Aboard the Nightmare Star.
Yang Yi received a private message from Zhou Dai.
"Want to form a fleet with me?" Zhou Dai suggested.
"No, I'm used to being a loner.
Besides, other players might not take kindly to me," Yang Yi declined.
"That's a real shame!" Zhou Dai seemed a little disappointed. "Send the Brain-Eating Demon's corpse over. Let's hurry and finish the trade.
The Extreme Winter Sea is already very close!"
Yang Yi immediately checked the World Sea Chart.
He found that the Extreme Winter Sea was spreading faster and would soon reach the island.
The players still making preparations were also caught off guard by this surprise move from the system. They could only hastily change their plans and enter the Extreme Winter Sea ahead of schedule.
The chat channel was filled with curses.
Yang Yi couldn't be bothered to read them and made his way onto the deck in the dark.
The cold wind howled. The temperature seemed to have dropped a little more, and some cold, soft things struck Yang Yi's cheeks.
It was snow.
It seemed to be snowing, quite heavily at that, adding another measure of chill to the sea.
Braving the cold wind, Yang Yi felt his way along the ship's railing to the bow deck and stopped before the Octopus-Head Gacha Machine.
Then he fumbled inside his clothes and took out the Brain-Eating Demon's corpse hidden there.
There was no helping it. The corpse couldn't be put in the Stomach Pouch, so he had kept it hidden inside his clothes, where it made a large bulge.
Su Na might have noticed too, but Yang Yi hadn't mentioned it, so she hadn't asked.
"The light of truth, huh..."
Yang Yi cupped the Brain-Eating Demon's corpse in his hands.
Perhaps she could also be