The Informal Tomb Raiding Diary: She is the occupant of the tomb!-Chapter 193 - 194: Freediving Is Healthier

I supported the bottom of the boat with my hands. The fishing boat had already entered a floating state, probably because Captain Jack ordered it to ’shut down’.

Stopping the boat first can reduce consumption, especially when full throttle can’t prevent the boat from approaching the island.

A few minutes later, those red figures appeared again. I raised my sword and stabbed, piercing through the neck of the figure in front of me.

Blood spread through the sea, and the head, which was about to fall off, hung limply on the corpse’s shoulder. It instantly lost strength, its arms fell, and its body began to sink.

But its mouth suddenly opened wide, tearing at the corners, and a creature like a jellyfish crawled out of its mouth.

This jellyfish-like creature had bioluminescent organs. On its semi-transparent body, blue glowing spots formed a spiral pattern that caused dizziness when stared at.

Although jellyfish can sting, they don’t have sickle-like hooks on their tentacles. However, this creature had scythe-shaped weapons on each tentacle, and beneath its umbrella-like body was a mouth full of barbs.

If it was a kind of jellyfish, then it certainly would be classified as aggressive. It had just curled up to a size even larger than my fist, and when fully expanded, it was as big as a human head.

A bite from it would do more than just break the skin, of course, I mean if it bit an ordinary person.

For now, I named it the scythe jellyfish. It doesn’t matter if I got it wrong; my goal isn’t to study it but to eliminate it.

Once it detached from the man’s head, it charged at me fiercely, baring its fangs and claws.

I raised my hand and shot a green light at it, wanting to test whether the ’Divide’ skill works on such single-celled organisms.

To my slight disappointment, it was not affected by the green light at all. Then I used Karmic Fire a little, burning away its murderous tools, turning it into a completely ’normal jellyfish’.

Its tentacle without the scythe head hit my hand and wasn’t even enough to tickle, and its toothless mouth biting on my hand’s back felt more like a kiss on my hand.

By this time, the red figures, which should have disappeared after a few seconds, did not vanish as usual. Seeing their ’companion’ in trouble, they all gathered around and surrounded me.

Bi Shi, on the ’crowd’ outskirts, caught the Red Corpse by the body and cut. Her knife was small; she couldn’t stab like I could with a sword, and could only chop at their necks like harvesting chives.

Lu Xiaodao’s throwing knives were also sharp as iron-cutting tools, slicing through human bones was a piece of cake.

But there were too many Red Corpses, and no matter how fast we were, we couldn’t cut through them all, so I kicked away the surrounding corpses and turned to dive deeper.

The Red Corpses chased after me, their many hands making it difficult to move in the water. If they wrapped me up, breaking free wouldn’t be easy.

We played a game of chase in the sea, and whoever was at the front, I would cut their head with my sword.

This way, I slowly wore them down, and the sinking corpses increased, but more and more scythe jellyfish emerged.

Bi Shi was in the same situation as me; scythe jellyfish crawled out from the heads she cut off. Without Karmic Fire, she couldn’t perform a ’surgery’, but she excelled in mimicking other creatures and swam even faster than fish. The scythe jellyfish advanced by jet propulsion couldn’t catch up with her.

She played guerilla tactics in the water, cutting heads when she’d shaken them off. The Red Corpses weren’t as agile as her. She darted around aimlessly in the water, and wherever she was, a cloud of red mist appeared.

The blood quickly spread in patches. I didn’t know how the scythe jellyfish did it; they hid inside dead bodies, allowing the corpses to go invisible now and then and keeping their blood from coagulating.

We spent an hour fighting underwater and only cut more than a hundred heads. The remaining corpses, which hadn’t been decapitated, seemed to receive a command and suddenly stopped pursuing us, all swimming toward the island.

As for the scythe jellyfish that detached from the corpses, they died within minutes of swimming in the ocean.

I discovered this just as I was ready for a long battle with them, but these wimps ran.

Bi Shi pointed upwards, indicating to surface. We surfaced again, only to find the boat had moved.

Or rather, it had moved far away. Using the island as a reference, our position hadn’t changed much since we first descended, moving perhaps a hundred meters.

The fishing boat, however, had drifted a few kilometers from where we descended; no Red Corpses were clinging to the boat. It regained freedom and was getting farther from the island.

"Hey? They left us here?" Bi Shi looked like she wanted to curse but moved her lips without making a sound.

"Seems they don’t know my motto!" Bi Shi stared darkly at the departing fishing boat.

"Since when do you have a motto?"

"Just now, hmph, only I can ditch people, not the other way around." Bi Shi swam forward a little, "You drift along; I’ll go see what’s happening."

She left those words behind and dove back into the water, shooting out like a torpedo.

Of course, I wouldn’t drift slowly for real; Chen Qinghan could not abandon us. The boat moving meant something happened to them.

I submerged and sped up to chase the boat; though the water sphere hadn’t helped much in battle, it helped when I needed to speed up, carrying me for a fast sprint. With its support, I was clearly twice as fast as before.

But Bi Shi still reached the fishing boat before I did. When I arrived, she was clinging to the outside like a gecko, climbing up bit by bit, almost reaching the railing.

The rope we used to come down was gone, further confirming my suspicion—something happened to Chen Qinghan and the team leader.

I didn’t have Bi Shi’s Gecko Skill, so I had to wait for her to get up and drop a rope for me.

Once we were both back on the boat, she immediately pointed at the cabin door for me to see.

The cabin door was locked from the inside, proving our plan had failed, and next to the door was a strikingly clear bloody handprint.

However, the angle of this handprint seemed off, as if someone had grabbed the door’s edge and was forcibly dragged inside.

Could it be Chen Qinghan and the leader? Seeing the handprint gave me a sense of panic.

Bi Shi tugged at me, suggesting we check the control room.

There were cameras in the corridor; if we opened the door, we’d be immediately exposed.

We silently crept to the control room and peered through a corner of the window, witnessing a bizarre scene.

The person steering the fishing boat had their eyes closed, operating the instruments before them as though sleepwalking.

If it was just one person doing so, it could be brushed off as grogginess, but everyone in the control room was like this, each performing their tasks systematically, and the fishing boat smoothly sailed across the sea.

"What kind of skill is this? Hibernation autopilot mode?" Bi Shi whispered sarcastically.