The Fish That Jumped Aboard

The deck ahead was packed with the same strange fish from the cabin, covering nearly every inch of it.

The red-eyed strange fish bounced up and down, their bodies bobbing like a red tide.

Jing Yan, who had gone up ahead of them, had somehow slipped and fallen. The strange fish swarmed over him as he twisted and struggled. Only his head remained visible, and a strange fish covered in tiny blood-red eyes was stuffed into his mouth. He let out desperate, terrified sounds that made no sense.

"Mmm! Mmm!!"

Jing Yan's eyes rolled back, and he seemed to be on the verge of death. The red-eyed strange fish in his mouth was still desperately burrowing farther in, as if trying to enter his body through his mouth.

At the sight, Fang Yue and Qing Chen finally came to their senses.

"Jing Yan?!"

"Brother Ye, save him!"

Fang Yue was already rushing forward, without waiting for Qing Chen to remind him. But before he could summon the Black Silk, a long spear spun down from high above!

Vrrr... BOOM!!

The rapidly spinning spear pierced through the dense mass of red-eyed strange fish below, its tip stabbing straight through the wooden deck.

A Black Shadow dropped down with the spear.

As he landed, a wave of air burst outward, knocking the red-eyed strange fish around him away.

He glanced at the stunned Fang Yue and Qing Chen, gripping the spear in one hand as he slowly removed his eyepatch with the other.

His tightly shut, blood-red eye trembled violently before slowly opening.

"You two... get back!"

Black blood trickled slowly from his open right eye.

With a flick of his hand, the Black Shadow yanked his spear free and swept it around, leaving a dragging black afterimage in the air.

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