Chapter 435: The Legendary Hero

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"W-why are you suddenly saying things like that!?"

"That is so cheesy." Hearing Lucy's words, Yun Mu's face instantly flushed red.

What did she mean by "no matter where you go, I will be with you"? It sounded just like a confession.

Yun Mu shifted her gaze toward the distant sea, trying to use the sea breeze to calm herself down.

"Hehehe." Seeing her like this, Lucy couldn't help but laugh out loud.

She then added, "Even without saying that, have you forgotten, Miss Yun?"

"We are already bound together, after all." Whether it was the Game Panel or the Super Golden Spatula, in a sense, Lucy could no longer leave Yun Mu! (Mist)

Come to think of it, when Lucy first became Yun Mu's Partner, they had even held a Ritual called the 【Communion Drink】.

Could this thing perhaps count as one too? "Gaba gaba!"

Just as Yun Mu was feeling a bit distracted, a somewhat slippery sensation appeared on the back of her hand.

Chester had run to her side at some point and was sticking out its tongue to lick her palm.

"You want me to play with you?" Feeling the emotions transmitted through the contract, Yun Mu was suddenly filled with question marks.

Seeing the other party point at the Treasure Chest lid, she subconsciously asked, "What do you want to play?"

"?"

Chester tilted its head, seemingly unclear about what she was saying.

But soon, with a "Gaba" sound from its mouth, it hopped and skipped toward the direction of the deck.

"... Then let's talk next time." Yun Mu didn't think much of it; she just waved at Lucy and then followed in Chester's footsteps.

"You really are like a dog, actually wanting to come out for a stroll for no reason..."

Yun Mu's voice gradually faded away, while Lucy watched her back recede, a look of peaceful relief gradually appearing on her face.

It really is great to have met Miss Yun.

"Ah—Lucy~ I'm so bored!"

At the end of the first weekend of returning to sailing on the sea, after Yun Mu used the Xunlianchang to raise Lita by one level, she came to the deck of the Xiangyang and found Lucy, who was holding an Alchemy Fishing Rod and sitting leisurely at the bow of the ship fishing.

Animations really are all lies; sailing on the sea is not interesting at all.

Aside from the initial novelty and the joy of sailing again after not being on a ship for a long time, there was nothing left but the endless blue.

After looking at this for too long, combined with the faint rocking of the ship on the waves, it really does make one feel like vomiting.

Although the Xiangyang, being a Ghost Ship, didn't rock very much, and although Yun Mu, being a Transcendental, wouldn't feel nauseous over such a small matter.

But it was just... well, just an exaggerated way of putting it.

"It's really so boring." Yun Mu exclaimed loudly.

Seeing that Lucy was ignoring her, Yun Mu simply sat down beside her, watching the fishhook bobbing up and down on the surface of the sea.

"I'm telling you, you shouldn't be able to catch fish while the ship is sailing." Yun Mu gently poked the fishing rod in Lucy's hand with her finger.

She had asked the other party this question last time, but Lucy hadn't answered her then; she had just pierced her own palm with the fishhook and successfully caught a fish.

But this time... what was hanging on the hook wasn't anything special; Yun Mu had checked just now, it was just ordinary bait they had bought randomly before leaving port.

"Don't mess around, this is a mysterious Ritual for obtaining Legendary items." Lucy swatted away Yun Mu's finger, annoyed.

"Really?" A look of utter disbelief appeared on Yun Mu's face.

"Of course it's real." Lucy said righteously: "As long as you throw the hook into the sea, it's possible to catch anything!"

"Unknown leather armor, a Damp mysterious device, a piece of twisted Mysticism manuscript..."

"Are you referring to the tattered leather boot someone threw into the sea, the waterlogged steam doll, and that water-soaked Darkness cuisine recipe?" Yun Mu looked at Lucy with a somewhat strange expression.

Even though she was using normal bait, how did Lucy always manage to catch these strange things?

Those scraps were piled up in the Xiangyang's warehouse, already filling an entire wooden barrel! "Why don't you just use blood to fish instead?" She suggested.

"Miss Yun!" Lucy became ashamed and angry as if her lie had been exposed; she glared with wide, flushed eyes and said stubbornly: "I will definitely catch something normal, just with this fishing rod and these baits..."

No sooner had she finished speaking than a sudden pull came from the fishing line.

"This feeling!"

Lucy's eyes lit up, her hands instantly gripping the rod firmly, and then she stood up quickly... As a Transcendental, she had no problem with a lack of strength, and besides, there was no need to worry about the fishing rod she made using Alchemy breaking.

For the rest, she just needed to rely on brute force.

"Come on up!" Lucy pulled hard, and instantly, a huge black shadow leaped out of the seawater.

"This time it's definitely a haul!" She shouted, looking full of confidence.

Accompanied by a "Bang!" sound, the black shadow successfully crashed onto the sturdy deck of the Xiangyang.

However, when Yun Mu and Lucy saw clearly what had been fished up, they both looked at each other in a daze.

"How did you catch a living person?"

"Never mind that, save her first!"

It turned out that the person Lucy had fished onto the ship was a human female wrapped all over in fishing nets.

She was wearing a pale blue robe that seemed to be in the style of a Scholar, had smooth brown hair, delicate features, and looked to be about twenty-three, twenty-four, or twenty-five years old.

Her condition was not good; long immersion in the cold seawater had caused her body temperature to become imbalanced, and her face was pale. With her hands and feet bound by the fishing net, she clearly couldn't go Swimming in the water, leaving only the possibility of drowning.

Fortunately, her luck was not bad; she had been fished out of the seawater by Lucy just before losing her life.

The only problem was not knowing if the fall just now had caused any injuries.

Yun Mu hurried to find Meiyin, who was the ship's nun and part-time doctor, while letting Lucy stay there to look after the other person—she knew some emergency medical knowledge, so it wouldn't be a problem to hold out until Meiyin arrived.

In less than two minutes, Yun Mu brought Meiyin over in a hurry.

After brief treatment, the woman Lucy had fished up was sent to the Xiangyang's infirmary.

"Phew, that really scared me to death; Lucy, you really can catch anything." After handling the issues of the lady who had been fished up, seeing that the other party was out of danger, Yun Mu let out a long breath.

"I, I didn't expect this either," Lucy replied with a somewhat complex expression.

Good news, this time she finally fished up a living creature.

Bad news, the one fished up was a person.

"Just consider it doing a good deed," Yun Mu said, comforting her upon seeing her expression: "At least a life was saved, wasn't it?"

"If you hadn't fished her up, Lucy, she would have drowned without anyone ever knowing."

"Hmm." Lucy nodded, then suddenly thought of something, a thoughtful look appearing on her face.

"Doesn't Miss Yun find this a bit too coincidental?"

"It is quite coincidental, but what does that prove?" Hearing her words, Yun Mu was a bit confused.

"Sigh." Seeing her like this, Lucy let out an almost imperceptible sigh and said: "I hope this is just me being overly suspicious, I'm just afraid it might have been intentionally arranged by some existence."

"Hmm, you putting it that way, it's not entirely impossible." Yun Mu thought of something, and a contemplative look appeared on her face as well.

If this matter was intentionally arranged by some existence, the probability of it being directed at her was quite high.

After all, she was connected to so many deities, and furthermore, among the effects of the title 【Favorite of the Gods】, that line—"You will be more easily drawn into events involving 【Fate】"—was also quite intriguing.

Perhaps it was precisely because of these effects that she and Lucy happened to fish this Young Girl out of the seawater.

However, "Even if it isn't a coincidence, so what? I can't just stand by and watch someone die," Yun Mu waved her hand indifferently.

Regardless of what might happen in the future, since she had encountered this matter right now, she would extend a helping hand.

"Hmm." Hearing this, Lucy also smiled with relief.

Perhaps it was precisely because of this personality of Miss Yun's that she liked her so much.

During their conversation, several familiar voices came from outside the infirmary.

"Miss Yun and Lucy fished up a person while fishing at sea?"

"Really?"

Lita, Brenna, Iliyasi, Xiliya, as well as Meilaer, Lixia, Ruixi, and other crew members familiar with Yun Mu all crowded over out of curiosity after learning about this.

However, they were ultimately all blocked outside by Meiyin alone.

"The patient needs a quiet environment to rest, so don't crowd around," she said with a serious expression, blocking the door to the infirmary with her hands on her hips.

After a pause, she looked at Brenna and Lita: "After the person wakes up, Miss Yun will likely convene a meeting of the main crew members, so don't disturb the patient's rest for now."

As soon as she finished speaking, the infirmary door behind Meiyin was slowly opened, and Yun Mu and Lucy walked out from within.

"Meiyin is right, the patient needs a quiet environment to rest, everyone disperse." Yun Mu raised her hand to dismiss the crew members surrounding the infirmary door.

And after hearing the Captain's statement, although the surrounding crew members were still very curious, they no longer crowded in front of the infirmary door and dispersed one after another to go about their own business.

"Right." Yun Mu suddenly thought of something and instructed: "Tell the crew to be more attentive and see if there is anything else in the sea."

That Young Girl couldn't have appeared out of thin air on the ocean; since she drifted to Yun Mu's location, it meant there might be another ship nearby.

And it was that ship that met with disaster, causing the Young Girl to drift to where Yun Mu and the others were.

If there were other survivors... holding the thought that saving one is saving, and saving a whole ship is also saving, Yun Mu specifically slowed down the ship's speed and searched the surroundings carefully.

However, what was surprising was that, let alone other survivors, she didn't even encounter a single piece of rotten wood drifting on the sea.

Where exactly did this Young Girl drift from?

Yun Mu and the others were completely baffled and finally decided not to waste any more time, continuing to sail in the direction of Frostfall City.

"What kind of day is this." After working for half a day, they ended up finding nothing.

By now the sky had already darkened, and most of the sailors basically couldn't see anything once it got dark.

At this time, even if there were survivors drifting on the sea, it would be very difficult to discover them.

As for Yun Mu's Blood Perception... this thing was a bit hard to use at sea.

It was mainly because the amount of information was too large; without carefully screening it, it was hard to know whether what passed by was a fish in the sea or a human, and it was too draining on her energy, making it truly thankless work.

However, Yun Mu thought that since they had already searched for so long, one more night wouldn't hurt.

So she had the Xiangyang drop its Anchor and stay here; perhaps some lucky guy would drift to the hull of the Xiangyang with the ocean currents tonight? Yun Mu instructed Viktor to help keep an eye out, then turned around to turn off the lights and sleep.

Of course, she still maintained basic vigilance; if any accident happened at night, Viktor, as the Ship Spirit, would wake her up at the first opportunity.

Just like that, time to rest for today.

(End of chapter)