Endless Ocean: Escape Starting from a Canoe

Chapter 77 Information about the Great Black Dragon
Shi Ming didn't sleep well that night. His communicators kept ringing, and a message would come in every now and then.

It's also thanks to his sleep pod, a great restorative device, that his rest wasn't affected.

He checked all the messages as soon as he received them.

Communicator from the Demon Blade:
Message 1: Demon Blade, please reply promptly upon receipt.

Article 2: Who are you, and why do you want to be an enemy of my underworld?

Article 3: I have detected your location in the sea area. I advise you to take care of yourself!
Shi Ming smiled.

Clearly, this message came from the Demon Blade's superior, the so-called Admiral Conquering the Sea.

Who are they trying to scam?
If you can get real-time location with a communicator the size of your palm, then even the Lighthouse would have to call you boss.

Besides, if you really found the location, why didn't you come over secretly? Why did you have to openly tell them, "I'm coming to get you! Run!" It was obvious that Itsukushima Rin didn't know whether the demon sword had died from a sea monster or an enemy, and could only probe with words.

Just a clown who's lost his composure!
No need to pay attention.

To Shi Ming's surprise, Chunyi's communicator, which had been silent for a long time, suddenly sent a new message late at night: "Well done! My good friend! You have gained my sincerest friendship!"

Shi Ming curled his lip.

It seems the triad is a makeshift operation with intense infighting.

Shi Ming did not reply.

I didn't even think about taking advantage of it.

If the other party's identity is unknown and you are using something uncontrollable, you are in a situation where you are being used by them.

No one could control Shi Ming's actions; he simply followed his own heart.

Even if killing the demon sword helped the other party, it was just a coincidence.

Edward's communicator, however, contained no information.

Instead, it was in "Let There Be Light" that the lighthouse's fury was heard—

The three-day period is over. Has the navigator's mission concluded? Report back to me on the progress at any time!

This time was different from before; no one replied within five minutes.

After a long silence, Lighthouse slowly posted another message:
【? 】

It took about two and a half hours for Kingsoft and Michael to send their replies.

[Sir, I am very sorry. The Navigator has been killed during the mission, suspected to have been killed by an S-rank Awakened or a sea monster. This incident is beyond our control, mainly due to a serious error in the intelligence provided by the Black Society, which led to misjudgment by both us and the Navigator, resulting in our failure to take adequate risk control measures.]

[Sir, we have joined forces with Michael and the Black Society to initiate an accident investigation and do everything possible to mitigate the losses from this incident.]

【? ? ? 】

What?! You bastards! Are you serious?!

Can you make amends?

What followed was a rapid and intense discussion of the F language.

Those in positions of power can disregard their own dignity and freely hurl insults.

On the contrary, the real cattle and horses need to carefully consider every word and action, for fear that a single punctuation mark might displease their superiors.

Shi Ming could imagine the officer's anger.

The only "Seven-Eyed Aviator" could reproduce the skills of the corresponding sea beasts by relying on a little bit of sea beast skin tissue. It was about to help the Lighthouse reproduce the skills of the Holy Temple-level sea beasts, allowing the research institute to break through the bottleneck that had been stuck for twenty years and obtain a new direction. However, he died in an ordinary mission!

It's like frantically downloading a 100GB data package, reaching 99.9% completion, only to accidentally kick out the power cord.

If we reconnect, we'll have to start from scratch again!
Anyone would be on the defensive.

Behind the curtain, Shi Ming quietly watched the top-secret real-time communications within "Let There Be Light," with messages appearing in his line of sight as if they were free.

[At any cost, retrieve the "Navigator's" corpse. We'll have the research institute find a way to create another Awakened One with the "Naked Eye Wheel"!]

Yes, sir!

Jinshan and Michael readily agreed.

However, he had no expectations for this mission.

Coordinates unknown, searching for a corpse on an endless ocean?
The Yellowstone is so big, and they've been searching for it for over a decade without finding it! Let alone a body!
It's probably already been eaten by sea fish! It's gone traveling all over the world!
The captain of Jinshan was speechless.

You Michael's men, it's one thing if you're incompetent, but of all times you had to die, why now of all times, causing me such a huge mess! And now I'm being held accountable too!

That's fucking shifty!

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As the sun rose over the sea, Shi Ming got up early and ran around the deck of the Dayun for half an hour.

Call ~
After warming up, he wiped the fine sweat from his body.

"Intelligence Eye, gather intelligence!"

[Beep~ Beep~]

[Intelligence being compiled...]

[Searching. Confirming host's detailed coordinates... Found host's loot: fragments of the legendary sword, Crescent Moon. It once carried the faint aura of an unknown, powerful life form. Intelligence being summarized...]

Quarter moon?

An unknown, powerful life form?
Shi Ming was taken aback.

[Intelligence generated.]

[Unclassified Information: Daikokuten Dragon]

[The Great Black Dragon, a sacred sea beast slumbering deep within Mount Fuji, originally possessed three heads and six limbs, later transforming into a nine-headed form.]

【…】

Its nine primal, ferocious heads are each distinct: Main Head, Lava Head, Poison Smoke Head, Rock Cone Head, Steam Head, Earthquake Head, Devouring Head, Perception Head, and Regeneration Head. The Mahakala Dragon spends most of its time in a deep sleep.

[While asleep, its nine heads droop, and the dreams of these nine heads will have different effects on the real world near Mount Fujie, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, or volcanic eruptions...]

【…】

The awakening of the Great Black Dragon is slow, but catastrophic.

The leader of the Mahakala dragon possesses intelligence, but its thought process is drastically different from that of humans, leaning more towards a destructive instinct.

[Danger Level: Sanctuary]

[Method of elimination: Sever the connection between its nine heads and body simultaneously using extreme cold power.]

Why did they suddenly give me such advanced intelligence?

There are other ways to kill him?
He pondered for a moment. As the Black Society's top combatant, the Demon Blade should have been ordered to investigate the sleeping Great Black Dragon and left a trace of its aura on its blade. Now, the Broken Blade Crescent Moon has become his trophy and has been detected by the Eye of Intelligence.

The intelligence is very advanced.

However, such information is still too far away for him at present.

The Eye of Intelligence even thoughtfully provided a method to kill the Great Black Dragon.

With its extreme cold power, it severed all nine of its heads at once!

No need for fancy processes.

It's like in the tutorial where the old man in the starting village tells you, "This is how you attack, this is how you dodge, this is how you heal." Okay, I've taught you everything. Go and kill the boss!

Realistic?
Unrealistic.

But it's impossible to say that Shi Ming wasn't tempted by the skills of that Saint-level sea beast.

Who can live without dreams?
We can only leave it for another day.

"Speaking of which, if I were to actually bathe in that dragon's blood, would I become like the mythical Daikokuten, with three heads and six arms?"

"No, no, it doesn't fit human aesthetics!"

Shi Ming was envisioning the future.

(End of this chapter)