Eerie Mist

Five minutes later, although the people aboard the sailing ship had put on gas masks, the numbness in their bodies did not ease. Instead, it showed signs of worsening.

The ship's doctor cried out, "Damn it, this mist can seep through the skin."

Before they could do anything, something seemed to drift toward them. By the time they saw what it was, it was already too late.

Translucent jellyfish floating in midair had completely surrounded the sailing ship.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The terrified sailors immediately opened fire. Bullets flew everywhere. Though they shot down quite a few jellyfish, even more came surging in like a tidal wave.

"Argh!"

"Save me..."

A jellyfish latched onto a sailor's neck. A sharp pain immediately shot through his body, and he collapsed with his face turning purple.

Sailors fell one after another. In the end, only the six CP6 members and Four People, including the captain, remained.

They stood back-to-back, swinging swords, blades, and clubs to kill or knock away the jellyfish trying to approach.

But faced with the fearless jellyfish swarm, while the numbness in their bodies grew increasingly severe, the situation was becoming more and more unfavorable for them.

Roaring, the CP6 squad leader's suit burst apart around his upper body as he transformed into a half-beast form.

Watching the battlefield through the jellyfish, Leviathan revealed a hint of disdain. What a suicidal move.

After transforming, the squad leader lost the protection of his gas mask. The jellyfish released even more anesthetic gas, and within less than ten seconds, he went down.

With the squad leader's fall, the others aboard the sailing ship began their final death throes before being completely wiped out.

The jellyfish army then began exterminating the Den Den Mushi aboard the ship, followed by devouring every CP6 agent and crew member.

As for taking prisoners—

This world had Vivre Cards. As personnel under the CP Organization, these people had surely left Vivre Cards at headquarters. Capturing them would bring more trouble than it was worth.

The moment they brought prisoners back to Camel Island, that certain Monkey who had eaten the Perverted Fruit might come over personally and ask, "Have you ever been kicked at the speed of light?"

Therefore, they could only silence them all.

The captured children and pregnant women had also fallen unconscious. A tentacle extended from the sea and pierced straight through the cargo hold where they were being detained.

The opening at the tip of the tentacle then spread open and swallowed all the pregnant women and children one by one. They were sent through the tentacle's inner passage into Marlin 001.

But after delivering the people, the tentacle did not leave. After wriggling for a moment, it spat out a huge pile of human bones.

They were all artificial bones, replicated at a one-to-one scale according to the body sizes of children and pregnant women.

The silenced crew members and CP6 agents were likewise reduced to piles of skeletons scattered across the sailing ship's deck and cargo hold.

After completing all this, Leviathan controlled Marlin 001 and sailed away.

Five hours later, the first rescue ship to reach the area found no trace of the sailing ship. The mist in the surrounding waters had also vanished.

However, as more rescue ships arrived one after another, the other CP6 squads finally found the drifting sailing ship around thirty-seven nautical miles northwest of the incident site.

The CP6 Squadron Leader in charge of the manhunt was a blond middle-aged man wearing a monocle. Looking at the wrecked deck and bones scattered everywhere, his expression turned grave.

"Sir, all the bones have been identified. Everyone, including the Yisu Squad, was killed. Our preliminary suspicion is some kind of carnivorous group animal," the ship's doctor reported with lingering fear.

"What about the suspects?"

"They were killed as well."

The Squadron Leader had actually already known that the Yisu Squad was dead, because the Vivre Cards in his possession had all burned away five hours earlier.

"Classify it as a maritime disaster. Burn the ship." With that, the Squadron Leader leaped back onto his own sailing ship.

Gasoline was splashed over the sailing ship before it was set ablaze. The flames quickly spread, engulfing the vessel.

The remaining CP6 ships continued their manhunt.

Meanwhile.

Through the Parasitic Barnacle, Leviathan had already learned that the CP6 Squadron Leader had ordered the ship destroyed.

On Blue Sea Star, with its vast oceans, maritime disasters were perfectly normal. Since CP6 had classified the matter as a maritime disaster, they naturally would not pursue a deeper investigation.

Especially after confirming that those "pregnant women and children" had all perished in the mouths of mysterious creatures, CP6 would be even less suspicious.

As for the deaths of an entire squad of colleagues, such a thing was nowhere near enough to shake the hearts of the cold and ruthless CP Organization. Avenging their comrades? That was wishful thinking.

How could they find those mysterious creatures in the vast ocean?

They had missions to carry out. They were not some carefree pirate crew.

Inside Marlin 001.

Nineteen pregnant women and thirteen infants remained unconscious, soaking in Life Support Pods. Clearly, Leviathan found it too troublesome and did not want to care for children.

As for Kane, he did not know how to care for children or pregnant women either. He could only watch over them. As for asking to return, he was not an idiot.

These people were already "dead." If they appeared again on Tsuburaya Island, not only would Leviathan's secret be exposed, but they themselves would undoubtedly face grave danger. This meant they could no longer appear openly under their previous identities.

"Lord Leviathan, would you like something to eat?" Kane asked awkwardly.

Leviathan thought for a moment. "Food? Sure. Eating Sea Apples all day is getting a little tiresome. Go see what you can do in the kitchen!"

"Understood, leave it to me." Kane quickly got into character and ran into the submarine's kitchen.

Although the Marlin-class's interior was not as spacious as imagined, it could still accommodate a hundred people living normally inside, so it naturally had facilities such as a kitchen.

Once he entered the kitchen, Kane discovered that there was more to it than met the eye.

A huge fish tank was embedded in the wall, along with a small ecological chamber growing all kinds of vegetables—all edible plants found on Camel Island.

There was also a large refrigerator, something called a meat cultivation chamber, and a complete set of kitchen utensils.

After consuming the Life Control Core, one benefit was that it granted its host a set of writing and language skills. The language was naturally Chinese.

Flower Country had its own language and writing system, which was perfectly normal.

Blue Sea Star had vast oceans, and the geographical separation between its islands naturally gave rise to different cultures.

Although, because of the World Government, many people could more or less speak the common language and read its writing, that did not include fishermen and farmers on remote islands. They all lived within their own small societies.

Even if they knew the common language, it was only a few everyday phrases, like the few English sentences you might know.

When Wang Gao had formulated the Life Control Core, he had considered this issue. To prevent all his subordinates from being illiterate, he had implanted two language and writing databases.

Those two language systems were Chinese and the world common language.

Leviathan had been able to communicate with Kane from the beginning because the intelligence network controlled by Lucifer collected the languages and writing systems of various regions.

The area around Tsuburaya Island mostly used "Kaneko Language," the primary language of a nearby medium-sized island nation.

With the Control Core's language database, Kane quickly understood the functions of the various kitchen appliances.

On the meat cultivation chamber's control panel, he pressed the button for rainforest black pork. In less than five minutes, a twenty-kilogram slab of rainforest black pork was produced inside the chamber.

Thank you all for your support, dear readers. (ω｀) Please vote, bookmark, and leave comments.