The long-legged sardine finally turned into a pile of delicious meat, transforming from a creature into food.Though it had legs and a mouth, it had no bones inside—not even teeth.It couldn’t be classified as a mollusk either, since it had no organs. Its entire insides were pure white meat, packed with fat.Anything it swallowed must’ve been assimilated into meat as well.Suna put on her silver bird-beak mask and began dissecting the mass of flesh.Yang Yi controlled the skeletal arms, gathering up the fatty slime and chunks of meat on the ground for incineration and harmless disposal.For samples, the biggest chunk in Suna’s hands was already enough.The next day, Yang Yi got up early, went to the bow, and scanned the surroundings with the Third Eye.After confirming there were no suspicious floating objects, he increased the Nyxstar’s speed to 65 knots.This shorten the original nine-day journey down to five.He planned to reach the Bountiful Sea Region as soon as possible to figure out what was happening there.As for the Gale, it was currently undergoing repairs. Yang Yi had spoken with its captain, Xu Da.Their Gale Brigade had lost nearly a third of their members in the Extreme Winter Seas—only a bit over seventy remained.Several of Captain Xu Da’s close friends had lost their ships and needed materials to rebuild.So they had been searching for islands and had only found their first one yesterday.Which meant Yang Yi was likely the first player approaching the Bountiful Sea Region.After adjusting speed and heading, Yang Yi took out the Pale Grub Rod and began fishing—soon catching a… lobster?Except its abdomen had no shell, just white flesh like a worm.【Name: Delicious Giant Lobster】【Description: A giant lobster that tastes amazing no matter how you cook it. The abdomen has no shell—tender and juicy meat…】Yang Yi didn’t even finish reading the info before tossing it straight into the Life Furnace behind him.He had deliberately dismantled the Life Furnace and was using it as an incinerator to deal with these delicious-yet-grotesque sea creatures.The lab already had enough samples—there was no need to keep this many.And they were so easy to catch!Yang Yi then caught a soft, floppy green crab whose shell had basically turned into leather. It, too, got tossed into the Life Furnace.The closer he got to the Bountiful Sea Region, the higher the chance of catching these monstrosities.Thankfully, the bite rate was high, so he could still catch some normal fish—like the long-legged sardines.Before long, the wooden fish bucket beside him was full of regular, edible fish.He even fished up a treasure chest, though it was just a bronze supplies chest—200 wood and 20 iron.He’d caught enough for now. He planned to spend the rest of the time training.He didn’t intend to stockpile food by fishing. He was planning to buy it—especially vegetarian food.The New World Fleet seemed to have either expanded buildings or leveled up enough to get a new recipe—they had produced canned bread.Unlike the hard black bread, these cans held soft white bread made from wheat. Much tastier, but also much more expensive.One can cost 200 conch coins—only enough for one meal.If used as a staple food, an adult would need two cans a day—400 conch coins, far pricier than black bread.Especially now that black bread had dropped to 40 coins a loaf—basically unbeatable cost-performance.Yang Yi planned to buy both kinds, just to switch up flavors. And pickles, too.Sausages weren’t necessary—between all the fish he’d caught and the dried monkey meat, he had plenty to eat for a long while.He was thinking about how much food to buy when he suddenly noticed the chat channel lighting up with a flood of messages.“I didn’t even light a fire on deck, so why are the Ice-Nest Worms here?”“That damn electric buzzing noise!”“I don’t want to freeze—”………The number of players stranded in the Extreme Winter Seas hadn’t decreased much, but judging from their messages, they were in deep trouble.Yang Yi immediately knew why.Because players who turned into ice sculptures… might not have actually died yet.Scrolling upward, he saw that since dawn, players in the Extreme Winter Seas had been complaining about the temperature dropping—now down to minus forty degrees.Their sailing speed was slow mostly because glaciers blocked the way, or they’d crashed into icebergs and were stuck repairing their ships.Some were even trapped on glaciers—lucky ones.Lucky, because they weren’t dead. They had survived the Ice-Nest Worm attacks by pure chance.But escaping from the glacier would be extremely difficult.Most of them didn’t have nearly as much fuel as Yang Yi, nor did they have skeletal arms to provide labor. It would take forever to break free.And those players who were frozen into ice sculptures but still alive? They were probably included in that number as well.As for why the Ice-Nest Worms had become more sensitive… it was probably related to the temperature drop.The lower the temperature, the more sensitive they were to heat.Once it got cold enough, a person’s body heat would look as obvious as a torch.If there was no hotter target nearby, /N_o_v_e_l_i_g_h_t/ the worms would attack the person.Yang Yi had once ignited himself and temporarily gained thermal-contrast vision, so he knew this well.He didn’t pay further attention and quickly closed the chat.After using a few long-legged sardines to trigger Life Light, he began training to raise his stats.But today he didn’t train long. He headed to the atrium, found a spacious spot, and prepared to deal with that set of supreme-grade armor.The Lost Penitent’s Armor had been sitting quietly in storage for quite a while—completely calm, like an ordinary suit of armor with no ability to attack.But the info said it possessed self-awareness, could move on its own, and was a relic.So he had to be cautious.Yang Yi took out only the upper half of the armor, deliberately leaving one hand on the storage ring so the armor only had its torso, left arm, shoulder plate, and helmet.He equipped the left arm because he wanted to test whether it could speak or understand language. He had even prepared charcoal for it.But the only thing the armor did upon seeing Yang Yi—or rather, seeing a human—was open its chestplate invitingly, just like the first time he encountered it.Of course Yang Yi wasn’t going to put it on. Holding a flintlock and switching to the Third Eye, he kept over an arm’s length of distance and tested it, speaking in the common human tongue.“Can you understand what I’m saying?” he asked.The armor didn’t react. Silent.Looked like it didn’t understand human speech.Yang Yi was just about to give up when he suddenly noticed… the armor shook its head?!The movement was stiff, like it hadn’t done so in a long time.Yang Yi was stunned on the spot.Because what did that head shake even mean?“You don’t understand what I’m saying?”The armor responded much faster this time—it nodded decisively.Yang Yi’s expression darkened instantly.“So you truly don’t understand what I’m saying?”The armor nodded.“Close the chestplate.”No reaction.“Open the chestplate!”The armor closed the chestplate.“...Hss—”Yang Yi sucked in a sharp breath. This armor clearly had issues—as if it was going through a rebellious phase.

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