61: Chapter 61 Huaxia (Clone)

Upgrading the patrol boat requires: Wood x10k, rope x5k, nails x1k, cloth x5k, steel x5k, gunpowder x1k, and gold coins x10k.

After giving one portion to each of The Five Women, Chen Fan was once again running low on rope, steel, and gunpowder.

After instructing them to trade for more, Chen Fan opened the video recording interface.

The video recorded by the Bull Shark had been interrupted halfway through.

Upon opening it again, Chen Fan observed it more carefully.

Starting from when the light gradually faded and the camera automatically switched to night mode.

In less than ten minutes, the Bull Shark was entangled by black lines.

It was then rapidly pulled toward the seabed.

The Bull Shark is a shark that inhabits shallow water areas; being rapidly pulled into the deep sea and dying from an inability to adapt is understandable.

But how could these black lines discover these one hundred Bull Sharks in the vast ocean and bind them almost simultaneously?

After thinking about it for a long time, Chen Fan could not figure out this problem.

Suddenly, he had an inspiration and his gaze swept toward the tentacle.

"Let's try again."

Chen Fan placed two Bull Sharks into the ocean.

After equipping them with cameras, he fed the tentacle to one of them.

"Don't swallow it, just hold it in your mouth, and then swim toward the deep sea."

After issuing the command, the two Bull Sharks turned and dived into the sea.

Although he did not know what these black lines were, Chen Fan felt in his gut that they were related to the tentacle.

The result of the Bull Shark's dive this time would confirm whether his hypothesis was accurate.

What he needed to do next was wait.

Chen Fan moved the two monitoring windows to the side and opened the one hundred monitors on Savage Island again.

The instruction he had them bring back was: the enemy has been completely annihilated.

Therefore, these people did not receive too much questioning after returning.

Some who were more seriously injured returned to the barracks to rest, while the rest returned to their posts.

After all, this battle had consumed a huge amount of their military strength.

Nearly seventy percent of the soldiers had died, and those remaining naturally had to take on more work.

To Chen Fan's surprise, the savage who could speak human language was actually a deputy general.

And the three generals of the Northern Empire had died in this battle.

He naturally became the new general.

At this moment, he was summoned by the king to enter the palace to be conferred a title.

Through the camera, Chen Fan looked speechlessly at the person sitting in front...

Let's call him the king for now.

This king was about 1.5 meters tall, pitch black all over, had a large bucktooth, and saliva sprayed everywhere when he spoke.

The black general, however, bowed and saluted with a face full of joy.

Before long, two savages brought out a badge from the back room and pinned it onto the savage general.

After spraying some more saliva, the king grew tired and waved his hand to dismiss the general.

When the general reached a deserted place, Chen Fan asked in a low voice:

"What did he say?"

The black general shivered, then looked left and right like a thief, and only after confirming no one was around did he whisper:

"The king, he appointed me as the Empire's General, commanding all troops."

Chen Fan raised an eyebrow slightly, "How many troops do you have left?"

The black general's expression was somewhat unnatural as he said sheepishly, "Over seven hundred, but I can recruit troops across the country."

"Oh?"

Chen Fan's eyes lit up, and he immediately came up with a strategy: "Recruit everyone you can, and then bring them to the shallows."

The general naturally knew Chen Fan's plan, and he was also full of excitement: "In that way, everyone will be on our side."

"When the time comes, you can lead the troops to attack the other two countries, and I will have the people inside act as internal agents."

"Yes!"

The savage general was full of excitement and immediately went to prepare.

Chen Fan looked at the screens of the soldiers of the other two countries again, and there were no changes.

In fact, because they had fought a brutal war, the surviving savage soldiers were more trusted.

Some even directly ascended the city walls and became city guards.

This provided huge convenience for his subsequent siege.

Seeing this, Chen Fan also let out a sigh of relief.

The changes inside the dungeon are too great; he must occupy this island as soon as possible.

Only in this way can he have a steady stream of supplies to explore the dungeon.

As for the method mentioned by Fangs, he had to wait for the Bull Shark test to be completed.

If the situation is true, he would prepare to build another main ship to explore the Night Instance for him.

No, no need to wait.

Chen Fan shook his head; he was currently stuck at his level, so it was time to start an alt account.

"System, create a new main ship."

[File created successfully, consumed: bamboo x50, rope x5.]

[Obtained: bamboo raft Lv1.]

[Default name of the new main ship: china (Clone).]

[The name displayed on other players' panels is: china]

"Upgrade!"

[Consumed resources: bamboo x300, rope x30.]

[Upgrade successful: bamboo raft Lv3.]

"Upgrade!!"

[Consumed resources: Wood x1400, rope x140.]

[Upgrade successful: Wood raft Lv3.]

"Upgrade!!!"

[Consumed resources: Wood x1k, nails x100, cloth x10, steel x20, gold coins x100.]

[Time required: 30min]

[forerunner title bonus active, time required: 24min.]

In the previous dungeon, The Five Women each obtained a white level 1 forerunner title.

As for Chen Fan's, it had upgraded to yellow level 4, with the speed bonus reaching 20%.

After waiting for a long time, the upgrade was finally successful.

Chen Fan continued to upgrade without stopping.

After spending another 144 minutes, a large sailing ship appeared before his eyes.

He did not choose to upgrade again.

After all, he did not know the specific situation of the Night Instance, and consuming a huge amount of resources to upgrade to a patrol boat was obviously not cost-effective.

After pondering for a moment, Chen Fan still could not bear to sacrifice the intelligence of two ship captains.

Therefore, he opened the system store.

Finding no S-rank Ship Captain available for selection, he purchased an A-Rank Ship Captain.

After all, it was for scouting and dying, so he did not need to spend too much capital.

After a little experimentation, Chen Fan found that the clone could not be stored in the system space like the ghost ship.

But thinking about it, it was understandable; after all, it was another main ship, so it was reasonable that it could not be retrieved according to the settings.

Nodding slightly, Chen Fan glanced at the surveillance screen.

He suddenly discovered that the screens belonging to the two Bull Sharks had all gone black.

Chen Fan's eyelids twitched, and he immediately clicked on the playback.

The time difference between the two videos was actually more than 1 hour.

The one without the tentacle had a death time that was still not much different from the one hundred from last night.

However, the one holding the tentacle in its mouth had actually lived for nearly three hours!

Suppressing his agitation, Chen Fan dragged the playback to the end for each.

The first one was no different from last night; it was grabbed by black lines, dived rapidly, and soon disappeared into the darkness.

As for the second one, Chen Fan carefully dragged the progress bar, and finally, it stopped at the moment the black lines appeared.

After observing carefully, he discovered that the black lines directly ignored the Bull Shark and continued to drift with the waves.

The Bull Shark, following Chen Fan's command, continued to slowly dive.

Finally, it dived into the deep sea and disappeared into the darkness.

"It seems my guess was correct."

Chen Fan's expression stirred.