When disaster struck, I became a big shot surviving in the ocean.
Chapter 120: The Giant Wind Shadow

Chapter 120: Chapter 120: The Giant Wind Shadow

The Mini Rabbits successfully stored the Dead Water in containers, and Chen Qing noticed that the Dead Water hadn’t clung to the sides of the cups at all.

There was no adhesion whatsoever.

Chen Qing observed that all the containers holding Dead Water were commonplace, and some didn’t even have a grade at all.

The B-grade container props she had specially spent a lot of money on couldn’t last a minute in the Dead Water before they dissolved away completely.

It was a total waste of money.

Taking over the container filled with Dead Water from the Mini Rabbit, Chen Qing examined it closely.

The Dead Water encased in the glass looked nothing like its benign and harmless appearance; this glass was more enduring than other containers.

But, it probably wouldn’t last much longer either.

This container needed to be replaced regularly, and it would have to be monitored carefully.

Chen Qing had some of the Mini Rabbits take a portion of the Dead Water back to the ship and guard it vigilantly.

For her, this substance might turn out to be very useful.

She didn’t waste the remaining Dead Water either, but had other Mini Rabbits and the Blast Battle Rabbits carry it as they delved deeper into the Sea Clan’s territory with her.

However, the more pressing issue now was how to deal with the corpse of A Zhiqiu.

She had three choices.

Bounty, disassemble, or feed to the Blood Spirit.

All three options had pros and cons, with the first being the least favorable.

Bounty could only be exchanged for a bounty and usually required the head—with nothing else of value in return.

If Chen Qing wanted to extract something valuable from A Zhiqiu’s body, such as Skill Books or Profession Scrolls, she would need the head.

The body could only yield flesh and blood.

Feeding the Blood Spirit was the same; the head could provide the most Extraordinary Points.

Chen Qing could only choose one of the three.

Eliminating the first option, the remaining two indeed made her hesitate.

After all, disassembling wasn’t a sure shot at extracting Skill Books and Profession Scrolls; Chen Qing’s Decomposition Skill was only at Grade C.

With a Grade C, she could only perfectly disassemble 50%, and that 50% might not necessarily yield skills, and even if it did, they might not be useful.

Taking Chen Qing’s own skills as an example, if she were disassembled, the most likely outcome would be ordinary skills related to Mechanical Repair and Mechanical Manufacturing.

Skills like Mechanical Perception were extremely rare miracles.

On the other hand, feeding A Zhiqiu to the Blood Spirit would be much safer, as it guaranteed a bottom line of Extraordinary Points.

After killing A Zhiqiu, Chen Qing’s Extraordinary Points had broken the 500 mark and reached 728.26.

A fairly decent number.

The Mechanical Creatures created by the Gem Hunters that she followed couldn’t kill very strong sea beasts, so the Extraordinary Points they could offer were limited. The fact that Chen Qing had managed to accumulate so many was already quite good.

It wouldn’t be long before she could continue upgrading her Skills or things like Mechanical Creations.

After hesitating for a moment, Chen Qing decided to use her Decomposition Skill on A Zhiqiu.

As expected, A Zhiqiu didn’t burst out any useful Skill Books or Profession Scrolls.

Of course, the items were still decent.

C-level medical skill.

It was somewhat unexpected—A Zhiqiu’s profession turned out to be a Doctor.

Chen Qing casually used it, his expression unchanged, and began to lead the main force on their journey.

The commotion here did not catch the attention of the Sea Clan up ahead; they didn’t believe A Zhiqiu would lose.

They all assumed the noise was simply A Zhiqiu’s way of tormenting people.

After all, his character was just that vile.

The Sea Clan was well aware of A Zhiqiu’s behavior, and his status among them wasn’t low either—his background was quite decent.

As long as A Zhiqiu’s actions toward the Sea Clan were not too excessive, they were entirely willing to turn a blind eye.

By the time they realized A Zhiqiu had been killed by Chen Qing, and that Chen Qing was even approaching them with his main force, Chen Qing had already begun to conquer the other Wind Shadow Jades lured by the first small one.

The first Wind Shadow Jade ranked neither in strength nor size among the Mechanical Fish’s middle ranks, yet those lured by it were truly intimidating in size, absolutely massive.

They were almost the size of Chen Qing’s ship; standing before them, he seemed as different as an elephant is from a bird.

It was unclear how that Wind Shadow Jade managed to lure seven gigantic Wind Shadow Jades all at once.

As Chen Qing looked at the jades in the center of their heads, he felt that if he could take down this group of Wind Shadow Jades, his points could jump into the top ten.

However, Chen Qing wouldn’t do something as shortsighted as killing the goose that laid the golden eggs. The benefits of keeping the Wind Shadow Jades far exceeded those from killing them outright.

The competition on the leaderboard was so fierce that Chen Qing couldn’t even be sure he could take first place.

He did all that he could and left the rest to fate.

Even if he didn’t get first place on the leaderboard in the end, he would at least have the Wind Shadow Jades.

To securely claim the top spot of the leaderboard, he needed to leave his competitors far behind and acquire an overwhelming number of points!

The labyrinth within the cores of the gigantic Wind Shadow Jades led by the small one became countless times more difficult in proportion to their size.

The most infuriating part was, as the difficulty increased, the time allocated for completion decreased.

To be honest, even for Chen Qing, navigating such difficult labyrinths was extremely challenging, resulting in many failed attempts.

In the end, it was only by relying on his strong intuition and knowledge that he narrowly managed to clear them. When Chen Qing completed them, there were only three seconds left on the countdown.

The rule was that you couldn’t fail more than three times in the middle. If you failed more than three, the only outcome was "death."

Moreover, invading the core of such a level of difficulty also drained a considerable amount of Chen Qing’s spiritual power.

If it weren’t for the Water Healing Butterfly injecting Recovery Potion beside him to promptly restore his spiritual power, the consequences could have been hard to predict.

If one were to analyze it with gaming logic, it must be said that Chen Qing’s team was now quite well-formed.

Healer, tank, high DPS, cannon fodder, and a commander.

The Wind Shadow Jades could barely act as crowd control.

With their size planted here, they could easily daze their opponents.

After successfully invading the cores of all the Wind Shadow Jades in front of him, Chen Qing began her new plan.

Originally, Chen Qing was prepared to spend a bit more time allowing the Wind Shadow Jades to continue luring others out, slowly eating away at the entire group.

However, this was likely to be easily discovered by the Sea Clan.

With the Wind Shadow Jades constantly coming and going, a few could be barely explained, but with more numbers, they would definitely take notice.

It’s not that they might not have noticed now, but compared to the thousands of Wind Shadow Jades, what were these few?

Even if they were simply handed over to Chen Qing, if he dared to touch the entire group of Wind Shadow Jades, what awaited him would be the frenzied onslaught of the Sea Clan.

And not just the Sea Clan.

Therefore, Chen Qing changed his plan. It was a perfect plan that, if successful, would result in no damage whatsoever.