After taking two or three deep breaths, the tiger whale's Captain barely managed to suppress the urge to have a close encounter with Lu Yibei's expressionless, deadpan face using his fist. He squeezed out words through gritted teeth, "Guest, perhaps you don't know, the tiger whale doesn't have flight capabilities..."

"Ah? No, that's not right? Could it be that your driving experience is insufficient, and you haven't fully mastered all of its functions?" A hint of surprise flashed in Lu Yibei's eyes. He raised a hand and pointed out the window, "If you don't believe me, look, it really is flying!"

"If I'm not mistaken, it seems to be flying even higher now than before?"

As he spoke, Lu Yibei carefully reconfirmed the scene outside the window, then nodded.

That's right, it was indeed flying higher.

A few seconds ago, he could still vaguely see the churning waves of the sea, feeling as if he was flying at a low altitude just above the surface. Now, he couldn't see them at all.

The Captain, "......" You're the one with insufficient driving experience and haven't mastered all functions!

He thought fiercely, subconsciously looking out the window in the direction Lu Yibei pointed. Then, the anger that had subtly surfaced between his brows due to his professionalism being questioned instantly turned into shock.

The scenery outside the window had been replaced by seemingly endless dark blue and mist.

That was the misty area above the sea.

The tiger whale seemed to have completely left the sea surface, gradually passing through the surrounding mist and rushing towards the sky. The lead-gray rain clouds seemed within reach.

The tiger whale really "flew" up.

"Guest, I can tell you with great certainty that the tiger whale absolutely does not have flight capabilities." The Captain's expression was solemn.

Hearing this, Lu Yibei's eye twitched slightly. He tentatively asked, "Is it possible, I mean, possible, that this tiger whale has some hidden mode that allows it to fly temporarily?"

"Yes." The Captain looked at Lu Yibei, expressionlessly saying, "If you activate the self-destruct program of the Ling Neng circuit at the bottom of the ship, causing a violent explosion, perhaps it can send the ship into the sky."

"Is, is it that serious?" Lu Yibei said weakly.

He started to panic a little, speaking like a mischievous child who had messed with a relative's older brother's computer, "accidentally" causing the system to crash and a large collection of treasures to be lost.

A urban legend that controls the power of drought, is not good at water, and cannot fly, smashing into the sea from hundreds, or even thousands of meters high in stormy weather, just thinking about it feels very dangerous.

He also wondered if, before falling into the water and being swept away by the waves, he would have time to use Zhang Yu's power to summon a tiger whale 2.0? Lu Yibei thought secretly.

"Very serious!" The Captain asserted, "So, Guest, you'd best tell me what you just did. Perhaps there's still time to fix the mistake."

"Actually, actually, I didn't do anything... I just turned the rudder hard left, then hard right, pushed the throttle all the way up and then all the way down, then flipped these three switches up, flipped these four switches down, and finally pressed all the green buttons from left to right..." Lu Yibei said.

Since he was going to drive, of course, he had to try to touch as many operating devices as possible!

Otherwise, if he couldn't summon an Alchemy ship, who would be responsible?

"Oh, and a disclaimer: I didn't touch any of those red buttons! It should be fine, right? If I'm not mistaken, only those red buttons are dangerous, right?"

Nanling Yaohua, floating beside Lu Yibei, nodded repeatedly.

Although Captain couldn't see, she could testify that Lu Yibei absolutely did not touch those seemingly dangerous red buttons.

The Captain, "......"

After hearing Lu Yibei's words, his blood pressure and the hardness of his fists immediately rose.

In less than a minute, you moved everything that could be moved, except for the Alchemy cannon array and the Ling Neng energy storage projectile launch buttons, and you still have the nerve to say "just"?

If I, with the girl you like, drank, held hands, hugged, kissed, slept together... and did all sorts of messy things, and then said, "Don't worry! It didn't enter the body, so it should be fine, right?"

Could you accept that? The Captain thought.

Although his daily job was to pilot the tiger whale, he was also a Mafia member, and before becoming the Captain of the tiger whale, he had done many "dirty jobs" and was a ruthless character with blood-stained hands.

If the man in front of him wasn't a distinguished guest invited by Constantine, and didn't possess powerful Ling Neng fluctuations that he couldn't fully comprehend, he would probably have already shown his former might, chopped this guy into pieces, and thrown him into the sea to feed the fish.

He glared fiercely at Lu Yibei, opened his mouth, and was about to say something when a sharp alarm blared, piercing his eardrums.

"Beep—beep—beep—!"

Violent turbulence, as if to shake the tiger whale apart, struck.

Lu Yibei staggered a few steps. After steadying himself by holding onto the control panel, he saw the screen in front of him flickering with crimson light and frowned.

"Captain, why is this thing lit up? Do you have any idea?"

The Captain, who had just re-gripped the helm, turned to look at the screen when he heard this. His face turned pale, and his voice trembled, "Tha-that's the tiger whale's Ling Neng detection device. Under normal circumstances, it can capture most Ling Neng fluctuations within five nautical miles and provide a simple image..."

"Similar to radar?" Lu Yibei frowned slightly. "You mean, this ship's radar has detected something?"

"That's right." The Captain's expression was numb, looking as if he had given up resisting. "After Ling Neng fluctuations are captured by the tiger whale's Ling Neng monitoring device, a red outline usually appears on that screen..."

Hearing this, Lu Yibei leaned closer to the screen and observed carefully for two seconds. "That's not right! There's nothing on it, this thing couldn't be..."

Mid-sentence, he suddenly snapped back to reality, a chill running down his spine.

After capturing Ling Neng fluctuations, a red outline would appear, and now the entire screen was red...

Didn't that mean that the entire space within the detection range was covered by some unknown Ling Neng fluctuation?

A Psychic or urban legend capable of such a feat would at least have power approaching Calamity level, right?

Then, could the tiger whale suddenly flying up be due to an attack from this Calamity-level being?

Calamity-level attack... Could it be that the news of my survival leaked, and some Ling Neng organization sent a big shot to hunt me down? Lu Yibei thought anxiously.

He knew very well that the guy was here to kill him.

The next moment, terrifying Ling Neng fluctuations, accompanied by an suffocatingly dense amount of water vapor, swept through the entire tiger whale.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

Shouts came from outside the cockpit, but soon the shouts turned into screams.

Footsteps on the deck were chaotic, and a fierce battle seemed to be taking place.

Ten-odd seconds later, a muffled thud came from the direction of the cockpit door.

"Bang—!"

Looking in the direction of the sound, he saw the tall black woman's hands pressed tightly against the small glass window of the cockpit door, her mouth agape as if she wanted to say something to the people inside the cockpit, her eyes wide as if they were about to pop out of their sockets.

Then.

Her eyes lost their luster, gradually dimmed, and slowly slid downwards, her fingertips brushing the glass, leaving five crimson trails.

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"Thud—!"

The black woman fell to the ground with a heavy thud.

The atmosphere in the cockpit instantly plummeted, and the two men looked at each other, speechless.

To break the uncomfortable silence, Lu Yibei patted the Captain's shoulder and tried to comfort him, "Brother, don't be too pessimistic. Although we might have suffered an enemy attack, and the enemy seems very powerful, at least this proves that I didn't break this ship."

Hearing this, the Captain's facial muscles twitched violently as if they were out of control.

Nanling Yaohua, who had been secretly observing, heard Lu Yibei's words, raised her hand, and slapped her forehead heavily.

Although, however...

Lu Yibei! At a time like this, if you can't speak, you can actually not speak. Nanling Yaohua thought.

——

An hour ago, on the deck at the bow of the tiger whale.

After leaving the cabin where Lu Yibei was resting, Miss Rabbit came here and had not left since, like a statue.

Acting as a bodyguard for this man named Yu Yinchuan was a task she received from Constantine. Only by successfully completing the task and bringing this man before Constantine could she obtain the help of the Free City Black Hand Mafia and search for Suo E's whereabouts.

Therefore, after confirming that Yu Yinchuan was not a Disaster, she decided to do a good job as a bodyguard.

In her opinion, a qualified bodyguard should be vigilant against possible threats at all times, instead of hiding in the kitchen, power room, or other places, slacking off like those incompetent Mafia members. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

Of course, besides wanting to successfully complete the mission, part of the reason she did this was for herself...

When she contacted Constantine, she only told Constantine that Suo E's disappearance was related to the New Elder Council, a faction that had recently risen within the Eclipse Society, but she did not tell Constantine that she was being hunted by the New Elder Council. In fact, not long ago, she had just permanently lost one-third of her power escaping from them.

Her vigilance was not only for the safety of the guy in the cabin, but also for herself...

After all, no one knew when the next round of pursuit would arrive.

Time flew by amidst the monotonous sound of waves, and an hour passed quickly.

Fluffy, snow-white rabbit ears suddenly popped out from Miss Rabbit's red hair, who was meditating on the deck. After turning left and right twice, she turned around, looked towards the cockpit, and then looked at the dark and deep sea, an undisguised expression of disgust appearing on her face.

She vaguely heard the conversation between Yu Yinchuan and the Captain in the cockpit.

That annoying guy seemed to have messed around while the Captain wasn't paying attention, successfully making the tiger whale "fly."

Flying? ❀ Nоvеlігht ❀ (Don’t copy, read here) A ship? Is this reasonable?

Although it was indeed possible to make a ship fly through Alchemy modifications or by implanting the core of a urban legend's body, people usually wouldn't do that...

Manufacturing various Alchemy devices also needs to follow a basic principle!

It is much easier to modify a flying vehicle like an airplane or airship as a base to create some kind of Alchemy device with aerial combat capabilities than to modify a flying Alchemy ship.

Unless the owner of the ship has some special obsession with "flying ships," they wouldn't spend several times the cost to modify one.

Miss Rabbit thought, her gaze sweeping across the sea, then she rolled her eyes.

The waves had become turbulent at some unknown point, and the deafening "crash" sounded like dense and continuous explosions. The tiger whale rose and fell in the surging waves, indeed giving one the feeling of "flying."

Immediately after, as if seeing an extremely terrifying scene, her face suddenly changed, and her pupils trembled.

With her extraordinary vision, she saw a silver-white thin line appear at the junction of the sea and sky. It looked like a silver blade with no visible end, stretching across the sea, slicing towards the tiger whale at an extremely fast speed, and was already close in a breath's time.

Giant waves over twenty meters high, like a dark blue wall, pushed by an invisible large hand, surged forward.

Within those giant waves, there were eight huge, chaotic, illogical, terrifying whirlpools, churning back and forth, like eight giant eyes, opening and closing.

【Calypso】, New Elder Council' Sixth Seat... Seeing that horrifying scene, such information quickly flashed through Miss Rabbit's mind.

She knew very well that the guy was here to kill her.

The air felt completely soaked with cold seawater, making it impossible to breathe.

Having been hunted by the New Elder Council for so long, this was her first time facing an "Elder" of the New Elder Council. She felt the New Elder Council' determination to kill her and an unprecedented pressure.

For a moment, she even forgot to summon her fire axe.

...

For those guys, do Suo E and I have to die?

Just because...

We know a little secret of theirs? Miss Rabbit thought.

Just as she was pondering, the giant wave in front suddenly collapsed as if torn apart by those whirlpools, and disappeared without a trace.

Before she could recover, she felt a violent tremor, as if being lifted by an invisible large hand and thrown into the sky, her vision rapidly ascending.

The next moment, sounds of water breaking rang out.

Dozens of figures, too swift for the naked eye to catch, leaped out of the water, landed steadily on the tiger whale, and then split up, rushing towards the Psychic and urban legend hiding throughout the ship.

——

On the other side, about five nautical miles from the tiger whale, on the sea, the catchy boatmen's chant of the Silver River echoed amidst the roar of the storm and waves.

"One tow rope, oh, ninety-three feet, passed down from father to son, oh, shouldered from generation to generation ~ ♪ Trampling rocks, oh, no one asks, who knows the boatmen's hearts are cold ~ ♪"

Accompanied by the chant, a small boat made of foam, buckets, two roadside trees, four tires from some unfortunate soul, and several simple Alchemy arrays, rode the wind and waves.

"Tsk! Gu Qianqian, keep paddling, don't stop!" Noticing Gu Qianqian had suddenly stopped, the System urged anxiously, "If you slack off again, we won't catch up to that guy!"

"I'm not slacking off." Gu Qianqian looked straight ahead, raised a hand and pointed, dumbfounded, "System, look, what is that?"

Hearing this, the System climbed onto Gu Qianqian's head and looked in the direction she pointed. Its already slightly bulging fish eyes suddenly bulged even bigger and rounder.

What is that? A tsunami?

To encounter a tsunami of this scale in an inshore bay, should I say it's truly Miss Calamity, the ultimate unlucky one? The System thought.

The next moment, the scene that appeared before her eyes made her certain that what appeared in front was not a tsunami.

She saw that the moment the giant wave, over twenty meters high, reached the boat where Disaster was, dozens of faint, giant tentacles suddenly rose from beneath the sea, hidden in the wind and rain, like a pair of twisted, deformed large hands, grasping the giant wave, forcefully contracting, gathering terrifying power, condensing a water spouts over a hundred meters high, throwing the ship into the sky...

Dozens of dark figures leaped out of the water spouts and onto the ship.