Four hours later, Yang Yi wakes up and checks his status.His stamina has only recovered to 87, which is to be expected after such a short rest. But it's still a long time until dawn, about five hours. He figures if he gets a chair and lies down on the deck until sunrise, his stamina should be full by then.He puts on the bandit's bandana and pushes open the door to the captain's cabin, ready to take over the watch from Suna. She's at the bow, with a campfire going. It looks like she's… boiling water?Yang Yi walks over. "Time for the shift change," he says.Suna turns around. She's wearing the silver plague doctor's mask and doesn't seem tired at all. She hands him a pale white crystal."I tried evaporating the seawater. I got this."[Name: Delicious Sea Salt Block][Description: A delicious salt block sweeter than sugar, but it contains many impurities. If the impurities, including the salt, can be removed, it will become even more delicious!]"Remove the salt…?" After reading the information, Yang Yi is a bit bewildered. If you remove the salt from sea salt, can you still call it sea salt? You might as well call it sea sugar.He studies the pale white block. A rich, mellow aroma wafts into his nostrils, not completely blocked by the bandana. However, because the smell of blood is mixed in, the aroma's allure is drastically reduced, and he feels no urge to swallow the salt block. At most, his throat just feels a little dry. He swallows and urges Suna, "Alright, you go get some rest. It's probably going to be a busy day tomorrow."Suna nods, stands up decisively, and heads for her room, leaving the campfire and the pot for him to clean up. The seawater in the pot is still boiling.Yang Yi doesn't rush to clean. He scans the surrounding sea with his third eye but finds nothing suspicious. That strange liquid floating on the water doesn't seem to be spreading. After confirming the area is clear, he extinguishes the fire, dumps the concentrated seawater from the pot, and then moves a chair onto the deck to wait for the sun to rise.No dangers appear.………………Five hours later, the sky finally brightens.Yang Yi pilots the Nyxstar forward, keeping the speed at around forty knots. In just fifteen minutes, he reaches the edge of the layered sea. Suna is already awake and observing the area with a telescope.About two hundred meters from the Nyxstar, a layer of greasy, white, oily substance floats on the surface. It looks very similar to the fat and juices inside the delicious fish and mushrooms, but it's not as thick. There's a massive amount of it, stretching out left and right in a straight line, forming a clear boundary on the sea, like an oil spill, only white.A huge number of fish and shrimp are gathered at the surface, gulping down the greasy white liquid. There are common pufferfish, ◈ Nоvеlіgһт ◈ (Continue reading) groupers, pomfrets, and sharks, and even deep-sea fish that should die in shallow water. There's also no shortage of octopuses, squids, sea cucumbers, lobsters, and shellfish. Yang Yi even sees the shadow of a whale a nautical mile or two away, a massive plume of water spouting from it.These sea creatures are either obese or on their way to becoming obese, mostly in the first or second stage. The sheer number of them, all gathered at the surface, causes the water to churn constantly with splashing waves and fish rolling in the milky-white liquid. At a glance, it looks like a basin full of loaches with a large amount of milk poured over it.[An unsettling feast. Your Sanity has decreased by 10.]Suna lowers her telescope and immediately tells Yang Yi to steer the ship closer. She's already prepared, a wooden bucket tied with a rope at her feet, ready to scoop up some of the white liquid for testing.Yang Yi doesn't rush in. He turns the ship broadside and fires a few shots from the cannons at the fish.BOOM! BOOM!The waterlogged cannons fire normal cannonballs, creating splashes several meters high and shredding a large number of the sea creatures in their path. Logically, the fish should flee, but the opposite happens. They don't run at all, continuing to swallow the milky liquid and even eating the dead fish alongside it… This is probably why the liquid isn't spreading further; it's being consumed by these creatures.Yang Yi fires a few more shots and waits a few minutes. After confirming no large creatures are emerging from below, he pilots the Nyxstar forward.As they enter the area, the ship's resistance increases noticeably; the schools of fish have become an obstacle. Fish constantly ram into the Nyxstar's hull, but they can't damage the bone structure. They aren't intentionally attacking the ship, just accidentally bumping into it while feeding.Yang Yi checks the world map. They are still about two hundred nautical miles from the Bountiful Sea. So, this white liquid is most likely seeping out from there. He continues forward.Suna goes to collect a sample. When she pulls the bucket up, it contains very little of the milky liquid but is more than half full of fish. If she'd used a net, she probably wouldn't have been able to haul it back in. She dumps the worthless fish back into the sea, keeping only a few liters of the white liquid, which she takes to her lab. Yang Yi, meanwhile, is taking pictures, documenting the scene to sell as intel later.The further they go, the deeper the white liquid becomes, and the larger the fish get. Luckily, they aren't aggressive.The Nyxstar sails for about six hours and finally reaches the border of the Bountiful Sea. Along the way, he encounters two whales, each over ten meters long. As they gulp down the white liquid, they also suck in large quantities of fish, but they only spout normal seawater. It seems they also consider the liquid food. The whales are too preoccupied with eating to attack the Nyxstar, but their massive, round underwater bodies are still a threat.The further they go, the white liquid completely replaces the sea, turning the water an opaque white. It's almost impossible to see what's inside. Only his third eye can penetrate deeper, and even then, its range is limited. The small fish and shrimp have completely disappeared, and now he can only see gigantic, round shapes moving in the depths.Just as Yang Yi is about to enter the Bountiful Sea, Suna sends him a private message, telling him to come to the lab."She's not going to draw my spinal fluid, is she?""?"Suna replies first with a question mark, then sends him an item's information.[Name: Delicious Honey][Description: A sweet and mellow crystal obtained by concentrating and evaporating the seawater of the Bountiful Sea.]"Come quickly, I've made a discovery!" she adds.Yang Yi stops the ship, but doesn't drop anchor, worried it might be swallowed by something in the depths. He deploys the twilight curtain and heads for the cabin.

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