Endless Ocean: Escape Starting from a Canoe

Chapter 178: Luring Sea Beasts to Secure "Angel Round Investment"! (3k)

The Dayun is about to sail out of the mental realm of the nameless cocoon.

The young sea creature didn't have much time to think.

[Yes, I can retrieve complete information about it from my genetic memory! And its weaknesses!]

Does this sea monster have genetic memory?

Not simple.

“Great. By the way, I’ve also seen a sea monster before, called the Twilight Whale.”

Do you have information about it? You can give it to me as well.

"I believe you understand one thing: the stronger I am, the more opportunities I have to save you!"

"The more you help me, the more I will give back."

"In human society, this behavior is called angel investing, and it is the best choice for establishing win-win cooperation. You have become my investment monster, and I will not treat you unfairly."

【Humanity. 】

No, you're greedy.

Shi Ming shook his head.

"No, you're mistaken. I'm not being greedy; I'm simply confirming whether you, a sea creature, are trustworthy."

"Think about it carefully."

"All you've offered is some intelligence, which I might not even be able to use. Your intelligence might overlap with mine and be completely useless. You're unwilling to do something as simple as a few words? You know that rescuing you requires me to pay a huge price and take enormous risks. And you haven't given anything in return,"

"No promises, no responsibility, no initiative?"

"Then I really have to question whether you will keep the promises you made before?"

"I might go through all the trouble of rescuing you, only to have you swallow me whole."

"I am not an adventurous person."

[Okay! Here's the information.]

"Pleasant to work with."

The nameless cocoon trembled invisibly, creating invisible ripples on the seabed.

Shi Ming was the first straw it broke.

For decades, it has been suppressed in a bottomless rift valley. It is time for it to emerge from its cocoon, but it has been suppressed by the despicable humans and is unable to come out into the world!
It had been searching for creatures that could help it, but unfortunately, powerful sea beasts dared not approach this area, and weak, easily lured creatures could not hear its whispers. It had finally encountered one, and if it missed it, it didn't know when it would be able to find another.

It didn't want to miss this rare opportunity.

Just as that human said, it's just some intelligence, and it really doesn't require any real substance.

The cost is approximately zero.

Let's just consider this what he calls "angel investment".

I've learned a new word from humans.

While agreeing, it doesn't mean that the Nameless Cocoon will forgive Shi Ming's "blasphemy." It has decided that it will cooperate with this human on the surface, but once it escapes, it will definitely devour him!
This despicable behavior, or something it learned from humans, what's it called again?

To endure hardship and bide one's time?

Honeyed words concealing a dagger?

The language of lower organisms is complicated and difficult to understand!
The Nameless Cocoon searches for memories from its ancestors within its own genetic lineage. These chaotic memories are extremely complex and redundant, and in most cases, they are a burden to it. Even with its extremely strong mental power, it generally does not actively read them. Only during the years it was trapped after birth did it gain some targeted understanding of information, such as the method to deal with the "Sealed Prison" ranked 27th on the list of strange objects.

【found it. 】

Humanity, prepare to receive! Remember my gifts and investments.

Let's not forget our friendship.

The Nameless Cocoon was moved by its own "enduring hardship and biding its time," realizing that it had actually sacrificed too much and done too many things against its own conscience in order to escape this place and form a friendship with such inferior beings.

"rest assured!"

"You and I are destined to be in the same boat, facing the same enemy."

The nameless cocoon no longer whispers.

A large amount of information was transmitted into Shi Ming's mind in the form of images through mental power.

Shi Ming did not directly collect these images. Instead, he used his mental power to interpret them only after confirming that there were no traps.

The intelligence is entirely in the form of video footage, and is divided into two sections.

One is the whale at dusk.

Secondly, there is the three-eyed golden crow.

This intelligence not only includes battle data, but also some strange pictures, fragments and memories. In the process of deciphering them, Shi Ming can even clearly see the appearance, details, detailed attack methods and weaknesses of the sea monsters, as if he were really facing these two powerful sea monsters.

Shi Ming blinked.

This nameless cocoon is truly a treasure!
The angel round investment was rather meager, and the benefits extracted from it were not much.

There was no other way; this was its first interaction with humans, and it was still very wary. If Shi Ming hadn't been the first straw it had seen in all these years, it might not have gone all in and placed its bets on humans.

"If we can find a way to get our hands on its memories or blood in the future, that would be a real huge investment!"

"Let's squeeze it again when we have another chance!"

Shi Ming is well-versed in the art of investment.

The Dayun bullet train sped up and gradually moved away from black gold.

……

Shi Ming carefully examined the fragments of memory he had acquired.

A golden bird was born from a stellar explosion, resembling a miniature sun. "The Three-Eyed Golden Crow."

"The old man on that merchant ship mentioned the sun that a certain A-level Awakened saw in the Boiling Sea. Was that the sea beast?"

"The culprit behind the extremely high temperature of the boiling seawater."

"A special creature born from an asteroid, a bird-like ferocious beast about 5 meters long and shining like the sun. Its blood is golden, its body is scorching hot, its surface temperature can reach over 600 degrees Celsius, its blood temperature can reach over 1500 degrees Celsius, its heart temperature can reach over 3000 degrees Celsius, and it has extremely strong radioactivity."

"The area covered by golden feathers has extremely high defensive capabilities."

"They possess extremely high spirituality and are said to be able to foresee future events and avoid misfortune. However, this cannot be verified."

"The weakness lies in the heart. If a sharp object penetrates the body's surface defenses and pierces the heart, its high-temperature core will explode, causing it to fall naturally."

"Bathe in blood after the kill,"

"It can awaken the [Great Sun Wheel], which is ranked 54th on the S-class skill list."

"After killing it, eat its heart and third eye,"

"It can awaken the [Great Prophecy], which is ranked 45th on the S-class skill list."

Like Xuanwu, a sea beast can provide two skills.

Shi Ming was not surprised.

There are over a hundred skills on the S-rank skill ranking list, but in reality, there aren't that many S-rank sea monsters.

On the rankings, some S-rank skills are obtained through special methods. For example, the White Dragon Whale's "Whale Fall" comes from the power of an A-rank sea beast. Another example is the "Third Law" of the Formless Pure Ice, which comes from a rare artifact.

Some sea monsters can provide several skills, such as Xuanwu's "Xuanwu Shield" and "Death Situation".

And so it is with the three-eyed golden crow.
"It sounds like it won't be too difficult to kill."

"If the description of phaseless pure ice is correct, then its high temperature can be easily solved. Although I cannot withstand the blood temperature of nearly 1500 degrees, I can withstand the low temperature of minus 45 degrees. With the first characteristic of phaseless pure ice, I can fearlessly face the high temperature of the boiling sea and strike straight at the heart of the enemy."

"But the difficulty lies in,"

"If this sea beast could truly foresee the future and avoid misfortune, it would certainly not confront a powerful enemy directly, thus putting itself in a deadly predicament."

"..."

As for the information about the Twilight Whale, it highly overlaps with the information provided by the Eye of Intelligence.

Three states, three skills.

Death is unavoidable, and entropy is inescapable.

When Ragnarok is unleashed, a horrific scene of mountains of corpses and seas of blood will unfold, symbolizing the end of the gods and foreshadowing the birth of new life from death.

The difference is that these are all film clips.

The reason for requesting information about the Twilight Whale from the Nameless Cocoon was to corroborate each other's findings.

Who knows what malicious intentions a sea beast might harbor? By comparing the information from the Twilight Whale with his own existing intelligence, if the information provided by the Nameless Cocoon fundamentally contradicts the information from the Eye of Information, then Shi Ming wouldn't trust its other statements.
If there is no conflict, then the information about the Three-Eyed Golden Crow will be much more valuable.

Of course, for Shi Ming, apart from the intelligence from the Eye of Intelligence, the intelligence he obtains from others is only of reference value.

That's it.

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black gold.

"Second Commander, we just detected that the nameless cocoon beneath the deep sea has been moving abnormally for nearly 10 minutes. Its frequency is different from all the previous ones, and it seems to be a distress signal."

"A distress signal?"

The second commander looked up and adjusted his glasses.

This is a dark-skinned woman in her thirties with a strong scholarly air. She is also an S-class Awakener and one of Black Gold's top combatants.

"If it really calls for help, that would be a good thing. A new, killable S-class sea monster would add new combat power to our Black Gold! So we won't be short-handed for many things."

Over the years, they have paid a heavy price for guarding this S-class sea monster that cannot be killed and requires a lot of resources.

It has also endured a lot of criticism.

But they really don't care.

The Black Gold's original intention was to silently wait and watch.

Someone always has to bear the burden.

But if we could turn this nameless cocoon into a sea monster trap, that would be quite good.

They've always had this plan.

It's a pity that they've never managed to trap one.

"Ugh!"

The second commander put down his glasses and lay down in the rocking chair.

"When will we be able to completely get rid of this scourge?!"

She also wanted to take a proper vacation, to board a modest little boat, and leave this hot place.

Go to Europe and experience its freedom and romance;
Go to the Dragon Kingdom and experience Mount Everest, the only private land in the land era;

Visit the ruins of Mount Bugyeong and admire the famous Kaisheng cherry blossoms;
Then head to the zero-degree icy sea to experience firsthand what the extreme cold of nature truly feels like.

Although the scenery on the endless ocean is quite similar, all being vast seas, there are still some differences.

She began to daydream...

(End of this chapter)