The storm arrived

The Siren was about two meters long, with more than half her fish tail dragging along the ground, supporting her body.

When the Siren returned and saw the two of them, she froze, especially since Yang Yi still had both hands around a corpse's neck.

But she reacted quickly and immediately began singing a beautiful song.

[You heard a beautiful, moving melody and became entranced, entering the charmed state. Sanity decreased by 5.]

Yang Yi suddenly stopped moving, dropped the corpse, and let his arms hang naturally at his sides.

"It's over. This idiot's been charmed again!"

Su Na tightened her grip on her dagger, ready for a fight to the death.

This time, the Siren probably wouldn't keep her as an emergency food reserve.

A bead of cold sweat trickled down Su Na's forehead.

Yang Yi, on the other hand, seemed deeply captivated by the Siren, staggering toward her with unsteady steps.

The Siren was gorgeous, a classic beauty with golden waves of hair and exquisite, captivating features.

She also had a heavenly voice, faintly glowing skin like white porcelain, and a tall, voluptuous, sexy figure.

But at the same time... she also had teeth sharp enough to bite through a skull, claws sharp enough to slit open a belly, and a fish tail capable of breaking human bones.

Utterly enchanted, Yang Yi nestled into her arms as though seeking an embrace...

She, too, seemed very fond of Yang Yi as prey and held off attacking for the moment.

Her gaze softened. Several times, she opened her mouth, but couldn't bear to bite him.

"Sorry about this. After all... we're not the same species."

Yang Yi spoke softly in the Siren's arms.

[Sanity below 50. You entered the frenzy state. Strength +2, Agility +1, Constitution +1, Spirit -2. Immune to most abnormal mental states...]

At some point, Yang Yi had drawn his flintlock and pressed it against the Siren, aiming at her head.

By the time the Siren noticed something was wrong, it was too late.

Boom!

The gunshot was deafening, with a lingering quaver that seemed reluctant to fade.

This time, the flintlock lived up to expectations and fired on the first try, its report echoing throughout the cavern.

It looked like the sharp half-bone tucked into the back of his waistband wouldn't be needed.

"You can resist being charmed?

"Then what happened earlier? Why did you follow her willingly?"

Su Na's scarlet eyes were filled with confusion and bewilderment.

"Your gun sounds so strange. Why did it even cost me a point of Sanity?"

Only one point...

Yang Yi immediately caught the key detail.

There really was something wrong with this woman! Even Yang Yi, with his Spirit as high as 8, had lost 3 Sanity the first time he heard that gunshot!

Yang Yi had no intention of explaining. He stepped back and watched the Siren's headless corpse slowly slump down, twitching continuously.

Thick, dark red fluid and bits of flesh had splattered all over him.

Su Na immediately ran over and looked at the Siren's corpse with a hint of regret in her eyes.

"Your gun's too powerful. Could you avoid shooting the head and leave me an intact Siren head?"

She produced a bottle from somewhere and began collecting the Siren's blood, brain tissue, and surface mucus.

"What are you doing? I killed this Siren. The loot belongs to me!"

Frowning, Yang Yi immediately picked up a scrap of flesh and put it in his pocket as he reminded Su Na.

After all, the capsule draw only required a small tissue sample, after which the system would reclaim the monster's corpse, preventing the same corpse from being used for two draws.

Hearing that, Su Na stopped what she was doing, looked up at Yang Yi, and considered.

"How about this? Leave me the most intact corpse, and I'll give you all the resources on my ship, plus another month of nautical chart guidance. Deal?"

Yang Yi only thought for a moment before agreeing.

The Siren was weaker in combat than the Drowned Dead. Without her song, most adult men armed with a spear could kill one alone on land.

So her loot probably wouldn't be very good-not as useful as the nautical chart.

"You said earlier that the two groups of Sirens returned to the nest about fifteen minutes apart, right?" Yang Yi asked.

"That's right. The three intervals were twenty minutes, seventeen minutes, and eighteen minutes," Su Na replied, indicating that she remembered them clearly.

"Then you'll need to add another data point. Less than two minutes!"

Yang Yi grabbed Su Na and pulled her in front of him.

The next second, two Sirens burst out of the pool behind Su Na and lunged at where she had been standing, but hit nothing.

Just now, Yang Yi had noticed ripples on the pool's surface and become alert.

When he saw a head emerge from the pool, he immediately pulled Su Na aside, saving her from disaster.

The two much smaller Sirens leaped out of the pool. Seeing the Siren's corpse on the ground, they flew into a rage and let out threatening hisses.

Their pale skin began turning red, and they opened their mouths to reveal rows of sharp teeth.

The beautiful melody rang out again, this time a duet, somewhat shrill as it echoed through the cavern.

Even Su Na was left dizzy and dazed by the sound.

[The singing was piercing yet beautiful. Your Sanity decreased by 5.]

Although Yang Yi was immune to charm, the sound still made his chest tighten and his eardrums sting. He even began losing health.

He immediately raised his gun and aimed.

Click!

The gun misfired!

"Go! Get outside first! It's too cramped here. Their singing keeps echoing through the cave. That puts us at a disadvantage!"

Yang Yi spoke decisively.

Su Na wasn't doing well either. Blood trickled from one ear, and she was a little dazed.

Yang Yi simply grabbed her and ran toward the cave entrance.

Fortunately, the Sirens weren't fast. They had no legs, after all, and their fish tails weren't suited to moving on land, making them relatively slow.

The two made it out of the cave without trouble. By then, Su Na had recovered and no longer needed Yang Yi to pull her along.

"Your pistol doesn't need reloading, but it misfires from time to time, right?" she asked.

Yang Yi frowned, displeased.

This woman liked paying attention to things she shouldn't, even though it did her absolutely no good!

They kept running.

Yang Yi wanted to stall until the flintlock's cooldown ended so he could win more easily.

But they hadn't run far before they stopped. A murky sea lay ahead.

More than half the island had been submerged. There was no path ahead.

There was no sunlight overhead either, just dense black clouds and torrential rain.

Only the occasional flash of lightning lit the entire world, followed by deafening thunder.

A storm at sea!

Yang Yi immediately recalled the system announcement, which had warned that a major storm was coming.

"I haven't told you yet, but the storm started two days ago. All the players are desperately trying to escape this stretch of sea now," Su Na explained.

"Why didn't you say so earlier?"

"Would telling you have helped? We still had to deal with the Sirens, didn't we?" Su Na seemed very calm.

She wasn't wrong.

If they didn't deal with the Sirens, the two of them would inevitably be hunted by them in the storm, which wouldn't be a good thing...

Keeping track of the time, Yang Yi looked back.

The two Sirens were still nearly twenty meters away. By the time they came within five meters, the flintlock's cooldown would be just about over.

And five meters was a range Yang Yi currently felt fairly confident about. He would probably hit.

He raised his gun to aim, holding his breath and focusing.

As soon as the Sirens came within five meters, he fired.

Bang!

The gun went off, and a severed arm flew into the air.

But the Siren's head was still there. Yang Yi's shot had gone wide.

"Your aim sucks!" Su Na complained.

"As if yours is so great!" Yang Yi didn't take it to heart. "Keep the Siren with the missing arm occupied. I'll deal with the other one, then come back to help you!"

"Okay!"

They each ran toward their target.