Endless Ocean: Escape Starting from a Canoe

Chapter 172 "Ragnarok" and "Formless Pure Ice"

"captain!"

"The Captain is back!"

When the crew saw Shi Ming in the distance, they were as excited as lost fish returning to their flock. The people on this adrift ship once again had a leader.

Shi Ming also returned to his loyal Dayun ship.

"During the days I was away, was there anything unusual?" Shi Ming changed into clean clothes and asked Shi Dun, Lin Hai, and Huang Pao, who were in charge of security and basic operations on the ship during this period.

"Captain, everything is as usual. There are no enemy attacks or sea monsters. The crew is following your previous instructions and is waiting here for your return."

"That's good."

Shi Ming nodded.

It has activated stealth mode. Unless it encounters a general-class drifting ship, drifting ships of a lower class than the Great Yun will not be able to detect its presence even if they sail past it.

Most of the exploration team members on this ship became D-level Awakened.

As the captains of the exploration team, Shi Dun and Lin Hai are both C-level Awakeners. With the firepower system of the Dayun, as long as they don't encounter a general-level drifting ship or a powerful A-level sea monster, even without Shi Ming, their combat power can easily solve any trouble.

Shi Ming tidied himself up briefly, ate something lightly, and savored the delicious food.

"Call all the crew members; we'll have a meeting on deck later."

After five days of not being able to appear or be contacted, the crew members were naturally on edge, and some inevitably began to have unfounded speculations. Under such circumstances, from any perspective, a meeting to boost morale was necessary.

and,

Shi Ming felt it was necessary to raise the overall combat capability of the Dayun ship to a new level.

This way, even if a similar situation arises again in the future, he can confidently hand over the ship to his subordinates temporarily without any worries.

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"Has the Pharaoh been making any unusual moves lately? Has it posted any bounties or anything like that on the Hunter Terminal?"

Having tasted the sweetness of bounties, Shi Ming could not forget that feeling.

"No, and we have been keeping track of some intelligence about the Yellow Sand Sea through the Ganges. Since then, the Pharaoh has just been quietly repairing the ship and has not taken any action against us. It seems that it has swallowed this loss in silence."

is it?

Shi Ming didn't believe it at all.

As everyone knows,

The enemy is acting quietly, they must be up to no good.

The Pharaoh suffered such a loss, losing a hard-won S-class Awakened and losing face. Given Ptolemy's style of doing things, how could he possibly swallow such a bitter pill?

Moreover, once the Lighthouse receives its information, it will undoubtedly seize this opportunity to cooperate with the Pharaoh and exact revenge.

A storm is probably on its way.

correct.

Let there be light.

In the past few days in the star system, he has been unable to receive any information from the outside world. The energy of his light-based communicator has also been completely depleted and has not yet been replenished. He will replenish its energy later.

And that stone tablet...

Having mastered the mysterious language, Shi Ming was eager to decipher what was recorded on the "Divine Revelation Stele" that the legendary sorceress had given to the Scorpion King. After adjourning the meeting, he immediately returned to his office from the deck.

Taking out a piece of sea crystal, Shi Ming replenished the communicator's energy while retrieving the stone tablet he obtained from the Scorpion King's Pyramid from the system's inventory.

The two-meter-high stone tablet is engraved with dense characters.

After sleeping in an empty tomb for thousands of years, it has finally reappeared in this world.

The inscriptions on the stone tablet share the same origin as the inscriptions learned by the Stone Inscription Society. However, the twelve tablets in the star field are like word roots or dictionaries, lacking any specific meaning and only suitable for teaching. In contrast, the inscriptions on this Divine Revelation Tablet, arranged and combined, can be interpreted to reveal extremely valuable information.

He began to decipher the text on it.

"The Monument of Divine Revelation, Part Three"

"author,……"

The last two characters were deliberately damaged, and the author is unknown.

Shi Ming analyzed these characters and interpreted them into the current language.

"The method for making the Puppet Core".

"Four tips to improve physical fitness using starlight."

"The evolution of ferocious beasts..."

"Ok?"

"There are peculiar natural crystals in the world that contain immense and unique energy. Ferocious beasts can devour these crystals. If they can withstand the immense energy within, they can absorb the crystal's power and evolve even more powerful skills. Furthermore, by utilizing certain countermeasures, the survival rate of the ferocious beast can be increased, reducing the possibility of it exploding and dying..."

Shi Ming was stunned.

He remembered that formless pure ice.

According to the description of the Brain of Creation, as long as Shi Ming eats it, withstands its extreme cold energy, and survives for 120 seconds, he can obtain the 29th ranked S-level skill, the Third Law!

In this light, it appears to be exactly the same method as recorded on this stone tablet!
In a sense, humans are also a kind of ferocious beast.

Even more advanced ferocious beasts.

"It is likely that the ancient Scorpion King, under the guidance of the mysterious sorceress, used the methods on the stone tablet and the crystals he obtained to cultivate the ferocious giant scorpion and create the puppet core for conquering and controlling the beast. This is how he became invincible in battle, transforming Mora City from a desolate place into the infamous and fearsome city of King's Landing."

So, how can we improve the survival rate?
As for the Formless Pure Ice, with its absolute zero temperature, how could Shi Ming withstand such a low temperature and survive being swallowed? Even with the Xuanwu's abilities, he couldn't do it. After all, the Xuanwu Shield and the "Put Yourself in a Deadly Situation" technique could only keep him alive for 75 seconds, which was far from the 120 seconds required by the Formless Pure Ice!
He then read the inscription on the stone tablet and interpreted it in modern language.

"The inscription on the stone tablet says, 'Hedge.'"

The inscription on the stone tablet offered a solution.

It evokes a sense of mutual generation and restraint among all things.

"Extreme cold versus extreme heat?"

"No, perhaps it's entropy increase versus entropy decrease? Judging from the Twilight Whale's reaction that day, it's very likely that the Twilight Whale and the Formless Pure Ice complement each other. Moreover, the Eye of Intelligence also said that if the Twilight Whale swallows the Formless Pure Ice, it can evolve into a completely new form of super sea beast!"

These two are completely different.

If the formless pure ice represents extreme cold, then Shi Ming might find a solution in the boiling sea. But if the formless pure ice represents entropy reduction, then he might have to go and cause trouble for the "twilight whale".

The Twilight Whale can be upgraded and evolved.

He might be able to!
If you kill the Twilight Whale, bathe in its blood, awaken the "Ragnarok" skill, and then swallow the Formless Pure Ice, perhaps that great opportunity will fall into your lap!

He wrote this down.

If given the opportunity, it's not impossible to take action.

(End of this chapter)