Establish, Ocean Base (1)

Ye Meng threw him down directly, his body flickering to dodge a water arrow. The giant crab tried to retreat into a rock crevice, but Ye Luo and the others had already surrounded it.

The crab that ambushed them was not high-level, only around Tier 3 combat power. After being dragged out of the crevice by Ye Meng in his Zergling form, it became incredibly panicked. Seeing Ye Luo and the others, it spat out a string of bubbles with a "plur-plur-plur" sound...

As one of the ultimate civilizations in the universe, the Zerg possessed a special set of language translation capabilities. Language is essentially like a record etched onto a disc; as long as one deciphers the grooves, one can understand the meaning and mimic the pronunciation. Of course, ordinary Zerg or even Zerg heroes could not achieve this, but the Zerg Hive, which gathered all Zerg technology, could! The Zerg Hive deciphered and translated the crab's language, then transmitted it to Ye Luo and his companions.

"Bad luck, so much bad luck. Annoying small eyes, I hate small eyes. These guys are clearly magical beasts that look like humans, how could I have mistaken them for humans? How could humans turn into magical beasts and move freely in the ocean? So unlucky. Ah, damn small eyes, I've been surrounded by them. What will they do to me? Heavens, they aren't going to steam me, are they? Oh no, look at that guy's sturdy build, he must like strong flavors. Are they going to make me into curry crab, or salt-baked crab? Oh, or is it the most miserable dry-pot spicy crab..."

"Plur-plur-plur-plur..." The bubbles from the mouth of this Tang Sanzang-like crab were like a six-barreled Gatling gun, leaving Ye Luo and the others dumbfounded...

"Gulp..." The various crab dishes that sounded incredibly delicious made the four of them swallow their saliva simultaneously, with Ye Meng's gulp being the loudest.

"Oh, heavens, they're all swallowing their saliva! They haven't even started cooking and they're already salivating. Could it be, could it be they like eating raw? Heavens, I'm going to die. Mommy, I was wrong, I shouldn't have disobeyed you and snuck out of the house..."

"Alright, shut up!" Ye Luo moved his mouth, and a burst of bubbles also emerged...

The crab's two small eyes widened instantly!

The surroundings were silent, save for the sound of flowing water. The crab asked tentatively, "You... can understand me?"

"Little thing, why did you ambush us?" Ye Luo proved the crab's suspicion with facts.

The little crab looked at the four of them in utter amazement. "I, I thought you were humans, so, sigh, you don't know, we crabs have terrible eyesight. You have two hands, two feet, and you swim like a dog paddling, so I thought you were humans..."

Ye Luo looked at the little guy with amusement. "Oh, so that's it. Unfortunately, we aren't humans, but you have angered us. Tell me, how should you compensate us?"

"Compensation? I'm not even 10 years old yet, I'm still a minor crab, I don't have any assets!" Once the little guy realized the four could speak the ocean language, his curiosity outweighed his fear.

Ye Luo feigned a dark expression. "No assets? That's a pity. I've heard crab roe is delicious. If you really have no value, we... will have to eat you raw, heh heh heh heh..." For some reason, Ye Luo suddenly felt like a creepy uncle scaring a little girl.

The little crab's claws immediately clutched its head. "No, don't eat me, don't eat me! My mother is the leader of the Kandal Stone Crab Clan. If you eat me, my mother will bring the Stone Crab army to avenge me!"

Ye Luo's eyes lit up. "Kandal Stone Crab Clan? Do you have many clansmen?"

The little crab brandished its claws. "Of course, our Kandal Stone Crab Clan has over ten thousand members, and my mother is a Tier 5 sea creature! Of course, if you are willing to let me go, I am willing to talk to my mother and let her designate that sea area you liked earlier as your territory!"

"You're that generous?" Ye Luo looked at him suspiciously.

The little crab proudly raised both claws. "What's a small sea area like that? It's not even one percent of our territory!"

Ye Luo felt relieved. It was true; the ocean's surface area was hundreds or thousands of times that of the continents, so a small crab clan could govern an ocean region larger than the Morton and Caernarfon provinces of the Keren Kingdom!

"Then do you know how many other ocean magical beasts are in this sea area?"

"What ocean magical beasts? That sounds so ugly, we are the Sea Clan, the Sea Clan!" The little crab protested, waving its claws. "The Endless Sea is so big, the number of Sea Clans is countless. As far as I know, there is the Tuna Sea Clan to the west, and the Iron-Claw Green-Spine Shrimp Clan to the east. Their spheres of influence are even larger than ours. Hmph, though their strength is indeed greater than ours. I heard my mother say their leaders are all Tier 6 sea creatures... Sigh, I wonder when I'll be able to grow into a Tier 6 sea creature..."

"Alfred, Alfred, why are you here? And who are you people? Get away from my son!" Suddenly, two crabs the size of calves shot out from the sand in the distance, glaring at Ye Luo and the others!

"Daddy, Mommy!" Alfred, the little crab, swam happily toward the two crabs, and Ye Luo and the others did not stop him.

With their child back by their side, the two large crabs' attitudes softened slightly. "Who are you..."

"We are Sea Clan members who were displaced. Many of our kin were slaughtered by humans, and we can no longer survive on land, so we want to return to the sea..." Ye Luo's mind raced, and a tragic story of his kin being victimized was presented vividly.

"But this area is the territory of our Kandal Stone Crab Clan. How many clansmen do you have? If there are too many, it will be hard for us to accommodate you!" Unexpectedly, the large crab's attitude was so good that Ye Luo almost couldn't believe it.

Ye Luo quickly said, "We only have two thousand or so kin, and we only need to build a home there. My kin don't like to move around much; they just like to eat some metal ores, so that area is enough!"

The large crab looked at the place Ye Luo pointed to, eyeing him with suspicion. "Are you sure you only want that sea area? You should know, that sea area is very small; you won't even be able to swim freely..."

Ye Luo shook his head with a smile. "We don't need to swim freely, we just need food. Once we're full, we prefer to sleep..."

"Fine. As the leader of the Kandal Stone Crab Clan, I decree that a twenty-mile radius centered on that metal-rich sea area shall belong to you..."

"Huaxia Imperial Sea Clan!" Ye Luo immediately added.

"Belong to your Huaxia Imperial Sea Clan territory!" the large crab said with extreme kindness, making Ye Luo sigh from the bottom of his heart—there were truly too few living saints like this!