Chapter 430: A Late-Night Surprise Delivery, Too Bad It’s Just Heads

The sea fish was sailing steadily on the vast sea.

Xiao Wu was still very excited.

She had been squatting at the bow for the entire morning, counting the types of marine Spirit Beast she had seen on her fingers.

From morning until now.

Her list had grown by at least five strange creatures she could not name.

Among them was a transparent, umbrella-shaped jellyfish she had named "Jelly Monster."

She even insisted on fishing one up to taste it, but was decisively stopped by Lin Qingmo.

Zhu Zhuqing was sitting silently on one side of the gunwale, wiping her claws as usual.

Only the slight curve at the corner of her mouth betrayed her mood.

Although this girl did not say anything, the novelty of her first time at sea was clearly stirring her.

Bai Chenxiang had finally overcome her seasickness, but she was still a bit wilted.

She leaned against the doorframe of the cabin to catch the sea breeze, and some color had finally returned to her face.

Ning Rongrong brought out a full set of tea utensils from the cabin and announced she wanted to hold a tea party on the sea.

Dugu Yan teased her: "Do you think this is a pleasure boat on a lake?"

As for Dugu Yan herself, she was lying on the gunwale, looking at her reflection in the sea.

"This seawater is clearer than the bronze mirror at home."

She sighed, her emerald green hair tips swaying gently in the sea breeze.

Ye Lingling remained in the corner of the cabin, her medical notes spread out on her knees.

The humid environment at sea affected the storage of medicinal herbs, so she needed to recalculate the expiration date of each medicine.

This seriousness made Lin Qingmo unable to help but look at her a few more times.

Having a reliable healer in the team made the foundation for fighting battles feel different.

As for Hu Liena, after the rooms were assigned, she walked into the cabin alone, closed the door, and sat cross-legged to meditate.

She claimed she needed to adjust her state to prepare for the God Trial on Sea God Island.

In reality, she just did not want to interact with Xiao Wu and the others, who were clearly repulsed by her.

The deck was temporarily quiet.

Lin Qingmo stood by the railing at the stern, the sea breeze blowing his black hair up and down.

He was not looking at the sea, nor was he looking at the sky.

Instead, he narrowed his eyes, gazing at the sea surface behind the sea fish that was churned up by the stern.

On the horizon, there was a vague gray shadow, looming in the mist.

A ship.

It had been several days since they left the port.

That ship had always maintained a distance that was neither too close nor too far from the sea fish.

Footsteps came from behind.

Liu Erlong walked to Lin Qingmo’s side and stood shoulder-to-shoulder with him.

The sea breeze blew up her fiery red high ponytail, like a flame burning on the mast.

She looked along Lin Qingmo’s gaze toward the mist behind, her narrow eyes narrowing.

"You noticed it too?" she asked.

"Too?" Lin Qingmo tilted his head slightly.

"Yesterday at noon, that ship’s course intersected with the ’sea fish’."

"But just as the distance between the two ships closed to about three nautical miles, it actively increased the distance again."

Liu Erlong crossed her arms, her tone as calm as if she were reporting military intelligence.

"A normal merchant ship would not do that."

"If you are on the same route, you travel together; if not, you go your separate ways. How can they be closing in and pulling away like this?"

"How long have you been watching it?"

"Since it appeared."

The corners of Liu Erlong’s mouth curled into a blade-like arc.

"The shipping routes on the sea are fixed. From Vast Sea City to the east, this stretch of water only leads to Sea God Island or a few small fishing villages."

"The population of those few fishing villages combined does not even add up to one ward in Heaven Dou City, so it is not worth sending a ship to follow us."

She paused, and a hint of certainty entered her tone.

"The other party is likely here with ill intent."

Lin Qingmo nodded, his gaze falling back to the mist.

"We will handle whatever comes our way."

"We are still on the shipping route, so they probably will not make a move yet."

"But once we enter the deep sea area, where no other merchant ships pass, that might not be the case."

Liu Erlong patted his shoulder, not too hard or too light: "Inform the others."

"Okay."

...

Night fell.

The sea in the middle of the night presented a face completely different from the daytime.

During the day, it was a lively, vibrant azure.

At night, it turned into an endless abyss of ink, silent, deep, as if brewing something invisible.

Starlight sprinkled on the calm sea, shattering into millions of silver scales.

The sea fish lowered its sails and moved slowly at the lowest speed.

The lights on the ship were extinguished, leaving only a faint light at the bow, casting a small circle of warm yellow light in the darkness.

It was too quiet.

Quiet enough to hear every ripple of the ship cutting through the water.

Quiet enough to hear the even breathing of the girls in the cabin.

In this deep sea area, even the Spirit Beast seemed to have disappeared.

Then, a sound broke the silence.

A dull roar of machinery running, rapidly approaching from behind.

Immediately after, a series of dull impacts sounded on the outer side of the ship’s hull.

It was the thud of grappling hooks smashing into wood, followed by the creaking of taut ropes and chaotic footsteps.

"Go! Everyone get up there!"

A hoarse voice exploded in the night sky.

More than a dozen black shadows stepped on the ropes, climbed over the gunwale, and landed heavily on the deck of the sea fish.

Everyone was wearing waterproof dark leather armor, with scimitars, short blades, and daggers hanging from their waists, and some kind of dark green stain on the blades.

Leading them was a burly man, nearly two meters tall, with a hideous sea snake totem tattooed on him.

The burly man exuded a foul stench of cheap ale mixed with the smell of blood.

"Search! Take everything valuable!"

The burly man grinned, revealing a mouth full of yellow teeth.

"If the women look good, take them too—"

Before he finished speaking.

The cabin door creaked open.

Lin Qingmo walked out, his pace unhurried.

Behind him, Xiao Wu, Dugu Yan, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, Ye Lingling, Bai Chenxiang, and Hu Liena walked out one after another.

Seven pairs of eyes shone brightly in the starlight, without fear, only a kind of curious scrutiny.

"Is this the person you said was eyeing us?"

Dugu Yan tilted her head.

Her emerald green eyes swept over the formation in front of her from top to bottom, her expression like she was picking vegetables at a market.

"Doesn’t look like much."

Ning Rongrong crossed her arms, the phantom of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda flickering behind her.

Hu Liena did not even bother to activate her Spirit.

She just lazily raised her eyelids to perceive them, then let out a sound of extreme disdain from her nose.

"Just a bunch of trash under level forty."

"The leader is a Spirit King, just broke through recently, and his aura is still unstable."

Liu Erlong walked over from the other side and added a precise assessment.

On the deck, the group of guys who had just climbed onto the ship were now frozen as if they had been frozen.

The burly man’s expression was particularly spectacular.

From the confident grin of a sure win, to the lecherous smile when he saw a group of girls, to the horror when he heard the other party casually report his strength.

His expression management was a disaster.

"Discovered?!" someone shouted aloud.

"Boss, they seem to—"

"Shut up!"

Haider sternly interrupted his subordinate’s words, cold sweat already seeping from his forehead.

He was a Spirit King.

Although he had just broken through recently and his Realm was not yet stable, he was still a Spirit King.

Among the merchant ships in the waters near Vast Sea City, a Spirit King was enough to walk sideways.

After all, most people on merchant ships were ordinary people.

But he had just been seen through by that red-haired woman leaning on the mast.

He did not even feel the other party’s spirit power fluctuation.

This meant that the other party’s strength might be far above his own!

(End of Chapter)

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