Grand Voyage : Surviving on a Ghost Ship-Chapter 206 - Overtaking the Farmer

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Yang Yi stopped the ship, unloaded the twenty tons of sea salt he had just acquired into the hold, and at the same time stored the giant sea-salt grenades prepared there into his stomach pouch.

A total of 500 giant sea-salt grenades had been crafted; more than enough.

Of the thirty tons of salt in reserve, he kept five tons on hand, just in case.

Once that was done, Yang Yi prepared to return to the deck and resume pursuit.

Just then, Suna, coming out of the laboratory, called out to him.

“Try this.”

She handed him two pairs of goggles, one large and one small, both designed to fit snugly against the eye sockets.

Yang Yi took the smaller pair, tried them on, and found the size perfect.

“The larger one’s for your werewolf form. It’s important to have protective eyewear; keeps flesh-fluid splashes out of your eyes.” Suna explained. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

The goggles had been made by melting crystal, casting it with moulds, then grinding it down.

Since they weren’t system items, they carried no information and couldn’t automatically adapt to a player’s bodily changes. That was why Suna had made both a large and small pair.

“Good. Hardly affects vision at all.”

Yang Yi praised, and once he put them on, he didn’t take them off, wearing them over his eyepatch.

Then he stepped out of the cabin, ready to resume pursuit of the Farmer as planned.

…

Two days later, at dawn.

The Nightmare Star was finally closing in on the Farmer.

The distance was still about 200 nautical miles, but contact was expected by noon.

Roughly ten hours earlier, the suspicious Farmer had suddenly stopped sailing. Otherwise, the Nightmare Star wouldn’t have caught up so quickly.

On the foredeck, Yang Yi was consulting the crystal orb, once again confirming the Farmer’s coordinates and condition.

The image showed a forest half-submerged in the sea, dense with lush, vibrant greenery.

If not for some branches piercing into the white waters like straws to drink, anyone would have thought it nothing more than an ordinary jungle, just appearing in the wrong place.

Yang Yi shut off the vision, sent a private message to Suna, and reminded her to be ready.

As for himself, he had been ready for some time.

Besides his weapons, gear, and sea salt, he carried five bottles of regenerative potion, one gluttony potion, one psychic potion, and had already downed a vitality coconut drink, pushing his stamina up to 97.

Other attribute-boosting potions weren’t worth carrying, as they couldn’t break past mortal limits and carried side effects.

His base Agility had risen to 8 points. Perception was just short of levelling up, but it seemed this battle would come too soon for that.

And to ward off attacks from the forest’s branches, Yang Yi had once again inspected the ship, sealing all windows except cannon ports and observation slots.

The nets previously hung from the mast were also rehung, offering at least some cushioning.

…

Four hours later.

The Nightmare Star slowed its pace.

It was less than thirty nautical miles from the Farmer, with contact being imminent.

On the crystal orb, the sea forest showed up as a dense cluster of black dots, marked with the ship’s name: Farmer.

Suna joined him on deck, carrying her crystal greatshield and Salt Bow, while also manning the Nightmare Star.

Lacking Yang Yi’s survival measures, her role was to stay aboard, holding the line and providing backup.

The waterlogged cannons and skeletal arms of the ship still needed a commander, and the mountains of sea salt piled in the mid-deck could sustain a prolonged battle.

Moreover, Suna had used the tentacles of a mutated pale worm, along with carcasses of dead flesh lumps, to inscribe a magic array. By pouring in 7 mana, she summoned a five-metre-tall tentacled abomination.

The stitched monster was sturdier than any she had summoned before, boasting over thirty thick tentacles capable of spraying sea salt as attacks, an extremely powerful force.

Yang Yi, meanwhile, strapped on the gauntlet of the Penitent Armour’s right hand, refusing Suna’s suggestion to wear the armguard as well.

“This carrion whale isn’t that big. The fight won’t last long,” Yang Yi judged, checking the custom wooden planks in his stomach pouch.

He would still need to assemble the container later.

The Nightmare Star sailed for about another half hour, closing the distance to the Farmer to just ten nautical miles.

At that range, even without a telescope, his three eyes alone could already make out the sea-bound forest.

But in the crystal orb’s vision, the forest was gone. The white ocean stretched empty, yet the Farmer’s coordinates hadn’t shifted.

“This is bad… it must have gone underwater!”

Yang Yi concluded, there was no other explanation.

He immediately contacted the Farmer’s captain, Geng Qiu, and pulled up the ship interface to check its status.

The length now showed as 1,100 metres, not much different from before. But Yang Yi couldn’t possibly fight it beneath the sea.

He would need to find a way to lure the carrion whale to the surface.

Perhaps with the Ultra-Delicious Cake, or by trying the tasty bait he had obtained earlier.

Planning his approach, Yang Yi stood at the bow of the Nightmare Star, eyes fixed on the sea, while ordering Suna to keep advancing.

They stopped about one kilometre from the Farmer’s coordinates.

First, he had Suna fire two cannon rounds at the spot, hoping to provoke the beast. But the plan failed; there was no response.

It was likely too deep for the shells to reach.

Then, Yang Yi pulled out several pieces of Ultra-Delicious Cake, ready to toss them into the water.

Suddenly, a vast shadow spread across the surface, growing larger by the second.

At the same time, noises came from above. Yang Yi looked up sharply,

A giant bird was diving at incredible speed.

It had no feathers, its body was covered in bulging fleshy tumours, with lotus-pod-like growths, each with a central hole that could open and close.

Yang Yi recognised it: he’d seen it in a weekly report. It was one of those suspected mimic-type flesh masses.

But it was much larger than the ones pictured before, because its wingspan stretched nearly 200 metres!

What’s more, it had been lurking silently in the upper skies, unnoticed by either Yang Yi or Suna.

The sea chart didn’t display airborne threats. The Nightmare Star was about to be ambushed!

“Above you! Get to the mid-deck!”

Yang Yi shouted instantly, pulling out his flintlock and firing at the giant bird.

The shot struck true, one of the tumors burst into pulp. But to the bird, it was only a superficial wound, one it could heal quickly.

The two of them sprinted into the mid-deck. By then, the giant bird was only about fifty metres away, seemingly intent on ramming straight into the Nightmare Star to drive it into the sea.

“Damn it!”

Yang Yi raised the Roaring Flintlock, switching to roar mode, hoping to blast the monstrous bird back and punch a hole through its body.

Other weapons likely wouldn’t drive it off in a single strike.

But just then, from beneath the sea, countless vines shot upwards, so fast the bird didn’t even have time to react.

The vines wove together into a massive net, binding the giant bird tightly.

At the same time, the Roaring Flintlock unleashed its roar, thunder booming across the sea.

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