Cave Refuge

"Even if that situation arises, what can be done about it? We'll still block the soldiers and cover the water with soil. Why think so much now."

Seeing Dong Tianyu's attitude, Ye Liuyun immediately understood his thoughts. While the two of them were still chatting on the deck, a sudden collision sound from below the ship and the severe shaking of the hull made them stumble and nearly fall.

Before Ye Liuyun could speak, Dong Tianyu had already used Divine Sense to check the source of the problem. Unbeknownst to them, the Coffin Sea had appeared around their fleet.

Seeing this situation, Dong Tianyu instinctively looked towards the area where Jason Jefferson's fleet was located, only to find that Jason's recently escaped fleet was once again surrounded by coffins that had surfaced from the seabed.

At this moment, Ye Liuyun had reached the edge of the deck. Seeing his own fleet surrounded by coffins emerging from under the water, he immediately thought of Dong Tianyu's ship, which seemed to have just left from among the coffins. He asked Dong Tianyu somewhat instinctively, "Zachary, what's going on? Weren't they all on the opposite side just now? Why are these things now under our ship too?"

Upon hearing Ye Liuyun's complaint, Dong Tianyu could only helplessly shrug his shoulders, as he too found the situation a bit baffling. Even though he used Divine Sense to investigate, he had not detected those coffins under the water before they surfaced.

"I'm not too clear on the specifics, but..." then Dong Tianyu briefly recounted their experiences in the Coffin Sea to Ye Liuyun.

After listening to Dong Tianyu's eerie tale, Ye Liuyun became quite agitated. He hadn't thought that the coffins surrounding them could not be touched with ordinary objects, otherwise, after opening the coffin lid, who knew what creepy things might crawl out.

Just as Ye Liuyun was planning to escape the Coffin Sea using the method Jason Jefferson had used earlier, the originally calm water surface suddenly became tumultuous, and then several Water Elements climbed directly onto the coffin lids by squeezing through the gaps between two coffins.

Before they could stabilize themselves on the coffin lids, the lid under their feet slid and fell into the water.

Some Water Elements, sensing the movement beneath them, immediately jumped onto the lids of other surrounding coffins, whereas some fell into the water along with the lid, but there were also some unlucky ones who, during the opening of the lid, fell directly into the coffins due to various accidents.

Watching the lids of several coffins open around his Companion Spiritual Treasure, Ye Liuyun stiffly turned his neck towards Dong Tianyu and asked in a somewhat stunned tone, "Zachary, you said earlier that some creepy things will crawl out of the coffins once the lids are opened, right?"

"Mhm, yes."

"And you mentioned that although the creepy things in the coffins crawl out one by one, by the time they climb up onto the deck, they appear in groups, right?"

"Mhm, that's correct."

Seeing hundreds of coffins around his own fleet being pried open by the Water Elements that suddenly emerged from below and dozens of different creatures stealthily crawling out of the coffins, Ye Liuyun's expression became very difficult.

"Zachary, you said those creatures aren't very strong in combat, right?"

"That's indeed correct."

After getting a confirming response from Dong Tianyu, Ye Liuyun quickly grabbed the tablet in his hands and swiftly sent a message to the other ships in the fleet.

Ye Liuyun's fleet consisted of only eight ships, including his own Companion Spiritual Treasure, which had already chosen to complete its evolutionary branch, with two other ships choosing the Strengthening Base branch.

However, even though a fleet was formed, Ye Liuyun still tightly controlled the food supplies, not to the extent of issuing them daily but practically limiting each distribution to only enough for a week.

This is why, when they received Ye Liuyun's notification to retract all ships into the Sea of Consciousness except for the one he was on,

The members aboard those ships quickly followed the evacuation plan provided by Ye Liuyun, starting from the ship farthest from their current location, gradually concentrating the regular crew members within the fleet on the ship where Ye Liuyun was.

Watching the deck become densely packed with crew members, Ye Liuyun directly herded the old, sick, and disabled into the cabins, leaving only middle-aged Martial Artists standing rather sparsely on the deck.

Compared to Jason Jefferson's ship, which only had ten members of the Guard Squad on the deck, even after driving away the weak and the sick, the empty space left on the deck when everyone in the fleet gathered together was not much.

Just as everyone on the deck was bracing for battle, the first batch of creatures resembling octopuses climbed onto the deck. Watching those soft, boneless octopuses on the deck, a Martial Artist immediately used a long-handled weapon to fling them over the railing.

This act seemed to be a signal, and subsequently, more and more Martial Artists with long-handled weapons began flinging the octopuses that had barely made it onto the deck.