Chapter 728: Regretting the Past...

BOOM!!!

The intense explosion not only directly overturned the crowd who were 'fleeing'.

It even forced out the life-saving protective stones on their bodies.

"Holy crap! What's going on!?"

"No wonder Tower told us to leave..."

"I really didn't expect this guy to actually self-destruct?"

"Having been beaten to this point, there was probably no other way besides self-destructing, right?"

"Ouch, let's not talk about this first. Someone help this old man up. I threw out my back just now when the protective stone expanded its shield."

"Old man, you're an evolver after all..."

"So becoming an evolver still couldn't cure your old waist?"

"You can't say that. Actually..."

The crowd, who were originally fleeing, first heard an explosion, and were then overturned onto the duckweed.

Old Nemo even threw out his back because of it.

It truly showed that the world was vast and full of wonders.

An evolver throwing out his back.

Who would believe it if told?

"Let's not talk anymore. Hurry back to the ship, otherwise we'll probably have to take a bath later."

Chu Yuan ran past and reminded the few people who had stopped.

Take a bath?

Oh, right.

It came from a self-destruction...

Everyone slightly raised their heads and squinted at the sky, and then their mouths twitched.

At this moment, there was everything in the sky.

But compared to these things, 'that' which was about to arrive was what made them the most uneasy.

It was said that the Kun was so large that a single pot couldn't hold it.

The same went for this Leviathan.

Especially during the attack just now, they found that not only did the small pustules on this guy's head contain highly toxic substances.

Even its blood and mucus were highly toxic.

Under such circumstances, they had already been very cautious with their attacks.

If they had to experience a 'rain' of it, it wouldn't be as simple as playing around.

Even if they had equipment, enchantments, and stats.

It was still very likely they would get poisoned if they were supposed to get poisoned.

This had nothing to do with external items.

No one could say for sure, but it was always right to be careful.

"See, I told you there wouldn't be a good outcome..."

In the air, Lan Qingyou shook her head as she watched the fleeing crowd.

Although the Analytical Demon Eye didn't provide a corresponding analysis, Lan Qingyou herself was someone with brains.

She only needed to analyze a little, combined with the flow of magic power seen by the Demon Eye, to roughly guess what the other party was going to do.

That was why she chose to use the method of throwing rocks to threaten those guys.

"Hurry back to the cabin! Activate the hull's protective shield!"

The crowd, rushing back to the Ark of the World Tree at the fastest speed before it 'rained', immediately shouted at the sailors on board.

Although there shouldn't actually be a problem as long as they reached the protective range of the Ark of the World Tree because of the shield.

But compared to the deck, the cabin was definitely more reassuring.

After all, there was a ceiling above their heads, which was relatively comforting psychologically.

If any accidents happened, they could also buy a little time.

After all, no one could guarantee with absolute certainty that the protective shield would work.

Patter, patter, patter...

Patter, patter, patter, patter...

Just as the protective shield was activated, a black downpour fell from the sky.

The whole heavy rain lasted for more than a minute before it gradually lessened, and then disappeared without a trace.

"Fortunately, there's a protective shield. Otherwise, just cleaning the deck would be a nightmare..."

Seeing the protective shield, which should have been transparent, turn pitch black because of the black rain, Nemo, who was in the cabin, couldn't help but say this.

The others looking outside through the windows couldn't help but nod at Nemo's words.

To be honest.

As people who had fought head-on with that Leviathan whatever, they were very clear about the opponent's abilities.

If this black rain really fell on the deck, it might not be as simple as 'cleaning'.

Even if this was a 'world-class' magical item.

They felt it wouldn't be able to withstand such corrosion.

It was only because the protective shield was composed of pure, attribute-less magic power.

If there had been even a little bit of other attributes mixed in, it might have been 'burned' through.

Even so, the energy of the protective shield on the Ark of the World Tree was dropping astonishingly fast.

Making the sailors responsible for the protective shield have to constantly throw energy crystals into the energy slot.

After waiting patiently for another ten minutes or so.

They only walked out of the cabin after the blackness on the protective shield completely disappeared.

However, when they walked onto the deck and looked out, wanting to see the center of the explosion, they saw a hardworking 'little bee'.

It had a large yellow and black striped tail.

And a long mouthpart sucking up something on the ground.

But taking a closer look, everyone found that it wasn't a little bee at all.

Rather, it was...

"Tower."

"What is she doing?"

"Obviously, she's collecting those scattered materials."

"That's the only reason."

"Honestly, I feel like she took the most delicious part at the end."

Seeing Lan Qingyou gathering materials, Vivian sighed.

Meanwhile, Ruan Qingyi next to her just shrugged.

"There's no helping it. Who told us to be down below at the time..."

Indeed.

Because Lan Qingyou was in the sky, even if it rained that kind of black rain, it didn't have much to do with her.

And the people down below could only choose to take shelter from the rain.

Otherwise, they would have been drenched like drowned rats.

"No way, I'm going to go pick some up too."

Perhaps feeling it was a waste, or perhaps feeling that her amount of exercise today should have a corresponding reward.

Or perhaps just simply feeling a bit indignant seeing Lan Qingyou gaining materials.

So Vivian jumped off the deck right after Ruan Qingyi finished speaking.

However, because the Leviathan's blood was highly corrosive, many of the duckweeds that were originally laid flat had already been corroded full of holes.

Therefore.

Both Lan Qingyou's and Vivian's current actions were actually an 'emergency harvest'.

As for that rock which made everyone run away and thereby bought some time, it never fell down at all.

Because it had already been retrieved by Lan Qingyou long before it fell.

This was simply not a difficult task for Lan Qingyou.

So upon seeing that everyone had run away, she directly rushed up and stored it into her card.

"Materials, oh materials..."

"This blood and mucus are all mixed together. I'll have to reconstruct an alchemy array to separate them."

"Just thinking about it feels a bit troublesome..."

"It would have been great if I had stopped the Leviathan from self-destructing just now. That way, I could at least collect an intact corpse."

"No..."

"In the end, if I had joined the fight from the beginning, it probably wouldn't have resulted in this tragedy."

"Regretting the past..."

While cleaning up the mess, Lan Qingyou muttered to herself.

Now she indeed felt some regret.

Because in the end, what she could recover of the entire Leviathan might not even be one-tenth.

And this was only because some of the duckweeds grew relatively thick and resilient.

Otherwise, she might not even be able to collect this one-tenth.

"Hey! What is that!"

Just as Lan Qingyou was struggling to salvage these materials dropped by the Leviathan, the sailors on a warship not far away shouted loudly.