Zheng Zhiyuan threw a spear with a barb, and the swordfish not far away was in the middle.

The swordfish had been killed a few minutes earlier, with a rope behind the spear, and with a turn of the winch, the swordfish was dragged towards the ship.

Qu Pingyuan had a victor's smile on his face, it turned out that he was right, the early warning compass had a strong predictive ability, and the swordfish had already been discovered and locked by him when it was six miles away.

Ye Yunyang gave a thumbs up to his senior brother, it was really admirable that he could make an invention with such a high sensitivity under such simple conditions.

It's just that the early warning compass has a shortcoming, and all situations have to rely on the flickering of the beast core as a basis for judgment, which means that if you replace it with an inexperienced person, it is easy to misjudge.

In this regard, Qu Pingyuan's opinion is to cultivate talents on the one hand, and on the other hand, to start making improvements, and strive to apply the early warning compass to a broader field.

A dozen able-bodied crew members worked together to drag the swordfish's carcass onto deck.

The swordfish is six meters long, the thickest part of the body is more than one meter, and the sword-shaped part in front of the mouth is more than two meters long, very sharp, jagged, and hardness comparable to steel.

Ye Yunyang nodded, and Dai Jingwei instructed his subordinates to dissect the swordfish with a sharp blade.

Dongfang Yixue stood on a plate, holding a folder to record.

The scales of the swordfish are the size of a pot lid, more than a centimeter thick, and the hardness is comparable to the fish's mouth, and the handle can be used as a small round shield.

"His Royal Highness King Qi Pingnan, the flesh of the swordfish is not hard. The person in charge of the dissection said, and cut off a piece of meat and showed it to everyone.

The piece of flesh was bluish-white in the sunlight, and the texture of the muscles could be clearly seen.

"It looks delicious, send it to the back kitchen, try it all, and see what makes it the best." Ye Yunyang commanded.

As a foodie, of course, I will not miss any opportunity to try.

"Eat?" Liu Yuying said he couldn't understand.

It turns out that the meat of some demon beasts is very delicious, such as snakes and deer, and the meat is more delicate after demonization, and it does not require much superb cooking skills to make it delicious.

After a while, the cooked fish was served with a fragrant aroma.

Ye Yunyang tasted it and praised: "It's delicious and juicy, the meat is very soft and chewy, delicious!"

"I'm going to eat it too. Liu Yuying snatched the remaining fish and meat, and everyone looked disappointed.

Ye Yunyang said with a smile: "What are you still doing in a daze, cut off some more meat and send it to the back kitchen, so that everyone can try it too!"

By noon, the fleet had caught four swordfish, two of which were eaten by the soldiers, and the other two were salted and hung up to make dried fish.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the crew members who had been spinning all day began to doze off, and Dai Jingwei divided the soldiers into three shifts to rest and eat in turn.

Qu Pingyuan ran up from the cabin and said to Ye Yunyang, who was in high spirits: "There is a movement in the early warning device, this time it is a big guy, just four miles in front of us." ”

"What big guy?" he asked.

"I don't know. Qu Pingyuan shook his head and said, "The way the beast core flickers is very strange, I swear it's the first time I've seen it, but based on experience, it's definitely a big guy, bigger than all the monsters we've seen before!"

A picture flashed in Ye Yunyang's mind, and he glared at him and said, "Could it be a whale?"

In the sea, there are not many beasts that can be called huge, except for giant octopuses and turtles, only whales.

Qu Pingyuan was noncommittal to his speculation, and said to himself: "It's strange, it stays where it is and does not move, our ship is so big, it will make a loud water sound during its travel, even the swordfish ten miles away can hear it, it can't be that it didn't find us." ”

Ye Yun raised his heart: "Go over and take a look! Anyway, the purpose of our trip is to find and hunt demon beasts, there is no reason to let any of them go." ”

To be on the safe side, he ordered the ship to slow down, and the three ships kept in line and headed slowly towards the Kraken.

All movable bed crossbows were set up in the bow and on both sides, ready for firing.

Qu Pingyuan put the early warning compass on the deck, and kept calculating the distance between the fleet and the demon beasts.

"Five hundred meters!" he issued the first warning.

Everyone on the ship opened their eyes and looked at the sea directly ahead, but they couldn't see anything, and the sea was calm.

Ye Yunyang looked down at Qu Pingyuan, with his understanding of his senior brother, Qu Pingyuan is not the kind of person who likes to lie maliciously, but he really can't see anything on the sea, how to explain it?

Liu Yuying tugged at his sleeve and stuffed a beast core into his hand.

The beast core was emitting a rapid flash, indicating that there was really a demon beast nearby.

"Three hundred meters!" Qu Pingyuan raised his head and shouted: "Stop the boat quickly, the situation is unknown, it is better to be careful." ”

Dai Jingwei looked at Ye Yunyang, and Ye Yunyang nodded.

"The fleet stops!" Dai Jingwei ordered.

The three big ships stopped at the same time, Ye Yunyang turned his head to look back, and nodded at the stone thrower position.

Squeak...... Sou!

A 120-pound stone projectile shot out, drew a parabola in the air, and landed on the sea 300 meters away.

Poof!

The stone projectile smashed a white column of water several meters high, and at the same time made a loud noise.

At the same time, Ye Yunyang felt a slight tremor on the deck of the ship under his feet, and this tremor was obviously not caused by a stone bullet falling into the water.

As soon as he raised his head, he saw that the battleship on the left was tilting sharply to the left, and waves more than three meters high appeared on the originally calm sea.

The amplitude of the ship's hull tremor began to increase, and a semicircular "bulge" appeared on the sea surface in the distance, which was slowly rising.

Dai Jingwei immediately shouted loudly: "The helmsmen of each ship have the idea, stabilize the hull of the ship, and turn the rudder to the right fifteen degrees!"

Don't look at the hull just rotated fifteen degrees, the effect is indeed very obvious, after the rotation of the hull to adapt to the direction of the waves, the tremor phenomenon is immediately reduced.

The "bulge" continued to rise until it reached its twenties, revealing a large black head, like a reef on the surface of the sea.

On each side of the front of the head, there is an eye about four feet in diameter, and if you look closely, you can see that it hides its nostrils in the folds.

"Sure enough, it's a whale!" Zheng Zhiyuan's eyes widened and said, "The head alone is more than ten meters long, and it is estimated that its body length is more than 100 meters!"

Everyone gasped, so the whale was bigger than the length of the battleship.

Dai Jingwei glanced at the bed crossbow that was waiting for him, and asked cautiously, "Shoot?"

In his opinion, a crossbow gun more than three meters long is unlikely to hurt a giant whale, even if the head of the gun is highly poisonous.

"Wait and see. Ye Yun raised his brows and frowned, and said: "Ordinary whales will not take the initiative to attack humans and ships, I hope they can maintain this character after being demonized, if they don't take the initiative to attack, we might as well live in peace with them." ”

"Agreed. Zheng Zhiyuan was the first to say that the reason was that he could not determine the level of the giant whale.

Even the Holy Dao Realm martial artists can't be sure, which shows the strength of the giant whale.

If you are really on land, you can still fight with the strength of the team, but at this time it is at sea, and it may cause damage to the ship, and the soldiers of the whole ship will die at that time, so you must deal with it carefully.

The whale did not move, maintaining a confrontation with the fleet.

A minute later, Ye Yunyang ordered: "Turn the rudder, slowly retreat, and keep the idea at a constant speed." ”

The three boats turned their sails and began to retreat back.

After five minutes, the distance between the flotilla and the whale increased to five hundred meters, and in the process, the whale remained motionless.

Just as everyone was about to breathe a sigh of relief, the giant whale suddenly jumped upward, flew out of the water, and then fell heavily into the water.

Everyone was proud to get a glimpse of it, this guy was nearly one hundred and twenty meters long, and the huge tail fin made a deafening sound when it fell into the water.

The waves of more than ten meters high rushed towards the fleet, increasing the speed of the ship in an instant, and it rushed far behind.

Everyone was nervous, and Qu Pingyuan said a reassuring word: "The giant whale has gone in the opposite direction, and it has no intention of attacking us." ”

Call!

The big stone in everyone's hearts fell to the ground, Ye Yunyang shook his head with some disappointment, he knew that the giant whale had no malicious intentions, he should boldly come forward to observe, and the good opportunity was missed.

Dai Jingwei walked over and asked, "Your Highness, where are we going next?"

He didn't think about it and said, "Lieyang Island." ”

Dai Jingwei's face was happy, Lieyang Island was the place where he "made his fortune", which was of great significance to him, since he retreated back to the mainland, he had never been there to see it, and he didn't know what kind of scene it would be now.

The flotilla turned and headed towards the waters of Lieyang Island.

When passing through a reef area, the long needle-like plants on the black reef caught everyone's attention, and everyone wondered how vegetation could grow on the bare stones.

Ye Yunyang also felt puzzled, held the telescope and observed for a long time, and said, "That's not a plant at all, but an animal, sea urchin!"

"Don't be kidding, the sea urchin is only the size of a fist!" Liu Yuying was the first to object, she had eaten sea urchins, so she knew it very well.

The spikes on the reef are more than two feet long, and with the "roots" below, they are nearly three meters in diameter.

"Don't forget, the demonized beasts are very different from before. Ye Yunyang swore and said, and waved his hand towards the stone thrower at the same time: "Do a shot, and you will know if it is it." ”

Stone projectiles fly out and hit the target accurately.

"What a sea urchin, how can it grow so big!" Liu Yuying said with wide eyes.

Dozens of spikes were smashed, and sea urchins jumped off the reef and into the sea.

Immediately afterwards, other sea urchins also entered the water and disappeared without a trace.

But in less than a minute, the sea urchin jumped out from both sides of the ship and fired flying needles at the people on board.

The flying needles are their two-foot-long spikes, so powerful that they can be driven into wooden planks up to three inches thick, and several sailors were caught off guard and directly nailed into hedgehogs.

"Counterattack!" Ye Yunyang shouted violently, and the eight gods attacked at the same time, smashing the flying sea urchins into the water until all their spikes were knocked off and their shells were shattered.

Liu Yuying kept staring, but she couldn't find the sea urchin yellow among the broken sea urchins, and only saw a black and blue thing, which was very disgusting.

The level of sea urchins is close to the middle of the Golden Body Realm, and unless they launch a surprise attack, they will not be able to take advantage.

After defeating the sea urchins, the fleet moved on.

Ye Yunyang yawned, and was just about to enter the cabin to rest for a while, when the lookout on the mast suddenly shouted at the top of his voice: "Look, there is a boat in front of you...... It looks like a pirate ship!"

Corsair?

Ye Yunyang hurriedly took out the binoculars, and took a closer look at it, it was really a pirate ship!

This is incredible, even the navies of the Great Han and the Great Qin have to temporarily avoid the edge, how did they survive on the sea where monsters are rampant?

No, you have to go over and exchange experiences.

Turn the rudder!