The fragments of sea monster corpses that had been slowly sinking suddenly began to fall faster, as though they had grown heavier.
In fact, something was dragging the corpses down. An almost transparent, gel-like substance had stuck to them and was pulling them under.
It was an Abyss Scavenger!
"Retreat! Everyone, surface!"
Yang Yi gave the order to retreat almost the instant he noticed, but several people still fell victim to it.
They were mainly Players at the very bottom who had been blinded by the sea monster corpses and could not resist trying to haul them in.
A few even tried to snatch the corpses after noticing them sinking faster, only to be caught by an extremely hard-to-spot, slime-like substance themselves. They began sinking rapidly, screaming in terror.
The Broken Iron Greatsword appeared in Yang Yi's hand, but he did not act immediately. Several dazzling energy spheres had suddenly appeared underwater, and the seawater around them rapidly froze, forming a frozen layer.
"The adhesive strength of this slime drops sharply at low temperatures!"
Su Na shouted the warning. The Players who had nearly been dragged away immediately acted as well, breaking apart the transparent substance stuck to them, as it seemed to have solidified.
Once free, they quickly swam upward toward the nearest ships, no longer caring about the falling sea monster corpses.
Not long after they escaped, even that huge mass of ice was dragged down. Had anyone looked at its underside, they would have discovered countless strands of transparent substance stuck to it. Although they had solidified, their sheer numbers still allowed them to drag the ice down. Before long, an explosion occurred.
The Fishing Team rapidly surfaced, using the disruption from the explosion to escape the area where the Abyss Scavenger was running rampant.
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