There can't be a Harvest Moon in the RimWorld.

The deathly white eyeballs began to spin suddenly, seemingly frantically searching for the vanished light before them!

After a series of fruitless attempts, the body hidden underwater transformed into an iceberg that emerged from the water. Its dorsal fin cleaved through the chaotic waves, and with a terrifying speed that was completely out of proportion to its enormous size, it began to rampage wildly!

Without hesitation, the broken bone on my head once again hurtled towards the ship I was on, narrowly missing the centerline of the hull and striking the yacht again!

Such an attack instantly shattered the protruding fish-mouth at the bow of the Pegasus, completely destroying the already damaged bow deck and causing secondary damage to the already precarious midships, leaving shocking scars on the hull!

The yacht was jolted backward by the impact, and countless pieces of debris fell into the water with a loud splash. The keel of the hull also made a teeth-grinding twisting sound, as it was bearing an immense force and seemed about to break at any moment due to overload.

I clung tightly to the cabin railing, avoiding being thrown out during the magnitude 10 earthquake that felt like the sky was falling, and watched as all sorts of debris tumbled from the ship into the deep sea.

The monster struck its target and immediately turned around, preparing to attack the ship again. But this time, its aim had lost its initial ferocity; it was like a heavyweight boxer with his eyes blinded, swinging his iron fist at the air, narrowly missing the ship!

But the repercussions were unavoidable.

The waves stirred up by the giant floating mountain monster were disrupting the entire world. The half-shattered yacht began to take on water and inevitably sank slowly into the sea. If this continued, even if the monster failed to hit the Pegasus head-on, it would be affected and sink...

The situation I was facing at that moment was extremely urgent.

Now my assumptions have mostly come true: this monster is most likely sensitive to light. But am I supposed to raise the ring high, jump into the sea to sacrifice myself, and then in the sequel, shed my grey robes for white ones, using an enhanced version of lighting magic to stage a triumphant return?!

Chapter 607 The Strange Tales of Mineral Town Harbor (Part Nine)

The situation was extremely urgent. The monster's lurking figure was underwater, ready to attack at any moment. I had already stepped over the yacht railing, waiting for the monster to turn around so I could use the light from my ring to lure the enormous threat away.

As for the consequences of going all in...

I don't want to think about it anymore!

Just as I was struggling to get through and flipped over the railing, a blazing light suddenly flew past behind me, forming a dazzling fire meteor in the night, piercing the dull black sea!

Because the light was so close to me, my gaze instinctively fell upon the blazing tail of flame. Even the sudden downpour couldn't extinguish it in the slightest, as it resolutely emitted its blinding light.

next moment……

"Aaaaaah! My eyes! My titanium alloy eyes are going to go blind! Which bastard did this?!"

I miserably covered my eyes and rolled on the ground, thankfully still remembering that I was clinging to the railing, preventing myself from twisting and falling into the water too dramatically.

Having lived in this dim world for so long, ordinary people simply cannot adapt to this kind of light that exceeds their tolerance limit—this brightness is so great that I suspect it could blind people even in daylight, let alone at night!

To make matters worse, because of the sudden change, I even glanced over there and watched for a while as this monstrous thing flew out!

Not long after I started rolling around, a pair of hands dragged me into the cabin.

"Boss, don't move... I'm here to save you!"

I almost spat out blood. This godforsaken place must be poisonous. It must be under some strange curse of infighting, because almost all the accidents were caused by our own people!

I clutched my throat and said with difficulty, "Gray... I might really go blind this time... Remember to go to the Mongolian tribe and find a boy named Guo Jing... You must educate him to become a great hero..."

Gray's voice was filled with confusion: "Boss... what do you mean? And what does your blindness have to do with me going to find someone?"

I suddenly opened my tearful eyes and threw a punch based on guesswork.

"Then tell me, I, Batman, was almost turned into a flying bat by you! You bastard, didn't you know to remind me to close my eyes?! Does this have anything to do with you?!"

Gray returned unscathed, covering his face, and said sheepishly, "Oops... I was careless..."

I opened my eyes in the dim light and felt a line across my retina, a visually ineffective area that must have been burned instantly. I managed to use the corner of my eye to observe my surroundings and then I noticed someone standing next to the sofa.

“Marcus, it’s Kai… Are you feeling any better? Sorry, I was in such a rush, I forgot to remind you before Gray threw it.”

A figure came to my side, kindly helped me to the sofa, and explained what had just happened.

The massive shockwave from the monster's impact on the yacht jolted Kai awake from his unconscious state due to a head injury. He quickly notified Gray to use the device hidden in the table's compartment to launch a special incendiary bomb, which lured the monster away and prevented the entire crew from being blown to pieces, or forcing him to embark on a perilous adventure alone. He wondered if the Colonizer System's combat mode included a pre-set method for fighting a 50-60 meter long monster.

In this situation, I couldn't blame him, so I asked, "Uh, it's not a big problem. I can barely locate things by sound... Are the two people downstairs in the secret room alright?"

"A locked room...?!"

Upon hearing this, Gray and Kay were startled and quickly opened the hidden door under the wooden planks of the yacht's lounge, dragging out two poor souls who had been stunned in the morgue.

Thanks to my quick thinking, otherwise those two people might have been thrown out of the window along with debris in the crash that resembled a car accident.

"She's passed out... Stuart's injuries are more serious, he might need full treatment... Elliot suffered some minor injuries, I don't know why he hasn't woken up yet... I'll check if the emergency medications here have gotten wet..."

Kai, who had instantly switched to being the ship's doctor, covered his head with one hand and searched for medical supplies in the room. He spoke very calmly, without any panic or anxiety caused by the sudden change in his life.

"Kay, you came here on purpose, didn't you?"

I casually patted Kai on the shoulder, went to his side to help him find the medicine, and suddenly asked...

Kai, a dark-skinned young man, smiled shyly.

"You guys figured it out?"

I shoved him aside without hesitation, took out the sealed medicine box, and issued the treatment instructions from the colonist system.

"How could an ordinary person prepare such a high-intensity flare? And how could they sail to this place?"

I asked him a couple of questions, and before I knew it, I had applied medicine to his bleeding head and wrapped it up with layers of gauze.

"What if I told you that tonight really was an accident?"

Kay nonchalantly declared his innocence, practically screaming on his face, "I have a problem, but I won't admit it."

I left him behind and went to treat Stuart and Elliott, replying in the meantime.

“At first, I also thought it was an accident. After all, no one expected the storm to be so fierce, and your decision to break anchor and go out to sea was an emergency measure. But I still can't understand why Gray would find that piece of wood with the inscription on it on the beach…”

"But I suddenly realized something just now..."

I showed her the ring on my hand and used its dim light to illuminate Elliot, whose eyes were closed and who seemed to be trapped in a nightmare. I found that the colonist system had automatically stopped and could not trigger the healing command on her.

Isn't it a treatable external injury?

"No one knows if this storm will return tonight, but that doesn't mean it won't come. You might return to Mineral Town sooner or later, but there's a very high probability you'll encounter the storm."

Gray looked at his childhood friend and suddenly exclaimed, "I know! Kai, you only come back to Mineral Town in the summer every year, could it be related to this?!"

Gray touched his nose sheepishly, "I didn't expect it to be so obvious. It seems Mr. Dart must know by now..."

I looked at Elliott's clenched fist, his expression solemn, like a doctor focused on saving lives.

"It's not that obvious. But the piece of wood you left behind made me realize that you didn't carve the words for us in a moment of panic, since you had no idea we were coming—otherwise you wouldn't have been knocked unconscious by Gray's punch."

Gray said with a dark face, "Can we not talk about this anymore..."

I said nonchalantly, "Don't worry about the details... What I mean is, you left the wood not only because you were in a hurry to get out to sea, but also to leave a mark. If this mark wasn't for us who accidentally wandered into the harbor, then it must have been left for people who are often at the seaside..."

The facts are already clear: Kay did this because he was certain that he was prepared and safe, and he was also certain that Zach would discover the clues he had left behind.

Thinking further, perhaps the existence of this monster was already known to him, which is why he carried the most effective tool to lure the giant away...

Kay said awkwardly, "You all guessed it. But let's figure out a way to get the ship back to the harbor first. This voyage is already close to failure, and we can't let you all be dragged down with it..."

"No rush, I still have some details I'd like to ask."

I asked curiously, "What I'm more curious about is, despite all the careful preparation, what unexpected things happened that left you in such a sorry state?"

Upon hearing this, Kai gave Gray and me a strange look. However, the two who considered themselves the leader and follower of justice were completely baffled.

What are you looking at? Look again and I'll smash your glasses in!

What? You don't have glasses?

Then I'll put glasses on you first, and then beat you up!

Kay sighed helplessly, "This bad luck is too bizarre... If you really want to tell me, it probably starts with Elliot, who appeared in the middle of the night and was chased onto the ship..."

Gray and I exchanged a glance, and suddenly we felt something was off.

Kay looked at me with an even more questioning gaze, as if we were questioning the truth of a common sense, a theorem, something that was all too obvious.

Stuart's injuries were quite severe, with a dislocated hip bone and bleeding wounds, requiring repeated disinfection before repositioning and fixation. Fortunately, all of this was handled smoothly by the system, almost in the blink of an eye.

At this point, he had fallen into a coma due to hypothermia, and was talking incoherently, muttering Eliot's name incoherently.

But at this moment, in the dimly lit cabin, three people with suspicious expressions were looking at each other. They all felt that the differences in their understanding were slowly being revealed through concealment and speculation, but an indescribable chasm was revealed from the darkness and the unknown.

"...Pursuit!?"

Before my question could be answered, I heard faint murmurs coming from the cabin, buzzing around like annoying flies, lingering in the barely perceptible pauses between everyone's breaths and pulses.

"I must find you... Elliott..."

What were originally somewhat affectionate words now took on a strange tone.

Stuart was still unconscious, but a sickly smile had quietly appeared on his face, which was contorted with pain, and his tone gradually became terrifying...

"I won't... let you get away again..."

"Hey hey hey..."

Chapter 608 The Strange Tales of Mineral Town Harbor (Part 10)

His tone was sinister, like that of a reptile, and his words echoed with eerie melodies from the sewers. Stuart's language was indistinct, yet it sent chills down one's spine, as if one's skin were being touched by sticky animal scales, filling one with a sense of disgust and revulsion.

The room was completely dark at that moment, with only the faint glow of the ring on my hand providing any light.

In this dim light, the faint shadow cast by the sofa suddenly began to sway, irregularly from side to side, accompanied by an eerie rustling melody.

But I soon discovered that this strange phenomenon came from a slight crawling motion...

With multiple serious injuries and in a coma, Stuart should have lost the ability to move on his own long ago, and would need to rest for a month or two before he could walk with crutches.

But before our eyes, Stuart's slender body slowly writhed, like a boneless viper, swaying its body by relying on the slight contact between its torso and the floor.

In terms of the human body, trunk strength alone is certainly not enough to achieve this.

However, Stuart's joints, such as his shoulders, elbows, knees, ankles, and hips, could twist in the opposite direction, defying human logic, and transforming into a force that propelled his body forward. Even his scarred muscles rippled with abnormal waves.

The whole person...

No, it should be said that the entire "person" accelerated in an instant, scrambled away along the corner of the sofa, and disappeared from our sight!

"careful!"

At a command, though we don't know who spoke first, the three of us moved at the same time, taking completely different actions.

I immediately rushed forward, using the light from the ring to follow Stuart's route and track the direction of the anomaly.

However, he was extremely fast, and the garbage-filled environment inside the house became his perfect place to move around, cleverly using the obstruction of sight to escape the pursuit!