Chapter 89: Chapter 89: Merchant Lin Kemian (Part 5)
"Du Ran, stop daydreaming! Quick!"
Fang Yu’s loud shout immediately brought Du Ran, who was still in a daze, back to his senses.
With a sudden jolt, he lifted his head and saw an enormous shark breaking through the sea surface, leaping towards the island.
The shark’s fins spread wide, overshadowing everything like a small mountain, trying to swallow everyone on the island whole.
The momentum crushed forward with an extremely terrifying sense of oppression.
At this moment, Du Ran reacted.
No time to explain, just do it!
Suddenly, with a loud shout, his height, already nearly two meters, began to grow even further, visibly bulging muscles, transforming him from a wall into a mountain...
He ballooned up to nearly 4 meters before Du Ran’s body finally stopped expanding.
He roared, and the strength within him burst forth completely in that instant.
In combat at sea, Du Ran wouldn’t make it.
But now he was on the island.
On land, this was Du Ran’s domain!
He roared and fiercely rushed towards the shark in front of him.
"Haaah!!"
Disregarding speed, defense, reflexes, and other such factors, Du Ran’s pure strength at this moment would likely exceed the level of 10 energy levels.
With the support of the Titan Bloodline, a single punch might unleash the explosive force of 20 or 30 energy levels.
He forcefully confronted the shark, then leaped up and directly grabbed one of the shark’s fins, violently tossing it aside.
In truth, as an extraordinary creature, the shark’s strength might not necessarily be much weaker than Du Ran’s.
But the nature of the two holds a dramatically opposite quality.
Du Ran, on land, is strong and invincible in strength.
Once entering the water, he falters.
Sharks, as ocean masters, can absorb power from the sea once in the water.
On land, however, their power starts to wane.
In that moment, driving forward, Du Ran actually managed to body slam the shark onto the edge of the island.
"Nice one, Du Ran, hold it steady!"
Fang Yu shouted, immediately setting up his sniper rifle without a second thought.
With such a close distance and a target of such size, Fang Yu didn’t even need to bother aiming.
Shooting by feel, he fired off a shot.
"Bang!"
The bullet hit the shark, and the terrifying force instantly shattered its surface scales.
Yet, even if that shot hit a person, no matter what, surely they’d have died.
But extraordinary beings possess incredibly strong defensive abilities, and the outer scales actually blocked that shot.
The shark struggled, Du Ran roared, his veins bulging out entirely.
"Haaah!!"
Du Ran went wild with energy, forcefully pinning down the struggling shark, "Captain, quick, my extraordinary strength is waning!"
The intense confrontation nearly drained Du Ran’s extraordinary ability, quickly leading to an unsustainable feeling of exhaustion.
Without wasting Du Ran’s effort, Fang Yu immediately fired two more shots.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
With the first shot, the scales completely shattered, leaving the shark defenseless.
The second shot penetrated the shark, creating a bloody hole in its struggling body.
Yet, to Fang Yu’s surprise...
The shark still wasn’t dead!
In that moment, it went berserk; its instinct to survive unleashed unprecedented power, hurling Du Ran off, who then fell to the ground, his form returning to normal.
The shark used that moment to retreat back into the ocean.
However...
Just as it slipped back into the sea, it abruptly sensed something, struggling to turn around.
In the next moment, the one remaining eye of the shark suddenly contracted.
It saw an underwater figure, silently aiming a sniper rifle straight at it, looking on with cold eyes.
What’s going on?!
This human was just on the shore shooting me, but now...
"Bang!"
With a muffled sound, the seawater began to churn, and a large amount of blood bloomed where the shark retreated, dyeing the surrounding sea crimson.
Everyone stared blankly at the area, almost forgetting to breathe.
After a while, a figure emerged from the water, walking towards the shore.
Behind him, a ridiculously large but lifeless shark was carried over the shoulder.
This person was Fang Yu!
The moment Fang Yu arrived, the sailors cheered, and those on the island let out a sigh of relief, showing the gratitude of survivors after a disaster.
"Is it the captain of the Ocean Court? I am Lin Kemian from the West Qinghai Sea Region, thank you for the rescue out at sea!"
Fang Yu hadn’t even caught his breath before one of the three people, a middle-aged man, came forward with a grateful expression, extending his hand to Fang Yu for a handshake.
This middle-aged man was in a proper suit, and though disheveled from the misfortune and seawater, he still exhibited the airs of a person of refined taste, perhaps a genteel merchant.
Fang Yu hesitated slightly before smiling, "I just came up from the water, hands full of blood and muck, it’s best not to shake hands with Mr. Lin."
"No worries!"
Surprisingly, Lin Kemian, unfazed by the grime or blood on Fang Yu’s hands, readily extended his hand to shake his.
Fang Yu was momentarily stunned but then smiled, finding a fondness for Lin Kemian before him.
Pointing at his Salted Fish, Fang Yu said to Lin Kemian, "Mr. Lin, please wait here. My ship is heading this way. Once it arrives, you all can board, get settled, and organize yourselves!"
With Lu Kun, Fang Yu called him "brother," but Lin Kemian’s gentlemanly demeanor made it feel impolite to call him so casually.
Otherwise, Fang Yu, eager to forge connections, would surely wrap arms around someone as wealthy as Mr. Lin and form a rapport!
...
The shark was now slain, though the foul weather had yet to end.
Lin Kemian and his group soon boarded the Salted Fish, now near the island. Once aboard, Ma and the logistics team took charge of their accommodations, freeing Fang Yu from any further concern.
"Captain, let’s move! Board the ship!"
Du Ran chuckled, though a trace of fatigue clouded his eyes.
That sudden burst took its toll on Du Ran’s extraordinary powers, leaving him rather weary.
Yet, this time he also grasped the true value of stamina potions.
He would rather bear the exhaustion than waste the potions he had at hand.
After all, going back to the ship and sleeping off the fatigue was nothing compared to Luu Yuan and the others’ hardship.
"Wait a moment!"
What surprised Du Ran was Fang Yu wasn’t in a hurry to return to the ship; instead, he pulled out a scroll from his pocket and unfurled it before the shark’s corpse.
"Activate! Extraordinary Extraction Scroll!"
This scroll was the very Extraordinary Extraction Scroll Fang Yu had purchased for 250,000 Copper Coins from a black market cargo ship.
As Fang Yu activated the scroll, a surge of dark green light erupted from it...