In the lab, Suna is busy. On the table sits a white crystal that looks like a block of milk fudge. As soon as Yang Yi enters, she beckons him over."What is it?" Yang Yi's gaze lingers on the milk-fudge block for a few seconds before shifting to a fat pufferfish sealed in a glass tank. Even without ★ 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 ★ puffing up, it's already as round as a ball.Suna picks up the block and a bottle of colorless liquid. "This white liquid isn't oil; it's a high-concentration sugar water with a boiling point of around 200 degrees and an ignition point of 600 degrees. I tried evaporating and separating it, and I got two products: delicious honey and fresh water." The white, milk-fudge-like thing is the delicious honey obtained from the evaporation.She cuts the block in two and drops the pieces into two different liquids labeled "fresh water" and "saturated salt water." The former is instantly dyed white. In the latter, a layer of milky-white liquid floats on top, remaining separate from the salt water, while salt precipitates out. This doesn't surprise Yang Yi; it's exactly what he saw happening in the sea."This milky-white solution's density is lower than saturated salt water, and it doesn't easily mix," Suna explains. "So I tested it on them and found…"She pulls two glass jars from under the table. The first contains a greasy white piece of meat from the previous "delicious flesh," now severely shrunken after being soaked in salt water, as if dehydrated. The other piece, soaking in fresh water, is unchanged."Salt damages the flesh," Suna says. She takes the meat from the fresh water and sprinkles salt on it. The flesh visibly dehydrates and shrivels, just like a slug."You could have just told me the conclusion," Yang Yi says, picking up the now-hardened, less fragrant piece of meat."There's more!" Suna continues. "I was wondering, with so many sea creatures gathered here, don't they suffer from a lack of oxygen? So I used this pufferfish to test it. I can now confirm that this white liquid can directly supply energy to organisms, or that the energy supply doesn't require oxygen! This pufferfish has survived in the exhaust gas from a fire for over three hours now. It's still not dead!"Yang Yi understands her meaning without further explanation. No need for oxygen means creatures can grow much larger, unconstrained by oxygen supply limitations. The possibility of giant creatures in the sea ahead is now even greater.That's the main discovery. Salt is effective against the fourth-stage creatures. They need to procure or produce a large amount of it. Once they enter the Bountiful Sea, it will likely be difficult to obtain.Yang Yi turns to leave, but Suna stops him again. This time, she hands him a potion containing a pale red liquid and some kind of flocculent substance. "A prototype for a mana-restoring potion. Give it a try."He takes it. The information still reads "unknown potion." He doesn't want to drink it now, worried it might cause problems and affect his exploration.Back on deck, he pilots the Nyxstar forward, officially entering the Bountiful Sea. It's different from entering the Extreme Winter Region; there's a clear boundary, as if passing through a membrane. The air inside feels viscous, and the temperature is several degrees higher. He slows the ship, observes with his third eye, and checks the sea chart in the crystal ball. It's covered in sesame-seed-like dots, which are actually chunks of flesh floating in the sea. They come in various shapes—some are just lumps of meat, others look like mushrooms or trees. The seawater is a milky white, as if they're sailing on milk.He takes pictures and then fires his gun at a nearby two-meter-long chunk of meat. BANG! A large hole appears on its surface, but it doesn't seem to have a pain response. The wound heals before his eyes. He fires several more shots, even using the cannons, tearing the large chunk into several smaller pieces, but he can't kill it.He checks with his third eye and discovers the trick. The meat has numerous pores underwater that constantly contract and expand, swallowing the white seawater and rapidly healing its wounds. Even when shattered, it doesn't die, instead splitting into independent individuals. If these individuals touch, they devour and merge with each other. The things are practically unkillable in the white sea.He hesitates for a moment, then steers the Nyxstar closer to the pieces of flesh. As he approaches, the flesh seems to sense the ship and drifts over, sticking tightly to the hull, trying to merge with it. He orders the skeletal arms to tear it off, but it's not very effective; the arms are even attacked and swallowed. The Nyxstar's durability begins to drop.Stimulated by the commotion, a three-meter-wide sea-mushroom floats over. Yang Yi takes out a bag of salt and pours it on the flesh clinging to the hull. Instantly, the flesh reacts as if hit by acid, rapidly dehydrating and shriveling. It gives up its attack and retreats into the sea."Salt is effective, physical attacks are almost useless. Not sure if killing it yields a gacha drop," he determines.Several more chunks of flesh are floating over. He has no intention of getting entangled with them and immediately retreats. Though he's only been on the outskirts of the Bountiful Sea, his third eye has already scanned a large area. The sea is full of these floating flesh-blobs; it's impossible to avoid them all. If he tries to force his way through, his ship will become covered in them like a snowball rolling downhill. Eventually, the ship would be encased in a ball of flesh, unable to move, and the creatures would make their way onto the deck.He retreats from the Bountiful Sea. It's now evening. Seeing the Crow's Nest has cooled down, he gives it a scan and, to his surprise, finds the coordinates of an island located about a thousand nautical miles inside the Bountiful Sea.

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