Yang Yi tried to haul the unidentified thing aboard. As soon as he pulled it above the surface, he saw a swollen, pale, bluish giant hand gripping his fishing line.
Without seeing the rest of it, Yang Yi already knew what it was.
A Drowned Dead!
Yang Yi had seen this monster when he first arrived in this world, and it had left a deep impression.
Moreover, the darkness seemed to have no effect on the Drowned Dead, either.
A swollen head emerged from the darkness and looked at Yang Yi aboard the ship with pallid, cloudy eyes filled with malice.
After seeing Yang Yi, he released the fishing line and grabbed the Nightmare Star's deck, climbing up.
But the moment his head appeared, he saw a dark opening roughly 30 mm in diameter pressed right against his head.
The next instant, a gunshot rang out. The Drowned Dead's head burst like a watermelon, killing him on the spot, and he fell.
Yang Yi was no longer the man he had once been. A mere Drowned Dead was nowhere near enough to threaten him.
Several vines caught the Drowned Dead's corpse and delivered it onto the deck.
[The Old Captain saw you fish up a Drowned Dead and proceeded to mock you.]
Yang Yi paused at the system notification and looked toward the bow.
The Old Captain had pulled his own head off and was looking at Yang Yi, his jaw opening and closing incessantly.
Although he made no sound, he seemed to be laughing his head off at him.
"Want me to give your head to Su Na?"
That single remark from Yang Yi made the Old Captain put his head back on and learn that silence was golden.
He approached the Drowned Dead's corpse, stored it