The matter is neither a big deal nor a small one.
Captain Hook's ship sank.
After Qin Ze and his group left Sea Capital, Captain Hook went out to sea to "fish" every day.
The Sea Capital Maritime Safety Administration issued a notice several days ago.
With the recent typhoon, the sea is rough and unsuitable for fishing.
Captain Hook disagreed.
He always believed that a true Captain must be brave enough to face the raging waves.
So, on a stormy morning, the Flying Circus Man set sail.
The first two days went relatively smoothly; we didn't encounter any big waves or any large fish.
With supplies running low, Captain Hook decided to set sail back to Sea Capital that very night.
However, no one expected that on the return journey, the group would be attacked by a humpback whale.
Its mutated, enormous body, over 500 meters long, cleaved Flying Circus Man in two with a single swipe of its tail.
Fortunately, Giant Overlord stayed in Sea Capital and did not go to Shi'an with Brother Devour and the others to support Qin Ze.
And coincidentally, the Giant Overlord was on the ship at that time.
After several rounds of fighting with the humpback whale, the whale, having gained no advantage, left in frustration.
Captain Hook watched helplessly as the two-sectioned Flying Circus Man sank to the bottom of the sea, his face filled with despair.
When it rains, it pours.
The group, clinging to fragments of the Flying Circus Man's skin, were then caught in a sudden typhoon.
The waves, tens of meters high, slammed the clones to the seabed like whack-a-mole.
Fortunately, a large cruise ship passing by noticed the anomaly and managed to pull them all aboard.
Otherwise, everyone except Giant Overlord, including Captain Hook, would have to type "gg".
On the Local Area Network, Captain Hook was heartbroken.
"My ship is wailing..."
"We're already close to shore, how could such a huge sea monster appear?"
"I've been wandering around the open sea for so long recently and haven't encountered any."
"Furthermore, humpback whales are docile and have never surfaced to attack passing ships."
"The person I met tonight was acting like they were having a seizure..."
Captain Hook cannot accept the departure of the Flying Circus Man.
He didn't even have time to hold a funeral for the other person.
The Giant Overlord, "Recently, the Maritime Safety Administration has issued several announcements regarding attacks by marine mammals in nearshore waters. The mammals involved are all level three or higher, and some are even extremely rare high-level marine mammals."
"High-level sea monsters have never appeared in coastal waters before; something must have happened in the ocean."
"They seem to be driven by something, and they are all gathering towards the nearshore area."
Qin Ze frowned slightly.
Strange things kept happening one after another.
Strange things are happening in Shi'an City, and now the sea is starting to act strangely too?
"It's probably due to the typhoon."
"Don't go out to sea for now; wait until the typhoon passes."
Captain Hook: "I have a favor to ask."
Qin Ze: "Then don't bother inviting them."
Captain Hook: "I'd better ask him for help. The Flying Circus Man has sunk, and I need some start-up capital to rebuild its gilded statue."
"Not much, a million or two will suffice."
Qin Ze sighed, "Do you remember our first ship?"
The Dharma King chuckled, "You call that thing a boat?"
The boat-making team was unhappy. "If we hadn't worked through the night to hand-make a boat for you, you would have had to swim out to sea that day."
Qin Ze agreed, "That's right."
"Our first boat was handcrafted, and it was with that boat that we built our business into what it is today. You have to believe in yourself; nothing is impossible."
Captain Hook: "So?"
Qin Ze: "Not a single penny."
Captain Hook: "..."
Qin Ze yawned. "I'm tired after a long day, I'm going to sleep now."
"Both the Meditation Group and the Bone-Tempering Group, put in more effort! Sleep less and train more!"
"You all saw how powerful that Advanced Martial Artist in the lab is."
How can you become stronger without diligent training?
"You guys can just stay up all night and have a simple time tonight."
The clones. "..."
The next morning, several buses were parked early at the campsite entrance.
After a night, all the strange beasts that had been released into the mountains for training had been hunted down.
The bodies were piled up in a small hill in the open space next to the camp.
The students sat in the bus, passing by the pile of strange beast corpses one after another, as they drove out of the camp.
Huai Xu sighed, "Those were originally meant for us."
The fat man shrugged. "There's nothing we can do, nobody expected this to happen."
Qin Ze watched as the security guards, their faces etched with exhaustion, descended the mountain one by one.
Several heavy helicopters roared overhead.
Qin Ze leaned out of the window; it was the Sea Capital Law Enforcement team.
They surveyed the site all night and only just finished their workday.
Back at the hotel, everyone was informed that they could not leave Shi'an for the time being.
Law Enforcement will conduct a routine investigation of the students later.
In his hotel room, Qin Ze took stock of what he had gained from the trip.
First, there's the Smoke Ghost Bead, which I got for free.
Although I don't understand why The Smoke Ghost is still alive, I still have to thank the company.
Otherwise, where else can you find such a good opportunity to bend down and pick up Soul Orb?
Another takeaway was about the spirit.
When Qin Ze was communicating with the research institute, his consciousness took over the central processing unit.
Almost instantly, all the information inside was copied and pasted into my mind.
This includes experimental projects, institute logs, every order issued by administrators and professors, and various meeting minutes.
It can be said that everything that happened in the research institute was completely recorded by the central processing unit.
The research institute primarily works on Project Zero.
The main task of the project is to perfectly transplant the spirit, which has been going on for more than a year, and only recently has some breakthrough progress been made.
A recent batch of "volunteers" showed no changes after being injected with the new experimental reagent and observed for half a month.
The professor assumed the reagent batch had failed again, so he released everyone.
However, not long after, problems began to arise one after another among these volunteers.
Their spirits went berserk and out of control, leading to a series of bizarre events in Shi'an City.
The research institute immediately recalled the volunteers.
Because the experiments were conducted in secrecy, only the research institute could carry them out.
However, they did not have enough manpower and could only rely on internal Law Enforcement personnel, namely the bald judges, to delay until the Mobile Team was formed and dispatched.
After discovering that the training camp would be held in Cold Mountain, the professor came up with another bold idea.
The low quality of the previous "volunteers" was the key reason for the experiment's failure.
Now that the perfect "volunteer" is right in front of him, the professor decides to take the risk.
But he didn't expect Qin Ze to be such a variable, which led to his complete defeat.
Experimental data shows that in order to make the spirit leave the body, the body must first be put into a state of suspended animation, and then the spirit must be brought to the Sidelines "disorder", at which point the spirit will leave the body on its own.
The professor modified the reagent injected into the "volunteers," enabling the entire process to be completed in an instant through a "high-energy impact."
However, of the more than fifty experiments recorded in the experimental log, only Qin Ze's case was successful.
Qin Ze muttered to himself, "The separation of my spirit from my body is not accidental; I can replicate it."