Fast Travel: I Don't Want to Save the World

Chapter 229 The Era of Great Navigation (68)
Rose Bay is in the northeast of Victoria Island. After leaving Rose Bay, Rhodes' ship sailed to the south. They were about to officially enter the journey to explore the Lost City, the first stop - Poison Swamp.

Before entering the poisonous swamp, Pharmacist Flix finally took the initiative to walk out of the cabin and onto the deck.

Felix found Rhodes and gave him a few small bottles: "Before entering the Poison Swamp, everyone has a sip."

After speaking, Flix turned and returned to the cabin.

After he left, Ye Qing took the small bottle in Rhode's hand, uncorked the bottle, and squinted inside: "What is it, vomit..."

She put the bottle back in and went aft.

What Felix gave Rhodes in the vial should be an antidote for improving resistance or targeting the poison swamp, but the smell is really disgusting.

Not only Ye Qing felt this way, even Shi Yin and Rong Sheng couldn't stand the sour and bitter smell, not to mention Hu Yingfeng, who refused to drink this "devil's water", so none of the four of them could bear it. Drink Felix's Antidote.

But in order to cooperate with Rhodes' work and avoid listening to him talking, Ye Qing and the others pretended to take a sip.

In the afternoon of the second day, they came to the edge of the Poison Swamp.

Rhodes stood at the bow of the boat, pointed to the front, and said to Ye Qing: "The front is the Poison Swamp Sea!"

Looking from a distance, there is a cloud of smoke ahead.

It was really thick fog, and the visibility was very low. Once the boat entered, the distance between the boats was ten meters, and the boats in front and behind could not be found.

The poisonous swamp is full of thick fog and poisonous gas.

The poisonous gas is not fixed in a certain sea area. Even in the same course, you may encounter many different situations. No one knows where the poisonous gas comes from. I only know that if you inhale this poisonous gas for a long time, in addition to the symptoms of poisoning, it may even be life-threatening .

Moreover, the poisonous swamp belongs to the windless zone.

Once entering the sea area, the crew needs to enter the oar room to paddle. In the past, the more aerobic exercise the crew performed, the more air they inhaled, and the more toxic components in the air.

Fortunately, the Poison Swamp area is not big, so as long as you carry it over, you can smoothly enter the next stop - Ghost Domain.

The crew basically stayed in the oar room, and Leon and several gunners took turns on duty at the bow, paddling during the day and returning to the cabin to rest at night.

After traveling for three days, everyone stayed below except Leon who went to the bow of the boat that night.

Everyone gathered around to eat jerky, drink wine, and listen to stories told by the goatee man.

"Oh! I've heard your story three hundred times!" Green interrupted the goatee man.

"No, no, you have never heard of the story I'm going to tell next, because it's a true story."

"what story?"

"The legend of the sea monster. I remember it very clearly. It was on the west side of Victoria Island, the day before my 13th birthday. The weather was very good, the sun was shining, the sea breeze was mild, and the sea water was so clear that I could see the fish swimming below. Suddenly, the sea level was no longer calm, and the prodigal sons were getting higher and higher. Our boat swayed up and down with the waves, and the waves became bigger and bigger. I was almost thrown off the boat. There is a group of great white sharks in the sea, there are about seven or eight..."

Great white sharks have always preferred to travel alone, and great white sharks appearing in groups are rare.

The goatee man noticed the great white shark, but the great white shark did not attack their boat until night, when the weather was calm, the great white shark quietly circled around the boat.

The goatee uncle hurriedly notified the captain.

"The captain was an alcoholic, very drunk, and he didn't believe me, he said he'd never seen a school of sharks before."

Until the next day, they saw the body of the great white shark on the sea.

"Who can kill so many great white sharks?"

"We couldn't count the number of great white sharks, but at least three great white sharks died that night!"

Green asked, "The sea monster attacked the great white shark?"

"Could it be killer whales? Killer whales also appear in groups, sometimes there are dozens or twenty of them." Rong Sheng looked at the goatee man.

The great white shark is the overlord of the sea. When it comes to one-on-one fighting, it rarely has its opponents. Both the killer whale and the great white shark can be regarded as the top predators in the ocean. If the great white shark and the killer whale are similar in size, they have the same conditions. Under the circumstances, the overall strength of killer whales will be greater than that of great white sharks.

In addition, there is another creature in the ocean.

Rhodes also thought of a possibility: "Giant squid?"

The giant demon squid that Rhodes mentioned is actually the giant squid king.

The king squid has an extremely fierce temperament, feeds on fish and invertebrates, and can fight giant whales!

The great white shark is usually 6.5 meters long and weighs 3200 kilograms. The killer whale is 8-10 meters long and weighs about 9 tons. The giant squid is about 20 meters long and weighs about 2-3 tons. Wang Ze can grow up to 80 meters and weigh up to 50 tons!
In addition to killer whales, it may be the king squid who killed the great white shark.

"But don't giant monster squids only appear in the deep sea?"

"I heard that when a crew member was on night shift, they saw squid tentacles with a length of more than 20 meters sweeping across the deck, and it dragged the things it caught into the sea."

"Uncle Goatee, please announce the answer. Who is the sea monster?" Green looked anxious.

The man with the goatee laughed out loud when he saw him in such a hurry, and after laughing, his expression became a little more serious: "Of those great white sharks, only one was torn to pieces, and the rest are complete corpses, not disemboweled, just floating On the surface of the sea, I saw a layer of cold air coming from the bodies of the three great white sharks, and their bodies were frozen!"

"freeze?"

"I poked it with a stick, the great white shark is so hard!"

The situation at that time was so weird that no one dared to go into the sea to find out what happened. The man with the goatee got the courage, climbed to the side of the boat, and hooked the great white shark's body with a stick.

The temperature of the sea water is not low, even if it freezes, by the time they find the great white shark's body, it should have melted a long time ago, and it cannot be kept hard forever.

If it is still frozen, it means that they have been frozen for a long time, but the natural conditions and the level of science and technology at that time could not form this situation.

"We call that sea monster the Ice Origin Sea Monster!"

Hearing this, most people were just puzzled, how could such a thing happen, no one had the experience of the man with the goatee, and couldn't deeply understand his shock at that time.

Ke Rongsheng stared at the floor and became dazed.

The ice sea monster that the goatee man mentioned reminded him of the black monster he saw on the hillside outside the canyon where the cannibals were.

That monster can survive on land, and with scales on its body, it should also be able to inhabit the sea.

What exactly is that thing?
Why did it let him go that day?
The confusion in Rongsheng's heart seemed to never be answered.

(End of this chapter)