50: LV25 Giant Kun

Pfft—

Long Yuan suddenly hunched forward, a mouthful of dark red blood splattering onto the cold metal floor.

He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand; his once elegant face was now only a deathly pallor.

The excruciating pain, as if countless burning steel needles were piercing his brain, caused his vision to blacken in waves.

"Boss... what do we do now...?"

Thunder Tiger's voice was hoarse, with an uncontrollable tremor.

He looked at a deep-sea giant fish not far away, startled by their presence; its massive black silhouette merely flicked its caudal fin once before disappearing into the deeper darkness.

The escape just now had almost exhausted all their luck.

"Boss, we're almost out of ammo!"

Wang Ye almost burst into tears, his voice full of despair.

"If this continues, the next time we encounter some monster, we're finished!"

"Shut up."

He slowly straightened up, his back to everyone, so no one could see his expression at that moment.

His cold gaze swept over the crew members, who were trembling with fear.

Burdens.

A group of meaningless burdens.

Their fear, the resources they consumed, their dilapidated ships.

All were shackles slowing his pace.

He suddenly chuckled softly, his laughter in the silent Bridge sounding incredibly eerie.

"At this point, it's impossible to preserve the entire fleet."

He turned around, a nearly pathological, elegant smile appearing on his face.

"Useless chess pieces should simply be discarded."

Fear instantly filled Thunder Tiger and Wang Ye's eyes.

A bone-chilling coldness shot up their spines to the tops of their heads.

Long Yuan ignored their horror; he closed his eyes again.

His remaining mental power transformed into a cold and ruthless command, instantly transmitted to every ship in the fleet through the blood pacts all captains had signed with him.

A self-destruct command.

"Boss... you..."

An incredulous cry from a captain came through the communication channel.

But his words were cut short.

Outside the flagship's portholes, the scarred warships didn't explode, nor were there any flames.

They merely... silently disintegrated.

Like a sand painting erased by an invisible hand, the hulls, decks, masts, along with the crew members on board who never understood what was happening until their deaths, all transformed in an instant into primal, shimmering material fragments.

The biggest regret of their lives was signing that unbreakable blood pact with Long Yuan, that demon.

"[Obtained Wood × 50]"

"[Obtained Metal × 80]"

"[Obtained Gunpowder × 30]"

"[Obtained Purple Core × 1]"

...A series of system notifications furiously scrolled across Long Yuan's vision.

He looked at the resources floating in the seawater outside the porthole, exchanged for the lives of his companions and their ships, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face.

"After disintegrating so many ships, the flagship should be able to upgrade to Level 20 in one go."

His voice was filled with fanaticism and confidence for the future.

"By then, that spaceship, whatever it is, won't be able to defeat me."

"Begin salvage."

He commanded coldly... Time slowly passed in the oppressive black mist.

The Natural Selection moved like a lonely ghost across the silent sea.

Over these twenty-plus hours, they had encountered countless bizarre creatures.

There were swarms of luminous, highly venomous jellyfish.

And deep-sea predators that flashed by so quickly their shadows couldn't even be seen.

But under Lin Mo's calm command and the Natural Selection's powerful firepower, these threats were all neutralized one by one.

"[Congratulations! Natural Selection has upgraded to Level 14!]"

"[Obtained 10 Ship Exchange Points!]"

"[Current remaining Ship Exchange Points: 12 points]"

Only thirty minutes remained until the black mist dissipated.

An unspeakable weariness permeated the Bridge.

Gu Nianqiu finally couldn't hold on and curled up on the sofa next to the captain's chair, falling asleep.

Faint tear stains still lingered on her small face, and she tightly hugged a rabbit doll she had found somewhere; her even breathing became the only comfort in the cabin.

Gu Zhixia, beside her, was also yawning, leaning against the cold wall, slowly wiping the Six-Harmony Long Spear in her hand, her movements noticeably slower than usual.

Having not closed her eyes for over thirty consecutive hours, even with Gu Nianqiu's god-tier cooking replenishing her physical strength, the mental exhaustion that came was like an irresistible tide.

Only Lin Mo remained, like a statue, seated in the captain's chair, his concentration highly focused.

He knew that precisely at such times, one must not be careless.

The darkness before dawn is often the most deadly.

Suddenly.

Lin Mo felt the surrounding light sharply diminish.

It wasn't that the lights went out, but rather a darkness as if the light source had been swallowed by something.

An unspeakable sense of oppression descended from above.

His intuition told him that something extraordinary was approaching.

He suddenly looked up, peering through the massive porthole.

Then, his breathing hitched for a moment.

He saw an unimaginably huge silhouette slowly parting the thick, unyielding black mist at its top, revealing itself.

It was a Kun.

A colossal Giant Kun floating in the sky.

Its size almost obscured the entire sky, casting a shadow that made the Natural Selection below appear like an insignificant grain of sand.

"[LV25 Giant Kun]"

"[Attack: ???]"

"[Defense: ???]"

"[Life: 100000]"

Lin Mo's pupils sharply contracted.

Without hesitation, his thoughts instantly sank into the ship's upgrade interface.

The 12 exchange points had to be immediately converted into combat power.

"[Do you want to consume 12 exchange points to unlock the 'Tesla Electromagnetic Tower' module?]"

"Unlock!"

Buzz—

In the middle of the Natural Selection's hull, a metal tower with a retro-futuristic style rapidly rose, and dangerous blue electrical arcs began to flash on the coiled wires at its top.

"[Tesla Electromagnetic Tower: Emits chain lightning, dealing 200 damage to targets within range, with a high probability of causing a brief paralysis effect on living organisms, but its range is relatively short.]"

Control was the key to dealing with such a behemoth.

At the moment the electromagnetic tower was unlocked.

The Giant Kun moved.

It slowly aimed its continent-like head at the Natural Selection below.

The next second.

It charged towards the Natural Selection!