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Although she had known before coming that a gigantic Sea Monster had washed ashore, Pei Xianjue was still profoundly shocked when she saw it with her own eyes.
The Sea Monster was nearly the size of a whale. It had an enormous, hard fish head, savage fangs, bulging eyes, and gills on both sides that gave off an exceptionally pungent stench of rot. More than half of its malformed, ugly body lay submerged in the Shallow Water Zone, constantly washed by the sea, with foul-smelling pus streaming from it.
The entire beach reeked because of the Sea Monster.
Pei Xianjue walked around the Sea Monster to the other side before she saw the woman on its body.
The woman was emaciated, dressed in rags, with long hair plastered wetly against her body like tangled seaweed. A rope was wrapped around her hand, its other end tied to a protruding spike on the Sea Monster's back.
It was because of that rope that the woman had survived the winds and waves at sea without slipping into the ocean.
As for the Cards, they were scattered across the Sea Monster's corpse.
After personally inspecting the scene, Pei Xianjue looked at the unconscious woman and said, "Untie her first. See if she can be saved."
She then pressed the scale on the Sea Monster's surface with her gloved hand.
A layer of black, sticky water immediately smeared onto her glove.
Pei Xianjue frowned. "This monster is most likely poisonous. It can't be thrown directly into the sea. Get people from the laboratory to take samples and test them. Get the results as soon as possible, then dismember and incinerate the corpse. The temperature has been high these past few days, so we have to move quickly. Once it decays too badly, a