Beach Sand Worms: X Team Returns

A huge Beach Zone.

"Get out here!"

A massive thunderclap suddenly crashed into the beach, and lightning crackled through the sand like veins.

The air was filled with the crackling sound of Electric Current and the popping sounds of tiny creatures being hit.

Amidst a flurry of lightning, the sand finally gave way, breaking open and revealing a massive shark leaping from the muddy beach.

This is a Sand Fish.

A predatory animal that can swim in the mud and sand of beaches and also live in the ocean.

The ground began to tremble slightly.

"They're here!"

Qishou roared, instantly transforming into lightning and creating distance, running far away.

The sand beneath our feet turned into pillars, suddenly shooting up into the sky.

A huge creature emerged from the mud and sand.

This can no longer be described as a shark.

This is a complete Sand Whale.

The exaggerated body leaps off the beach; the sheer size and sheer power evoke a sense of awe.

But what awaited it was a hunt.

"Rock!"

Gon had already hidden nearby. Facing the leaping whale, he had been gathering his strength for a long time. With a roar, he unleashed his powerful right fist.

An exaggerated force sent his entire body flying.

"Bang!"

"Hold head high!!!"

A painful yet ethereal cry of anguish.

The immense force slammed into the whale, creating a crater like a meteorite striking the ground.

The skin and flesh on the side caved in, and then, under the sudden, exaggerated force, finally succumbed and tore open.

The massive, bleeding wound caused the whale to crash painfully to the ground. At that moment, even its survival instincts prevented it from quickly burrowing into the sand for cover.

Purple smoke had already spread out, clinging tightly to his body, and even more bubbles appeared from nowhere, following the smoke and sticking to various parts of his body.

These bubbles stuck to his body like glue, making it difficult for him to move, even though he was huge.

One link after another.

After careful planning, the team of four, led by Morel, managed to hold onto the whale tightly.

Before anyone knew it, Qishou had already distanced himself, once again transformed into a bolt of lightning and approached.

His left hand, palm facing out, was pressed firmly against the surface of the whale, while his right hand gripped a Rock tightly.

Unmanned Stone.

At this moment, the Unmanned Stone was enveloped in a mass of water.

A massive surge of electricity flowed into Qixia's body, Qishou then converted into a colossal bolt of lightning and transmitted outwards.

This time, the electric lights were very targeted, frantically drilling into the whale's brain from all directions, causing all-around damage.

As the smell of burning emanated from the whale's mouth, its struggles slowed and eventually ceased.

After confirming the other person's death, Qishou plopped down on the ground.

He hung the Unmanned Stone around his neck again.

"So tired."

He originally intended to support himself with his hands and simply lie down on the ground.

His arms were twitching slightly; he was almost completely exhausted.

Using an adapter that carries its own power is still too physically demanding.

"Wow, that's amazing! You can now handle such a huge amount of electricity?"

Morel, who had run over, exclaimed in amazement that the amount of electricity injected into the whale's body was, in his opinion, an excessive amount.

He had never seen Qishou transfer such a massive amount of electricity before.

"It's not my anger, it's the Unmanned Stone."

"Of course I know, but this is still quite exaggerated, isn't it? It shows that the amount of electricity converted into gas and then back into electricity is enormous."

Morel certainly understood, and he also knew how the other party's Nen ability worked.

That's exactly what he exaggerated about.

Qikuang simply smiled smugly and didn't refute it; he was indeed very confident in this regard.

On the Dark Continent, his strength indeed increased almost daily, with different increases every few days.

After acquiring the Unmanned Stone, its endurance has reached its limit.

As long as his body can withstand it, he can keep fighting.

From the perspective of the entire battle alone.

He was practically the first echelon of the Exploration Team, capable of adapting to almost any combat environment.

This is him after obtaining the Unmanned Stone.

Of Unmanned Stone the individual achievements, only Wurenshi's was the most extraordinary.

At this moment, Bianluoke also helped Gon over.

Gon appears to be in good condition overall, except for his right arm, which looks somewhat purplish and swollen, hanging limply to the side, clearly indicating a fracture.

"It seems that the excessive force you exerted for more than two minutes has become too much for your arm to handle."

After Bianluoke helped Gon sit down, he checked his hands.

Gon nodded in agreement.

"Yeah, that punch expended most of my energy, and I completely lost control."

When that punch was thrown, Gon had no control over his attack at all. At that moment, he couldn't stop it even if he wanted to, and his body was even forced to fly out with the attack.

"Two minutes is the absolute limit. Beyond that, even if I manage to throw a punch, I'll be incapacitated."

Morel was also speaking from the side.

After using one bottle of medicine, the pain in my right hand subsided considerably, but it will still take some time for it to fully recover.

"Thank goodness for the medicine, otherwise your right hand would have had to be amputated," Bianluoke said, somewhat relieved.

Kevin's medicine is amazing, especially for treatment.

"Medicine isn't a cure-all. If this continues, your right hand will definitely face a completely irreversible risk."

At that point, the only way to regrow will be through the Cocoon of Rebirth.

But that's a last resort.

"Okay, I won't charge up for so long again."

Gon did not refute them and accepted what they said.

However, he was also silently comparing the power of that punch to his own.

A punch that takes two minutes to build up is roughly equivalent to Kevin's full-power punch.

Of course, this was a punch that Kevin threw with his physical strength, not a punch thrown with his Mental Image or imbued with spiritual imagery.

Only then did the four of them turn their attention to the huge corpse beside them.

"That's exaggerated. The power of a punch that takes two minutes to build up is indeed exaggerated."

Looking at the huge bowl-shaped wound on the whale's body, Morel couldn't help but grimace.

That punch, if it landed on him, would obliterate him instantly.

"This whale is too big. Even if we hunt it down, we won't be able to transport it back."

Morel patted the whale's body and complained, "It's so big, I can't possibly create a bubble big enough to envelop it."

"Just select the best parts. First, find out which part Kevin needs, and then take some meat from each part."

Morel was already very experienced in the art of dividing his prey.

Once such prey is hunted, its uses are limited.

Kevin is the highest priority, followed by ingredients for Men Qi and the others.

Let's see if the other parts will also have an effect on other people.

The two began to dismember the whale's carcass.

With a whale this big, they felt like they were demolishing a building.

By the third day, Gon and the other two had fully recovered and joined in.

By the fifth day, the whale's body had been dismantled into almost complete pieces.

A large number of fearless tiny creatures have gathered around the whale carcass and are devouring it.

Morel and his group didn't care about this.

The parts they needed have already been disassembled.

"That's enough! Even the most essential part is this much."

Bianluoke grumbled, noting that there was a huge bubble on his head, about the size of a house.

It was filled with all sorts of whale flesh and blood.

"These are all for Men Qi and the others; the most important essence has been packed into the rings."

Their rings were all filled with the ones Kevin needed.

Everyone knew that the materials Kevin needed were of paramount importance; everything else came second.

"Let's go, we should head back too."

They are now on their way back; they reached the Boundary of the beach a week ago.

After entering the beach and realizing Beach Zone vastness, they made exploring the entire Beach Zone their primary objective.

After exploring the Beach Zone, they prepared to return, but on their way back they encountered the whale that had chased them for some time earlier.

Anger welled up inside him, and he genuinely needed to achieve something.

Since we're already here...

They spent a considerable amount of time figuring out the whale's characteristics before hunting it down.

As the group left...

More creatures began to gather and start cleaning up the remaining whale carcass.

Morel and his men had only been gone for less than half a day when the entire corpse was reduced to a skeleton.

It's much faster than them disassembling it.

The journey back has only taken two days.

They encountered another accident on the Beach Zone.

The sand beneath my feet began to ripple again with the vibrations.

Here it comes again, hurry, hurry, hurry!

Qishou reacted the fastest and immediately shouted.

This wasn't the first time Morel and his group had encountered this situation, so they immediately sprang into action. Bianluoke created a bubble, and the three of them jumped into it together.

Morel used purple smoke to entangle the two bubbles together, and then the other smoke was tied to Qishou's body.

Qishou instantly transformed into a bolt of lightning, creating distance immediately.

Just as it transformed into lightning, pulling the bubble away...

A huge whirlpool appeared at the foot of the mountain, sucking in large amounts of sand and small creatures from the surrounding area.

One by one, they were forcibly pulled out of the mud and sand.

Giant Dragon Crab, Octopus, and all sorts of enormous marine creatures couldn't resist and were pulled away.

Because this place is slightly close to the sea surface, even marine life was forcibly pulled out of the water, turning into an arc and falling into the whirlpool.

Within the entire vortex area and the surrounding circular region, no living being can escape.

It became a death zone for living things.

Morel and his men, who were fleeing in the distance, looked back.

Through Bianluoke's bubble telescope.

"Another Sand Worm. Is it the same one I encountered before? Or is there more than one on this beach?"

"I don't know, the area is smaller this time than last time," Bianluoke observed.

They've encountered these Sand Worm on the Beach Zone more than once or twice.

"It wasn't as exaggerated as the one Kevin and the others recorded before."

"Perhaps it's because this Sand Worm wasn't strong enough, or maybe it was just a small meal."

Morel said, somewhat uncertainly.

A key reason they were able to escape was that the Sand Worm they encountered on the Beach Zone were not as powerful as the one Kevin and his group had faced before.

The absorption range is relatively limited.

And most of these areas are relatively coastal, requiring them to obtain some marine life from the coastal ocean as their food source.

"But this place really is suitable for these Sand Worm to live in, isn't it?"

Morel pondered for a moment before speaking.

Finally, the Qishou stopped, and they jumped out of the bubble.

Qishou was so exhausted that he had to catch his breath.

"This is so heavy, this time."

"There's nothing we can do about it; after all, we brought some goodies this time." Morel chuckled helplessly and handed a bottle of water to Qima.

It took them another two weeks to return to the Small Town.

The return of the Exploration Team attracted the attention of many people in the Small Town.

For most of the people in the Small Town, they had only been in the Dark Continent for a short time and this was the first time they had seen Exploration Team return.

"That's outrageous! What's in there?"

Piyon, standing to the side, couldn't help but ask.

Nobu adjusted his glasses beside him. "I look the same as you, but it looks like meat. Judging from the texture, it should be some kind of marine creature, a marine mammal?"

Nobu wasn't quite sure.

Porto crossed his arms, while Kansai shared his own experiences beside him.

"Look at all that meat. It must have been taken from different parts of a single creature. Just the different parts alone have piled up this much. The creature they hunted must have been a giant beast over a hundred meters long."

"Damn it, why wasn't I selected? Staying here with you guys, my future looks bleak."

The three of them looked towards Kansai.

So what if you got lucky last time and made it into the team? Now you're acting all high and mighty.

However, judging from their performance, what this four-person team brought out did indeed seem exaggerated.

Men Qi led Buhaci and ran over.

"Haha, quite a haul! Are these ingredients to be handed over to us?"

Looking at the various chunks of meat piled up inside the giant bubble, Men Qi still asked a question.

"Then who else could it be given to?"

Morel spoke, bubbles floated down.

Buhaci lifted him up and even bounced him around.

"There must be over 100 tons here."

Upon hearing this, Men Qi was pleasantly surprised and examined the meat.

"What did you hunt? Was it just pieces cut off from its body?"

"Hmph."

Qima snorted smugly.

Gon Jie gave a thumbs up. "It's a whale! A big whale that can swim around on the beach!"

"Alright, I'm done talking to you guys. We still need to archive and process this experience and all the lessons learned."

Morel waved his hand as he spoke.

The four people entered the building in the middle.