Endless Ocean: Escape Starting from a Canoe

Chapter 52 The Lighthouse
The appendix only lists a mere 8 S-level skills.

This information is rudimentary—it only includes a serial number, skill name, and sea monster name.

The numbers following the S-rank skills are their names. While the specific abilities aren't mentioned, some skills can be inferred from their names. For example, "Lost Tide" is likely a sonic wave attack or a tidal wave attack that causes people to lose their senses. "Infinite Mother" is probably a splitting or proliferating skill, like a mother nest.

The part after the dash is a sea monster that can awaken that skill.

"???" represents the unknown, something that has not been researched.

And at the very bottom of the list, ranked 99th, is Shi Ming's "Death Situation"!
The second skill "Putting One in a Deadly Situation," which was awakened from Xuanwu, has a mechanism similar to a resurrection item, but it is only ranked 99th.

I don't know who ranked them.

Although this information only contains less than one-tenth of the list's content, Shi Ming was still quite envious of the list, especially the skills at the beginning.

Black hole,

Heat death

That sounds awesome!
Skills like Junichi's "Extreme Speed ​​Power" or Naruno's C-rank skill, whose name I've almost forgotten, are practically baby-sized!
If one could acquire such an S-rank attack skill, and combine it with the "Black Tortoise Shield" and "Death Sentence" that one already possesses, then one would truly be a well-rounded warrior, capable of roaming freely in the endless ocean.

Of course, after seeing this list, he became even more curious.

What is the number one S-rank skill?
The "Great Black Dragon" guarded by the Black Society is said to be beyond S-rank. If one hunts it and bathes in its blood, will the awakened skill be S-rank or SS-rank? Above this list? Or is there another, higher-ranking list?

If given the chance, Shi Ming would also like to see the Great Black Dragon. A dragon named after a god must be extraordinary.

"Currently, my weakness is the lack of powerful offensive means."

"Unfortunately, the specimen in this jar doesn't contain Leviathan's blood, but only a very small part of its limbs. It's not enough to awaken anyone. Leviathan was hundreds of meters long, and the limbs left from its collisions would be much larger than this! It's probably only of research value."

"When will I be able to acquire an S-rank or A-rank attack skill?"

Suppressing his thirst for power for the time being, he put away the research report and turned his attention to the other two safes.

There are two more "blind boxes" waiting for him to explore.

Following the same method, after opening the two safes, he briefly checked the supplies inside.

In another warehouse safe was a box containing thirty Dome Crystals, as well as a bottle of Grade B sea monster blood that had deteriorated to the point of being unusable.

There was also a golden scale, a piece of strange coral, and a shriveled seed.

Because it cannot be upgraded, the Creator Brain cannot be used to explore information; it can only learn what they are and what their uses are from other channels in the future.

The safe found in the captain's cabin contained valuable intelligence gathered by the Yellowstone in recent years, communication records with the Lighthouse, the captain's duty reports, handover records between different ships, and an object resembling a USB flash drive.

Using the functions of his Creative Brain, Shi Ming looked at the object that resembled a USB flash drive.

It can be upgraded! This means it can be explored.

[Lighthouse Communication Equipment Encryption Decoder]

【Level: 3】

This is a crucial communication key issued by the lighthouse to the captains of its drifting ships. Using this decoder, communication devices can connect to a fixed, encrypted channel for internal communication.

[Upgrade Required: Lighthouse of Light x1]

It's equivalent to using a password for a communicator, but this one is physical.

After examining the decoder, Shi Ming couldn't help but marvel at how different this King-class drifting ship was. Even its communicator was equipped with an encrypted decoder.

Unlike some Japanese organization that distributes communicators to their captains, making them readily available to anyone and offering no privacy whatsoever. But speaking of which, isn't this the lighthouse's communicator?

Shi Ming looked at the walkie-talkie-like object that had been found in the sediment of the Yellowstone shipwreck and was engraved with "DT001".

The mind of creation swept over.

Lighthouse communication equipment

Level 3

[Built to last, excellent signal, and fast communication! This communicator, made with unique technology, can transmit text messages over extremely long distances with a delay of up to ten minutes! (Damaged, all functions lost)]

[Upgrade Required: 3 High-Grade Sea Crystals]

People who are used to using mobile phones might think this is electronic waste, since it takes ten minutes to send a text message?

In the era of wandering, there were no base stations. The only way to transmit information over long distances was to use the drifting ships scattered across the ocean as signal relay stations. A 10-minute delay was already the limit for long-distance information transmission.

The communication equipment used by the Black Society has a delay of more than an hour and also has length restrictions on messages.

Looking at the damaged communicator, Shi Ming did not hesitate to use his last chance to upgrade his Brain of Creation that day.

upgrade!

He only needs 3 high-grade sea crystals! He's currently very "rich".

……

Upgrading the communicator was very easy; in just three seconds, Shi Ming received a notification that the upgrade was successful.

Lighthouse communication equipment

【Level: 4】

[Lighthouse-made for greater durability and stronger signal! Faster communication! Utilizing unique technology, this communicator can transmit text messages over extremely long distances. Maximum delay of five minutes!]

[Upgrade Required: 10 High-Grade Sea Crystals]

The upgrade was successful, and the communicator, which had been severely corroded by seawater, was also given a brand-new look.

It looks like it just rolled off the production line.

At the bottom of the communicator, Shi Ming found an interface that matched the decoder.

He thought for a moment, then took the decoder from the safe and inserted it into the interface at the bottom of the communicator.

drip.

drip.

The brand-new communicator flashed a red light for a while, then turned green, vibrated, and the e-ink screen in the middle of the communicator lit up. First, a lighthouse-shaped icon appeared, then the main interface appeared, just like the boot animation of an old Nokia phone.

When designing the lighthouse, only functionality, battery life, waterproofing, and signal strength were considered; no unnecessary design elements were incorporated, such as a color screen.

The main interface has only one fixed channel called "Let there be light".

There are 13 members in the 【Let There Be Light】 channel.

Shi Ming, or rather the communicator in Shi Ming's hand, is one of the members, with a fixed and unchangeable name: Huang Shi.

(End of this chapter)