winter!
The terrible sea monster crashed into the side of the merchant ship, and the passengers on the deck fell to the ground. Several fat merchants almost rolled into the sea.
Countless cold sea water splashed high up and fell like heavy rain, pouring onto the deck.
"ah-"
"Help!
”
"My child!"
Screams of terror and shouts of anger were mixed together, creating a chaotic mess.
Suddenly.
Everything slowed down.
It was as if the picture was slowed down ten times.
Chen Lun was still leaning against the guardrail, looking calm. In his hand, there appeared a small notebook, which was spread out. In his right hand, he held an ivory pen and wrote on it.
He raised his head slightly and scanned the surroundings with a calm gaze.
Dozens of passengers had panic expressions on their faces. Mothers were nervous and frightened, children were thrown high into the air by the bumps, young women fell to the ground, and men held on to the railings or iron bars with red faces.
Boone held high the dead fish statue in his hand, and his eyes were spitting out anger under his woolen hat. The seven or eight members of the Heart of Consciousness team also took out their magic wands and confronted him.
“… The Homeward Bound was on its scheduled route from Bunsen Port to the Explorer Islands when it was hit by a storm and attacked by a sea monster, putting all the passengers on board in imminent danger… Fortunately, fate had a way of saving the Homeward Bound. Although the hull was damaged, it still drifted back to Bunsen Port along the ocean current without any casualties.”
After Chen Lun wrote this paragraph in black cursive, the pen in his hand disappeared. He closed the notebook with one hand and chuckled:
"The script has no story and logic, but it is enough to save these people..."
He blinked.
Next second.
The scenes around him returned to normal flow.
It’s not that Chen Lun controlled time, but his powerful mental computing power, coupled with his terrifying physical fitness, made his reaction speed so fast that the outside world seemed to be in slow motion.
In fact, in the eyes of others, the gentleman in the black hat did not make any moves from beginning to end, because he only took a few tenths of a second to complete the script and quietly rewrite everything.
Boom!
There was another loud noise.
The hull creaked under the heavy load and tilted sixty degrees. The cold sea water poured in, and the guardrail that Boone was leaning on broke.
He then fell off the deck and splashed into the sea.
The seven or eight members of the Heart of Consciousness team gritted their teeth and cast strange spells. They walked in the air, floated and glided on the sea, and chased after the place where Boone disappeared.
Chen Lun looked back at the messy crowd on the deck, then took off into the air and disappeared where he was.
Saving this boatload of ordinary people was just a matter of convenience. As for what would happen to these people after he finished writing the script, he actually didn't care.
What he was more curious about was whether there was any connection between the dead fish stone sculpture in Boone's hand and his own octopus stone sculpture
Maybe it was because Chen Lun changed his fate, but the storm gradually left the sky above the Homecoming, and those huge sea monsters sank back into the sea, disappearing without a trace.
The surviving passengers cheered, but the captain told them through the loudspeaker that there was a problem in the boiler room and the hull was severely damaged, so they would have to leave it to fate if they wanted to dock safely.
The passengers once again felt desperate.
However, Chen Lun no longer paid attention to these things.
His figure seemed like a kite attached to the sky, flying across the sky, his eyes fixed on the Heart of Consciousness team and Boone on the sea.
The two sides, one chasing and one fleeing, headed due north.
Boone's coat and scarf were scattered in the sea, and the hat on his head disappeared. He returned to his appearance as a fin man, with dark green fish scales covering his skin, sharp teeth, and a pair of dark yellow eyes.
The sea was like his home ground. No matter how strong the waves were or how cold it was, it had no effect on him. He even swam faster than the Heart of Consciousness team gliding behind him.
Boone looked back from a distance, glanced at the enemy who was pursuing him with an angry look on his face, and then he dived deep into the sea.
The Heart of Knowledge team suddenly lost their target and looked at each other in bewilderment at the vast ocean. They exchanged a few words urgently and began to use magic to search again...
Chen Lun ignored these people and flew forward with interest.
Boone deceived the members of the Heart of Consciousness team by diving, but he could not deceive him. Chen Lun knew clearly that this guy changed direction under the sea and was swimming quietly towards the northeast.
In this process.
Chen Lun discovered something strange.
That is, as we continue to move north, some very strange, even terrifying fish will occasionally jump out of the sea.
For example, there is a kind of live fish that looks like a horse mackerel, covered in blood. Although it seems to be trying hard to maintain the shape of its body, its skin and scales are still falling off, and the whole body has a sticky and slippery scarlet gelatinous texture.
There are also some that look like a combination of shrimp and fish. They clearly have the body of a fish, but their abdomen is covered with long and dense legs. They float under the sea for a long time without moving, and no one knows what they are waiting for.
There is even a kind of eel that has never been seen before, which has four or five dark bodies and shares one fish head. At first glance, the whole thing looks like a mutated black octopus swimming non-stop, except that the "tentacles" are several times thicker than the head.
When the shadow cast by Chen Lun passed over the sea, these strange fish would jump out like crazy, showing their fine fangs, opening and closing them in the air, making crackling sounds, as if they were gnawing on some delicious but illusory food.
Chen Lun narrowed his eyes slightly and roughly guessed the truth.
That is this sea area, which seems to have been mysteriously polluted...
The pollution becomes more severe the further north you go.
However, the exact source of the pollution is still unknown.
Soon, Chen Lun followed the diving Boone to an archipelago, which was the original destination, the Explorer Islands.
Some vaguely visible buildings stood on the dock. Chen Lun took a casual glance and saw that the population of this area was not large, with a total of less than 5,000 people.
At the same time, pollution is quite serious...
As soon as Boone came ashore, a group of dock workers ran over happily, as if they knew him.
"Brother Boone, did you bring any rotten fish?"
The workers took off their dirty hats, revealing their appearance as fin men.
Boone shook his head and said in a deep voice:
"No. I encountered a hunting team from the Madman School on the way. I got rid of them, but you all should be careful. They may chase us here..."
"What does it matter? Once they come here, they can't go back."
One of the fin boatmen grinned, revealing his sharp fangs.
"Is Mayor Tran here? I'm looking for her..."
Boone had a worried look on his face. Just as he was about to say something, a group of more than a dozen Finn townspeople came running over, waving their hands and shouting in panic:
"Captain Anglerfish has come to plunder the East Dock again! Rick's entire family has been killed!"
Boone was furious. He pushed aside a few workers and headed east.
The townspeople behind him urged him to be careful, but Boone just waved his hands.
After leaving the South Pier, Boone ran wildly among the buildings and soon arrived at the East Pier, where a group of fin pirates were burning, killing and looting. The leader was a fin man more than three meters tall with a huge tumor on his head.
Beneath the scales on his body, there were bulges and disgusting tumors, like bunches of fat "bunches of grapes".
Chen Lun watched all this from high in the sky.
The Finn pirates who were looting here were far more polluted than the townspeople. They were all deformed, with many scales falling off and pus all over their bodies.
'These people are not real fin people...'
Chen Lun narrowed his eyes slightly.
He saw the past fate of these people by peeping into their lives.
In fact, both the townspeople of the Explorer Islands and these so-called pirates were once ordinary humans... but they were polluted because they ate too many mutant sea fish.
Meanwhile, the demand for that strange fish was growing stronger and stronger.
In Chen Lun's view, what the pirates looted here was not money at all, but "fish"!
The strange fish stored in each household were like treasures. Some of them were even rotten, but the pirates were even more ecstatic when they found them and picked them up to eat on the spot.
Fish scales flew everywhere, and the pirates tore and devoured the shrunken and blackened smelly meat. A cloudy fish eye accidentally rolled to the ground... Chen Lun, who was far away, saw with his horrifying eyes that under the fish's eyeball, hundreds of nematodes were wriggling and twisting wantonly.
'The Explorer Islands are just a small part of the contaminated area...'
Chen Lun frowned slightly.
It stands to reason that such a large-scale pollution would not be formed in a day or two, but the Kingdom of Byron seemed to be completely unaware of it. There were even ships heading here from Bensen Port... The Homeward Bound was an example.
He had sensed the discordant atmosphere since he set sail, but he had never found the key.
On the dock below, Boone had already started fighting with the "Captain Anglerfish". Both of them were Sequence Five Transcendents, but Boone was a magic-type engraver, while the captain was a deep-sea diver.
Boone summoned a large number of rotten fish through the palm-sized "dead fish statue". These strange fish had legs and rushed to the shore like a black wave, instantly covering Captain Anglerfish.
When the battle was at its fiercest, many pirates were affected and were eaten by the rotten fish in an instant, turning into a pile of bones.
Chen Lun watched all this silently.
He suddenly raised his eyebrows and glanced at a small boat on the shore. A familiar figure was squatting there, quietly spying on the battle on the dock.
The slender body was simply wrapped in a linen robe, and her long dark green hair was flying in the wind. Her pretty facial features, but her eyes were not as bright as Chen Lun remembered them to be, but rather more cold and indifferent.
'Lucy?'
Chen Lun glanced at her and frowned slightly.
Lucy's eyes made him feel strange.
"As expected, there has been a change..."
Chen Lun saw that the luck value in the special attribute column on Lucy's panel was already 100 points as he had guessed, and he couldn't help but secretly exclaimed.
Then he raised his hand and used the poker to tell fortunes, and was surprised to find that Lucy, who was supposed to be on the Misty Island, suddenly appeared here, as if she had teleported.
Chen Lun lowered the brim of his hat and continued to hide in the sky, observing silently.
He wanted to see what was going on.