Chapter 132: The Sea of Wandering 25
Yi Ke and Zhuang Ningyu stood side by side next to the railing. Gusts of sea breeze blew, and the waves were gentle. Everything seemed so beautiful and blissful. Qing Gang and Zhong Mu watched from afar, originally sighing with emotion at the purity of the scene, its happiness, and its suitability for all ages. But in the next moment, they suddenly saw Yi Ke support Zhuang Ningyu’s waist, lower his head, and kiss him.
“Go, go, go.” Zhong Mu pulled the person and retreated.
Qing Gang: Do we really have to go? But scenes like this in short dramas cost an extra five yuan to purchase separately!
Zhong Mu remained unmoved. Wait a while and if Captain Zhuang discovers you, your bonus for this month might be deducted until only five yuan is left.
Qing Gang: “But I think the super rich Little Yi will generously compensate me with double the bonus.”
Zhong Mu: “Impossible. Little Yi’s own salary card is in Captain Zhuang’s hands. Last time I heard him with my own ears reminding Captain Zhuang on the phone to remember to buy him socks during the 618 sales to make up the order amount.” Based on this analysis, it was hard to say if the super rich man had even two hundred yuan of pocket money a month. Oh right, every time he went to the unit cafeteria, he also swiped Captain Zhuang’s meal card.
Qing Gang: “Really?”
Zhong Mu: “Really.”
It was indeed true, because while Yi Ke was keen on supporting his wife, he was also very keen on letting his wife support him. One of his life creeds was that a successful man with a fragrant wife must never buy his own underwear and socks! Once Zhuang Ningyu was shaken awake by him in a daze, his vision blurred, and he didn’t see clearly when placing the order, accidentally buying knockoffs. Later, Yi Ke lay on him aggrievedly to complain: “Wifey, can you buy slightly more expensive ones next time? These socks fade, and my feet look like the Hulk now.”
Zhuang Ningyu laughed for almost half an hour at the time. After laughing, he not only bought him new socks but also new T-shirts and pajamas. The T-shirt was the one Yi Ke was wearing now, smelling very fresh of laundry detergent after washing. Zhuang Ningyu leaned back into his embrace. Yi Ke naturally pulled open his windbreaker, but before he could wrap the person up, he discovered that the inside of his pocket, stretched into a square shape, was emitting a distinct heat.
The poetry collection revealed a poem again—
“It is heard,
The King and Queen are about to arrive at the heart of the ocean,
Deep in the waves, the temple is magnificent.
The torn covenant,
Will be re-established before the Sea God.
Past mistakes will be corrected,
Historical chapters rewritten.”
Temple? The two looked into the distance together and saw that the sky, which was clear and tranquil blue just now, was mostly devoured by dark clouds filled with thunderstorms. The seawater was rolling in a viscous form, reflecting a luster similar to metal.
“How are Fu Dong and Song Qiaowei?” Zhuang Ningyu asked as he ran towards the cabin.
“Very normal, staying in the room all the time, but words definitely appeared on their item cards,” a team member answered through the earpiece.
Zhuang Ningyu didn’t confiscate the item cards of these two people because the King and Queen were obviously an important part of the game. Forcibly depriving them of their right to participate would only make this mission impossible to complete forever. Fu Dong and Song Qiaowei would cause big trouble, but big trouble was a necessary option to complete the game.
The rest of the team members gathered in Room 103. This time, words also appeared on the ministers’ cards—
[Symbiosis · Queen] The treacherous and cunning minister chooses to be loyal to the Queen, henceforth knowing what she thinks.
[Assist · Princess] The ambitious minister chooses to be loyal to the Princess, deciding to support the new ruler.
[Sacrifice · King] The greedy minister chooses to be loyal to the King, but becomes rations for the tyrant.
Of the existing ten ministers, one belonged to the Queen, one to the Princess, and eight to the King.
Zhong Mu belonged to the Princess camp. The team member in the Queen’s camp was also from the Jincheng group, named Si Feiou.
As for the eight people in the King’s camp, being “sacrifices” and “rations,” their situation didn’t look too good.
The shaking of the hull was becoming more violent each time. In the distance, the seawater had boiled into a pot of porridge. There was still about half an hour before Ye Jiaoyue could use the Prophecy Card, but the future seemed to have arrived ahead of schedule.
“Captain Zhuang, Team Leader Ye!” Si Feiou suddenly raised his card. “There are words!”
The golden handwriting went from blurred to clear—
“The Queen has secretly become estranged from the King. To escape the tragic fate pursuing her, she decided to crown herself King.”
Somewhat unexpected, but also seemingly within expectations. Anyway, Fu Dong and Song Qiaowei achieved the effect of estrangement just by sitting facing each other in the cabin. Anyone who saw it would praise their extraordinary talent. Ye Jiaoyue tightly gripped the item card in her palm. Twenty minutes, just another twenty minutes, and she could open the future of the King and Queen again to see what exactly would happen between them. But the wind and waves didn’t seem to want to wait with her. Amidst increasingly violent shaking, the ship hit something unknown. After a loud “thump,” the bow actually broke out of the water with a “splash.” The hull and the sea surface soon formed an acute angle of nearly thirty degrees, and everything slid towards the stern!
“Careful!” Yi Ke grabbed Zhuang Ningyu, cushioning him between himself and the wall. The round table rolled over like a spinning top, only to be kicked away by Zhuang Ningyu! The loud noise continued, and the acute angle was slowly approaching a right angle. Zhuang Ningyu rushed out of the cabin, threw a steel cable onto the bow, climbed up, grabbed the railing, and looked down. Only then did he realize it wasn’t the cruise ship hitting something, but a huge, stalactite-shaped submarine iceberg “growing” vigorously. Like bamboo in the rainy season, it grew taller visibly. The tip first pushed against the bottom of the ship, then broke through the hard metal, stuck deeply inside. The cruise ship was thus pushed up as the iceberg grew.
Yi Ke also climbed up at this time, took a look, and said: “I’ll go.”
Zhuang Ningyu nodded: “Go get the stuff.”
A minute later, the poet leaped into the sea. Through the goggles, he could clearly see the ugly merfolk swarming around him, and also clearly see the uncontrollable excitement in their eyes.
Deep sea, a lonely poet, thousands of merfolk. Saliva flowed from between sharp teeth, but their gaze was burned by the golden poetry collection at the poet’s waist. They had to carefully change tactics, diving gradually with him, looking for an opportunity to attack.
“Thump!” Yi Ke drilled a hole with special equipment and embedded a thick tactical nail deep into the iceberg body. He didn’t care about the merfolk circling around him, even if their sharp teeth were less than five centimeters away from his oxygen tube.
“Crack!” Accompanied by the merfolk’s bite, the sound wasn’t the breaking of the oxygen tube, but the sound of teeth being snapped off.
Before their eyes, a familiar silver light flashed past. The merfolk turned back in panic and saw another figure in a full-body diving suit hovering quietly not far away in the sea. Around him surrounded a group of fierce-looking skeleton sailors.
Merfolk: “…”
Yi Ke’s movements were agile. After completing the task, he swam over and made an “OK” gesture, then pulled Zhuang Ningyu to float towards the surface together. He pushed him towards the hanging climbing rope first, grabbed the end of the rope himself, calculated the time, and pressed the red detonation button!
Three seconds later, the tactical nail exploded. Hundreds and thousands of fine spider web cracks instantly appeared inside the iceberg, turning from translucent ice crystal blue to a hazy frosted white. Then, after a moment of silence, it completely shattered and collapsed!
The cruise ship, losing support, smashed heavily onto the sea surface, completing the crashing sensation that was absent when the iceberg exploded just now! The seawater boiled, water mist shot up to the sky, and the metal was slapped by the water surface making a shrill sound. Everyone was thrown into mid-air, then slammed viciously against the cabin walls by inertia, dizzy and seeing stars!
Deep under the sea, the world was still churning and rotating wantonly. Everyone in the cabins had now gathered on the deck, including the stumbling King and Queen. The ice pillar from the abyss was still growing, extending petals outward like a giant flower, with the cruise ship at the very center as its stamen.
Soon, the ship was completely fixed in place, unable to move at all.
Growing together with the ice pillar was a temple. The seawater was first divided into two halves, then fell from mid-air like rain. In this flurry of water mist, the outline of the temple initially appeared—golden, sacred, every detail flashing with the unique faint luster of mother-of-pearl. Directly in front of the temple stood a huge, majestic black stone statue. Yi Ke had seen it in the game data; it was the Sea God of this sea area.
Black stone statue. Qing Gang touched the new bloody scratch on his chin and commented: “The atmosphere doesn’t quite match.”
It really didn’t match, because the entire temple was simply too holy. Light flowed, as if floating amidst moonlight, suddenly making this pitch-black Sea God look very much like a thief occupying a magpie’s nest. If a stone statue had to be placed there, then…
The same answer appeared in everyone’s mind.
And the answer itself seemed to think so too.
The statue of the Beauty God, Seransha, had originally been placed at the bottom of the cabin. Qing Gang probably thought no one would steal this thing, so he didn’t secure it very well. In the intense changes of acute angle, right angle, and acute angle of the hull just now, it lost its center of gravity and smashed to the floor, then slid along the floor towards the porthole, crashing out flexibly with a “whoosh.” The bow tie loosened, and the beautiful face was washed exceptionally clear by the seawater. After surfacing, it was plated with a layer of sunlight.
Skeleton Sailors: “!”
The Sea God statue didn’t notice Seransha’s existence. He rolled his eyes, his gaze sweeping over everyone, then raised his hand slightly.
With his movement, hundreds of thick water walls suddenly rose!
“The King promised to reforge the chain of the covenant,
The Sea God heard the oath of loyalty,
Decided to reward with the might of the ocean,
Find the treacherous one for the King,
With the force of a thunderbolt,
Summon fierce beasts,
Descend divine punishment.”
Yi Ke glanced at his poetry collection, then looked at the merfolk popping out of the sea gloating—
“Traitor!” They pointed at Yi Ke in unison, as if complaining!
With the gaze cast by the Sea God, the water walls roared and twisted, instantly abducting the poet into a colosseum made of seawater. Surrounded by thick white fog, giant beasts belonging to the Sea God were slowly walking out from all directions. Yi Ke gripped his poetry collection, glanced at another batch of giant beasts behind the giant beasts, and kindly reminded them: “You guys better come together.” He pointed at the time on his wristwatch, “My wife has separation anxiety; he can only be away from me for at most five minutes.”
The water mist walls emitted loud “bang bang” noises. Occasionally, one or two golden rays of light could be seen slicing out, only to be quickly pulled back in. Dull roars of fierce beasts came from within from time to time. Blue blood dripped wetly from the white fog and flowed slowly down the pitch-black stone statue. Qing Gang said: “I think Little Yi—”
Thousands of silver excerpt pages flew past his face with “swish swish swish” sounds!
A few strands of cut hair slowly drifted down before his eyes. Qing Gang: “—has no problem.”
Zhong Mu asked in surprise: “Why does the excerpt notebook seem thicker?”
Alice explained, It doesn’t just seem thicker; it really became thicker. Because every poem of the poet, the audience will understand, will love, and will carefully transcribe. The notebook will definitely become thicker and thicker. I daresay, if Captain Zhuang and Little Yi stay in this game for a few more days, the excerpt notebook will definitely become the number one killing weapon.
But now it wasn’t far from number one. Silver blades skillfully broke through the water mist, sinking in like snowflakes. Inside the water walls, Yi Ke was riding on a submarine fierce beast. His fist just raised, with a “pfft” sound, blue blood spurted out like a small fountain.
Dozens of excerpt pages rotated rapidly, connecting with each other to form a circle about a meter in diameter, aiming to block open a hole in the water wall.
Zhuang Ningyu’s voice came clearly from outside the hole: “Hurry up!”
“Okay wifey!” Yi Ke agreed, dropped the limp beast in his hand, wiped the blood off his body, “Sorry everyone, I said it wrong just now. Not five minutes, my wife can only be away from me for at most three minutes.”
