After hearing their answers, I pondered for a moment.
Although our relationship was currently very delicate, we were, after all, grasshoppers on the same rope, and they had no reason to deceive me.
"Are you dead or not? If not, go row the boat!"
I kicked the man lying on the ground. This guy was ready-made labor. If he wanted to survive with us, he had to show his worth.
The man squirmed and took the oar.
A trace of venom flashed in his eyes. Although he thought he was hiding it well, I still saw it.
This guy was still not honest even in this situation!
I sneered inwardly. If he behaved, I might spare his life. But if he tried any tricks, don't blame me for being ruthless.
"By the way, what did your boat run into?"
I asked the woman expressionlessly.
Upon hearing my question, a hint of fear flashed in the eyes of the remaining woman, as if she didn't want to recall the recent encounter.
"There's something underwater ahead!"
Hmm?
My heart skipped a beat, and I quickly pressed for details.
The woman told me intermittently that they had been sailing smoothly at sea, and nothing had happened.
But when the fog rolled in, their captain felt something was wrong. It seemed like something was following them in the sea.
This made them very worried, and they even used searchlights to carefully inspect the surrounding waters.
But they found nothing.
At first, she thought their captain was just being overly sensitive, but suddenly a strange force surged from beneath their boat!
A massive monster overturned their boat. They didn't even get a clear look at what it looked like.
"After I fell into the water, I saw many people being eaten by that thing. Its shadow alone was as tall as three or four stories!"
As she spoke, the woman's hands were still trembling. It seemed the monster had indeed left her with a significant psychological scar.
I listened to her words, my brow furrowed.
Could it be that this sea area was the monster's territory?
I felt uneasy. To my knowledge, the largest known marine creatures were blue whales, which were only about thirty meters long.
Moreover, blue whales lived in the deep sea and would not venture close to the shore.
And according to the woman, we were already very close to the deserted island, so this was clearly not an area where blue whales would be found.
I thought for a long time but couldn't find any marine creature in my memory that matched the monster the woman described.
However, no matter what it was, I only needed to know that it was active in front of us.
"Hurry up and go around it!"
I sternly ordered the man rowing the boat. The ocean was the monster's domain. If we encountered it, we would likely suffer the same fate as the company's employees.
Knowing there was danger ahead and charging forward was something only a fool would do.
Guided by the woman, we attempted to skirt the area ahead and proceed towards the deserted island in a roundabout way.
After her boat capsized, the woman had no food on her, but she managed to bring out a device.
This device was quite remarkable. Though only palm-sized, it could clearly indicate the correct direction in this area of magnetic interference.
While we were traveling, the man rowing suddenly fainted.
It seemed to be due to excessive blood loss.
I grew impatient. We only needed one guide, and this man's sole value was as labor.
Now that he had fainted, he was merely a burden to us.
I took the oar from his hand and tried to throw it into the sea with a strong push, but suddenly I felt a sense of being watched!
Just as the woman had described earlier!
At this moment, it wasn't just me who felt this way; I could clearly see the tension on everyone else's faces.
The two sisters were relatively better, but the woman's eyes were now glazed over, and her whole body was trembling uncontrollably.
"It's coming... it's coming!"
Seeing that the woman could no longer control her emotions, I feared she might act irrationally, so I efficiently knocked her unconscious with a chop to the neck.
The moments when danger is slowly approaching us are the most agonizing, because you never know when it will appear.
I pinched my thumb hard, trying to calm myself down.
Against a monster several stories tall, we had no effective means to fight it, let alone in the ocean.
It was likely that the moment it attacked, our boat would capsize and we would all perish.
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but feel a sense of despair. Was I, who had braved so many storms, going to meet my end in this vast ocean?!