The storm raged on.
Chen Qi stepped over the black mud and walked to the bodies of the black rabbit and the bald man.
The value of these two far exceeded that of the others.
Both were wealthy Second-tier Transcendents, naturally equipped with backpack cards for convenient storage of items.
The implanted armor couldn't be sold, so Chen Qi took their backpack cards.
One backpack card with a space of 1*1*2, another with a space of 1*1*3.
Even without considering the contents of the backpack cards, the value of these two cards alone exceeded one million Shell Coins!
Fat pickings!
Chen Qi mused.
Not long ago, he had been fishing honestly, earning money as a fisherman.
Robbing wasn't a bad way to make money either!
Backpack cards were rare and valuable, and one could never have too many.
Lately, his own backpack card had been getting a bit crowded.
Next, Chen Qi opened the backpack cards to check their contents.
Among them, the most valuable item was an unused Skill Card.
A gray, epic-level Skill Card with an image of a dashing man standing on a wire, constantly twisting his waist to dodge bullets.
[Balance Posture Lv1:
Activation requirement: Agility must reach 15, and breathing techniques must be mastered
Description: Use Qi Power to enhance balance. Once mastered, it significantly improves one's balance and agility.
Note: Footwork, good footwork, dashing footwork!]
Balance...
Chen Qi looked at the unused Skill Card.
Balance was incredibly important for sea battles, mastering this skill would make running on water alongside Water Elves no longer just a dream!
Chen Qi looked at the Skill Card in his hands, his fingers trembling slightly.
He had been using Skill Cards quite frequently.
But it couldn't be helped, he was acquiring Skill Cards faster than he had anticipated.
"It shouldn't have damaged my spirit yet."
"It's fine."
"Use it, I can handle it!"
Chen Qi activated the card.
With the daily tasks and Spiritual Points saved from previous dungeons, he still had over 600 Spiritual Points.
He used 500 Spiritual Points to upgrade it to Lv2.
A flood of knowledge entered his mind, and after a series of pains, he felt subtle changes in his body.
This was a special technique, manipulating one's Qi Power to perform maneuvers that seemed to defy Newton's laws!
He could even basically perform stunts like running up walls... Chen Qi thought to himself, then clapped his hands and looked at the other items.
Besides that, there was a large shotgun owned by the bald man from the Black Whale Group, produced by the large armaments company Magic Bullet, capable of loading heavy, large-particle ammunition.
Magic Bullet Company, a famed firearms manufacturer in Shell Country, was renowned worldwide for its weapons.
If the gun hit the scales of a nearby sea overlord, it could likely inflict effective damage.
Too bad it was a close-range shotgun... Chen Qi put it aside, having already developed the semblance of a melee player.
He didn't have knowledge of gun-fighting skills, and shotguns weren't suited for him.
Chen Qi continued searching.
In the backpack cards of the two men, there were mainly various firearms and knives, some high-damage grenades, and a few personal items for men and women, along with one and a half million in cash.
There were also ten bottles of strong Healing Potions, ten bottles of regular antidote potions, and ten bottles of berserker potions with significant side effects.
There were also a hundred special incendiary bullets, quite rare and priced at five hundred Shell Coins each.
Healing Potions, bullets, and grenades could be kept, the rest could be sold on the black market...
Chen Qi estimated.
The unwanted items added up to a value of about three million Shell Coins.
Then, he went back into the black mud to take the items from the black rabbit gang members that couldn't easily prove their identities and put them into his backpack card.
The belongings of the black rabbit gang minions weren't expensive; many of them wore just a simple layer of bulletproof vests.
Chen Qi counted, and it should be about one million Shell Coins.
Together, that was a haul of four million.
Four million, sufficient for a First Order Hunter and even a Second-tier Hunter to purchase a rather luxurious set of equipment.
If the Skill Card, backpack cards, potions, and cash were counted too.
Altogether, the gains from this trip were close to ten million Shell Coins.
That was a very substantial amount of money.
If he got greedier, selling parts of this ship could fetch an even higher profit!
But that would also make it very easy to expose his identity.
After weighing his options, Chen Qi decided against it.
"Not a bad haul."
Chen Qi walked to the bow, took off his Hunter hood, and felt the sea breeze brush against his face.
Unwittingly, he had amassed quite a savings.
This money could easily buy a nice villa in Moonstone City.
Earning money through acts of justice wasn't less profitable than bullying Ghost Fire Fish!
Save it up, and maybe he really could afford to buy a mid-sized ship produced by Steam Hand.
Chen Qi smiled, then his expression turned serious.
"Next, I need to lay low for a while," he said.
According to his original plan, he needed to come to the land of white trees to pluck some Ghost Fire Fish, and then practice "Water Surface Sprinting" with the deep sea Water Elves.
But now, plans had changed!
The Black Rabbit might have already exposed this location's information through the Eye of Long Voyage.
It was not out of the question that the Black Rabbit or the Black Whale Group might send someone to investigate the option of salvaging the sunken ship.
If it was the Black Rabbit's people coming, the issue was very easy to resolve.
But if it was the Navy, or the Black Whale Group, then things would become quite troublesome.
He couldn't come here again until things had settled down.
Chen Qi looked at the torrential rain in the sky.
Dammit, his Ghost Fire Fish aquaculture plan had to be put on hold as well!
The Ghost Fire Fish were about to be free!
He hoped that by the time he returned, the Ghost Fire Fish would have grown successfully and produced new Ghost Fire Oil.
Chen Qi turned back to thoroughly clean up the crime scene and removed the bloodstains from his body.
The disappearance of the bodies could easily be blamed on the black mud and the local sea overlords!
Afterward, he fed the nearby sea overlords and the Ghost Fire Fish with Extraordinary Fish Bait in the land of white trees, bidding them a simple farewell.
After saying goodbye to the Ghost Fire Fish and the nearby sea overlords, he returned to his small cabin boat.
Now that his breathing technique and Body Forging Skill were fully mastered, along with the ample supplies provided by the Black Rabbit,
It was time to prepare for a new journey to the crack.
At that moment, some of the black mud seemed reluctant to let him go.
Chen Qi spent a lot of effort by various means to remove the continuously wriggling black mud from his body.
"Goodbye!"
Then, he started the engine of the small cabin boat and took a roundabout route toward Moonstone City.
Inside the cabin boat, Chen Qi used a towel to wipe his rain-soaked body and glanced at the mirror.
This incident could very likely attract the covetous eyes of high-order Transcendents.
He gazed out at the distant sea,
"Who knows whose hands that Eye of Long Voyage's information will end up in."
...
...
Hours later, in Moonstone City, within the third civilian district, the headquarters of the Black Rabbit Gang.
The vice leader of the Black Rabbit Gang and other underlings were seated on a sofa.
The bespectacled man lit a cigarette, lay back on the sofa exhaustedly, and looked deeply at the projector in front of him.
The projector was replaying the scene from the sea just now over and over.
The grim sea, the storm, the fierce Black Ship Sea Dragon, corpses everywhere, waves of black mud, the destroyed large ship, and a fleeting shadowy figure.
The underlings of the Black Rabbit Gang were sitting on the sofa, watching this extremely brutal scene repeatedly.
"Boss! Boss! Get up and fight back! If this keeps up, you're going to be torn in two by the black mud!"
"Replay, play back the footage of the boss and that bald-headed guy from the Black Whale Group again."
"The boss looked pretty cool when he died!"
"Vice leader, this is truly a disgrace to our gang, revenge! We must take revenge for the boss!"
"The Black Rabbit Gang values loyalty. We can't just let this go!"
"Glasses Bro, if you lead us to a successful revenge, you'll be the undisputed speaker in our hearts."
"Glasses Bro! We believe in you!"
The bespectacled man saw the hot and hopeful looks in his underlings' eyes.
He shook his head, thinking to himself,
"It's over, the Black Rabbit Gang is left with only these idiots, it's completely hopeless."
Apart from me, those who didn't board the ship are all brain-dead hotheads.
Me, take revenge on the sea overlord? Is that something a human would say?
Why don't you ask your grandpa to take revenge... The bespectacled man took a deep breath and explained calmly:
"Everyone, we must accept the fact that the boss and the Black Rabbit can't come back and can't be revived.
Facing a sea overlord and black mud, it's a natural disaster, a natural disaster is not an object of revenge; this isn't an issue we can solve with mere passion.
Next, our first goal is to explain to the people from the Black Whale Group and then deal with the remaining assets."
It's time to break up the gang... The bespectacled man sighed deeply,
"Right... replay the scene from just now one more time, and bring me another rolled cigarette; I need to think about how to explain things to the Black Whale Group."
"Alright, Little Glasses Rabbit."
The bespectacled man reached out and took the cigarette passed to him.
"Thanks."
But the next second, he broke out in cold sweat.
He was the second in command of the Black Rabbit Gang; apart from the boss, who dared to call him Little Glasses Rabbit!
And the voice was a woman's, androgynous and confident!
Who was it?
The bespectacled man, having lit the cigarette and taken it into his mouth, slowly turned his head around.
He saw a short, disheveled, blonde young woman holding a camera, smiling broadly at him.
"Hehe."