It felt like autumn had arrived, though these crops seemed to have been harvested a little late.
There was a reason even Su Gao, a top-tier hunter, was surprised.
The enormous space seemed to nearly exceed the material's capacity, and everything was arranged with excessive uniformity. Apart from the narrow path down the middle, nearly the entire ship's hull was filled with that strange structure.
Rough ropes hung from the bottom. Above them, human bodies were wrapped in a layer of transparent, gelatinous material the color of amber.
And it was dried-out amber.
From this angle, these uniformly sized fruit-like forms were already withered, like dried corpses.
The curled-up human bodies inside had almost no flesh left. Their uniformly pale robes clung tightly to them, and beyond those lay the golden, transparent gel, as if it sealed them off from everything.
At a glance, there were hundreds of these rope-and-human structures. Combined with their color, they really did resemble a field of wheat in autumn.
There were also quite a few empty ropes.
Only a few flecks of broken amber remained at their ends; not a single piece of a human body could be seen.
The orderly formation had been disrupted in more than one place by this sight, as though the people inside had long since broken free and escaped.
And that wasn't even the strangest part. Every one of the ropes without a fruit-like form was no longer standing straight, but lay in a disordered heap on the floor.
The sight was truly peculiar.
After all, the ropes on the ground proved that they were soft, yet the others stood rigidly upright, supporting those amber-encased bodies.
The obvious contradiction suggested one possible explanation: the amber forms were being held aloft by water, while the ropes beneath them merely