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The next day, Renyi woke up to a noise that sounded like demolition.

He pushed open the door and entered the scene of the "crime".

Klaus stood atop the Guardian, hammer in hand, his gaze conveying a sense of unspoken understanding—

Bold and decisive, showing absolutely no mercy!

"Gently! Gently!" Ivan cried out in anguish as he sat on the deck, his injured leg propped up on a stool.

Klaus didn't say a word, and forcefully pried open a piece of wood covered with mushrooms.

It was thrown into the sea like trash.

"More than 50% decomposed," he coldly sentenced.

"And this piece of sheet metal... it's rusted like this, and the edges are so sharp, are you planning to bleed yourself out?"

"That's war-damaged wind!"

Ivan retorted, "Besides, I already polished that one!"

"Rubbed with your face?" Klaus retorted.

Klaus's long-suppressed obsessive-compulsive disorder and sharp tongue erupted all at once, making the ship look like an illegal building demolition site.

In just two hours,

Ivan's ship, which was originally like a colossal, pieced-together beast, has been stripped down to its bare wooden bottom.

Rusty iron sheets, impact-resistant tires, and an anchor draped with seaweed all sank into the sea.

He leaned against the railing for a while, listened to a crosstalk performance, and then turned around to go fishing on the other side.

His previous experience told him that normal fish meat could catch normal fish.

The elite bait, 【Rotten Flesh】, can attract a large number of evolution points or large creatures.

Offal, such as rotten shark meat, often possesses unique properties and can bring surprising results.

As for what the surprise is...

That depends on looks.

The water at this location isn't very deep, and the surface is a deep blue. You can casually cast a fishing hook with "rotten shark meat" into the sea.

A few minutes later, the fishing rod touched the ground.

A bag covered with seaweed was pulled out of the water.

The women's handbag, whose brand was completely obscured by water, looked somewhat familiar. Out of curiosity, I squeezed it and peeled off a layer of plastic film.

[Breakable substances detected: exquisite handbag]

Disassembling this yields: 2 pieces of rotten synthetic leather and 1 piece of rusty metal buckle.

[Comment: Fashion's ultimate goal is a return to simplicity, while the starting point for some products is garbage.]

"break down."

After the light faded, a dark, indistinct object fell to the ground with a thud.

Wig?

Pick up any of those wigs; the material is synthetic fiber, and it looks quite unnatural.

But it's a very standard center-parted fringe hairstyle.

Klaus and Ivan stopped arguing and looked over curiously.

After glancing around, I noticed Wilson 'supervising' Ivan, so I went over and put the wig on Ivan's head.

Just the right size!

The coconut head hairstyle, which could have been somewhat comical, now appears eerily sinister against the backdrop of short, black, ear-length hair, with its empty eyes and crooked mouth.

"Perfect."

"..." Klaus nearly smashed his hammer into his foot. "Boss, are you serious?!"

Ivan, on the other hand, slapped his intact leg and laughed wildly.

"Ha! She looks like my ex-girlfriend!"

[Wilson: I think I can still be saved.]

[Dora: My reputation has been unfairly damaged!]

[Hilarious! From this day forward, Wilson is the coolest guy in the entire Ocean Era!]

[My heart aches for Klaus for a second...]

Re-bait at will

This time, quite a while passed without any movement, so he waited patiently.

Just as he was distracted, a tremendous force came from underwater, almost pulling the fishing rod away. Ren Yi quickly stood up.

This force is extraordinary.

With both hands gripping the "Fisherman's Blessing," the fishing rod is bent into an exaggerated arc.

"Boss?"

Ivan stopped wailing and stretched his neck.

He felt that what he caught might not have been a fish.

He slowly loosened the fishing line a little, letting something underwater drag the boat along.

After a stalemate of more than ten minutes, the force seemed to weaken somewhat.

Renyi frantically and quickly retrieved the fishing line.

Beneath the surface, a huge dark shadow was being dragged rapidly toward the sea.

"Splash—"

The thing burst out of the water, reflecting a blinding light in the sunlight.

...A treasure chest?!

A huge wooden treasure chest, two meters wide, inlaid with metal edges, and covered with barnacles and seaweed!

The lid of the box seemed to be inlaid with some colorful crystals, which sparkled in the sunlight.

"A treasure trove!"

Ivan's eyes widened, and he excitedly tried to stand up, but he aggravated his wound and winced in pain.

But I always feel like something's not right.

I was just about to take a closer look when

As a result, eight thick legs suddenly stretched out from under the huge treasure chest, and a pair of pincers also emerged from under the chest, opening and closing in the air with a "click-clack" sound.

This... is actually a giant hermit crab using a treasure chest as its shell!

"this……"

Ivan's excitement intensified. "A treasure chest with long legs?"

Klaus instinctively took a half step back.

"Boss... this crab species seems a bit beyond the scope of what's taught."

This giant hermit crab has claws that are half the height of a person, enough to crush a child with one pinch!

"A walking treasure! Take it down!"

Ivan struggled to reach his axe, but aggravated his wound, leaving him only with impotent rage.

The hermit crab was clearly unhappy with the two-legged creature that had caught it.

With a "crack," a piece of driftwood that Klaus had ripped off during the ship repair was crushed to pieces.

No one intended to confront them head-on.

The system's decomposition capabilities cannot be applied to 'living organisms'.

But the "villa" on the hermit crab's back shouldn't be part of its body, right?

It seems worth a try.

"Ivan, don't move. Klaus, you hold the fishing rod."

"Boss?"

"I'm going to collect the rent."

He took out several pieces of rotten shark meat and threw them a few meters away from the side of the boat.

The ghostly bone boat rocked violently in the waves created by the hermit crab's charge. Just as it bent down to chase the bait, the massive outer shell of the treasure chest was completely exposed to Renyi.

Extend your arms as far as you want—

[Decomposable target detected: Parasitized Magnificent Chest]

[Rewards: 357 Gold Coins, 12 Gems, 1 Crown, 1 Fragmented Astrolabe, 5 Copper Ingots, 8 Gold, 2 Mithril]

[Decompose?]

"break down!"

In Ivan and Klaus's eyes, the "mansion" on the hermit crab's back had vanished into thin air.

The sea breeze blows,

The hermit crab's spiral-shaped rear end is exposed to the air, bare and with an eerie pinkish-red hue.

The scene was very embarrassing.

"..."

"..."

The hermit crab scratched aimlessly with its eight legs, seemingly searching for its home where it had lived for decades.

When it realized that its hindquarters were being chilled by the sea breeze, its already limited intelligence seemed to be overwhelmed by the anger of being stripped naked in public.

It let out a piercing shriek, its two eye stalks spinning wildly as it locked onto the nearest ghost bone boat.

"Its house... is gone?"

Ivan's mouth was wide enough to fit an egg.

"I'll talk about my sequence later."

The hermit crab's enormous claws were splashing water as they slammed against the ship's side.

Arbitrary yet unusually calm,

Without the protection of its hard shell, this big guy's once-proud defenses have been reduced to zero.

He drew the katana, its blade flashing coldly in the sunlight.

"Don't panic, its weakness has been exposed."