Chapter 64 p1
◎ Contamination Tide ◎
【Do you want to upgrade your territorial sea?】
Yu Chi directly clicked “Confirm.”
The upgrading of the territorial sea would be accompanied by a contamination tide. Under normal circumstances, she should have set up defensive facilities before confirming the upgrade. Yu Chi had also searched for relevant information on the forum in advance.
According to the answers of most players on the forum, basically, when upgrading a level one territorial sea to a level two territorial sea, it was impossible to build defensive facilities. They could only endure it themselves—all the sea defense towers or other buildings that could protect the territorial sea could only be built above level one territorial sea.
Therefore, for ordinary players, the smaller the range of a level one territorial sea, the better, so that there would be fewer places to defend.
And Yu Chi had gotten a legendary grade territorial sea order at the very beginning, and had also dealt with an enemy, obtaining the other party’s territorial sea, directly upgrading to 37 square kilometers—if the territorial sea area was a circle, the radius should be about 3 kilometers.
In other words, the circumference was about 22 kilometers.
Yu Chi roughly calculated and gasped.
Currently, there were four combat forces: her, the silver wolf, the treant, and the small boat with two crystal energy cannons installed. Each was responsible for an area, so each combat force needed to be responsible for at least 5 kilometers.
Ah Yin and the treant’s levels were the same as her elf form, and they had both leveled up to 30. There should be no need to worry about safety. After all, the contamination tide from upgrading a level one territorial sea to a level two territorial sea would not be too terrifying.
The small boat also had a protective shield. Even if it couldn’t win, it should be able to ensure safety. Yu Chi thought for a moment, then went to the reputation value mall to buy five more cannons. These cannons were not as strong as the crystal energy cannons, but they should be of some use.
No problem, Yu Chi cheered herself on. If I can’t even get through a contamination tide brought by an upgrade, I might as well not be in this new world.
The moment Yu Chi’s fingertip touched the confirm button, the entire sea area suddenly trembled violently. On the distant sea level, a black line rapidly expanded, and in the blink of an eye, it turned into a sky-covering wave.
“So fast?” Yu Chi’s heart tightened. She shouted loudly, “Ah Yin, go to the east defense line! Treant, hold the west!”
The silver wolf let out a long howl, stepped on the small speedboat Yu Chi had equipped it with, and turned into a silver lightning bolt, leaping to the designated position. The treant also instantly appeared on the west side of the sea.
This had been discussed before. She ran into the cockpit, and the level five yacht immediately turned and rushed towards the north. Yu Chi’s expression was a little nervous. This was different from what the forum had said. Many people had said that there would be 10 minutes of preparation time after confirming the upgrade.
She hadn’t expected it to start directly on her side!
The first wave of contaminated creatures was already clearly visible—they were thousands of mutated jellyfish. Their translucent bells were covered with black, blood-vessel-like patterns, and the tentacles that hung down were dripping with corrosive slime. Wherever they passed, the seawater boiled and emitted a pungent white smoke.
The mutated jellyfish swarmed in from all directions, attacking the barrier of the level one territorial sea from the east, south, west, and north. These barriers, which could be repaired just by spending crystals, could not last long at all.
Yu Chi was not only responsible for the jellyfish army in the south, but also needed to pay close attention to the damage to the territorial sea barrier in order to go and repair it in time.
The battle started first in the north. The small boat’s crystal energy cannons were set to automatic mode and fired directly after detecting an enemy.
The two crystal energy cannons roared at the same time. The blue-white energy beams pierced through the sea surface, plowing two vacuum zones in the dense jellyfish swarm. The jellyfish that were directly hit were instantly vaporized, and the surrounding ones were torn to pieces by the shockwave.
Yu Chi rubbed her buzzing ears and focused her attention on the battlefield in front of her. Since it was a water battle, of course, she had to use her mermaid form.
She jumped directly into the sea. The moment she entered the water, her legs turned into a silver, shimmering fishtail—a silver-haired, golden-eyed mermaid instantly appeared among the mutated jellyfish swarm.
For a mermaid, seawater was the best transmission medium. She dived into the sea, and her sonar positioning instantly covered the entire territorial sea. Without looking, she could sense all kinds of situations.
On the east side, the silver wolf had already transformed into a 3-meter-tall combat form. The frost it spat out had frozen the nearby seawater, allowing it to stand on it and fight directly.
On the west side, the treant’s body was constantly expanding, directly turning into a 30-plus-meter-tall towering tree. It had thick branches, and its leaves were like sharp blades, spinning and flying towards the jellyfish. Countless black blood spurted out.
Yu Chi blinked at the bottom of the sea. It seemed that after reaching level 30, both the silver wolf and the treant’s combat power had changed greatly.
However, this was also normal. Special species did not need to adapt to physical changes like her. They were born knowing how to use their own power. With a qualitative leap in their strength, this group of mutated jellyfish seemed a bit childish.
Not to mention the north. The seven cannons were firing hotly, with great momentum. She just didn’t know how the battle was going.
Yu Chi’s fishtail whipped, drawing a silver trajectory in the water. Two rotating water blades had already condensed in her hands.
“Go!” she mouthed silently.
The water blades left her hands and exploded two vacuum zones in the jellyfish. Yu Chi’s body suddenly shot forward, sending dozens of jellyfish flying with her fishtail. At the same time, the hunting claws in her hand tore the jellyfish in front of her to pieces, as simple as playing a game.
However, more jellyfish were still coming one after another. The slime secreted by their tentacles even made the seawater viscous and suffocating.
A little bad. Yu Chi frowned. Mermaids were too sensitive to the quality of the seawater. Clean seawater could make her happy and greatly increase her strength, but bad seawater would constantly stimulate her body.
Yu Chi suddenly surfaced. The moment she broke through the water, she switched to her elf form. Her emerald green wings spread, and she hovered in the air, drawing her longbow. Three arrows entwined with natural energy were nocked at the same time.
“Swish, swish, swish!”
A rain of arrows fell into the sea. Each arrow accurately hit a jellyfish and exploded, taking away the other jellyfish around it. The entire sea area seemed to be dyed black.
However, these few moves in a row had only cleared the surrounding mutated jellyfish. The battle with the first wave of mutated jellyfish was never over.
“Not good,” Yu Chi sensed that a corner of the barrier in the north seemed to be on the verge of breaking. She directly took out the Exploding Fruits she had gotten from Giant Island and threw twenty or thirty of them into the jellyfish swarm. At the same time, she immediately flew to the north.
The small boat was not a living creature, after all, so its coverage was limited and could only barely cover.
When Yu Chi arrived in the north, the barrier had already been broken. Countless mutated jellyfish poured into her territorial sea, and black blood also flowed in.
She repaired the barrier with crystals with a dark face, and then cleared all the mutated jellyfish that had entered from above the territorial sea. Just as she finished, she felt that the barriers on the east and west sides had also shattered at the same time.
Yu Chi: “…”
She flew back again, patching up the east wall after the west wall had been torn down, so busy that her feet didn’t touch the ground—ah, although there was no ground on the sea.
The number of these mutated jellyfish was really too many. Although their level was not high, it was about level 5. They could wear a person down. Yu Chi had spent most of her stamina just flying back and forth over the territorial sea, let alone fighting. She couldn’t even patch it up in time.
So at this time, she had to thank the Elf King.