energy fluctuation?
To achieve this level of spirit ability or urban legend, they must have at least calamity-grade power, right?
Could it be that the Killer Whale suddenly taking flight was an attack from this calamity-grade entity?
An attack from a calamity-grade being… Could it be that the news of me still being alive leaked, and some spirit energy organization sent a big shot to chase me? Lu Yibei thought nervously.
He knew very well that that guy was here to k*ll him.
In the next moment, a terrifying spirit energy fluctuation swept through the entire Killer Whale, accompanied by an oppressive wave of moisture that felt suffocating.
“Enemy attack! Enemy attack!”
Shouts came from outside the cockpit, but soon the cries turned into screams.
Footsteps on the deck were chaotic, suggesting a fierce battle was underway.
A dull thud came from the direction of the cockpit door about ten seconds later.
“Bang——!”
Looking in the direction of the sound, they saw the tall Black woman pressed against the small glass window of the cockpit door, her mouth agape as if trying to say something to those inside the cockpit, her eyes bulging as if they would jump out of their sockets.
Then.
Her eyes lost their spark, gradually dimmed, and slowly slid down, the tips of her fingers brushing against the glass, leaving five crimson streaks.
“Thump——!”
The Black woman fell to the ground with a heavy sound.
The atmosphere in the cockpit plummeted to a low point as the two men exchanged looks silently.
To break this uncomfortable silence, Lu Yibei patted the captain’s shoulder, attempting to comfort him, “Bro, don’t be so pessimistic. Although we might be under enemy attack, and the enemy seems very powerful, at least this proves that I didn’t break the ship.”
Hearing this, the captain’s facial muscles seemed to go out of control, twitching violently.
Meanwhile, Nanling Yaohua, who had been observing in the shadows, raised her hand and slapped her forehead heavily after hearing Lu Yibei’s words.
But still…
Lu Yibei! At a time like this, you really didn’t have to speak. South Ling Yaohua thought.
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One hour ago, on the deck at the bow of the Killer Whale.
After leaving the cabin where Lu Yibei had rested, Miss Rabbit had come here and hadn’t left since, resembling a statue.
Protecting this man named Yu Yinchuan was a task she had received from Constantin; only by successfully completing the mission and bringing this man to Constantin could she gain the assistance of the Free City Mafia to search for Shuo E.
Therefore, upon confirming that Yu Yinchuan was not a calamity, she decided to do her job as a bodyguard well.
To her, a qualified bodyguard should be vigilant for possible threats at all times, rather than lounging around in the kitchen, engine room, or elsewhere like those Mafia members who just filled a role.
Of course, her reason for doing this, aside from completing the task, was also partly for herself…
When she interacted with Constantin, she only told him that Shuo E’s disappearance was related to the recent faction within the Solar Eclipse Society rising—the New Elders’ Council—but she did not inform Constantin that she was being hunted by the New Elders’ Council, or that she had recently permanently lost a third of her powers while escaping from their clutches.
Her vigilance was not only for the safety of the guy in the cabin but also for herself…
After all, no one knew when the next round of hunting would arrive.
Time flew by amidst the monotonous sound of waves, and an hour soon passed.
The fluffy white rabbit ears suddenly popped out from Miss Rabbit’s red hair, which had been closed up on the deck. After turning left and right, she turned around, glanced toward the cockpit, and then looked at the pitch-dark sea surface, her face unconcealedly showing a look of disgust.
She vaguely heard the conversation between Yu Yinchuan and the captain inside the cockpit.
That annoying guy seemed to have seized the captain’s moment of inattention, messing around with the controls and successfully made the Killer Whale “fly.”
Flying? A ship? Is that reasonable?
Although through alchemical modifications or implanting the core of an urban legend, it is indeed possible to make a ship fly, people usually wouldn’t do it like that…
Manufacturing various alchemical devices requires adhering to fundamental principles!
Transforming a certain alchemical device capable of aerial combat based on aircraft or airship designs is much easier than transforming a ship to fly.
It would require spending several times the cost unless the owner of the ship had some unique obsession with “flying ships.”
Miss Rabbit thought, sweeping her gaze across the sea, then rolling her eyes.
The waves had surged up unexpectedly, the deafening “crash” sounding like continuous explosions, the Killer Whale undulating in the heaving waves, certainly giving the feeling of having “taken flight.”
Immediately after, as if she had seen something horrifying, her expression suddenly changed, and her pupils quivered.
With her exceptional eyesight, she saw a thin silver line appearing at the horizon where the sea met the sky, looking like an endless silver blade stretching across the surface of the ocean at an incredible speed, slicing toward the Killer Whale in the blink of an eye.
The over twenty-meter-high giant wave, like a deep blue wall, was pushed by some invisible hands, surging toward them.
Amidst that giant wave were eight colossal, chaotic, and illogical terrifying whirlpools, rolling over and over, like eight massive eyes opening and closing.
**[Charybdis], Sixth Seat of the New Elders’ Council…** Seeing that horrifying sight, information like that flashed quickly through Miss Rabbit’s mind.
She knew very well that that guy was here to k*ll her.
The air felt entirely saturated with the icy seawater, making it hard to breathe.
Having been hunted by the New Elders’ Council for so long, facing the “Elder” of the New Elders’ Council for the first time, she felt the determination of the New Elders’ Council to put her to d*ath and unprecedented pressure.
For a moment, she even forgot to summon her fire axe.
“…”
To those guys, must both I and Shuo E d*e?
Simply because…
We discovered a little of their secret? Miss Rabbit thought.
In the midst of her pondering, the huge wave ahead, as if it had been shredded and collapsed by those whirlpools, suddenly burst apart, disappearing without a trace.
Before she could recover, she felt a violent jolt, as if lifted by some invisible hands, soaring upward, her line of sight rapidly ascending.
The next moment, the sound of splintering water echoed.
Scores of swift figures, too fast to be perceived by the n*ked eye, leaped from the water’s surface, landing steadily on the Killer Whale, then split up, rushing toward the spirit energy users and urban legends hidden throughout the ship.
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On another side, approximately five nautical miles from the Killer Whale, a catchy riverboat song echoed amidst the roar of storms and waves.
“A rope that’s nine meters long, fathers and sons for generations, tie on their shoulders~♪ Treading on rocks, no one asks, who knows the hearts of the haulers~♪”
Accompanied by the song, a small boat made of foam, buckets, two roadside trees, some tires from who knows which unlucky fellow, along with several simple alchemical matrices, braved the winds and waves.
“Tsk! Gu Qiqi, keep rowing, don’t stop!” Noticing that Gu Qiqi had suddenly stopped, the system urged quickly, “If you slack off, we won’t catch up to that guy!”
“I’m not slacking.” Gu Qiqi stared straight ahead, raised her hand to point, and said blankly, “System, look, what is that?”
Hearing this, the system climbed onto Gu Qiqi’s head and followed her pointed direction, its already slightly bulging fish eyes widening even more.
What the heck? A tsunami?
To encounter such a scale of tsunami even in nearshore bays, one has to say, indeed, the ultimate disaster girl? the system thought.
In the next instant, the sight before her confirmed what appeared ahead was not a tsunami.
Just as the colossal wave over twenty meters high surged toward the ship in the midst of disaster, numerous seemingly invisible gigantic tentacles suddenly rose from beneath the surface, disappearing into the wind and rain like a pair of grotesque twisted hands, grasping the massive wave, abruptly constricting it, gathering terrifying power, forming a water tornado over a hundred meters high that hurled the ship into the sky…
Scores of shadowy figures leapt from the water tornado, landing on the ship.
