While I'm at the martial arts academy, my wife is cultivating while I enjoy life.

Mu Lan had her hair up in a bun, wearing a military uniform underneath a white lab coat, and gold-rimmed glasses. She looked fierce and seemed like someone not to be trifled with.

"Dean Mu, you're busy. Come to my house for barbecue another day."

"Goodbye and don't bother seeing me off!"

Ye Rou was not discouraged; it wasn't that easy to find out news from the front lines.

Let's just test the waters this time; at least we'll know that this beautiful SS-level female military doctor is still unmarried.

Moreover, Mulan didn't seem to lose her temper, so there's still hope.

Just as she was about to close the door and leave, Mulan's private phone rang.

Following Yang Ding's example, Ye Rou didn't just run away as before, but instead used her hearing to eavesdrop.

How many pirate ships are there?

"Two."

"What kind? A regular ship or a submarine?"

"The submarine surfaced for a while to observe, then sank again."

"Which country are they from? The White Eagle Empire?"

"I'm not sure. The White Eagle Empire couldn't have gone that far, could it? There are so many things underwater."

What kind of support do you need from us?

"Those pirates may be hunting tonight; drilling platforms 45-47 are all in danger."

"We will open dedicated channels for these three platforms tonight. Rescue team members are ready at any time. You should also send people to guard these channels and pay attention to safety."

After hearing this, Ye Rou quickly left and returned to the duty room 101 to tell Yang Ding the news.

Yang Ding chuckled, "My first wife has finally seen the light! This is the perfect opportunity!"

"The East China Sea Navy is going to take up positions there. How should we proceed?"

"We don't have to be on duty tonight, so we'll just stay home and activate the spatial rift monitoring. We'll seize the opportunity and strike. Aren't there pirates? If we can't rob the East Sea Navy soldiers, can't we at least rob the pirates?"

"Oh yeah, honey, how come I didn't think of that? You're so smart!"

Ye Rou had always admired Yang Ding's intelligence.

Zhou Ruoxi nodded. "It just so happens that I also need a battle to digest the energy I just absorbed."

The team didn't receive any rescue missions in the afternoon, so we went straight off work. It's great not having to be on duty.

Fang Jing led everyone home, where those who needed to feed their babies went about their business, and those who needed to cook went about their business.

Ye Rou ate two more catties of crab meat for dinner, gaining 40,000 catties of strength in one day. Unfortunately, it was a drop in the bucket for her, and she even felt a bit tired of it.

"Dalong, have you and Zhang Yan eaten?" Yang Ding asked.

"We've already eaten, but we can't eat too much. Let's eat it one or two at a time, otherwise I won't be able to absorb it."

Fang Dalong has not yet broken through to the lower second rank. His punching power is less than 3000 jin, and it would probably take him a month to digest and absorb an ounce of crab meat.

After finishing their meal, everyone took their weapons and sat in the courtyard. Yang Ding and Fang Jing opened a spatial rift to monitor mines 45-47.

"Jing-jie, you monitor 45, 46, and 47 further away, let me do it."

"Can you open two rifts at the same time?"

"Great, I've broken through to the third level of the Void Rift Technique."

Fang Jing was slightly taken aback. "So, how much mental strength do you have now?"

"It's almost 100,000, more than 96,000."

"Ten...one hundred thousand?"

For some reason, Fang Jing felt a huge sense of loss.

This means that Yang Ding has far surpassed her cultivation level and is attempting to break through to S-rank.

Her rare and highly prized A-level spatial ability was of little value to Yang Ding.

Because it was her second marriage, she already felt that she was not as good as Ye Rou and Zhou Ruoxi, and the only thing she could offer was her ability.

Will Yang Ding still love me in the future?

But her husband is so amazing, the wife should be happy.

Thinking of this, Fang Jing forced a smile.

"My husband is awesome. Okay, I'll listen to you."

Yang Ding knew that Fang Jing's praise was somewhat insincere when he saw that the panel for adding affection to the second wife hadn't popped up.

Because of her past, this girl is more thoughtful than Ye Rou.

He planned to seduce Ye Rou tonight and then talk to Fang Jing, since she was pregnant and her emotions were already fluctuating.

Number 45 is a deep-water semi-submersible drilling platform, where 150 workers usually live.

Tonight, the East China Sea Navy sent one hundred fully armed soldiers to be on duty.

A project manager walked up to the lieutenant and offered him a cigarette.

"Dude, what's going on with all this fuss tonight? Is something up?"

"There are pirate ships around here. General Fang is worried that these people are hunting something and that you might be used as bait, so he sent troops to protect you."

The project manager's hand holding the cigarette trembled slightly.

"If they didn't use us as bait, why would the pirates come to the vicinity of the East Navy to seek their deaths?"

The second lieutenant leading the team was also quite nervous, looking at the turbulent sea.

"Don't scare yourself, everything's arranged, get to work."

Instead of going to the construction site immediately, the project manager returned to his dormitory, which was made of shipping containers, and took out a walkie-talkie from under his bed.

"Boss, boss, it's me, A-Gui."

"What's going on?"

"Your whereabouts have been exposed, and Fang Hongbo has sent a hundred soldiers to guard the area."

"There's nothing we can do. The mermaid beasts are hunting and are about to charge over. I estimate there will be over a hundred Xuanming Octopuses today."

"So many?"

Ah Gui was terrified on the spot.

The Xuanming Owl, also known as the Human-Headed Flood Dragon, has a particular fondness for eating people. Other strange beasts eat people to absorb energy, so they are picky and have little interest in ordinary miners.

But the venomous serpent's motivation for eating people is that it needs a brain; any human will do.

They will swallow people whole, leaving only their heads outside, so they can see the world through the person's eyes.

"If you're afraid of dying, stay in the container and close the door. We'll come and rescue you later."

"Okay, boss, don't forget me!"

Ah Gui quickly locked the dormitory door from the inside and pulled out a knife from under the bed to defend himself.

He was also a second-rank martial artist, who could have joined the law enforcement team, but after joining the pirates, he became an undercover agent on the drilling platform.

He thought he was inside unnoticed, but Fang Jing had been monitoring him ever since he started talking to the lieutenant.

Judging from A-Gui's identity, these pirates are either from the White Eagle Empire, the Jinglong Empire, or even from the East China Sea.

Fang Jing also helped Yang Ding open a Void Rift on Platform 45.

The two men, positioned high above, monitored every move around them.

Soon after, a scream was heard from behind the tower.

"Someone has fallen into the water! Quickly, tell the soldiers to go down and rescue them!"

Two patrolling East Navy soldiers rushed over, but there was nothing underwater.

"How did you fall into the water? Did anyone see you?"

"It seems, it seems like it got tangled in its tail."

"It has a tail?"

"Yes, a transparent blue tail, and scales."

"A dragon-serpent?"

Upon hearing the words "dragon snake," the other workers were terrified and ran away on the spot.

"Quick, go to the container! There's a dragon! There's a dragon!"

"Don't panic, we're here..."

Before the soldier could finish speaking, a blue tail suddenly emerged from the edge, wrapped around his feet, and dragged him directly into the sea.