Grand Voyage : Surviving on a Ghost Ship-Chapter 203 - Evolution of the stomach pouch

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Yang Yi chose a relatively safe spot to dock the boat. Using small reagent bottles, he crafted makeshift sea-salt grenades to drive away the floating chunks of flesh nearby.

Afterwards, he went to the ship’s courtyard, changed into a sharkskin swimsuit, and dropped a raft into the sea, fastening it securely with ropes.

His plan was to get on the raft and let the stomach pouch absorb white seawater, thereby expanding its capacity.

Once he was ready, Yang Yi took out everything from the stomach pouch and left it on the deck. Then, holding the pouch, he climbed down along the ship’s hull and reached the raft.

After making sure nothing unusual was around, he immersed the emptied pouch into the sweet, milky-white seawater.

Gurgle, gurgle!

Yang Yi gripped the pouch and could feel it gulping down seawater, and not a small amount either. It even formed a small whirlpool.

Three seconds later, Yang Yi pulled it out and checked the information. Its internal space had increased by 0.1 cubic metres.

That proved that feeding it seawater worked.

But to stay safe, Yang Yi had to constantly monitor the pouch’s status. He could never allow it to swallow seawater unchecked, or it would get lost in the ocean.

Losing it would be a devastating blow.

After a few moments of thought, inspiration struck.

He tried a different approach: gripping the bottom of the pouch with both hands, he aimed its opening at the sea’s surface, letting it suck seawater on its own.

That way, he wouldn’t be disturbed by the whirlpools. As long as he held the pouch tightly and pulled it out at the right moment, it would be fine.

The pouch began slurping seawater as if it were drinking soup, pulling it straight inside.

Yang Yi’s hands suddenly sank; he could feel the pouch getting heavier and heavier, likely due to the pouch’s suction force.

He watched its information change, noticing the capacity expanding at a visibly fast pace.

Soon it reached eleven… fifteen cubic metres.

The pouch’s storage space kept growing, though it still remained manageable for Yang Yi.

But the suction-induced water turbulence made the raft beneath him sway unnaturally, tightening the rope that tethered it to the Nightmare Star.

Before long, the pouch reached twenty cubic metres, then twenty-five!

Yang Yi felt the pouch becoming restless in his grip, even struggling, making it harder to hold.

So, he instantly transformed, his body swelling into a towering figure. With brute force, he subdued the pouch again, though the raft was nearly submerged, soaking his feet.

Thirty!

The pouch’s information suddenly changed, and Yang Yi noticed. He yanked it upwards, trying to drag it away from the sea.

But who would have thought, the pouch had gained shapeshifting abilities after evolving! Even when stretched into a long strip, the other end still clung to the water, drinking greedily.

That wouldn't do!

With a powerful stomp, Yang Yi drove the raft into the sea, sending up a huge splash.

Using the rebound, he leapt seven or eight metres into the air, landing back on the Nightmare Star’s deck, hauling the gluttonous pouch with him.

【Name: Food-Addicted Gluttonous Stomach Pouch】

【Type: Relic】【Quality: Supreme】【Description: A stomach pouch evolved from devouring vast amounts of delicacies. Its internal space expands as it consumes delicious food, but it also grows more violent and will snatch food away. If deprived of delicacies for too long, the space will gradually shrink. Current capacity: 32 cubic metres. Maximum limit: 50 cubic metres. Beyond that, it will rupture and become useless for storage. (It will also secretly eat stored food). Without tasty offerings, it will almost never open its mouth.】

“Supreme equipment…”

Yang Yi was pleasantly surprised

But the next second, the stomach pouch seemed enraged.

Its feeding had been interrupted by Yang Yi, and it suddenly opened its maw, lunging at him as if to swallow him whole.

Fortunately, Yang Yi reacted quickly.

His right hand clamped down on the pouch, while his left drew a flintlock. He immediately “fed” it a blast of buckshot, over a hundred pellets tearing straight into its body.

The force of the shot stretched the pouch like rubber.

After that, it instantly quieted down, no longer daring to resist in Yang Yi’s grasp.

“You actually dare to eat me.” Yang Yi muttered to himself.

Just then, Suna, having heard the commotion, walked out from the cabin.

“What happened?”

Yang Yi explained the pouch’s information and the incident to her, then asked for a thin rope.

Having taken in a storm of bullets, the stomach pouch had clearly become much more subdued.

It no longer dared to demand delicacies, obediently swallowing some items instead and spitting out the pellets.

Afterwards, Yang Yi tied the pouch’s opening tightly shut with the rope, deciding to starve it for a while until its capacity dropped back to 30 cubic metres.

That way, it would likely behave more tamely and wouldn’t risk causing trouble in the middle of a battle.

He hung the bound pouch at his waist.

Though larger than before and possessing shapeshifting ability, once subdued it could still be carried, dangling like a lump of bluish-gray flesh.

He looked out over the sea.

Perhaps because of the disturbance caused by absorbing seawater earlier, numerous chunks of flesh were drifting towards the Nightmare Star.

Yang Yi had no intention of wasting energy in a drawn-out fight.

After pulling the raft back in, he decisively steered the Nightmare Star to leave the area quickly, heading once more towards the coordinates of the Farmer.

Because of the increased density of the flesh masses, some small ones clung to the ship.

Fortunately, Suna was on deck and shot them down with her Salt Bow, afterwards collecting them back into the cabin for potion-making.

…

Two days passed.

The Nightmare Star drew closer and closer to the Farmer.

Perhaps because they were travelling against the flow, they occasionally passed other players’ ships along the way, ordinary vessels.

Yang Yi didn’t bother greeting them, merely brushing past at a distance of several dozen nautical miles.

If not for the crystal-ball sea chart, he could never have known that other players were even out there.

Yang Yi checked the great sea chart.

In about two days, the Nightmare Star would intercept the rampaging Farmer.

The New World Fleet continued providing its coordinates and movements without interruption, matching closely with what Yang Yi confirmed through his Scrying skill.

Using Scrying, he had also glimpsed the ship’s appearance: a moving sea forest, nearly identical to the image another player had provided earlier.

Most of the forest was submerged, making its true size difficult to gauge.

But based on the Farmer’s ship interface data, the portion below the water was likely even larger than what showed above the waves. Only when they saw the full body would he be able to judge accurately.

During those two days, Yang Yi and Suna hadn’t been idle.

They had prepared containers and even crafted giant sea-salt grenades.

Each had a capacity of about ten litres. Since they were blown from glass, no two were exactly the same in size or shape.

Yang Yi had made a total of 300 such containers.

That had to be enough for clearing a path.

The production consumed about six tons of sea salt. Including previous losses from the “food rain” event and other expenditures along the way, Yang Yi had only about fifteen tons left in stock.

But the New World Fleet had promised a supply ship carrying twenty tons of salt would rendezvous with him.

So essentially, Shen Guanquan was footing the bill for the expenses.

In fact, they could probably make even more giant salt grenades.

Meanwhile, the stomach pouch’s capacity had shrunk back to thirty cubic metres, making it much tamer. It no longer tried anything reckless, much like before.

As long as it wasn’t fed too many delicacies, the pouch would stay relatively obedient.

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