The entire ocean is my fishing ground.

Chapter 52 Collecting Corpses? No, it's Collecting Goods!

He wanted to shout, to order the firing, but those eerie, giant eyes, bigger than cartwheels, sucked away all his will and courage.

"Fire! Fire! Kill it!"

A young mercenary's mental defenses crumbled, and he raised his assault rifle, firing wildly at the massive head.

Da da da da.

The orange-yellow flames drew a straight line through the dim sea fog.

The bullet struck the wrinkled, sticky skin, sending up a string of tiny sparks, without even breaking the skin.

"--hiss."

A piercing scream, not belonging to any known creature, rang out, and the sound waves spread out visibly.

All the glass on the Poseidon, including the thick bulletproof porthole in the cockpit, was instantly covered with cracks.

Immediately afterwards, the dark red tentacle that had smashed the machine gun suddenly rose up and slammed hard into the mercenary who had fired the shot.

Snapped.

A crisp sound.

Before the mercenary could even scream, his body turned into a cloud of blood mist. His upper body disappeared onto the deck, leaving only his two legs standing weakly in place before he collapsed to his knees.

Blood and pieces of internal organs covered the walls of the stern.

"vomit……"

The few remaining mercenaries on deck vomited on the spot and scrambled into the cabin to hide.

Creak—creak—the tentacles wrapped around the hull began to tighten.

This armed salvage vessel, built with special steel and costing hundreds of millions of yuan, emitted a teeth-grinding twisting sound as countless rivets and steel plate joints began to crack, spewing out high-pressure water vapor.

The entire ship began to tilt at a visible speed, and one side of the ship's side was already submerged in the churning seawater.

……

Onboard the Pioneer.

The cockpit was completely silent.

Sun Heizi and the other crew members stared intently at the three-dimensional dynamic map.

On the map, a huge red outline is tightly enveloping another much smaller, ship-shaped outline.

The shape of its outline resembles a giant octopus.

"Chen...Brother Chen...what...what is that thing?"

A young crew member's voice trembled violently, his teeth chattering.

No one answered him.

Everyone had already seen the hellish scene three nautical miles away through the ship's windows.

Against the backdrop of dark red sea fog and towering hydrothermal vents, several enormous tentacles rise high, manipulating a giant steel ship at will.

They recognized the ship; it was the Poseidon, the ship that had been relentlessly following them.

"Oh my god..."

Sun Heizi's legs went weak, and he sat down on the deck with a thud, his face as white as paper.

He had traveled all over the country and had seen all sorts of ruthless people at the docks. He had also done a few big jobs with Lin Chen and considered himself quite bold.

But what he was seeing was beyond his comprehension.

Lin Jianguo's reaction was more intense than Sun Heizi's.

The old fisherman, who had spent his entire life at sea, froze on the spot the moment he saw the monster.

His lips trembled, and the color drained from his face, turning it ashen.

Those eyes, which were usually squinted by the sea breeze, were now wide open and bloodshot.

The stormy night, buried deep in his memory, the small fishing boat that was overturned by a tremendous force, and his father's desperate eyes before falling into the water—all these scenes reappeared in his mind.

"...It's it."

Lin Jianguo managed to squeeze out two words, his voice hoarse.

"It's that beast..."

He trembled violently, not from fear, but from the hatred that had been suppressed for thirty years.

"dad?"

Lin Chen noticed his father's unusual behavior, frowned, and called out.

Lin Jianguo ignored him.

His bloodshot eyes were fixed on the monster in the distance, as if he wanted to etch its image into his bones.

"dad."

"I'll kill you, you beast."

Lin Jianguo suddenly roared, his eyes bloodshot, and shoved Lin Chen aside before lunging at the helm like a madman.

"You're crazy."

Lin Chen's pupils contracted. Without thinking, he lunged forward and grabbed Lin Jianguo's waist tightly from behind, dragging him backward.

"Let me go! Lin Chen, let me go! I want revenge for my father!"

Lin Jianguo struggled desperately, displaying astonishing strength.

"Dad, wake up!"

Lin Chen used all his strength to press his father firmly onto the cold deck, his roar drowning out the wind and waves.

"Look at that ship. How much bigger is the Poseidon than us? It's like a toy. Going there now is just suicide."

"I don't care. I've waited thirty years. Thirty years."

Lin Jianguo slammed his fist hard on the deck, making a dull thud, and tears mixed with rain rolled down his weathered face.

"Your grandfather... was dragged into the sea by it..."

Sun Heizi and the other crew members were stunned.

They then understood why the old captain had reacted so strongly.

It turns out that this monster was actually an enemy of the Lin family.

"I know."

Lin Chen pressed his hand firmly on his father's shoulder and spoke slowly and deliberately, his voice not loud but unusually steady.

"Dad, listen to me. Revenge isn't about going to your death. If you go now, it will only drag our entire ship down with you; it will be pointless."

His gaze was terrifyingly calm, as if neither the world-destroying monster before him nor the panicked crew could sway him in the slightest.

As Sun Heizi watched Lin Chen's retreating figure, for some reason, the heart that was about to leap out of his throat slowly calmed down.

He gritted his teeth, leaped to his feet, and roared:

"Stop standing there like idiots. Listen to Brother Chen."

Lin Jianguo was still struggling, but his strength had diminished considerably.

He lay on the deck, whimpering in pain.

Lin Chen didn't try to persuade him any further; he knew that at this point, any words would be futile.

His mind raced, and he quickly issued commands to the system.

"Analyze the weaknesses of the target organism."

[Critically Endangered Creature Under Warning: Abyssal Giant Squid (Mutant Giant Squid), Adult. Weakness analysis in progress... Analysis complete.]

[Weakness 1: Fear of certain frequencies of infrasound (17 Hz-21 Hz), which can interfere with the central nervous system and cause severe pain.]

[Weakness 2: It is susceptible to continuous exposure to strong light; its deep-sea visual system cannot adapt to high-intensity light.]

The in-game store has been updated with relevant items.

[Deep-sea infrasonic wave deflector (military version): Can directionally emit 10-30 Hz adjustable infrasonic waves, with an effective range of five nautical miles. Price: 500 points.]

It's ridiculously expensive.

But Lin Chen did not hesitate at all.

"exchange."

[Points -500, remaining points 470. Items have been stored in system space.]

"Zhou Dazhuang".

"exist."

Zhou Dazhuang, whose name was called, jumped in surprise.

"Connect all searchlights and lighting equipment on the ship to backup power and set them to overload mode. It doesn't matter if they burn out. On my orders, be ready to start them at any time."

"Yes."

Without saying a word, Zhou Dazhuang turned around and rushed towards the power distribution room.

"Sun Heizi, the guards."

"arrive."

"Put the infrasound deflector on the bow and aim it at that beast."

Lin Chen took out a strangely shaped metal device, more than half a meter tall, from the system space and threw it to Sun Heizi.

Sun Heizi and the others hurriedly took it. Although they didn't know what it was, they immediately carried it to the bow of the ship.

The crew of the Pioneer recovered from their initial panic and began to work methodically.

Lin Jianguo slowly climbed up from the deck, wiped away the tears and rain from his face, and walked to Lin Chen's side, his voice hoarse:

"What...do you want to do?"

Lin Chen looked at the Poseidon in the distance, which was being slowly towed into the deep sea, and then looked at the brand-new infrasonic deflector on the bow of his own ship.

He did not answer his father immediately.

The group on the Poseidon were desperados, people who wanted to kill him. Lin Chen wasn't so saintly as to go and save his enemies.

The stern of the Poseidon.

Although the machine gun was destroyed, the military-grade deep-sea salvage robotic arm hanging on the crane, as well as the deep-sea diving equipment in the cabin, were all hardware that he urgently needed to upgrade the Pioneer.

And now, someone has come knocking on our door.

"Dad," Lin Chen finally spoke, his voice calm and without a trace of emotion, "we're not saving anyone."

"We...receive the goods."