Sea Monster, Sea Tribe!

"Then what do you mean? Don't tell me you actually want to stand on equal footing with the Keren Kingdom?" Robert stared at Ye Luo in astonishment.

Ye Luo offered a mysterious smile. "City Lord Robert, thank you for this information. You may go now. When you see the general of the Third Legion, please convey my goodwill. We will judge our next move based on whoever steps within twenty miles of the mining area. If they are envoys, we will treat them with the utmost courtesy. Of course, if they are an army, heh, the word 'fear' truly does not exist in the dictionary of the Huaxia Zerg!"

Robert gave Ye Luo a deep, searching look, then nodded. "I will relay Leader Ye Luo's exact words. Naturally, I also sincerely hope we can coexist peacefully. Once again, I thank Leader Ye Luo for showing mercy to my daughter. Farewell..."

As they left, Angelina did not even look back, which left Ye Luo feeling a faint sense of disappointment. However, the departure of these two held even greater value for Ye Luo, as he needed them to carry his eyes and ears to the front lines of the Third Legion... Until their figures vanished on the horizon, Ye Luo suddenly turned his head. "Ye Wang, Robert's information is vital. We can look down on those so-called Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Diamond warriors, but we cannot underestimate those mages who manipulate the elements of heaven and earth. I am going out to build a secret base elsewhere. If our main base suffers a devastating blow, we will at least have a spark left. At the same time, we cannot focus solely on the mines discovered by humans; those undiscovered and undeveloped veins, as well as other energy sources, are also the goals of this exploration..."

"My Emperor, Ye Meng is willing to clear the thorns and brambles for you!" Ye Meng volunteered.

"My Emperor, besides Ye Wang, I am surely the best observer!" Ye Yi refused to be outdone.

The other heroes also looked at Ye Luo, eager to prove themselves.

Ye Luo laughed. "I have already decided on the candidates for this trip. Ye Feng, Ye Yi, and Ye Meng, you three will accompany me. Ye Di, Ye Ci, Ye Wang, and Ye Ya, you are to hold the mining area firmly and increase the intensity of the extraction..."

"As you command, My Emperor!"

The Keren Kingdom was located on the northwestern border of the Haolan Continent, with the surging Endless Sea to the far north. After the four of them set out, they headed due south. All four moved at extreme speeds, and they did not encounter any large magical beasts; as for the smaller, blind ones, Ye Meng dealt with them directly without needing Ye Luo to intervene.

Along the way, while traveling, Ye Feng detected mineral energy. With the Zerg Base upgraded to level two, Ye Feng's detection range had expanded from one mile to ten miles. Yet, even so, after a full day and night, when they reached the northern side of the continent, they had still found nothing...

"Splash... splash..." The endless tide crashed against the shore, and the air carried a faint salty tang. Ye Luo frowned, his mood quite poor. Along the way, although he had dropped three backup bases, he had not discovered any mineral deposits. Large-scale mines were inevitably guarded by humans, and clashing with humans was the situation he least wanted to see...

"...Let's go, Ye Feng, Ye Yi, Ye Meng, let's head back..." Ye Luo sighed, only to find Ye Yi standing in place, dazed and motionless.

"Ye Yi, what's wrong?" Ye Luo asked with a frown.

Ye Yi turned his head blankly and suddenly pointed toward the sea. "My Emperor, I want to go look at the ocean!"

Ye Luo was stunned. "The ocean?"

"Yes... although in my perception, there are no energy veins within a ten-mile radius, a certain intuition tells me that there is a massive amount of energy in that sea! This intuition is extremely strong!" Ye Feng stated with great certainty.

At that moment, a flash of inspiration struck Ye Luo's mind!

What a pig-headed fool he was! As a culturally enlightened youth from 21st-century Earth, he had been running around in circles looking for resources, forgetting that the resources in the ocean were ten, even a hundred times those on land!!!

Moreover, there were very few human footprints in the ocean, and the deep sea was even more desolate. Building a base there to collect energy would not only be highly secretive but also safe and reliable!

As for whether a Zerg Base could be built in the sea—don't be ridiculous. As one of the ultimate civilizations in the universe, let alone collecting resources in the sea, even harvesting energy from within a star millions of degrees hot would be a piece of cake once the base level was high enough!

The Endless Sea—one could tell from the name just how vast the ocean bordering the Haolan Continent was. At the thought of the endless energy contained within this salty water, Ye Luo couldn't help but feel excited!

He clenched his fists, the Black Overlord Armor manifested over his body, and his eyes shimmered with strange brilliance. "Ye Meng, Ye Yi, Ye Feng, let's go, we're going into the sea!"

The four of them plunged into the ocean. When the seawater submerged Ye Luo's body, he suddenly felt that he could still breathe freely. He tried taking a breath, and the oxygen in the water bubbled through his nose, while as he exhaled, the carbon dioxide instantly expanded into bubbles in the water... At the same time, the resistance of the seawater against his body became negligible. Ye Luo looked at Ye Meng and saw that his dark skin was covered in scale-like growths similar to fish scales; it was these objects that greatly reduced the water's resistance, allowing them to move freely...

Swimming from the beach toward the deep sea, Ye Feng pointed excitedly at the seabed in the distance. "Found it, My Emperor! An energy fluctuation at least equal to the Smoke Mine! It's right there!"

Ye Luo was equally thrilled. The four of them increased their speed and swam toward the target.

Just then, a sense of danger suddenly rose in his heart. Ye Luo widened his eyes, but apart from the surrounding seawater, he could not find the source of the danger!

While Ye Luo sensed the danger, Ye Meng and the others were immediately alerted as well! Of course, this did not mean the attack was aimed at all four of them simultaneously, but because Ye Luo was the Zerg Emperor; once his safety was threatened, these heroes would immediately receive a warning!

Ye Meng had keen eyes. He suddenly thrust his right hand out, striking the water three meters to Ye Luo's right with such force that it churned violently. Because of Ye Meng's action, Ye Luo noticed a water arrow slowly dissipating in the turbulent current!

Water arrows—in the ocean, they were perfectly camouflaged, nearly causing the inexperienced Ye Luo to suffer a loss!

"Swish, swish, swish..." Having missed once, three more water arrows streaked toward them. This time, prepared, Ye Luo finally saw their form. In the mottled seawater, three transparent, arrow-shaped currents were shooting rapidly toward Ye Meng. If one wasn't paying attention, it would be very difficult to spot such a concealed attack!

Sensing hostility, Ye Meng transformed directly into his Zergling form. Strangely, the Zergling in the water had developed webbed membranes between its thick, powerful feet, and gills had grown on the sides of its head. Ye Meng kicked off, his body shooting out like a sharp arrow, and he thrust his massive maw into the sand and gravel below, just as a giant claw snapped toward him!

At the critical moment, Ye Meng twisted his body and shot upward, his two forelimbs simultaneously pinning the claw, dragging a crab the size of a millstone out from the sand!

The crab opened its mouth, and two water arrows shot toward Ye Meng!

So, it was this crab that had been ambushing them!

"There are magical beasts in the ocean too..." The vast, empty area in Ye Luo's mind collapsed in an instant...