I'm extremely interested in Nen abilities.

Chapter 66 A Strange Drift

"quack……"

Two black crows circled in mid-air.

Below lay a pile of wrecked spaceships, interspersed among countless densely packed "Palstons" forming a "small island." In front of one of the spaceship wrecks, a little gray rock finch perched on Jingyang's shoulder chirped in annoyance at him while nodding repeatedly as if starving, pecking at the food Xiaodi offered.

The crow circled a few times before finally swooping down towards the blood-red beach of Pa Island.

Shark fins swam in the blood-red sea. As the crow flew close to the surface, the sea suddenly broke open, and an enormous shark head emerged, its gaping maw snapping at the crow that had unwittingly walked into its trap. But the crow lightly flapped its wings, abruptly stopping in mid-air, and tossed a bubble from its claws into the shark's gaping maw before fluttering away.

The shark swallowed the "flying star bubble" whole and silently dived underwater.

Not far away, another crow did the same thing: a swoop, a shark surface, a sudden stop, a bomb drop, and a dash...

Suddenly, the surface of the sea, now missing two shark fins, was churning with blood-red waves. Underwater, the silhouettes of many sharks could be vaguely seen swimming swiftly, weaving and colliding back and forth... After a while, the entire blood-red sea became completely quiet. A little while later, one shark fin after another surfaced in the bloody water, swimming in an orderly line towards the shore of "Pa Island".

On the shore, Jing Yang was feeding the rock sparrow while addressing the survivors: "Anyway, that's the situation. Because of the Phantom Troupe, the spaceship had a minor accident and exploded. We were also a bit lucky to survive. You've now made contact with the mainland, and I believe you'll be able to receive rescue orders soon..."

"Aren't you going to wait for rescue together?" someone mustered up the courage to ask.

Jing Yang nodded and said, "That's right. I'll take one of the three lifeboats. As for food and water, just enough for one meal is fine."

Everyone looked stunned.

Jing Yang directly ordered Kubi, "Hey, copy the lifeboats."

Before Kubi could even react, his body had already sprung into action. He walked to a lifeboat that had already been inflated, pressed his left hand down, and with his right hand facing the open space—an open space composed of countless "Paristons"—he unleashed a surge of Nen that had recovered considerably, instantly materializing one identical inflatable lifeboat after another.

Before the crowd could even process their astonishment, they witnessed this amazing change.

Fortunately, with Paliston Island beneath our feet as a prime example, the scene of these lifeboats multiplying like crazy suddenly seemed rather ordinary...

With so many lifeboats, even if we don't wait for rescue, we can each take one and row to land!

Everyone was immediately excited, but before the excitement could spread, Jing Yang said again, "I'd like to give you a friendly reminder: these replicas can only exist for a maximum of 24 hours." He took out his phone, which had a poor signal, and glanced at it. "It's almost 7 a.m. now, which means that after 6 a.m. tomorrow, this 'Pariston Island' we're standing on will slowly disappear, and around 7 a.m. tomorrow, these replica lifeboats will also disappear."

"This boy is quite familiar with my abilities..."

"He knows the Phantom Troupe's abilities very well..."

After copying the lifeboat, Kubi and Paliston, who had been observing from the sidelines, thought the same thing.

Jingyang was thinking that the spaceship was originally scheduled to arrive at its destination around 8 o'clock, but it exploded around 6 o'clock...

With a flight time difference of 2 hours, I estimate that it's not too far from land.

At this stage, I don't want to deal with any official agencies too much. Who knows which special forces are coming to conduct the search and rescue?

His identity was either completely unregistered like in Meteor City, or a "baby" who was registered on the world server and was related to the Kakin royal family, yet not related to them, and theoretically should be no more than six months old... No matter which outcome it was, Jingyang didn't want to cause any more trouble before reaching his destination.

Why is it so difficult to just take a plane trip?

From now on, it's best to avoid riding on these damn spaceships if possible...

"...So, if anyone wants to leave in these lifeboat replicas, they should be prepared." Jing Yang said, then suddenly glanced at the silent Kubi, "Make sure to copy all the food too, copy as much as you can."

Kubi did as instructed.

In an instant, a mountain of food was piled up in front of everyone.

"Normally, food should be digested within a few hours after eating, so these replicated foods should actually be able to fill my stomach, right?" Jingyang thought to himself. In short, he'd done his small favor, given the necessary reminders, and he couldn't be bothered with anything else—so, time to leave!

"Little Di." Jing Yang waved his hand, released the three birds he had just fed into the sky, then hooked his foot and dragged the large inflatable lifeboat away, scraping along the "Paristone ground" all the way, before finally kicking it down onto the still bloody sea surface, and casually tossed Kubi up as well, which landed with a thud on the lifeboat and bounced twice.

Below the surface, sharks lurked around the lifeboats, ready to act as living propulsion devices at any moment...

Xiao Di picked up a few bags of food that were barely enough to fill her stomach and followed Jing Yang as they jumped onto the lifeboat that had been placed on the sea.

She exchanged a glance with Jingyang. In fact, at Jingyang's suggestion, she always kept a certain amount of clean water and food in her fish tank. She only asked those people for a little food, and it was just a token gesture.

Bang! The lifeboat rocked, and another person jumped aboard.

Jing Yang was exasperated and said angrily, "Hey, you pervert, don't you have anything better to do? We're really not that close!"

Paliston sat down with a smile, leaning against the edge of the lifeboat. "Don't worry about me. I just feel a connection with you guys—besides, if I insisted on hitching a ride with you, could you kick me off? Haha, you wouldn't have the ability, would you?"

Perhaps due to Paliston's involvement, some people who originally wanted to plead with Jingyang and Xiaodi and also wanted to hitch a ride on the big boss's coattails showed reluctance and hesitated.

Paliston has a bad reputation!

Sitting on this lifeboat, drifting on the vast ocean, if we can't find land for a long time, who knows if this unscrupulous lawyer with no bottom line will, in despair, incite Jingyang and Xiaodi, these two "superpowered individuals," to do something unspeakable that crosses the line of morality?

Soon, the approximately one hundred survivors on "Pa Island" split into two factions. More than half chose to stay on the island, which would gradually disappear by 6 a.m. the next morning, to await rescue, leaving behind one of the remaining two real lifeboats. The remaining small group chose to risk leaving, taking most of the replicated food and the replicated lifeboats, along with the other real lifeboat. They also collected a lot of supplies from the real spaceship, such as planks, flotation devices, life jackets, and life rings, which could serve as footholds in an emergency. Since there were many replicated lifeboats, each of them had several, enough to carry as many items as possible for unforeseen circumstances...

……

"Although your unpleasant demeanor has saved me a lot of trouble..."

On the other side, the lifeboat that left first resembled a small yacht, speeding across the sea and leaving a trail of white spray in its wake.

The lifeboat was speeding!

Meanwhile, inside the lifeboat that was "racing," Jing Yang was glaring at Paliston with deadpan eyes, saying, "But isn't your skin a little too thick?"

Paliston reclined comfortably, as if he were truly on vacation on a yacht, and chuckled, "Isn't this still quite spacious? Besides, I can still be of some use, like helping with navigation? Neither of you seem to have much formal education, so..."

He looked up and suddenly saw birds flying high in three directions. He laughed and said, "Haha, I almost forgot, you can control animals, just like the group of sharks that are pushing us across the sea."

Can't beat it!

Getting angry is the first thing you do!

Jing Yang took a deep breath, smiled and gave Paliston the middle finger, then turned to look at her. Kubi remained silent, seemingly no longer concerned about anything; while Xiao Di... Xiao Di had actually taken out her old book, which she had read and forgotten countless times, and started reading it. When she saw Jing Yang looking at her, she looked over in confusion.

"Can I borrow your leg to lie down for a bit?" he said.

"Oh." Xiao Di slightly raised her arms that were holding the book, letting Jing Yang lie down on his back and rest his head on her legs.

She looked down and saw Jingyang quickly close his eyes.

Xiao Di knew that Jing Yang was focusing all his attention on the three birds in the sky that were acting as scouts, using their wide field of vision at high altitudes to find the nearest land or island, and then controlling the sharks underwater to bring them ashore as quickly as possible...

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I don't know if Jingyang has a terrible sense of direction, or if they're just having really bad luck today...

They sailed on the sea for most of the day, encountering sudden changes in the sea's color and a series of huge waves. They struggled until the sun sank to the horizon and dusk was approaching. Finally, through the eyes of the rock sparrow, Jingyang saw a black island emerging on the horizon to the side.

My hands are numb from being squeezed, but I can finally take a breather!

Jingyang felt relieved and focused all his energy on controlling the shark swarm that had changed shifts several times underwater, pushing the lifeboat at top speed towards the island that Yan Que had discovered.

The saying "looking at a mountain makes a horse run itself to death" probably applies to the open sea as well. When "Jingyanque" saw the island, it was still light at night. By the time they arrived in the lifeboat at breakneck speed, the sky over the sea was completely dark, and the surface of the sea reflected a dazzling array of stars.

The speeding lifeboat cleaved through the starry sky, approaching the island ahead, which appeared particularly dark in the night. The outline of the island's undulating mountains resembled a giant beast lurking in the darkness...

Jingyang felt frustrated. This pitch-black island didn't look like a place with any human settlements.

Paliston stood up at some point, walked to Jingyang's side, and looked at the island that was getting closer and closer. Suddenly, he said, "You know what? I heard that... Greed Island, the game made by Nen users, is actually a real island."

"What do you mean?" Jing Yang looked at him with dead fish eyes, then at the island approaching in the night ahead.

Paliston smiled without saying a word.

……

On Greed Island, at the entrance to the game's starting village.

One of the game's developers, Yida, dressed like a female NPC with an AI art style, was typing away on her keyboard when suddenly her fingers stopped.

"There's an intruder..."

She instantly noticed something unusual about a spot near the island.

Chapter 67 You with those thick eyebrows and big eyes, are you even being reasonable?

The waters near the island's shore were too shallow, and the reefs made it impossible for the sharks to carry the lifeboats ashore. They could only give it a final push in the dark water to drift the lifeboats as close to the shore as possible. Then, under Jingyang's orders, they silently and swiftly disappeared underwater. Jingyang's final order was: after swimming for 10 minutes, do everything possible to destroy the star markers in each other's mouths. Ideally, all the star markers should disappear without a trace.

The reason for this is that whenever the person carrying the star is injured and activates the star's healing function, Jingyang will experience a slight sensation similar to a cough from QQ. In this situation, Jingyang can easily use the activated star to control the other person—even if the other person is not within his sight.

But if so many sharks are released back into the ocean, and they keep bumping into each other and getting scratches that trigger the star icon, wouldn't Jingyang be "harassed" every few days?

These sharks aren't like Wu Er (a character from a popular Chinese martial arts novel). Once they're used up, they naturally need to be cut up, to avoid having too many of your own starred items scattered around.

As the lifeboat drifted closer to the shore, Jingyang and Xiaodi jumped into the sea, and Kubi naturally followed suit.

The three of them, soaking wet, swam ashore one after another. Looking back, they saw the lifeboat swaying and drifting away into the distance, and Paliston was no longer on it.

"Who are you looking for?" Palston's voice rang out from the side, his face beaming with a smile even in the darkness. "It's not that far, you're not going to make yourselves look like drowning dogs, haha, sorry, I wasn't talking about you."

"Little Di." Jing Yang stared with dead fish eyes.

"Bulging-Eyed Fish, suck the seawater off us." Little Drop conjured a vacuum cleaner, sucking away countless water droplets from her and Jingyang's soaking wet bodies, instantly making their heavy, drenched clothes feel lighter. Little Drop quickly switched the vacuum cleaner's switch, its large mouth, tongue lolling out, aimed at Paliston, "Spit it on him."

Whoohoo!

A cloud of water mist was poured over Paliston, but he dodged it.

Jingyang and Xiaodi didn't expect to succeed; they were just teasing him.

As for Kubi, who was also soaking wet?

Jingyang knew he wasn't that kind of person...

Without his prompting, Shizuku wouldn't have shown such kindness to a stranger, even though Kubi was also from Meteor City like her.

The four of them slowly walked from the coast toward the island.

The night was pitch black, with only the stars overhead and the dim moonlight. It was February 2nd, a new moon, a pale crescent in the sky, its silvery light dim. The deep, secluded islands and the winding mountain ranges ahead resembled a silent, colossal beast waiting to devour them…

Three birds fluttered overhead.

With the help of the rock sparrow and two crows' wide-open view from above, Jing Yang could see the distant depths of the island, where the lights of a town could be faintly seen. At least it was not an uninhabited island, which reassured him a lot.

But when a tall, burly man slowly walked towards them from the dim light ahead, Jing Yang instantly felt uneasy, and even began to sink into unease.

He really wanted to kick that bastard Paliston a couple of times, to make sure his mouth was numb from all the jinxing.

The soft starlight and moonlight shone on the newcomer, who was dressed in shorts and a t-shirt that looked like he could run to the beach to surf at any moment, with bulging muscles that stretched the clothes too tight, spiky hair like that of Akira Sendoh, with a delinquent-looking fringe at the back of his head, and lastly, most importantly, those squinty eyes that looked anything but easy to mess with...

Who else could this be but Leiza, one of the developers of Greed Island?

Paliston's mouth must have been blessed at a Guanyin temple, right?