Fierce winds and torrential rain, lightning and thunder.

The raging waves danced like mountains, between the dark heavens and earth, bolts of electricity hung down from the sky like inverted trees.

In the grand and mighty destruction, the Prosperity rose and fell on the wave crests, the steel groaned and twisted in agony.

At times it was flung from the waves, soaring into the air, at other times it plunged into the wave troughs, almost completely swallowed by the sea.

Countless torrential rains enveloped the sea and sky.

The serene and clear night disappeared, leaving only a scene of cruel and cold hell.

"What great luck."

Ji Jue sincerely marveled, "To encounter this as soon as I arrive, is this the characteristic of Central Earth?"

Walking down the road minding your own business, without doing anything, and suddenly a bunch of people rush out, indiscriminately showering you with bullets... people live chaotically, die inexplicably, it's all about leaving life and death to fate, wealth to the heavens.

How wonderful.

After staying in the calm Hai Province for so long, unexpectedly, there's actually a bit of surprise—walking down the street and encountering ingredients jumping right into my pot?

Is this the colorful aspect of traveling?

Ji Jue was beginning to enjoy this feeling!

The alarms were blaring one after another.

In the projection of the sonar system, red dots emerged rapidly from the sea around the Prosperity, multiplying and spreading with visible speed, hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands?

There was not even time to count...

In an instant, the screen was filled with blood-red clusters of red dots.

Boom!

Thunder streaked across, lightning flashed, and in that instant, it illuminated the dark water, revealing those eerie silhouettes swimming underneath.

It's like… some kind of cross between fish and insects, with prominent compound eyes on their heads, their large bodies covered in fish scales, and limbs extending out like tendrils, with sharp chitin-made mouthparts.

The largest ones were almost as exaggerated as a van...

Possessing both the ugliness of arthropods and the eeriness of marine creatures.

Truly terrifying.

More terrifying still, endless juveniles in the water were rapidly swelling, growing, transforming into hideous giants.

Click-click-click...

Within the water, a spine-chilling whispering sound persisted.

It was the sound of growth.

This is the so-called "Sea Locust Disaster" that makes the fishermen turn pale!

The disaster beasts born of the ocean, individually unthreatening, but once they appear, their numbers become nearly infinite, like a nightmare!

The most terrifying part is these things eat everything!

During their outbreak phase, metal, rubber, plastic, flesh... the fish swimming in the sea, microorganisms, all included in their diet, and once consumed, they are completely absorbed and transformed, able to mature from the egg phase within mere minutes.

Rather than calling them living creatures, it's more accurate to call them a type of disaster.

Once they devour an entire sea region, they start frantically mating, laying eggs, dying quickly.

Drifting with the waves, or sinking into the abyss, spreading in all directions, their population soaring to a certain level would induce another explosive phase, rapidly hatching, rapidly growing, and once again sweeping away everything.

If not for the fact they become food for various sea fish during the egg phase, they would have long been unstoppable.

At this moment, all that could be seen in the water were layers of shadows, constantly converging, under the lightning, there wasn't even the slightest gap.

Such an exaggerated scale, yet it's merely a small outbreak...

But why did it just hit me head-on?

"I see now… it's the pheromones, isn't it?"

Amidst the endless sharp sounds like steel scraping against steel, Ji Jue mused to himself, slowly coming to a realization.

It seems that someone had already planted bait on my ship to trigger the Sea Locust's frenzy.

Vortex System indeed.

The transformation of the Vortex System can vary greatly, large like clouds hanging from the heavens, small and hidden like bacteria and cells silently spreading.

Meaning, I was already being targeted when resupplying at the Seven Cities?

No need to even come close.

A barnacle in the sea clinging on would be enough to introduce secretions that trigger the Sea Locust's frenzy...

At this moment, the paint was rapidly peeling from the ship, the armor on the hull was showing dents and peeling under the gnawing of the Sea Locusts, even falling off entirely, only to be pounced on by more juveniles, devoured completely.

Between sea and sky, the tottering Prosperity was barely holding under the gnawing.

But besides the Sea Locusts?

Ji Jue waited in confusion, looking around, unable to sense any other presence.

Still lurking and watching?

Or could it be...

He lowered his eyes, staring at the sonar system dotted with countless red dots: amidst the countless Sea Locusts, were there one or two anomalies hiding within?

None of it mattered.

It had been so long since he'd had a proper fight with anyone.

For a moment, he was actually a bit excited.

"I just hope Isis won't be mad when she finds out."

He leaned back in the chair, gently sighing, and tapped his fingers on the armrest...

A roar erupted from the Prosperity.

The heavy armor plates quickly detached from the hull, and immediately after, beneath the peeling paint and coating, within the gray-black metal, crimson lines like pulsing veins silently emerged, quietly throbbing.

In an instant, in the spiritual circuits covering the vessel, jet-black spiritual energy coursed through.

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