However, knowing that he was going to sea, Bai Ye also did some emergency studying of nautical knowledge.
Under the current circumstances, Bai Ye could not reverse the situation. What should he do?
It was simple: find a landmark.
It was not easy to find a landmark in the vast ocean, but it was not impossible. The most direct would be an island.
Once an island was found and cross-referenced with a sea chart, one could roughly determine their position.
Secondly, as long as one kept moving in a single direction, they would eventually reach the boundary of the region. Although it was still the open sea beyond the boundary, at least they could consult the sea chart and know their approximate location in several directions.
For now, all Bai Ye could do was wait. Until he found a landmark and could determine his position, there was nothing else he could do.
Alternatively, Bai Ye thought it might be a good idea to defeat two more sea beasts and trigger the next stage of the hidden mission. Perhaps the subsequent mission content could provide some hints.
As Bai Ye pondered, he leaned back on Dragoni's back. Since he had nothing else to do, he hadn't drawn from the gachapon machine today.
Thinking to himself, Bai Ye summoned the gachapon machine.
The moment the gachapon machine was about to be tossed into the sea, Bai Ye snapped his fingers. A stream of water rose from the sea's surface, catching the falling machine.
The indigenous people's mystical gachapon drawing method couldn't be used. After all, where could he find any indigenous people in the vast ocean? So, Bai Ye had to do it himself.
Then...
A green egg...
Another day where one's head might be adorned with green, but life would go on.
Bai Ye was too lazy to even look at what it was. He casually broke open the gachapon and tossed it into the sea, then drew the second one.
Well, well, an old acquaintance appeared.
Great Inventor (Supernatural) (White): Every hour, can randomly invent a piece of technology.
A sense of grief and indignation welled up in Bai Ye's heart. It was bad enough that it gave him trash, but giving him the worst kind of trash was too much.
With a sigh, Bai Ye consumed a fragment of a God Stone to draw a golden gachapon.
This time, it was acceptable. No surprises, no shocks.
A sword called Kiri's Reflection, which could boost all elemental damage and apply an "Ink Seal of Kiri" to the weapon. With the stacking of the seal, it could further increase the elemental damage of the weapon being used.
It was the bottom-tier golden quality weapon, one that suited its wielder.
However, to be fair, for those who primarily frequented magical regions, this sword would be incredibly powerful.
This was because everything and abilities in magical regions emphasized elemental damage, and Kiri's Reflection could boost all elemental damage by 24%. When the latter seal was stacked to its maximum, it could further increase the elemental damage of the weapon being used by 56%.
Therefore, Bai Ye's assessment was: in the right hands, this thing was devastating.
In the wrong hands, it was utterly useless.
In Bai Ye's hands, it was passable. The elemental damage from the weapon itself couldn't trigger Kiri's Reflection, but Bai Ye's Rumble-Rumble Fruit could certainly be considered elemental and trigger the effect.
However, Bai Ye didn't care much. What difference did it make to instantly kill someone with one strike versus two?
What Bai Ye cared more about was that this item was a weapon, which meant Steel Slime could grow stronger, the King's Treasure gained a new member, and the Two-Yin Wheel had more to eat.
Having gone through the motions, Bai Ye put away the gachapon machine and yawned, intending to sleep. But at that moment...
Dragoni raised its head and let out a cry, then slowly reduced its speed.
Bai Ye turned around, hugged Dragoni's neck, and asked, "What's going on?"
Dragoni cried out twice, then lowered its head to look at the sea surface.
Bai Ye followed Dragoni's gaze and saw that large amounts of brown liquid were floating on the sea.
Bai Ye sniffed and then scooped up some of the seawater.
"Is this diesel?"
Bai Ye frowned. Diesel in the sea?
Bai Ye peered down and then realized it wasn't just diesel.
There were many things floating on the sea. As Dragoni moved forward, a huge metal shell drifted towards Bai Ye.
The metal shell was like an irregular cylinder, feeling like the outer casing of something. Nearby were some shattered metal pieces.
It looked like something had been blown to pieces, because Bai Ye saw scorch marks around many of the metal fragments, as well as dents formed by impact.
"Is it a ship?"
Bai Ye thought it was unlikely.
Bai Ye couldn't identify what these things would form when put together, but the metal shell and the surrounding shattered metal plates were reddish-purple.
No ship would paint itself in such a color, right?
As Bai Ye was thinking, another piece of metal floated past him.
"No way?" Bai Ye said in surprise as he looked at the object. "Are you kidding me?"
Floating past Dragoni was a section of a metal finger.
The metal finger was about three meters long. Looking inside the broken part, one could still see sparking cables.
A finger, so huge, metal, with cables...
An image involuntarily flashed in Bai Ye's mind.
If lightsabers were the romance of men, then this thing was the ultimate romance of men.
What boy wouldn't love mechs?
None, right? Probably none!
However, the things in front of Bai Ye were clearly not a complete mech. Or, more accurately, they were the remnants of a damaged mech.
In fact, a damaged mech was even more shocking to Bai Ye than a complete one.
Super-grade quality!
There were certainly strong and weak mechs, but...
All mechs were of super-grade quality, that was undeniable, because there were no complete mechs.
Not even the gachapon machine could dispense a complete mech!
So, a mech had been destroyed?
As Bai Ye was pondering, he suddenly felt something was wrong. He looked down and his eyebrows couldn't help but twitch.
A huge dark shadow glided past from the seabed, forming a massive silhouette.
Bai Ye leaped up immediately, took out the beast taming ball, and said, "Dragoni, come back!"
The beast taming ball glowed, and then Dragoni returned to the ball.
And at that very moment...
With a roar!
The sea surface split open, and a colossal sea beast suddenly surged from the depths, its jaws opening to swallow Bai Ye.
*Sizzle!*
Bai Ye's figure flickered, turning into a bolt of lightning and moving hundreds of meters back. He then waved his hand downwards, and the sea immediately churned, pushing up a giant wave that caught Bai Ye.
Before Bai Ye was a monstrous sea beast, estimated to be between 130 to 150 meters tall. It resembled a standing bull, with a body covered in hard, metallic-sheened armor. Its head had horn-like protrusions, and it possessed thick forelimbs and a massive tail.
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