This morning.
A convoy set out from Silver Bay Base, traveling northeast along the coastal highway of the northern lands.
Inside one of the modified vehicles, Zou Yue smoked silently, occasionally glancing back at the convoy behind them.
A middle-aged man in his forties sat beside him and said with a sorrowful expression,
"In less than half a year, we've lost Old Zhou and Xiao Zhang. I wonder if they're doing well over there."
Zou Yue exhaled a cloud of smoke. "In a few days, burn more paper money for them."
The middle-aged man nodded, then glanced at the convoy behind them as well. "Boss Zou, do you think they can be trusted?"
The convoy behind them consisted of eight armed off-road vehicles, three supply trucks, four mecha transport vehicles, and one multi-purpose Armored Command Vehicle.
It wasn't Zou Yue's convoy.
Just yesterday, several strangers had sought him out at Silver Bay Base and offered a figure that Zou Yue couldn't refuse, asking him to take them to find the Nether Fish.
"Whether they can be trusted, I don't know."
"But I do know that they have money."
"On top of that, what they're paying is roughly equal to—or even higher than—the profit we'd make by catching the Giant Fish ourselves and selling it. That's enough."
Zou Yue said quietly, "Besides, they're not people we can afford to provoke."
"I suspect their commander and deputy are both in the Profound Comprehension Realm."
"So all we have to do is lead the way. Don't ask about anything else."
The middle-aged man nodded. "Looks like we aren't the only ones interested in that Giant Fish."
"Boss Zou, what do you think that thing is? It doesn't look like an ordinary giant beast."
Zou Yue flicked his cigarette butt out the window. "Even