Chapter 35: Enemies Always Meet

Lin Lei originally thought that the speed of his rowing the wooden boat could reach more than 80 kilometers per hour, which is a sailing speed of over forty knots, but the reality surprised him. Excluding the factors of waves and wind, the speed of the wooden boat could only reach 25 knots, which is more than 40 kilometers per hour.

It seemed that rowing on the sea surface was still very different from swimming underwater. That made sense; back then, he was only propelling his own body, which weighed over 90 kilograms. Now, he had to push the entire wooden boat, plus Fuweili and various supplies, weighing over a ton in total. The resistance was much greater.

Whenever the sea breeze blew against him, Lin Lei clearly felt much more strained. Of course, it would be perfect if the sea breeze could always blow from behind; he would just need to raise a beast-skin sail and wouldn’t even have to row.

He had already asked the System to mark the area where the spaceship was located, so Lin Lei didn’t need to distinguish directions at all. He just had to row fiercely in the direction indicated by the System, and he would travel in a completely straight line, the shortest distance.

Fuweili watched in confusion. Now on the vast sea, looking out in all directions, there was only water. She could only judge the basic direction through the stars above her head. How could Lin Lei be so certain about the location of the spaceship?

There were no clear reference objects to distinguish directions on the sea. Relying solely on memory to find a specific sea area was useless. Could Lin Lei distinguish the underwater terrain? That would be too ridiculous, right?

“Lei, are you really sure? It’s not that I don’t believe you, but this is really beyond my imagination!” Fuweili couldn’t hold back and finally asked. If she didn’t trust Lin Lei wholeheartedly, she would have treated him as a madman and a delusionist long ago.

Lin Lei kept rowing, and hearing this, he chuckled mischievously: “Wei, actually I’m just rowing randomly, trying my luck. I’m walking entirely by feel now. Whether we can find the spaceship depends on whether the heavens give me face or not.”

Lin Lei roughly calculated the distance. From his departure point to the sea area where the spaceship was located, it was a journey of nearly 2000 kilometers. At his current speed, he would have to row non-stop for more than 50 hours.

This was not a short time. Not to mention being tired, a person would definitely die of boredom. So Lin Lei couldn’t help but joke with Fuweili. He just liked to see her anxious and angry look, ever since he first met her.

Originally, after having an intimate relationship with her, he had restrained himself for a few days. But less than two Blue Rain Star months had passed before he returned to his old ways.

Fuweili rolled her eyes at him, not falling for his trick at all. Rowing so energetically if it was random rowing, and with a face full of mischievous smiles, one look and it was obvious he was lying. She had to get to the bottom of it; she was dying of curiosity.

“Tell me quickly!!” Fuweili dragged out her voice, starting to act coquettishly with a sticky tone.

…Lin Lei was most afraid of this. He felt his bones go soft: “Alright, I’ll talk, isn’t it okay if I talk? My method is a bit special, ordinary people can’t learn it at all. Look, Blue Rain Star has a power ful geomagnetic field. Although we don’t have a compass, I can naturally sense the direction of the magnetic field lines. Also, I can sense the minute differences in the rotation direction of Blue Rain Star and the gravity in various directions. Through these judgment factors, I can naturally determine the location of the spaceship.”

His skin was thick. He roughly knew that the System judged directions based on these things. Anyway, the System was inside his body, so saying it was his ability wasn’t exactly wrong.

Fuweili still looked unbelieving. How could a living being have such sensitive senses? Then Lin Lei would have become a humanoid locator. The more she looked at it, the more outrageous it seemed. This completely deviated from her common sense!

“I don’t believe it, unless you prove it to me.”

“As long as I find the location of the spaceship, that will be the best proof.” Lin Lei couldn’t produce it at all. This thing couldn’t be proven either; it wasn’t an ability he could control.

“I want to see it now, otherwise you are lying!” Fuweili continued to pester him.

Uh, Lin Lei had a headache. How did this woman become hard to fool? No, to maintain his big man’s dignity, he had to think of a way. Right, he had to show off a skill to shock her.

“Well, magnetic force and gravity are things you can’t see or touch, so I have no way to show them to you. However, my senses are really very sharp. Watch, I can judge if there are fish below by looking at the fluctuations on the water surface, and then I’ll spear one up.”

Lin Lei stopped his work, picked up a hard spine collected from a Thorn Dragon’s body from the boat, and stared motionlessly at the pitch-black sea surface under the starry sky.

The sea water surged up and down, without any special disturbance. Plus, the light was dim. It was impossible to see if there were fish below. But who said Lin Lei’s hearing wasn’t monstrous? As long as he listened carefully, he could distinguish the subtle sound of water flow made by fish swimming underwater. His ears were like sonar.

Here it came. Two meters to the left of the wooden boat, three meters underwater, a fellow neither big nor small. Lin Lei fiercely threw the hard spine into the sea surface. This long spine, one meter long and as thick as two thumbs, was used as a harpoon, plunging into the water.

Lin Lei’s control of force and direction was excellent. When the hard spine entered the water, it didn’t even splash a bit of water.

A few seconds later, Fuweili saw an abnormal fluctuation on the sea surface. Then, a 3-meter-long big fish floated up with its belly turned white. On the fish’s back, a hard spine was inserted diagonally, piercing through its entire body.

Fuweili’s beautiful eyes widened as she looked at Lin Lei in disbelief. Obviously, this was also an unpredictable method. How did he know there were fish underwater? She hadn’t felt anything at all. Before the previous question was resolved, a new problem popped up.

“Haha, are you convinced? This is also because I can sense the magnetic field lines. Look, this fish is a living creature, an electrical conductor. When it swims, it cuts through the earth’s magnetism, causing an uneven distribution of electric charge on its body, which I sensed.”

Lin Lei bragged without drafting, fooling Fuweili into a daze. This… this reasoning seemed to make sense, but could a human really be so sensitive to the earth’s magnetism?

“Wei, don’t not believe me. In my hometown, there is a kind of bird called a pigeon. Their ability to distinguish directions is very strong, relying on the earth’s magnetic field. Since it can, why can’t I? I and the pigeon are creatures from the same planet, our genes are related.” Lin Lei continued to bluff.

Fuweili wasn’t familiar with genetics. She studied the general characteristic phenomena of ecological planets. Now, being fooled by Lin Lei with half-truths, she also started to become half-convinced, but she always felt something was wrong.

She looked carefully at Lin Lei’s expression, trying to distinguish anything unusual.

Lin Lei tried hard to hold back the smile on his face, blinking his eyes, looking sincere as he stared straight at Fuweili opposite him. Actually, it seemed like she really believed it a little.

“Really that amazing?” It was Fuweili’s suspicious voice.

“Truer than real gold!” Lin Lei almost swore to the heavens. His face was serious, but the smile in his eyes became heavier and heavier, even flashing with jumping light under the starlight.

Fuweili finally noticed something weird. From knowing him until now, when did this guy’s face ever show such a serious yet fake expression? It must be faked. Look, look, his eyes were squinted into a line. He was definitely lying to her.

“Fine, you’re lying to me! I’ll make you pretend.” Fuweili pounced over, raising her small white fist to hit him.

But at this moment, a sudden change occurred. The wooden boat suddenly tilted violently to the side. A huge force pushed up from one side of the bottom of the boat.

Damn! I said why would this fish run to the water surface in such cold weather. Turns out it was being chased underwater. Lin Lei secretly cursed himself for being careless.

At the same time, Lin Lei stomped fiercely towards the side of the boat that was tilting up. A crisp sound with great force came out.

He used a force similar to “hitting a cow across a mountain.” The wooden boat was fine, but a powerful force had already passed through the wood. At the same time, a penetrating water bullet suddenly shot up from the other side of the wooden planks, shooting fiercely towards the unknown enemy underwater.

The wooden boat regained its balance. At the same time, a muffled roar full of pain came from underwater. The sound was very huge. Even after being filtered by the sea water, it was still very powerful when it reached the water surface. It seemed this was another powerful guy.

It probably wasn’t aiming for Lin Lei specifically, but just happened to bump into Lin Lei’s wooden boat during its ascent. Otherwise, with its strength, it could have completely overturned the wooden boat in one go, not giving Lin Lei any time to react.

But now, even if it wasn’t an enemy, it became one. Who asked Lin Lei to make a move?

“Wei, hold on to the wooden boat tight. I’m going into the sea to meet this guy!” At this time, he had to be fast, fast enough that the underwater Monster didn’t have time to destroy the wooden boat. Otherwise, if the boat was destroyed, he would be fine, but Fuweili would be in big trouble.

“Lei! You…” Before Fuweili could finish shouting, she saw Lin Lei had already dived into the bottom of the water, and the wooden boat had regained its calm.

But on the sea surface, dark currents surged over and rushed past from time to time, showing the fierceness of the battle underwater. Fuweili couldn’t help at all and could only wait anxiously on the wooden boat.

She was very worried. If it were on land, it would be okay; at least she could see the battle situation and have a bottom line in her heart. But in the world under the sea surface, she was completely blind. This was truly a painful torment!

As soon as Lin Lei entered the water, the first thing he saw were two eyeballs emitting blue light, as big as his head. The System also sent information.

“Loki Behemoth (Prehistoric Blue Rain Star creature), previously encountered on the seabed.”

Lin Lei immediately started cursing. The ocean was so big, and they could still meet like this. This fate wasn’t supposed to be like this, right? The ancients said enemies always meet, and they really didn’t deceive me.

Headache aside, the battle had to continue. This time he couldn’t escape. He had Fuweili behind him.

When Lin Lei went into the sea, he already grabbed a long knife made from an Epic Beast bone. This knife was made from a rear thigh bone and was over a meter long. Lin Lei didn’t have time to polish it, so it wasn’t very sharp, only possessing the characteristic of being hard.

With such a small length, for the Loki Behemoth whose tentacles were 150 meters long, he couldn’t cause damage anywhere else. He could only go for the two big light-bulb-like eyes.

Lin Lei instantly judged the situation, then raised his knife to stab at the behemoth’s eyes.

However, he wasn’t in his Fishman state now, so his speed wasn’t very fast. As soon as he moved, the Loki Behemoth wrapped Lin Lei up with a large tentacle.

The current Lin Lei wasn’t a pushover either. The Energy Level he could erupt far exceeded the limit of a single tentacle’s strength of the Loki Behemoth. He felt the behemoth’s tentacle wrap around him, so he placed the long knife horizontally beside him. After the tentacle wrapped around, he suddenly exerted force.

Although the long knife wasn’t sharp, it was considered to have been ground out a bit of an edge by Lin Lei, and it was exceptionally sturdy. With this powerful eruption, he cut half of the tentacle with a diameter of more than 3 meters, effectively disabling it.

Lin Lei prepared to fight a quick battle. He couldn’t hold his breath for long. If the Loki Behemoth dragged him to the bottom of the sea, he would have to use the System’s Emergency Mode to escape. That wasn’t what he hoped for; he wanted the Level 3 Strengthening authority now.

Lin Lei’s powerful attack seemed to trigger some memories of the Loki Behemoth. It suddenly became violent.

It remembered. A few months ago, there was also such a strange little thing that broke several of its tentacles. Now this little guy did it again. This was intolerable!

Tentacles wrapped around Lin Lei one after another. However, the Loki Behemoth was too slow, its body was too huge, and its overall coordination ability wasn’t very good. It couldn’t tighten all the tentacles in a short time, which gave Lin Lei an advantage.

When a tentacle came, Lin Lei disabled one. The Loki Behemoth only had over a dozen huge tentacles in total. Let’s see who would be heartbroken.

At the same time, Lin Lei also used the force to approach the head of the Loki Behemoth. He wanted to execute a decapitation operation!

The Loki Behemoth now felt like it had strength but couldn’t use it. As soon as the tentacle power erupted, it was disabled. Mentioning how aggrieved it was, growing those huge tentacles took great effort each time. But now, in less than 2 minutes, a full 7 tentacles had been disabled. If this continued, it would be terrible!

Its violence quickly turned into fear. Today it had fallen into a trap. Leaving was the best option. Once in the deep sea, it shouldn’t let itself meet this little thing again.

But next, one of its eyes transmitted severe pain, and then its field of vision immediately became much smaller. The eye was disabled. The Loki Behemoth went crazy. This represented a different meaning.

With one less eye, all thoughts of preserving its life faded in an instant. It prepared to fight to the death!

“Roar” came another huge roar. The sonic boom in the water made Lin Lei’s head a little dizzy. When he looked again, he found that the Loki Behemoth’s remaining single eye had turned red, blood red.

“Hmph, what’s the use of you going berserk? I’ll still cut one tentacle for every tentacle that comes.” Lin Lei prepared to throw the long knife with all his might, stabbing it into the Loki Behemoth’s brain.

But Lin Lei thought wrong. The Loki Behemoth’s small tentacles, those things with a diameter of only one meter and a length of only 10 meters, suddenly wrapped towards Lin Lei. The speed was extremely fast, and the force was actually comparable to the huge tentacles. Moreover, four or five wrapped around at once, and then they started to tighten.

These small tentacles were this fierce too? Lin Lei discovered that these small tentacles were no longer in a soft state, but had also become blood red, and hard like steel wire ropes. Was this the Loki Behemoth’s berserk move? Was this combat power increasing a bit too high!

The huge force oppressed Lin Lei’s body. Lin Lei even heard the sound of his bones being compressed. Under this kind of force, he couldn’t exert any strength in his hands, let alone throw the long knife.

Did he still have to rely on the System? Various thoughts flashed through Lin Lei’s mind like lightning. Right, Fuweili was still on the boat. She still had that stunning Energy Gun! Lin Lei now just needed a chance to throw the long knife.

“Wei, shoot your Energy Gun into the sea, towards my position, quick!” Lin Lei transmitted information to Fuweili using brainwaves.

“Lei, won’t it hurt you?” It was Fuweili’s voice.

Good, this was the chance. Lin Lei erupted with the strength of his whole body to resist the pressure of the Loki Behemoth’s tentacles, while replying: “Just shoot. I’m wrapped in tentacles all over. It’s very safe.”

A few seconds later, Lin Lei felt a slight loosening of the Loki Behemoth’s tentacles. It must have been hit by the stunning energy. Good, just do that: “Wei, it’s working. Continue!”

The Loki Behemoth’s tentacles became looser and looser. In the end, Lin Lei suddenly exerted force, broke free from the tentacles, then swam to the head of the Loki Behemoth, and thrust the long knife in his hand fiercely down. Then he slapped the handle heavily with his palm, just like when he killed the One-horned Armored Rhinoceros. The long knife went directly into the Loki Behemoth’s head.

Of course, Lin Lei didn’t forget to tell Fuweili to stop shooting. If the stunning Energy Gun accidentally shot him, it would be a big tragedy. Although he might not faint, he would definitely be weak all over for a while.

The vitality of the Loki Behemoth was unexpectedly powerful. Its brain was poked with a hole, yet it didn’t die for a moment. Its whole body’s tentacles danced without any sign of weakness, but they had become chaotic and disorderly. The light of that red eye was also slowly extinguishing.

It seemed it was indeed dead. That was really thrilling. If it were any later, Lin Lei would really have suffocated.

The Loki Behemoth slowly sank towards the deep sea, and the System’s evaluation came out.

“Host Lin Lei, killed the Loki Behemoth with the assistance of others. Battle evaluation: D-level.”

“Level 3 Strengthening authority increased, total progress is 1/100.”

Okay, okay, it wasn’t in vain. Lin Lei thought the reward for this time was ruined.

Fuweili held the Energy Gun tightly in her hand, sitting weakly on the wooden boat, gasping for breath in big mouthfuls. Her face was as pale as snow.

She was really too nervous. Just now when Lin Lei sent a message up asking her to help, she almost fainted. Fortunately, he had already solved the guy underwater.

Soon, Lin Lei jumped onto the wooden boat. As soon as he got on the boat, he hugged Fuweili tightly: “Wei, thanks to you this time. Turns out your plastic gun is also very powerful.”

“This is not a low-level plastic gun!” Fuweili’s nervous mood was immediately relaxed a lot by Lin Lei’s interruption. She twisted the soft flesh on Lin Lei’s waist with one hand and ravaged it fiercely. This guy really needed a lesson. As soon as he was out of danger, he was in the mood to joke with her.

Lin Lei immediately raised his hands in surrender: “Okay, Wei, I was wrong. This is an Interstellar Fortress cannon, alright?”

“That’s more like it. You know what’s good for you.” Fuweili rolled her eyes at Lin Lei.

Hehe, look, this timid woman was in a much better state now. Being pinched wasn’t considered a loss. Lin Lei was really afraid that Fuweili would be scared into something bad.