allonlinenovel Chapter 144 Unidentified Creatures
Chapter 144 Unidentified Creatures
"I'm back!" Lu Yuan's voice suddenly rang out behind everyone. When they turned around, they saw that he had actually crawled out from the stern of the ship.
"Good heavens, I thought you flew into space!" Yang Xiao and Zhong Qiang circled Lu Yuan a few times to make sure he was completely clean and had nothing missing. They finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"This warship is quite strange; it claims to be my private starship." Seeing that Lu Yuan was alright, everyone returned to the yacht's cabin together. Although they had almost finished eating, Lin Yun still specially saved some for Lu Yuan. So, after sitting down, he started eating while talking, as he was extremely hungry.
"A private starship? So high-end?" Li Minze carefully observed the cute little starship that Lu Yuan had placed on the dining table and was floating there.
“Yeah, it called me Dr. Lu. If I weren’t actually on it, I would have thought it was fake.” Lu Yuan stuffed a big mouthful of meat into his mouth and continued, “Then it cleaned and disinfected my mecha, and after checking it, it said that there was a problem with my mecha’s system. Although it couldn’t fix it for the time being, it wouldn’t affect my basic use.”
"This starship can even repair your mech?" Wei Cheng exclaimed in disbelief.
"I told you it can't be fixed for the time being," Lu Yuan said.
"Are there any others? What's it like up there? Can we go up?" Yang Xiao asked eagerly after seeing Lu Yuan finish several bites of his meal.
"I asked the system, and it said I had closed the permissions and I had to unlock them myself, but I don't know how." Lu Yuan took a sip of warm milk tea and shook his head helplessly. "It said it requires some kind of permission password, but I've tried all my usual passwords, and none of them work."
"Can you take off the mech and move around normally while up there?" Gu Nanfeng was quite concerned about this important question.
"Yes, it has everything inside, but I don't have the access password right now, so I can't unlock many functions. This starship is supposed to be my private one, but it won't cooperate with me." Lu Yuan pouted, looking quite unhappy. He had originally wanted everyone to go up and see it, and help him figure out how to unlock the functions.
"It's alright, we can study these things later. However, this starship is too difficult to explain, so I suggest keeping it a secret from the base for now." Ji Lang had only spent a few dozen days with Lu Yuan and the others, and he didn't know how much they were keeping secret. Fortunately, his opinion was quite similar to the others. After all, if something is difficult to explain, it's better not to let others know.
“We’ve been out for quite a while now. Let’s go back first after Lu Yuan finishes eating, and then we can find another opportunity to come out.” When Pei Sihao went to ask his older brother for permission to go out, he said that he would definitely be back that day, so although everyone wanted to help Lu Yuan resolve the password issue as soon as possible, there was no way to rush it.
The pretext for this trip was to help Gu Nanfeng find some mutated marine creatures for research. Initially, no one took it seriously, but on the return voyage, they encountered an unusual storm. If Wang Sanhai hadn't been an experienced captain, no one would have had time to react.
Surprisingly, the storm came and went quickly.
"According to the old man, this situation means something in the sea has passed by," Wang Sanhai said to Lin Yun beside him while stabilizing the yacht, which was slightly affected by the storm.
“Something has passed away…” Lin Yun repeated Wang Sanhai’s words, recalling the zombie that escaped from the base more than twenty days ago.
"This commotion must mean something big is going to happen." Wang Sanhai, who had been watching the sea, thought Lin Yun was talking to him, so he continued.
"Captain Lin, there's something under our yacht." Just as Lin Yun was in a daze, Gu Nanfeng and Ji Lang pushed open the door to the wheelhouse and walked in.
"Under our yacht?" Wang Sanhai was stunned. He thought the big guy he was talking about was just making things up.
"A fire-type zombie, but I can't tell its level, which means it's higher than mine." Although Gu Nanfeng hadn't been on any missions recently, he clearly felt that his ability level had increased when they came back last time. Although he still couldn't catch up with Ji Lang, who was already at level six, and Lin Yun, who was at level five, he had reached level four.
"A fire-type zombie? Is it that researcher?" Lin Yun immediately voiced his guess.
"I'm not sure. The zombie I sensed is very large, like an octopus." After Gu Nanfeng's ability was upgraded, the scenes he could see through his mental extension became clearer and clearer. Under normal circumstances, he could tell whether it was in human or animal form from a hundred meters away.
"The octopus in the sea has evolved fire-type abilities?" Hearing the discussion in the cockpit, the others who had been called back to the cabin to hide gathered around. Pei Sihao, after hearing Gu Nanfeng's guess, smiled and continued, "Fiery squid?"
"What should I do? I'm suddenly craving it." Zhong Qiang wanted to eat it again as soon as he heard this. After all, this thing was already rare before the virus outbreak, and Lu Yuan had never taken it out of his space. It was highly likely that he hadn't. Having eaten it a few times, Zhong Qiang's craving was immediately aroused.
"Are you a reincarnated starving ghost?" Yang Xiao punched Zhong Qiang in the back and asked, "Is it under our yacht, trying to cause trouble?"
"It's too calm right now, without any fluctuations." Gu Nanfeng sighed. They had encountered a zombie fish attack in the river before and almost died. If an animal zombie is large, even if it is of a low level, it can easily kill all of them on the boat. It would be even more difficult, let alone the one in front of them, which is of a high level.
"What do we do now?" When Gu Nanfeng and the others mentioned that the zombie was under their yacht, Wang Sanhai reduced the speed to the minimum, and the yacht was almost drifting with the current. After all, he was afraid that the yacht's motor would startle the zombie and cause trouble where there was nothing to do.
"Wait a minute." Ji Lang looked at the radar on the steering wheel. There was no trace of zombies on the radar. Considering that they had never detected zombies in the sea on the radar during their missions, it was very illogical that the zombies could evade radar detection.
The 11 people on the yacht held their breath for a few minutes. Suddenly, Gu Nanfeng exclaimed "Huh!" Then, the radar showed a green dot two hundred nautical miles away, indicating that there was another ship in that direction.
"Contact that ship and see if it belongs to the base." Ji Lang also saw the radar display and immediately instructed Wang Sanhai to contact the other party.
Wang Sanhai quickly established contact with the ship through the navigation system, but the echo was in a Southeast Asian language that Wang Sanhai couldn't understand, nor could the others on the yacht. With no other option, Gu Nanfeng asked the other side again in English, but the broken English on the ground indicated that they were probably survivors who had fled to a Southeast Asian country at sea.
After struggling to convey the message that the sea area was dangerous, Gu Nanfeng suddenly froze. Then, he shouted into the microphone in the simplest phrase: "Go away! Quick!"
The ship on the other side didn't seem to understand, and stammered out some words that Gu Nanfeng and the others couldn't comprehend. Before Lin Yun could ask what was going on, huge waves surged up on the sea in that direction.