Chapter 211: Disaster Survival System (40)

Mutated Great White Sharks comparable in size to warships swam over and surrounded the Cruise Ship.

Not only were their bodies mutated and their speed mutated, but their teeth were also mutated—lifting their heads, their sharp shark teeth could gnaw at the edge of the Cruise Ship's deck.

Everyone stared, dumbfounded, at the steel plating that seemed as fragile as bean dregs under the sharp teeth of the Great White Sharks, their hearts turning cold.

"What do we do! If they keep biting and biting, can our Cruise Ship still hold up?"

"Of course we can't let them keep biting!"

Xie Yang brought out a crate of firearms and ammunition harvested earlier from the Shipwreck Instance: "Can you use these? If you can, take them."

After saying this, she was the first to pick up a gun, load it, and quickly head down to the deck level.

She put on rain gear, pulled open the door leading to the deck, and stepped onto it.

"Bang!"

Xie Yang tried firing a shot.

Don't look down on the firearms and ammunition left behind in the thousand-year-old shipwreck; their power was decent.

Even if one shot couldn't kill a Mutated Great White Shark, it would be fine if it could scare them away so they wouldn't come to bite the Cruise Ship.

Fu Zhangzheng followed closely behind.

He was already accustomed to handling guns, so he operated it naturally and skillfully.

After a burst of "bang-bang" sounds, the number of Great White Sharks clinging to the deck and gnawing had decreased by half.

"Leave this to me, you go back to the Cockpit to adjust the course," Fu Zhangzheng said to Xie Yang during a lull.

"Right! We've got this! Big Sister, you go set the course!" Ming Hao said while aiming and complaining, "The ocean is too dangerous, I want to go back to land!"

He and Chen Shuoyun, these two rich kids, had learned shooting; although they used simulated guns when learning, the principle remained the same, and after watching Fu Zhangzheng operate it a few times, they caught on.

Solving one Great White Shark with his first shot, Ming Hao felt he practically possessed the potential of a sharpshooter.

Although Chen Shuoyun's aim wasn't great and he didn't hit a Great White Shark, he hit the deck railing. But the sparks from the steel pipe and the bullet happened to splash into the eye of one of the Great White Sharks, and it retracted back into the sea in pain.

Chang Lebao had decent martial arts skills, but this was her first time touching a gun. However, she was bold; after watching Fu Zhangzheng operate it twice and learning how, she aimed at the Mutated Great White Sharks and began hunting them.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

The first shot missed, but the second shot killed one.

A 50% success rate—too low!

She continued to raise her gun and aim.

Zhuang Fuda and several other middle-aged men had also never touched a gun before, but in this moment of life and death, if a young girl like Chang Lebao dared to raise a gun, how could they, as a few of the rare men on the Regional Channel, hide in the inner cabin like cowards!

They each took a gun, and even if their aim wasn't good, they couldn't lose to the Mutated Great White Sharks in terms of momentum!

The boss said there were plenty of bullets, so they shot desperately at the Great White Sharks; if they couldn't kill them, they would at least scare them away.

Seeing that they were cooperating quite tacitly, especially with Fu Zhangzheng looking at ease, Xie Yang felt reassured enough to leave this to them and returned to the Cockpit.

She quickly made a turn and then adjusted the Automatic Navigation to maximum speed.

Through the monitoring screen in the Cockpit, she saw the group of Great White Sharks lose a few members as the Cruise Ship suddenly accelerated.

But quite a few still pursued relentlessly, flying up from time to time to bite the edge of the deck.

Once bitten by them, if the bullets couldn't hit them or scare them away in time, a piece of steel plating would be bitten off by them.

The giant Cruise Ship appeared clumsy and pathetic in front of this group of baring-fanged Mutated Great White Sharks.

Fortunately, no matter how many Great White Sharks there were, they weren't more numerous than the bullets.

Under the continuous shooting of Fu Zhangzheng and the others, the Mutated Great White Sharks were either killed or fled.

【Obtained Shark Fin*50】

【Obtained Shark Tooth Dagger*9】

【Obtained Shark Meat*500】

While cleaning up the "battlefield," they harvested the pile of supplies mentioned above.

Fu Zhangzheng divided the shark fins and shark meat into ten equal portions, took two portions for himself, and also took one dagger, leaving the remaining eight portions for the eight people, including Ming Hao, who participated in the Cruise Ship defense battle to divide.

He returned to the Cockpit, only taking one portion of shark meat for himself, and gave the shark fins and that dagger to Xie Yang.

"I don't know how to cook shark fin, and I already have a Top-grade Wolf Tooth Dagger, so this one is for you to defend yourself."

Xie Yang didn't stand on ceremony with him: "Alright, I'll stew the shark fins later and share a portion with you."

Other players saw that there were supplies to be picked up after killing the Mutated Great White Sharks and immediately regretted not participating.

Not to mention whether the shark meat was delicious or not, just the Shark Tooth Dagger that looked very sharp and the top-grade shark fins were hard not to be tempted by.

Fortunately, while everyone was envious and greedy, they weren't jealous to the point of malice.

After all, when Xie Yang brought out a large crate of firearms and ammunition, she encouraged them to go out and hunt; it was their own cowardice and lack of shooting knowledge that kept them from daring to go to the deck.

"Brother, can you teach me how to shoot?"

"Uncle, I see you guys were also holding guns for the first time; is it hard? Can you teach me?"

"Sister, can you help me see if my posture is correct?"

"Brother,..."

Fu Zhangzheng had entered the Cockpit, and they didn't dare to disturb him, so they set their sights on the eight people including Ming Hao who were present, asking them to teach them like masters.

"Sure! It's actually quite simple."

"It's not hard, it's just that my aim isn't very good, I wasted quite a few bullets, I still need to keep practicing."

"Let's go! Let's go practice together."

The crowd moved to the Gym on the seventh floor of the Cruise Ship, moved the fitness equipment aside, and converted the cleared space into a Shooting Area, racing against time to practice their marksmanship.

Of course, without loading bullets, they first practiced the gripping posture, loading action, and aiming technique until they were proficient.

Xie Yang and Fu Zhangzheng discussed the sailing route in the Cockpit.

"Your intuition is always accurate; you decide." Fu Zhangzheng let her decide the direction.

Xie Yang looked at the Compass: "Then shall we continue heading east?"

They had been sailing east the whole time, and had only changed direction just now to shake off the Mutated Great White Shark.

She had been searching for land the entire time.

Especially since entering the fourth season, after the marine animals underwent Mutation, the Cruise Ship was no longer safe either.

The definition of a Maritime Shelter is "fearless of wind and waves," but it says nothing about being fearless of external attacks.

If one wants to survive until the end of the game, one still has to find a piece of land to hide out on.

Fu Zhangzheng was silent for a long while before saying: "But land may not necessarily be safe either. Mutation does not necessarily refer only to marine animals; it could also be land animals, or even... land plants."

"Indeed, but I have an item that I haven't used yet to this day."

Xie Yang took out the map pieced together from the Treasure Map Fragments:

"It is clearly located on land. I reckon that since it is a resource obtained in the game, and a high-value resource like a Treasure Map at that, it is impossible that it wouldn't be used by the time the game ends."

Speaking up to this point, Xie Yang met Fu Zhangzheng's thoughtful gaze:

"You should have noticed it too: the resources that appear in each season, even if they aren't used in the current season, will definitely be used in the next. Therefore, I suspect that the key factor in whether we can survive the final season is not the ocean, but the land."

"Sister Xie!"

At this moment, Chang Lebao notified Xie Yang via the private chat window's voice function:

"From the Blind Box Treasure Chests rewarded for surviving, I opened a Wilderness Survival Kit, and Xiaoming and the others opened things like Rope and Machetes; are these of any use?"

Upon hearing this, Xie Yang raised an eyebrow at Fu Zhangzheng: "My deduction was correct, wasn't it? The final season's natural disaster wants us to go ashore to survive."

"..."

Fu Zhangzheng silently took out the Blind Box Treasure Chest rewarded by the game and handed it to Xie Yang.

Xie Yang took it back to the Rest Cabin as usual, bathed and burned incense before opening it.

What she opened was roughly the same as what Chang Lebao had described:

【Congratulations to player GY for obtaining Gold Coin*200, Wilderness Survival Kit*2, Wilderness First Aid Kit*2; they have been added to the player's inventory】

【Congratulations to player GY for obtaining Gold Coin*200, Wilderness Survival Kit*2, Multifunctional Detector*2; they have been added to the player's inventory】

Her luck was as good as ever!

She split the opened resources equally with Fu Zhangzheng.

The next survival plan was also agreed upon, which was to find land and get ashore as soon as possible!