The other party had torn off a chunk of its own flesh to escape. Faced with that, Badler and the others had completely run out of ways to pursue it.
They then contacted the naval base over the radio as quickly as possible and reported the situation to Zhou Xu.
Encountering extraordinary creatures in newly discovered waters was nothing unusual.
What was unusual was that the other party had charged straight into them.
As mentioned before, extraordinary creatures basically possessed intelligence on par with humans. They knew how to weigh gains and losses. When they encountered an organized force like theirs, they would generally choose to avoid it rather than charge straight in.
They knew perfectly well that once they provoked them—or even merely exposed their whereabouts before them—they might bring endless trouble upon themselves.
That was also the fundamental reason extraordinary creatures were so difficult to encounter under normal circumstances. Before you even reached their territory, they would have already detected your presence and departed in advance. Naturally, you would never run into them.
Under these circumstances, Badler's judgment regarding an extraordinary creature that charged straight at them and launched an attack was that it was either strong or stupid. In the end, he concluded that it was stupid.
But in Zhou Xu's view, there was actually another possibility: it simply lacked experience.
That sounded somewhat ridiculous, but in reality, it revealed a certain piece of information.
The other party might never have encountered a ship before, and thus had no idea what the existence of a ship represented. After discovering outsiders invading its territorial waters, it had launched its attack without the slightest hesitation.
Of course, to a certain extent, that could also be considered stupidity.
But if that really was the case, then it was actually good