Chapter 836 - Sea Beast (1/2)

Chapter 836

Sea Beast

Shao Xuan had just left when Gui He, Mu Fa and a few people started to discuss what possible threat they might face. Then, they heard a low growl from Caesar, who looked very anxious like a threat was approaching.

Remembering what Shao Xuan said, they dropped their discussion to observe their surroundings. Caesar’s reaction must be a warning for something.

“Caesar, what’s the matter?” Gui He observed Caesar’s every move. He was growling deeply, occasionally looked out into the ocean, sometimes downwards. He did not look in any particular direction when he stared out but was still growling when he looked down. Either beneath the both… or in the ocean?

Shao Xuan said the threat might not be human. Did he mean a sea beast?

Mu Fa blew the emergency whistle, the atmosphere in the boat turned anxious instantly. Caesar was growling louder and louder, more and more restless like he was afraid.

When they hunted in the forest, Caesar never showed fear even in the face of difficult beasts. His current reaction was a bad sign to them. Perhaps the threat was greater than imagined.

Mu Fa took out a telescope to observe the sea surface. He did not see anything but…

Sniffing, he asked Mu Fa, “Do you smell something?”

“Something… stinks,” said Gui He. He previously thought he might have mistaken, or it was a smell from the leftovers when they were gutting some fish. But the stick grew more and more intense and differed from the leftover food smell. It was dizzying.

“Smells like rotten fish,” said a Longboat warrior, looking at the net he had just pulled up. A few of them had cast a net to catch some fish but this time, they caught very few. Their net was filled with strange pieces of something.

“What’s that?” Mu Fa knitted his brows as he came to look in the net.

“Not sure.” The warrior drawing the net took a sniff and turned his face, looking up. “It stinks!”

It was a nauseous smell to anyone unaccustomed to this smell. The Longboat warriors could barely withstand it, the rest could not.

“What the heck is that, toss it out!” said someone pinching his nose.

The warrior was about to toss the smelly pieces back to the sea but Mu Fa stopped him.

When out at sea, they occasionally faced food shortages but they would rather starve than eat dead fish from the ocean. Their bodies might be able to digest some without a problem, since they were totemic warriors, but other fish turned poisonous when their flesh rotted and stank. Even the strongest warriors would fall ill. They were still new to the ocean so they could not tell what type of dead fish could be eaten. Turns out, most of the dead fish they found could not so eventually, Mu Fa told everyone not to touch any rotten dead fish.

Right now, these pieces looked like rotten flesh from some animal in the ocean.

“Must be a big guy.” Mu Fa held his breath, poking at the flesh pieces with a metal rod. After studying it, he concluded, “There is a dead beast in the ocean.”

“Chief! Look!” gasped a warrior standing on the deck.

“?” Gui He hurried over to the edge and looked at the sea. He was shocked.

Many pieces of similarly rotten flesh floated on the surface, also releasing a pungent smell.

This was not the only patch. A huge area of the ocean was covered in pieces of various sizes, forming an eerie scene as they bobbled up and down the waves.

“There’s something wrong with the current!” An old warrior from the Longboat tribe frowned. Every change had a reason. And they could not find the explanation for this.

As they observed the movement of the water currents, they felt it might be due to a giant object moving through the water.

At least the spot with the most rotten flesh was a distance away from them.

Caesar growled even more anxiously, all his fur standing up like needles, the third eye on his forehead wide open but had a constricted pupil. This was the reaction of an animal to a larger threat.

Creak—

The boat started to sway.

A wave rose from the surface. But the breeze was not supposed to be strong enough to cause this wave.

“There’s something below!”

“!!”

The Longboat tribesmen quickly got to work controlling the ship, terrified of the ship capsizing if they were not careful.

A larger wave rose far away, but it was broken by another current. The surface swirled and turned, causing the pungent smell of rot to worsen. But this was not the time to care. All eyes were on the ocean surface.

Whoosh—