I can see experience bars after being transported to another world.

"call!"

Lu Yuan suddenly woke up from his bed, panting heavily, with the rusty wreckage of the giant ship still before his eyes.

And with the end of the strange dream,

A string of gray text jumped wildly before finally freezing.

[Rationality III: 0/73 (Experience)]

[You seem to have broken the upper limit of human rationality? Congratulations, you've gone even further on your journey to explore the origins of the world.]

Lu Yuan wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, looking at the message, but felt little joy.

Why did the Iron Whale appear in my dream, and in that way no less?

Could the origin of these strange dreams be the minerals brought back back then? And have none of the Night's Watch members been afflicted with these strange dreams?

No, I have to go to the base to see if I can find the relevant files.

Just then, a commotion suddenly broke out outside the window.

Immediately afterwards, a violent explosion resounded throughout Grim Harbor.

Lu Yuan walked to the window and looked in the direction of the slums.

There, thick black smoke billowed and flames shot into the sky, turning the still-dawn sky a fiery red.

You know without even asking.

The Night's Watch's operation to annihilate them failed.

Last night in the office, old Morgan's boastful words about "fishing" still seemed to echo in my ears.

The Night's Watch wanted to use the contaminated fish as bait to lure out the rats hiding in the shadows and catch them all at once.

But now it seems that what was lurking in the shadows was not a rat, but a ferocious beast.

Lu Yuan planned to go to the base to see if he could help, but more importantly, he wanted to see the files on the "Iron Whale".

Underground base, medical area.

"Hold him down! Don't let him scratch his wound!"

A series of desperate roars rang out.

On the innermost bed, a young night watchman was struggling in agony.

The wound on his neck, wrapped in gauze, was writhing wildly. Dark red granulation tissue grew like uncontrolled weeds, bursting out through the gauze in the blink of an eye.

The two doctors next to him were sweating profusely, their fingers instinctively gripping the slippery new tissue with their speckled forceps.

"Where's the potion?! Bring me a bottle right now!" the doctor shouted, turning his head while his hands moved without stopping.

"We're done! The last bottle was given to Captain Hans ten minutes ago!" A man responsible for fetching the medicine returned anxiously.

"It will take some time for the goods to arrive from the warehouse!"

"Time? By the time the medicine arrives, the person could already be buried! What are you logistics department people doing?! Huh?!"

The doctor's eyes were filled with anger as he roared.

At this critical moment.

A hand reached out and handed over a bottle of black liquid.

Use this.

Lu Yuan's calm voice rang out amidst the chaos:

"A mixture of 'wormwood ash' and concentrated holy water, with a little red phosphorus powder, may not be enough to cure the disease, but it can at least buy some time."

The doctor paused for a moment, looked at the unfamiliar man in front of him, then glanced at the wounded man who was about to mutate, gritted his teeth, grabbed the bottle and poured it directly onto the wound.

Sizzle—!

A sickening corrosive sound rang out, followed by rising white smoke.

The wounded soldier on the hospital bed suddenly straightened up, let out a scream, and then fell heavily back onto the bed, unconscious.

But the frantically growing buds on his neck really stopped wriggling and turned into a patch of charred, dead skin.

"I...I survived."

The doctor breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the sweat from his face, and looked at Lu Yuan gratefully.

"Thanks, but your recipe is really bold. By the way, brother, you look unfamiliar. What's your name?"

"It's just an emergency. My name is Lu Yuan."

Lu Yuan took off his gloves and threw them into the waste bin next to him.

"To truly cure him, we still need to wait for the magic potion. I've only bought you a little time. There are still some left over there, enough for this level of symptoms."

Lu Yuan stared at the gray and white text that appeared before him.

[Solution Generation: Pollution Inhibitor (Primary)]

[Principle: Highly concentrated holy water is used to temporarily suppress the pollution, and wormwood ash and red phosphorus powder are used to reduce damage to other areas.]

[Estimated success rate: 85%]

[Note: Inhibitors can only suppress pollution for a few hours, after which the effectiveness of similar drugs will be significantly reduced.]

[Pharmacology: +3, 11/50]

Lu Yuan didn't take credit for himself, nor did he linger. He turned and walked towards other areas, as he wasn't needed here for the time being.

Mary was leaning against a bench outside the medical area, holding a cigarette in her hand, looking disheveled.

The exquisite wine-red dress was torn in several places, and the hem was stained with mud and black blood.

Seeing Lu Yuan walk over, she pointed to the empty seat next to her and exhaled a smoke ring.

"Sit down, that was a good move."

"How's the situation?" Lu Yuan sat down and got straight to the point.

"That's terrible."

Mary gave a bitter laugh, her eyes somewhat vacant. "Those lunatics sacrificed a lot of people in the slums and summoned a huge thing."

"Although we eventually blew it back into the sewers, the cost was huge."

"We are short-handed."

Mary took a deep drag, as if suppressing her anger. "If those main squads were here, if the defensive line hadn't been stretched too thin today because of 'other missions,' sigh."

"Another mission?" Lu Yuan keenly caught the key phrase.

"Yes. Grimport has been quite turbulent lately, and manpower is needed everywhere."

Mary was clearly unwilling to discuss it further. She waved her hand, stubbed out her cigarette, and said, "Never mind, let's not talk about this. Old Morgan is having a meeting in the inner district. He asked me to tell you that as an advisor, your authority has been activated."

"You can basically go anywhere from the base now. Be careful these next few days and try not to stray too far from the base."

"Yes."

Lu Yuan nodded, got up and walked towards the archives.

The archives are located on the lowest level of the base, even deeper than the library, and several figures are guarding it.

Lu Yuan took out his badge, and the guard nodded and let him pass.

After passing through another long corridor and pushing open a metal door, Lu Yuan finally arrived at the archives room.

The archives were quiet, with only the faint hissing of the gas lamps.

Rows of towering black wooden bookshelves stood neatly arranged in the shadows.

This made the place feel particularly oppressive.

Lu Yuan wasted no time.

Following the signs, I arrived at the area marked "Maritime Incidents," my fingertips quickly tracing across the rough kraft paper file folders.

"September: Abnormalities in Offshore Fisheries", "October: Strange Tales from the Lighthouse"...

Until his finger stopped on a file with a red seal.

[Special Voyage Record No.: K-07 (Iron Whale)]

"Found it."

Lu Yuan pulled out the file, untied the tangled cotton thread, and a few thin pages of documents were revealed before him.