When disaster struck, I became a big shot surviving in the ocean.
Chapter 148 Dust Settles

Chapter 148: Chapter 148 Dust Settles

Of course, whatever’s happened over at the Diamond Islands is certainly nothing to do with Chen Qing. Rather than worry about her, one would be better off paying attention to their own safety.

Chen Qing, now completely deprived of her senses, is like a child clutching gold in the midst of a bustling market—extremely vulnerable.

However, it’s not just anyone who can take Chen Qing’s life right now, not to mention those Wind Shadow Jade creatures.

Just the two mechanical creature squads by Chen Qing’s side, the Blast Battle Rabbit Water Healing Butterfly Super Shield Whale and the Mini Rabbit Muscle Turtle, are enough to give any attacker a hard time.

To take down Chen Qing, one would need to be of at least the caliber of Gao Yue and her group.

Don’t underestimate Gao Yue’s team; though their strength may not be top-notch, the entire team is made up of Extraordinary Ability Users.

And their Extraordinary Abilities are all exceptionally powerful and useful.

Among the survivors, they absolutely belong to the top echelon.

If they set their hearts on dealing with Chen Qing, Chen Qing in her current state might not be able to evade them.

Chen Qing’s Mechanical Creations are very powerful, but unfortunately, they lack intelligence.

What’s most important for Chen Qing now is to safely leave the Gem Sea and find a doctor who can help her regain her senses.

Being blind, deaf, mute, without taste or smell can easily make one lose concept of time and drive a person mad.

But Chen Qing’s mindset is still quite stable; considering the previous circumstances, she’s lucky to be alive.

Under the full speed of Wind Shadow Jade, Chen Qing and her Mechanical Creations soon arrived near the waters of Sapphire Island.

She didn’t immediately go ashore, instead having Wind Shadow Jade continue to linger in the nearby waters.

Time trickled by, and as the countdown to the end of the rankings drew closer to zero, all the survivors involved in this frenzied event became increasingly tense.

After so many deaths, surely the final reward won’t end up in the hands of this world’s natives?

For this event, too many survivors died at the hands of outsiders, sea beasts, or even their own kind.

A Purple Quality gemstone is enough reason for the best of friends to turn on each other, to stab each other in the back.

The lower-level survivors are even more likely to betray for a slight advantage.

Everyone is prey, but also hunters.

Chen Qing’s foundation is too strong, so she has no opportunity to join in this hunting spree.

Her competition is generally against people of the caliber of Demon Dragon Shangjia and Bai Xian Yuanfei.

Their competition involves too many interests and complications; often, a slight move in one part may affect the situation as a whole.

The competition among the ordinary survivors, however, is starkly cruel, much like wild beasts.

Those so-called higher beings have just worn a layer of human skin over themselves.

After so many sacrifices, the survivors naturally do not want to see the natives as the final victors.

No matter what Chen Qing is like, she is, after all, a survivor from their world.

The closer we get to the end of the countdown, the fiercer the competition for the top spot on the leaderboard becomes between the surviving forces and the native powers.

Everyone’s points are soaring, including Chen Qing’s.

But Chen Qing herself seems quite leisurely.

After all, she is a medical professional with a C-level medical practice and D-level pharmaceutical skills, so she does have some knowledge.

Before finding a suitable doctor, she can only treat a dead horse as if it were alive.

Although she can’t see or hear anything, her perception is still there. With the Water Healing Butterfly and the Blast Battle Rabbit assisting by her side, Chen Qing can make some attempts.

While all other survivors and natives were distracted by fluctuations in the rankings, Chen Qing was conducting her 68th attempt at crafting potions.

Making potions isn’t difficult for Chen Qing, as she is already accustomed to this meticulous work.

The more difficult part for Chen Qing was diagnosing the illness afflicting her.

She only had a general, vague understanding of her condition.

Chen Qing knew that the complete loss of her senses definitely wasn’t caused by the explosion but was more likely due to the Sword Dance Mantis.

It must have done something.

Given the changes that the Sword Dance Mantis had undergone at the time, all the medications Chen Qing prepared were attempts at purification.

Actually, if Chen Qing dared to try, Zuo Yun’s Extraordinary Ability would have likely been more suitable for addressing her current situation.

But Chen Qing couldn’t gamble on that possibility.

Even if Gao Yue and her team set out from their temporary base in Dragon Country at the same time, by the time they met, the rankings would be nearly over.

Who could say they wouldn’t be tempted by the rewards of the ranking?

Just by killing Chen Qing, one could easily seize those rewards, and no one would even know.

Fortunately, Chen Qing had previously enhanced her healing skills and pharmaceutical skills, especially the former.

Moreover, Chen Qing found that odd jobs performed by sailors and the nutritional combinations prepared by chefs could both assist a doctor’s medical and pharmaceutical skills.

Together with the help of the Water Healing Butterfly and the Blast Battle Rabbit, although Chen Qing had completely lost her senses, she indeed faced no difficulties.

Her living conditions were not affected at all.

Using her existing knowledge, Chen Qing quickly deduced her current condition.

She was "infected."

The condition of the Sword Dance Mantis at the time was that of being contaminated by some existence, and she was infected by the contaminated Sword Dance Mantis.

If nothing unexpected happened, both Demon Dragon Shangjia and Bai Xian Yuanfei were in the same situation.

Shangjia would probably have no issues, but Yuanfei’s case was uncertain.

That "Pollutant" was targeted at the Mechanical Creation that was the Sword Dance Mantis; hence, after the Sword Dance Mantis infected them, the "Pollutant" manifested in them as it is now.

Different individuals show different symptoms.

Having identified the problem, finding a solution became easier.

Chen Qing immediately tasked Qing Xian with collecting some Magic Potion Materials for her, and she also began bulk purchasing on the trading channel.

Even though she knew where the problem lay, due to her unfamiliarity with healing skills and pharmaceuticals, she still needed to perform numerous trials to formulate the appropriate antidote.

At the same time, the competition for the rankings became even fiercer as there were now less than half an hour remaining until the end.

Both the Demon Dragon and White Immortal pirate groups had stopped competing for the rankings, and news came that the two groups had begun warring against one another.

The Diamond Islands were used by them as a battlefield, stirring up chaos like revolving heavens and earth.

Without these two strong competitors, Chen Qing was the only one left at the front.

Many survivor forces on the ranking list were frantically searching for Chen Qing, aiming to kill her.

Some survivor forces chose to quietly try to overtake her, but no matter what they did, they couldn’t match the speed at which Chen Qing’s points were increasing.

As the countdown to the rankings’ conclusion neared, the Mechanical Creations that Chen Qing had repelled, including the Wind Shadow Jade, started their suicidal hunting sprees!

All Extraordinary Treasure Fish targeted by them were doomed to one fate: death.

Chen Qing had already obtained a huge number of points from the Deep Sea Farm, where there was no shortage of golden gems.

Now with the Mechanical Creations recklessly collecting points, how could those survivor forces possibly compete with Chen Qing?

When the countdown ended, the name at the top of the rankings was unmistakably ’Chen Qing’!