The bottom of the ocean-going ship was immersed in the seawater for many years, so it was only natural that it was covered with a thick layer of dark green seaweed. Under the bright sunshine during the day, these seaweeds did not show any abnormalities. However, after the sky gradually turned dark, some places began to shine with a faint light under the illumination of the fire.
Even though the light spots were tiny, they were very familiar to Zhang Lisheng.
His heart jolted. Baffled, he walked up to the huge bottom of the ship that looked like a collapsed wooden wall and touched it with his hand. He felt that it was wet and smooth with some elasticity and softness, not like the hardwood at all.
"Has the wood decayed from being soaked in the sea? Then how can it still cross the ocean …" Zhang Lisheng muttered to himself and made a guess. Then, he denied it himself and shook his head. Following the most eye-catching light spot, he dug down.
The bottom of the wooden bed felt soft, but in reality, it was extremely tough. The young man, who had already returned to his normal body, unknowingly activated his transformation power and turned his arm into a slender claw that was covered with diamond-shaped scales before inserting it in.
As his claw penetrated in, a 'pop' sound that sounded like a bubble bursting resonated. Without warning, a thick black liquid with a fishy smell seeped out from the bottom of the wooden ship. Zhang Lisheng, whose hands were already stained with blood, also had a feeling that his palm had sunk into the warm flesh of a human body.
"This is not a ship's board at all. It's … It's an animal carcass! Not only that, it's a carcass that has not completely lost its vitality …" The young man was stunned on the spot. All of a sudden, he felt a huge suction coming from his arm that had grabbed the bottom of the ship, causing him to stagger a few times.
At the same time, more than ten of the hundreds of indigenous craftsmen who were dismantling the wooden ship cried out in alarm. Without warning, they were tightly bound by the green tentacles that looked like tree branches that extended out from the ship's hull. "Ahhhhh …" As they screamed in horror, they were pulled into the depths of the cabin.
Then, a series of 'bang bang …' sound of a stone mill turning resonated from the dark ship's hull. In an instant, everything returned to normal.
The sudden and terrifying abnormality caused the huge wooden ship that was swaying under the illumination of the firelight to become gloomy and terrifying. The Tudenan craftsmen jumped away from the tilting ship in horror. These aborigines who lived by craftsmanship for generations actually had courage that was at most comparable to the women and children in the tribe.
The tribal warriors, on the other hand, urged the giant spiders under their buttocks to raise the sharp spears in their hands high and let out frightening howls as they approached the wooden ship. These warriors selected from the Tudenan hunters were obviously much braver than their craftsmen compatriots.
At this time, Zhang Lisheng, who had transformed into a majestic giant using the Money Toad's power, had already stabilized his body and slowly pulled his arm out from the bottom of the wooden ship.
Spreading out his sharp claws, he looked at the tiny stone shimmering with dazzling brilliance that was as bright as the stars even though it was wrapped in stinky blood. He could not help but mutter to himself in a low voice, "Spiritual monster! This wooden ship didn't sink because it's parasitized by the sea spiritual monster …" Then, in pleasant surprise, he raised his voice and shouted, "Everyone, retreat! Let me deal with it!"
Upon hearing the Raider's order, the Tudenan warriors, who were originally advancing towards the unknown monster, hurriedly commanded their partners to retreat. Just as they retreated to a distance of 100 meters away, the wooden ship that had already been dismantled suddenly emitted a horrifying creaking sound. The entire ship's hull began to be slowly torn apart by the dark green fleshy vines that seeped in from the gaps.
Not long after, it turned into a pile of broken rotten wood, hanging on a pile of rectangular jelly-like corpses that were glued together by hundreds of human remains, surrounded by countless wriggling branch-like tentacles.
When Zhang Lisheng came closer to the translucent corpses, he saw that there were hundreds of corpses, young and old, male and female, wrapped in it. Some of them wore elegant and beautiful headgear while some of them had sparse hair and a ferocious expression on their faces that were blinking their eyes at him in resentment. Zhang Lisheng relied on muttering a few incantations to calm his wildly beating heart.
"No wonder the Gold Core formed in its body is all fragmented. It's indeed a powerful mutation …" He muttered to himself and opened his big black mouth. In an instant, a gush of thick cyclone shot out of his mouth and penetrated the entire corpse pile monster. At once, a large gush of black pus gushed out of the monster's wound like a fountain.
The human heads in the corpse pile monster that were severely injured had a horrified expression on their faces. Shouting silently, they waved their tentacles that were covered with tree-leaf-like sarcomas to entangle Zhang Lisheng. However, what greeted them was naturally another gush of roaring cyclone that pierced through them.
Just like this, Zhang Lisheng's heel firmly stepped into the sea sand and let the thousands of flexible tentacles of the corpse pile monster whip on the round giant scales on its body, creating a series of 'dong dong …' muffled sounds. Then, he spat out cyclones again and again, riddling the monster with thousands of holes.
Even though each wound would quickly heal after it appeared, the body fluid that gushed out in the first three to five seconds of each injury still made the corpse pile monster's body dry up very quickly. In the end, it turned into a pile of rotten colorless rotten flesh that wrapped several hundreds of human heads.
Zhang Lisheng, who had never subdued a spiritual monster so easily, did not let his guard down this time. After taking a few steps back to create a safe distance, he changed his transformation power from Money Toad to lizard and found his target. Without warning, he stepped on the sand and dashed towards the corpse pile monster, before grabbing another Gold Core fragment from its body.
Upon being ambushed, the corpse pile monster struggled in vain for a while before being tightly tied up by a giant net that was formed by countless strands of silk threads that suddenly burst out from the beach below.
When Zhang Lisheng saw that the monster was trapped by the omniscient power of the wizard gu's Omnipresent Net, Catching Shadows and Catching Wind, not far away, he finally relaxed and strode up to the 'corpse pile monster' before calmly collecting his loot from the gaps of the net.
Very soon, Zhang Lisheng found 37 Gold Core fragments that were as big as soybeans and as small as rice grains. When he dug out the last fragment from the corpse pile monster's body, this monster that looked horrifying but was actually very weak completely stopped squirming and struggling. The heads in its body also slowly closed their eyes and turned into a pile of dead flesh.
When Zhang Lisheng saw that the corpse pile monster seemed to be dead, he pondered for a while and suddenly walked up to an older Tudenan tribesman. Picking up a Gold Core, he asked in a whisper, "Do you know what this is?"
The old aborigine, who had a humble position in the tribe, had never thought that he would actually have the opportunity to talk to the Raider alone. Faced with the inexplicable chilling gaze of the living faith in his heart that was staring at him, he stared at the Gold Core fragment with widened eyes. His dark and wrinkled face was flushed as he tried his best to show off.
However, his poor knowledge made him kneel on the ground in the end and murmur, "Great Raider, what you're holding is a small, glowing stone."
The instant the old aborigine's words left his mouth, the chilling glare in Zhang Lisheng's eyes vanished right away. Since the appearance of the Gold Core fragment was not common knowledge among the Hellfire tribesmen, the next matter would be much simpler.
"You're right! This is indeed a small stone that can glow!" He smiled at the aborigine kneeling at his feet and raised the Gold Core fragment in his hand up high before shouting loudly. "The monster has already been killed by me. Aruba, bring your men over to see if this pair of broken wood is still useful or not.
As for the other Tudenan tribesmen, light up your torches and carefully search the beach within a radius of 1,000 steps to see if there are any more of these small shiny stones scattered around. "
Upon hearing the Raider's order, all of the Tudenan tribesmen on the beach cheered. Half of them had a regretful and panicked expression as they rushed towards the wooden ship fragment.
Another half of them rushed to the dock and fishery on the black reef in the distance to get torches. Not long after, all of them dispersed and began to get busy.
Time passed by slowly. When dawn arrived, Aruba, who had pieced together every corner of the wooden ship wreckage and studied it carefully, reported to Zhang Lisheng in pleasant surprise, "Raider, even though the wooden ship is broken, it's not broken too badly. The possibility of a successful imitation is only reduced by 10%.
Not only that, when I was piecing the wooden ship together just now, I suddenly had an inspiration and gained a new understanding of the construction drawings of several giant ships in the Source of Wisdom that you've bestowed upon me. I'm now confident that I can build a ship with 30 steps from the bow to the stern and three floors of cabins. "
Unlike the ambiguous unit of length in the other Hellfire tribes, Tudenan's' step 'was already exactly the same as Earth's' meter '. On top of that, the three-story wooden ship that was 30 meters from the bow to the stern was already quite huge, enough to carry more than 200 people on a voyage.
"Very good, Aruba!" Looking at the Gold Core fragment in his hand that had already increased to 54 pieces, Zhang Lisheng, who was getting more and more delighted and puzzled, casually replied.
Of course, the reason he was happy was because with these 50 over fragments, his plan to transform the Super Hellfireman could be implemented immediately.
On the other hand, he was surprised because the total number of Gold Core fragments in his hand was equivalent to the total number of Gold Cores produced by four ordinary spiritual monsters that had just transformed. Not only that, they looked mottled and varied in luster, making it hard for him to imagine that they were actually taken from the body of a ridiculously weak mutated spiritual monster.
Since Aruba, who was by the side, was a genius craftsman that was rarely seen in 10,000 years among the aborigines, it was only natural for him to have a much stronger curiosity than the ordinary aborigines. When he saw how the Raider, who was almost omnipotent in the eyes of the Tudenan people, was deep in thought, he struggled for a while before asking in a whisper, "Raider, what's so special about these shiny stones?"
W-What are you troubled about? "
"These shiny stones are very precious. I don't understand how they would appear in the stomach of such a weak monster," Zhang Lisheng, who was in a daze, blurted out.
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