163: Chapter 163 Flying Across the Desperate Situation

A more intense gnawing sound came from the deck beneath their feet.

"Crunch, crunch, crunch."

Black water surged up from both sides of the gunwales, the stench clogging their noses and mouths.

Zhao Mengmeng knelt halfway at the edge of the cabin.

Her left hand gripped a broken wooden beam tightly, while her right hand pressed the empty-slotted crossbow toward the water surface.

"Brother Lin, these crazy fish are really planning to gnaw the boat to nothing!"

Lin Ye gripped the remains of the mast with one hand.

The shell of the Dark Weaver on his right arm felt cold from the moisture.

The bottom of the boat was struck heavily again.

"Thud!"

The entire boat bounced up half a foot.

Then it slammed back down onto the water surface.

Zhao Mengmeng was thrown sideways.

Her boot soles scraped against the wet deck, making a harsh sound.

Lin Ye reached out and grabbed the side loop of her backpack, forcefully pulling her back into the shadows of the cabin.

The next moment, a barbed tail fin whipped in from outside the gunwale.

"Slap!"

A section of the gunwale edge was snapped off.

Wood splinters splashed all over Zhao Mengmeng's face.

She raised her hand to wipe the water off her face. "It can even whip its tail! What kind of mutant is this!"

She raised the crossbow and pulled the trigger.

"Twang!"

A spare short bolt shot out.

It accurately pierced the side of a ghastly white skull beneath the water surface.

That Bone-scaled Shark flipped out of the water.

Black blood sprayed from its empty eye sockets, and it twisted its body crazily, ramming into its own kind.

Two smaller Bone-scaled Sharks immediately pounced and tore at the wound.

The water surface boiled even more violently.

Zhao Mengmeng's expression turned ugly. "I hit it, but instead, I just added a dish for them."

"Don't waste arrows."

"I want to save them too, but they are about to set the table and eat us!"

Lin Ye didn't respond.

Left Eye activated instantly.

Beneath the black water, dense red dots swirled frantically around the bottom of the boat.

Several larger red shadows were approaching from a distance.

Dorsal fins sliced through the water, aiming directly at this boat.

The green-glowing boat beneath their feet was quite stable.

The wood was tough, and the main beam of the bottom hold hadn't broken yet.

But no matter how sturdy the boat was, it couldn't withstand the gnawing of hundreds of bony mouths in turns.

Lin Ye suppressed the stinging pain in his eyes.

His gaze pushed into the depths of the fog.

Twenty meters away, piles of dark red boats squeezed against each other.

Forty meters away, a few pieces of driftwood were covered in gray spots; they would surely disintegrate if stepped on.

Seventy meters away, a thick green light suddenly emerged from behind the heavy fog.

That was a huge wrecked ship.

The hull lay horizontally in the center of the dark river, with high gunwales, its bronze edges soaked by water vapor into an ink-green color.

The water surface around it was unusually clean.

There was very little red light.

Deep inside the hull, several dark gold points were lit up steadily.

A shelter.

It was also the true core of this boat deck.

Lin Ye closed his Left Eye.

His vision went black for a moment.

Zhao Mengmeng noticed his shoulders tense up and immediately spoke. "Is your eye acting up again?"

"Seventy meters away, there is a large ship."

"Can we get on it?"

"We can survive."

Zhao Mengmeng turned her head to look into the fog.

Except for the churning black fog, she couldn't see anything.

"Seventy meters, the fog is so thick, and your broken bracer is barely hanging on, how are we going to hook it?"

Lin Ye reached for the side pocket of his backpack.

He took out some scraps brought from the Fifth Floor.

Parasitic beast viscera.

It was heavily polluted, with dense gray spots forming a black skin, and a pungent, fishy stench.

From the tattered bag left by that big man at the side of the boat, he pulled out a broken leather pouch.

The pouch contained inferior blood plasma, which had already turned sour.

Lin Ye poured the blood plasma directly onto the viscera.

"Brother Lin, are you making a Manchu Han Imperial Feast for the fish world?"

"Settling accounts."

"Who are you settling them with?"

"Those two on the shore."

Zhao Mengmeng looked in the direction of Lin Ye's gaze.

In the direction of the stone platform, the two Challengers from France were still sprawled by the door.

No ropes, no grappling tools, and they dared not jump onto a boat.

The one-eared Frenchman stared at Lin Ye's boat, clutching a broken spear, cursing incessantly.

The other Frenchman was more direct, raising his hand to gesture pushing someone, his face full of resentment.

The Great Xia Live Stream exploded instantly.

[Still thinking about dragging others down with them? We haven't settled the score for threatening Mengmeng just now!]

[These two things have only survived until now because of their thick skin.]

[The stinky bag in Brother Eye's hand is prepared for them!]

Lin Ye used a piece of discarded secondary line from the Dark Weaver to tie the viscera tightly.

He drenched it completely with the remaining blood from the pouch.

The blood plasma dripped down through the gaps in the viscera.

The dorsal fins beneath the black water immediately became agitated.

Several Bone-scaled Sharks gave up on gnawing the boat, lifting their ghastly white heads to circle around, chasing the scent.

Zhao Mengmeng understood.

"They wanted to feed me to the fish just now."

"Yeah."

"Now it's the fish's turn to choose the dining table."

The bottom of the boat was struck and tilted again.

Lin Ye stood on the slanted deck, his heels jammed into a crack.

He swung his right arm.

The lump of flesh and scrap was held by the secondary line, swung twice around his body, and then violently thrown out.

The stinking blood bag flew over the black water, crossing the churning school of fish.

It smashed straight toward the stone platform.

The one-eared Frenchman saw the black and red silhouette falling from mid-air.

He didn't understand Great Xia language.

But looking at that lump of stinking rotten meat, his face twitched violently.

"Get away!"

He shoved his companion and scrambled backward using his hands and feet.

But the stone platform was too narrow.

Behind them was the frost gate.

From inside the door came the dull sound of ice armor dragging.

In front was the black water.

There was no way to retreat.

The blood bag smashed into the shallow water in front of the stone platform.

"Slap!"

The blood plasma exploded, and the stench spread rapidly.

All the Bone-scaled Sharks underwater turned simultaneously.

The red shadows that had been gnawing around the bottom of Lin Ye's boat all rushed toward that pool of blood.

The black water was torn apart into countless white waves.

Bony dorsal fins crowded together, blocking the front of the stone platform in just a few breaths.

The one-eared Frenchman stepped on the frost of the threshold while retreating, and he slipped to the ground.

The other Frenchman screamed and hugged the stone pillar for dear life.

The school of fish arrived.

The first Bone-scaled Shark leaped out of the water, its ghastly white mouth biting onto the blood bag.

Its massive body slammed heavily onto the edge of the stone platform.

"Bang!"

Water waves exploded, slapping directly onto the stone platform.

The two Frenchmen were rolled toward the edge by the waves.

The one-eared Frenchman jammed his broken spear into a stone crack, a cracked roar exploding from his throat.

"Save me! Save me! I'm willing to be your lackey!"

Lin Ye stood on the boat in the distance, his eyes without a ripple.

The Challenger begging mechanism only works on Challengers from other countries.

But he didn't accept trash.

The second wave of the school of fish crashed in.

The blood bag was torn into several pieces, and the polluted viscera mixed with blood plasma splashed everywhere.

When the Bone-scaled Sharks fought over it, they hit the bottom of the stone platform, causing the giant waves to rise again.

The Frenchman holding the stone pillar lost strength in his arms and was swept into the black water while screaming.

Three white bone mouths closed simultaneously.

The water surface was suddenly dyed dark red.

The one-eared Frenchman completely collapsed, let go of the broken spear, and crawled into the door.

Inside the door, an Ice-armored Knight that had been lured over just happened to raise its spear.

In front were monster fish, behind were ice soldiers.

He jumped desperately toward a nearby boat to the side.

His toes had just left the stone platform.

A Bone-scaled Shark shot straight up from underwater.

Its ghastly white giant mouth closed from bottom to top.

Half of his body was swallowed alive.

The interrupted scream came to an abrupt end.

The fish school was completely lured away by the blood bait.

The boat beneath Lin Ye's feet finally stopped shaking violently.

The crack at the stern was still taking in water, but it wouldn't sink in the short term.

Lin Ye seized this short gap.

He raised his arm and shot the Dark Weaver.

The anchor point drilled into the fog, pinning a small, sinking sampan ten meters away.

"Jump!"

Zhao Mengmeng put away the crossbow and aimed the Wind-Chasing Claw at a slanted beam further away.

The two left the boat simultaneously.

The moment they left, the boat was knocked off course by the backflow from afar.

Lin Ye's toes touched the main beam of the small sampan.

The wooden beam had a very faint green glow.

It could bear weight, but only for an instant.

"Snap."

The hull sank rapidly.

Lin Ye didn't stop; the Dark Weaver shot out again.

Zhao Mengmeng's three-clawed hook also caught a rotten wooden beam in mid-air.

The two, one after the other, flew into the depths of the fog along the swaying ship group.

Behind them, the fish school was still frantically fighting over the blood bait.

Water waves kept pushing the surrounding sunken ships to collide with each other.

The entire floating ship maze began to forcibly rearrange.

Every time Lin Ye landed, it was for a very short moment.

Toes touching wood, retracting the line, swinging his body, then hooking again.

Zhao Mengmeng followed very tenaciously.

Her shoulder slammed heavily against the ship railing, but she gritted her teeth and didn't make a sound.

Stopping meant death.

A piece of driftwood to the front left had a clean surface.

Just as Zhao Mengmeng wanted to step on it, Lin Ye yanked her belt.

"Don't step on that."

The words had just fallen.

The driftwood was flipped over by the undercurrent, revealing dense, rotting holes on the bottom.

Lin Ye's Left Eye opened and closed briefly.

The green landing points flashed and disappeared.

He engraved every spot that could bear weight into his brain.

The water mist grew thicker and thicker.

The giant mothership in the distance finally revealed its outline.

The towering gunwales lay across the center of the black river.

The bronze edges were covered in slippery moss.

The beast head on the bow was damaged, and the open copper mouth was filled with black water.

It was excessively quiet.

The surrounding Bone-scaled Sharks didn't dare to approach at all.

Zhao Mengmeng looked up at that ship wall, her throat tightening.

"This ship is too high!"

"Get up there."

"My legs don't even feel like my own anymore!"

"Grind your teeth and hold on."

There were only twenty meters left to the mothership.

There were no more boats to stand on in front.

Only a section of the main mast, half-sunk, was inserted diagonally into the water surface.

The top was ten meters below the gunwales of the mothership.

Lin Ye landed on the main mast.

The entire mast sank immediately.

Underwater, several red shadows raised their heads and approached.

Zhao Mengmeng shot out the Wind-Chasing Claw a step ahead.

The three-clawed hook sliced through the damp fog.

It accurately caught a bronze beast head on the gunwale.

The mechanism retracted, and she was pulled upward.

Lin Ye remained at the end of the mast, raising the Dark Weaver to prepare to set an anchor.

Just at this moment.

The churning beneath the black water suddenly stopped.

On Lin Ye's Left Eye retina.

An extremely huge, blinding red light shot out straight from the depths of the mothership's shadow!

The body length exceeded fifteen meters.

Two saber teeth hung from the upper jaw.

Its bone scales were heavy, and its tail fin dragged a pitch-black water line.

Bone-scaled Shark leader!

It hadn't been lured away by the blood bait.

It had been lurking beneath the mothership all along.

Zhao Mengmeng had already climbed to mid-air.

When she looked back down, her expression changed drastically.

"Brother Lin!"

The black water exploded.

The giant Bone-scaled Shark broke out of the water.

Its open giant bone mouth lunged straight at Lin Ye's legs hanging in mid-air!