When disaster struck, I became a big shot surviving in the ocean.
Chapter 114: Planning the Action

Chapter 114: Chapter 114: Planning the Action

When Chen Qing led her army of Muscle Turtles and Mini Rabbits to dive into the sea, it was the morning of the eighth day since the event started.

There were less than ten days left until the end of the event, yet Chen Qing’s ranking still hovered around 300th place, with about four million points.

In less than two days, these Gem Hunters would be able to max out their points for gemstones of blue quality and below.

What came next would depend on Chen Qing herself.

The battle for points on the leaderboard was still about the gemstones above purple quality.

It wasn’t that Huo Hou and the others couldn’t obtain purple quality gemstones, but their quantity was definitely limited.

More than ninety percent of the Treasure Fish were being monitored by the natives, and for survivors to get gemstones of purple quality and above was like snatching food from the jaws of a tiger.

The points of the survivors on the leaderboard mostly did not exceed the ceiling of six million one hundred thousand.

Passing this threshold was difficult, and the cost would not be small.

Whether it was money or life, six million one hundred thousand was the real dividing line.

At first, the survivors were still quite noisy on the chat channel, but as time passed, they also realized the intricacies involved, and everyone was waiting to see who could cross this threshold.

Moreover, at the moment, the conflict between the survivors and the natives was more attractive to them than the leaderboard.

If this issue was not handled well, it was possible that those natives would band together to deal with the survivors.

All the attention that had been on Chen Qing had now shifted elsewhere, as no one had any spare energy to pay attention to her.

After giving out her instructions and donning her equipment, Chen Qing led a host of mechanical Muscle Armies into the deep sea.

Although Gao Yue and her team hadn’t found the exact location of the Wind Shadow Jade, they had locked down the approximate sea area.

Chen Qing still had a few hours of travel ahead of her, but fortunately, the Muscle Turtles were with her, and in the sea, their speed was not slow.

Not taking a boat was because the target was too big, which made it easy to be completely crushed by the Sea Clan and then dragged into the water to drown in the ensuing chaos.

This was not Chen Qing’s wild guess but something that had truly happened.

All the Mini Rabbits were being held by the Muscle Turtles, with several Mini Rabbits in tow by each Muscle Turtle.

Their metallic bamboo dragonflies on their backs could still be used in water, greatly speeding them up.

Chen Qing was holding the hand of a small Muscle Turtle, and with them, a lot of time could be saved on the way.

The constantly deepening dive made the visibility around them lower and lower, but the Muscle Turtles, equipped with mechanical glasses made by Chen Qing in bulk, were doing just fine.

The formidable procession made the fish of the deep sea avoid them completely, steering clear from afar, save for a few Treasure Fish, so they remained relatively untroubled.

This was the Muscle Turtles’ first time diving to such depths, and everything was a novelty to them; they touched and inspected things to their left and right with curiosity.

One reckless Muscle Turtle reached out to pluck the scales of a passing Treasure Fish and got bitten in return.

The sharp teeth clamped down on the mechanical turtle shell, and it was hard to say who was stronger.

Before the Treasure Fish could do anything further, Chen Qing chopped it down.

It was quite unfortunate.

Chen Qing extracted a piece of dark green jade from its body, dark jade, quite a large piece, earning the full 7000 Gem Points.

At the moment, at 11,345 meters in the deep sea, most of the gemstones carried by the Treasure Fish that appeared were Purple Quality, and those buried in the sandy seabed were also mostly above Blue Quality.

The gemstone inside the Treasure Fish that Chen Qing killed was indeed Purple.

The school of fish in this area of the deep sea was sparse. Carefully probing with her spiritual power, Chen Qing could only detect a few scattered Treasure Fish.

However, these Treasure Fish were not small in size. In the sea, most of the time, size often means strength.

This also suggested that the gem content in this sea area was very high, and they didn’t have too many competitors.

Chen Qing landed on the sandy ground and reached out to clear a layer of sand and stone from the surface; the glimmering gemstones quickly appeared before her eyes.

Most of them were round jades, their levels between white and green, not a blue one in sight.

The higher-quality ones seemed to have been eaten by the Treasure Fish, which were so extravagant that they disdained even these gemstones.

The gemstone content in the deep sea was absurdly high.

This meant... Chen Qing had neared the location of the Wind Shadow Jade; the Sea Clan had cleaned the area, leaving a small number of Treasure Fish as a defensive line.

To approach the Wind Shadow Jade, she would have to kill these Treasure Fish, and the commotion wouldn’t be small.

Chen Qing took out a detector and an underwater tent from her space and temporarily set up camp at this spot.

These items weren’t made by her, but bought; Chen Qing didn’t have that much time on her hands.

From this position, Chen Qing could faintly sense a mechanical force coming from afar.

This feeling was somewhat mysterious, brought on by Mechanical Perception and Metal Affinity.

An incredibly dense and vigorous energy, concentrated in the southeast direction.

There wasn’t just Wind Shadow Jade there but also many Mechanical Creations.

Not only were there Sea Clan members, but other native forces as well.

Chen Qing looked at the scattered red dots on the detector and silently turned off the device.

Compared to the detector, it seemed her own senses were a bit more reliable.

A distribution map quickly took shape under Chen Qing’s hand; with Wind Shadow Jade at the center, the red dots she marked were densely scattered, covering the entire sea area.

And Chen Qing was still a significant distance away from them.

She needed to delve deeper to reach the Wind Shadow Jade and invade their Mechanical Core.

She had to think of a way.

Chen Qing propped her chin and lightly swept the tip of her pen over the distribution map.

The entire defensive line was airtight; there was no point of breach.

To be honest, breaking through the sea domain and the natives’ defense line was an impossible task, unless Chen Qing forced her way through.

But that wasn’t realistic; the Muscle Turtle and Mini Rabbit she brought were definitely no match for their forces.

What could she do...

Chen Qing was quite capable of sitting still; she sat quietly inside the tent, contemplating a method, taking out previous distribution maps from the Gem Hunter to compare one by one.

According to the distribution maps from the Gem Hunter, the Wind Shadow Jade’s range of activity was not fixed.

The entire sea area was their range of activity; it was only encircled by the Sea Clan.

But they didn’t dare to forcibly confine the Wind Shadow Jade; after all, these Mechanical Fish were a type of Treasure Fish, with extremely strong aggression, and now they were in their breeding season.

Although the Wind Shadow Jade were Mechanical Fish, their habits were not much different from ordinary fish.

The breeding season was when the Wind Shadow Jade were most aggressive, and even the Sea Clan didn’t dare clash head-on with them.

During this period, the sea domain wouldn’t do anything to the Wind Shadow Jade but would let them move freely; however, they would move along with the Wind Shadow Jade.

Why risk lives when a smaller price could be paid?

After a moment of contemplation, Chen Qing already had an idea in mind.

This method was worth a try, and if it didn’t work, she still had a second and third backup plan.

Chen Qing wasn’t too keen on using these two plans; they were likely to cause trouble.