The Informal Tomb Raiding Diary: She is the occupant of the tomb!-Chapter 118: The Sea of Fire Burns

It’s just that the sea worms are too soft, the harm they can cause me is negligible.

I can cut them off with a dagger while I cut through the intestines at the bottom of the ship. The battle above with Qinghan and Bi Shi must be even tougher.

These intestines stick to the ground, and where the tumors tilt, they ’exert force’ accordingly.

Like a seesaw, they make the ship tilt. Even with a finesse move, their original strength cannot be ignored.

Fortunately, I struck first, severely injuring the tumor, causing other sea worms to attack me, rather than trying to capsize the ship.

The ship returned to its original position, but these intestines were clearly not for attacking; they just do the heavy work, low in attack power. Those sea spiders are the ’army’ responsible for offense.

So it led to them whipping me, causing no pain, while I slashed at them accurately with every cut.

Such a behemoth firmly blocked the opening at the bottom of the ship. If it ran away, the ship would sink.

But it’s already injured, so I’m not worried about it chasing us in the sea. Soon we can row the lifeboat away.

After chopping for a while, the intestines hid from me, but I developed a compulsion to cut any I hadn’t already.

Once I finished cutting them all, I breathed a sigh of relief, looking at the dying tumor. Although it had no facial features, I could tell it was on the brink of death by its faint twitching.

Seeing that this side was almost done, I grabbed the dagger and ran to the upper level to support Qinghan.

But I found the corridor was full of sea spiders, and I’d have to kill them all to pass.

So I thought of the vents, found the nearest one, and crawled in. But I didn’t know Qinghan’s location, so I headed toward the cabin door.

Qinghan surely knew that locking the cabin door and staying on the deck would be safest.

I crawled through the ventilation duct above the corridor, which was occupied by sea spiders, thinking how to distract them at the door, when they suddenly turned and ran toward the stairs.

It’s likely the tumor sent a retreat signal, and they all returned.

I quickly seized the opportunity to open the cabin door and run out. Qinghan and Bi Shi were indeed on the deck, with Qinghan guarding the entrance, his shortsword turned back into a Longsword.

Bi Shi was dragging a large suitcase, but He Su was nowhere in sight.

"Where’s He Su?" I asked.

"Here," Bi Shi said, kicking the extra-large suitcase beside her.

"They all returned to the ship’s hold, that big one is severely injured, let’s get the lifeboat ready."

Qinghan had completed his task by breaking the oil tank, letting the fuel leak onto the sea. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

Lighting the oil on the sea must wait until we leave the cruise.

At this moment, I remembered the elite man we left on the deck, but now he was gone.

I don’t know if he fell into the sea when the ship tilted, or if the sea monster took him.

Time is pressing, so we must save ourselves. We untie a rescue boat, and together Qinghan and I threw it, trying to get it as far as possible.

It was thrown beyond the range of the fuel, and another lifeboat was still below the ship, the one I tossed to Bi Shi earlier, which hadn’t drifted away.

We first descended to the nearby lifeboat along a rope, then rowed to the edge of the fuel-covered area.

Then we jumped into the sea, swam to the safe lifeboat. The cruise began rocking again, maybe the tumor was trying to detach from the hull and sink back into the sea.

Qinghan threw a lighter, and flames soared on the sea, engulfing the oil tanker.

But we didn’t have time to enjoy the spectacle, furiously paddling to distance ourselves from the sea of fire.

There were still many sea spiders. If they caught up, our little lifeboat couldn’t withstand it.

Suddenly, waves surged from the sea of fire, as if something was churning the water beneath.

I thought it was that big guy coming out, when suddenly a few sea spiders leapt from the flames, only to fall back into the sea.

Followed by more sea spiders playing a leapfrog game, each jumping up only to fall back down.

"What are they doing?" Bi Shi asked, staring at the sea of fire.

"They’re trying to put out the fire," said Qinghan.

"With their bodies?" Bi Shi clicked her tongue in admiration, "That’s quite brave."

"Throwing away pawns to save the chariot," Qinghan glanced at the sea of fire behind him and continued rowing hard.

"Look at that," Bi Shi raised her voice.

We had already distanced ourselves dozens of meters from the sea of fire, but the distance wasn’t yet safe.

The sea surface suddenly rose, and the burning water swept toward us, and Qinghan and I paddled even faster.

The cruise tilted to one side, likely because the big guy emerged, causing water to flood in and the boat to lose balance, soon to sink.

Many sea worms stretched out from the burning sea, likely those sealing the hull, as I cut the ones in the cabin.

It was like countless earthworms writhing in the sea of fire, but the big tumor didn’t surface.

Sea spiders kept leaping toward the surface, only to fall back and float lifelessly.

"Strange, they shouldn’t burn to death so quickly after jumping up," I muttered.

"Maybe they fear the heat," Bi Shi replied.

The sea spiders couldn’t extinguish the sea’s fire; instead, they died in one sweep. The sea worms also hung weakly and fell back into the sea, no longer emerging.

The big guy is probably finished. As Bi Shi mentioned, maybe it fears heat, enough to heat the seawater and kill it without direct flame contact.

None of us were biologists, so we were only guessing; we couldn’t be sure.

The cruise sank, taking our rooms and food along to the seafloor. I didn’t mind, but what about Qinghan?

The rescue boat bobbed on the sea, a much stronger sensation than the cruise, drifting aimlessly.

"Ah, I don’t know how long it’ll drift. How about I dive and retrieve some food?" I looked at Qinghan, who seemed weary. I feared he couldn’t hold on for days, being the only one among us who would die without food.

"Without diving gear, you can’t dive that deep. We’ll wait and see," Qinghan’s voice also carried a hint of fatigue. He must have slain a lot of sea spiders, as their bodies filled the stairwell from the cabin upward.

"Is it dark? Where am I?" He Su’s voice suddenly came from the suitcase.

Bi Shi was impressive, packing He Su in a suitcase to bring along, not tossing her into the sea was genuinely touching.

I didn’t think Bi Shi acted out of kinship; she wanted He Su’s resources and power, so she couldn’t let her die here.

Bi Shi opened the suitcase, with He Su curled inside, looking up at us.

"What’s happening? Why am I in a suitcase?" She sat up, seeing us on a lifeboat, the distant cruise sinking and the sea of fire burning.