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"...Stop waving that broken glass around, it's annoying to look at."

A mutter came from the deck.

Sean was admiring himself in a bronze mirror he'd somehow acquired when he heard this. He glanced disapprovingly at the engineer, who was standing with one foot on the railing, holding binoculars.

"You can't ask a fish that's left the sea to give up its only passion!"

"Tsk."

Klaus only let out a cold snort from his nose.

This snort contained a triple contempt for aesthetics, biodiversity, and Sean's mental state.

Sean didn't mind the cold reception.

He rolled over, now facing the engineer:

"Stop looking, this kind of peeping...be careful you don't see something you shouldn't."

"...Do you even understand science?" Klaus maintained his posture of holding the telescope. "The light and shadow refracted by the lens are objective physical phenomena; there is no concept of 'not being able to look at them'."

"That's hard to say."

Sean grinned, revealing a row of big white teeth. "Once upon a time, there was an old fish named Tom who loved to peep. One night, he saw a couple embracing and crawling into seaweed, so he immediately ran over to peep, only to find... a fish killer dismembering a fish! So the next day, Tom became a missing fish."

"absurd."

That falls under the scope of criminal investigation. What does that have to do with him using binoculars to spy?

...Pah, he wasn't spying!

The entire field of vision was filled with layers upon layers of glowing tree shadows, and the horizon at the very center of that light pollution seemed to have been raised higher?!

Klaus's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly increased the focus, but the field of view disappeared in a fraction of a second!

"ah--!"

The engineer let out a piercing scream, covered his eyes, and collapsed onto the deck.

The telescope rolled away a long way.

"What happened?!"

Upon hearing the loud scream, Luigi and Esting ran out of the cabin and looked around warily.

But apart from Klaus, who seemed to be badly injured, and Sean, who was gloating, there wasn't a single hair.

"I knew it..."

Sean put away the brass mirror and concluded quietly, "He saw something he shouldn't have."

Klaus was in so much pain that he was unable to refute.

The flash of white light, refracted through the lens, was no less intense than being hit face-to-face with a flashbang. His eyelids were now red and swollen, he could barely feel his eyeballs, and the tears he couldn't control could almost flood Sean's fish tank.

Just as Luigi was frantically trying to pry open the engineer's hand to check the injury...

You have assisted in killing...

You have already cooperated with... beetles...

[Get in... click click click click click click click...]

[...kill kill kill kill kill kill...]

[You... tumor... killed...]

......

The sudden, cassette-like, overlapping announcements eventually turned into a series of sharp error messages that swirled around in my head.

In a short time.

Aside from the bewildered Sean, Esting and Luigi also crouched on the ground in anguish, clutching their heads and pale-faced.

It took several minutes for the convulsions to finally stop.

Esther checked the panel:

【Esting】

[Sequence: Tide Listener (Lv4)]

Evolution Points: 6423/12000

[Abilities: Listening to marine life, predicting the weather]

Relatives: None

When he first woke up, wasn't he just a level 2 Karami...?

How did it suddenly become Lv4?!

"we......"

Esther forgot to take his hands off his ears and said blankly:

"Didn't you just not do anything?"

Klaus, still lying on the ground with his eyes closed and his ears ravaged, gritted his teeth and sat up:

"The experience-sharing mechanism has been triggered... Our captain... has caused some kind of cataclysmic disaster again."

Since the Abyss and the "Anywhere" have become almost synonymous, evolution points gained from kills by those on the ship are considered to have been earned with the captain's assistance and are therefore shared with the captain, and vice versa.

Kills involving the ship are considered as assists if the crew members are killed.

The difference lies only in the level of participation.

"So... just accept it and do your best to repay the captain's kindness."

Klaus rubbed his eyes, which were swollen like two walnuts, and a sense of worry arose in his heart. Given the intensity of that light just now... was Ren Yi alright now?

On an open ground about ten kilometers away from the Abyss.

"Random" doesn't really sound like a person.

When fully connected to the Abyss, his subjective sense of time seemed to be stretched infinitely.

This feeling is hard to describe in words, it's like... no longer being confined to the carbon-based human body!

He sensed the expansion of the fibers and even tasted the bioenergy.

Before him were sprawling, menacing vines, a surging swarm of insects, and... a disgusting sac that was drawing ever closer, opening its arms to embrace him...

three......

two......

one......

Solar flares.

Once it becomes the singularity of a flare, there is no sensation, not even temperature.

The path of light diffusion became his extended scalpel.

He watched as the malignant vines, so close to him, withered, carbonized, disintegrated, and turned to dust the moment they touched the light screen.

The systems in my mind connected like a waterfall—

That is the bill for the harvesting of lives.

However......

When the light fades and the human nervous system regains control of perception, a feeling of exhaustion washes over you, accompanied by a slight tingling sensation on your skin.

I glanced down at random.

His favorite hooded outfit has been lost to the winds.

Oh hoo!

Purely natural!

He frantically pulled out a set of Uncle Bard's Gift from the system warehouse. Although the style was outdated and the defense was zero, it was still better than going naked.

"This crappy skill makes my clothes run so fast..."

It has a considerable kill radius and is highly efficient at clearing out mobs.

However, like the solar flares on the ship, the affected area is uncontrollable, it indiscriminately affects both friend and foe, and the damage is too great...

If we could find a way to contain this energy and cut it into individual particles...

That's what it means to use good steel where it's needed most!

While reviewing the situation, she quickly tidied her appearance, not noticing that her hair was still silver-white and hadn't immediately turned back.

After the battle, the warehouse has an extra 183647 evolution points, and with the remaining ones, the total is as high as 188447!

However, these are not the most important things.

In his current view, evolution points are similar to experience points in the later stages of a game.

Important, but worthless!

He is now more concerned about... that Lv9 advanced parasitic plant.

It's impossible that it didn't even break a single coin, right?

Summon any Raven, take a step, and head towards the thickest part of the ashes.