Endless Ocean: Escape Starting from a Canoe

Chapter 140 The Twilight Whale's Thousand-Mile Chase!

"Captain, something terrible has happened! The Dayun has run aground!"

"Ok?"

Upgrading the Formless Pure Ice artifact took too much time.

From the initial preparations to the upgrade process requiring the mental power of the Creative Brain, Shi Ming maintained a focused state throughout.

Therefore, the phaseless pure ice had been outside for about thirty minutes. The captain's cabin was relatively independent, located on the side closest to the sea. The cold it emitted caused the temperature of the ship's hull on that side to continue to drop. After reaching a critical point, it actually froze the seawater that was difficult to freeze...

Shi Ming carefully put away the treasure ranked 48th and left the captain's cabin.

It's just frozen; we can break it open.

It was nearly 7 p.m. at this moment.
It was dusk...

The orange-red sunset was reflected on the boundless sea, and the ice refracted the blood-red evening glow, creating an indescribable poignant beauty.

"It really did freeze."

"wrong,"

"Why does it feel weird?"

Shi Ming's heart suddenly skipped a beat.

His keen insight has always been very high.

He glanced into the distance.

A sea breeze blew by, bringing with it a faint, almost imperceptible stench of decay!

"That smell?"

"The carrion whale of Greenland?"

"No way? They're so far apart!"

"Prepare to accelerate, head south, full speed ahead!"

He swiftly leaped onto the ice, unleashing his full A-level skill, Ice Annihilation. The solidified ice suddenly shattered into chunks, no longer hindering the Great Fortune's voyage.

"speed!"

Although it has not been confirmed yet,
But once it's confirmed, it might be too late.

He was very familiar with this putrid smell; it was from the putrid whale he had encountered before. It was an incredibly imposing S-class sea monster, half perfect and half rotten, with a body length of 230 meters, twice the size of a deep-sea Titan!
"Rotten Whale" was just a nickname given to it by Shi Ming.

Its real name is "Twilight Whale".

Even at his peak, Shi Ming had to avoid his sharp edge without intelligence or help.

Currently, both "Titan's Descent" and "Death's Threat" are on cooldown. With a Power Arm, Xuanwu Shield, and the A-level skill Ice Annihilation, no matter how confident Shi Ming is, he will not confront it head-on!

Not to mention, he also brought a whole boatload of people with him.

With a rumble, the Yun-yuan rocket has restarted.

He jumped onto the ship, took out the Endless Sea Map, infused it with his S-rank awakened power, and examined the map with a serious expression.

"really!"

A black spot is rapidly moving towards its current location in "Northern Ireland"!
The map of the endless sea has a scale of 1:3000 million. One centimeter on the map represents 162 nautical miles in reality. Right now, the black spot is only three millimeters away from me.

Fortunately, Shi Ming was quite perceptive!
The Yun-yuan freight train roars and starts moving at full speed!
"I reckon the sea beast sensed it from afar not long after I took out the Formless Pure Ice."

"I never expected it to be so sensitive to the Formless Pure Ice. It was the same last time; it was able to detect it even from such a great distance?"

Shi Ming frowned, deep in thought.

They seem to have a strong connection.

The formless pure ice, hailed as a "perfect crystal" by the Brain of Creation, is used to awaken a skill called the "Third Law," which seems to involve entropy reduction in thermodynamics.

The rotting whale, half intact and half decaying, likely represents the "second law" of thermodynamics, namely "entropy increase," suggesting that things inevitably and irreversibly decay and rot.

"Could this be the connection between them?"

Shi Ming's head was throbbing with pain.

"Now that things have come to this, let's think of a way to get out of this!"

The Rotten Whale had a clear objective: it was after the Formless Pure Ice. Even after the Formless Pure Ice was put away, it continued its relentless pursuit, seemingly determined to achieve its goal and not give up until it succeeded.

Perhaps I could ride the Sun-Shooting Ship, carrying the Phaseless Pure Ice, and use its extreme speed to lure it away? This would effectively prevent the loss of the Great Fortune Ship.

Shi Ming was already planning his next move.

He looked at the sea map. The Dayun continued to head south, and the speed of the Rotten Whale did not seem to be as fast as before.

Are you tired?

"Is it because the seawater temperature here is not suitable for its swimming?"

"Perhaps there is still a chance."

In theory, heading to the location of the Twelve Stars at this moment would be the safest option, but the sea monsters are currently located more than 30 nautical miles due north of them, while the Twelve Stars are located more than 400 nautical miles northeast of them. Taking a detour to the Twelve Stars would be extremely risky.

Why not head south?
This carrion whale is a polar animal.
The further south it goes, the more disadvantageous it becomes; it definitely won't be able to catch up for long.

Roar……

Shi Ming heard the whale's roar again.

The sound didn't seem to originate from the vocal cords; rather, it sounded like a high-frequency vibration of energy and seawater. In that instant, a bleak, apocalyptic scene of twilight flashed through his mind: gods falling in the twilight, and new gods being conceived within it…

Strangely, the other crew members couldn't hear it at all.

They couldn't smell the stench of decay in the air; they simply believed that following the captain's orders was always the right thing to do.

Shi Ming leaped onto the Sun-Shooting Ridge and soared into the sky.

The sea was calm and still.

The setting sun at dusk was exactly the same as the day the gods fell in Shi Ming's mind.

The sea monster didn't venture out to sea, but relentlessly pursued the predator in the deep waters. Even so, the atmosphere on the surface of the sea was quite oppressive. With his eyes closed, Shi Ming even felt that the entire sea area had become a desolate battlefield littered with mountains of corpses, an apocalypse of blood and steel...

Its speed decreased slightly, seemingly unaccustomed to the temperature here.

It dived back into the deep sea.

But they still relentlessly pursued them!
Never give up!

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Five hours later.

???

"You've got real perseverance! If I'd known, I should have taken the detour north to the Twelve Stars from the start, and shown you the power of a King-class drifting ship!"

"I already put away the Formless Pure Ice a long time ago, why are you still chasing after it?"

The starry night was dazzling; the Twilight Whale followed the Dayun for more than ten nautical miles.
It's like a wild dog chasing a piece of fat meat that can run away, holding on tightly and refusing to let go.

Shi Ming took a deep breath. He had been on high alert all this time, constantly monitoring the movements of the S-class sea monster in the deep sea. He had originally thought that this decaying whale would give up after chasing him for a few minutes, just like last time, and return to its lair to continue its deep sleep.

But perhaps because the Formless Pure Ice had been repaired, its attractiveness had increased exponentially, making this decaying whale extremely persistent.

They actually chased him all the way from Northern Ireland to Greece!

If the deep-sea titan from the Olympus Ruins hadn't already died, the two S-class sea monsters might have had an epic encounter and a decisive battle.

"Any ordinary drifting boat would have been swallowed up by you long ago."

"but,"

"If you can't increase your speed any further, the situation will soon turn around!"

He had used his Creative Brain to upgrade the Dayun, increasing its speed to a certain extent. Although not by much, it was enough to break the deadlock and shake off the persistent sea monster.

What was originally a close race will soon be changed!
"Keep accelerating!"

"I refuse to believe that you, a creature from within the Arctic Circle, could chase me across the Mediterranean Sea to the Tropic of Cancer."

and,

Even if this whale truly possesses great perseverance,

Even if you chase it across the Tropic of Cancer and across the equator, you can't possibly give up that formless pure ice!
If you push me too far, even if I'm not entirely confident, I'll still show it what I'm made of after the 24-hour cooldown period.
Who is the King of the Sea Monsters of Europe?!

(End of this chapter)