Cave Refuge

Those ancient creatures astonishingly evolved from land dwellers into marine organisms, and as for the Undead, needless to say, they don't rely on oxygen to survive, so after the flood disaster struck, they continued to move freely under water.

The Bug Race had even less to worry about; their rate of evolution surpassed that of the ancient creatures, and they also emulated humans by developing biological warships. With these biological warships, the Bug Race could not only create many underwater members, but also preserved a portion of their flying contingent.

The mechanical beings were no different, with various highly advanced warships appearing in the territory of mechanical life. Although the original mechanical beings, like the Undead, could sink to the bottom of the water without fatal harm, staying in the water for long periods made their surfaces prone to corrosion patches, so the majority of mechanical creatures would remain above water whenever possible instead of submerging.

Although the otherworldly creatures would attack each other upon encounter, their first target was always humans whenever humans appeared. It was precisely because of these otherworldly creatures' attitude of 'kill on sight' towards humans that ensured no human would willingly betray their kind.

Nevertheless, whether it was the parasitism of Bug Race imposters, the slavery contracts of Undead Creatures, or consciousness cleansing by mechanical beings, all were means to turn their captured human prisoners into spies who would gather intelligence about the human side.

This presence of traitors meant, although some nations became aware of the crisis they faced and prepared to change, before their parliaments could discuss concrete solutions, those hidden traitorous Officials would find ways to create trouble and firmly entangle them, leaving no attention to spare for external affairs.

Because of the treachery spreading like wildfire, those foreign Imperial Courts were too overwhelmed to care about anything else.

As such, as more and more traitors infiltrated the decision-making levels of those countries, the Imperial Courts within those nations lost their resistance capability, and ultimately, they were dealt with by the otherworldly creatures.

The survivors within those countries, realizing their homelands were no longer safe, immediately embarked on a journey of escape. Their experiences along the way were plentiful, and their coming to the Rabbit Country was an attempt to follow in the footsteps of their ancestors to reclaim their once-held colonies in Rabbit Country.

However, they could never have anticipated that as soon as they entered Rabbit Country, they were directly captured by the Rabbit Country's naval defense Patrol Team.

In reality, they were unaware that although Rabbit Country also suffered the same natural disaster, their Imperial Court had not reacted like the courts in their own countries.

Under the guidance of the China Imperial Court, despite substantial losses amongst its citizens during the disaster, the nation's foundation was not severely damaged, even though they utilized their resources during the catastrophe.

China not only survived one disaster after another but also proactively initiated wars with the Alien Clans. Although they never completely exterminated the emerging alien species, they drove them into corners where they shivered in fear.

Because of this, when the floods first began, and China started building ships, they did not suffer attacks from otherworldly creatures. It is worth noting that in other regions, both newly constructed and existing ships moored at the docks were mysteriously attacked by various otherworldly creatures.

Due to a great number of ships being destroyed by otherworldly creatures, when the floods arrived, because the remaining ships had limited Bearing Capacity, many people did not survive to see the emergence of the Mysterious Ships, perishing in the early stages of the flood.

Even China, when the Mysterious Ships first appeared, paid a heavy toll due to ignorance about these ships, before obtaining intelligence concerning the Mysterious Ships.

In foreign lands where ships were plentiful but people were few, collisions between Mysterious Ships and ships at sea would drag everyone involved into the Mysterious Realm before they understood the nature of Mysterious Ships. The more people involved, the more complex and powerful the Mysterious Realm became.

In White Elephant Country, they had a custom where motorbikes could fit ten people, and had the Bearing Capacity of their Harbor ships been sufficient, perhaps even double the number of people could have been aboard.

After fusing with the Ghost Ship, and with so many people on board contributing to the formation of the Fusion Mystic Realm, the danger it presented is needless to say; almost every occurrence would wipe out an entire ship's crew.

It was discovered that if someone boarded the deck of the Mysterious Ship before it made contact with the vessel they were on, the Ghost Ship would stop in place and cease moving.

They began to arrange for the old, weak, sick, and disabled, using catapults to hurl the prepared 'sacrificial offerings' directly onto the opposite deck, and then they immediately set sail and fled.

Ordinary people without cultivation were thrown onto the opposite deck by the catapults without any protection, at the very least suffering limb disabilities, with the unlucky ones possibly dying on impact.

To send such people into the Mysterious Realm with the hope of passing through it and obtaining the Mysterious Core was essentially impossible.

Although they had found a way to stop the Mysterious Ship from pursuing them using 'sacrificial offerings', their ship's fuel was limited, and once it was exhausted, they could only drift with the currents.

As time passed, the ship lost power, and the sacrificial offerings gradually ran out. In the end, the esteemed Celestial Dragon People of the White Elephant Country had no choice but to enter the Mysterious Realm.

It was true that the majority of the Celestial Dragon People from the White Elephant Country had received elite education and were much stronger than ordinary people, but they knew nothing about the Mysterious Ship, and only a very few of them would ultimately survive.

In this way, the population of the White Elephant Country, which had not differed much from that of the rabbits, reached near extinction not long after the flood disaster struck.

In contrast to the White Elephant Country, despite the Basin Chicken suffering significant population losses in the previous rounds of natural disasters, they had long since begun urging everyone to abandon their land and make their homes on ships.

When the flood disaster struck, the Basin Chicken's population loss was actually very low. Moreover, because many of their people were immersed in the second dimension, even though their nation's soldiers were not very strong in combat,

once the Mysterious Ships appeared, especially after it was confirmed that defeating the Mysterious Ships involved conquering the Secret Realm formed within them, the youth of the Basin Chicken started strategizing for the Mysterious Ships earlier than the Rabbit People.

Many of them became among the first on Blue Star to use the Mysterious Core to obtain a Companion Spiritual Treasure. However, due to their nation's population, and many adopting the 'only I am supreme' mentality typical of second-dimensional protagonists, while their average level of Companion Spiritual Treasures was high, their highest level still fell far behind the Rabbits next door.

The highest level of Companion Spiritual Treasures in the Asian Zoo was not with the Rabbit's Home but with the Stick Family—and not the universally acknowledged Southern Stick but the Northern Stick with the five-star cap.

The Northern Stick, being geographically closer to the Rabbit and maintaining good relations before the disaster, had established contact with the Rabbit after they relaunched communication satellites. Hence, when the Rabbit confirmed the information on the Mysterious Ship, they shared it with the Northern Stick.

The Northern Stick, due to their unique practices, turned over all the Mysterious Cores they obtained to the Golden Fatty. Although compared to the Rabbit, the Northern Stick was a smaller country, the Companion Spiritual Treasure they nurtured with the effort of the entire nation still far surpassed all the Companion Spiritual Treasures in Rabbit Country in terms of level.

Of course, since it was a national effort to nurture that one Companion Spiritual Treasure, there could only be one focus for its enhancement, which was bearing capacity.

The Rabbit knew about the Northern Stick's national effort to nurture a Companion Spiritual Treasure but had no idea to what extent the Golden Fatty's Companion Spirit had been enhanced; by that time, the size of the Golden Fatty's Companion Spiritual Treasure was already comparable to the water-based platforms built by the Rabbit.

It might seem unimpressive that the Rabbit had swiftly constructed over a dozen water-based platforms before the disaster struck, while the Northern Stick currently had only one.

It must be understood that even the best water-based platforms constructed by the Rabbit, compared to the still very rudimentary Companion Spiritual Treasure, were far inferior.

Not to mention, even if various methods were used to drive away the aquatic creatures approaching the Rabbit's water-based platforms, there was still a chance of them being attacked by those creatures.

Whereas for the exceptionally large Companion Spiritual Treasure of the Northern Stick Family, such a security risk did not exist at all.