When disaster struck, I became a big shot surviving in the ocean.
Chapter 141: Deformed and Bizarre

Chapter 141: Chapter 141: Deformed and Bizarre

Those people targeted Chen Qing not because of the Cross Star matter. They simply used it as a pretext to kill Chen Qing, the most powerful contender on the leaderboard.

From the moment the Cross Star issue arose, they had planned to cause trouble using it as an opportunity.

A large part of Chen Qing’s current fame was indeed thanks to their efforts.

Born in Blue Star, they had a sense of morality and order, but not much.

Essentially, there was no difference between them and a bunch of robbers; they bullied the weak and feared the strong.

When meeting someone stronger, they tried to tie them down with moral, legal, and order issues; when facing someone weaker, they oppressively asserted their power.

Among the top ten on the leaderboard, aside from Chen Qing the lone wolf, Shang Jia Bai Xian, and a commercial federation, the rest were mostly national forces from Blue Star.

Apart from Dragon Country, where Chen Qing hailed from, other countries certainly did not want to see Chen Qing clinch the first place on the leaderboard.

Chen Qing taking first place was no different from Dragon Country taking it; they could completely flaunt this victory under Chen Qing’s banner.

The survivor known as Chen Qing certainly wouldn’t mind, as could be seen from her actions.

Thus, those foreign powers definitely did not want Chen Qing to take the top spot on the leaderboard.

Since they could not defeat Chen Qing openly, they could only resort to underhanded tactics.

They deceived a large group of civilian survivors to trouble Chen Qing.

And really, that group of survivors was ridiculously easy to manipulate. On a whim, they charged forward howling to confront Chen Qing.

The order within those countries was already a complete mess, with theft, robbery, firearms, and contraband rampant everywhere, and appearances taking precedence above all.

Survivors from their countries were naturally quite peculiar.

However, these survivors simply could not get a glimpse of Chen Qing.

A mechanical giant beast that burst from the deep sea directly shattered the boat they were on, and all the survivors on it fell into the ocean.

By the time Chen Qing passed by in a small boat, only some debris from the boats was left floating on the sea.

Here they were, dead before even engaging in combat.

Most importantly, Chen Qing was still sleeping inside the cabin and did not even see those survivors appear.

If one plan failed, they concocted another and yet another.

Those politicians were incredibly devious.

However, in the face of absolute force, any conspiracy was just a paper tiger.

Chen Qing’s force was absolutely superior to those politicians and their minions.

In front of these people, Chen Qing had total capability to overturn the tables.

Just kill them directly.

Though Chen Qing was busy, Huo Hou and his group had plenty of time.

She just needed to order them to handle it, as Chen Qing didn’t like being bothered by such nuisances.

She was now in a hurry to deal with the Sword Dance Mantis issue; Blood Spirit was no longer a concern, but Sword Dance Mantis was the real trouble.

By the time Chen Qing rushed day and night to the Deep Sea Farm at Diamond Island, the place was already in chaos.

Countless sea beast carcasses floated in the pitch-dark seawater, densely packed for miles. From a distance, the sight was overwhelmingly shocking.

It wasn’t just sea beasts; among the many sea beast corpses, there were also quite a few human limbs.

Several pale heads quietly lay in the water, rotating with the currents.

This place looked more like a Sea Beast Graveyard than a farm.

Chen Qing approached the farm, the protective measures set up by Diamond Island had long been damaged.

With Chen Qing’s knowledge, each sea beast had met a very direct and clean death, but their bodies had suffered much mutilation after they died.

There were numerous signs of gnawing on these bodies, likely left by Blood Spirit.

After inspecting the condition of the bodies, Chen Qing raised her head and looked around the farm; the atmosphere here was very eerie, unnaturally quiet, as if there were no other living beings besides her.

However, according to the information sent back by Wind Shadow Jade and Mini Rabbit, neither Sword Dance Mantis nor Blood Spirit, nor the unfortunate pair Shang Jia Bai Xian, had left the area.

Chen Qing did not act rashly, Jia and the others were probably still in the area.

The atmosphere here was so eerie, it seemed as if Sword Dance Mantis was far more difficult to deal with than she had imagined.

Blood Spirit was very likely no match for Sword Dance Mantis.

Chen Qing’s heart sank, she had been too rash.

Just as Chen Qing was pondering how to deal with Sword Dance Mantis, a sea beast corpse not far away suddenly exploded!

The massive impact shattered its body, and chunks of flesh and organs were blown far away!

A foul-smelling intestine was slung onto the half of a fish tail in front of Chen Qing, nearly breaking the fish tail!

The explosion sound was exceptionally abrupt in the silence of the deep sea, and the next second, a distorted figure appeared in Chen Qing’s view.

She recognized at a glance that it was Sword Dance Mantis, but...

Even though she knew it was Sword Dance Mantis, Chen Qing was still surprised by its current appearance.

It seemed to have encountered a very severe attack, its body was tattered.

Metal mechanical parts from an unknown source had been patched onto its body by Sword Dance Mantis itself, and the non-standard parts made its shape look very strange.

The most horrifying thing was, Sword Dance Mantis had actually installed a variety of sea beast limbs and human limbs onto itself!

Compared to a mantis, it now looked more like a centipede, a bizarre chimeric centipede with a mixed body of human and beast.

Eerie, deformed, and disgusting!

The moment it raised its head, there was a human face skin clearly plastered on its face!

The non-human creature’s deformed body with tightly affixed human skin dragged everything towards the direction of a horror film.

In that moment, Chen Qing finally understood why the Mechanical Association explicitly banned research on things inside the Mechanical Relics, and why the attitude of Xia Li had been like that originally.

The problem with Sword Dance Mantis was not simply a matter of being out of control.

What exactly Sword Dance Mantis was going through was something Chen Qing couldn’t say for sure; from the surface, it seemed like it had been contaminated by a virus.

But according to the knowledge Chen Qing currently had, there had never been a virus that caused such a change in a Mechanical Creation.

Mechanical Creations are purely mechanical, they do not produce any human emotions, it was impossible for them to act like Sword Dance Mantis, who had even skinned a person to put on itself.

Such a type did not exist in mechanical viruses.

Did it bring this from the relics?

Chen Qing had a very terrifying thought, Sword Dance Mantis in its current state, wouldn’t it be contagious?

If it were... that would be too horrifying.

For the Deep Blue Sea, this would be a disaster a thousand times more terrifying than war.

War still holds a chance for an end and negotiation, but a contagious unknown presence...

However, fortunately, this form of Sword Dance Mantis seemed not to be contagious, which she confirmed when Mini Rabbit appeared before her.

However, Mini Rabbit... had been invaded by Sword Dance Mantis.