I was just fishing, how did I become a Great Old One?

The vast sea of ​​stars is silent.

The Black Pearl, like a well-fed black behemoth, is lazily sailing on its way to Saturn.

Although the view outside the window is the dark, desolate depths of space that would leave ordinary people in despair, the spaceship's dining room is bustling with activity and filled with delicious aromas.

"Come on! Freshly made 'Crystal Shrimp Paste'! Be careful, it's hot!"

Lei Meng carried a porcelain bowl larger than a washbasin, filled with translucent, pink, and bouncy shrimp balls. These balls bobbed in the boiling broth, each one radiating an enticing sheen.

This is the spoils from the previous stop on Europa—the meat of that S-class crystal behemoth.

After Jiang Li's careful processing, the hard crystalline impurities in the meat were removed, leaving only the tenderest muscle fibers. After being pounded and refined into shrimp paste, the juice of Mars Meat Sunflower was added to increase its viscosity. Finally, it was formed into these super shrimp balls that are big enough to bounce a table tennis ball.

"Let me try it first!"

Wang Ergou couldn't wait to pick up a piece and, ignoring the heat, stuffed it directly into his mouth.

"Pfft—"

The moment your teeth break through the skin, a burst of hot and sweet juice explodes in your mouth.

"Mmm!!! So bouncy! So fresh!"

Wang Ergou hissed as he was burned, but couldn't bear to spit it out, and mumbled incoherently:

"This is practically the ultimate evolution of the 'pissing beef ball'! And this meat... this meat actually has a cooling aftertaste? It's warm when you eat it, but cool when you swallow it, it's amazing!"

"Nonsense, that's a specialty from 20,000 meters below the ice, it naturally possesses extreme cold properties."

Jiang Li sat in the main seat, with a plate of even more premium-grade crystal sashimi in front of him.

It was meat cut from the most prized part of the giant beast's back, as thin as a cicada's wing and extremely translucent. He didn't dip it in soy sauce or wasabi, but rolled it up and put it directly into his mouth.

That pure, deep-sea sweetness instantly filled my taste buds, as if a clear spring had flowed through my heart, cleansing even my soul.

"Not bad, this trip was worthwhile."

Jiang Li squinted his eyes in satisfaction.

"This high-quality ingredient will be our store's 'signature dish' from now on. Only VIP members can reserve it, and you'll have to enter a lottery!"

"The boss is brilliant!" the employees chorused, flattering him.

Just as everyone was enjoying their meal, the emotionless electronic voice of Migo's brain came from the driver's seat:

"Buzz... Attention diners, the spaceship is about to enter Saturn's orbit. We are about to enter a high-density asteroid belt and planetary ring system. Please hold on to the handrails and stow your tray tables to prevent accidental injury."

"Have we arrived?"

Jiang Li wiped his mouth, stood up, and walked to the driver's seat.

Through the enormous panoramic porthole, a magnificent, breathtakingly large planet comes into view.

Saturn.

It has a pale yellow surface, but that's not the point. The point is the enormous halo that floats above the equator, as wide as a divine crown.

It was a ring of stars made up of countless ice blocks, rocks and dust, shimmering with rainbow-like brilliance under the sunlight, breathtakingly beautiful.

"These are Saturn's rings... They look like a giant highway."

Jiang Li exclaimed, "I heard there's delicious food in here?"

"Yes, boss."

Migo's brain conjured up a hologram, pointing to some extremely tiny gaps in the halo.

"In the gaps between these halos lives a creature called the Void Jellyfish. They feed on cosmic rays and... specific sound wave frequencies."

"Eating sounds?"

Jiang Li was taken aback. "Does this thing even have meat in it?"

"Their bodies are made of a high-density gel-like substance that can convert sound into energy and store it within their bodies. It is said that...the texture is very unique, and biting into it feels like an 'explosion'."

"Exploding candy? Popping candy?"

Jiang Li's brain circuits were instantly connected.

"Got it! It's one of those jelly drinks that sings!"

He rubbed his hands together excitedly.

"Since they like to eat noise, let's make some noise for them!"

"Old Liu! Sail the boat into the halo! Let's go ice skating!"

"Ergou! Go get that subwoofer! Since they're all about sound, I'll treat them to a concert!"

……

The Black Pearl adjusted its attitude, like a dart, and precisely cut into Saturn's massive and dense ice rings.

The situation here is much more complicated than it appears from a distance.

Everywhere you look, there are icebergs and rocks of all sizes, orbiting Saturn at extremely high speeds. A slight mishap could result in a devastating collision.

"Hard to port! Avoid that big rock!"

"Turn right! Turn right! That's an ice floe!"

Liu Wei gripped the control stick, his palms drenched in sweat. This wasn't sailing a boat; it was practically dancing in a hail of bullets!

But the Black Pearl was, after all, a super ship that had undergone numerous modifications. With its agile maneuverability and tough crystal armor, it managed to play "death drift" in this dense meteor shower.

At the bow of the ship, two enormous speakers blazed once again.

This time, Jiang Li didn't play Phoenix Legend or any rock music, but instead played an extremely high-pitched song... Pavarotti's "O Sole Mio".

"Ah~~~~~~~My sun~~~~~~~"

The soaring tenor voice, amplified by a specially designed amplifier, is transformed into a shockwave capable of propagating in a vacuum, which then spreads wildly throughout the ice ring.

The sound waves shattered countless tiny ice crystals, creating visible ripples.

"Great song choice! It's got great vibes!"

Jiang Li stood at the bow of the boat, wearing earplugs (to prevent himself from going deaf), and looked around with binoculars.

"Where's the fish? Why hasn't it arrived yet?"

Just then.

Behind the ice blocks that had been floating quietly, a faint blue light suddenly appeared.

Immediately afterwards, countless translucent, parachute-like creatures emerged from the ice crevice.

They have canopies as dazzling as the aurora borealis, with countless long, shimmering tentacles hanging down. They move gracefully in the vacuum, as freely as they do in the deep sea.

【Void Jellyfish】.

Attracted by the high-pitched "delicious" sound (sound waves), they swarmed toward the source of the sound—the Black Pearl's audio system—like sharks smelling blood.

"They're here! Such beautiful jellyfish!"

Wang Ergou exclaimed, "And there are so many! There must be tens of thousands!"

"Great! It seems they enjoy beautiful singing!"

Jiang Li was overjoyed. "Turn up the volume! Gather them all together!"

"Buzz—!!!"

With the sound system at full power, the ship's hull began to vibrate.

The jellyfish were clearly extremely excited; their bells contracted and expanded in rhythm with the music, and their colors changed accordingly, as if they were putting on a large-scale light show.

They rushed toward the Black Pearl, not to attack, but to... absorb that beautiful sound.

Some jellyfish clung directly to the speakers, their bodies emitting a satisfied glow; others entwined themselves around the ship's gunwale, their tentacles dancing in the air.

"Now's the time! Close the net!"

Jiang Li gave the order.

The Deep Ones, who had been lying in ambush around the deck, simultaneously fired their Plasma Net Guns.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

Large nets, shimmering with electricity, flew into the air, catching all the jellyfish that were engrossed in the music.

"Squeak—" (That was a sound of surprise after some kind of satisfaction was interrupted)

The jellyfish tried to struggle, but the electric net was specially designed to target energy-based organisms.

"Don't run! They're all my jelly!"

Jiang Li held a large net and, as if catching goldfish in a park, scooped up several with a single swipe.

He picked up a jellyfish and squeezed it.

It feels amazing!

That bouncy, springy feel is a hundred times better than jellyfish on Earth! And this thing is still vibrating slightly, as if it still stores the song from before inside.

"Brilliant!"

Jiang Li leaned closer to listen.

Sure enough, a faint but exquisitely clear "Ah~~~~~" came from the jellyfish's body.

"This is practically a natural phonograph! And you can even eat it!"

Jiang Li's imagination ran wild.

"If we took these back and made them into 'singing jelly,' customers could eat them while listening to songs—how exciting would that be?"

"Quick! Grab more! I want to record 'Unforgettable Tonight' too!"

……

While Jiang Li was busy "recording" and making arrests.

Deeper within Saturn's rings lies a massive iceberg, the size of an asteroid.

A huge shadow was slowly creeping.

That was no ordinary iceberg, but a sleeping Void Jellyfish King (S-rank) that had lived for countless years.

Its canopy is over ten kilometers in diameter, and its whiskers are as dense as a forest.

It was awakened by the annoying noise.

"Buzz—" (So noisy...who's making that noise...)

It emitted a mental wave that instantly covered the area.

Sensing the king's wrath, the surrounding jellyfish scattered in terror (except for those already caught in the net).

The warning lights on the Black Pearl were flashing wildly.

"Warning! S-class bioenergy reaction detected! Right below!"

"Directly below?"

Jiang Li peeked down.

Suddenly, the huge "iceberg" beneath their feet cracked open, revealing a dark blue core and countless thick tentacles as thick as Optimus Prime.

"My God! Is this mountain alive?!"

Liu Wei was so frightened that his hand trembled, and he almost steered the boat onto the rocks.

The Queen Jellyfish slowly rose, blotting out the sky. With a wave of its tentacles, it easily shattered the surrounding meteorites, and with a destructive force, it swept towards the noisy little insect (the Black Pearl).

"What a huge piece... jelly!"

Jiang Li looked at the giant jellyfish and, instead of being afraid, became even more craving it.

"This is so big, how many bowls of sauce would it take to cut it into strips?"

"But this thing is a bit big; it won't fit in the pot."

He frowned and thought for a second.

"I've got it! Since it likes to eat sound, I'll give it a 'sonic bomb'!"

Jiang Li rushed into the driver's seat, shoved Wang Ergou aside, and took over the audio control panel himself.

"Old Wo! Stop cooking! Come out and help!"

"Big Yellow! You come too!"

Jiang Li pushed the speaker's power to the red line, and it even started to smoke a little.

"Next, please enjoy the 'Screaming Symphony' performed by the Deep Blue Choir!"

"Ready—Go!"

Jiang Li took a deep breath, holding the microphone.

"Aaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!" (He was yelling)

"Woof!!!!!" (Big Yellow is barking)

"Whoosh!!!!!" (Vovados is breathing fire)

Three distinct voices, yet all imbued with the power of rules, converged and erupted instantly through the two subwoofers modified with Abyss Technology.

That was no longer a sound.

That was a tangible sonic shock!

"boom--!!!"

A visible white shockwave, like a physical cannonball, slammed into the jellyfish king's umbrella.

The jellyfish king's property is to absorb sound, but there are limits to any container.

This sound, which contained divine roars, temporal howls, and fiery explosions, instantly overwhelmed its energy conversion organs.

"Buzz...Snap!"

The jellyfish queen let out a mournful cry, and its enormous, crystalline body suddenly swelled up like a bursting balloon, and then…

Blasted!

Of course, it didn't explode into fragments, but rather into countless appropriately sized, still slightly trembling... jelly cubes.

The sky was filled with blue "jelly rain".

"A bumper harvest! A huge harvest!"

Jiang Li couldn't stop smiling as he watched the high-quality ingredients falling from the sky.

"Quick! Open the cargo door! Catch them all! Don't waste a single piece!"

The Black Pearl was like a giant vacuum cleaner, shuttling back and forth in space and stuffing all those precious S-grade ingredients into its belly.

……

Fully loaded with "singing jelly," the Black Pearl departed Saturn's rings and continued its journey deeper into the planet.

Ahead, an orange-yellow satellite, shrouded in a thick atmosphere, came into view.

Titan.

The only satellite in the solar system with a thick atmosphere and a liquid ocean (methane).

"Finally, the main course is here."

Jiang Li looked at the murky planet and wiped the drool from the corner of his mouth.

"Brain Flower said there's a son here with 'big eyes'?"

"Exploding eyeballs... just thinking about it is exciting."

The spaceship pierced through the orange haze and landed on a black ocean that was eerily calm.

The ocean here is not water, but liquid methane and ethane, with temperatures as low as -180 degrees Celsius.

The shore was lined with black ice rocks, and the sky was a somber orange-yellow.

"This place...it feels kind of eerie?"

Wang Ergou shrank his neck.

"It should be gloomy; this is the place of exile for the Great Old Ones."

Jiang Li stood at the bow of the ship, looking at the black ocean.

"Big Yellow, go down and scout ahead."

"Woof?" (This water seems undrinkable? Is it poisonous?)

"I didn't tell you to drink it, I told you to find that eyeball!"

Just then.

The calm sea surface suddenly rippled.

A huge bubble rises from underwater and bursts.

Immediately afterwards, the entire ocean began to boil.

A gigantic eyeball, taking up half of the field of vision, slowly emerged from the water.

It had no eyelids, only a large, bloodshot eyeball with a lifeless gray pupil. It floated silently on the methane sea, its gaze fixed intently on the Black Pearl.

[The Star of Judgment - The Offspring of Geheros] (S+ Rank).

It has no hands or feet, no mouth, and only one function—to gaze.

Any creature that is looked upon by it will fall into endless madness and self-destruction.

"Buzz—"

A terrifying mental wave swept across the spaceship in an instant.

Except for Jiang Li and Da Huang, everyone else clutched their heads and collapsed to the ground, groaning in pain.

"Ah! Don't look at me! Don't look at me!" Wang Ergou felt like his brain was about to explode.

"Huh? It's starting already?"

Jiang Li acted as if nothing had happened, and even stared back at the big eyeball.

"What are you looking at?"

Big Eyeball: "..."

It was puzzled.

Why didn't this tiny creature go mad? Why was there no fear in his eyes?

On the contrary, there is a kind of...

What's the sense of scrutiny when picking a watermelon at the farmers market?

"Those eyeballs... are really big."

Jiang Li exclaimed in admiration.

"And it looks like it's full of collagen! The soup will definitely be thick and creamy!"

"But how do we cook something this big?"

Jiang Li fell into deep thought.

"How about... we blind it first? And add some water?"

He picked up the trident of Poseidon.

"Perfect, this fork is sharp enough to poke it in."

The large eyeball seemed to sense Jiang Li's dangerous thought, and its pupils suddenly contracted.

This human... wants to blind me?!

"Buzz!!!"

Increased psychological attacks!

It wants to brain-dead this blasphemer!

"You dare glare at me?"

Jiang Li has become famous.

"I think you need a good roasting!"

He raised his trident and hurled it at the large pupil.

"Behold my—Kamui Raichi!"

"boom!!!"

The divine artifact, imbued with lightning, hurtled straight for the eyeball.

A culinary battle over "eyeballs" has begun on the methane ocean of Titan.