The next day, Yang Yi uses the Crow's Nest.Strange rays of light shoot out from the crystals on its railing, radiating outwards. A moment later, a prompt appears in his log, providing the coordinates for every island within a 1500-nautical-mile radius."Just one island?" he says, surprised. It's nearly 1300 nautical miles away; if he {N•o•v•e•l•i•g•h•t} hadn't upgraded the Crow's Nest, he wouldn't have even spotted it. He immediately changes course and heads for it.Meanwhile, Suna is experimenting with material ratios. She's discovered that Scorched Wine and molten crystal have a chemical reaction at high temperatures. The recrystallized result is murky and impure, but its melting point is significantly higher. She's currently adjusting the ratios to find the optimal temperature, after which she'll need to test its hardness…In the evening, Yang Yi reels in his fishing lines early. It was a good haul: seven Long-legged Sardines, two Red-lipped Eels, and a Human-headed Octopus. His nets also yielded a few One-armed Crabs and a massive, meter-wide scallop."No wonder it was so heavy," he mutters, not underestimating the giant bivalve. He employs the same method he used on the treasure chest clam, tying the Serpent's Tooth to a wooden pole, jamming it into the crack, and prying. It opens effortlessly. But inside… is another shell.Yang Yi stares for a few seconds, then begins to pry open the second layer. Then the third, the fourth… he pries open over a hundred layers until the meter-wide scallop has been reduced to the size of his palm. Only then does he find the meat, a morsel no bigger than his fingertip, as if mocking his efforts. At the same time, he gets the creature's info.[Name: Matryoshka Scallop][Description: A scallop mutated by the Abyss's pollution. To protect itself, it decided to grow more shells to escape predators.]He stares at the tiny piece of meat, speechless, deciding to grill it with some wine later.After topping up the Life-hearth's fuel, he heads for the octopus gacha machine. It's almost time. The new weekly issue is about to be released. As a VIP client, he gets it the moment it drops. The front-page headline reads: [The First Player to Leave the Extreme Winter Region Has Appeared]. The article is short but impactful, containing the exit coordinates and the name of the next sea.Almost instantly, the chat channel explodes."Thank you, Big Boss One-Eye, for letting me know this hell has an end!""I've got about 10 days left before I can get out of this damn sea!""Fuck, I still have 15 days! I'm out of food and fuel, PM me, buying at high prices!!""Big Boss One-Eye must have killed the boss, right? LFG!"Yang Yi glances at the chat and dismisses it. He has a plan: in the next ten days, he'll strip every single tree from that island, turn it all into wood, and sell it to the desperate players still trapped. Once they're all out, the price will plummet. Time is money. He can't wait to start "saving" people.…………In the buffer zone of the Extreme Winter Region, Xu Da, captain of the Gale, stares at the newspaper, a look of astonishment on his face. He never thought someone could be faster than him. His two remaining crew members approach; their own ships had been frozen solid and had to be dismantled. They had survived three encounters with the Ice-nest Worms, their numbers dwindling from twelve to three. If not for the Gale's evolved skill that allowed it to briefly fly, they'd all be dead."Captain, how did One-Eye beat us?" one of the survivors asks."Sailing at full speed in the fog. If he didn't run into any worms, it'd be easy to overtake us," Xu Da speculates. "But he must have a way to deal with the icebergs. Maybe his ship is incredibly tough, or… maybe it can submerge."…………..Far from the exit, the steel battleship Iron Resolve plows through the ice at a sluggish 20 knots. It's surrounded by smaller ships tethered by grappling hooks, all of them bristling with cannons."Dammit, we're still so far! Full speed ahead!" Yu Dawei bellows, waving the newspaper in a rage."Boss, full speed is only 25 knots," his calm, spectacled adjutant replies. "We can't all bunch up to pull the ship."Yu Dawei's face darkens, but he holds his tongue. "What's the casualty report?""One person.""The firepower still isn't enough…" he growls. A moment later, he stands up, his Eagle Eye talent allowing him to spot an incoming swarm of worms. At his command, every cannon in the fleet, including the Iron Resolve's anti-aircraft guns, swivels and opens fire."Let's see just how many of you bastards there are!" Yu Dawei roars.His adjutant, Zhang Zhi, pushes up his glasses, a fanatical fire burning behind his calm facade. "Your numbers are dwindling," he whispers to the swarm, "but our firepower… is infinite!"

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